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Council approves multiple docket additions including easement and a neighborhood zoning change
Summary
At the Oct. 7 work session council approved placing several items on the Oct. 9 docket including a deed of easement with Kentucky Utilities, the 2026 meeting schedule ordinance, and a zone change request to R-4 for properties around Burley, Simpson and Fern avenues.
Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council members on Oct. 7 voted to place several items on the Oct. 9 council meeting docket, including a deed-of-easement resolution with Kentucky Utilities Co., adoption of the 2026 council-meeting schedule and a walk-on rezoning request covering multiple small parcels.
Councilmember Rebecca Sheehan introduced a walk-on motion on behalf of the administration to place a resolution on the Oct. 9 docket authorizing the mayor to execute a deed of easement with Kentucky Utilities Company granting an electric-line easement across a portion of property at 1306 Versailles Road and authorizing other documents necessary to transfer the easement; the motion was seconded and approved by voice vote.
Councilmember Ellinger moved to place on the Oct. 9 docket an ordinance pursuant to Section 2-1(a) of the Code of Ordinances adopting the council’s calendar-year 2026 meeting schedule. That motion was seconded and approved by voice vote.
Councilmember Savigny moved to place a walk-on rezoning ordinance on the docket changing property at 119 Burley Avenue, 122 Simpson Avenue, 1104 Fern Avenue and a portion of 109 Simpson Avenue from single-family R-1D and townhouse R-1T zoning to medium-density residential R-4 for 0.431 net (0.498 gross) acres, without a public hearing; Councilmember Ellinger seconded and the motion passed by voice vote. When asked whether the zone change had been contentious or whether requests for a public hearing had been filed, Savigny said it “was not a contentious zone change, and I did not get any requests for it for a hearing.”
After additional docket items were added, the council approved the docket as amended by voice vote. No final zoning approvals or easement signings occurred at the work session; the votes were to place the items on the Oct. 9 council meeting docket for formal consideration.
