The Kenton County Planning Commission approved a recommendation to revise Edgewood’s zoning ordinances this week. The revisions will now return to the Edgewood City Council for two public readings and a vote.
The proposal aims to refine and streamline the city’s zoning regulations to better align with the county’s broader comprehensive planning.
Kenton County Planning Development Services, the professional wing of the Kenton County Planning Commission, began an effort, called the Z21 Project, to make the Kenton County cities’ zoning laws more uniform and predictable in the 2010s by furnishing cities with template ordinances, which could be tweaked as needed. Many cities in the county have already adopted ordinance revisions that came out of the Z21 Project.
Specifically, the proposed revision would reduce the number of total zones in the city from 18 to 11. Most of the city would remain zoned for residential use. It would also make changes to regulations around parking and allow owner-occupied short-term rentals in residential zones under certain conditions; accessory dwelling units, on the other hand, are disallowed outright.
The revisions also add definitions for vape shops, vaping products and related terms. Several environmental regulations and regulations around traffic studies have also been updated. Finally, certain streets, listed below, will be flagged as congestion mitigation corridors:
- Dixie Highway
- Dudley Road
- Horsebranch Road
- Turkeyfoot Road
- Thomas More Parkway
- Charter Oak Road.
You can read the full ordinance proposal here.