Campaign 2026 • District 3

A Voice for Every Neighborhood

Our city is built on its people. Together we can Believe in Better — a transparent, accountable city hall that serves every resident of southeast Huntsville, from Redstone Arsenal to the top of Green Mountain.

John Stuart, candidate for Huntsville City Council District 3

2026 Campaign Pillars

A concrete plan to move our community forward through common-sense leadership and neighborhood-first policies.

Environmental Integrity

Protecting our unique landscape with a slope ordinance that finally has teeth, and flood-mitigation planning that safeguards the homes downhill — because when a mountainside fails, the whole neighborhood pays.

The Slope Ordinance plan →

Smart & Safe Infrastructure

Slowing traffic on our long arterials with smart engineering — signal timing, feedback signs, and road design that enforces itself — instead of speed traps and camera tickets.

Safer streets, done right →

Hyper-Local Governance

A council seat that answers to residents: regular town halls in the district, plain-language reporting on what the city spends, and a direct line for the concerns on your street.

How it works →
Signature Issue

Real Teeth for the Slope Ordinance

Alabama caps the fine for destroying a protected hillside at $500 — a number set in 1975 and never updated. For the developers clear-cutting our mountains, that's not a penalty; it's a line item. John wrote the fix: a state bill raising the cap to match the damage, and he's recruiting a sponsor to carry it in Montgomery.

$500max fine today — frozen since 1975
51 yearswithout an inflation adjustment
$18,000proposed cap, per violation, per day
Read the Full Plan
Aerial view of District 3 in southeast Huntsville, showing Green Mountain, the river, and neighborhood streets

Safer Streets

Slow the Traffic, Not the Neighborhood

Roads that enforce their own speed limit.

Long, wide arterials like Bailey Cove invite speeds the posted limit can't control. The answer isn't more radar traps or camera tickets — it's engineering that makes the safe speed the natural speed:

  • Radar feedback signs that show drivers their speed in real time
  • Landscaped medians and street trees that visually narrow the road
  • Signal timing that rewards driving the limit — speed and you catch the red
  • Full cost transparency on every crossing and calming project
See the Street-Safety Plan
The red bridge at Big Spring Park with downtown Huntsville behind it

Meet Your Neighbor

A Neighbor, Not a Politician

Huntsville native. District 3 for most of his life.

John Stuart grew up here, raised two kids here, and is a network engineer with nearly two decades in Huntsville's defense industry. He's coached the ball teams, run the softball program at Fern Bell Park, and cares for his 92-year-old mother. He's the neighbor who actually reads the zoning agenda — and when he saw a 51-year-old state law letting developers treat our hillsides as disposable, he didn't write a complaint. He wrote a bill.

John is direct, and he doesn't suffer fools — when something's broken he says so plainly, and then he gets to work on the fix. That's the voice District 3 deserves on the council.

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Our District

Southeast Huntsville, Represented

District 3 covers southeast Huntsville — the Bailey Cove and Weatherly corridors, Mountain Gap, and the Green Mountain communities. It's the side of town where the mountain meets the neighborhoods, and it deserves a council member who treats both with respect.

Not sure which district you're in? Check your address on the city's official map.

Map of Huntsville's five council districts with District 3 highlighted in the southeast

Mark Your Calendar

Huntsville votes for city council on the fourth Tuesday in August — separate from November so local issues get your full attention.

DateWhat happens
Aug 10, 2026Last day to register to vote in the municipal election
Aug 18, 2026Last day to apply for an absentee ballot by mail
Aug 20, 2026Last day to hand-deliver an absentee application
Aug 25, 2026Election Day — polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Late Sept 2026Runoff, if no candidate wins a majority

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