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Planning Commission approves 13-townhome project near UK, grants sidewalk/tree waivers
Summary
The Urban County Planning Commission approved an amended development plan for 13 townhomes at Columbia Avenue and Oldham Court with a waiver to alter the typical street cross-section and a requirement to depict a 5-foot planting easement for street trees.
The Urban County Planning Commission on a unanimous vote approved PLN MJDP 24-101, a proposal to develop 13 townhomes on lots along Columbia Avenue, Oldham Court and Park Avenue, and granted a waiver to modify the typical street cross section to widen sidewalks and locate street trees in a 5-foot planting easement.
The plan, presented by planning staff member Chris Cheney, would reconfigure three lots to create one building of five units facing Park Avenue, one four-unit building, and other units along Oldham Court and Columbia Avenue. Cheney said the proposal includes a waiver request to reduce utility-strip widths so sidewalks can be widened and to place required street trees in a planting easement adjacent to the right of way.
Why it matters: the site sits just east of the University of Kentucky campus and within a neighborhood where residents and commissioners pressed for tree replacement, pedestrian orientation and…
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