Research snapshot · Development · 31 August 2026

Zoning and site plan keeps a steady drumbeat in Kentucky

This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 18 dated municipal records flagged as zoning and site plan in Kentucky, spanning 16 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

The story so far

The record starts in Hurstbourne, 17 August 2022. Since then 16 Kentucky towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Nicholasville on 17 June 2026.

The last 90 days put 4 meetings on the record, level with the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Meetings Agendas, City Commission and City Council.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTowns
Sep 2025 to Nov 202500
Dec 2025 to Feb 202664
Mar 2026 to May 202644
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)44

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Dec 2025 to Feb 2026, with 6 meetings.

The towns on the record16, earliest first

Every Kentucky town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Hurstbourneearliest 2022-08-17 · 1 meeting · latest 2022-08-17 · the document 131283-CIty of Hurst. Summer 2022-WEB
Bardstownearliest 2024-01-01 · 1 meeting · latest 2024-01-01 · the minutes Meeting Agendas And Minutes — 11-26-2024 Minutes
Richmondearliest 2024-01-01 · 1 meeting · latest 2024-01-01 · the minutes City Commission — 10-22-2024 Agenda- Public Copy
Hendersonearliest 2025-03-25 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-03-25 · the agenda March 25, 2025
Cold Springearliest 2025-12-08 · 2 meetings · latest 2025-12-08 · the minutes minutes_council_12.8.25 special mtg
Villa Hillsearliest 2026-01-02 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-01-02 · the minutes Meeting Minutes 10-15-2025
Taylor Millearliest 2026-01-13 · 3 meetings · latest 2026-03-09 · the meeting packet March 2025 Packet
Shelbyvilleearliest 2026-02-05 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-02-05 · the minutes Agenda center file Agenda and Minutes For February 5, 2026
St. Matthewsearliest 2026-04-01 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-04-01 · the document STM ord 11-01
Edgewoodearliest 2026-04-02 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-04-02 · the ordinance Ordinance 2026-04-02 – Repeal and Replace Zoning Text and Map
Bellevueearliest 2026-04-22 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-04-22 · the agenda AGENDA-4-27-2026
Georgetownearliest 2026-06-08 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-06-08 · the agenda AgendaCenter agenda
Oak Groveearliest 2026-06-11 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-06-11 · the ordinance 2026-XX Zoning Ordinance Amendment
Bereaearliest 2026-06-12 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-06-12 · the document Reg Bus Mtg 6-16-2026 WS_BS
Nicholasvilleearliest 2026-06-17 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-06-17 · the document zoningmap_revised2026

And 1 more town on the record, in an account view.

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

17 June 2026 · Nicholasville

the document, on the town's own site zoningmap_revised2026

12 June 2026 · Berea

the document, on the town's own site Reg Bus Mtg 6-16-2026 WS_BS

11 June 2026 · Oak Grove

the ordinance, on the town's own site 2026-XX Zoning Ordinance Amendment

8 June 2026 · Georgetown

the agenda, on the town's own site AgendaCenter agenda

Companies on this record75 companies, 22 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
City Attorney Jack GatlinTaylor Mill
Mayor Daniel L. BellTaylor Mill
Scott Waste ServicesFranklin
3M CompanyFranklin
ADT SECURITY SERVICESGeorgetown
Advanced Drainage SystemsFranklin
AECOMFranklin
AES CorporationFranklin
African American Heritage CenterFranklin
AirgasFranklin
AmazonFranklin
American Water WorksFranklin
ArcadisFranklin
Ashgrove Real Estate Holdings, LLCFranklin
AT&TFranklin
Axon Enterprises, Inc.Franklin
Baldwin CPA’s PLLCShelbyville
Bardstown Historical Review BoardBardstown
Boyd Cat Co.Georgetown
BRANDSTETTER CARROLL INCGeorgetown
Buchanan Contracting, Inc.Georgetown
Cabinet for Health & Family ServicesTaylor Mill
CHECKERED FLAG AUTOBODY, LLCGeorgetown
Commonwealth of Kentucky, Transportation CabinetHenderson
Community Development Services BoardOak Grove
CSX RailroadFranklin
Culver'sCold Spring
Culver’sCold Spring
David and Shannon DalrympleBardstown
Deaconess EMS, LLCHenderson

And 45 more companies.

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 146 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

We track this topic continuously; this page is one cut of it, taken 31 August 2026. An account turns the snapshot into a working view: every town and every document behind these counts, the thread on each matter as it develops, word of new meetings as they land on the record, your own states and topics side by side, and the data itself when you want it in a table. The towns above are the taste; what each is actually deciding, funding or stalling is the read an account carries.

Also at this scope: Zoning and site plan across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Zoning and site plan, Kentucky

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

Kentucky

every topic this state carries

Area

Development

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

16

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

17 August 2022

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

4 against 4 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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