The Gloucester County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing about event facilities at 7:30 p.m. next Thursday, Sept. 7, in the colonial courthouse.

The proposed changes to the county’s zoning ordinance would add event facilities as a specifically defined use.

After discussing event facilities for several months, the commission is holding a hearing on making such facilities a by-right use in the General Business (B-1) and Village Business (B-2) districts. Additionally, the commission is considering permitting the facilities with a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) in Bayside Conservation (C-2), Rural Countryside (RC-1), Rural Conservation (RC-2), Suburban Countryside (SC-1), and Rural Business (B-4) districts, chairman Kenneth B. Richardson said.

In addition, the proposed ordinance adds definitions related to event facilities and supplemental regulations that address access, signage and possible conditions and limitations on approval necessary for the protection of the publ...