Ordinance reminders: Colored lights, public trash cans
If you still have colored Christmas lights up outside and you live or operate a business in town, they need to be off by now, Nashville Town Council President “Buzz” King reminds you. Colored lights are supposed to be off by Jan. 15.
King’s other “Notes to Note” ordinance reminder for February: The public trash cans lining downtown streets are for pedestrians to put their trash in. They are not for residents or shop owners to empty their trash cans into. “To take your wastebasket out of your shop and expect the town to pay to haul it away is terrible,” he said.
PRDs now defined in county zoning ordinance
There’s now an official definition for “private recreational development” in Brown County’s zoning ordinance.
It is “the provision for recreation-related products or services for private enterprise for a fee, with the long-term intent of being profitable, included but not limited to wedding venues.”
The Brown County Commissioners approved it Feb. 15, following the recommendation of the Brown County Area Plan Commission in January.
The vote the commissioners took also includes language that PRDs may be limited to one entrance.
The designation of “private recreational development” has been granted to seven businesses over the past 20-plus years — a guest ranch, a golf course, an adult camp, various event venues and Ski World — but the term was never defined in the ordinance, said Planning Director Chris Ritzmann.
Many more requests for PRDs were denied over the years, including a dragstrip; a private fishing lake; a zipline business; a music park; and a “nature sanctuary” with cabins, a lodge and trails.
Ritzmann told the commissioners that having a definition will help the BZA. “In the past, people tried to hammer all sorts of things into that designation,” she said.
