Development along Bowling Green’s bustling Lovers Lane corridor, already diverse as medical facilities, banks, restaurants, apartments and hotels have cropped up, should soon add another element: self storage.
A three-acre parcel next door to J.C. Kirby & Son Funeral Home and near the Traditions residential community is expected to soon be home to a three-story, climate-controlled indoor self-storage facility along with a separate multi-tenant commercial building after action taken at the June 6 City-County Planning Commission of Warren County meeting.
Developer Andy Shultz of The Koin Group LLC and property owner Bowling Green Gardens Inc. won approval to rezone the property from agriculture to highway business and will now go to the county’s Design Review Board for final approval of building materials and other specifics about the project.
The five planning commission members present all voted to approve the rezoning for a project that was described as unique.
“This will be the first climate-controlled self-storage project in the county,” said Darell Pierce, attorney for The Koin Group. “It will be open 24/7, and you’ll have to go inside to access the storage units.”
Pierce did not offer any specifics on the multi-tenant commercial building, but the planning commission’s staff report indicates that it will also be limited to a maximum height of three stories.
In the rezoning application, the development as a whole was described as “consistent with existing development and use of neighboring properties.”
According to the application, the self-storage facility and commercial building will “provide much-needed commercial options in one of the fastest-growing areas of Warren County.”
In addition to The Koin Group’s development, the planning commission approved in a 5-0 vote a small single-family residential development at the June 6 meeting.
Michael Brown, executor of the Robert and Lue Nell Brown Estate, won approval for rezoning 11 acres at 3471 H.E. Johnson Road near the Boyce community from agriculture to residential estate in order to create seven residential lots. An existing home on the property will remain.
The development plan calls for houses of at least 1,800 square feet with two-car attached garages to be built on the property.
Also approved at the meeting was the development plan amendment of Barry Woosley of Big Reedy Enterprises to remove the side- or rear-facing garage requirement for a 205-lot single-family development along Dye Ford Road.
Approved for rezoning in 2021, Woosley’s development plan calls for houses of at least 1,800 square feet constructed with no vinyl siding and with concrete driveways.
Under recently adopted planning commission rules, both rezonings approved June 6 will become final in three weeks and will not need approval from the Bowling Green City Commission or Warren Fiscal Court unless an affected party asks that it be considered.
