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Spencer County adopts package of zoning amendments adding alcohol-use definitions and rules and creates medicinal cannabis placement rules
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Summary
The fiscal court unanimously adopted Ordinances Nos. 6—15, updating definitions for agricultural and alcohol-related uses, adding conditional-use criteria for micro-breweries, small farm wineries and craft distilleries across zones, and establishing Article XVI with placement and distance rules for medicinal cannabis operations.
Spencer County Fiscal Court voted unanimously Dec. 5 to adopt a package of zoning ordinance amendments (Ordinances Nos. 6—15, FY 2024-2025 series) that revise definitions and set conditional-use standards for alcohol-related businesses, and that establish rules for medicinal cannabis operations.
The court passed Ordinance No. 6 to replace the county's definition of agricultural uses per KRS 100.111 and to add definitions for alcohol-related uses ("alcohol," "brewery," "distillery," "micro-brewery," "small farm winery," "tasting room," and "winery") to Article I, Section 102 of the Taylorsville-Spencer County Zoning Regulations. Subsequent ordinances (Nos. 7, 10, 12 and 14) add or amend conditional-use criteria for micro-breweries in AG-1, B-1, B-2 and B-3 zones, including minimum site acreage, indoor processing requirements, setbacks, buffers, limits on outdoor storage, roadway adequacy reviews and limitations on tractor-trailer traffic.
Ordinances 8 and 11 address small farm wineries and craft distilleries respectively, establishing similar conditional-use lists that require enclosed processing, production reporting, environmental and fire-safety compliance, and limitations on on-site storage. Several ordinances cite KRS provisions (for example, KRS 100.111, KRS 100.211, and KRS 100.237) as the statutory basis for notice, planning commission recommendations and BOA review.
Ordinance No. 15 establishes Article XVI, Section 1600 to define cultivators, processors, producers, dispensaries and safety compliance facilities consistent with KRS 218B.010 and related administrative rules (915 KAR 001). The ordinance lists the zones where different classes of medicinal cannabis businesses would be permitted (for example, dispensaries in P-1, B-1, B-2, B-3 and I-1; cultivators restricted to AG-1 on a minimum 10-acre tract). The ordinance also references state requirements that a cannabis business not be located within 1,000 feet of an existing elementary or secondary school or daycare (citing KRS 218B.095(2)(a)) and lists advertising and other statutory limits. The court amended Ordinance No. 15 on the floor before approving it by voice vote.
Clerk Lynn Hesselbrock attested the ordinances; the minutes state all votes were "Aye" by those present. The meeting record does not include the full Planning Commission recommendation package as attachments in the minutes; ordinance texts were read into the record in the meeting transcript.