Living the present....
The City of Headland has received grant funding for a major redesign of our town square area including a new modern sidewalk design, landscaping and lighting. This will benefit our citizen, merchants and visitors as come downtown to shop at one of our fine stores, eat at one of our wonderful restaurants, visit our libray or attend to government business at our city hall. Our citizens will have an even more enjoyable walk around our town square on a cool summer afternoon.

Planning for the future...
A city which will not plan for the future is, in effect, living in the past. For that reason, the City of Headland is at the present working on plans for a prosperous future.

A number of public meetings have been held to gauge the public’s support of and ideas for the project. Groups such as Renaissance Headland have been working with the city government and engineering concerns to create a design which will appeal to all city residents. A plan for the work, which is scheduled to get under early summer and hopefully be completed around Thanksgiving, is available for viewing in the lobby of the city hall.

Comprehensive Plan Chapters 1 - 4

The city recognizes many of its infrastructure features are lagging behind as the city is experiencing growth. To remedy this, Headland is seeking grant funding which will help with needed upgrading of the city’s sewage facilities from East Church Street north to the lagoon and lift station. The grant preparation is underway at this time and city officials are optimistic funding will be received.

Plans such as the aforementioned sidewalk and sewage projects are only a small part of what will soon be the city’s history. Without a plan to coordinate such projects, it will be hard to coordinate needed work and tie it all into an organized package which will benefit all the city’s population in an orderly fashion.

To ensure such order, Headland has contracted with the KPS Group of Birmingham to create a comprehensive plan for the growth of Headland. This plan will set in writing the ways and means of city operation for the next 25-plus years. Zoning ordinances, street and sewer plans, building rules… all are but a part of the comprehensive plan which will, in effect, be the framework for the future of Headland.

As Headland eyes and reveres its past, the city realizes the lessons learned as it lives in the present. But, it is also open to new ideas which will provide growth and prosperity as the future arrives.