The Elizabethtown City Council met for a work session Monday.
Elizabethtown/Hardin County Industrial Foundation President Andy Games gave an update to the council. He said there are two lots left in the T.J. Patterson Industrial Park, and the foundation has been working on developing a new industrial park at Ring Road and the Western Kentucky Parkway.
“That park is officially named the Gil Nicely Sr. Industrial Park, so that is where we are working towards, and we’ve applied for a PDI grant,” Games said. “We were unsuccessful the first time, but we’re getting ready to go through that process again.”
Games said the grant would help pay for infrastructure improvements at the industrial park site.
City Clerk and ABC Administrator Jessica Graham gave an update on the city’s available quota retail package licenses based on population increase in the city.
“We’re at 13, and that’s where we’ve been at for quite some time, and with our new number it would take us to 15 licenses, and if the state allows us and if you all want me to do this (to go to 1 to 2000), it would take us up to 17 licenses, so four additional licenses,” Graham said.
Graham said the city could theoretically request changes to allow for more licenses, but the city does not want to expand things too much.
City Planning and Development Director Joe Reverman gave an update on proposed residential zoning text amendments along with new policies on short-term rentals and signage. Reverman said the proposed changes are in line with the city’s comprehensive plan but create more options to help increase the city’s housing supply.
“What we really wanted to do here was not to discourage the new types of residential developments in our community that the market is asking for, and we also want to provide flexibility for these developments, so we don’t want to hem developers into certain types of developments,” Reverman said. “We want to give them some flexibility, within reason, to develop and be creative.”
The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet June 16.
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