# Urban Growth Management Master Plan - Advisory Committee - August 22, 2023 > Auto-transcribed civic record · August 22, 2023 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/5889 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/5889?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2023-08-22 - **Last revised**: August 22, 2023 - **Length**: 19,068 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 Growth Management Advisory Committee convened on August 22, 2023, at 10:00 A.M. in the Phoenix Building at 101 E. Vine Street, Lexington, Kentucky, with Larry Forester presiding as the meeting officer. The committee addressed two primary agenda items during this session, both focused on informational presentations and discussions related to urban development planning. The meeting featured a presentation on developable areas and included discussion on study areas, providing committee members with important data and analysis for future decision-making processes. One formal vote was taken during the proceedings, while no public comments were received during the designated public comment period. ## Attendance The following members were present at the meeting on August 22, 2023: • Larry Forester • James Brown • Todd Clark • Chuck Ellinger • Andi Johnson • Todd Johnson • PG Peeples • John Phillips • Kathy Plomin • William Wilson • Zach Worsham • Judy Worth • Dan Wu **Absent:** Alison Davis No members arrived late to the meeting. A total of 13 members were present out of 14 total members. ## Votes and Decisions The meeting included one formal vote during the session. **Approval of Previous Meeting Summary** [timestamp: 00:00] Dan Wu made a motion to approve the previous meeting's summary, which was seconded by Judy Worth. The motion passed unanimously with no opposition or abstentions recorded. ## Presentation on Developable Areas [timestamp: 00:00] Division of Planning Director Jim Duncan delivered a presentation on developable areas within the jurisdiction. The presentation analyzed various factors that influence development potential, including flood plains, existing parks, and inputs from the Parks, Recreation and Tourism (PDR) department. Duncan's analysis included scoring systems for different areas under consideration for potential development. The presentation examined how natural constraints such as flood-prone areas limit development opportunities, while also considering the location and impact of existing recreational facilities and parkland. The presentation addressed considerations for potential expansion of developable areas, though specific details about the scoring methodology or which areas received particular scores were not detailed in the available information. The analysis appears to have been comprehensive, incorporating multiple municipal departments' input to provide a holistic view of development constraints and opportunities. This was an informational presentation with no action items or decisions required from the governing body. The presentation served to provide officials with data-driven insights into where future development might be most feasible while respecting environmental constraints and existing community assets. ## Discussion on Study Areas [timestamp: 00:00] The committee engaged in a discussion regarding various study areas under consideration, with key participation from Jim Duncan and Charlie Martin. The conversation centered on evaluating potential areas for urban service area expansion based on multiple criteria. The discussion focused on several key factors used to assess the study areas: • **Sewerability** - The feasibility and cost-effectiveness of extending sewer infrastructure to different areas • **Transportation corridors** - Access to existing and planned transportation networks • **Agricultural integrity** - The impact on agricultural lands and preservation priorities Committee members reviewed areas that had received the highest scores in their evaluation process, indicating these locations showed the most promise for potential urban service area expansion. The scoring system appeared to weigh the various factors to identify areas that would be most suitable for development while minimizing negative impacts on agricultural operations and infrastructure costs. Jim Duncan and Charlie Martin led much of the discussion, though the specific details of their individual contributions and positions were not detailed in the available materials. The conversation appeared to be analytical in nature, focusing on the technical aspects of the evaluation criteria rather than advocating for specific outcomes. This agenda item was informational in nature, with no formal decisions or votes taken during the discussion. The committee used this time to review and discuss the methodology and results of their study area analysis, which will likely inform future decision-making regarding urban service area boundaries and expansion priorities. The discussion provided committee members with an opportunity to understand the evaluation process and consider the various factors that influence urban development planning in relation to existing agricultural and infrastructure constraints. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Approval of the previous meeting’s summary --- ## Full transcript It is now 10 o'clock, so we're going to get this meeting started and on time. Welcome, everyone. Welcome everyone out in the audience as well. this August 22nd, 2023. Mr. Duncan, good to see you this morning. And second on the agenda, we have the approval of the previous meeting minutes and the floor is open for a motion for the approval of those minutes. Okay, we got a motion by Council Member Woot, seconded by Ms. Worth. Do we want to raise our hands for All in favor? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Mr. Duncan. Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Thank you all for being here today. Again, this is our third meeting. And so what we want to do today is sort of bring together the information that we've been discussing for the past two meetings with the possibility of start working on a map to address the expansion of the urban service area. We have our GIS support here to help with that. We also have Charlie Martin and Beth Overman here as well who spoke to you last week if we need to clarify anything about that. And we've provided a PowerPoint to you that we'll be showing here in just a moment to bring you all up to date on where we are and to help move us to the next step. remembering that we are on a very, very fast timeline. And so we have dedicated this meeting and the next meeting, and I believe one more, is that right, Chris Taylor, to making, building the map as we're calling it. And then we'll follow that with a public input meeting in the evening and then come back and finish this work. So it's moving quite quickly, and you all have been very, very generous with your time and with your interest in this project. So to bring us back up to kind of to where we were when we finished up last week and to set us up for our next step, you will recall that Charlie Martin, Director of the Division of Water Quality, presented the areas of Sewerability, essentially the Sewerability Study. It's still being finalized. The consultants who worked on that are here with us as well, but enough of it is finished so that we can begin reviewing our work today. And that map, the areas of sewability become very important because that becomes the basis, really, for applying the other criteria that the council set in order to consider an expansion. So it gives some order to our work by providing a specific geography to work from, And it is also consistent with the decades of policies of this government to provide urban services where infrastructure can be provided. So this is consistent with the urban service area policy. It's consistent with sewer ability reviews in the past. And so what we're looking at is geography based on sewer ability with an analysis of that and then applying the criteria that council said in order to get us to the point that we can start making decisions. So as a reminder, in addition to the infrastructure requirements, the council also directed us to look at transportation corridors when we're considering expansion of the urban service area and to recognize the integrity of our agricultural land. So we've got a number of inputs that inform that. And so what we've done is taken those requirements from council, the Sewerability Study, and put those together in a ranking, really, to allow us to order these Sewerability areas in a way that we can demonstrate how they meet the criteria. That doesn't mean necessarily that those are the areas that you have to choose or that you have to stick with, and you can certainly pull from others and not include all of one, but this does give us a good starting point. So we'll start with the developable area, and as explained by Mr. Martin and his team, this includes these sewability areas. So when you're looking at sewerability on the west side, one lower south Elkhorn, up at the top, Ironworks Pike, and then all the way down to Blue Sky, all around the clock here. These are the developable, we've identified the developable areas based on the floodplain, the parks, PDR, those kinds of inputs that then tell us within these geographic areas how much area that is already dedicated to some other source or some other use, such as a natural feature or a policy such as parks and PDR. And so on this table you can see the gross and the net acres. Those were presented last week as part of the study, but it shows how much of the land is developable based on the removal of those other things. And so we divided that up into three categories. If the parcel, if the developable area was remaining, was less than 50 percent of the total area, then that received only one point. If it was between 50 and three quarters, then we got two points. And if it's 75 percent to 100, it received three points. So that starts to show that areas that have the least restrictions have the most developable area and the most likelihood, at least under this category, of being successful for development. Roadway frontage was one of the council criteria. They specifically said existing frontage on corridors, arterials, collector roadways, plan for growth along major transportation, federal highway corridors. So we put that matrix together as well to show our collectors and arterials, our state roads, and our interstate roads. And all but one, and that's number nine over here, meet the criteria of road footage. So only one of these for road footage loses points. Council also said that the parcels should be contiguous to the current urban service area. So we looked at contiguity, and most of them are contiguous, but the ones that aren't, certainly the ones out here on the outside, Avon and some of these down here in the east, at this time are not contiguous. So based on our scoring, they lose a point. Everything else gains a point. PDR impact. As Beth told us last week, we know where all of our PDR farms are. We know where applications are, and so we know what we're trying to protect from a PDR standpoint. So we looked at all of these sewerability areas to determine whether there was any PDR in them in the first place, if they were adjacent to PDR farms, which would be outside the sewerability area, if there was only one PDR property in the sewerability area, or if there was more than one. So you may recall that part of the goal of the Rural Land Management Board and the PDR program is to create clusters of farms. And so getting multiple PDR farms together helps to achieve that goal. So that's why the multiple PDR, even if it's just two, you're starting the formation of a cluster, and those score better for other farms coming in. So for purposes of our scoring, we scored those the least. we had them lose points. If there was one PDR farm, it lost one point. And then if there was no PDR, if it was not adjacent to PDR, it got a point. Specialized areas. This really is just one. It's the Royal Spring Aquifer. It is in area number five up here. It does not show up in any of the other sewability areas. So we identified that. That was both brought to your attention by PDR and water quality, so we just took away a point for the Ironworks Pike area because it was in the Royal Spring Aquifer. And as a reminder, that is the recharge area for Georgetown's water supply. LFUCG participation. This is really related more to cost, at least at this moment based on the criteria we had before us, what would it cost to sewer these areas? The Sewer Ability Study breaks that down into very high, moderate, minimal, and not required. And so we assigned points based on that and showed, for instance, the Childsburg Walnut Hill number nine, you recall earlier, that didn't get any points because it was not on the transportation corridor, but because it requires the least amount of LFUCG participation for sewage, it scores well. So there's a yin and a yang to these as we go around. But the scoring was based on the cost, and so the higher number means the lower the cost at this time. Now there are also some other considerations, and we've marked this on your table in gray, and we've got some asterisks also. Perhaps Mr. Martin could help talk us through this just a little bit more. The three locations that are highlighted, number two, number six, and number 14, they're highlighted for that reason because