Integrated

Science and Engineering company needs to fish or

cut bait, the Fayette County Planning Commission

said last week.

The

group ignored the firm's request for more time on

its rezoning request for a proposed industrial

park on 28 acres on Rockwood Road, and voted to

send the request on to the Board of Commissioners

with a recommendation that it be denied.

"It's

kind of unfair to publicize public hearings...

and then we keep tabling," said Planning

Commission Chairman Bob Harbison before making a

motion to proceed with the rezoning and deny the

firm's request that it be tabled. The request has

been on the group's agenda twice before, and ISE

has asked for tabling both times.

Commission

member Al Gilbert said someone from the company

had talked to him about the need to table the

request, and he had told that person that a

representative of the company should attend the

meeting to explain. No one from ISE attended, and

Gilbert abstained from the vote to deny the

request to table.

The

flag-shaped property, currently owned by Larry

Landrum, is connected to the road only by a

65-foot-wide strip of land, not enough for an

access road into the site, said Kathy Zeitler,

zoning administrator. A concept plan submitted by

ISE shows access to the property from a future

street that is to be built by owners of adjoining

property.

"The

concept plan is not proposing access from an

existing public street, but rather a future

street to be developed by others," Zeitler

said in her written comments on the rezoning.

"There are concerns that the future street

rezoning of the subject property may be

premature."

Zeitler

said the reason for continuing to table the

request seems to be to give ISE time to negotiate

with adjoining property owners for a commitment

that would guarantee access to the property.

"They're waiting for the property to change

hands," she said.

Commissioners

said they're not waiting any longer, and voted

unanimously to recommend denial. County

commissioners will consider the request at their

July 22 business meeting, 7 p.m. at the County

Administrative Complex.

Also

on the agenda will be Frank Love's request for

R-45, one-acre residential zoning, for his

33.88-acre tract at the end of Antebellum Way.

Planning

commissioners recommended approval of Love's plan

for a fifth phase to Jeff Davis Plantation

subdivision. Phase four is currently under

construction, and Love said it will be more

economical to finish both phases at the same

time.

Extension

of Antebellum Way will create a subdivision

street that's almost 4,000 feet long, in

violation of county standards that limit such

streets to 3,000 feet.

"I

don't like a 4,000-foot cul de sac, but you have

no other way to get in there," said

commission member Jim Graw.

Commissioners

also recommended approval of Bob Rolader and

Brent Scarbrough's request to rezone just over an

acre from a two-acre classification to A-R,

requiring five-acre lots.

The

land is to be added to Jackson Estates, a new A-R

subdivision on Antioch Road.

In

other business, he commission approved a

preliminary plat for Blue Willow, an eight-home,

72.5-acre subdivision on Malone Road.

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