Detached single-family homes are now officially allowed at the Covington Central Riverfront site, located at the site of the former IRS complex.
The move coincides with the approval of an agreement to build a $8.545 million development that features 10 single-family homes.
The Covington City Commission voted in September to send the request to the planning commission for recommendation, who recommended allowing the homes in early October. The commission cast its final unanimous vote on the rezoning on Tuesday.
The rezoning allows for both single-family detached homes and single-family lot line properties (houses on their own lots that butt up against the lots’ side property lines) at the development site.
When the city bought the property, they rezoned the area to include single-family homes. When the city revised its neighborhood development code in 2020, it moved the use category over but not the building type, necessitating the recommendation from the planning commission.
The current neighborhood development code does, in fact, include single-family homes in the Central Riverfront’s zoning category, but only attached homes (i.e., apartments, townhomes, condos, duplexes, triplexes and quadplexes) are included in the building type category. Moreover, the site’s master plan calls for single-family housing.