Courier Journal - May 14, 1998
Rezoning approved yesterday will allow a developer to raze the old Waller Environmental School building on Dixie Highway to make way for a Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse store.
Fiscal Court approved the change from single-family to commercial zoning on 19 acres on the east side of Dixie, just south of Welby Road and opposite Lower Hunters Trace. The Louisville-Jefferson County Planning Commission had recommended the property be rezoned.
Developer J. Scott Hagan applied for the rezoning. The property, near the Dixie Manor Shopping Center, is to be purchased from the Jefferson County Board of Education.
The store will have about 125,000 square feet of space, a small warehouse and a garden center with nearly 30,000 square feet.
The plan also includes development of two commercial buildings along Dixie next to the parking lot. Their use has not been decided.
No one opposed the project at the commission’s recent zoning hearing.
Waller, which serves students with emotional or behavioral disabilities, will move this fall to the old Williams Middle School on Rockford Lane. Williams is now being renovated.