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The Elizabethtown City Council met for a work session Monday afternoon.
City Finance Director Jeff Hawkins said city cash funds are up across the board from where they were last year, with the General Fund on September 30 sitting at about $36.2 million, up from $32.9 million at that point last year. Hawkins said the city’s occupational tax collection has grown from $13.6 million in 2015 to $33.2 million last year.
“For net profits, we’ve gone from $2.3 million to $6.9 million, an increase of $4.5 million,” Hawkins said. “Some of that’s related to the increase in tax rate. A lot of this is due to growth. As you can see by the business licenses, we’ve gone from just under 4,000 to almost 6,000 business licenses. That’s a lot.”
City Planning and Development Director Joe Reverman discussed the master plan for 938 and 948 Nicholas Street. Reverman said a dedicated master plan limited to just the involved property is part of the requirements for Planned Development District zoning.
“The plan that they’re proposing calls for 594 total housing units across three sections,” Reverman said. “That includes single family houses, duplexes, townhomes, and multi-family units. It also includes a small commercial section along Nicholas Street and approximately 22 acres of open space along Valley Creek.”
Elizabethtown residents Phil Dieckoff and Karen Macy raised concerns with possible commercial development on the three-acre property that borders five homes on Pawnee Drive. Dieckoff said the residents previously expressed privacy and security concerns related to nearby development, but the current property owners recently removed trees that created a screen and buffer for the houses. Macy said she is concerned noise issues she and her neighbors have dealt with will get worse.
“A change in neighborhood character, a new business can alter the quiet residential feel of a neighborhood, making it feel more commercialized,” Macy said. “We need to make sure that we get it rezoned from C-3 to C-1.”
Reverman said the city’s Planning Commission can set buffer and screening requirements for a development, but no official plans have been submitted to the city, so the city has no real control over a property owner removing trees.
The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet November 17.
The Hardin County Fiscal Court met for their first meeting of the month Monday. Hardin County Planning and Development Director Adam King reported on his office’s activities through the end of October. King said 82 plats have been recorded to that point this year, down from 105 to that point last year, but the number of lots is at 170, up from 126 last year. King said the county will be hosting […]
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