there's going to be some level of LFPCG participation in those areas anyway. We've got consent decree issues that are right along the existing urban service boundary that we need to deal with. So when we reflect LFCCG participation, that one's not voluntary. That's going to be a mandatory situation. I didn't cover the asterisks. The asterisks are there because areas 7 and 8 are impacted by what decisions are made in 6. so for example if you don't do six but you try to do seven and eight high very well can become very high and minimal could move to high for those two areas because they're dependent on that downstream infrastructure for area six okay and then finally we have parcel size and we know from our experience in planning that parcel size absolutely matters for the type of development that you're trying to achieve. So for instance Fayette County Public Schools won't build any even an elementary school on anything less than 15 acres and we know that that larger parcels are desired by Commerce Lexington when they're marketing properties for economic development purposes. So we took the parcel size from the sewerability study and broke that down really into three categories, scoring two of them. So if the area has at least 50% of its parcels that are less than 10 acres in size, then that area loses a point because we know that those are going to be much more challenging to redevelop. It's very likely that those smaller parcels are individual homes and may not want to redevelop at all, and certainly building something for larger scale residential or commercial development would be a challenge. So those areas lose a point. Anything between 10 and 40 acres is kind of neutral, so we did not assign that a point. Those could be good parcels. They may be encumbered already, so we just did not address those with any points. And then anything greater than 40 acres, that's really where we're going to see our biggest benefit as far as developing for economic development, for any large-scale housing to meet affordable housing needs. And so they received an additional point for that. I guess only one of our areas looks like received the negative point. And again, that was poor little child's work that keep showing up on ups and downs here. Everything else you can see there that has larger parcels received the point. So once we've done this, these are the areas that we scored. And again, they address what the council directed as far as looking at transportation corridors and recognizing the agricultural integrity and the infrastructure, and that's where the sanitary sewer study comes in. So we put all of these together and we get a total score. And so that allows us then to start ordering these by how, at least based on this analysis, these areas would fare for future development. And so the top four or five or so, you can see area number three, Manowar, area 10, Athens-Boonesboro, area two, Mint Lane, area six, Worcester Road, area nine, Childsburg-Warnock Hill. And just so you'll know, where there's a tie score, like number three and number ten, they're listed simply by their order. So Manowar isn't better than Athens-Boonesboro. Athens-Boonesboro isn't worse than Manowar. They just have their tie, and so they're listed by their area number. And then all the way down onto Old Frankfort Pike, really scoring the lowest and the least candidate, perhaps, for the type of urban development that the council has asked for. And again, as Charlie said, some of these could change depending on what decisions we make. For instance, if we bring parcels that lost points because they were not adjacent to the urban service area or sewer ability areas that lost points, might then gain a point once we make a different decision. But in looking at this, we don't believe that this order will change drastically. generally is the area where we believe that based on the analysis based on the requirements of council and based on the recommendations that these would be the likely areas where we would want to start considering a new map for urban development mr. chair that concludes this presentation we will be glad to take any questions comments about this or anything else that would kind of catch us up but as I said we are also prepared to start looking at maps and start showing what that might look like in a new urban service area. Thank You Mr. Duncan. Questions from Mr. Duncan? Yes Mr. Phillips. You mentioned that the city has laid out these requirements and identified these particular areas of interest. Was that a limitation of areas of interest or is that, in other words, are there other areas of interest we should be considering or are these the only ones we're allowed to consider? Mr. Phillips, going on what the council, you said the city, but it's the council, the council that directed this through the goals and objectives, they were specific. They could have said, expand the urban service area to meet housing and economic development needs and stop there. But they weren't. They went on and gave a specific range of land, so 2,700 to 5,000 acres. They described very particular issues such as contiguity, frontage on corridors, common ownership, transportation, infrastructure, and agriculture. So we believe that they had the opportunity to tell us what the priorities were, and that's what we're going to apply to this exercise. I understand that that's City Council's priorities, but are there other considerations that we are allowed to factor in? I mean, for example, transportation, refuse removal, various impacts on travel to traffic. I issued a letter to you on that. Thank you for the response, by the way. But those seem to be also criteria that are pertinent to this process of where and how much. And, in other words, are we prohibited from considering those things? Mr. Phillips, I wouldn't say you're prohibited, but some of the things you're describing will be addressed through the master planning process. So as land uses and zoning and infrastructure is more particularly laid out through the master plan, then those kind of questions will be addressed during that year-long process. That is after the fact that we have identified how much and where? Yes, sir. Okay, now I'm on. When I look, and I don't think these pages are numbered, but when you rank these are scored at LFU CG participation were there different elements that all came together on that or could you name with that what that included typically excuse me typically you know pipelines alone cost the least amount of money when you start involving pump stations and storage tanks then the cost starts escalating dramatically if you have an alternative that considers the treatment plant then it really goes off the scale and so when we tried to excuse me again when we tried to characterize these things as minimal up to very high that was usually the driving factor does it involve a large pump station does it involve a large storage tank as you'll recall from my discussion last week was is that we're not suggesting that we put wet weather through the existing system and try to deliver to the plant instead we talk about building storage tanks adjacent in those areas basically a storage tanks a million dollars a gallon so if you build 25 million gallons of storage that's 25 million dollars right there and you haven't even begun to build the pump station or the other infrastructure so a lot of times I think you'll see if you look behind the curtain on this is that it's if it involves pump station and storage tanks it pretty much gets into that high range it's all related to sewer building so no other LFU CG considerations or when does that come into play like for instance the roads and fire please when does that happen I mean I guess what I'm saying that really changes changes the scope with costly additions and yes councilmember Plumman is mr. Phillips and I were just talking that some of those elements will be presented during the master plan to talk about what it would take to provide other government services, not only those but parks and other community services such as schools and libraries. All of that would be part of the community facilities analysis during the master planning process. Does that come with the consultant or is that something that will come to us? The consultant will help with that, yes. Okay. Will we have input? We will get a presentation showing what that is. From time to time, yes. We built in some presentations by the consultant updates throughout the consulting process. Yes. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Director Duncan. Can you, I think you all talked about it maybe even in the first meeting. Can you give us a reminder about gross versus net area? Gross is the total acreage within an area that's been drawn based on contour lines. Developable, we have subtracted out parks, floodplains, rural residential, which we defined to be 10 acres or less, assuming that there was a house there, not absolute, but assuming that, and PDR. So basically that left an amount of acreage that we've considered to be reasonably developable. Director Duncan, how would you interpret, because I don't think it's necessarily clear in the charge of the council from goal three, how would you interpret when we say 2,700 to 5,000, are we talking about gross or net? Vice Mayor, I actually have a, I hope that the committee will accept this answer in the spirit that it has been thought through because we have discussed this and how we would recommend that you approach this. So if the committee's desire is to create a new urban service area on the low end of the council recommendation at the 2,700 acre, we would recommend that as much of that as possible be developable land. So if you end up with 2,700 acres but 300 of it is floodplain, we would recommend finding some more land to make that up. However, I don't believe you have that option at the 5,000 acre end. So if you were to push closer to 5,000 acres, then whatever is flood plain or constrained or otherwise not developable is just part of that top number. Okay. And then there are a couple other things that I've thought about that, you know, I understand what the way you all kind of created all these metrics based primarily on what the council has charged you all to do in Goal 3. The couple of things to me that are most sort of concerning and not in here, and I'm thinking back to 1996, honestly, in terms of identifying land and then how much of the land years later, decades later, get developed. Is there a way for us to know, you know, on some of this land or these parcels like are these landowners willing to sell are we going to identify a bunch of land that just gets sat on for another 20 years do we know which areas or which parcels people are eyeing for either sale or development vice mayor if you'll let me walk into that answer from the first urban service area in 1958 there is still land that is in agricultural use. And only recently, the Fritz Farm and the Summit and the Mahan property nearby, over the past 15 years or so, developed, and that was all part of the original urban service area. So it can take a long time for property owners to make a decision that they want to do something different besides agriculture on their property. And we saw that certainly in 1996. we still have several hundred acres of property that are being farmed that we have been hoping would be developed because they were supposed to be. So perhaps that's a long way of answering. You're getting to the answer is that no, we don't know that if every parcel we identify will be attached to a property owner who is willing to develop either now or within the next five to ten years. We don't know that. And then do we have data and would this be a map that we could also build within this context of what of these areas that we're considering are adjacent to existing, current, or near future development in terms of kind of just thinking holistically about like, you know, to me it makes the most sense to create expansion areas near areas that are developing either residential, commercial, industrial, whatever is happening, it makes sense that those are the areas that probably will continue to grow. Yes. I would say, Vice Mayor, that that can be one of the inputs that Chris Dorich can show. Certainly an aerial photo shows what development is already there and what kind of stub streets and other infrastructure might be available. And in addition, we can also tell you if we know of a development plan that is active for an area that may not have been built yet, but that we expect to come in the next few years. So that kind of information can be available. Okay. This might be a question for the chair. For something like that, if, for example, like I would love to see that particular information built in, either just for information only, kind of to show us where those areas are in relation to this map, or even making it part of the scoring rubric, making it part of the, like, if it is adjacent to current developments, existing developments, that we rank it as part of this criteria. If we wanted to do that, is that something we just ask planning to create or is that something we need to vote on as a body? No, I think we can, that will be something we can request, depending on the time, right, Mr. Duncan? Yes, Mr. Chair. This is certainly not something that we could necessarily show you today. However, we have the aerials, so we do know where existing development is and what