After recognizing staff from the Hopkinsville Police Department, the Hopkinsville City Council was presented with an update from the Hopkinsville Industrial Foundation and accepted zoning recommendations from Community and Development Services (CDS) at Tuesday’s meeting.
School Resource Officers, Justin Rios, Timothy Humble and Ryan Seitz along with dispatcher Bobbie Jo Wilkinson were sworn in by Hopkinsville Mayor, J.R. Knight. Jeff Goulet and Jack Rawlings, who couldn’t attend the swearing in, have also recently began their duties as school resource officers.
John Crenshaw from the Hopkinsville Industrial Foundation, shared that the foundation is approaching 100 years of service after being founded in 1926. The foundation is responsible for promoting the industrial and economic development of Hopkinsville.
Since he started working with the foundation in 1988, Crenshaw says around 20 industries have established facilities in Hopkinsville.
Turning toward zoning, CDS Executive Director Tom Britton brought two zoning recommendations to the council. The first recommendation was for 15 unzoned properties on Major and Old Major Lanes to be zoned as a single-family residential district.
The second recommendation was a request from Christian County Fiscal Court to have a parcel of land along Young Street near the Christian County Sheriff’s Office to be rezoned as a general business district. Britton says Fiscal Courts plans to construct a storage and evidence facility for the Sheriff’s Office on the site.
The council accepted both recommendations and will vote on them at a later meeting. Continuing with zoning ordinances the council approved for two parcels of land, AT-1 and AT-2, along Martin Luther King Jr. Way near Bradshaw Road to be designated as Agricultural Transitional Districts on second reading.