Bowling Green’s growth is again leading to more housing units, this time in northern Warren County.

The City-County Planning Commission of Warren County last Thursday approved in an 8-0 vote a development plan amendment that will allow the KKH Properties LLC headed by Kyle Shirley to expand its apartment complex at 245 Kelly Road from 48 to 64 units.

In its application, KKH pointed out that expanding the existing development is consistent with the 4.9-acre property’s high-density residential designation in the planning commission’s Future Land Use Map (FLUM).

Constructing two more eight-unit buildings on the property also meets a need in the county, KKH attorney Chris Davenport argued at the meeting.

“There is a demand for developments like this,” Davenport said. “This is making good use of property that’s already zoned for multi-family.”

Adding to the apartment complex that is near Louisville Road and Bristow Elementary School raised questions about how the new buildings would conform to the existing ones.

Davenport said the development plan calls for the exterior of the new buildings to “conform in style, material and color, to the greatest extent possible” to the existing structures.

Also approved at the meeting was a FLUM amendment expected to lead to the building of a Farm Credit Mid-America branch on a five-acre tract along Nashville Road near G.N. Glasscock Road.

The amendment changes the property’s FLUM designation from low-density residential to commercial.

Davenport, also representing Farm Credit Mid-America, said the FLUM amendment will allow the financial institution to apply at a future meeting to have the property rezoned from agriculture to general business in order to develop the new branch.

Farm Credit Mid-America, an agricultural lending cooperative serving farmers, rural residents and agribusinesses in Arkansas, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee, has a local presence on Russellville Road now.

The company pointed out in its application that the change in the property’s FLUM designation is appropriate because adjacent property had recently been granted similar approval, but not all planning commissioners agreed.

The FLUM amendment passed in a 10-2 vote, with Smiths Grove representative Debbie Richey and Oakland representative Gayla Cissell voting against it.