Lexington's May 19th primary guide: Catch-up on local races and how you can vote
The May 19th primary will bring contests for Lexington's Mayor, Council District 5, and several other local offices.
Residential development, housing policy, and affordability issues. This includes zoning changes, development regulations, housing programs, and policies affecting renters and homeowners throughout Lexington.
The initiative is part of a broader "data-driven enforcement" push within Lexington's Code Enforcement Department.
The city has seen some success with a program that helps people facing eviction stay in their homes, but it's expected to run out of money in the coming months.
Heirs’ property issues can block disaster survivors from accessing FEMA assistance. In Eastern Kentucky, free legal clinics are helping families clear titles and protect inherited land.
Councilmembers heard about a proposed development liaison position. Peer cities have tried something similar.
A new city position could help streamline Lexington's development and permitting process – but it will need funding in a tight budget year.
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.