By Bob Vlach
Woodford Sun Staff
A development plan to construct two more Woodford Reserve barrel warehouses at 1220 Georgetown Road (Ky. 341) was sent to the Versailles-Midway-Woodford County Planning Commission following a review by the Technical Review Committee (TRC) on Dec. 26. The only unaddressed issue is whether there’s a need for another water tank/tower to provide fire protection.
“My concern is the protection of any other warehouse that’s around it,” Woodford County Fire Chief Melvin Montgomery, who serves on TRC, said.
His concern about a 750,000-gallon tank being sufficient for fire protection must be resolved before the development plan moves forward to the commission, county engineer Mary Beth Robson noted. No one representing property owner Brown Forman Corporation was at the meeting to address Montgomery’s concern.
Lucas Garrett, who represented Brown Forman at the Dec. 5 TRC meeting, said 10 warehouses were originally planned for this site where two are now planned. He said if the existing tank does not have sufficient water storage to provide fire protection for two more warehouses that will need to be addressed.
Mortonsville lots
An amended subdivision plat creating five lots on 21.3 acres at 5630 McCowans Ferry Road (DeCamargo property) in the small community of Mortonsville was reviewed and sent to the planning commission. A fire hydrant will be required if there is sufficient water pressure.
Other plats
An in-family conveyance (Jacqueline A. Manzo, wife to Mark Manzo, husband) creating a 24.3-acre lot with a remaining 33.635-acre lot at 898 Carpenter Pike was reviewed and sent to the commission.
A plat consolidating residual farmland at 1081 Hifner Road and creating a 1.13-acre in-family lot (Joshua A. and Lucy K. Slugantz, son and daughter-in-law to Cheryl Slugantz, mother and mother-in-law) on Deer Haven Drive was reviewed and sent to the commission.
Montgomery noted that there may not be sufficient water pressure to require fire hydrants to serve the lots being created with the plats.