By MELINDA J. OVERSTREET
for Glasgow News 1
Glasgow’s city council provided the second of two required approvals to create an entertainment destination center downtown and its first nod to the rezoning of the roughly 160 acres the city purchased last year at its regular meeting Monday after getting updates on multiple pending improvement projects for state-maintained local roads, the last of which is reported separately.
The council also approved four reappointments, first readings of two other zoning changes and a pair of resolutions authorizing grant applications.
The action items were all approved unanimously with the exceptions of one reappointment from which Councilman Terry Bunnell recused himself because it involved his brother, and the second reading of the ordinance creating an entertainment destination center, which Councilman Freddie Norris opposed, just as he had the first reading.
The ordinance, which would not take effect until at least July 1, creates more opportunities for residents and visitors to purchase alcoholic beverages at special events and/or to carry them with them as they explore the downtown area, provided the city is granted the special EDC license from the Kentucky Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
Norris had said, among other things, that he and others had concerns that it would create more work for the police department, but just before Monday’s vote, Councilman Terry Bunnell asked Glasgow Police Department Chief Guy Howie to speak on the matter. Howie said he does not believe that having the ordinance in place will significantly change things for his department. He said he thinks it will be a good thing for the downtown area and will not overburden the police.
The three rezoning ordinances for which first readings took place Monday were:
– approximately 0.29 acre at 603 W. Main St. from Light Industrial (I-1) to General Business (B-2), as requested by 6B Holdings;
– approximately 160 acres at 1573 Cleveland Ave., formerly referred to as the Johnson property, from Light Industrial (I-1) to Planned Unit Development (PUD), as requested by the City of Glasgow for future development with residential, retail and recreational components; and
– approximately 12.8 acres roughly 635 feet north of the North Jackson Highway (U.S. 31-E) intersection with Hutcherson Road from Low Density Residential (R-1) and General Business (B-2) districts to Agricultural (AG), which requires a minimum lot size of five acres, as requested by Sam Day Dickinson.
The reappointments were Bobby Bunnell to the Glasgow Airport Board, Andrea Gentry to the Glasgow Development Loan Fund Board, Janis Turner to the Glasgow Historic Preservation Commission as a representative of the the Joint City-County Planning Commission of Barren County, and Jane Baker to the Historic Preservation Commission
The resolutions authorized grant applications for a recycling grant administered by the Kentucky Pride Fund and a grant administered by the Kentucky Pride Fund Household Hazardous Waste Management.
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TO LEARN MORE about the plans for the former Johnson property:
Planning commission recommends Glasgow property zone change
Conceptual plans for former Johnson property shared with public
Intended uses for new Glasgow property: residential, retail, recreational
