GEORGETOWN - SCOTT COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION
Over 100 people attended the Comprehensive Plan kick-off meeting on January 26. Contact the Planning Office if you’d like to participate!
January New building permits City 25 County 12 Subdivision plats reviewed and recorded 8 LOC sureties $ 4.5M Cash sureties $ 583K
Construction Progress
The detention basin in front of the new Dollar General Store on South Broadway is a good example of transforming an unsightly basin into an underground stormwater storage system that allows the parking lot to be constructed on top of it. A row of large, fabric-wrapped, filtering chambers are connected to a nearby manhole for easy access and maintenance. Not only is this a more efficient use of land, but it hides that unsightly, but necessary drainage basin.
February 2016
The SKINNY Inside views and news
The Transect: A smarter approach to zoning? Scott County is somewhat unique in that we have a joint independent planning unit that includes the County as a whole and all its municipalities under one planning umbrella. This helps with coordination of process and administration, but it also tempts us into taking a one-way-fits-all approach. For instance, we have a joint City-County Zoning Ordinance that makes available all potential zone districts and their uniform requirements to all areas in the county. It may make sense to investigate a different approach. The transect is a concept drawn from ecology. It is a progression through a sequence of habitats, such as from wetland to upland to foothill. Ecologists use the transect to describe how each habitat supports symbiotic sets of mineral conditions, microclimate, flora, and fauna. The rural-to-urban transect extends this classification system to include a sequence of human habitats of increasing density and complexity, from the rural hinterland to the urban core. Design (and local land use regulations) at every scale should correspond to the logic of transition from the natural edge to the man-made center. Transportation, planting, buildings, setbacks, and all the myriad details of human habitat naturally vary across the transect. Context should matter and play into design and the form development is required to take. This approach could lead to a code that allows placemaking to occur more easily, where context and location would matter and be considered in the zoning code.
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Mapping Your World Meet Polina Karpova, our new GIS Intern! Polina came to the US from Russia and quickly fell in love with the Kentucky culture, people, basketball, and much more. Polina is currently a student at Eastern Kentucky University. She is thrilled to use some of the skills she has acquired, as well as to learn the ways in which GIS is used in municipal government.
In the Pipeline Clarks Pump ‘n Shop - 4,200 sq. ft. gas station on the southeast corner of Paris Pike and McClelland Circle. Amerson Knife Barn - 3,750 sq. ft. retail building on the northeast corner of U.S. 25 N. and Rogers Gap Rd. Whitehouse Electric - 4,837 sq. ft. office/ warehouse facility on 2.2 acres on Carley Dr. Redus Kentucky - commercial subdivision of 37 acres into five tracts located on the west side of Connector Rd., north of U.S. 460 E. Core Controls - 9,750 sq. ft. facility to design and fabricate commercial controls on 2+ acres on Demand Ct.
