Notwithstanding the improvement of any street or sidewalk incident to a self-help business improvement district, the municipality and its governing body shall retain its police powers and other rights and powers relating to any streets or parts thereof constituting or included in a self-help business improvement district, and no action shall be interpreted or construed to be a vacation, in whole or in part, of any municipal street or part thereof, it being intended that the establishment of a self-help business improvement district pursuant to this article is a matter of regulation only.
Ala. Code § 11-54B-52 (1975)