Unincorporated Mobile County lies within Alabama's regulated coastal area under the Coastal Area Management Act. ADEM must review and approve permits for development in the coastal zone, and no agency may issue a permit ADEM finds inconsistent with the program.
Mobile County is inside the coastal area defined by the Alabama Coastal Area Management Act, Ala. Code Section 9-7-10 et seq. The coastal area runs along the western shore of Mobile Bay, up the Mobile River delta to the county line, and out to Dauphin Island. ADEM's Coastal Program, under Admin. Code Division 335-8, reviews construction, dredging, filling, shoreline stabilization, and building on Gulf-front beaches and dunes. Work seaward of the construction control line, or that alters the primary dune system, requires an ADEM coastal permit. Certain lower-impact uses may be regulated by the county within the state program framework, but state consistency review controls.
Dredging, filling, or building in the coastal area without ADEM coastal authorization, or seaward of the construction control line, triggers state enforcement, permit denial, restoration orders, and civil penalties.
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