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The Elizabethtown City Council held a special meeting and work session on October 26, 2026. The special meeting included adoption of a zoning ordinance change, authorization of two grant applications, and approval of prior meeting minutes. The work session featured an update from the Planning and Development Department, a progress report on the Steel Grove music venue, and public comments.
How do we give us a hug Welcome everyone to Elizabethtown City Council special meeting for October twenty sixth, two thousand and twenty six. And I'd like to ask Councilmember Tim Isaacs if he'd lead us in the invocation, please. Pray with me. Lord, we thank you for this beautiful fall day. We thank you for this time of year, full of opportunity for time with family and to remember our many blessings. Lord, we ask for your spirit to be with the public works department as they cope with the loss of a team member. Lord, keep our citizens safe and watch over our first responders. Lord, be with our military personnel, especially those serving in areas so rife with conflict. Lord help us as a council to serve with a servant's heart. You have blessed this community and the citizens have entrusted us to always act in the best interest of the city as a whole. Help us, Lord, to never take that for granted and always be grateful for all that you do. In your name we ask it, amen. If you would pledge allegiance. And if you're not comfortable stating your address, if you just state whether or not you are a resident of the city limits. Appreciation lunch this afternoon out at Freeman Lake Park. It was a great event. I want to thank Amy Inman and everybody else that was involved with putting that on. But we also challenged all of our departments with a contest, as you can see, was a pumpkin decorating contest, and they all delivered and did a great job, especially one. I think is one really handsome pumpkin, but I'll let you all figure out which one that is. And so if you would, if you're watching or if you're out in the audience and you haven't done it yet, if you'll go to social media and you'll vote on what number you think is the best pumpkin, there is a reward for that respective department, and uh they would love to have a vote from you. So pretty creative. I thought it was a great turnout for our picnic, and I also thought that they all worked really hard on their decorating skills. I'll let you all jump in if you like. I will say that public works. I mean, they there when they showed up on site, they it was a little more than just a pumpkin, so it was they had song and dance and props and everything else. I mean, they they worked really hard. They represented Chief Thompson would say they have all the expensive equipment, so that's why he was able to use those. Could be, but I hope that they get into the spirit of Halloween, and I hope that everybody else does by witnessing our enthusiasm for it. So with that, we will start business if you all are ready with approval of minutes from October 12th, 2026. If I can get a motion and a motion, please. All in favor, opposed, seeing none, motion carries. We'll start with ordinance, the second reading by motion of ordinance number 19, 2026, amending the official zoning map for property located at 304 Bishop Lane. If I can get a motion and a second to read, please. All in favor? Aye. This is a second reading by summary. This ordinance amends the official zoning classification for the property located at 304 Bishop Lane from regional commercial or C3 to General Service Commercial or C4 to allow for uses such as a meal. The change was approved by the Elizabeth Town City Council as it was found to be in agreement with the city's comprehensive plan. A full text of the ordinance can be obtained by contacting the city clerk's office again as a second reading, it's now available for your consideration. Any discussion? I will say Marty said it last time.