LAGRANGE CITY COUNCIL V. OLDHAM FISCAL COURT

I attended the LaGrange city council meeting tonight and was pleasantly surprised to see the council vote unanimously to conduct a further review the proposed Planning and Zoning (P&Z)ordinance for the city before voting on it. Although both Louise Allen, who is in charge of P&Z and Kevin Jeffries, who is the chairman of the P&Z Commission were there and spoke favorably of the new ordinance, the council decided to trust their own review of the ordinance before voting on it. The council voted to send the ordinance back to the ordinance committee and then to vote on the ordinance at the next scheduled council meeting in February.

This action is in stark contrast to the action of the Oldham County Fiscal Court which recently voted to pass the ordinance for the county. Both ordinances contained several changes that allow the P&Z Commission more leeway which in turn will allow for the approval of more development in the county. Only one magistrate, Scott Davis, voted against the ordinance.

I have only attended a few LaGrange council meetings but I must admit that tonight the council presented itself more like a deliberating government body conducting the people’s business than the robot driven Oldham County Fiscal Court usually does. I congratulate the council.