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The Elizabethtown City Council met for their first meeting of the month Monday.
The council approved ordinances that updated the city’s Code of Ethics to match recommended updates from the Kentucky League of Cities and updates to the city’s land usage ordinance concerning residential zoning. When discussing the residential amendments during the council’s June 9 work session, Elizabethtown Planning and Development Director Joe Reverman said the changes allow developers more flexibility and creativity, while also addressing housing needs.
“People have asked for rezoning for a zoning district where they don’t need the zoning change to increase density, they just want smaller lot sizes or some other regulation that’s in another zoning district that doesn’t require additional density, and then we want to incentivize certain types of developments and then of course create new housing types to increase supply and increase affordability,” Reverman said.
The council also approved the rezoning of 1151 Pear Orchard Road from Urban Residential (R-3) to Regional Commercial (C-3). That rezoning paves the way for such uses as a proposed VA medical clinic, but Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregory noted that nothing besides the requested zoning change has been presented to the city.
In other meeting news, the first readings were held on ordinances rezoning 201 and 202 North Main Street to Downtown Mixed Use (C-5) and the annexation of 1331 Hayden School Road. The council also approved a municipal order amending the city’s contract with Congleton Hacker Company for the outdoor music venue project.
“The outdoor music venue project has now progressed to the next phase of construction and the city and (Elizabethtown) Tourism desire to continue to develop the project, and per the directive of Municipal Order No. 51-2024 have negotiated a price for the construction phase of the project,” said City Attorney Ken Howard, reading from the municipal order.
The amendment to the contract includes the completion of construction of the project including buildings, utility infrastructure, equipment installation, parking areas, and landscaping, with a “guaranteed maximum price” at an amount not to exceed $41,082,281.
The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet August 11.
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