By Patricia A. Scheyer
NKyTribune reporter
BOONE COUNTY
Boone County Commissioners listened to the first reading of an ordinance approving a zoning map amendment from Employment Planned Development, EPD, to Commercial Services, C-3, and a variance changing the height of any building on the site to be 70 feet instead of the 53 feet in the present zoning so that the developers can build a 5-story Marriott hotel on a 20-acre site on the north west side of Frogtown Connector Road, not far from where the previous plan for a hotel was approved.
Commissioner Chet Hand made his feelings clear on this subject and issued a direct warning to the Planning Commission.
“I want to be very clear to the Planning Commission, and hopefully they’re listening, that we should not see another one of these c