potential connection opportunities exist and where they don't exist. And whether we have the current layer of development plans, I don't know. We'd have to kind of rely on our memory on that. But I would say, Vice Mayor, that if we were to start a process of a map, And then one of the inputs that the committee wanted to see when they picked that up again next week was that information. We could certainly have it available by then. Okay. Satisfactory. I think so. I would love to see that particular element be part of an additional map. And I'm not sure how the scoring would work. But for me, that is also part of the criteria in my mind of, you know, what is most developable, what is most likely to be chosen. So I would love to see that. Vice Mayor, I know you didn't ask this, but part of the master planning process will look at opportunities. So, for instance, if some of the land that this committee recommends and the Planning Commission approves does not connect well to an existing development, then that would absolutely inform the type of land use that is applied to there. Perhaps it wouldn't be as appropriate for residential development because it doesn't connect in, but it might be more appropriate for an industrial use. And so whether the development connects or what's happening next to it is important to know, but there are options for that land if there are other constraints exist. So that would certainly be something we work with the consultants through the master planning process. Okay. And then lastly, when this gets handed off, when we identify X number of acres and this gets handed off to the consultant to create this master plan, will they have the ability or authority to reduce or possibly even increase the size of the acreage that we've selected, or do they absolutely have to work with the exact acreage that we gave them? Well, what's going to happen, Vice Mayor, is that you're going to make a recommendation first to the Planning Commission, and then they're going to tentatively accept an expanded urban service area for purposes of master planning. I would think the Planning Commission would like the option to have a little, to have some flexibility with that because through the master planning process, through fine tuning with the sanitary sewer inputs, we may see that it makes sense to move this way or that way. But ultimately, it would still be a recommendation from the master plan consultants. The Planning Commission would still make the final decision. Thank you. Thank you. Two questions. I don't know about the scoring piece of this, but just in terms of seeing the lay of the land. In previous work, we saw a map that was not land that cannot be conserved. It was land that cannot be developed. And it included things like government ownership of property. it included well it had rural settlements it had rural neighborhoods it had all the other things that are already out there that complicate what we're looking at and I'm wondering can we at least get a visual on what this looks like and I don't whether we factor that into the scoring or not and I'm not suggesting that at now but I think for all of us to see what's already out there there's more there I think than we think there is. And the second question really, Charlie, is directly to you in terms of what you said to us last week about our treatment plants. And looking at our top scoring areas, the ones that are scored 10 and higher. We talked about the town branch isn't certified, we talked about West Hickman's capacity, a lot of capacity there. thinking about these four areas and where the sewage would go, and the other piece of that down there in our treatment plants actually in Jessamine County. And as I recall, we have an agreement with Jessamine County that we're taking their sewage. So how do you envision, at what point have they given us everything we can accept or that we've agreed to take, and how would that factor into our ability to – am I making sense here? Do you understand what – okay. Yeah, I think so. Let me answer the Jesmond County question first. We have an agreement with them that we'll accept up to 2 million gallons a day on an average day flow. The treatment plan is rated for 33.8 million gallons a day, and we're averaging about 19 or 20 right now. Jesmond's probably about at the halfway threshold of that 2 million gallons, so if they ever wanted any more, they would have to come back and get an amendment to the resolution that drives that agreement. So I'm not too concerned about Jesmond's impact itself. I did look at these areas here to see how they would flesh out. On my little amateur scoreboard, I came up with six of the seven that he did. basically it's the distribution of dry weather flow is pretty even between each plant because of the geography that's involved it'd be about four million gallons a day for increase for town branch and about 3.6 for west hickman and that both of that keeps it us under that threshold that i was concerned about as far as it's pushing over the 95 percent it's kind of ironic that it worked out that way by accident but I was somewhat relieved again what I've said last week though is that's dry weather flow any wet weather flow that we have to accommodate for any areas that are added that it needs to be managed in that area not conveyed to the treatment plants Any other questions? Yes, Mr. Phillips. Yeah, I just want to follow up a little bit on that, on wet water events and the relationship to Jessamine County. I know we still have some cross-connects. You guys have done a wonderful job sort of sorting out the issues with high water events and capacity. are there topographically are there areas which would present greater concern to you from a water event issue and over and an overcapacity issue than others given this list well it goes back to what i said before about some of those areas uh the i have to remember my numbers here two and six you know we've already got existing upstream wet weather problems there already and so you know we whatever infrastructure got put in in those areas if they were added to the urban service area would have to account for that in addition to allowing for the aging of that system that naturally happens what I said last week was is it that we're we're going to be smarter about it and plan for the aging of the equipment and build in more extra capacity for those wet weather events so we don't end up back where we were 15 years ago does that mean we're anticipating greater costs in those areas should that area be developed and and hypothetically exacerbate there with hard surfaces exacerbate the rain event issue well we're talking about sanitary sewers today so you know I wasn't really figuring in impervious area and stuff because you're right the stormwater management aspects of it will have to take care of themselves just like they do in our current urban area you know every time somebody decides to pay something over it it's just a it's the the fact of urban presence but in the sanitary end of it what we're proposing is is what we suggested in the sewer ability study is that we build the facilities such as that it can handle a peak wet weather flow that's consistent with the existing urban area because that way we don't put ourselves in a box somewhere down the road yeah that will be a cost maybe we won't build it right away but we're going to plan for it thank you Thank you. MR. Not seeing any other questions, Mr. Duncan, at the moment. Okay. MR. Mr. Chair, if you'd like, and I believe in response to some of Ms. Worth's concerns about other on-the-ground features that might inform our decision-making, if you'd like, we can start the mapping work on this and show what we have available, show where we have some additional constraints that we would want to consider before making a decision and then start seeing how that might fit together. Not expecting that this group would make the entire map today, but I think it would be good if we could get started on that and sort of get in a groove and when we come back next week perhaps look at trying to finalize that map before then getting a good draft ready for the public input meeting? And if you would like to do that, then where would you like to start that work? We might need to take a recess for that one. I'm seeing heads. I'm okay with it, but I just want to see the heads nodding, nodding, questions. Okay. Let's move on then. Mr. Chair, if I could recommend, and I'm certainly, I'm just recommending this because I think it's one that would be a purposeful exercise. It will show how we intersect with some other constraints that we want to address. It will also allow us to look at what does a large area look like when we start including that as part of the urban service area. So my recommendation is that we start with area number six, which is the Royster Road, and see that because that is one of our largest areas, and it does score well. It's in the top five of areas that meet the criteria. And so with Chris Dorge's input, we can start looking at that and seeing how that might form an additional X number of acres to the urban service area. Okay. And Chris is sitting in the back, and he's got a microphone, so he can address any questions you all have. You can't see his face so well, but please feel free to direct anything to him. So, Chris, if the group is all right, we'll start looking at, oh, I think when I do that, yeah, that number six right there. Okay. so mr duncan is chris going to narrate this so you know we can try to do it together do it together all right that's fine could you give us the road boundaries just about to ask if chris could could particularly roister road that's uh that's in the vicinity On the eastern side is Roister Road from I-64 down to Winchester Road, Winchester Road over to near Hume Road at the urban service area and up Hume Road back to I-64. So the portion, and Charlie helped me with this perhaps, the portion, I don't think this works on this screen, so the portion between, what is that? Okay. Charlie, can you turn your mic on please? I'm sorry, I forgot about that. I was more worried about his pointer, about whether he needed a pointer or not. Basically, I think that that is no man's land because we don't have any service there. Where you talked about it, whereas with Hume Road, we actually have a pump station. Can I get up? It would be easier. We have a pump station located roughly about right there, right across from where Polo Club intersects with Winchester Road, and it pumps over to another pump station that we have over here. So the boundary, as I understand, it goes there. So this area right here would actually be part of Area 7, the way that we evaluated this. What Jim mentioned earlier, you can always massage these boundaries a little bit. We're trying to follow contour lines. And this contour line, I'm sure, goes in this direction, not in this direction, which is why we drew the boundary the way we did in the first place. But you could always add that little sliver, provided that the sewers were deep enough to be able to provide it with service. But right now, like I said, we have existing infrastructure here, and it stops here when the water wants to flow that you can kind of see in the background. there's the there's the stream and then we also have one over here roughly at the entrance to Greenbrier and it wants to go this way but because the urban service boundary stops there that's where the pump station is so a reminder it you could it's on here you just can't see it but this blue line And Chris Dorage is Royster Road. Is that right? That's correct. Okay. And it happens to also be the northern eastern boundary of this sewerability area as well. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, sure. So, Chris, let's turn on the PDR layer and see what that shows for this area. so again i-64 roister road we've got pdr property adjacent on the other side of roister road not in area six but in area seven christy you have the rule settlement layer also and if not we'll just point that out i think this is putting is worth one of the things she was talking about So this is Columbus-Uttinger Town Rural Settlement, one of 14 or so settlements in the rural area that are historic for a variety of different reasons. And they have been studied and they are called out to be valued for their historic significance. So I would, just as you would consider a PDR farm, I think we'd want to consider what we do about the rural settlements as well. Can you turn the floodplain on as well, Chris? Andy, did you have something for me or for somebody else? Jim, can you talk a little bit about the PDR farm? What is that being used for? And then since you did turn on the floodplain, what does that mean? Does there have to be buffer around that? How does that interpret it? I cannot talk about the PDR farm. If Beth or Ms. Martin have specific information about this one, I know they'd be happy to share. While they're deciding whether they do, I can tell you about the floodplain. The first thing is you can't build in it. So the floodplain remains as it is, so it would not be a developable area. And we do have buffers and setbacks in our zoning ordinance for development around the floodplain. However, the floodplain, it doesn't mean you can't cross it. You can still build an appropriate crossing, and it can absolutely be used as part of a greenway. So it can be part of an open space greenway system, a trail system, something to that effect. So it's not lost land, but it's something that you would want to consider in the master planning and how you incorporate that as a feature and not something that takes away. Director Duncan, my question has to do with the rural settlements or hamlets that are out there. How did you come both with 14 because of the project I'm working on, we have 24. It may be, Councilmember. I'm just remembering back from 07 when we did the analysis. There may be more, but we've got them all mapped in here. I know there are a number of them. You're right, though. And when you say they're protected, is that buffered? No, they're not protected. There's just recommendations on how they should be treated for future development. So, for instance, parcels, the recommendations are that they not be consolidated or further subdivided, that they remain in their more original layout as well as use. In some instances, there is urban zoning on some of the rural settlements, and so that permits some business uses as well. Thank you. And, Director Duncan, I've got a couple of different questions for you. On the map, there's a wedge of RSA 7 right near where 64 and 75 intersect. how are these areas determined? I'm always curious when I see weird shapes, you know what I mean, the way they're cut. Charlie, I'll give a stab. The sewer building area is determined by topography. Okay. So where does the land lay and where does it break and how does the water flow? Gotcha. Okay. And then did you all consider the floodplains as a part of your criteria or scoring? It's part of the, you'll notice in the developable versus not developable, the net and the gross, they are taken out for net purposes. Gotcha. Okay, so it wasn't a scoring, but that's part of what makes the difference. Right, so if it reduced the area to developable, then yes, it could have affected its score. Okay. And then I want a little bit of clarity for myself on how buffer zones work. So let's say we expanded into this Area 6, and let's say a developer wanted to build right up to that PDR farm. Do they, as a developer in their development plan, have to create a buffer zone? Like, how does that work? Well, first of all, they wouldn't be immediately adjacent because there's a road that separates them. So that buffer of a road already exists. It's a property line, so they'd be on this side. That is where, Vice Mayor, I believe the master plan would then make recommendations on how do we address development in the vicinity of lands that are protected, whether it's a rural settlement that's not protected or a farm that is protected. So that would come out during that process. I'm sure that the Rural Land Management Board would have input on what they felt was an appropriate buffering for the PDR farms. Okay, so for buffering, there's not a hard and fast rule of X number of feet from, you know, the farm, things like that? Well, no, because there's not any urban development right now around PDR farms. But there is a buffering around the urban service area, the existing urban service area. So that could be applied, just default right here, or the master plan. but I would expect the master plan would make specific recommendations when situations like this occurred and the PDR farm was in the vicinity. Okay. So the buffers from all the preserved or protected areas are always in consideration, but most likely in the master plan part of this process? Yes. That would be something we haven't really had to deal with before is how do we deal with urban development next to a PDR farm? So we would expect the master plan to provide guidance on that. Okay. Thank you. Yes. All right, thank you. All right, so to answer, okay, I'm Beth Overman, the PDR director. To answer Ms. Johnson's question, so this farm is around 315 acres. It is being used as a cattle farm and crops. It has been in the same family for over 100 years and also has an historic house on it that is protected in our easement. This is a horse farm that is around 200 acres. Both of those have federal easements on them. And if you can't see, there is a property line going down there, so two different parcels. Is the rural settlement, is that part of the gross or the net? Do you know if, Charlie? I'll confirm this, but I would believe that it was deducted from the gross and not reflected as developable. I have a question on that, on the rural settlements. settlements. According to the Rural Land Management Plan, they do get into detail on that, I remember. I don't know if I can ask if someone met here, but that was on the plan? That worked on the plan? Yes, they are described in the Rural Land Management Plan. The study was completed in the early 2000s, and that was incorporated into the, it started in the Rural Land Management Plan, that it was further studied and has been updated in the rural land management plan. So, yes, the rural settlements are addressed, yes. I think we can find out more there. Director Duncan, is there a way we can get on this total score sheet at the very end here? I would love to see one more number, and that would be the percentage of developable land per area. because, you know, I see all these numbers and stuff, but I'd be curious to see, like, if we had an area and the non-developable land was, like, a high percentage, that to me would also impact, you know, how we look at this process. If our team is clever, they could probably put that together before we finish up today. I was thinking I could do it myself on my phone, but it would take a while. And then kind of piggybacking on Council Member Plowman's question about hamlets and settlements, those are not technically preserved or protected areas, is that correct? That's correct. In terms of development? That's right. But they are called out in both the comprehensive plan and the rural land management plan, so they are noticed and have been, are recognized as cultural features in the rural area. So I believe we would absolutely want to make sure we consider those as important features when we're thinking about expansion. Okay, so where would that consideration come into play? Would it be part of this expansion master plan, or would it only come up when developers have development plans that involve or encroach onto these areas? I would say, so just as an example, and again, just as an example, but if you were to use this area in its entirety as expansion, the staff would recommend that you draw this out and that the rural settlement not be included because once that happens you end up with places like Bracktown and Cadentown that are in the urban service area now and are no longer rural settlements for that purpose and places like Jonestown off Tates Creek Road which have all but disappeared. So we would recommend and look for ways to bring the urban service boundary in the vicinity and then work around that so that this does not become urban land. And then the same thing as we were talking about buffering PDR through the master plan, what would be an appropriate way to ensure that we have buffered around the rural settlements. Okay, so that's something that this committee can determine if we decide we want to bring in. We would recommend that the rural settlements not be brought into the urban service area, yes. Okay, thank you. Council Member Brown. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Director Duncan. So, you know, thinking about the rural settlements and a way to protect them without penalizing or adding burden onto the property owners, is there a designation that exists in our zoning that we could recommend for those areas, or is that something new that we could talk about creating for the designation to protect those areas? Council Member Brown, this is something that's been talked about for about 15 or more years now. When UK did the study of the rural settlements, there were recommendations at that time that either some sort of historic overlay or neighborhood development overlay be applied. And, of course, the good thing about that is it does. It helps freeze things in time in some respects. but then that can also be a double-edged sword. Part of the recommendation of those settlements is that they remain vibrant and that they would be places where households would want to move into, to build new homes, to build their generational activities there. So in some respects, I think it's good that we haven't settled on what protections we need because I think we want to make sure we don't lock it down so much that those properties essentially become useless. but yet we still want to recognize their historic significance and find some way to honor that while allowing it to be viable properties as well. So thank you. I appreciate that answer. So if we don't include them in the urban service area and leave them in the rural service area, does that prohibit us from rezoning those hamlets going forward? Say some work is done and comes up with a recommendation, since they're in the rural service area. Does that keep us from rezoning them? Well, I'll give a more nuanced answer, Council Member Round. It means that the comprehensive plan would not recommend a zone change for that, and therefore the staff would not recommend that to the Planning Commission. Okay. Thank you. Director Duncan, do you know what the total acreage is? I don't know. of the rural settlements outside or inside the RSA? I do not, Council Member, but I believe with Chris Doerr's help, we could get that information. I think that would be helpful. Thank you. Yes, Vice Mayor. Director Duncan, are these rural settlements already factored into the not developable area in these numbers? Charlie said they were, yes. We tried really hard to attain the goal that I think you were talking about earlier, is that if we're going to present an area as potentially be developable, that it is in fact developable. We couldn't identify each individual property owner's desire to sell or not sell. But these other things, because they were small or they're parks or they're floodplains, the likelihood was so minimal, don't stick that out as a teaser, so to speak. Gotcha. Gotcha. So if we were, for example, to bring in area six minus that rural settlement, it would impact our gross developable area but not the net because it was already taken out. Is that correct? Yeah, the gross is not the gross developable. It's just the gross area, everything. Gross, yeah. And then the net is what we perceive to be the developable. Okay, so that rural hamlet is already not within that developable number. Yes, sir. Gotcha. Thank you very much. Councilmember Evans? Dovetailing off what the vice mayor said, just looking at what you all came up with, the total score, could you put into the map at some point just where they rank in that? Because I just did it myself, and it kind of gives you contiguous areas that are ranking high, and just by not that this would make this process real easy, but if you just took the top eight, that would be 4,505, and it would be 3,762 on non-developable. So you can look where we kind of stand on what the high ranking, but if you could actually put the areas where they rank, I think that would be helpful for everybody. Yes, we can do that. Thank you. Mr. Phillips. We're talking a lot about net and gross, which is important, but I want to understand the notion of buffering, whether it's PDR or, for example, perhaps buffering around these hamlets, that would all come out in a subsequent process not to be calculated really here. So in other words, we could include it as it might be developable, but subsequently identified as a buffer area, whether it's PDR farms or a hamlet. Yes, that will be identified in the master plan, yes. any other questions so any other layers we need to be looking at like government owned or other things there existing development that would keep it from development Chris what else do you have handy that might help inform this decision Chris, would you want to throw on the aerial photography? This would give an idea of just what has been developed out in this area. small lot subdivisions here, certainly along Hume Road, WKYT, right there. Chris do you have a layer of publicly owned land in your I don't have it readily available we definitely can get it yes Mr. Johnson Director Duncan, based on the look of this aerial and something that Charlie had mentioned a while ago, I think he called it no man's land with that floodplain running out of no man's land. Charlie, does that make that area suitable into Area 6 if it were considered to be part of Area 6? We believe it can be done. you know this is that a lot of times how well placed and how deep the infrastructure is is how far you can cross across contours and stuff. Yes, I believe that it can. Chris, can you easily cut this piece off here and give us a calculation leaving in this and then perhaps that as well? I'll take just a minute. Okay. Director Duncan, since we're in this space, is it possible to go beyond and look at seven right across from 60? Absolutely. Just because we're in the general area and just understanding why it didn't score the area that's contiguous? So we've gone to the sewer map here. so in this in this version of the map here we are in seven so here's the boundary between six and and seven coming out here and around. So in this version the yellow represents PDR. Pink is rural residential so large parcels of subdivision. So Andy this is part of these colors are the reason that this is not scoring