The Western Kentucky University Alpha Chi chapter of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity at 1436 Chestnut St. was officially readmitted into Bowling Green’s University District on Tuesday.

The fraternity’s house met the requirements of the Warren County zoning ordinance for approval, including complying with building and fire code standards, installing exit signs and having a surveyor redraw a site plan. More required neighborhood surveys were also submitted, according to City-County Planning Commission senior planner Jonathan Britt.

“These are health, safety and life issues and we felt they weren’t treated like they should by the organization,” Britt told University District Review Committee members Tuesday.

Jeremy Jones, alumni president for the fraternity, declined to comment.

Planning commission director Steve Hunter told the fraternity that it still needs to consider bringing its parking lot into compliance with zoning standards. Currently, the fraternity gives parking spots to those who donate to the fraternity, but Hunter said no commercial parking lot is allowed in the University District.

The readmission of the fraternity’s house into the University District follows WKU’s reinstatement of Alpha Gamma Rho in November, after being suspended in 2006 when a party at the fraternity reportedly involved underage drinking, streaking and pledges being told they had to have sex with a goat.

WKU reinstated the fraternity a year and three months early from a three-year suspension for good behavior, according to university officials, but the fraternity failed to obtain an annual review from the University District Review Committee – a process that’s followed by more than 20 organizations that occupy the district.

Britt said the AGRs will have to come before the committee again in the fall for the annual recertification review, as with all the other fraternities and sororities in the district.