# Planning Commission Subdivision Items Meeting - April 14, 2022 > Auto-transcribed civic record · April 14, 2022 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/5551 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/5551?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2022-04-14 - **Last revised**: April 14, 2022 - **Length**: 16,908 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed with OpenAI's open-source Whisper large-v3-turbo model, run locally by The Lexington Times. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude. Verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Urban County Planning Commission convened on April 14, 2022, at 1:31 PM in the Council Chambers of the Urban County Government Building at 200 East Main Street in Lexington, Kentucky, with Larry Forester presiding as the presiding officer. The commission addressed eight agenda items during the session, all of which received approval, demonstrating a productive meeting focused on various development and zoning matters throughout Fayette County. The meeting involved significant deliberative activity, with commissioners taking 12 motions and votes throughout the proceedings. The agenda covered a diverse range of projects, including amendments to existing developments such as Coldstream Farm Lot 1 and Belmont Farm Unit 7 (Coventry), as well as new proposals for Kingston Hall units, the Bluegrass Stockyards LLC Lisle Avenue Operations Center, and the Ruttenburg & Cohen Property for Lakeview-Woodspoint Unit 2. Additional items included Hamburg East Tract 4 Lot 2 "Belhurst" and matters related to Bluegrass Airport. Public participation was limited, with only one public comment recorded during the session. The commission's unanimous approval of all eight agenda items suggests either strong consensus on the proposals or minimal controversy surrounding the development projects under consideration. The meeting's efficiency in processing multiple development-related matters reflects the commission's role in facilitating orderly growth and development within the Urban County area while maintaining appropriate oversight of land use and zoning decisions. ## Attendance The following members were present at the April 14, 2022 meeting: • Headley Bell • Zach Davis • Larry Forester • Janice Meyer • Robin Michler • Bruce Nicol • Frank Penn • Graham Pohl • Judy Worth **Absent:** • Anthony de Movellan **Late:** • Ivy Barksdale Nine members were present at the start of the meeting, with one member arriving late and one member absent. ## Votes and Decisions The commission took action on 12 items during the April 14, 2022 meeting, with all votes passing unanimously. **Administrative Items** - **Minutes Approval**: Judy Worth motioned to approve the March 10, 2022 meeting minutes, seconded by Janice Meyer. Passed unanimously 9-0. - **Consent Agenda**: Frank Penn motioned to approve the consent agenda, seconded by Headley Bell. Passed unanimously 9-0. **Postponements** - **PLN-MJDP-22-00016 (Sebastian Property, Unit 3)**: Graham Pohl motioned to postpone, seconded by Frank Penn. Passed unanimously 9-0, postponed to May 12, 2022. - **PLN-MJDP-22-00017 (Man O' War Development, Phase 2, Unit 2-A)**: Janice Meyer motioned to postpone, seconded by Judy Worth. Passed unanimously 9-0, postponed to May 12, 2022. **Development Approvals** - **PLN-FRP-22-00004 (Coldstream Farm, Lot 1)**: Frank Penn motioned for approval with waiver, seconded by Judy Worth. Passed 8-0 with 1 abstention. - **PLN-MJSUB-21-00001 (Belmont Farm, Unit 7)**: Robin Michler motioned for approval with waiver, seconded by Ivy Barksdale. Passed unanimously 10-0 with ten conditions. - **PLN-MJDP-21-00073 (Kingston Hall, Units 1 & 2)**: Frank Penn motioned for approval, seconded by Ivy Barksdale. Passed unanimously 10-0 with eighteen conditions and EAMP Compliance Report acceptance. - **PLN-MJDP-22-00003 (Bluegrass Stockyards)**: Graham Pohl motioned for approval, seconded by Judy Worth. Passed unanimously 10-0 with 17 conditions plus an additional condition regarding McConnell House preservation. - **PLN-MJDP-22-00009 (Ruttenburg & Cohen Property)**: Judy Worth motioned for approval, seconded by Janice Meyer. Passed unanimously 10-0 with 11 revised staff recommendations. - **PLN-MJDP-22-00014 (Hamburg East, Tract 4, Lot 2)**: Janice Meyer motioned for approval, seconded by Headley Bell. Passed unanimously 10-0 with 14 conditions and EAMP compliance report approval. - **PLN-MJDP-22-00015 (Coldstream Farm, Lot 1)**: Graham Pohl motioned for approval, seconded by Ivy Barksdale. Passed unanimously 10-0 with 14 conditions, modifying conditions 13 and 14 from "discuss" to "resolve." **Public Facility Review** - **PFR 2022-3 (Bluegrass Airport)**: Frank Penn motioned to find the review in compliance with the comprehensive plan, seconded by Janice Meyer. Passed unanimously 10-0. ## Public Comment One member of the public addressed the meeting during the public comment period. Jackson Osbourne, representing the Bluegrass Trust for Historic Preservation, spoke in support of preserving the McConnell House. Osbourne expressed the organization's backing for preservation efforts and offered the Trust's assistance in maintaining the historic property. *Note: Transcript timestamps were not available for this public comment period.* ## Contested Items The April 14, 2022 meeting featured one primary contested item that generated community opposition and discussion. **Preservation of McConnell House** The preservation of the McConnell House emerged as a significant point of contention during the meeting. The disagreement centered on how to protect this historic structure within the context of ongoing development plans in the area. Community members voiced strong support for preserving the McConnell House, demonstrating organized opposition to any development plans that might threaten the building's future. The nature of the opposition suggests residents were concerned that proposed development activities could potentially impact or endanger this historic property. The outcome of this contested item resulted in a compromise solution. Meeting participants agreed that a protective note would be added to the relevant development plan specifically addressing the preservation of the McConnell House. This addition to the development documentation appears to have satisfied community concerns by formally acknowledging the building's importance and ensuring its protection would be considered in future planning decisions. The resolution demonstrates how community advocacy can successfully influence municipal planning processes, with citizen input leading to formal protections being incorporated into official development documents. ## COLDSTREAM FARM, LOT 1 (AMD) The commission reviewed application PLN-FRP-22-00004 for Coldstream Farm, Lot 1, which involved a subdivision proposal to divide one existing lot into two separate lots. The project also included the creation of a shared access easement to serve both properties. Rory Kahly served as a key speaker during the discussion of this agenda item. The applicant requested a waiver that would allow infrastructure improvements to be deferred until the time of construction, rather than requiring them to be completed as part of the initial subdivision approval process. The commission discussed the technical aspects of the lot division and the practical implications of the shared access arrangement. The proposed easement would provide necessary access rights for both resulting parcels from the subdivision. After reviewing the application materials and considering the waiver request for deferred infrastructure improvements, the commission approved the Coldstream Farm subdivision proposal. The approval allows the property owner to proceed with dividing the single lot into two lots and establishing the shared access easement as proposed. The decision enables the development to move forward with the understanding that required infrastructure work will be completed at the construction phase rather than immediately upon subdivision approval. ## BELMONT FARM, UNIT 7 (COVENTRY) (AMD) The commission reviewed application PLN-MJSUB-21-00001 for the Belmont Farm, Unit 7 subdivision plan in Coventry. The discussion centered on a requested waiver regarding driveway spacing requirements. Nick Nicholson served as a key speaker during the presentation and discussion of this subdivision proposal. The primary issue under consideration was the spacing between driveways, which did not meet standard requirements and therefore required a waiver from the commission. Safety concerns were raised regarding the proposed driveway configuration. The spacing between access points was identified as potentially problematic for traffic flow and safety considerations within the subdivision. To address these concerns, the applicant agreed to modify the proposal by combining driveways. This solution would reduce the number of individual access points and improve the spacing between remaining driveways, thereby addressing the safety issues that had been identified by the commission. The commission ultimately approved the subdivision plan following the applicant's agreement to combine the driveways. This resolution satisfied the safety concerns while allowing the project to move forward without requiring the originally requested waiver for driveway spacing. The approval represents a collaborative approach between the commission and the applicant to find a solution that meets both development needs and safety standards for the Belmont Farm subdivision in Coventry. ## KINGSTON HALL, UNIT 1, LOT 10 & KINGSTON HALL, UNIT 2, LOTS 14-18 The commission reviewed application PLN-MJDP-21-00073 for the Kingston Hall development project involving Unit 1, Lot 10 and Unit 2, Lots 14-18. The proposal centered on the development of a building and associated parking facilities on the designated site. Rory Kahly served as a key speaker during the discussion of this agenda item. The commission examined the development plans and addressed various aspects of the proposed construction project. A significant concern raised during the deliberations involved the timing of construction for Providence Place Parkway. Commission members discussed how the timing of this infrastructure development would impact or relate to the Kingston Hall project. The coordination between these two construction projects appeared to be an important consideration in the review process. The commission evaluated the building design, parking arrangements, and other site development elements as part of their comprehensive review. The discussion included consideration of how the project would integrate with surrounding infrastructure and development plans. Following their review and discussion of the application materials and concerns raised, the commission voted to approve the Kingston Hall development project. The approval allows the applicant to proceed with the construction of the building and associated parking on Unit 1, Lot 10 and Unit 2, Lots 14-18, subject to any conditions that may have been established during the review process. The approval of PLN-MJDP-21-00073 represents the commission's determination that the proposed development meets the necessary requirements and standards for the site, despite the timing concerns related to Providence Place Parkway construction that were discussed during the meeting. ## BLUEGRASS STOCKYARDS, LLC (LISLE AVENUE OPERATIONS CENTER) The commission reviewed application PLN-MJDP-22-00003 for Bluegrass Stockyards, LLC's proposed Lisle Avenue Operations Center. The discussion focused on the proposed building and parking layout for the development project. Key speakers during the discussion included Chad Graber and Eli Grubs, who presented details about the project's design and layout plans. A significant portion of the discussion centered on the preservation of the McConnell House, which appears to be a historic structure within or adjacent to the proposed development area. The commission emphasized the importance of protecting this building as part of the development process. As a result of the discussion regarding the McConnell House, the commission determined that a specific note regarding its preservation should be added to the development plan. This addition would ensure that the historic structure's protection is formally documented and required as part of the project approval. Following the presentation and discussion of the building layout, parking arrangements, and historic preservation requirements, the commission approved the application. The approval includes the condition that the plan be updated to include the preservation note for the McConnell House. The project represents Bluegrass Stockyards, LLC's expansion or development of operations facilities on Lisle Avenue, with the commission ensuring that both the company's operational needs and historic preservation concerns are appropriately addressed in the final approved plan. ## RUTTENBURG & COHEN PROPERTY (LAKEVIEW-WOODSPOINT, UNIT 2) The commission reviewed application PLN-MJDP-22-00009 for the Ruttenburg & Cohen Property in the Lakeview-Woodspoint, Unit 2 development. The proposal involved increasing the buildable area on certain lots and reflecting a change of use designation. Tony Barrett served as a key speaker during the discussion, presenting details about the proposed modifications to the property development plan. The commission focused significant attention on parking requirements associated with the proposed changes. The discussion centered on how the increased buildable area and change of use would impact parking needs for the development and whether the current parking provisions would be adequate to serve the modified project. The commission examined the relationship between the expanded buildable area and the practical implications for future development on the affected lots. Members discussed how the change of use