During Tuesday’s Cadiz Planning Commission meeting, member Chappell Wilson brought to attention the fact that the city’s master zoning map was well out of date — leaving the governing board, and other city offices, without considerable up-to-date details about Trigg County’s zoning adjustments through the years.
Wilson said he’d spent 20 or more hours trying to locate a new map through appropriate channels, only to uncover a 1985 version of the city’s official cartography and zones — ratified in 1989 by then-mayor Scott Sivills.
As of Tuesday night, the belief among the Cadiz Planning Commission after thorough discussion was that an updated map had simply been misplaced or lodged in some official office elsewhere — perhaps with the Pennyrile Area Development District in Hopkinsville.
An updated map, however, hasn’t been misplaced. It was never created.
Since Tuesday, Cadiz Planning Commission Chairman Todd Wallace has contacted officials within the PADD office in Hopkinsville, only to learn from PADD representative Kyle Cunningham that the map hadn’t been updated since a colored version created in 2013.
During Tuesday’s discussion, Wallace even spelled out the tedious process that will be required in order to get this map up-to-date.
CORRECTION: The map located at the PADD office is from 2013, not 1985, and Wallace said after review it is “relatively” up-to-date. However, the city and the planning commission do not have a new one since — meaning eight years have to be added. The map from circa 1985 is the one hanging in City Hall.
Originally, it was reported that PADD only had access to a map created in the mid-1980s, and this was inaccurate.
Wallace did note once he receives multiple copies of the 2013 map created by PADD, he will schedule a meeting with Cadiz Mayor Todd King and City Clerk Barbie Johnson, along with Cunningham, to determine a plan for getting this zoning map current, as it’s now eight years in the rear.
Wallace added there is definitely a process for this within the state, but he’s unsure how the planning commission followed this in the past.
The point, however, is to obtain an accurate representation of the city and county’s zone, in order to further expedite the commission’s efforts in future zoning and plat concerns.
This isn’t the only housekeeping the Cadiz Planning Commission has handled this week.
Also during Tuesday’s meeting, Wallace brought to the table an October advertisement in The Cadiz Record, in which AT&T announced its inevitable construction of a 260-foot lattice cell phone tower on Country Road 1264 near Linton — with concerns that AT&T officials hadn’t contacted the planning commission about the project.
Wallace said he’s talked with Robert Grant of Pike Legal Services about the project, and Wallace said he learned that AT&T hasn’t filed its application for construction.
Instead, the notice in the paper was part of the National Environmental Policy Act review, in which it requires the notification of the public for any historical monuments or environmental impacts to the area.
According to Wallace, Grant said these kinds of notices often lead to these raised questions, and that the application from AT&T should be coming in front of the planning commission within the next few months.