well. There's a lot, you've got a lot of land already claimed by PDR in the area 7. And then some of this other large lot as well. What about the part that's just sort of creates a little down below, below 6, right in that area? This? Yes. You've got, and that's where certainly a scalpel could potentially work, just as Charlie recommended here. I certainly want his input on what the effect of taking that for sewerability purposes. You do have some, looks like lots that are already divided, but you've got some larger parcels as well. Charlie, what can you say about just sewering of this part? You know, we were over there talking before. Again, we were drawn on contours, not necessarily property lines, and property lines will change this to some degree. I think that portions of this that are large enough could get in here. The drawback is that you'll have to go across those small parcels in order to get there as far as a gravity sewer, and that's part of the thing that we kept talking about when we mentioned Childsburg before. That's one of the big drawbacks on it. it's fairly easy to sewer, but you have to go across the state lots to do that. And so you start questioning the likelihood of that actually happening. So are you anticipating then, Charlie, with your answer on that, that if this area was considered, those lots that you would have to cross wouldn't be brought into the urban service area, and that wouldn't be an opportunity to put those on sewer rather than septic? whether or not they're brought into the urban service area wouldn't necessarily be my call. My thing would be is that if we're doing area six and I'm dealing with my Greenbrier problem that is a consent decree issue, I'm going to have, I'm going to try to make an informed decision about whether or not I'm sizing this such as that this could come in at some point in time in the future. And typically we try to do that. We try to plan for the future because you're going to get one swing at the plate. Right. I may have misunderstood you. I thought you were saying that because you would have to run from, like, area H and G through F over into area 6, crossing those property lines was a problem. No, I think what I was trying to say, and I may not have said it very clearly, is when we were looking at 7 as an aggregate, you've got these different colored parcels. When it started turning something from other than white, then it starts scoring less because it's got those impediments, I guess. I understand. Thank you. Director Duncan, if this committee wanted to start kind of chopping up these areas, like looking at that little corner, for example, would you all have to basically run that specific area through all these metrics again and kind of re-add them, reconfigure them to the score sheet? I think, Vice Mayor, that this was considered the starting point, and from then on the committee gets to kind of push and pull where they want to. This is just really a way to get us launched. Okay. Can we also, while we're kind of looking at different areas, I would love to see areas 3, 10, and 2, the other highest scoring areas. Okay. Vice Mayor, Chris, do you have that first work done on Area 6? I can't do the two at the same time. Okay, then take us over to area three. The interactive map or the PDFs? Can I ask one more question about seven before we leave this? Where does Avon, the facility, belong on that map? It's much further out. It is in the Avon extended, which would be area eight. So, Vice Mayor, you said area three? Three and ten and two, which is Manowar RSA. So, two and three would be together. Chris, if we could. Okay. Just for discussion, this is eight here. You said you're way out here. You've got, again, a lot of those different colors and stuff like that, which intuitively explains why it probably scored very well. 2 and 3, yeah. This version is fine. We got 2 here, then 3 there. So this is where we are in the urban service area. Dunbar High School is down here. There, yeah, there's Dunbar. Dunbar High School, Manowar Boulevard, Dunbar, and then this is area two. Rural residential is what we've got labeled here. otherwise there's not PDR or rule settlement in this area. Yeah. Since this one's my map, it's probably easier. You do yours and I'll do my own tag team on this one. Dunbar High School right here. This is the existing Mint Lane pump station. It's been there probably since Beaumont developed. And this is one of the remaining consent decree pump stations that we have to upgrade. And right now with it sitting right on the border, that's one of water quality's concerns because we're very limited about what our options are. And so this area, too, was bounded by Manowar, Parker's Mill, Bowman's Mill, and then back around along a contour line, basically splitting the existing farm out there in half. You know, we've talked about parcel lines versus property lines. that will change acreage itself if that's the desire that we move more towards property lines and we do parcel lines as i said last week you know we're we're driven by by the contours of the bathtub concept that doesn't mean you can't move it and adjust those acres accordingly to match property lines better but in this particular scenario there was we looked at we only looked at one real alternative and that's basically moving that pump station farther downstream in this scenario we moved it down to set at the edge of Bowman's Mill Road it would require storage tank to be able to handle the wet weather flow and stuff because you can't convey the existing wet weather flow back to the existing South Elkhorn pump station because it's not big enough to do that but that is the scenario for area two questions That is a horse farm, is it not? Yes, it is. It's a farm. It has no PDR, and it has just this one area there that is a rural residential parcel. Thank you. Which is part of the reason why it scored higher. I don't remember what we had it as far as the cost-wise, but, again, it was driven a lot by our need to participate out there in the first place. I was not as concerned about cost. and then when it came to pdr and some of the other aspects access to transportation those type of things director martin on with moving that pump station does that also take care of area three if we brought that in or is there a separate solution let's switch to area three here right now here. So area two is down here. Upstream from it is area three. Here's Band of War. Again, we're kind of cutting a contour going into the Wellesley subdivision, collecting a little bit of Irby County government property and then coming along Beaumont back to Band of War. Again, following contours parker's mill thank you oh parker's mill yes right through the middle of it right there all right so there's a drainage area that comes down to on the airport side of parker's mill this would require a pump station and have it pumped back and dump into the area two to where area area three's outcome is largely depend on whether or not you add area two or not from from our perspective just water quality's perspective it's more efficient to have both of them and if you just could have to have one area two not area three area three alone is difficult thank you one rural residential parcel you've got these up here at the tip of this as you mentioned as you remember from last week i talked about we account for the flow if they ever want to come in but we don't account for them as being developable. So again scored high when it came to developable acres in the percentage wise because there's very little of the colors. The airport is back here. Okay. Yeah. That's up here I believe. What is that that the city owns? Is that park land? Is that at the top of that area? Do you know? Yeah, that's the Cardinal Run Park. That is part of the park, okay. Yes, Mr. Phillips. I know it's not to be a factor, but do we have any sense? Have you had any sense from parks, for example, like Cardinal Run, which I know they are at capacity now, do they have any intention of expanding, or would that be a consideration in, again, this net growth issue? Well, Cardinal Run is just getting launched, so it will be developed over the next couple of years, I guess. So it's not developed right now. I believe an option like this would give the city more options. First of all, we can only access Cardinal Run through Parker's Mill. But, for instance, if this was part of it, perhaps you would build access from Manowar instead. And, therefore, Cardinal Run would be safer to get in and out of, first of all, and could be more purposeful as a citywide park. Have we solicited any input from them on that? Because I know that at one time we had all sorts of big plans for that area, and it kind of tanked for a while. But have we solicited their input on that, any of the park in any of our areas? Not for the expansion, no. That would be part of the master plan, absolutely. Area 10, coming from town, going out Athens-Boonesboro Road towards Blue Sky, I-75. right there. So this would be on your left as you're coming outbound on 8th and Boonesboro. You can see Brenda Cowan Elementary School property is sitting right in the middle of that. Right now basically farmland. We looked at one alternative and that was basically to have a pump station located somewhere down here along the edge of the road and then bring gravity into that. this gravity would have to be deep because the water wants to actually go across this across the road and but we drew the boundary to where it actually stopped at the road because we felt like that was probably more practical from from in terms of developable acres again you know the school but otherwise no No PDR, no small rural residential properties, fairly straightforward. The connection point for the pump station would be the existing pipeline that comes from Blue Sky that we built about 2014. And we do believe it has sufficient capacity to be able to handle that additional flow. Can we get an aerial view of that? Mr. Martin, I had a question too. Is that pump station behind the wind still in operation? Yes, sir, it is. We threw an agreement with the property owner. They converted it from a treatment plant into a pump station and connected to that very same pipeline from Blue Sky I mentioned before. Okay. Chris, can you pull this down just a little bit? So if you've seen these maps before, you'll notice this is sort of the beak or the nose of the urban service area where Athens-Boonsboro and I-75 come together, the Childsburg development over here. And in the evaluation, Charlie has both of these, most of this area covered, but there is this part up here that is not part of the sewer ability. So I think we'd want to hear, Vice Mayor, if there was interest in looking at this, I think we'd also want to talk about what's possible here too so that we don't end up leaving an isolated piece that really would not serve any purpose at that point because there are not good connections. There's pedestrian connections through a trail, but there's not good vehicular connections into this area. It would have to come from down here. So we'd want Charlie's input on how we incorporate that into this if we were to go in that direction. And Director, that area that you just identified, that's not one of the areas. It's not identified on our map, is it? It is not. It's not part of Charlie's study area. Okay. Again, we started with a 2006 study that defined certain areas for us, And so we followed those, you know, again, following contours. That's not to say they can't be added. If you add that property we were just talking about up here, it wants to go in this direction. So if you add it, it's either going to have to have a pump station or somehow we're going to have to figure out whether or not there is existing capacity in the existing neighborhoods that are adjacent to it. It can be done. It's just we didn't consider it in this because we were trying to look at which bathtubs can we serve. Yeah. Well, I think if we're going to talk about it, we probably ought to add it to one of the areas that we can. Maybe it's more appropriate to add it to 12. And then I was going to – I mean, that's just a suggestion, but do what you think is best. And then I was going to ask Chris, is there a layer for rural activity centers? There is. I'll turn it on now. So blue sky and the yellow. How does Charlie, in regards to sewability, how do rural activity centers play into infrastructure and how you think about flow with sewers? This might be an easier question for Jim. He's going to have to help me with this. because basically we're operating off of a footprint that was provided to us. This boundary is the service area for Blue Sky. There's an existing treatment plant. There was an existing treatment plant that we took over in the aftermath of the consent decree, and we converted it into a pump station. But we've not talked to anybody about adding anything. Everything that goes on is within the existing parcels that are within the existing Blue Sky footprint. Okay. All right. Thank you, Chair. Mr. Chair, I offer a suggestion, and if this is not where the committee wants to go, that would be fine. But if you'd like, I believe Chris Dorge, working with our team, could put together the maps, as we were starting to do on number six, and show acreage, sensitive areas, cultural resources, those kinds of things that the staff might recommend that we want to treat differently. and perhaps have those ready as a starting