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, New rules designed to save more

trees from the bulldozer will be presented to the

public in a hearing Sept. 2.

The Fayette

County Planning Commission has been discussing the

county's tree preservation ordinance for several months.

County commissioners asked the group to examine the law

after commission Chairman Harold Bost questioned whether

the regulations are strong enough.

If

approved, the new ordinance will give developers more

credit toward tree preservation for saving existing trees

than they would get for planting new ones, an incentive

designed to stop developers from stripping construction

sites bare, then replacing large, native, existing trees

with small, ornamental new ones.

The

planning group will take public input at its meeting

Sept. 2 at 7 p.m. at the County Administrative Complex,

then work on the ordinance at its September work session

with plans to have one more public hearing and adopt the

ordinance Oct. 7.

, Rezoning to allow the Rivers

family to put a pole barn on their 184-acre farm is on

the County Commission agenda for Thursday.

Commissioners

recently voted to waive the customary application fees

and handle the rezoning as a county request.

The

property was zoned R-75, which allows two-acre

subdivision lots, in a mass rezoning years ago. But the

new zoning prohibited building farm outbuildings.

The meeting

will be at 7 p.m. at the County Administration Complex.

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