designation would alter the character and intensity of development within Unit 2 of the Lakeview-Woodspoint project. Following their review and discussion of the parking requirements and other aspects of the proposal, the commission approved the application. The approval allows for the increased buildable area on the specified lots and formally recognizes the change of use as requested by the applicants. The decision enables the Ruttenburg & Cohen Property development to proceed with the modified parameters, providing additional flexibility for buildable space while addressing the commission's concerns about adequate parking provision for the revised development plan. ## HAMBURG EAST, TRACT 4, LOT 2 "BELHURST" The commission reviewed application PLN-MJDP-22-00014 for the Hamburg East, Tract 4, Lot 2 "Belhurst" development project. The proposal involves the construction of 79 townhouses on the designated property. Tom Martin served as a key speaker during the discussion of this agenda item. The commission examined the development plans and assessed their alignment with existing planning requirements. A significant focus of the review was confirming the plan's compliance with the Expansion Area Master Plan. The commission verified that the proposed 79-townhouse development met the standards and guidelines established in the master plan for this area. The development project was approved by the commission following their review and discussion of the proposal's merits and compliance with applicable planning documents. ## COLDSTREAM FARM, LOT 1 (AMD) The commission reviewed application PLN-MJDP-22-00015 for Coldstream Farm, Lot 1 (AMD). Ashley served as the key speaker presenting information about this development proposal. The primary focus of the discussion centered on the building and parking layout planned for the eastern portion of the property. Commissioners examined the proposed configuration and its impact on the overall site design. A significant portion of the discussion addressed trail easement issues associated with the development. The commission worked through various concerns related to these easements and their implications for the project. Following their review and discussion of the building layout, parking arrangements, and trail easement matters, the commission approved the application for Coldstream Farm, Lot 1 (AMD). *Note: Specific transcript timestamps are not available for this agenda item.* ## BLUEGRASS AIRPORT The commission reviewed Public Facility Review PFR 2022-3 concerning proposed developments at Bluegrass Airport. The review covered plans for the construction of new hangars, a fuel farm, and terminal additions at the facility. Stephanie Cunningham served as the key speaker presenting information about the airport development proposal to the commission. The review examined whether the proposed construction projects aligned with the jurisdiction's comprehensive plan requirements. Following the presentation and discussion, the commission determined that the Bluegrass Airport development proposal was in compliance with the comprehensive plan. The public facility review for PFR 2022-3 was approved, allowing the airport to proceed with the planned construction of the new hangars, fuel farm infrastructure, and terminal expansion projects. The approval enables Bluegrass Airport to move forward with these facility improvements, which will expand the airport's capacity for aircraft storage, fuel services, and passenger terminal operations. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (9-0): Approval of the minutes of the March 10, 2022 meeting - **PLN-MJDP-22-00016** — postponed (9-0): Postponement of SEBASTIAN PROPERTY, UNIT 3 (AMD) - **PLN-MJDP-22-00017** — postponed (9-0): Postponement of MAN O’ WAR DEVELOPMENT, PHASE 2, UNIT 2-A (AMD) - **Motion** — passed (9-0): Approval of the consent agenda - **PLN-FRP-22-00004** — passed (9-0): Approval of COLDSTREAM FARM, LOT 1 (AMD) with waiver - **PLN-MJSUB-21-00001** — passed (10-0): Approval of BELMONT FARM, UNIT 7 (COVENTRY) (AMD) with waiver - **PLN-MJDP-21-00073** — passed (10-0): Approval of KINGSTON HALL, UNIT 1, LOT 10 & KINGSTON HALL, UNIT 2, LOTS 14-18 - **PLN-MJDP-22-00003** — passed (10-0): Approval of BLUEGRASS STOCKYARDS, LLC (LISLE AVENUE OPERATIONS CENTER) - **PLN-MJDP-22-00009** — passed (10-0): Approval of RUTTENBURG & COHEN PROPERTY (LAKEVIEW-WOODSPOINT, UNIT 2) - **PLN-MJDP-22-00014** — passed (10-0): Approval of HAMBURG EAST, TRACT 4, LOT 2 “BELHURST” - **PLN-MJDP-22-00015** — passed (10-0): Approval of COLDSTREAM FARM, LOT 1 (AMD) - **PFR 2022-3** — passed (10-0): Finding that the Bluegrass Airport Public Facility Review is in compliance with the comprehensive plan --- ## Full transcript I feel so bad. 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I'm going to love you, love you, love you Cause I'm just a moment I'm going to need you, need you, need you Every day, yeah I'm going to want you, want you, want you In every way, yeah Make me stick around For Hold back No way This time it looks like love is here to stay As long as I shall live I'll give you all I have And all I have to give So pleaser, pleaser Anytime or any place Eager, eager to feel your sweet lips on my face Deeper and deeper in love with you I'm falling, yeah Sweeter and sweeter your tender words of love keep calling I'm gonna love you, love you, love you Just a little more, baby I'm gonna need you, need you, need you Everything I know I want you, I want you, I want you Every way Welcome to this month's Council Comment. I'm Council Member Josh McCurron. Welcome to DBAT. Welcome back. Joining me right now is the co-owners of DBAT here on Mercer Road of Georgetown, Leon Davis and Alan Heisel. Gentlemen, thanks for having us out here today. Thanks for coming out. Yeah. Before we get started and kind of diving into everything and asking some in-depth questions, But if you all kind of give us a brief introduction of where we are, what you guys do here, and what brought you to Lexington. Yeah, so we're a baseball and softball academy. We are both fathers of baseball and softball players. We coach. And, you know, for the last few years, we've just kind of been looking for something like this in Lexington. And we just decided, you know, let's look at doing something ourselves, something that, you know, we feel like would be good for the community. Started doing some research. Came across DBAT. Went down to Texas. We really liked the model. It felt like what they offered would bring what we wanted to Lexington and felt like what Lexington needed. Sure. A lot of people talk about, you know, in Lexington or even the state of Kentucky, it's a basketball state. Basketball. The baseball and softball community is bigger than people realize, whether it be from little leagues to the high school programs in town. there's a need in the community for a place to come and train, to work on your game, whether you're, again, starting out at the local little leagues or at the high school level wanting to play at the next level. So we kind of saw a need in the community more than anything else. Well, thank you all for your investment into our community. That's excellent. I'm a father of a baseball player myself, so this is very intriguing to us. Now, do you all do more than just baseball here? We do. We do baseball. We do softball. We do speed and agility classes, and we have a lot of kids who don't play baseball or softball that will do that. We have some really good trainers for that, so they'll come in and they'll work out, and we can cater some things to them. But we offer camps. We offer birthday parties. We offer clinics, lessons. We offer a little bit of everything here, primarily based around baseball and softball. But, you know, we do have some other athletes that come in here and train and do some things as well. I heard that you have dodgeball sometimes. Absolutely. The kids love dodgeball. Absolutely, from birthday parties to our camps that we have. Spring break camp was just last week. Basically, any time that Fayette County schools or the surrounding counties are out of school, we'll hold a camp from 9 to 3. Those camps are kind of an all-aspects, baseball and softball, where you're getting the basic of instruction, station work. We also have some fun, play some kickball, some wiffleball, dodgeball. The kids, you know, they love it and have a good time. We tell the parents on those, it's like a 70-30 split. But about 70% of their time is with instructors working on the fundamentals of the game. But then there's 30% where they play dodgeball. They play kickball and just have fun. We tell the parents that the kid is going to come home worn out. So we have kids who come to these camps. The age range is from 6 to 12. And we have kids who come in that some use bats that we have. Some don't even have bats. They've never played before. They just want to come in, get some exercise, and see if they like the game. And it's a great way to do that. And where would you go to sign up for either a summer camp or a birthday party? Yep. So you can go to our website, dbatlexington.com. We're on social media as well, dbatlexington. Basically, you can register. We also have an app, dbat hub, H-U-B. You can sign up for camps, create an account. You can book a lesson. Basically, anything that you need to do in the facility-wise, whether it's an event, a clinic, a lesson, you can do all through the app. It makes it super easy for our customers. That is very easy. Yeah, excellent. And we, I mean, you can call as well, but we also just love for people to stop by because, I mean, we're different than what most people are used to as far as a batting cage goes. I mean, most people, you know, when they come in, they walk through these doors, especially the kids, they're like, oh, my gosh, okay, this is not what we expected. We just expected, you know, something that was going to be a little bit dingy, maybe, you know, not lit well. But then they walk in, they're like, wow, this is amazing. So, you know, having people come and actually walk in and see the facility is one of the best ways. And I think that from the technology side, too, from the hit tracks that we'll show you on the pitching machine to then be able to pick their ballpark that they want to hit in their major league park and see the ball flight, see where it went, play home run derby aspect back there. The kids love it. And like Leon said, from the atmosphere of the facility, the cleanliness, the brightness of it, and the technology side, I mean, kids, it's kind of a baseball, softball heaven for them. What's the most preferred field that people play on? State Fenway. He's probably right. State Fenway Park. You'd think it'd be Cincinnati, but I think he's right. You'd think it'd be Cincinnati. I think he's right. For sure. Okay. Well, that's excellent. And we talked a little bit before this, but some scholarship or co-op opportunities that are for the community. Yeah. Would you mind diving into those? Sure. So a lot of our local juniors and seniors, Fayette County Public Schools, we offer a program. We've got a couple that come over in the afternoons after their morning classes. They're in a co-op program. They're able to learn the front desk, work in the cages here, learn the business to earn hours of credit in the co-op program. So, you know, we love to partner with a lot of the counselors and administrators at your local high schools here in Fayette County to give them job exposure and experience. So, you know, we enjoy doing that. We've had some great kids come through here that are currently here that work with us. Well, I appreciate you guys reaching out to the community and offering those opportunities for our youth. Now, we spoke about the summer camp coming up here. Do we have any dates for that? Yep. So starting on June 6th is our first week. And then from June 6th on, which is, I believe, the first week of summer, we're doing eight weeks straight of summer camp. So our camp director, Sarah, she's excited. She's got a lot of fun things planned. She wanted to do eight weeks. We're excited about it. Our camps will be 9 to 3, Monday through Friday. So we try to keep that normal school schedule for parents for drop-off and pickup, bring a sack lunch, tennis shoes, T-shirt. You don't even need your gear. We've got, as Leon mentioned, your bats and your helmets for a full day. Wear them out and have some fun. You'll see my little ones up here. Good, good, yeah. Well, gentlemen, thank you guys for having us out here today. This is excellent. Again, we are located off Georgetown Road on Mercer. This is D-Bat. And Leon and Alan, thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks for coming out. Thank you. When it comes to making plans, you are the best. The same way you plan each detail for those moments, start planning to protect you and your loved ones from a natural disaster. Protecting your family is the best plan you can make. Welcome back. Joining me is Mama Combs. Mama, thanks for joining me. Not a problem at all. Thanks for having me. Absolutely. Now, we're here to talk about a little testimonial about DBAT here. And if you mind, give a background of how you found the location and a little bit more about your background. So, really good friends with one of the owners. And so I knew DBAT was coming. Very excited about it. I have a daughter that plays travel softball. And when I say plays travel softball, like she loves it. She has her plans for college. She eats, sleeps, and breathes softball. This is what she wants to do. She doesn't like to do any other sports. Prior to VBAT, there wasn't another facility in town that I could take her to to even hit off a pitching machine that actually pitched softballs. She can hit a baseball, but that's not what she does, right? Sure. So having somewhere for her to go hit off a pitching machine that pitches softballs, being able to go in a cage that she can