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Planning reports: two zone changes approved, platting and permits down from last year; Glendale bypass plan moves forward
Summary
Planning staff reported two recent zone changes — about 42 acres and 15 acres rezoned from R-1 to C-2 — plus a conditional use granted for White Mills Christian Camp. County plats, new lots and some permits are down compared with last year. The county resumed work on a Kentucky Transportation Cabinet grant for a proposed Glendale bypass route.
County planning staff told Hardin County Fiscal Court the planning commission approved two recent zone changes and a conditional use permit and that overall subdivision plats and permits are down through August compared with last year.
Adam King, speaking for the planning department, said the commission approved a request from Jimmy Jenkins and his wife to rezone two tracts totaling about 42 acres on Patriot Parkway from Urban Residential R-1 to General Commercial C-2; Jenkins intends a digital reader‑board sign similar to one at Cali Crossing. King said the Seagull family’s 15‑acre parcel near the proposed Northeast Glendale Bypass also was rezoned from R-1 to C-2 and has since been listed for sale.
King described a conditional‑use approval for White Mills Christian Camp to permit a new single‑family dwelling for a camp caretaker on land zoned commercial (the historic two‑story home at the river could not be salvaged after recent flooding). He said the planning office had reviewed, through August, seven zone‑change applications, 15 development plans for nonresidential projects, 16 conditional‑use permits and 22 variances. The office recorded 62 plats through August this year (down from 80 through August last year) and 77 new lots (down from 103).
King told the court total building permits through August were 332 (down from 377 last year) and electrical permits at 596 (down from 643). Single‑family dwelling permits stood at 63 through August (down from 98). He said inspections have not fallen as sharply as permits.
King also reported that the county’s Kentucky Transportation Cabinet grant, tied to the proposed Glendale bypass, had resumed committee work since the cabinet selected a route. The county received a planning award from the American Planning Association’s Kentucky chapter as one of four communities to receive the grant; King also noted staff member Haley received APA Kentucky’s Outstanding Young Planner award.
King said the planning office expects to hold additional public meetings in Glendale as the cultural‑heritage and transportation plans are developed.