point for the next meeting rather than trying to build those here. Although Chris is very clever at doing that. We can do some of that here if you want to, but that's just another option. No, I think it's a good option. And then as a committee, do we want to kind of take the top five or seem like those are the ones that came up more than anything and just focus on those areas? instead of, you know, we sitting here with, I don't know how many we have, a number of areas, but it seems like that's the hot topic, right? I might suggest, Mr. Chair, just for planning purposes, even though nine, you know, we kind of kept going back and forth to that, it just doesn't get us a whole lot, even though it does score well. And that perhaps would be one that we could bypass for now, but the top five would be three, ten, two, six, and twelve, and perhaps considering what Council Member Brown just said about expanding into twelve. And here's nine. See, it's all ten-acre lots. And so that's not to say that you couldn't do that, but you're just not going to get much out of that for development purposes. Yes, sir, Mr. Johnson. As part of the consideration, I'd like to go back and consider the area in area 7 south of Winchester Road that we talked about on that drainage area. That one space that we were talking about? Yes, sir. Okay. So this area you're talking about? Yes, sir. Okay. And then I presume this area as well? Yes, sir. Those two. Okay. Yes, Ms. Johnson. Is it possible, if you are doing the work, if we went ahead and looked at 13 and 14, just to have that consideration, understand how that all connects, and it may be a situation where it's more of a scaffolding in that area. Absolutely. Chair, I've got more and more requests. Can we move over to Area 3? I want to see what the Rural Activity Center layer looks like over near the airport. without the word bluegrass airport and council member i i if if chris's layer is like ours the rural activity center is smaller than the footprint of the airport airport property what we're showing is the as the rural activity center as it was identified decades ago but the airport has acquired more property since then okay Anecdotally, I will point out, we have three pump stations located on the airport's footprint right now. All right. That's, yeah, good. Thanks. All right. Mr. Phillips. Yeah. Just a clarification on that. I refresh my recollection. And in order to do area three, did you need area two, essentially, or do I have that backwards? Area three drains to area two. If you did area three alone without two, you'd have to pump it someplace different. And pumping it someplace different ends up increasing costs. Yeah, right. Right. Okay, thank you. I just got those confused. And Area 2 already has consent decree problems and needs work anyway, right? Well, it has consent decree problems immediately upstream from that boundary, existing boundary. Mr. Chair, I have as our task to prepare for you all for next Tuesday to work up the maps, acreages, and show the features for area 3, 10, 2, and 6, and 12. and then to ensure that we have added portions of Area 7 along Hume Road and south of Winchester Road to Area 6, and then to also work up Areas 13 and 14. That's my understanding as well. So let's move forward with that because we needed to exclude some of these. And let me also ask Chris Dorage. is what we described something that we can do in the next few days. Okay. Okay. Is there any other questions? Yes, Mr. Johnson. I was wondering if we might get today's presentation emailed to us. If it was emailed to us, I don't think I saw it. I can go in and look. But if we can get that to us, that would be awesome. And if this can be done in the next few days, this work, if it can be emailed out in advance to our next meeting, that would be wonderful, too, for us to kind of take a look and be able to consider. I think it would save us some time. We're under some pretty tight deadlines. We will get this to you and up on the website immediately for today's, depending on how quickly we can turn around something we feel confident in. We don't want to give anything incorrect in this. So if we can, we will get it out to you beforehand for sure. Okay, Mr. Duncan, I don't see any more questions or concerns or additions. Thank you. Mr. Chair, I appreciate the input from the committee. So, Mr. Dunk, is there any other business you think of? Chris Taylor. Chris Taylor. Chris Taylor, do we need to cover anything else today? No, Chair, I don't believe so. 10 o'clock next Tuesday. That's what I'm talking about. Well, the meeting's adjourned. I love it. Thank you. We'll be right back. We know you can dance to the beat. We got the beat. Jump back. We got the beat. Round, round, round, round, round. We got the beat. Well, I went down to the Grundy County auction Where I saw something I just had to have My mind told me I should proceed with caution But my heart said, go ahead and make a bid on that And I said, hey pretty lady, won't you give me a sign I'd give anything to make you my own mind I'll do your bidding and be at your beck and call Yeah, I've never seen anyone looking so fine Man, I gotta have her, she's a one of a kind I'm going once, going twice I'm sold on the lady in the second row She's an eight, she's a nine, she's a ten, I know She's got ruby red lips, blonde hair, blue eyes And I'm about to bid my heart goodbye Well, the auctioneer was going about a mile a minute He was taking bits and calling them out loud And I guess I was really getting in it Cause I just shouted out above the crowd And I said, hey pretty lady, won't you give me a sign I'd give anything to make you mine or mine I'll do your bitch and bitch, your beck and call Yeah, I've never seen anyone looking so fine Man, I gotta have her, she's a one of a kind I'm going once, I'm going twice I'm sold on a lady in a long black dress. She won my heart. It was no contest with a ruby red lip, blonde hair, blue eyes. Well, I'm about to bid my heart goodbye. Yeah, we found love on the auction block and I hauled her heart away. Now we still love to laugh about the way we met that day when I said, Hey, pretty lady, won't you give me a sign? I'd give anything to make you mine or mine. I'll do your bidding and be at your beck and call. Yeah, I've never seen anyone looking so fine Man, I gotta have her, she's a one-of-a-kind I'm going once, going twice I'm sold I'm a lady in the second row She's an eight, she's a nine, she's a ten, I know She's got ruby red lips, blonde hair, blue eyes And I'm about to bid my heart goodbye I'm not a man. This one-way love affair ain't fair It ain't no affair to me It's all give and take and you just take I can't take it, you see Well, I'm giving up all of this time Me and my friends will do just fine I've done everything for you You've done nothing for me I've done everything for you You've done nothing for me Yes, someday I'd have a whole lot of money I'd be a millionaire But when that didn't happen overnight I found out how much you really cared Well, all you want is a whole lot of money All the rest is just jiving, honey I've done everything for you You've done nothing for me I've done everything for you You've done nothing for me When I first met you You didn't know how to love a man All those things about making love You didn't understand But now you know about everything I'm turning you in for memories I've done everything for you You've done nothing for me I've done everything for you You've done nothing for me I've done everything for you You've done nothing for me I've done everything for you You've done nothing for me I'm going out on the town tonight Get as wild as I can be I'm gonna find out what it's real I like to be loose, high and free I don't care what the people say I'm taking my mind, I'm changing the state I've done everything for you You've done nothing for me I've done everything for you You've done nothing for me You've done nothing for me You've got nothing, you've got nothing, you've got nothing for me Jet bug, jet bug, jet bug You put the boom boom into my heart You see my soul's got high when your loving starts A tootie buggy into my brain Goes to bang, bang, bang Till my feet do the same But something's buggy, something ain't right My best friend told me what you did last night Left me sleeping in my bed I was dreaming but I should have been with you instead Wake me up before you go, go Don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo Wake me up before you go-go I don't want to miss you when you hit that high Wake me up before you go-go Cause I'm not planning on going solo Wake me up before you go-go Take me dancing tonight I want to hit that high Yeah, yeah. You put the gray skies out of my way. You make the sunshine brighter than Doris Day. Turn the bright spark into a flame. My beats per minute have never been the same. Cause you're my lady, I'm your fool. It makes me crazy when you act so cruel. Come on, baby, let's not fight. We'll go dancing, everything will be all right. Wake me up before you go-go Don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo Wake me up before you go-go I don't want to miss when you hit that high Wake me up before you go-go Cause I'm not planning on going solo Wake me up before you go-go Take me dancing tonight I want to hit that high Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Wake me up before you go-go Don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo Wake me up before you go-go I don't want to miss you when you hit that high Wake me up before you go-go Cause I'm not planning on going solo Wake me up before you go, go, rock Take me dancing tonight Wake me up before you go, go Don't you care to leave me Hang on like a yo-yo, yo-yo Take me dancing Wake me up before you go, go, go Cause I'm not a man, I'm not a man So I'm not a man, I'm not a man Yeah, yeah, yeah Take me dancing tonight Yeah, yeah Portraits Boys in the band Ordered portraits Visitors scored On the home rink Everything seems to be wrong Living Newspaper mentioned Cheap airfare I gotta fly to Saint somewhere I'm close to bodily 20 degrees and the hot game's on Nobody cares here when to park on Screaming boy drinks Something to keep them all warm This morning I shot six holes in my freezer I think I got cabin fever Somebody sound the alarm I'd like to go where the missile lights go Could you meet me somewhere, Mr. Scott? Any old place here on Earth, you're in space You pick the century and I'll pick the spot I know I should be leaving this pilot I got a verse that can't rhyme it I gotta go where it's warm Boat drinks We dress I need two more boat drinks And I'm heading south for my grain shrink I gotta go where it's warm I gotta go where it's warm I gotta go where it's warm I gotta go where the 80s snow Where the 80s blow Cause my fence takes so low I gotta go where it's warm Welcome to your home We will find you. It's my own design It's my own remorse Help me to decide Help me make the most I'm reading and I'm reading Nothing ever lasts forever Everybody wants to rule it There's a room where the light won't find you Put your hands while the walls come totally down When they do, I'll be right behind you So glad we've almost made it So sad they'd have to admit it And everybody wants to know. I can't stand this indecision Married with a lack of nature Everybody wants to move Say that you'll never, never, never, never need it One headlight while believing Everybody wants to move All for freedom and adventure Nothing ever lasts forever Everybody wants to I'm out. I heard that you're settled down That you found a girl And you're married now I heard that your dreams came true Guess she gave you things I didn't give to you Old friend, why are you so shy? I hate to turn out out of the blue uninvited, but I couldn't stay away. I couldn't fight it. I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded that for me, it isn't over. I Some Me Sometimes it hurts But sometimes it hurts instead, yeah You know how the time flies Only yesterday was the time of our lives We were born and raised in a summer haze Bound by the surprise of our glory days I hate to turn off out of the blue uninvited But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded that for me It isn't over Royal Lapa Hall, will you sing it for me? Royal Lapa Hall I'm not a liar, someone like you I wish nothing of the best for you Don't forget me, I beg I remember you said Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts in state Yeah Nothing compares, no worries or cares Regrets and mistakes their memories made Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste? One more time Someone like you I wish nothing other best For you Don't forget me I'll pay I'll remember you stay Sometimes it lasts a lot Sometimes it hurts to stay Never mind, I'll find Someone like you I wish nothing but the best For you too Don't forget me, I beg I'll remember you said Sometimes it lasts in love But sometimes it hurts instead Sometimes it lasts in love But sometimes it hurts instead Yeah, yeah Won't you give me just one more chance Maybe we could make a little romance No reason why you and me Can't get it back together like it used to be Give me, give me, give me just another try I can't have you, I'm gonna die Give me one more chance Give me one more chance Do you remember How we used to be When we had a love so true You were my confidant You were my closest friend Someone that I could always turn to Even I can't fool I let you slip right