The City of Huntsville is planning to open 900 new cremation lots in historic Maple Hill Cemetery. City Council members will be asked Thursday night to approve an engineer to design the area.

Maple Hill Cemetery is certainly a wonderful place to have your final resting place,” Kling said. “At the meeting last night, we approved an expansion and purchase of 1.11 acres of land.

A plan introduced at Thursday's City Council meeting would raise the price of a Maple Hill burial plot from $1,800 to $2,500. Joy McKee, the city landscape management director who oversees Maple ...