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Franklin County court presses industrial authority on covenants, overlays and deed protections for new industrial park
Summary
At a Sept. 10 special meeting, Franklin County fiscal court and FACT district officials reviewed planning objectives for a newly rezoned industrial park, debated legal mechanisms (restrictive covenants, overlay district, MOU, deed language) to lock in community standards and asked staff to get formal legal opinions before closing.
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Franklin County officials, the Franklin Anderson Industrial Development Authority and county planning staff met Sept. 10 to review environmental and design objectives for a newly rezoned planned industrial district and to seek legal mechanisms that would bind future development to community expectations.
Autumn Goddard, the county planning director, outlined the development-plan process for a planned commercial/industrial zoning district and presented seven high-level objectives — including multimodal transportation, buffered vehicular areas, underground utilities or screened equipment, higher-quality and energy-efficient buildings, controlled lighting to prevent trespass, stormwater/green infrastructure and landscape buffers/tree protection. “We want buildings that are of a high architectural quality and that are sustainable and resilient,” Goddard said, describing standards that could later be made specific for covenants or an overlay.
Why it matters: the parcel at issue has been rezoned to a…
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