Opinion ID: 1558724
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Improvement Act

Text: In holding that the proposed development violated the Improvement Act, the trial court stated that the [d]efendants may not engage in the planning and construction of any hotel and convention center at Gulf State Park that fails to effectively and meaningfully consider the per capita income and average family income of Alabamians in its design and costs in accordance with Ala.Code § 9-14B-7. The defendants argue that § 9-14B-7 does not apply to any of them. We agree. The Joint Legislative Committee on State Parks (the committee) was created by § 9-14A-21(a), Ala.Code 1975. The committee is not a defendant in either of these consolidated declaratory-judgment actions. Assuming, without deciding, that the Improvement Act is otherwise applicable to the proposed lease and sublease, it is clear that § 9-14B-7(a) imposes no duty upon any defendant. Instead, it provides only that the committee, under certain circumstances, shall take into consideration the per capita income and average family income of Alabamians in planning and approving the design and costs of lodging facilities in Gulf State Park.... Consequently, the trial court erred in extending an expanded version of that duty to the defendants, and, to the extent that it did so, its judgment is reversed.