The Elizabethtown City Council met for a special meeting Monday.
The council approved three ordinances on their second readings. The first annexed property on Leitchfield Road, to be zoned Regional Commercial (C-3). The second approved the rezoning of 106 East Memorial Drive from Neighborhood Office (C-1) to Neighborhood Commercial (C-2). The third approved the rezoning of 237 West Poplar Street from Urban Residential (R-4) to Downtown Mixed Use (C-5).
“I do think this will be a good addition to downtown,” said City Council Member Julia Springsteen about the Poplar Street property. “It’s on the outer edge of what we consider to be downtown, and I think it’ll be nice to draw people in and out.”
City Natural Gas Department Director Matthew Hobbs gave a report on his department, which he said employs 12 full-time employees. Hobbs said the number of inspections and the number of new services “is holding pretty steady.” The department completed about 7,600 locates in 2025, down from about 8,000 in 2024. The city natural gas system’s average flow over the last three years is about 93 percent.
“Which is phenomenal, but the bad thing that tells me is that you only got about 7 percent that you can grow before we need to be getting more supply in there,” Hobbs said.
City Public Works Director Don Hill discussed the city’s annual Spring Clean-Up, which will run March 30 through “tentatively” May 1.
“The schedule coincides with brush collection, however, because of the amount of debris that is put out through the month, we will go through the areas, not by the week, but we’ll start in area one on March 30, and we’ll continue to run the route schedule through the four areas throughout the month,” Hill said. “Usually we make three to four passes throughout the city.”
More info on Spring Clean-Up can be found on the City of Elizabethtown Government Facebook page.
The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet April 13.
