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Planning staff detail zone changes, subdivision activity and permit counts
Summary
Hardin County Planning and Development reported zone-change requests for a convenience store and a 20‑lot subdivision, permit and plat counts, and conditional-use approvals including accessory dwellings.
Hardin County Planning and Development briefed the Fiscal Court on recent land‑use applications, zoning requests and permitting activity on May 13.
The report matters to residents and developers because pending zone changes and recorded plats affect land use, traffic and service needs in areas between Elizabethtown and Glendale.
Adam King, director of Planning and Development, told the court that Triple Star LLC requested a zone change for a parcel on South Dixie near the I‑65 interchange from rural residential (R‑2) to convenience commercial (C‑1) for an 11,000‑square‑foot convenience store with additional speculative commercial space. Brentwood Farms Inc. requested a zone change from rural residential (R‑2) to urban residential (R‑1) for development of 20 single‑family lots to connect to the back of Brentwood Subdivision. King also discussed a conditional‑use permit for a permanent accessory dwelling (a 560‑square‑foot mother‑in‑law suite) at an existing house on Nolan Road; the office has approved more than 70 accessory dwellings since February 2009.
King provided activity counts for March and April: 8 conditional‑use permits, 7 development plans, 4 zone changes, 25 subdivision plats and 12 variances processed during the period. For the calendar year to date he reported 29 plats and 44 new lots recorded (compared with 33 plats and 49 lots at the same point in 2024). Building permits and electrical permits also increased in March and April; King reported 47 building permits and 310 electrical permits year‑to‑date, with 30 single‑family dwellings completed so far in 2025.
King said the county currently has 13 subdivisions with new streets in varying stages of approval; 11 are single‑family, one is proposed duplex/multifamily and one is commercial. He noted several subdivisions remain on paper and may not all be built.
No formal zoning votes were taken by the Fiscal Court at this meeting; King presented the informational update and offered to answer questions.