actually pitch softballs and it be laid out for softball instead of baseball, she didn't have that. So we put a lot of time and money into softball, and for her to have a facility that is geared towards softball and not just baseball is a huge deal. She can pull up and see softball players on the window outside. As soon as she walks here in the pro shop, she sees softball players for the Olympic team on the wall. So she knows that she's in a place that's for her as well. It's welcoming for softball players. The cover on the bathroom, you know it's yellow softball underhand pictures, so that's pretty cool. Outside of her knowing that this is for softball, she also has access to legit instructors, instructors that are female like her, so they know changes that her body has gone through, They know changes that she will go through, and they can help her take herself to the next level. And they are collegiate players, so she looks up to them. She has somebody she can look up to. People that know more than me, more than her male softball coaches, because although one of them thinks he knows everything, he really doesn't. So it's great that she has that. Really a one-stop shop for us. She can come for hitting. She can come for pitching. She doesn't catch, but they have instructors for catching, and that's really amazing, and that's geared towards softball. They have all that for baseball as well, but softball's not put on the back burner. It's there for softball too. So really great opportunity for her to come in and have access to whatever she needs here. And then there is the pro shop that also has stuff for softball players as well. They do have a parent lounge. I'd set up my laptop, work in the parent lounge for hours. like literally my day would be in the office because she would be here. We'd bring my nephew with me because he plays baseball as well. And they could come together, soft toss to each other in the cages, swipe their cards and start the pitching machines for each other because it's very easy to switch between baseball and softball on those. So it was really fun for them. Good bonding moments for them over the summer. They got to work together. I didn't have to be out there to start the machine. So that was great as well. And then I have more kids that don't play softball or baseball, but they would come. It was just fun, like a family type of environment. So outside of the summer camps, they also host birthday parties, team parties. There is a multipurpose room that can even be used for, there was another young man that did his signing for his college team here as well. They had the team backdrop. The school, the room was full of parents, family members, it was honestly amazing. And just to know that these kids have access to something like this here in town, he also works here. That's a big deal. Most kids do that at their school. So for him to work here and like this place enough to do that, that's really a big deal. I will say for the instructors and the staff members, they're all very knowledgeable. I have another daughter that actually plays basketball, but she actually does her speed and agility here. So huge for me as a mom, because that's two birds and one stone. It's one soft shot. Yes. I have one doing hitting lessons and the other doing speed and agility, and it's for basketball, but Thomas is so good, he is able to tailor that to her as well. And sitting there watching Addison do speed and agility for softball and then Isabel doing it for basketball, I see the difference. I see what he's doing, and it makes sense. I don't know all the things he knows, but it makes sense on the stuff that they're doing. He's very knowledgeable. You do not have to call to book lessons. You don't have to be here to book lessons. I could be laying in my bed without my phone, open up the app, select my child's name, and select the lesson, and it's done. Like nothing else from there. It's already done. It's super easy, user-friendly, and it makes life really, really easy. Let me also point out that, yes, my daughter plays softball. I have to tell you all this. So Monday she has hitting lessons with Sarah. She's absolutely amazing. Every Monday, it never fails. I hear Adam, he is a baseball instructor, working with another kid. Sometimes the cage is beside me. Sometimes the cage is not beside us. But I hear him, and I hear how he interacts with these boys. And I just, you can hear the giggles. You can hear the encouragement. And you can hear that he's having a good time. and that child or that group of kids, whoever he's with, they're having an absolutely amazing time. And sometimes I have to turn my attention to them because I want to watch. I want to see what's going on, and it's really great. It's nice to have good coaching interaction. It is. And to be able to walk in a facility and kids are recognized as soon as they walk in by instructors that are in cages working with other kids, but they take that time to acknowledge them, say hi to that child as they're walking in, that's amazing. and that really I will say with the camp director she knows all these children she knows their names they know her they look forward to seeing her it's just great so it's great as well as the rest of instructors everybody here honestly is great. Mama Combs I appreciate your time I really do appreciate you run through this this testimonial for here and your background with your family and your your kids so thank you thank you pleasure and thank you all for joining us for this month's Council Comment. Hello, I am 9th District Councilmember Whitney Elliott Baxter, and today I am at the Fayette Mall at our public safety kiosk, which is a new addition to our hiring process. Today I am joined by Major Trowell Community Corrections. And Major Trowell, can you just tell me a little bit about this kiosk and what the community can expect to see? Well, the kiosk kind of started because we have always had some type of a job fair or signs or something hanging up in the mall and we've had great success with people looking for jobs here. So we got the idea of just manning a kiosk where people walk in, they're not being bombarded Corrections was going to do it themselves, and then we decided, what about the rest of our family? Because we're all struggling, and we all need employees. So we said, how about we make it a big partnership, a big family? And everybody just got really excited about it, and it just bloomed from there. That's great. I'm really excited to welcome this new public safety kiosk to the 9th District, and I'm really looking forward to what it can do for our community. Welcome back. I'm Councilmember Whitney Baxter, and I'm joined by Sergeant Howard of Police and Captain Johnson of the Fire Department. Welcome to both of you. Welcome. Could you tell me a little bit about what interested you guys most in a career in public safety? Yes, first I want to say helping the community. That was the biggest thing for me. and just a sense of purpose of giving back to the community I was raised in. Just a good feeling that helps them in their moment that they need 911. That's great. What about you? So growing up, I always looked up to police officers. It was something I wanted to do as a little kid. In college, I majored in sociology, and I enjoyed the study of individuals and groups. I also did an internship with the police department, so it kind of drew me to it. That's great. Sergeant Howard, what do you like most about your job? So my favorite thing is meeting new people every day. Every call you meet someone new, build relationships, just the ability to help different people in time of need. That's great. Captain, what would you say one of the biggest challenges of being a firefighter is? The biggest challenge is just overcoming your fears. Most people don't realize 80% of our job EMS and only 20% is prior and 20% of time is overcoming going in a burning house. So just overcoming your fears of that and everyone's scared if they're not they're lying. So yeah overcoming. That's great. I'd say that is a big challenge. Can you tell me a little bit about the hiring process and kind of what the what the community will go through once they come to the kiosk and that process? So first the the interested individual will fill out an RSVP for the written test they'll go take that written test and if they pass it they'll take the physical fitness test. If they pass that they'll be scheduled for an oral board where they're asked multiple questions about themselves. Depending on how they score they'll be ranked and then they go on to the background which will include the polygraph. After backgrounds they'll go into the chief selection where the chief will go down each individual applicant and say whether or not he wants them in the Academy or not. Okay and about how long does the process take for police? So for police it's about six months from start to finish. Okay. That includes the written test all the way to chief selection. Great. I understand your process is pretty similar with fire. Is there anything that's much different? The only thing that's different is our process lasts 10 to 12 months. 10 to 12 months. Okay. Now as far as application requirements are concerned, are there age requirements or you mentioned a physical fitness test. Are there any other requirements? Our age requirement is 19 to 34. You have to have a high school diploma or GED equivalent. Okay. You do have to have a visa if you're not a US citizen. Okay. Those are our requirements. Okay. What about please? Our is very similar with the exception of the age. You have to be 21 to 37. You have to fall in that age range prior to the deadline of the application process. Okay, great. Do applicants have to be a resident of Lexington? Ours no, but you do get preference points. You get five percentage points for being a resident of Lexington and if your county touches Fayette County you get one percentage points and I process. Okay, what about for police? No, you don't have to be a resident. Okay great. Police. So I know in both of your all's departments that teamwork and camaraderie is a big component of your everyday life. I just wanted to hear a little bit more about that and why you you felt that was so important to your jobs? Ours is very important because we do the 24-hour shifts, four days off, and we basically live with each other. So we're kind of like a big family. You have your disagreements, but we live with each other more and we see our regular family. So Toronto is a big part of ours. So you really have to like the people that you work with. Yes. Great. And what about police? Same thing. We see our beat partners more than we see our families. So you take 10 hours a shift, four days a week. You're around each other a long time. So with that being said, you kind of lean on each other a little bit more than most normal jobs. Well, I thank both of you all for your commitment to the community, and we look forward to seeing what this kiosk can do for your departments. Thank you. Thanks for joining me. Appreciate it. With me today is Deborah Nance, manager of E911 and Major LeMans of Community Corrections. Thank you all for joining me. Thanks for having me. So can each of you tell me a little bit about what a typical day looks like in your divisions? Typical day at 911 would be answering police, fire, and EMS calls for our community and we're also the lifeline to those that respond. Great. With community corrections, the thing that's nice is you can take different career paths. So you can work in a housing unit. You can work in intake where new arrestees come in. You can work mass control behind a computer screen. There's many different opportunities at the jail. That's great. And then could each of you tell me a little bit about who you think would be an ideal candidate for your... So ideal candidate for us, you have to have a lot of empathy. You have to be flexible. You have to be willing to do shift work. You have to somewhat know how to smile when you answer the phone calls and you have to be able to handle a lot of different things every time that you answer the phone. It could be something different every time you answer the phone. Right. We're looking for people through all walks of life. We want someone who's able to communicate with people. That's the biggest thing. We're dealing with the inmate population, but it's the population from Lexington. So it could be your neighbors. It could be coworkers. It could be anybody that you know from our community. So having that personal communication skill is really the biggest thing that we're looking for. I would say being an empathetic person is very important to both of you all. Absolutely. So could you tell me a little bit about the hiring process and what that looks like to a community member that may come to the kiosk, like where they would go from there? So the hiring process is basically about the same for all of us. they would actually fill an application and where you go for E911 you would need to go to the city's website, lexingtonky.gov. When you go there, you fill an application, then you take a customer service test and a critical test. A critical test is basically kind of give you an ideal of what we do. Once you get through those, they will send you a name for us to interview. and then we go through the same process as corrections and fire and police go through as far as doing background checks and things of that nature. Is there anything different with community corrections necessarily? A lot of the same stuff. You'll come here, get some information from us, or you can go on our website and get it too. You'll come in, you'll do a test and then an interview with us, go through the background process, medical clearance, and then we'll get you a start date. About how long is the hiring process for corrections? It can really be knocked down to just a couple weeks because even if we don't have a class