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Gaston said Lane Park Road is basically the dividing line between Mountain Brook and Birmingham. When a street is a dividing line between cities, generally half the street is in one city and half the street is in the other city, he said. “Here, for whatever reason, coming out of Mountain Brook

Village, all the street, the right of way, is in Birmingham,” Gaston said. “We’d like to see what we can do to make it look a little bit better.”

In other matters:

► AmWaste District Manager Rick Sweeney gave an update on the company’s garbage collection service. He acknowledged having had 1,355 missed services after one month, of which 322 residences accounted for 901 of those misses.

“I’m pleased to announce that in the last six weeks, we had a total of 389 missed services, which is about a 0.43% failure rate … or a 99.57% success rate,” Sweeney said. “We’re certainly not perfect (but) we did have one day when we had zero misses reported for the day. That’s our goal every day.”

► The council approved the city’s tree protection ordinance, after it was tweaked to keep Mountain Brook in line for Tree City USA recognition.

► The panel granted a request to extend the Caldwell Mill Road bridge project for 74 days, beginning on Dec. 14.

► Conditional use was granted to Magic City Cheer at 229 Country Club Park. It is located in the former 32 Degree Yogurt location.

► A transit service agreement was authorized for fiscal 2023 with Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority for the Zoo Route.

“It covers parts of Mountain Brook Village, the Zoo and Lane Park,” Gaston said. “That’s the only really fixed route that we have.”

“We were pleased from the beginning. They’ve been very responsive to our needs. They’ve shown a tremendous interest in us, and they listen to what we need. All the caregivers have been very good because they’re very caring. They’ve developed a very close relationship; they call to check on her when they’re not working.”