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Commissioners debate growth‑management ordinance as council schedules first reading tonight
Summary
Hal Bailey presented a Preservation and Growth Management ordinance that would formalize a data-driven review of vacant land and urban service‑area expansion; commissioners raised concerns about a five‑year dwelling‑units‑per‑acre formula, commercial‑zone counting and assumptions; first reading was scheduled at the Urban County Council that evening with a second reading Feb. 12.
Hal (Mr. Bailey) presented the Lexington Preservation and Growth Management Program (LP GMP) proposal to the planning commission on Jan. 22, describing it as a process to separate urban‑service‑area expansion decisions from the comprehensive plan and to anchor reviews in data produced by the ImagineLexington Analytic Research Center.
Bailey said the ordinance is written to sit in the city's code of ordinances, to require a growth trends report and give decision‑makers a structured five‑year review cycle. He said the Urban County Council would hold a first reading that evening and a second reading on Feb. 12 before the planning commission would review a finalized draft at a February work session and hold a public hearing in March.
"This allows for us to focus in on all those very necessary action items,…
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