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Consultants tell planning commission Blue Sky can grow — but capacity, slopes and utilities limit big projects
Summary
At a July 17 planning commission work session, city staff and consultants presented draft market and site findings for the Blue Sky Small Area Plan, saying the area is a functioning industrial district with roughly 140 businesses and about 1,100 jobs now — but that steep slopes, constrained utilities and limited contiguous land make it unlikely to attract many very large new facilities without public intervention.
At a July 17 planning commission work session, city staff and consultants presented draft market and site findings for the Blue Sky Small Area Plan, saying the area is a functioning industrial district with roughly 140 businesses and about 1,100 jobs now — but that steep slopes, constrained utilities and limited contiguous land make it unlikely to attract many very large new facilities without public intervention.
The Blue Sky Small Area Plan is part of Lexington’s broader 2024 urban growth master plan. “We’ve been busy since March,” Senior Planner Eve Miller said as she opened the presentation, introducing the consultant team that includes TSW Design, Gresham Smith, Partners for Economic Solutions (PES) and Strategic Location Advisors (SLA). The consultants delivered market, transportation and site-capacity analyses to inform policy recommendations that staff will bring back in coming months.
The draft findings described a study area that developed incrementally from the 1970s into the 1980s, anchored by industrial operators including…
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