, New rules designed to save more trees from the bulldozer will be presented to the public in a hearing Sept. 2.

The Fayette County Planning Commission has been discussing the county's tree preservation ordinance for several months. County commissioners asked the group to examine the law after commission Chairman Harold Bost questioned whether the regulations are strong enough.

If approved, the new ordinance will give developers more credit toward tree preservation for saving existing trees than they would get for planting new ones, an incentive designed to stop developers from stripping construction sites bare, then replacing large, native, existing trees with small, ornamental new ones.

The planning group will take public input at its meeting Sept. 2 at 7 p.m. at the County Administrative Complex, then work on the ordinance at its September work session with plans to have one more public hearing and adopt the ordinance Oct. 7.

, Rezoning to allow the Rivers family to put a pole barn on their 184-acre farm is on the County Commission agenda for Thursday.

Commissioners recently voted to waive the customary application fees and handle the rezoning as a county request.

The property was zoned R-75, which allows two-acre subdivision lots, in a mass rezoning years ago. But the new zoning prohibited building farm outbuildings.

The meeting will be at 7 p.m. at the County Administration Complex.

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