ready to go, we can go ahead and bring you in where you shadow other staff members and then once we get a big enough class built up to start an academy, then we'll get everybody together there. But that way you're not waiting around for us to get the right number to start. You can go ahead and start really as soon as we get your medical clearance and get you in. And about how long is the process for E911? So the process is a little different for us. However, we do have something called a sit-along program. So if you're ever interested in doing police, they do something called a ride-along. So you can actually go ride with an officer and live a day in a life that they do. Well, that's the same with us. However, we call it a sit-along because we're not in a vehicle. We let them sit down. We let them listen to 911 calls. We let them also listen to the dispatch for police and fire. So the process from there, though, if you want to come and do a sit-along, you're more than welcome to do that. Sometimes we even will hire in part-time. If we do hire in the part-time, that just gets your feet wet until the process goes through of you becoming a full-time employee. Great. What is the starting salary for each of your all's divisions for new hires? If you're a 911 operator, the starting salary would be $18.62. That's our lower end. And if you come in as a dispatcher, which will dispatch the first responders of police, fire, and EMS, you start out at $20.56. Okay. And what about in corrections? For us, you're going to start off day one at $20 an hour. If you get assigned to second or third shift, you get a shift differential, which will bring you up to $21 an hour. Okay, great. And if each of you could give one piece of advice to someone considering a career in public safety, what might that be? Major? If you're considering a job in public safety, I really suggest that you give it a shot. It can be a very rewarding career, a very stable career, and you can help out your community as well. That's great. So kind of exactly what he said, it's a great job to be able to help out the community. I would suggest if you come in just be prepared to hear anything when that phone rings you just never know what you're going to get on the other end of that line. Well we really appreciate the services that you all provide to our community and thank you for joining me today. Thank you so much. I would like to thank all of my guests for joining me today. I'm really excited to see what this public safety kiosk can do for our community. The kiosk is located right inside the main entrance at Fayette Mall and someone would be here most days of the week. For a specific departments, fire will be here on Wednesdays, police on Thursdays, E911 on Fridays and Community Corrections is here almost every day of the week from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. For more information you can visit LexingtonKY.gov for application information or you can always reach out to me in my office. My email is WBaxter at LexingtonKY.gov And please let me know if you'd like to subscribe to my weekly newsletter. I hope you have a great day. Thank you. Second. Second. Second. All in favor, please vote via Granicus. Okay, motion passes. Next up, we're going to skip in the agenda. We have performance bonds and letters of credit. I need the approval for the performance bonds and letters of credit. Yes, sir. Excuse me, I'm Mark. I'm from on over there. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to come back to it. Thank you. No problem, no problem. Just to reiterate, we're on page eight of the agenda. Item C, performance bonds and letters of credit. I'm going to go ahead and take those up first on the agenda if we could. Mr. Penn. Yes sir, I move to pass the performance bonds and letter of credit as presented by the staff. Okay, we have a motion, do we have a second? Seconded by Mr. Beall. Please vote via Granicus. Okay, motion passes, thank you. And item three, any postponements and withdrawals? Do we have any postponements and withdrawals? Okay, not seeing any. Staff? I know you have some. There it is. Okay. I forgot how to do this in person. Rory Kaley with EA Partners on page 7. Item I. This is plan DP 22-16, Sebastian Property Unit 3. Request a one-month postponement so we can work on the discussion items. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Kaley. And that's for the May 12th meeting. Okay. Any questions from the commission? By this postponement, hearing none, the floor is open for a motion. Mr. Pol? Move to postpone PLNMJDP 2216 Sebastian Property Unit 3 for purposes described by applicant. Okay, and that's the one month postponement to May 12th, 2022. Thank you, sir. Do we have a second to that motion? So moved. Seconded by Mr. Penn, please vote via Granicus. Okay, Mr. Cayley, motion passes. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Chairman. Yes, sir. Staff has a postponement to bring to the commission's attention. All right. It is also on page seven, it's at the bottom of the page, item J. This is Major Development Plan 22-17, Manor War Development, Phase 2, Unit 2A, property located out on Bryant and Justice Roads. The applicant has communicated with staff a request for a one-month postponement. If you look at page 8, you'll see there are 25 conditions associated with this plan, and they are working on resolving many of those conditions. Okay, thank you. Does any commission members have any questions about the proposal for a one-month postponement? Hearing none, the floor is open. Ms. Meyer? Mr. Chair, I move for a postponement of PLN MJDP 22-17 Manor War Development Phase 2 per the applicant's request until the May 12th meeting. Okay, thank you. We have a second by Ms. Worth. Please vote via Granicus. Okay, motion passes. Okay. Staff for consent agenda. Thank you, Chairman Forrester. We do have a consent agenda this afternoon for the Planning Commission to consider. There are three items on the consent agenda. The first item appears on page three of your regular agenda, item A. It is an item that has been recommended by the subdivision committee for re-approval with the exact same conditions. And that is PLN MJDP 22.4 for the Atkins property, lots 1A and 1B. And it's an amended final development plan for property located at 3621 Walden Drive. The next two items are development plans that were recommended for approval by the subdivision committee. The first appears on page 3, item B, PLN MJDP 21-67, Newtown Springs, Unit 1, Lot 2 amended for property located at 1449 Newtown Center Way. And I just want to apologize on that one. On the regular agenda, we left a condition that said discuss, but the subdivision committee had changed that to resolve. So that's why it does appear on the consent agenda today. And then the third item on the agenda today is page 5, item E, and this is PLN MJDP 22-4 for Lexmark International Corporation, lot 3. That's also an amended final development plan for property on a portion of 745 West New Circle Road. At this time, we'll ask if there's anyone in the audience who wishes to have any of those items heard before the Planning Commission this afternoon. or if any of the applicants wish to have those cases removed from the consent agenda. I do not see anyone, so unless the Planning Commission wants to have any of those heard, you can consider all three cases at the same time. Okay, thank you. Any questions from the Commission members? If not, the floor is open for an approval of the consent agenda as presented. Mr. Chairman, I move for approval of the consent agenda as presented today by the staff. We have a motion. We have a second to that motion. Second. Seconded by Mr. Bell. Please vote via Granicus. Yeah. Pamela. Hmm. Yeah. That's bad. Still beats. Still beats. Yeah, that's no problem. If not, I'll just raise a hand. Here we go. Here we go. Thank you. All right. Consend agendas pass unanimously. Thank you, guys. All right. That should put us on page one of the agenda. We have PLN FRP 22-4, Coast Green Farm. Staff. Good afternoon. We're looking at Coldstream Farm Lot 1 amended. this property is located off of citation boulevard we have georgetown road out this way and newtown springs this way this is across from the cold stream park we currently have a building on this lot there's one lot and we have a building here in this portion they're wanting to subdivide divide it and create two individual lots. With that, we have a list of conditions with our typical sign-offs for the first nine conditions. We just had some cleanup conditions. We also want to note the property is located in the Royal Springs Aquifer and then provided that the Planning Commission approves the requested waiver for 4-7 and 6-6 land subdivision regulations requiring the provision of the sanitary sewers. I'll go ahead and continue on. We have a waiver. Everybody should have a copy of this. This is a waiver. The applicant is requesting the waiver to do any improvements prior to the recording of the plat. They want to be able to do those improvements at the time of construction. I'll open it to you all if there's any other comments or questions. Okay. Do we have any comments or questions for staff at this moment? Not seeing any. Thank you. Applicant? Okay, sorry. Again, Rory K with EA Partners. We are in agreement with the 15 conditions, with the 16th being acceptance of the waiver and request your approval. Okay, thank you, Mr. Kaley. Do we have any questions for the applicant at this time? Not seeing any. Do we have any citizens that would like to speak for this particular agenda item or against this particular item? All right. Seeing none, the floor is open for additional questions or a motion. And we do have a waiver with this as well. Yes, sir, we can take it in one motion. Mr. Penn? Mr. Chairman, I move for approval of PLN FRP 22-4, Coast Stream, Lot 1, with the attached waiver as presented. We have a motion. We have a second to that motion. Ms. Worth, thank you. Any further discussion? Seeing none, please vote via Granicus. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you, Mr. Kelly. Thank you. All right. Next up will be on page two. This is PLN MJSUB 21-1, Belmont Farms. And we do have a waiver with this request as well. Okay. This is Belmont Farm, Unit 7, Coventry amended. this plan has been approved last year and they were coming back to ask for a waiver on this one the property here this is huntley place this is minster it connects up to georgetown in this area citation boulevard is down in this area here so this is the residential we have residential above here and this is the residential they're currently working on they have these lots here that they've come back with a single family dwelling unit and the condition at the time was to resolve compliance with Article 6.4 and 6.8 on Lots 124 through 128 and that was the driveway spacing. The other conditions on this plan are our typical sign-offs but at this time they're requesting a waiver for the spacing and Tom's going to present that to you. Do you have any other comments or questions? Any questions for staff? Not seeing any. Thank you. Tom? Mr. Chairman, members of the Planning Commission, The waiver that is associated with this plan is associated with the lots that are in the intersection with Minster, which is a proposed street. It's not constructed as of this time. Has been approved, plan certified. That street has not been constructed. The plan was originally submitted, and they showed townhouses, demonstrated a desire to construct townhouses along this frontage. And it was to be served by an access easement to the two local streets, which, by the way, the spacing on the local street was also granted a waiver by this body of only about 44 feet. That was due, again, to the relationship with the intersection. And a role in that was the significant greenway and environmentally sensitive area here also impacted their ability to meet the normal spacing. So that's a little bit of the history there. So when they came in with the townhouses, there were no issues at that time. Subsequently, they came in with this plan that you do see before you today that you approved for single-family homes with their driveway access out to this collector in this location. And it was approved subject to a resolution of that spacing issue. and planning staff and traffic engineering met with them and had numerous conversations and kicked around a lot of different designs, ways to try to accomplish this. You all are very well aware that when it comes to driveway access onto collectors, your staff is very sensitive to certain conflicts. You're going to see a plan later on today where we address that with the driveway spacing and the distance of the homes from the road. That's the Blackford and the expansionary plan you're going to see. So again, that was the concern. First of all, it's a safety concern. And then your subdivision regulations have a 50-foot spacing distance that's required for these driveways away from what is a collector, connector street that's proposed in this location. So again, after a lot of give and take and a lot of discussion, Different designs. Ultimately, a compromise was reached. Traffic engineering did a lot of heavy lifting here on your behalf. And they have agreed to, and I believe, let me check here. There we go. They have, this is highlights at this exhibit, the issue. Here's Minster, and here's the transition area with these lots. they are going to combine on these four lots that violated that spacing requirement, the driveways. So you're going to have one driveway per two lots. And they also are pulling the driveways out of the intersection itself. So they'll share driveways, but they won't quite meet the 50, but they're out of the intersection. They also are making it possible because they share these driveways for the occupants to turn around on their lots. And then they can pull out into the street. And again, that's