Commission approves multiple rezones, alters lot-width rules to limit unwanted density
After public hearings, the Robertson County Commission approved a lot-width amendment aimed at reducing pressure to rezone agricultural parcels, and voted on several individual rezoning requests; the lot-width change passed 15–3 and other rezones passed by similar recorded tallies.
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The Robertson County Commission moved through a series of zoning votes after a public hearing, approving a countywide amendment to lot-width and setback standards intended to reduce the number of forced rezones from agricultural categories to smaller-lot residential zones. The chair called the question on the lot-width resolution (091525064) and announced the outcome as 15 in favor and 3 opposed; proponents said the change would keep lots in their higher-acreage classifications when only the frontage measurement prevented that classification, while opponents worried it could enable higher density in some areas.
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