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Bowling Green planning staff report 2024 permit gains; rental registration shows ~99% compliance
Summary
Planning department staff told council that zoning permits and new dwelling starts rose in 2024 and that the city's rental registration and inspection program closed the year with about 7,280 registered units and roughly 99% compliance.
Heather (last name not specified), a member of the Bowling Green planning department, and Senior Planner Chase Fletcher presented the department's 2024 annual report to Bowling Green City Council and described results from the city's rental registration and inspection program.
Heather said the planning office saw increases across several permit categories, telling council, "Our zoning permits did increase about 16% between '23 and '24. Our new dwelling units, the permits issued increased 39.5." She said 2024 was the department's strongest year for new housing starts in the past decade.
Chase Fletcher summarized the rental registration program's 2024 outcomes: "We ended the year with 7,280 total registered rental dwelling units. We had 7,170 inspections submitted." He said the department currently showed about 99% compliance with the ordinance and described the operational work behind inspections and the registration portal.
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