The City of Elizabethtown is inviting members of the public to a public engagement session regarding historic preservation and the downtown area, to be held at the WesBanco Gallery at the Historic State Theater on Wednesday, March 19 at 6 p.m.
“We started this discussion last month and I had mentioned at that time that the council had directed us to look into potentially expanding the Historic Preservation District downtown due to a zoning change request that was over on College Street, and there was a discussion by citizens over there about historic preservation in general, not necessarily about the preservation district,” said City of Elizabethtown Director of Planning Joe Reverman during a meeting of the city’s Historic Preservation Commission.
Reverman said it is a good time to have these discussions as they line up with work on implementing goals and objectives in the city’s comprehensive plan, and the first step in the process is engaging public discussion.
“This is something that would affect property owners, and so we want to make sure that we’re engaging property owners, providing an educational component to this, getting feedback from property owners, things like that,” Reverman said.
Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday with a short presentation at 6:15, with time for questions and informal discussion after.
“There are some benefits to property owners, but definitely to the community as a whole to having preservation in our community and expanding the districts and expanding the role that preservation plays with development of our community, so we really want to have that discussion first and make sure that people understand what preservation is and how that can benefit the development of the city and the community,” Reverman said.
Direct comments and questions may be made to Reverman’s office at 270-982-2238 or joe.reverman@elizabethtownky.gov.
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