The fate of a large apartment development proposed for property near Veterans Memorial Boulevard and Russellville Road is still to be determined after Thursday’s meeting of the City-County Planning Commission of Warren County.

After considering questions about adequacy of parking, uniformity of the buildings and access from an adjoining subdivision, the 10 commissioners present in the Bowling Green City Commission chambers voted unanimously to recess the hearing on the development until their Feb. 21 meeting.

The proposal put forth by the Keystone Development Group headed by local Realtor Matthew Tabor called for a maximum of 662 multi-family residential units on 39.11 acres with frontage on Veterans Memorial, Russellville Road and Walnut and Hickory streets.

The application called for the property to be rezoned from agriculture and townhouse/multi-family residential to multi-family residential and commercial in order to develop the apartments and a commercial component of about 5.6 acres along Veterans Memorial.

But no commissioner made a motion to approve the application after hearing that the development plan would fall short of the required number of parking spaces by about 350 spaces and that the look of the different apartment buildings might not be uniform.

Planning Commissioner Christiaan Volkert raised the issue of uniformity between two different sections of the development, saying: “We’ve tried to make sure in these developments that everything looks uniform.”

Engineer Thad Lucas, speaking for the Keystone group, said: “If you do that, you take away the ability to have some architectural creativity.”

“I can see that being a mess,” Volkert answered.

Catherine Lowe, a resident of the Springhill subdivision, was among those raising objections to the plan to connect the apartment development to Springhill through Hickory Street.

“We already have a lot of people cutting through Springhill, using it as a cut-through from Russellville Road to Veterans Memorial,” Lowe said. “I think it’s wrong to connect.

“They’re trying to cram as many units as they possibly can on that property, and I don’t think we need that.”

Volkert said there were “too many unknowns” for the commissioners to vote on the development. He made the motion to recess the hearing until the Feb. 21 meeting, and it passed unanimously.

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