New traffic study will be conducted in Huntsville-annexed Limestone County

Limestone County, future traffic study — Limestone County sits directly west of Huntsville (Hville Blast)

Huntsville has approved a new traffic study to take place in Limestone County. The contract has been signed with Skipper Consulting Inc. for engineering services.

The scope of the contract includes analyzing current and future traffic volumes/patterns along the I-65 corridor between I-565 and Huntsville Brownsferry Road for improvements to traffic operations—possibly including a new interchange.

Last year, the planning commission also approved a master plan that scaled out expected growth in Huntsville-annexed Limestone County—learn more about it below!

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Master plan + annexation recap

Here is a map of the land that was annexed by Huntsville. (City of Huntsville)

Back in January, Huntsville annexed 640+ acres of Limestone County.

According to The Planning Commission, an estimated 2,200 new residential units and 2,400 new jobs will be created within the Huntsville/Limestone region each year, for the next 50 years.

In addition to the new residential units and jobs, a P-8 school is also planned for development in the newly annexed land.

“As growth continues in Limestone County, we want to make sure that we are adequately planning for the new land uses.”

Dennis Madsen, Manager of Urban & Long-Range Planning

It is becoming very obvious that Huntsville is aggressively expanding outwards, with new annexations being announced every year.

This new traffic study, as well as the master plan, will be crucial is making sure residents get maximum benefit out of the newly annexed land.

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