what I was referencing when I was talking about the Park Road and Blackford and that discussion about those lots and providing enough room for people to turn around and then pull out again onto a collector street. So, again, staff has reviewed this. Traffic engineering, as I stated, is comfortable that this will work and have a minimal impact on public safety. And, again, the applicant submitted an extensive waiver report, and they dwelt quite a bit on their skepticism that Minster will be built. and that's a perfectly healthy skepticism. It's not been built. You all are probably aware that there's legal issues going on in the courts right now over ownership of some of these properties in the area. That's yet to be resolved. So it is very possible it may not be built. It may even be probable. Your staff in traffic engineering had no choice but to review it as is and as approved. So that's how we got here and why you are hearing this case before you today. And staff is recommending approval of the waiver, and we'd be happy to answer any questions you may have for staff. Mr. Penn? Mr. Martin, so if it's not built to this standard, then we'll have to see this again whenever they decide to do something different with this property? Well, what you will see, Mr. Penn, would be a re-approval of the plan that has Minster, and either Minster is going to go away or it's going to be re-approved. Okay, but we'll see it if Minster goes away. Yes, sir. You will see that. Thank you. Any further questions for staff? Not seeing any. Thank you, Tom. Applicant? Good afternoon. Nick Nicholson here on behalf of the applicant. I think both Cheryl and Tom did an excellent job kind of laying the history for this project. This was a resolved issue that we've been working with traffic engineering planning for several months. And through, I think this might have been eighth or ninth iteration, we finally got everybody on the same page. And so this waiver is basically just the resolution to that condition that was placed there. I'm happy to walk you all through some of this history if you all would want to. I'm not going to lie, it is fascinating. But I also respect your all's time. So we are in complete agreement with the staff on the conditions for the plan and their rationale for the waiver approval. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Mr. Nickel. Do we have any questions for the applicant? Nope, sir. Is there anyone out to citizens who would like to speak on behalf of this particular agenda item? Not seeing any. Okay, we will bring it back to the commission for any additional questions or the floor is open for a motion. I can't see it. Mr. Michler? I move to approve the waiver for PLN MJ-SUB 21-1 Belmont Farms. So we want the waiver in a separate motion? No, just put them both in the same motion with this. Okay. So I move to approve PLN MJ SUB 21-1 Belmont Farm Unit 7, along with the conditions of staff and the waiver. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Mickler. We have a second by Mr. Boxtel. I didn't see any other discussion, so we can vote via Granicus. Okay. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you, Mr. Nickel. Thank you. All righty. So that should put us on page four. That's PLNMJDP-21-73. And we do have a EAMP report with this. Tom? Correct. We do? Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. I was making sure. Mr. Chairman and members of the Planning Commission, This major development plan 21-73 is Kingston Hall, Unit 1, Lot 10, and Kingston Hall, Unit 2, Lots 14 through 18, also known as the East Bridgeford Land and Development Company. Another one of those lovely long titles on a development. This is an area that is located in your expansion area number three. And we thought, particularly for those of you who are not as familiar with the expansion area, the new members of the committee, that this would assist in giving you an overview of the area. Here's Newtown Pike, Russell Cave Road. That's where you go to visit Mr. Penn when he's home. This is an area of ED recommended land. That's what that color shows, and that's how the development has been ongoing. This is the parkway. Providence Parkway, that is an exactable feature under your expansion area that runs from Russell Cave and will eventually, pardon me, from Newtown to Russell Cave Road. We have seen predominantly development in this area, office style development. We've seen several proposals that have not actually borne any results on this property down in this area. However, you recently approved a final development plan right up in here for an industrial flex space facility. Six buildings, you may recall, in this area right here. So what we have before you now is a proposal to build an industrial fabricating, manufacturing, fabricating, and assembly facility. And here you can see this is the proposed building. This is just over 500,000 square feet, this industrial facility. They're proposing three access points. These access points, oops, heavy, heavy thumbs. They are lined up with the, slightly offset, but they're basically lined up with these existing approved, not existing, this site is now under development. But they're going to align with the access points across the road. They're going to slightly realign the existing right-of-way with the local street in this location. They are currently built and dedicated through here. This is a future proposed local street. The parkway will be built across this frontage. It is going to be constructed with this facility, is the timing in that regard. And as I stated, it is moving forward with site development now. Again, it's over 500,000 square feet. You can see the parking that is proposed associated with the development. These are tractor, trailer, truck parking spaces here. There is access around the building and a little bit of extra parking kind of thrown in there in that upper corner as well. The plan was reviewed by your subdivision committee and recommended for approval subject to a lot of your standard sign-offs for a final development plan. There's a couple of little corrections. And then there is also the compliance statement that has been distributed to you, the report. and expansion area three is kind of straightforward and in some regards simple in its compliance with the expansion area criteria and requirements and that is in terms of infrastructure Providence Parkway is the required parkway under UAMP and it is an exactable construction or facility so when they build it they get credits towards the exactions that they're charged That's exactly what that is. In conjunction with that, the regional pump station has been completed. The trunk line has been completed. It's functional. That was big, ladies and gentlemen. That pump station was big. It allowed the Lexington-Fed Urban County government to take multiple old, small, poorly functioning pump stations offline. That's truly an important thing. It didn't just serve the expansion area, but it helped address overflow and other issues on the north end of town. So, again, that's been constructed, the trunk line. So there's no outstanding infrastructure issues relative to this plan. The community design element, again, ED is relatively straightforward in their design elements. It asks that they be cognizant of the topography and not disturb the topography to the greatest extent possible. It's a fairly easy to build on site. One issue that is so important in the expansion area, and this came to the forefront with the proposal across the street, the previous proposal you approved, and that's having a good pedestrian facility. And on this one, what was done, instead of a standard sidewalk, the multi-use trail is going to be part of Providence Parkway and part of that construction to allow connections. And that's a tremendously important connection that's going to be accomplished. They are providing access out to the right-of-way and access that will allow them and their employees to access the trail should they choose to. So that's an important component in our expansion area. As you all may be aware, the ordinance was changed a few years ago to allow supportive uses. So there can be residential and restaurants and that sort of thing. So again, the ability for people to walk and get to those supportive uses make these systems even more important. So again, this plan conforms to that community design element, much of which because it's been accomplished on the previous plan or will be accomplished on the previously approved plan. One issue that arose out of this review and something we've been, staff's been concerned about, is the timing of the construction of the local street, but more particularly Providence Parkway. Now, they have a plan that's been re-approved. It's been re-approved several times, and it's about one year old, I think, now. So they've got four years on that plan to build the rest of Providence Parkway, should they choose to, or come back to you for re-approval. Staff has asked that they denote on this plan the timeline that they anticipate on that. And that became a bigger concern on a plan that was submitted at this location that has been indefinitely postponed. And that was a residential proposal. So again, when you start putting those supportive uses in there and mixing up those uses and bringing residents in there and people to live, this connection becomes much more important over to Russell Cave Road and for that to be completed. So that's the only concern that your staff has there is trying to stay on top of that time frame because we believe we're getting more and more to a critical juncture that that be completed. So that is one of the conditions on your development plan. And with that, your subdivision committee did recommend approval of this plan. Your staff is recommending that you do, in fact, find that they are in compliance with the EAMP. and staff will be happy to answer any questions you may have. Any questions for Tom? Yes, Mr. Mikula. Just a couple of clarifications to make sure I'm seeing this correctly. The existing part of Providence Place Parkway utilizes, if I'm looking at this cross-section correctly, sort of traditional five-foot bike lanes. Yeah, it stops right in there. And then you're having that transition to a multi-use path at the boundary of this property. Well, it won't change what's already been built, but it'll transition along this frontage, and as the parkway's completed, it'll be a part of that completion of the parkway. So prior to this, it was developed sort of on-street bicycle infrastructure with, I guess, no sidewalks. No, there's a sidewalk. There is a sidewalk. Okay. And then you're switching that to a multi-use. Yes. And then this is just for my own information. Is this intended to connect all the way to Russell Cave? Yes. Okay. Yes, sir. That connection. That connection will go all the way to Russell Cave. Yes, sir. I think that those answered my questions. Thank you. Thank you. Any further questions? Thank you, sir. Applicant. Rory Kaye with EA Partners. Once again, nice and easy. We're in agreement with the staff's recommendations. Request approval. Thank you, Mr. Kayeley. Do we have any questions for the applicant? Mr. Penn? There was an affidavit and sign required and Tony Barrett has provided that to staff. My question is, is the trail on the top part of that plan or on the bottom part of that plan? Let's find out. We're all looking at it. It's on the up of the road. The flex space existing one because I can't read that up there. Never did that. We all gotta learn again. It's been two years since the next. The top side. North side. So it'll be on this side of Providence Parkway or on the other side of Providence Parkway? Far side of this site. Did you do that other development plan? No. Okay. I did not. Okay. The trail is going to be on the north side of Providence Parkway. So it won't be on this property's frontage. