Neighbors, please take a look at the following announcement. These FCNC meetings are open to residents of all neighborhoods, including East Lake. (See the map on our home page.) We hope you can join us.
Addison Hosea
Secretary, ELNA
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Fayette County Neighborhood Council General Meeting
Monday Evening, 6:30, August 12, 2024
Discussion of Current Issues
Tates Creek Christian Church
1350 Tates Creek Road
Dear Neighbors,
The Fayette County Neighborhood Council has an educational role for our member neighborhoods. Since we last met, new issues have arisen, and old issues remain but are constantly changing. Rather than having a speaker or writing detailed reports, we will have a panel on the 12th that will answer questions and provide information about current neighborhood issues. We hope you will attend, engage, and participate.
Some of the issues FCNC is concerned about and is trying to follow include the following:
1. The Urban County Council is considering changes to the new Short-Term Rental Ordinance regulating Airbnb, VRBO, and other similar corporate interests.
2. A Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) from Northern Kentucky has filed for a zone change from single family residential to trailer park next St. Martin Village. St. Martin is a historic African American neighborhood formed under segregation.
3. LFUCG Planning is doing preliminary planning for what might be built in the five new expansion areas created when the Urban County Council expanded the Urban Service Boundary earlier this year. Planning has been meeting with interested residents.
4. A public utility and a private corporation have proposed solar farms in Lexington’s rural, agricultural area.
5. A developer has proposed to build an 8-story private apartment building for University of Kentucky students in the Pralltown Street area. Pralltown is another historic African American community in Lexington.
6. The Urban County Council has passed the Urban Growth Management Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment including “workforce” and “affordable housing” bonuses and allowing more commercial development in some neighborhoods.
7. Gentrification, homelessness, the (un)availability of housing, and affordability continue to be problematic. Planning calls for housing types to be diverse, smaller, and more dense.
8. The LFUCG would like to see better public transit, walkability, and bicycling.
9. A Council Workgroup is reviewing how the public interacts with the Urban County Council and will be recommending changes in the process.
I am certain there are other issues that I have not included.
Collectively, we need to discuss important issues and not entirely rely on written exchanges.
Please try to attend!
Walt Gaffield, President
Fayette County Neighborhood Council, Inc.