Residents, engineers raise road, drainage and dam concerns at Oldham County review of Camden Ridge subdivision

The Oldham County Technical Review Committee on Oct. 15 reviewed TRC25-018, a proposed 64-lot subdivision called Camden Ridge at 2800 South Camden Lane, but took no official vote and made no decisions. County staff, the applicant and more than a dozen nearby residents spent the meeting discussing required permits, drainage and stormwater controls, road safety and connectivity, potential impacts to a nearby dam and lake, and school-capacity estimates.

Why it matters: The proposal would reconnect multiple existing subdivisions (Lake Pointe, Kentucky Acres, Lincoln Trail and others) and, residents say, could turn narrow local roads into through routes without full reconstruction. County engineers and other agencies flagged permits and binding elements that must be resolved before the project goes to the Planning Commission.

Cliff Ashburner, attorney for the applicant, summarized the plan and its history. “This plan looks very familiar because it is essentially the same plan as what we are proposing today,” he said, noting an earlier planning commission approval in February 2007 that was upheld in court. Ashburner and designers from Land Design and Development said most lot standards meet current zoning (AG-1 and CO-1) but that the developer may request variances for some cul-de-sac frontage dimensions.

County engineering staff urged the applicant to obtain state and county permits and to document how…