Are there too many apartments in the pipeline in Huntsville?

At least one city councilman believes that is the case. And he’s been making that opinion known by voting against apartments in his district that come before the Huntsville Planning Commission for months.

“Frankly, occupancy of some of those newer apartments are pretty low,” Council President John Meredith said at a recent town hall. He represents the western part of the city. Meredith also sits on the planning commission.

Meredith said the low occupancy tells him the city is “kind of saturated in terms of people willing to pay those prices, because some of the new apartments, they are one-bedroom apartments in MidCity with rents that are higher than a mortgage on a much larger square foot home.”

He’s not a lone with that sentiment. It’s common on Huntsville Facebook pages for residents to complain about the number of apartment units coming in, and how much the rent is.