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Okay, any other questions for the applicant? Thank you, Mr. Kaley. Does anyone would like to speak on behalf of this particular agenda item? Please do so by stepping up to the podium. If not, we will bring it back to the commission. Okay, we'll bring it back for, the floor is open for a motion. We can do it. Yes, sir, Mr. Penn. Mr. Chairman, I move for approval of PLN MJDP 2173 with the 18 conditions and recognizing the acceptance of the EAMP compliance report. All right. Thank you. Let me go back here. We have a second by Ms. Boxdale. Any further discussion? Okay. Please vote via Granicus. Okay, motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Okay. All righty, so we'll still be on page 4, PLNMJDP-223. And it says Bluegrass Stockyards, LLC. And we do have a letter in our packet as well. Thank you. We are moving on to item D on page four. It is a major development plan, 22-3, the Bluegrass Stockyards, which will be the Lyle Avenue Operations Center for Kentucky Utilities. Here we go. This stands out much better, these color-ups do you. We also have a final development plan as well. Here is your Lyle Street frontage for this stockyards. Here, of course, we have Forbes Road, and then there's the railroad and Town Branch Creek to the south of this particular location. They are proposing a 72,000-plus operations center, office center, with plans to develop an employee clinic at some time in the future. They're proposing access off of Lyle here and in this location here. I'm going to see. This is the development plan. There's information on here, I think, although the color up is easy to see, I think the development plan is important for you today. Again, here's the facility. as I said, a little over 70,000 square feet. You have access into here, the parking through here, and some parking up again in this location. Over in these areas that you see are storage areas. They're going to have a lot of equipment and transformers and things like that stored on site. And again, in this area, the site was, as you all were, it was the stockyards. It was previously developed. and this site is going to be heavily developed and paved as well. In this location is a water tower. Now, that water tower is necessary for their sprinkler system to make sure they always have adequate pressure to sprinkle their building in accordance with the fire code. The initial, we had an initial issue with the applicant and that they wanted to maintain the access to Forbes Road. You can see that that's been worked out because staff recommended that that access go away, and they've agreed to that. As you all are well aware, Forbes Road, which is, by the way, a minor arterial by classification, carries a tremendous amount of traffic. And with the stoplight on Manchester Street, Old Frankfort, with the railroad and those types of issues, traffic can be difficult in that area, particularly during rush hour and those times. So again, we worked that out with the applicant. That access has been removed. They're going to utilize Lowe Road. They also are going to do improvements along Lowe Road, which was another issue to be resolved. It's a condition on your development plan report, again, that we resolve that. so the driveway access to the fire tower they they've got that it was solo access it was just access to the tower by itself separate from access to to the site they revised all that they they've worked with staff and and they revised it so you again you can see the water tower it's got to be inspected got to be maintained so they obviously do need access to it they'll be accessing it off this existing entrance here, which again will access the site and to some of their parking. With that and with that review, in terms of the physical development of this site, we've made a lot of progress and resolved a lot of issues. One issue of paramount importance, again, was improvements along forbs. And that is a secondary trail connection in support of our overall trail system. And right down across the railroad, there's a trailhead. And as you all know, we've completed large parts of our trail in that area, our planned trail system. Extremely important facility and amenity for our community. And they have agreed to work with traffic engineering with an in lieu of payment. And we occasionally do that. It's not codified. It's an agreement we generally work out with an applicant where appropriate. And in this case, it has been deemed appropriate, and they've worked with them to work on it in lieu of payment. Now, that payment may be used to construct the sidewalk, or one interesting aspect, it could be used as match money for grant money to get the trail system completed, which again, cannot overstate, I know you all are aware of the progress we've made on our trail system and just how important that system's become in our community. And so again, a good resolution in staff's estimation to help things move forward. Now, an issue that arose from this relationship and from, again, our own knowledge of this site is the McConnell House. and although it's not necessarily a development plan issue other than if there was to be access to it directly or some use associated with it, then you might desire to have parking and have it more incorporated into the site. KU has told staff, and I believe reported to the committee, they don't have any real intention to use that building. The stockyards utilized it, took care of it, maintained it, and that is so important. You have to maintain these structures. You have to. You have to use them. And you have to keep them environmentally regulated or they deteriorate. The McConnell House, as you all know, is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, stone house built in Lexington. One of the first. McConnell House, named for the man who named Lexington, McConnell Springs, one of our original founders. So it's very, very important. And this issue has become, and staff is very, very important to the Planning Commission and other members of our committee. The letter that your chairman mentioned is one of support from the Bluegrass Trust, expressing their support for KU to have this and, of course, to maintain it. They believe that as a good corporate citizen, that can be accomplished. Now, that is somewhat outside your purview, because now we're looking at a range of options that could go anywhere from it not being maintained. I mean, they own the property. They could choose to demolish it. They'd have to go through the permit process, and there is a permit process when you have historic structures and that sort of thing. The outcome of that would be hard to predict. They could maintain it at a certain minimal level, under certain obligations, all the way up to a memorandum of agreement. There's just a whole range of options to address this problem. One that staff believes is important to be worked out. It's going to have to be worked out involving other entities. and staff is comfortable that we can work with them to provide at least a direction, a note that will tie the parties to that process to save this home. We had a lot of information brought to our attention by a member of the Planning Commission who has done some exemplary work in looking into this. And part of that, I believe we have a video to show you that helps demonstrate just how important the McConnell House is to our community. It's 236 years old. One of the oldest houses in all of Kentucky. It's the house of one of the co-founders of Lexington, William McConnell. This house was in Virginia when it was built. And it's still here. Hey, everybody, this is Colonel Carson with Family Tree Nuts, and I'm in front of the house of William McConnell. It's at the corner of Forbes Road and Old Frankfurt Pike in Lexington, Kentucky. Like I said, the house was built by Lexington co-founder William McConnell. In 1774, William McConnell came from Pennsylvania with his brother to scout out the area. They went back home to Pennsylvania for the winter and came back in June of 1775 to set up a camp here. Shortly after setting up camp, word came from the new settlement of Boonesboro that in April of that year, the Revolutionary War had started with the battles of Lexington and Concord. The brothers chose to name their camp Lexington in honor of the event. Native American attacks in the area forced the brothers to abandon their camp, and they went back home. But in 1779, Colonel Patterson returned to the area to establish a town. The McConnell brothers were part of that group. The group chose to keep the name Lexington as the name of the town. This house is only about a mile or so from the springs that have the McConnell brothers' name and the site of their original camp. William McConnell built this house in 1785, and luckily for all of us, it still stands. Recently, it was used as the offices of the Eugene Barber & Sons Livestock Company. It sat next to the Lexington Stockyards. In 2016, the Stockyards burned down completely, literally just a few yards from this house. But miraculously, the house was spared, and people like you and I get to continue to enjoy and marvel at it. Imagine the history that has passed right in front of this house. The area is an industrial area right now, but at one time was on the main road to Frankfurt. I see things like this, and I try to imagine what the area looked like all around it. And I'm quite certain it's totally different than what it looked like originally. So here we are at the home of one of Lexington's founders, William McConnell, a place that most people don't know about. So we're glad to bring its history to you. And remember, family tree nuts. Let our nuts find the nuts in your family tree. I like that. Nuts on a family tree. They haven't looked into my family tree, thank goodness. But I can tell you, my fiance, they did some research and found that her great-great-grandfather, true story, had been classified by a doctor in Flemingburg where he had a farm as a raving lunatic. Not my family. Not my family. See, they haven't looked into mine. But, yeah, she's going to love that when I tell her this story. But, again, that's a lovely little, nice little presentation on McConnell House. And again, what staff is recommending you today is that we resolve a note on the plan that will help point all the relevant parties in a direction to preserve and utilize to the greatest extent possible that resource to our community. And again, your committee did recommend approval of the final development plan. Staff will answer any questions you may have for us. Any questions for staff? Ms. Worth? I'm not sure I understand the last part of what you just said. Are you suggesting the addition of a note here? Yes, ma'am. I believe that that's something that you can do that's under your purview. That we can put a note on that development plan to help direct the relevant parties. And it will need to be resolved because there's an awful lot involved here. Again, the range of options, involvement, time period that's fair to the community and fair to the applicant as well will need to be resolved and worked out. Okay, so my follow-up question is the process of getting that worded. that's not something you're suggesting we do here during this session today? Oh, I am. Yes, ma'am. That's exactly what I'm suggesting. I don't believe that that could be crafted by this body. We're going to have to have legal historic preservation, obviously KU, and we're all going to have to get together and figure out the best way to, again, to protect this resource. So we could craft a motion to propose approval of this subject to the addition of the a note like that? Yes, ma'am. Resolving note to give that process direction. Thank you. And I would certainly defer to Ms. Jones, our legal counsel, if she is concerned with any wording that Mike might need to take. Thank you, Tom. Applicant? Hi, my name is Chad Graver. I'm with Professional Consultants Inc. I think we were here last month for this meeting, so it's glad to see you guys in person this time around. So this is Eli Grubbs. He's with KU. We have no issues with the items on the agenda. We were working with staff, been working with staff to take care of them, like we said, with the entrance off Forbes and some different items. We think we've got a good foothold on what that entails and an agreement with staff on those. Eli had been working with staff a lot on the sidewalk issue and the payment in lieu. So if you have any questions for us, we're welcome to answer them. Mr. Penn? Well, first of all, I want to thank the effort that's been put into this. I saw this when we first started, and I realized what KU wants to do with this property, and I realized that the house is not a part of your all's use, but it's very, very important to the city of Lexington. And I want to just ask you all a couple of questions. One of them is the note on the development plan on the plat would be acceptable to you all, I believe that's something we could negotiate, certainly. And I guess I will add that as part of this project, we are including funding to help remediate the McConnell House to make sure that it is ready to stand for the future. The House needs some windows repaired. It needs some masonry tuck pointed. And we do have funding included in the project to take care of those items. and I guess this may be cutting in front of you, but my Vice President has asked if there would be any interest in removing kind of the additional structure that's been added over the years and kind of restoring the sight lines to the full original house. I can only speak for myself, but Mr. Barber added those on for his office. I don't think they have anything to do with the historical structure. No, and potentially putting on a more historically accurate roof, more historically accurate windows, I think all those items are added. It appears to be in the 50s or 60s, and I guess those are things that my boss has expressed interest in. I'm certainly glad to hear that because that needed to happen. There's a fellow by the name of Jim Akers, who is the general manager for the Bluegrass Stockyards, and he has been the one that has overseen that house for the last 30 years. So you may want to work with him to try to make that happen. But again, if and when the time comes or when the time comes that there's a use for that house and you ought to be willing to separate it from your property, provided we have somebody that has the ability and will keep it up, then that would be a discussion for another day. But again, I want to thank you for the effort because when we saw this, you know, the entrances, the uses, all that was different. You've really worked hard to make this, and I appreciate it a lot. Thank you. And I guess I will add, we are not opposed to turning over the property to another organization. I guess I would like to point out that we are, as part of the development plan, taking out all the access currently at the request of staff. So if that is something that you all would like us to keep, actually the access is in your right-of-way right now. Old Lyle Avenue. I believe we can cross that bridge literally when we come to it. okay so that you know that that'll be a down the road development plan issue uh i want to thank uh one of my fellow commissioners judy worth for finding that video uh if you want something found she can find it and i appreciate that because that i think the history needs to be put in there today again thank you for your work okay thank you mr pen Thank you gentlemen for being here and working so diligently with our staff and doing so in good faith. It's very evident and we very much appreciate it. I own a real estate company and we frequently sell old houses. And by old I mean almost that old but not quite. And old houses, I think for a corporate citizen like KU, I just can't imagine why you would want to hold on to that house and that little corner of the