Huntsville moves to protect established residential neighborhoods

Published on April 24, 2025

The City of Huntsville has changed the zoning in certain neighborhoods from Resident 2A (R2A) to Residence 2 (R2) to help protect these long-established, single-family neighborhoods.

This change means new multi-family housing (like apartments) can no longer be built in these designated areas that are already fully developed with single-family homes.

“We’ve seen more attempts to turn traditional neighborhoods into multi-family housing,” said Thomas Nunez, Huntsville’s Manager of Planning Services. “That kind of development can harm the character and stability of single-family areas.”

Nunez added that the City still supports building multi-family housing, just not in neighborhoods that are already established as single-family communities. He noted that new R2A zoning is still being approved in places where multi-family housing makes sense.

The zoning update will protect about 55,000 single-family homes throughout Huntsville.

More details are available HERE.