through my hands I'll let you get away Now I've come running back Hoping you will let me Back in your heart someday Won't you give me just one more chance Maybe we could make a little romance No reason why you and me Can't get it back together like it used to be Give me, give me, give me just another try I can't have you, I'm gonna die Give me one more chance Give me one more chance I'm so alone Here without your touch And it seems like a lifetime to me Oh darling can't you see Right now I know How wrong one man can be Won't you give me just one more chance Maybe we could make a little romance No reason why you and me Can't get it back together like it used to be Give me, give me, give me just another try I can't have you, I'm gonna die Give me one more chance Give me one more chance Won't you give me just one more chance Maybe we could make a little romance No reason why you and me Can't get it back together like it used to be Give me, give me, give me just another try I can't have you, I'm gonna die Give me one more chance Give me one more chance Give me one more chance Give me one more chance Happy Jack wasn't old but he was a man He lived in the sand at the island The kids would off sing, he would take a run key So they rode on his head in the hurry on me The kids couldn't help Jack They tried, tried, tried They dropped things on his back And light, light, light, light, light But they couldn't stop Jack And the water stopped me And they couldn't prevent Jack From being happy But they couldn't stop Jack or the boys were slapping And they couldn't prevent Jack from feeling happy We'll be right back. And they couldn't prevent Jack from being happy. We call them cool. Those hearts that have no scars to show. The ones that never do let go And risk the tables being turned We call them fools Who have to dance within the flame Who chants the sorrow and the shame That always comes with getting burned But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire Cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire We call them strong Those who can face this world alone Who seem to get by on their own Those who will never take the fall We call them weak Who are unable to resist The slightest chance love might exist And for that forsake it all They're so hell-bent on giving Walking a wire Convinced it's not living if you stand outside the fire Standing outside the fire Standing outside the fire Life is not tried, it is merely survived If you're standing outside the fire There's this love that is burning Deep in my soul Constantly yearning To get out of control Wanting to fly Higher and higher I can't abide Standing outside The fire Standing outside the fire Standing outside the fire Life is not tried, it is merely survived If you're standing outside the fire Standing outside the fire Standing outside the fire Life is not tried, it is merely survived If you're standing outside the fire Standing outside the fire Standing outside the bar Life is not tried It is merely surviving You're standing outside the bar I'm out. We'll be right back. Get real news. You don't need no bad excuse. Dance all night with anyone. Don't let nobody pick your phone. Shake it up. Shake it up. On this edition of Lexington Now, Town Branch Park, a new mayoral portrait and crave. I'm Neal Noah and welcome to Lexington Now for the week of August 21, 2023. Big news for the area around Rupp Arena as ground was finally broken on what promises to become a focal point for downtown, Town Branch Park. It's hard to imagine that in just two short years, all of this will be transformed into what you see in the video on my right. A beautiful green space featuring a high-tech stage and 4,000-person amphitheater. A unique children's playground, educational and interactive water play area. A dog park for both small and large dogs. food and beverage offerings, a butterfly garden, an art installation, the Town Branch Commons Trail, a recreation lawn, a reading room, and so much more. The park will also reconnect the community to Town Branch Creek through this space just to my right. That actually is the creek rolling through in the middle of those trees. I became involved in this project at the request of my dear friend and then-Mayor Jim Gray. and a few other civic-minded friends and peers of mine were asked to take a task of creating a public park for Lexington that would be privately funded. This was an unprecedented project for our community. Raise $31 million, he told me, of private funds to build a world-class park in the heart of downtown for all of our residents and visitors to enjoy. What a dream. Our community has never come together to raise that much money for a single cause like this. Some people didn't think we could do it. Actually, there were many people that didn't think we could do it. And I would hear about it every now and then. Maybe they were right. We didn't raise $31 million. We raised $39 million! It was Victor Hugo who famously said, there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Now, I would just add that an idea without funding is nothing more than a hallucination. So fortunately and inspiringly, Town Branch Park is a reality and not a hallucination. Now let me too pay tribute to Ann Bacus, Lexington's Grand Dame. The late W.T. Young was often described as the bell cow of fundraising and philanthropy. And of course the bell cow is the one who leads. Well, there's a new bell cow in town. This is a groundbreaking. A groundbreaking. groundbreaking in that we are literally breaking ground, in this case, someone said asphalt, to begin construction of this wonderful park. And groundbreaking in the landmark sense, in that we are creating a new landmark, a new destination, a place for community celebration, a place to bring your children and your visitors from out of town, a place to enjoy a brisk walk or an evening stroll. This park is also groundbreaking in a pioneering sense. It is not every day in our city that the private sector comes together to fund something like Town Branch Park. This is a big deal. This park is a gift. It's a gift of improved quality of life to each and every one of us, as well as all 325,000 people who live here, as well as their visitors. That's really special. Buildings come and go. Parking lots come and go. But parks can live forever if you take care of them. And I can assure you that our board and the people that have donated their time and energy here energy here are going to make sure that this park is not built but it take is taken care of former mayor and now kentucky secretary of transportation jim gray's official mayoral portrait was unveiled at a ceremony this past week we were there for the celebration we're here this evening to unveil Jim's official mayoral portrait. It is a photo collage that includes hundreds of images edited together to create a portrait that tells the story of Jim Gray's vision for our city. After tonight's unveiling, Secretary Gray's portrait will be hung in the council chamber along with the portraits of all the other mayors since our merged government began operating in 1974. I will say that it has taken a little while, Mayor, because I confess that I didn't especially want to do this portrait. And early on, in fact, one artist fired me because I would not sit still long enough. and neither would my dog Maylake. We'll come back to that. I had decided that if a portrait was to be done, then it really needed to reflect all the work so many had done to get things done. Get it done was our theme. Create jobs, run government efficiently, and build a great American city. Then the call to action. Get it done. Fortunately, I was introduced to the UK artist Rob Southard by a friend, Alex Brooks, who was then curator at 21C Lexington. Which was, I said I was going to mention this because everything that was done in our urban core, in our downtown, really the pivot point, what was pivotal, and the tipping point was the 21C project. And that was thanks to Craig Greenberg and Steve Wilson. So that again, thank you guys. Remember that. One, two, three. Shazam. There's May Lake. Thank you. That's great. And the most important is May Lake, right? Yeah, that's my major. Yes. He's saying the most important in here is May Lake. It's really exciting when, you know, I've been doing my artwork by myself and teaching at University of Kentucky. And then, you know, Jim reaches out and says, hey, I like what you do. You know, I'm thinking about doing my mayoral portrait. Can we find a way to make this work? And this makes total sense to me because if you see the kind of work I make, which is very collage, there's hundreds of photographs to make this, that makes total sense. And it was really exciting because I like to collaborate. I see this as a collaboration. He did 90% of the creativity. I'm doing the construction. And so everything you see here is made from not only his career. You'll see books like names on the spines, on the books on the shelves. You see some of his favorite artists in the background. you'll see things that I digitally constructed to put in there that reference the home state of Kentucky. So Kentucky agate is actually the box on the stack of books, which I've made from scans of Kentucky agate. The wallpaper is digitally constructed from the symbols of Kentucky, our state mammal, our state insect, our state bird. A lot of the art pieces on the wall, the plaques, they're artificially made from some of his achievements. So Photoshop and digital editing allows for such a thing. And something that's really exciting about this is that we have a political portrait that doesn't follow the conventions. That actually is really open-ended. You can make whatever you want. I'm really excited about the future for other artists to get the opportunity to make commissioned work like this. So if there are any politicians out there, mayors, governors, city council members, everyone at their portraits, please look at your local artists. And they don't have to be your conventional oil painter, even though they're awesome. They can be any kind of artist. The opportunity to dream became huge. The ability to reset Rupp Arena and its entire surroundings. The ability to start Town Branch Park. There were so many Tiger grants, there probably wasn't a Tiger in the National Zoo when we got done. Because we got so much money for what literally was partially yet begun again this past Tuesday. Because the mayor understood in building the great American city, you've got to get in there and build it. He, more than anyone else, has changed the way the city looks, the way it functions, and the pride that it takes itself. The work that this great council and mayor continue now with affordable housing began in his term. He educated me to the difference between the homeless, the homeless population, or the people that are homeless. The mayor is just a vessel for the work of its citizens. Thank you all again. And thank the citizens of Lexington for giving me the privilege of a lifetime to have served you. Thank you all. After this message, Craig. Welcome back to Lexington Now. Crave Food and Music Festival is this weekend. We caught up with organizers to get the details. I'm Soraya Brewer. I work for Smiley Pete Publishing and we are the producers of Crave Food and Music Festival. So I am in charge of the music and production but I also kind of help with just general festival festivities. So Crave is a huge food and music festival. It's basically a celebration of Lexington's culinary scene. So we have 40 different food vendors. They're all offering food samples of different sizes so people can kind of experiment and try a bunch of different stuff, a bunch of different local food. We also have lots of family activities and live music, mostly local bands, over two days. So it got started. This is our 10th year. We've been going on quite a run, and it just kind of started as an idea with some folks who worked in our company of wanting an event that really celebrated our local food culture. And it's really just grown a lot since then. so it still has a very heavy focus on food, but we have lots of different activities as well. We have a classic car show, we have, like I said, a bunch of live music, tons of kids activities, and so it's just really a way to come out and celebrate kind of the end of summer and celebrate all the amazing stuff that Lexington has to offer. We have lots of kids stuff. We have face painting, we have inflatables, we have a handkerchief hand up. contest. Live Green Lexington comes in and they really set up an amazing kids tent. There's lots of games and prizes for the kids but you know we have a classic car show so there are dozens and dozens of amazing classic cars so that's something that you know my parents would love, my grandparents would love and people of all ages are really kind of drawn to that element. And then the live music is kind of geared towards everyone from kids to older folks. We have quite variety of different genres. So it's really geared towards people of all ages. That's a great event to bring the whole family to. We encourage everybody to come hungry and stay as long as you can because there's so much food to experience. So we have everything from food trucks to caterers to local brick and mortar restaurants that are represented. So here we're filming at Goodwood. It's a Kentucky based brewery and restaurant. They're gonna be providing some really fun items. They've got this Bavarian