Bowling Green may be getting some much-needed mid-priced homes after action Thursday by the City-County Planning Commission of Warren County.

Commissioners voted unanimously to recommend approval of rezoning 18.8426 acres that property owners Gregg Reece and Dennis and Lori Causey plan to develop into as many as 48 single-family homes.

The property, at the intersection of Sagittarius Avenue and Iris Hill Street and bounded by the William Natcher Parkway, will now go to the Bowling Green City Commission for final approval of the rezoning from agriculture to single-family residential.

Near Natcher Parkway and Russellville Road, the property could soon be home to dozens of mid-priced homes, according to Reece.

“I think it will match what’s in that neighborhood,” Reece said. “It will be more-affordable homes.”

The development plan calls for homes of at least 1,200 square feet with two-car garages.

“There are no mid-priced lots available in Bowling Green,” he said. “Everybody is developing homes that are $300,000 and up.”

Reece expects the homes in this development to cost significantly less than that, but he didn’t give a price range.

After another action taken by the planning commission Thursday, the city of Smiths Grove in northern Warren County could soon be getting some additional affordable housing as well.

The commissioners approved an application by Seven Eleven Steeplechase LLC and Kelly Dutton to rezone 0.992 acre along Sunset Avenue in Smiths Grove from townhouse/multi-family residential, general business and highway business to single-family residential.

The development plan submitted with the application calls for dividing the property into four residential building lots and developing four homes of at least 700 square feet.

In other action Thursday, the planning commission recommended approval of a request by Tuss and Lisa Taylor to rezone one acre at 11501 Louisville Road from agriculture to neighborhood business in order to develop the property into a retail store.

The property at the corner of Louisville Road and Otter Gap Road was home to Massey’s Grocery Store from 1968 until 2016. According to the rezoning documents, the building on the property was renovated last year for the purpose of reopening it as a “neighborhood commercial retail store.”

The commissioners also approved rezoning a 2.5565-acre tract at 8750 Nashville Road near South Warren Middle and High School from agriculture to general business. Owner Montie Brown’s plan for the property is to turn the existing residence into a bank and an accessory building into a commercial or office space.

Both the Louisville and Nashville road properties must go to Warren County Fiscal Court for final approval of the rezonings.