Lexington Planning Commission backs initiating zoning text amendment on mini-warehouses, then votes to recommend prohibition with design-standards backup

The Lexington Planning Commission voted to adopt Resolution 2025-02 to initiate a zoning text amendment on mini-warehouses and later approved a motion recommending that the City Council prohibit mini-warehouses in the city limits, while providing a backup set of multistory design standards should council decide to allow them.

The resolution to initiate was described by staff as an administrative step to “start this process so that we know how it was started when we look back,” and does not bind the commission or council to adopt specific language, Arnie, planning staff, said during the meeting.

Commissioners reviewed proposed amendments that would limit mini-warehouses to multistory buildings; prohibit single-story facilities and outdoor accessory storage; require that all storage be inside enclosed buildings with interior corridors; require design features so facades do not appear as blank walls; position loading docks to the rear or side (not facing residential…