A standing-room only crowd greeted Covington city councilmen Tuesday night as a public hearing on more planning and zoning issues was held.

Part of the comprehensive zoning plan for the city, the text was passed by the council months ago. Since then the council has been holding hearings for district maps that will determine the zoning classifications for each lot in the city.

At odds Tuesday night were blocks in planning district 2 in the West 20s that were recommended by the planning and zoning commission to be rezoned RS-3, multi-family residential. Several residents of the area spoke about the two specific areas. The first is four blocks with the boundaries of 21st Avenue to the south, 22nd Avenue to the north, Filmore Street to the east and Johnson Street to the west. The half-block facing 21st Street recommended zoning by the planning ands zoning commission would be neighborhood commercial and the half-block facing 22nd Street would be residential multi-family.

This item was tabled Aug. 10 and remained on the table at Tuesday’s meeting with no vote taken. The residential areas are currently all single family residential and the residents want the zoning kept that way. The matter will be reconsidered at a special meeting to be held Sept. 28.

Other residents of the West 20s spoke on a similar area with the boundaries of Polk to the east, Tyler to the west, 24th Street to the north and 22nd Street to the south. As in the other case, the residences in the area are all single-family residential and residents want it to remain zoned RS-1. In this case, the council overrode the planning and zoning commission’s recommendation of multi-family residential, and it will stay single family. The result was applause from the residents, many of whom wore “Save our Neighborhood—West 20s” T-shirts.

The third area in the district that was considered was bound to the south by 24th Street, to the north by 26th Street, to the west by Madison and the east by Jefferson. The planning and zoning commission had recommended neighborhood commercial zoning for areas facing Jefferson, with industrial zoning for the majority of the northern block bounded by 25th Street to the south. The southern block was recommended as neighborhood commercial and commercial office. However, the area is currently mixed use with several single family residences that want their zoning to remain. The council overrode the commission’s recommendation by a vote of 6-1 with councilwoman Frances Dunn dissenting and the zoning was changed to commercial office and single-family residential, reflecting the residents’ wishes.

The fourth area in district 2 is a block bound on the south by 21st Avenue, the north by 22nd Avenue, west by Monroe and east by Madison. The council had changed the commission’s recommendation from neighborhood commercial facing 21st to commercial office and facing 22nd from multi-family to single family residential and their override stood Tuesday night.

In District 7, an area on the west side of Bolifield, with a zoning recommendation of regional commercial, was changed to light industrial by a vote of 7-0. It is located across from the Savannahs planned unit development. In District 6, the half block bounded by Independence Street, Independence Street, North New Hampshire and North Vermont will stay zoned single family residential as recommended by the commission with a unanimous vote.