By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
In what is likely to become the shortest meeting this year, and the best attended, the 13 members of the Joint City-County Planning Commission, along with Director Kevin Myatt, had a public hearing on a zone change application and set future dates for medical marijuana zoning meetings.
The commission in an atypical turn of events only had one item on the July 15 meeting agenda, which was a public hearing regarding a zone change application at 716 Grandview Ave. in Glasgow — more specifically the property behind the Highland Commons shopping center that houses Rural King and Food Lion.
According to the report, the property is owned by Demetrius Stear and Yen Tran and is roughly 6.93 acres. It consists mostly of vacant land with an “existing accessory building” that was originally erected when a house was on the land. The owners are applying to change its zoning from light industrial to a highway service business district.
According to Myatt the applicants “didn’t seem” to want to develop the property at this time.
No member of the public was present to speak after Myatt, so chairperson Tommy Gumm closed the hearing. The application was unanimously approved by the commissioners. Myatt said once the commission’s minutes are approved next month this zone change application will go before the Glasgow Common Council for official approval with the commission’s recommendation.
Myatt also mentioned three meetings scheduled for August that revolved the amendment of Glasgow’s and Cave City’s zoning ordinance with the opting in to allow medical cannabis businesses in the cities’ limits. On Aug. 5 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. they will have a meeting in the Glasgow Council Chambers with the following day having a similar meeting in Cave City’s City Council Chambers.
“We’ll have public meetings for text amendments for Glasgow and Cave City in regards to the medical cannabis language that needs to be added into our zoning ordinance,” Myatt said. “Don’t know what to anticipate in regard to the comments we’ll get, we might not get anybody, but this is a process we’ve got to hold so individuals can see where the cities are thinking about these being located at. The state already has some regulations [that can’t be superceded] but we can be as stringent or as relaxed as both the cities want us to.”
Following those two meeting, on Aug. 19, Myatt said the commission will have a public hearing on the text amendments that come out of those meetings.
