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proposed ordinance - school facilities consideration
Up one levelAs Oldham County has experienced in the past, Shelby County has begun to have problems building schools fast enough to keep up with the county's rapid residential growth. When growth exceeds capacities of the public school system, the school system begins to play a game of catch up by raising property taxes to pay for constructing more school buildings. But the school system cannot catch up as the increased revenues come in a year or two after the demand presented itself. Shelby County magistrate Jim Robertson has proposed an ordinance, based on the one in place in Oldham County, that would give the school system help in responding to growth demands in a more timely manner.
The Shelby County Fiscal Court has sent the proposed School Capacity Ordinance to the Triple S Planning Commission for its review and recommendation. See the last two articles below.
- Courier-Journal article 10-29-05
- This Courier-Jornal article addresses some of the issues that the Shelby County Public Schools system is facing and how the proposed ordinance could be of help. Oldham County's experiences in dealing with simular problems are reviewed. View the photo gallery of Shelby County that is included at the right of the article on the CJ website.
- Herald-Leader article on Shelby County school growth
- In November 9th's Herald-Leader newspaper, Greg Kocher wrote: "From Nicholasville to Shelby County, Central Kentucky communities are doing more - - or at least thinking more - - about how to make new developments pay their share for public safeby and schools." Click this link to read the entire article.
- invited speakers & agenda for Nov. 9th Forum
- This page lists the persons (and gives their community ties) and the agenda for the forum hosted by Magistrate Jim Robertson on November 9th. MORE has added yellow highlighting for those who did not attend. Not one developer or realtor attended. Mrs. Rob Rothenburger was in attendance but did not substitute for the Judge/Executive on the panel.
- Sentinel-News 11-11-05
- The Sentinel-News reported on some of the happenings at and after a public forum, hosted by Magistrate Jim Robertson, on a proposed zoning ordinance and subdivision regulation that would empower the Shelby County Fiscal Court, the Shelbyville City Council, the Simpsonville City Commission, and the Triple S Planning Commission to consider whether or not Shelby County's Public School system would have capacities to handle the new students from proposed zone changes. If the subdivision regulations of Shelby County also were amended to include this change, then the Triple S Planning Commission could take the same consideration into account when development plans were presented to them.
- contact these magistrates
- Four Fiscal Court magistrates did not attend the public forum on the proposed school capacity ordinance that was held on October 9th. Contact information for these magistrates is given below. Contact them to express your views on this issue.
- text of proposed ordinance
- 2050 - AR Oldham County
- This Oldham County Schools Administrative Regulation for Adequate School Facilities governs the application of the school facilities ordinance in Oldham County.
- School Board meeting news release
- Read a news release from the Shelby County Board of Education on its meeting on 10-13-05 at which the growth ordinance was discussed.
- news release on growth ordinance
- A short recounting of comments made at the 10-13-05 Board meeting on the proposed ordinance that would take the capacities of school facilities into consideration in approval of residential developments and the Board's position on the proposed ordinance.
- Chamber nixes MORE
- Chamber of Commerce committee "knows" what MORE thinks; and therefore, the committee doesn't need to hear from MORE on development issues.
- Proposal sent to Triple S
- A Sentinel-News article of 12-21-05 describes the actions of the Shelby County Fiscal Court as it sent the proposed school capacity ordinance to the Triple S Planning Commission for its review and recommendation.
- Ordinance that controls the adoption of zoning regulations
- Changes, additions, and/or deletions to the Shelby County Zoning Regulations (ordinances) are called "amemdments of text of regulations." The file below gives excerpted text from the Shelby County Zoning Regulations, Article XIV, that control the amendment process. Note that there will be a public hearing at Triple S on the proposed school facilities growth ordinance.
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