The randomly-selected group of Lexington residents deliberated on council pay and charter review. Its recommendations could wind up on the ballot for local voters.
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.
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.
