Looking to stay “ahead of the curve,” officials with the Cadiz-Trigg County Planning & Zoning Commission Tuesday night voted unanimously in favor, 9-0, to zone and annex into the city 49 acres near the I-24 Business Park speculation building with an “I-2” heavy industrial designation.
The measure came at the recommendation of Trigg County Judge-Executive Stan Humphries, as well as South Western Kentucky Economic Development Council’s Carter Hendricks and Sharon Butts, and unfurls another chapter of local and regional leadership preparing for more jobs to arrive in the region sooner rather than later.
Humphries, as well as the SWK EDC, are well aware the building has remained vacant for nearly 2 ½ years, as a potential suitor balked in the final moments, and recent talks have been warm, but slow.
This decision, Humphries said, should make the entire package all the more enticing for an interested company.
Hendricks, meanwhile, said this choice gives Cadiz and Trigg County “the greatest latitude” when trying to market and recruit companies.
It has been previously reported that officials from Cadiz, Trigg County and the SWK EDC were “very close” on a prospective buyer a couple of years ago, before economic headwinds and supply chain shifts changed best-laid plans.
Meanwhile, according to Trigg County’s ordinances, “I-2” can be used for a wide variety of operations, including:
+ Animal hospitals.
+ Any permitted use in “I-1” light industrial districts.
+ Manufacturing, fabricating or processing of any commodity.
+ Retail sale of any commodity manufactured, fabricated or processed on the premises, or of any commodity designed especially for use in agriculture, mining, industry, business, transportation or construction.
+ Wholesale or storage of any article.
+ Accessory structures, like dwelling units for caretakers or watchmen employed by industrial firms.
+ And garages and other buildings and uses accessory to the principal purpose.
Hendricks reaffirmed that all other parks overseen by the SWK EDC in Christian and Todd counties are already zoned “I-2,” save I-24 Business Park, and this measure would make things consistent.
The next step in the process is future discussions with the Cadiz City Council.
NOTE: Through conditional use permits, the zoning also allows above-ground storage of gasoline, oil and alcohol in excess of 500 gallons; alcoholic beverages, ammonia, bleaches and chemicals; boiler and tank works; brick, pottery, terra-cotta and tile; coke ovens; commercial explosives (including storage); disinfectants, dyes and fertilizers; distillation plants for coal, wood and tar; establishments that cure, tan or store raw hides or skins; fat rendering plants; foundries and metal fabrication plants; illuminating or heating gases (including storage); junk and scrap yards; linseed oil, paint, oil, turpentine, varnish, soap and tar products; mixing plants for manufacture of cement, mortar, plaster or paving materials; plants for the manufacture of acetylene, acid or alcohol; slaughterhouses and stockyards; wrecking yards; and other similar uses that could be “detrimental to adjacent property values, dangerous or offensive that possess other characteristics that would be a nuisance to the residents of the city.”
WEBSITE: Spec Buildings | South Western Kentucky Economic Development Council
