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Planning staff begins process to define future urban service boundary reviews; goal and timeline set in comprehensive plan
Summary
Staff outlined the Preservation and Growth Management Program that will define how Lexington evaluates and authorizes future urban service boundary expansions. The work will develop a data-driven process, public input framework and schedule, with a target to amend plan elements by Aug. 1, 2026.
Planning staff described an effort to create a formal process for evaluating future urban service boundary expansions and preservation priorities, a program the comprehensive plan sets to complete by Aug. 1, 2026.
Hal Bailey and long-range planners told commissioners that the comprehensive plan’s Theme E Goal 4 requires the city to "establish a mechanism to immediately implement the process" and to incorporate Urban County Council input. Bailey reviewed the history of Lexington’s urban service boundary (first established in 1958 and amended…
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