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Planning commission initiates zoning text amendment to comply with House Bill 443; separate investigation of corridor business lot-coverage requested
Summary
The Planning Commission voted to initiate a comprehensive text amendment to the zoning ordinance to implement required changes from Kentucky House Bill 443 and to update KRS 100-related references. Commissioners also approved a separate initiation to investigate removing a minimum lot-coverage requirement in the corridor business (B3) zone.
The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Planning Commission on Jan. 30 initiated a substantial zoning text amendment intended to bring the local zoning ordinance into compliance with Kentucky House Bill 443 and to update references to KRS 100. Staff described the draft text as changes across multiple articles of the zoning code, with substantive edits proposed for definitions, development-plan procedures, vehicular use areas, and several commercial and mixed-use zone provisions.
Tracy Wade and other planning staff briefed the commission on the scope: changes to Article 1 (definitions), Article 6 (zone-change and amendment procedures), Article 16 (vehicular use areas, including drive-through and pick-up window clarifications), Article 21 (development-plan procedures), Article 23…
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