Matlock Rd, Bowling Green, KY 42104

Agriculture District

The Agriculture District is intended to: Maintain, preserve and enhance natural areas and the prime agricultural lands of Warren County; Protect the decreasing supply of prime agriculture lands in Warren County in order to maintain one of the county's principal economic resources--the agriculture economy of the county; Discourage premature urban growth on land best suited for agriculture purposes; Control the indiscriminate infiltration of urban development into prime agriculture areas which adversely affects agriculture operators; Minimize urban-type development in rural areas until urban-type services and utilities can be provided; Preserve the natural beauty and open space character of the rural countryside.; Protect the public health, safety and welfare from hazardous and/or unsafe waste, whether solid, semi-solid or liquid generated or disintegrated from a municipal, commercial or industrial waste water treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, air pollution control facility or any other such waste having similar characteristics and effects; due to the presence of sinkholes, losing streams and sinking streams associated with the karst topography of Warren County.