Request By:
Mr. Don Eggert
Regional Planner
Barren River Area
Development District
P.O. Box 2120
Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101
Opinion
Opinion By: Robert F. Stephens, Attorney General; By: Walter C. Herdman, Assistant Deputy Attorney General
This is in answer to your letter of April 19 in which you raise the following question:
"One of our Joint Cities-County Planning Commissions is considering the adoption of subdivision regulations for the entire county (the city has had such regulations for a number of years). In a recent meeting the question of whether subdivision regulations could be exercised for a particular area not conterminous to the city boundaries was asked. (For example in a magisterial district or other geographically described area)."
Our response to your question would be in the affirmative. Counties as well as cities are authorized to adopt subdivision regulations within their respective jurisdictions under the terms of KRS 100.273, which reads as follows:
"Any planning commission which has completed the objectives, land use plan, transportation plan, and community facilities elements of a comprehensive plan may adopt regulations for the subdivision of land within its boundaries."
See OAG 75-462 [copy attached].