Subdivision rezoning sails through Metro Council Plans can proceed for Trestle Pointe By Sheldon S. Shafer The Courier-Journal Rezoning for the 210-lot Trestle Pointe subdivision, planned between Pope Lick and English Station roads, breezed through the Louisville Metro Council last night. Some opposition had faded in the wake of concessions by developer Mike Jones and conditions set by metro government. The Planning Commission had recommended that the council approve the rezoning, which it did on a 21-1 vote, with Stuart Benson, whose 20th District includes the subdivision's site, casting the lone vote against it. He expressed concerns about drainage and traffic problems. Though silent at the meeting, a handful of neighbors showed up to oppose the rezoning. David Kaelin, president of the Tucker Station Neighborhood Association, agreed with Benson that the subdivision might compound drainage and traffic problems. The 177-acre site is in the primarily rural Fisherville area, adjacent to a Norfolk Southern railroad trestle. In September, Jones and a group called Future Fund, which initially opposed the subdivision and has been assembling land for a park along Floyds Fork, agreed on revising the layout, eliminating eight lots and redesigning the shape of about a dozen others. The changes will make room for a trail through the site that will connect with the park. An amendment attached by the council and offered by Hal Heiner, R-19th, calls for additional road improvements near the subdivision. Another Heiner amendment requires a master traffic and road plan to be developed by next fall for the Taylorsville Road corridor from near English Station to the county line. The $100,000 study will be funded by metro government and by 21st Century Parks, a nonprofit private group also working on the Floyds Fork park. On another matter, Barbara Shanklin, D-2nd, said yesterday that she intends to introduce a measure soon to rename 22nd Street from Interstate 64 to Algonquin Parkway in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Council members said they might hold a hearing to see how people living on the street feel about the idea. Also, council members Dan Johnson, Jim King and Rick Blackwell, all Democrats, indicated that they want to become council president in January. The Democrats, who hold a 15-11 council majority, have pledged to elect a Democrat as president. In two of the past three years, Republicans were elected with the help of some Democrats. The current president, Kevin Kramer, R-11th, said he probably will seek re-election. The council will elect a president for 2007 in early January.

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