BY MELINDA J. OVERSTREET
GLASGOW NEWS 1
The Royal Troon residential and commercial development along Ky. 90 north of Glasgow has received nods from the Joint City-County Planning Commission allowing two aspects of the plan to proceed.
This photo of an image projected onto the wall during Tuesday’s meeting of the Joint City-County Planning Commission of Barren County illustrates the overall plan for a 111-plus-acre development called Royal Troon along Ky. 90 northwest of Glasgow. The bulk of the area is to have single-family dwellings. Multifamily apartment buildings and other commercial buildings are planned for the top left corner appearing open on this image, but in more detail in a different image attached to this report. MELINDA J. OVERSTREET / GLASGOW NEWS 1
The overall property lies within the area between Flint Knob and Harry King roads intersect with Ky. 90, to the west of the roadway.
The preliminary subdivision plat for purposes of grading only was approved for the Phase 2 portion of the 111-plus-acre project, which calls for the possibility of 144 single-family residence lots. Phase 1 is proposed to contain 56 single-family residential lots, and that had received preliminary approval for grading only on Sept. 19, said Kevin Myatt, planning director for the commission. The number of lots in either area is tentative at this point.
The applicant/owner for the project is Woodland Station Development LLC.
In addition, the preliminary development plan was later approved in the same meeting for an area proposed for commercial buildings, which could multifamily residential units as well as a convenience store and other business interests. This area is toward the northern section of the overall property.
Myatt said that all the single-family lots meet or exceed the minimum of 7,500 square feet required for lots with sewer service.
He described the stormwater drainage routes for each section within that Phase 2 area as well as retention and detention basin. He noted he was being particularly meticulous with those concerns in this report because, though it is not considered to be in a flood plan, it is a soil-sensitive/wetlands area, so they have to pay close attention to the directionality of water flow and where it would collect.
Myatt said the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet will require a turning lane on Ky. 90 going into the development, which will have two main entrances, and he noted that the widening of the state-maintained roadway is in the design phase, still among the prioritized projects for the district, and the engineers working on that are aware of the subdivision.
The approval for grading purposes was given subject to a variety of conditions that must be met before any property can be conveyed to new owners or building permits requested, e.g. soil and erosion control.
This photo of an image projected onto the wall during Tuesday’s meeting of the Joint City-County Planning Commission of Barren County illustrates the preliminary development plan for the multifamily residential/commercial portion of a larger 111-plus-acre development called Royal Troon along Ky. 90 northwest of Glasgow.
MELINDA J. OVERSTREET / GLASGOW NEWS 1
The 12.4-acre commercial section is considered a planned-unit development and is proposed to contain 13 eightplexes, a pair of six-unit townhomes – for a total of 116 total multifamily residential units – and an 8,000-square-foot convenience store and three vacant out lots, Myatt said.
The developers intend to only request that the portion of the roadway from Ky. 90 through that business section, with the proposed name of Palmer Court, be added to the county maintenance rolls, he said. It’s roughly 200 feet in length and 30 feet wide, with a 50-foot right of way.
Kyle Shirley, owner/developer, said this commercial portion, including the multifamily residences, would be done before the single-family residential areas, and its his hope it will be done by the first quarter of 2024.
Commissioner Thomas Grubbs asked about the distance between the two access points from Ky. 90 – one to Palmer Court in the commercial section and one directly into the single-family residential subdivision – and Jason Baker, project engineer, said it’s roughly 600 feet. Commissioner Lewis Bauer asked how far from Harry King Road, an intersection that has been somewhat crash-prone, to the closest access point from Ky. 90, and Baker’s response was that it’s approximately 0.2 to 0.3 miles.
This portion of an image projected onto the wall at Tuesday’s meeting of the Joint City-County Planning Commission of Barren County illustrates a preliminary and final plat for a subdivision of property along Oak Grove Church Road that received approval from the commission. MELINDA J. OVERSTREET / GLASGOW NEWS 1
Other items of business from last week’s meeting, all of which were also approved unanimously with two members – Bobby Bunnell and Janis Turner – absent plus with an abstention by Tommy Gumm on the last one, were:
— Agricultural application for division of approximately 9.66 acres of real estate along 4220 Capitol Hill Road, with Tyrus Potrafke Inc. as applicant/owner;
— Preliminary and final subdivision plat for seven tracts within approximately 15.93 acres along Oak Grove Church Road, with WCM-Land LLC Series 19 as applicant/owner;
— Final development plan for Glasgow Dollar General Store on approximately 2.20 acres along the area of 100 Leslie Avenue, with Rafferty Development LLC as applicant/owner; and
— Final development plan for Don Franklin Dealership for one tract that is a portion of its 28.54-acre site along Ky. 90 near Reynolds Road, with Glasgow Land LLC as applicant/owner.
Cemetery issue
“There’s an existing cemetery noted on [one of the illustrations], which is of particular interest,” Myatt said when discussing the drainage plan. It’s considered a common area and it’s required to allow access for any individual who has family members there to be able to access it, he said.
Later in the discussion, before the grading for the preliminary plat was approved, Commissioner Lewis Bauer asked whether the cemetery has been staked off now, and Myatt said it is, but unfortunately a portion of it was not identified correctly by the sensors at first and was disturbed when the earth was being moved.
“They went through the proper channels to make sure that those that had been disturbed were put back to their original – I think they’re going to be put back to their original – state, as far as elevationwise, and they’re very clearly defined as of right now,” Myatt said.
Eddie Atnip, a member of the Joint City-County Planning Commission of Barren County, asks a question during Tuesday’s commission meeting. MELINDA J. OVERSTREET / GLASGOW NEWS 1
Baker, the engineer, confirmed they have been marked and an additional consultant was brought in to do a scan of the whole area to prevent any further disturbance.
He added that they have revised the overall plan with regard to lot layout and grading to accommodate those graves that were outside the area where the cemetery was thought to be and they have created a buffer area around all the graves for further protection.
Myatt said the planning staff went to check out the site when they heard of the disturbance and saw no indication graves had been marked at all and that area was very “grown-up mess.”
Myatt said they had researched to attempt to determine the name of that cemetery and had not been able to definitely do so, but he said it may be a Scott cemetery, but the one with that name in the Barren County cemeteries book was no where near that. Answering a question from a commissioner, he said it has 12 to 20 graves total.
Commissioner Eddie Atnip then asked him to confirm the situation has been addressed.
“Yes, sir,” Myatt said.
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