Meeting of May 11, 2021

[Music] good afternoon welcome to the may 11th meeting of hardin county fiscal court i'd remind you that this is a voting meeting and if you have cell phones then please turn them off or put them in the vibrate mode we'll begin with a roll call if you wouldn't miss stalling ronnie goodman here king here judge mary here easter here doug goodman eric williams here claim you wiseman here thompson here mr thompson will lead us the invocation and mr king in the pledge if you'll please stand would you pray with me father god thank you father for your mercy for choosing to call us and be aware of us in our needs father we thank you that during these challenging times when people are found fearful with the threats that come our way that

when we acknowledge that you're in charge and trust you that we can take confidence that you are our shield and our shelter in times of trouble we thank you father for that lord today we lift up our community our state and our nation and pray father that uh for those who have not yet come to relationship with you that they may find the way to genuine relationship with you who are god and father of all creation and of all existence we thank you father that today you equip us to be about uh good and successful work on behalf of those who have elected us to these offices we pray father as we move forward through this meeting that you bless us and bless it that our decisions would be made in a way that would bless our community and bring honor and glory to you in jesus name i pray amen would you please say the pledge with me i pledge allegiance to the fire of the united states of america

and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice strong we'll begin today with item number two which is the public hearing on county road aid and local government economic assistance funds uh the hearing will be conducted by the county attorney ms holden thank you judge the purpose of today's hearing is to get any public input regarding the use in fiscal year 22 for the county road aid which is one million eight hundred and six thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars and the local government economic assistance funds which is the amount is one hundred and seventy six thousand four hundred and dollars so if there's anyone here that wants to provide comment you can come to the podium and seeing them that will close the hearing right we'll move on then the department uh and office reports and first up today we have planning development commission mr adam king good afternoon good afternoon all right i've got the march and april

reports from the planning commission i will start off with a couple items that went before the planning commission in those two months so this was a zone change from the agricultural a1 zone to the urban residential zone the r1 this was steve and rita wooden out on wooden lane uh just kind of north there of interstate 65 so he had a portion of the farm that he wasn't using actively in agriculture there it's mostly wooded and they're going to develop nine single-family residential lots there uh put those up for sale those will be on the market soon next was a zone change out in ronnieville so we are at the intersection of barry town road in jenkins road so sort of just northwest ronnieville this was a zone change from rural residential r2 to urban residential r1 and also a variance from the width to length ratio due to the depth of that property so essentially this zone change was just so the owners debbie and david asbelle could subdivide the property next a new subdivision was uh initially approved for the preliminary plat so again this was foxwood subdivision this

is mike thomas i'll be 15 new single family residential lots out off lincoln parkway and then i've got one item that went before the board of adjustment and i just uh i liked some of the graphics here so that's why i put this one in here but this is laura tab and dan linker on main street in downtown glendale going to tear down an existing carport and build a nice detached garage there with about a 900 square foot apartment above it so this is exactly what we're looking for we call these permanent accessory dwellings going to visually match the house behind the house so really good application that was approved looking at land use applications so for march and april six conditional use permits two zone changes two variances 21 subdivision plots one road closing and eight violations of the zoning ordinance looking at platts and lots thus far for the year we are at 19 platts recorded slightly down at this time from 2020 when we were at 22 looking at the number of lots created on those plats

so 36 new lots through the end of april for the year we were at 33 this time last year looking at kbc the building program uh building permits so building permits have been very strong 61 in march 59 in april electric has also been strong with 111 permits in march 119 in april uh the one one particular item here i'm not crazy about is stop works so 21 stop work orders so far this year so if you're watching or listening come in and see us and get your building permit single family dwelling so single family dwelling has is picking up 55 total for the year the maps there on the right so it's it's been all over hardin county at this time in 2020 we were at 47. looking at the inspections my inspectors have done uh footers 36 footers in march 35 footers in april on the electrical side 36 roughs in march 35 roughs in april so pretty consistent there with building and electrical projects getting started

a couple informational items so i wanted to say thank you to mr danny purcell senior uh for his seven years of service on the planning commission uh danny's being replaced by mr mark nelson i saw a photo there of mark being sworn in on the 20th of april by judge barry and then lastly you know everybody hears how hot the real estate market is and especially here in elizabethtown so this is an article from the wall street journal they do a thing called the emerging housing markets index uh in collaboration with realtor.com and uh found it very interesting for the month of april hardin county elizabethtown ford knox was ranked the 39th hottest real estate market in the country so if you uh if you look at most of the places ranked ahead of us it's it's places in california that you've heard of it's it's college town so we're staying busy that's all i've got happy to answer any questions you all might have comments for adam thank you thank you good report next we'll hear from hardin county engineering department charlie allen

okay today i want to give you a overview of our annual ms4 permit that we have to submit this every year in april and let me get to the next slide here so that's what it looks like we have to submit that every year in april it's a really large document i'm just going to go through briefly each section of that today it's we have to be in compliance with our kpdes permit which stands for kentucky pollution discharge elimination system i've learned everything in this department has an acronym it seems like so i'm just trying to learn all those and so the uh the permit ms4 permit is from the division of water much of the report thankfully when i got here in january this is one of the first things i was asked to look at and it scared me to death honestly it's a huge document well thankfully a lot of the staff had already put much of it together so it was really uh it wasn't that bad once i got into the meat of it so it wasn't too bad so let's just go through a little bit of that again the ms4 was issued the permit was issued in 2018 and it stands for this small municipal separate storm sewer system that's what ms4 stands for in case you ever wondered it covers the unincorporated areas of hardin county that are in the urban boundary