property because it's always going to be something. And those people who have old houses, it is, I've heard it, somebody said to me, it's a love affair because it's illogical. You know, owning and maintaining an old house just is tough. Sometimes I knowing that you are open to letting the house go and the surrounding grass. I know for a fact that the Kentucky Trust for Historic Preservation, which is based in Frankfurt. I called the president on his cell phone and I called the vice president and I said, would you all want this thing? And they didn't hesitate for a second. He said if they want to give it, we would take it and we'd be a good steward. And they're actually, I mean, they're really walking the walk of historic preservation. They're buying, attempting to buy properties that nobody wants. They put historic preservation easements on them. They work with people who are buying them to educate them on tax credits and everything that's out there that you or I may not know about, but they certainly do. So, again, that's a conversation for another day, but I did want to put it on the record that I had a conversation with them. There was no hesitation whatsoever, and I think it would be a brilliant, brilliant partnership, both for KU and for them, because you're getting rid of something that you really don't want or need and will only be an expense, and they're getting something that is in line with their mission. So thank you all so much. Thank you. Ms. Worth. I would just add to that, and you're doing something that is really important to our community. I come from a part of the country where the oldest house we had was built in the 1880s. So to lose something like this I think would be terrible. But as a former business owner, I know you guys don't want to be obligated for perpetual care of this property. So if we can work this out so that there's a win for the community, a win for KU, and a win for historic preservation, I think that would be the best of all possible worlds. Thank you for your work on this. Thank you. Any other questions for the applicant? Okay, I'm not seeing any. Thank you. Thank you. We did in the letter had, is there a Jackson Osborne? Would like to speak. Are you going to say anything different from what's in the letter? I was going to say the last one. Okay, but you can step up. Now we may have some questions for you. Actually, we will. Mr. Penn, you want to? So, like I said, my name is Jackson Osborne. I'm with the Bluegrass Trust for Historic Preservation. I'm reading a letter submitted by our Community Preservation Education Committee that was submitted to planning yesterday. Mrs. Osborne, are you going to read the letter that we have? If you want me to. No, you don't have to. Oh, okay. It'll be part of the record. I am just doing what my executive director told me to do. If we can't read by now, we don't need to be up here. All right. Well, that's just our letter of support. And we do hope it gets maintained, which we appreciated all the things you said. That's my dog and pony show for you. We plan on it. We certainly will. We hope that you all will reach out to us. If you need anything, we're happy to help. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have anyone else that would like to speak on this particular agenda item? Not seeing any, so bring it back to the commission. The floor is open for a motion. I'd like to make one comment. Yes, Mr. Poe. I know that this was the intent was expressed to work with appropriate agencies in moving forward with historic property. And there was also a mention of removing non-significant additions and modifying or repairing windows. And I just wanted to express the concern that any work like that should be done with the appropriate expertise advising on exactly what should be done and what should not be done. That's all. I can give it a shot. Okay. So move to approve. PLN MJDP 22.3 Bluegrass Stockyards LLC, pursuant to the requirements listed by the subdivision committee, 17 requirements, and to also include a note to be developed with appropriate agencies with regard to preservation and treatment of the historic property. Would you like to make that an 18th condition? So that would be, yes. Yeah, that would be the 18th condition. 18th condition is preservation of the McConnell's house. development of a note to be included on the plan to specify how the owner will move forward with coordinating with appropriate agencies to plan for the future of the historic property. Plan for and protect. All right. Do we need to put that up? I think Mr. Pol's motion will be reflected in both the video and then we can reflect that in a minute. Okay. All right. That's fair enough. His main point was that he didn't want to take something down that's historically significant. Yes. Like the roof. Right. Without working with the appropriate agencies first. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. We have a second by Ms. Worth. Any further discussion to that motion? Not seeing any, please vote via Granicus. Okay, motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you. And I'd just like to say this is a win-win for everyone. You know, KU, you're a good corporate partner, you know, involvement in the community. And Bluegrass Trust, thank you for being here and for your future involvement. And I just, I think that the house is being lifted up. Thank you. So that put us on page five of the agenda, PLN, MJDP-22-9. And we do have revised staff recommendations for this application. It's the, I don't know, I'm going to say it's light purple sheet. Everybody has their purple sheet? I have the purple sheet to match my shirt. My top's purple. Okay. This is Ruttenberg and Cohen property, Lakeview, Woods Point, Unit 2 amended. This property is located, we have Codell Drive, which is out this way, Woodhill, this is Codell here, I'm sorry, this is Codell and this is Palumbo out this way, New Circle Road, where the Woodhill Shopping Center is. This is located behind the shopping center where the old movie theater. They're coming in to change the use on this building here. And so that's why they're in with the amended development plan. As you can tell, they worked through, they did a lot of cleanup on the development plan. So all we have is pretty much the sign-off conditions. And then we had just one condition we added was to clarify required and provided parking totals. We want to just work with them as far as what the uses are on the property and make sure that they're meeting the parking requirements. So with that, I'll open it to you all to see if you all have any other comments or questions. Do we have any comments or questions for staff? Not seeing any. Thank you. Applicant? Mr. Chair, members of the Planning Commission, I'm Tony Barrett, Barrett Partners, on behalf of Ruttenberg-Cohen Property. Appreciate staff working with us on this. We've had a nice meeting with them a couple of weeks ago and kind of worked things out. So down for just a few remaining conditions and we'll be continuing to work with staff to resolve the parking condition. So I appreciate your approval based on the conditions. Thank you. Do we have any questions for the applicant? Okay, does anyone like to speak on this particular agenda item? Okay, so we can bring it back to the commission. Any further questions or comments or floor is open for a motion? Okay, Ms. Worth. Ms. Worth got you there. Okay. All right. Mr. Chair, I vote for approval of PLNMJDP 22-9, Ruttenberg and Cohen property with the 11 conditions recommended by staff. Recommend approval. 11 revised staff recommendations. Thank you, ma'am. Do we have a second? Seconded by Ms. Meyer. Any further discussion? Please vote via Granicus. Okay, motion passes unanimously. Thank you. All right. Okay, page 6, PLN, MJDP, 22-14, Hamburg East. We have a EAM report with that as well. What they're doing is not. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the Planning Commission. The plan is indeed on page 6, item G. This is a major development plan, 22-14, Hamburg East, Track 4, Lot 2. On its bell first. And again, just to give you kind of a big picture of where we are in the expansion area, this is expansion area 2A with the land uses that were proposed. And with the Park Road and its design to come through here, of course, this is the interstate, Man of War. And we're located, let's see, there's the greenway. So we're located adjacent to the greenway and near Park Road. This is a land use map from your expansion area plan. This is not quite how things are today. This was just to give you a big picture and let you look at it. But the road system is slightly different. And due to a zone change, a couple of zone changes actually, the land use recommendations have been changed somewhat in this area from this original expansion area proposal back in, of course, the mid to late 90s. So again, here we are at the proposed development of Hamburg East. This is track four. Here is Manowar in this location. Here is the Blackford Parkway intersection and the continuation of the parkway that the plan calls Park Road. But it continues through here. This is the greenway. Very significant greenway all in this portion. And you all heard me say this many, many times now about our expansion area, the role of the greenways and how they were envisioned to be really a unifying feature in helping to tie things together with trails and the natural areas and that sort of thing. So, well, when this property came in and was rezoned, you all approved a zone change flipping the ER1 and ER2 recommendations. And that resulted in a plan you just recently saw and approved, a follow-up preliminary subdivision plan for the single-family homes in this area. And you can see the local street and the cul-de-sacs. This is the emergency access that was approved because of the number of units being proposed. They have now come back with you to present this final development plan. This is virtually identical to the preliminary development plan. They are proposing, you can see, the townhouses at front on Park Road. You can see internally, they are proposing townhouses internally, of course. These, you can see the types they're proposing, and they designate the front and the rear. And all these townhouses on the outside, on the periphery facing right-of-way, they're all oriented to that right-of-way. That's the front of those townhouses. The internal townhouses, they are fronting on the access easement. In this case particularly, they're fronting on the greenway and the access easement. They'll have rear patios on this private open space that will be, of course, available to the residents. They've got a boulevard-style separated entrance in this location, along with an extended access over into this location that lines up with the intersection of this local street. The number of units proposed, the original plan, this is a revision, came in with too many units, and they had to revise the plan to meet the allowable zoning on this particular track, which is 79 townhouses. And that's consistent exactly which you all approved on the zone change. There were several items that had been discussed with the applicant at the time of the zone change about how they would orient the properties, how they would deal with, again, and these are EMP requirements with the trail system. And in this particular instance, the trail system again is going to be a multi-use trail along the parkway. And that was a subject of much discussion because the A&P originally envisioned the trail system being associated with the greenway. And there are places when the greenway is served by single-loaded streets, the trail system is possible. And not to forget, this is also part of the stormwater system for the expansion area. The issue that they had to deal with that was significant is a geometric issue in that Blackford Parkway ended up at this location. The previous plan I showed you had a different alignment. Well, that was a paper alignment that the consultant came up with. When Blackford Parkway was being constructed, they ran into engineering issues and those types of issues in the field. So Blackford got realigned. So when it came out here, in order to align this intersection, it created, and you all may recall this discussion, it was an extensive discussion about getting this road back down in here and trying to reestablish that relationship with the Greenway as it moves back to the west and the property fully develops. As you all are aware, we've got medical facilities now, campus in the area. A school is going to be constructed in the area as well. So again, they have addressed those concerns. The cross sections were corrected on this particular plan to reflect the appropriate cross sections, including that multi-use trail. They have a couple of small cleanup conditions. Most of your conditions you see on your report are your typical sign-off conditions. They need to denote the density based on gross acreage in the AR2, denote exactions, again, to the approval of the Division of Planning. And then we had an item discuss proposed townhouse facade material. That has been resolved in their comp plan or EMP compliance statement where they do address the facade materials with brick and glass in the facades, gable roofs, that sort of thing. Those are design components that are part of their community design element in the AMP. We have submitted that report to you, the AMP report. Again, the uses, the residential uses are consistent with the recommendation of the expansion area plan. The little, the difference, again, as I stated before, is the flip in the lower density AR1 with the more medium density AR2. That flip, however, did allow for this townhouse development, this medium density development, to be more oriented towards the greenway for those residents, as opposed to the single family, which, of course, can access it through both the multi-use trail and the pedestrian system, the