Planning staff presented a status update to the Lexington Planning Commission on the local economy chapter of the comprehensive plan and circulated spreadsheets that list objectives, strategies and two status columns (ongoing and completed). Staff asked commissioners to provide input on actions by partner agencies that staff may not have captured.

Arnie, planning staff, explained the spreadsheets and said the department had marked items it knew to be underway (for example, two recent childcare conditional-use permit applications) and cautioned that fully "completed" checkmarks are unlikely for many strategies because the work is typically ongoing.

Commission discussion highlighted multiple items staff should mark ongoing: local broadband efforts tied to outside partners and recent fiber deployments, streetscape improvements (including the downtown gateway work completed with Main Street Lexington), and incentives to encourage upper-floor buildout in downtown properties. Commissioners noted a proposed city incentive program to support sprinkler system installation and to waive or reduce the connection tap fee as a local tool to make upstairs residential or mixed-use rehabilitation more feasible for property owners.

There was no public comment on the local economy item during the meeting. Staff said they will accept corrections from other departments or partner agencies and adjust the spreadsheets before finalizing the chapter review and that the updated documents could be used for annual reporting on comp-plan progress.

The commission did not take a formal vote on the comp-plan status update; staff will make the suggested edits and include ongoing items in the working document.