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City tosses rigid zoning code

New ‘form-based’ approach represents drastic change in guiding land development   COVINGTON, Ky. - Good-bye, (and good riddance?) Zoning Ordinance. Hello (and a warm welcome), Neighborhood Development Code.   In a vote that seemed almost anticlimactic given the nearly two years of intense effort and widespread public engagement that led to this point, the Covin...

Board of Commission Legislative Meeting Agenda 09-29-20

  Draft Agenda

Covington freezes property tax again

Covington’s property tax rate will remain the same for the fourth year in a row. Rate kept the same for 4th year in a row  COVINGTON, Ky. - Covington’s property tax rates for calendar year 2020 will remain the same for the fourth year in a row.   The Covington City Commission on Tuesday approved rates of 0.327 for real estate and 0.349 for personal prope...

Streetside dining OK’d past New Year’s

An outdoor dining and drinking area on Seventh Street is created each evening from on-street parking near Braxton Brewing Co.’s taproom and Parlor on Seventh, McK’s Chicks, and Rich’s Proper Food and Drink restaurants.  City extends pandemic-related ReCov outdoor seating campaign,  allows heaters   COVINGTON, Ky. - Up Over Bar owner Amy Kummler has great appreciat...

Board of Commission Meeting Minutes 09-22-20

Board of Commission Meeting Minutes 09-22-20

Voting 2020: New options, polling locations

COVINGTON, Ky. - Voters will have three different ways to vote this year as elections officials react to challenges posed by COVID-19.   Please see the chart above for important information from Kenton County Clerk Gabrielle Summe, which has been updated from an earlier chart with locations of drop box locations for absentee ballots.   In addition, Summe has compiled an easy to chec...

Another sign of Covington’s ‘ascension’

DBL Law Managing Partner Bob Hoffer takes a bite out of the Monarch Building annex. (Photo courtesy of DBL Law) $11.3MM Monarch Building rehab to create home for DBL Law   COVINGTON, Ky. - With a ferocious bite from an excavator’s “claw,” DBL Law Managing Partner Bob Hoffer ripped off part of a concrete block and brick wall, officially breaking ground on the $11.3 million pr...

Green beer & pop-up at Purple P

COVINGTON, Ky. - COVID-19 still has much havoc to wreak and lives to damage. But this weekend in The Cov gives us hope that - despite the need for caution and care - fun can still be had.   From theater to pop-up art, a gallery opening to a Mexican cuisine-book event, some neighborhood cleanups to a holiday celebrated 6 months late, here are an array of events that will make going back to wor...

Board of Commission Caucus Meeting Agenda 09-22-20

  Draft Agenda

Live tonight: the Beautification Awards

(Photo from the Friends of Covington) Friends of Covington announcing annual winners via livestream   COVINGTON, Ky. - Forget the gold statuettes.   If you own a home or business in Covington, what you want is a Friends of Covington Beautification Award banner to be hung on the outside of your building for years to come.   Tonight at 7 p.m. (brought to you via YouTube livestreaming&...
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