The Courier-Journal, January, 1990
In an unexpected move, the Louisville-Jefferson County Planning Commission recommended Thursday night that the Jeffersontown City Council approve revised plans for the Gardens of Hurstbourne, near Hurstbourne Lane and Vieux Carre Drive.
The commission had deferred action on the case at its regular meeting Thursday afternoon, but the matter came up that night at a special public hearing on another case.
The developers won rezoning for Gardens of Hurstbourne a year ago but now want to change the plans by dropping about 100 apartments and adding another 40,000 square feet of commercial space.
They have agreed to help pay for any new sidewalks and for a new computerized system of traffic signals. They also agreed to restrict the types of businesses that can be located in the parking area.
The commission had been grappling with what to do with the plans for more than a month. The county Air Pollution Control District had urged that the matter be tabled until late February. The district hopes by then to get a better idea of how severe carbon-monoxide pollution is in the Hurstbourne area.
The commission’s action Thursday night sent the case to Jeffersontown for final action.
At the hearing that night, the commission recommended denying an application to rezone a tract at 2018 Brownsboro Road in Clifton for a fast-service restaurant.
The commission sent the request to the Louisville Board of Aldermen.
Muharrem and Fozilet Gultekin had applied to rezone 1.3 acres they own. The Gultekins proposed tearing down five old single-story duplexes for the business and 40 parking spaces.
Clifton residents, who had petitioned for the night hearing, said the business would pose a hazard to people using the nearby stairway and sidewalk leading up a hill to a residential area and Vernon Avenue above. Many of the users are blind, they said.
The commission said the residential area should be protected. It also said it believed the applicants had not supplied sufficient details in the design of the project.