New Fairhope Subdivision Put on Temporary Hold
By Rick McCann
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News
March 3, 2026
FAIRHOPE, Ala. The approval from a planning commission on a proposed subdivision just off State Highway 104, barely across the Fairhope city line, has been tabled for up to six months.
Monday, during the planning commission’s meeting, Fairhope residents showed up to speak against the 400 homes that are planned for the new development to be called Colony Village.
Residents spoke about the increased traffic, the reduction of their quality of life and the concerns about the additional water that Fairhope would be providing for those residents while the city itself has experienced a lack of water during the past several years.
While the planning commission gave residents a chance to voice their concerns over the project, they did not reject the project, but rather they just hit the pause button for a few months.
The development plan includes 350 homes, 62 townhomes, and parks. It would be a family community within the city limits of Fairhope.
Developers are asking for about 148 acres of land off Highway 104, just east of Highway 181, to receive a conditional annexation to a Planned Unit Development also called a “PUD”.
If the project does get approved, this would allow the land to enter Fairhope’s municipal limits while also rezoning it to allow the development of a residential community.
Concerns from some who spoke out against the development included the busy Highway 104. Traffic is carried through Fairhope and Silverhill and in recent years it has become a major corridor of travel in Baldwin County.
Those living on or off from the road said it’s difficult on some days to get into or out of their driveways.
A traffic impact study attached to the meeting agenda explains that this development would generate about 3,500 additional vehicle trips daily on roadways that some residents say are already congested enough.
As with other new developments popping up across Baldwin County, there has become a constant wave of challenges and protests faced by developers while other residents see the growth as a necessary and inevitable part of living in a desired area that others want to be part of.
The city planning commission will revisit this project within the next six months.
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