Chick-fil-A representative Todd Williams briefly stands before the Joint City-County Planning Commission to answer any questions they might have concerning the zone change application at the Sept. 16 meeting. Michael Crimmins/Glasgow News 1.
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
It was a meeting filled with public hearings for the Joint City-County Planning commissioner. Among the seven hearings was the anticipated rezoning application on the property eyed by the Georgia-based fast-food franchise Chick-fil-A.
The property up for rezoning was 850 N. L. Rogers Wells Blvd. Chick-fil-A officially filed a plat with the Barren County Clerk’s Office on Aug. 14 with Splash Car Wash Inc. listed as the property owner.
Based on previous development ideas the property was zoned a light industrial district, which, according to Glasgow’s zoning ordinance, “provide[s] locations for warehouse, distribution and service operations” and prohibits restaurants from being constructed within that zoning classification. Splash Car Wash Inc. thus submitted an application to have the property rezoned to a general business district.
To the surprise of some present, no member of the public spoke either in favor or opposition after Planning Director Kevin Myatt finished his report and recommended its rezoning with four binding elements; namely that the property parallel to Magnolia Drive remain residential as a “buffer” to that neighborhood, that the signs remain either non illuminated or on a dimmer switch after dark, that there be “showbox” lighting that keeps the light from being projected out and that there be “no entrance from this development…onto Magnolia Drive.
Todd Williams, Chick-fil-A’s representative at the meeting, agreed to accept the binding elements.
A preliminary plan of the layout for the new Chick-fil-A building on N.L. Rogers Wells Boulevard. This preliminary drawing was obtained by Glasgow News 1 through an open records request.
As Myatt explained previously, this rezoning is the first step to the franchise “breaking ground” on that property. Once the Sept. 16 minutes are approved by the commission its rezoning recommendation will be forwarded to the Glasgow City Council for their input and approval. From there development plans, which require only the commission’s approval, will be submitted by Chick-fil-A.
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