Sept Skinny

1. Inside views and news
The SKINNY
G E O R G E T O W N - S C O T T C O U N T Y
P L A N N I N G C O M M I S S I O N
September 2017
August
Construction Progress
Clark’s Pump and Shop
across from Wendy’s should
open in October.
New building permits
City 45
County 33
Subdivision plats
reviewed and recorded 8
LOC sureties $ 3.9M
Cash sureties $ 548K
Mapping Your World
September 5-8, our GIS crew
visited the annual Kentucky GIS
Conference held in Louisville.
They attended workshops and
presentations to learn and share
their GIS knowledge and experi-
ence. One workshop involved
3D printing landscapes based on
digital elevation models of areas
throughout Kentucky. Below is
an example model of the Red
River Gorge Geological Area.
In the Pipeline
Hallany Self-Storage Development – Preliminary Development Plan for 83,950 sq. ft.
of self-storage units in six buildings, plus a 900 sq. ft. office, located on the southeast
side of Paris Pike, adjacent to the Norfolk Southern Railroad.
Hilpp’s Georgetown Warehouse – a 50,000 sq. ft. warehouse for Adient US, LLC, locat-
ed on northwest corner of Lemons Mill Road and McClelland Circle.
Betty Yancey Griffith Trust Property Amended – Rezoning request for 122.2 total acres,
from A-1 (Agriculture) to 44.7 acres of R-2 PUD and 50.2 acres of R-1C PUD
(Residential), 21.2 acres of C-1 (Conservation), and .69 acres of B-1 (Neighborhood
Commercial), located on the east side of Cincinnati Pike, north of Champion Way.
Pleasant Valley Subdivision Section 2, Phase 2, Unit 3 – Rezoning request from R-1C
PUD (Residential) to R-3 PUD (Residential), for 10.26 acres and Conceptual Devel-
opment Plan for 160 multi-family units, located on the west side of Schnieder Blvd.
A draft of the Great Scott Com-
prenhensive Plan will be available
for review in October.
Design Guidelines for Commercial Corridors
Planning staff is working on a proposal for establishing
minimum building design standards in commercial dis-
tricts. Input received from the general public and various
working groups during meetings to draft the 2017 Com-
prehensive Plan Goals and Objectives pointed to the need
for minimum building standards for new commercial
buildings in Scott County.
A survey done at the start of the Comprehensive Plan update process indicated
that 92.5% of respondents are in favor or undecided and only 7.5% oppose hav-
ing architectural/building design standards for commercial development. In
recent years commercial projects have been proposed and approved that have in-
cluded prefabricated metal buildings that have lowered the perceptive quality of
the commercial corridors where they are located.
The main elements of the proposed standards will be an emphasis on quality
building materials and detailing, not on creating a uniform building aesthetic. A
main purpose is also to prohibit the use of prefabricated metal industrial build-
ings and elevate the consideration of building design
in the review process. Design standards are already
in place for Big Box stores, which are considered
retail stores over 50,000 square feet in floor area.
Requiring similar design standards for smaller com-
mercial buildings would ensure high quality develop-
ment regardless of project or building size.