After a multi-year, multi-meeting process, Hardin County Planning officials are ready to share the draft plan of the county’s updated comprehensive plan, and the plan went live at an open house Tuesday.
“State law requires a comprehensive plan in order to have zoning, so the county’s first comprehensive plan was developed and written in 1979 when the Planning Commission was adopted by fiscal court,” said Hardin County Planning Director and Building Official Adam King.
Tuesday’s open house provided the first opportunity for feedback on the draft plan.
We had a really great event,” King said. “Almost 100 people signed in. We got some good feedback. The draft plan is available on the comp. plan website (www.hardincountyplan.org) or it’s available on the Planning Commission’s website (www.hcpdc.com).”
The plan is an update from the last comprehensive plan drafted in 2019.
“We’ve got revised and reorganized goals and objectives, a revised future land use map and a revised planning area map,” King said. “For the first time we’ve got a chapter dedicated to agriculture.”
The new plan refines some of the existing planning areas in the county, and the anticipated impact of BlueOval SK can be seen in those plans.
“We’ve increased the size of the Glendale Rural Village, we’ve increased the urban area between Elizabethtown, Cecilia, and Glendale,” King said. “That’s where we are predominantly seeing builders wanting to build new homes. We kind of fine-tuned the Interstate Commercial Area and the industrial area at the I-65 exit in Glendale, and then we’ve got a totally new area we call the South Urban Area that runs south from Glendale to Sonora and Upton along I-65 and U.S. 31W.”
The plan will go up for an adoption vote before the county’s Planning Commission, then will be submitted to the Hardin County Fiscal Court for final adoption. Residents can still provide feedback at www.hardincountyplan.org.
