Council discusses ice storm gaps in city's winter weather response
Environmental Quality and Public Works Commissioner Nancy Albright said that the city was prepared for a normal snow event, not an ice storm.
Residential development, housing policy, and affordability issues. This includes zoning changes, development regulations, housing programs, and policies affecting renters and homeowners throughout Lexington.
The Blue Sky Activity Center is an industrial area off Athens-Boonesboro near I-75. It was brought into the Urban Service Area in 2024, and is being planned for redevelopment.
While this ruling blocks the proposed eight-story, 322-unit apartment complex, the developer could still demolish the existing buildings and construct a new four-story, 75-foot structure under the site’s current R-4 zoning without any additional public input.
If approved, the complex would be the third high-density apartment complex approved on East Maxwell street in the last year and a half.
Most of the revisions added since the first draft from March add or adjust definitions of terms mirror state laws regulating sober living homes, or add points of clarification regarding how LFUCG would enforce the ordinance.
Developer Ross Boggess has been nominated by the Mayor to fill the current Board of Adjustment vacancy. Council will decide whether or not to approve his nomination.
The number of sober living homes has increased steadily in recent years. How could LFUCG regulate them?
The 234-unit development will feature single-family detached homes and townhomes for sale, and apartments at low rents.
This development would provide single-family detached homes and townhomes for sale at low prices, as well as low rental apartments.