More growth could be coming to the Elrod Road area near Jody Richards Elementary School.

Barrett Hammer and Kirk Tinsley, principals in the BK Development of Bowling Green LLC, and property owner Mary Cohron have applied to rezone 14.7 acres at 2836 Elrod Road to develop the property into a subdivision with as many as 55 homes.

The rezoning from agriculture to single-family residential will be considered Thursday by the City-County Planning Commission of Warren County, which meets at 6 p.m. in the Bowling Green City Commission chambers on College Street.

Adjacent to the Pennyroyal Farms subdivision and close to the Ivan Downs and Belle Haven subdivisions, the proposed development calls for the homes to have at least 1,600 square feet of living space and be built with two-car garages and 80 percent stone or brick.

Sidewalks are required within the proposed development, which will have access from Elrod Road and connect with the adjacent Pennyroyal Farms subdivision.

Hammer, a Realtor with Bowling Green’s Crye-Leike Executive Realty, said he expects the homes to be priced from $250,000 to $325,000. The price range and location should meet a growing demand in the southern end of the county, he said.

“We have a huge demand for homes in that price range and area,” Hammer said.

The proposed development continues a trend that has seen the number of single-family lots approved by the planning commission explode from 47 in 2012 to 1,121 in 2017, with much of that growth in the southern end of the county.

Hammer said work on the development could start by the end of the year if it is approved by the planning commission and Warren County Fiscal Court.

The planning commission will also consider at Thursday’s meeting a rezoning along Scottsville Road near Plano Road that could lead to a commercial development on the 2.551-acre tract.

Thomas G. Pappas and John Moran of Bowling Green Partners LLC are applying to rezone the land from multi-family residential and highway business to highway business only to develop the property with a mixture of commercial uses.

The property had been zoned Planned Unit Development in the past.