The Agricultural Edge and the Frontage Question

A commercial use proposed at the edge of an agricultural area in Woodford or Bourbon County will be decided on the frontage and the buffer, not the use itself. The community will accept a use that respects the edge and reject a use that does not, and the frontage is where the respect is measured.

We design the frontage and the buffer before we argue the use. A buffer that holds the agricultural character, a frontage that does not commercialize the road, and an access plan that serves the use without serving the traffic will move through a hearing that a use alone would not.

The neighbors are the decision. A project at the agricultural edge will be decided by the neighbors in the room, and the neighbors in the room are the ones who were in the room before the project was filed. We engage the neighbors before the filing, because the hearing is too late to make a friend.