public sidewalks in the area. In terms of infrastructure, the Park Road, or Blackford Parkway Extended, ultimately that is also an exactable feature. It's required to be built. It will be constructed at the time of the single family homes as part of their infrastructure. The sewer infrastructure is in place. There is a large pump station further west on Winchester Road and on the north side of Winchester Road near the large utility station. The trunk station, pardon me, the trunk line, the sewer trunk lines have been constructed. The regional detention has been constructed for the most part, and most of the exactable features, there are no stormwater requirements in terms of detention basins on this particular property. There's a few that have been constructed downstream, and there's a few that remain to be constructed, most of which are more associated with the Central Baptist Hospital and the Calgill properties in terms of stormwater. So they comply with the stormwater element, the community design element, again, with their orientation of the homes, the pedestrian system, the relationship with the greenway are all important community design elements. And another interesting aspect of the EMP with residential is a well-defined neighborhood. You want the connections, but you also want it well-defined. And this is certainly well defined with the road system and the natural greenway element in this location. So with that, the staff does recommend that you find it is in compliance with the residential land use element, the future land use, the design criteria, the park road. And then again, the infrastructure is largely in place and will become a part of it will be completed, obviously, with the construction of this street. And right in here, those were the lots. You may recall we talked about access on the previous plan. That's what I mentioned with the waiver off Georgetown. This was the reference I was talking to where we worked out an agreement to locate those driveways in relationship to that intersection. So that was that obscure reference that I gave you on the previous plan. I was actually talking about this circumstance right here. But staff will be happy to answer any questions you may have for staff. Your subdivision committee did recommend approval of this plan. Any questions for Mr. Martin? Mr. Pol? I have a very detailed little question. What is the origin of the gable roof requirement? Where did that come from? It's not a requirement. We actually ask for them to designate their own. Graham, what's interesting about the EMP is that your staff back in the 90s envisioned we're going to give them options and they're going to take it and they're going to run with it. Well, for a lot of different reasons, my own opinion happens to be financing the big thing and what that industry is comfortable with. He probably got a lot of the same, frankly. So there are some commercial requirements that have grown out of practice to try to create a certain amount of glass and brick and that sort of thing. And that thought was really guided more towards commercial development in the expansion area. There was no real gable recommendation in that sense for residential. Most of the design elements were more oriented towards lot size, frontages, and setbacks. So the reference to gabled roof comes from the developer? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. We ask that they designate their own. Okay. Thank you. Real quick, a follow-up. Graham, I think that the gabled roof requirement is for infill redevelopment. Well, it is. Which should be addressed. It's a requirement now for infill redevelopment to have a gabled roof, which we can address that. Is that true? Yes, sir. And it's designed to, in certain circumstances. That's an absolutely horrible thing. Cheers. I agree with that. Well, again, let's take it up. Let's discuss that at another time. It's terrible. We need to do that. We're going to take that another time. That thought process was compatibility with the gate groups that were built. You can initiate a... Ask Mr. Duncan to initiate. Yeah. You and Commissioner Polk can co-sponsor that legislation. The infill, they bump up against that particular requirement. They do. They bump up against it frequently. But, again, that's the old compatibility with the pitches that our forefathers liked to build as opposed to. Now, flat roofs. That guy that liked his flat roofs, you know, and his falling water. Don't get me started on flat roofs. You good? We're good. You good? Okay. Thank you. Applicant. Hell, that's real. That's real. They do them in Europe. Yeah. Right? Bluegrass roofs. Bluegrass. Rory Kaley with EA Partners. I've turned in the affidavit and photo for the notification. We are in agreement with Tom's presentation and the recommendation for approval and request so. Thank you, Mr. Kaley. Do we have any questions for the applicant? Okay, not seeing any. Thank you, sir. Commission members have any additional questions or comments? Okay. Floor is open. Thank you, sir. Meyer? Okay. Okay, Mr. Chair, I move for approval of PLN and JDP 14, 2214 Hamburg East Track 4, Lot 2, Bellhurst, with the 15 conditions and also agree with the EANP compliance support that we approve the compliance report as presented by staff. Okay, and on 15, we're removing discuss to resolve? Is that right? Or just removing it completely? You can remove it. They address it in your EAMP. So it will be 14. So with 14 conditions and approval of the EAMP compliance report as well. All right, thank you. And we have a second by Mr. Bell. Any further discussions to that motion? Seeing none, we vote Villagranicus. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you, Mr. Cayley. Okay. All right. Next, PLNMJDP 22-15 Cold Stone Farm. Cold Stone? I mean, Cold Stone. I'm thinking about ice cream. No, ice cream, ice cream. Cold cream. I was going to say, are you looking for ice cream? I knew what you were thinking. I'm hungry too. Maybe when it gets a little warmer, you can bring some ice cream in. Okay, we're heading, we're going to go to Coldstream Farm, Lot 1 amended. Okay, we had a record plat at the beginning of this meeting, and this is the property here. They're wanting to subdivide this being Citation Boulevard, Georgetown this way, Newtown this way. This one, the portion of the lot already has a structure on it. They're coming in to do a structure on the other portion of the lot that we were talking about subdividing. So with that, we have our typical sign-off conditions. Then we had two discussion questions that at subdivision, the applicants said she was working with Scott Thompson, Bike and Ped. This is about the trail easement, where it's located and when they're going to work. Just the location of it is more what it is. So she's working with Scott Thompson at the time. So I'm going to open that to you and see if there's any other comments or questions. The trail that they were, there's a trail easement that goes along the back portion of this property. And so one of the conditions was the encroachment into the drive aisle. so the drive out into the rear here. So they were working with Scott as far as relocating that to a different edge or move it over a little bit so it's not in conflict anymore. Okay. So I'm going to leave it with them, and I think we can change those to resolve. I'll let you speak with the applicant unless there's any other questions. Do we have any questions for staff? Not seeing any. Thank you. Applicant. Hi, I'm Ashley Kratzer with Denim Blood. And we agree with the conditions and request that you consider the items 13 and 14 regarding the trail easement resolved based on our conversations with Scott Thompson. Good, thank you. Do we have any questions or comments for the applicant at this time? I'm not seeing anything, thank you. Do we have anyone who would like to speak on this particular agenda item? Nope. So we'll bring it back to the commission for a motion. Yeah. Mr. Chair, I move to approve PLNM JDP 2215 Coldstream Farm Lot 1 with the 14 conditions recommended. And we're making 13 and 14 discuss change to resolve. Thank you. Make it 13. Okay. We have a motion and a second by Ms. Marksdale. Any further discussion to that motion? Okay, please vote via Granicus. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Okay, so commission items. PFR 2022-3 Bluegrass Airport. Good afternoon. Today we have a public facility review for the Bluegrass Airport for some additions and improvements. As a reminder, for a public facility review, you will not recommend approval or disapproval. You'll need to make a finding that the proposal is in accordance with the comprehensive plan. You can have a bit of discussion and make recommendations if you so choose, but you will not be recommending approval or disapproval. So this is a PFR for the Bluegrass Airport located at 4000 Terminal Drive to construct four new hangars, a fuel farm, an addition to the existing terminal, to make some road improvements and to install solar roof arrays. So as you all probably are well aware, the airport is located at the intersection of Versailles Road and Manowar. It is located in the agricultural rural zone. The blue area that you see here is the rural activity center as defined in the rural land management plan. You can see that the airport's activities do sort of extend past that line. And the rural activity center has not been expanded. But the proposals that you'll see today do not include any new land that's not already part of the airport's use. So we'll quickly just go through each of the items that the airport is proposing. So the first thing we'll look at is the east side hangar edition. So you can see here circled in blue where that is going to be located. That is going to be two new hangars, primarily for small aircraft. We'll move on to the west side storage. or sorry, Westside hangars. So again, two more hangars, one for use by the flight school and an aircraft maintenance company and one for use by the Aviation Museum. Gumbert Road and an access road are located here running sort of parallel with Versailles. The airport plans to widen the access road to allow for two-way traffic because they've seen an increase in traffic within their site. And they do need to realign the intersection of Gumbert and that access road to prevent traffic from driving through protected airspace. The next thing is the fuel farm. So this will be an addition of a foundation slab and some access and fencing to provide a place to store and access fuel. Right now they're planning for a 20,000 gallon gas tank for airplane fuel. And they are planning to potentially locate a 10,000 gallon jet fuel tank here as well in the future. The terminal will have a small expansion. Primarily this will be a conversion of existing space but with the potential to expand into the paved area here for a new full inline TSA screening system. This will include modifications to the conveyor system, some inspection areas, and some personnel workspaces. And finally, they do plan to install solar roof arrays on the existing terminal. So that will be located in this vicinity. Interestingly, the Federal Aviation Administration requires glare studies for these to ensure that there is no conflict with the air traffic control or the pilots flying the planes in and out. Staff does find that these proposals are in accordance with the comprehensive plan. Also, it is in agreement with the 2017 Rural Land Management Plan. It does not expand the existing rural activity center's boundaries, as we mentioned, and it will maximize employment potential within the rural activity center. Overall, it will benefit Lexington and visitors to our community. I'll take any questions. Mr. Penn. So is the expansion part of TAC Air, or is that a new facility? The expansion is part of the existing. Part of TAC Air. I just wanted Mr. Bell and Mr. Davis' clients, when they pick them up in their private jets, to know where to go. Those people employ us, let's be very clear. We're employees. Okay. We do have a representative from the airport here, if you all have any questions for him. Do we have any questions for the staff at this moment? Okay. It doesn't seem like we have any questions for the airport representative. All right, me too. Yes, I would need a motion or we should say we- Yeah, I know. Yeah. If there's no further questions, then I'd like to make a motion that we find that this is in compliance with the comp plan. Okay. Second. Second. I'm going to go. yeah we're probably we can hi go via grampus okay i want to thank you that's one of the shortest facility reviews i ever had thank you both all right mr duncan give that give that to zach so he knows be sure you know where you're going mr duncan mr duncan mr chair thank you thank you all for being here this afternoon we're just about finished with our business, but I do want to remind you that next week we'll be back at the Phoenix Building for the Planning Commission work session on Thursday, April 21st at 1.30. So we'll see you on the third floor next week for the work session. And I wanted to also introduce to you our newest staff member, and you'll be getting to know him more as the days go along. We have a new Bill in the Division of Planning now after a loss for a while. Bill Sheehy right here will be our new administrative specialist helping us with our zoning items. So you'll likely see him more on the fourth Thursdays. But we did want to bring him over here and start getting him oriented to what you all do. And we'll get him up to speed very quickly. So look forward for you all to getting to know Bill. We've already enjoyed having him in the office and I believe he'll be a real asset to us. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Duncan. Welcome. Yeah, welcome, Bill. Light the bow tie. Do any commission members have anything further to speak on? Seeing none, the meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.