pretzel with Goodwood beer cheese and beer mustard. They are also doing, this is a really fun item, it is called a pork cobbler. So it's pulled pork barbecue over sweet cornbread with some coleslaw, a little mac and cheese. So that's just, we encourage people to get really creative with the items that they prepare. They've also got buffalo cauliflower, kind of a take on buffalo wings, but it's made out of cauliflower instead of chicken wings but we have Mexican food we have Thai food we have burgers lots of ice cream shaved ice that kind of thing it really kind of runs the gamut and we keep we encourage our vendors to price things and do kind of smaller portions so that people can try lots of different things and just stay and eat as much as they can so we have moved to a system it's a digital system once you get in you kind of start an account online and you'll get a QR code that basically you use to scan with all of the vendors and that we're considered that digital Crave Bucks so we kind of use that as our system just to kind of stay consistent with the way that the payments are processed through all of our food vendors. It's as easy as just emailing that QR code to a friend or you know sending it via text to any of your family members or any of your friends who might be coming those are good throughout the whole entire weekend and yeah if you go to CraveLexington.com you can get more information about how all of that works and go ahead and get a head start of signing up for your Crave Bucks account I always encourage folks to get started on that before they come out to the festival so they're not having to spend any time dealing with technology they can just get straight to eating we have a bunch of discounted packages available online until the week of the festival this is our tenth year we've added a lot of fun stuff we've got a little kind of circus sideshow set up with tinderbox sideshow it's a local act we've got lots of great music we've brought back a lot of our favorite acts who have performed over the years. Jocelyn and the Sweet Compression, they're a great kind of R&B and soul band. They'll be headlining on Saturday night. We've got some great bluegrass with the new Beckham County Ramblers. We've got Frigid Kitty. They're kind of an experimental pop band. We've got 10-foot pole. They're like an old-school Lexington punk rock kind of band. So we've really got lots of different genres. We try to give a little bit of something for everybody. So yeah, we just encourage everyone to visit CraveLexington.com. There's a full list of food vendors. We've got lots of great local craft beer. We've got our full list of stuff like that that will be happening. And you can purchase tickets in advance. You can go ahead and start your Crave Bucks account. You can check out the full music schedule to plan your weekend and get more information about all of the great family activities that we have lined up. So Crave Food and Music Festival is taking place Saturday, August 26th and Sunday, August 27th at Masterson Station Fairgrounds. We are open 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday. Lexington continues taking major steps to undo the wrongs of systemic racism. And a part of that is a new exhibit coming to the Central Library, Undesign the Red Line. When I became Executive Director almost exactly four years ago, I wanted to deepen and expand the library's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as commit to sharing all types of information with our community. My first order of business was establishing a partnership with Decide Diversity, which led to the creation of a DEI task force. I also hired the library's first-ever director of education, Clarissa Thomas, to lead the library's educational services in a meaningful and intentional way. Clarissa soon discovered Undesign the Red Line, an exhibit which had been held at the Dayton Public Library in collaboration with Designing the We, to help their community understand historic redlining practice, which meant that many of our black and brown neighbors could not access financial lending services. This practice, as well as others of systemic racism, meant that neighborhoods suffered from less funding for schools, parks, sidewalks, and even public libraries. Although redlining was outlawed in 1968 with the Fair Housing Act, its impact is still felt throughout our community today. At the Lexington Public Library, we believe in an informed and engaged community. That's why we are pleased to announce that the library will host Undesign the Redline this fall. To help us set the stage for Undesign, we are launching our next community reading program in partnership with Bluegrass Community Foundation and the University of Kentucky's Office of Community Engagement. We invite all Lexingtonians to read Richard Rothstein's groundbreaking study, The Color of Law, and join us at the library for a series of robust discussions and programs to help us better understand structural and institutionalized racism. Copies of the book, along with its sequel, Just Action by Richard and Lee Rothstein, are available for free through the library in print book, audio book, e-book, and e-audiobook formats. Our goal in hosting the exhibit and community read is to inform our citizens and spark conversation about the future. In recent years, we've been working on rooting out racism in our community, getting rid of it. That's what my Mayor's Commission for Racial Justice and Equality was all about. And we've made a lot of progress in implementing the 54 recommendations in the report. We have implemented well over half of those. We're getting ready very soon to announce a big one for the community. And our work will continue. said to me when that report came out, well will you just be putting it on the shelf with all the other reports? And I said absolutely not. We are using it as our blueprint. So today we're taking another step. We're excited to once again partner with the University of Kentucky, the Lexington Public Library, and the Library Foundation to make undesigned the red line and the color of law community reads possible. We applaud the strength and expertise of our local undesign the red line advisory group as they help tell the fuller story of Lexington's complex history. The color of law is a useful guide in this effort and we encourage everyone to read it as it provides a groundbreaking synopsis of intentional and institutionalized segregation and its continued impact on on all of us today. When Clarissa Thomas, our new first-time director of education, first started at the library, she also happens to be the first Black American on our senior leadership team. She could not be here today, which I hate, but it's also one of those things where we really want to carry her work forward when she couldn't. When she first approached me about Undesign, I thought, wow, how didn't I know about this? I was a history major, very interested in land use and on community rights, equality, and I didn't, I couldn't understand why more people didn't know about this. And I kept coming back to Undesign as local conversations kept coming up about affordable housing, schools, green space, city planning, race. All of this has a direct relationship and correlation to redlining practices. It became more and more apparent to me that our city needed to see itself with a historic mirror to better understand why we are the way that we are today and what we might be able to do as a community to build a better future for all of our citizens and be more equitable and better neighbors. The undesigned the red line exhibit will open on September 22nd and remain on display until November 19th at the Central Library on the third floor. Another busy week lies ahead at City Hall and we'll be bringing you all the gavel-to-gavel action right here and on our website. And remember for the most accurate and up-to-date information on all city business check out our website at lexingtonuky.gov. Here's this week's meeting coverage. That's all for now, but as always, you can keep up with us on social media, check out the latest traffic updates on Twitter at LexRex, or catch our live traffic cams on lexiconky.gov. For all of us at LexTV, I'm Neil Noah, and that's it for now. What does the word comprehensive mean to you? To urban planners, comprehensive describes the interrelated nature of our physical environment and the collective vision of the community, all of which is woven into what we call the Comprehensive Plan. In Lexington, our 2018 Comprehensive Plan is called Imagine Lexington, and now, just a few years later, the city is again asking the community to imagine a future that serves us all. This plan represents a shared vision for community values, goals, and experiences by providing a flexible yet focused framework to ensure equitable development of our community's resources and infrastructure, all with the goal of enhancing our quality of life and fostering regional planning and economic development. Most importantly, the comprehensive plan and the process we undergo to create it gives you, the community, a chance to listen and speak on things that help us determine where we've been, where we are, and where we're going. Imagine Lexington is the most recent addition to a long line of plans that came before it, adding its name to the rich planning tradition of this community, and recognizing the knowledge, experiences, and voices that have shaped that tradition, while at the same time striving to amplify the values and experiences of those historically excluded from the process. The current plan breaks our future vision into five themes that reflect how the community operates and interacts. These themes are neighborhoods, environment, jobs and prosperity, community, and urban and rural balance. So where do we stand now that another comprehensive plan update is upon us, and how do we set priorities for these themes moving forward? First, let's look at our neighborhoods, the building blocks of our community. Lexington's neighborhoods, and more importantly, the neighbors themselves, make up the foundation of our city. Any neighborhood, the heart has to be the people who live in it. And you have a vested interest in this neighborhood, therefore a vested interest in your city. So what, when paired with great neighbors, makes a successful neighborhood? I think diversity, just every walk of life, being able to be in that neighborhood together. We also need diversity within our housing types, housing affordability, land uses, and transportation options. Being able to walk around, walk to a business, walk back to your home, I think is really important. The demand for connected walkable neighborhoods is on the rise, which makes our investment in creating these spaces and making them accessible and affordable a top priority. Of all of the things that probably are deepest in everybody's mind these days is the availability of housing. Is it affordable? Do we have enough of it? The largest opportunity for development and growth in Lexington, I believe, is affordable housing and anytime you got more residents and more housing, that's better for the city. Just as we depend on our neighborhoods to house and support our growing community, Lexington also depends on its natural environment. The natural areas both within and outside of our urban area significantly contribute to our community's social, economic and ecological well-being. Lexington is a beautiful city and I love the natural world that we have that surrounds us. In the future, providing more spaces for people to go out and enjoy nature is very important. The sustainability of the landscape and its natural resources is closely linked to the community's values and needs. Therefore, we have to appropriately address the impacts of development on the environment. There's more that we could do to provide an ecological component to development that might include more trees or might include more native plants that help with flooding and habitat. we're seeing kind of a collapse of our ecosystem based on our land use practices over the past hundred years. Our natural environment is a very complex system and it's all interconnected and it takes many different types of people with many different perspectives and different expertise to be able to make plans that make sense and that affect all of us. Thriving communities achieve prosperous economies by using a multifaceted approach, creating opportunities for both new and existing businesses, while also maintaining the community's overall vision. It's not just about attracting a company to Lexington. It's about what are the right types of companies that fit into our community, our goals, and what we have for our plans in the future for our city. By being a city with a diverse economy, Lexington is an attractive option for both businesses and talent, but it goes beyond that. People are getting more concerned about what does my after work life look like as opposed to my nine to five life. While it is important to have things to do and places to go, for an increasing number of prospective Lexingtonians, it's also about how we get around. You know, amenities like multimodal transportation, where at one point separated you from other cities, now are kind of table stakes. If we want to have a vibrant young workforce, if we want to retain a vibrant middle-aged workforce and then have people who want to retire and stick around, it's the stuff you have to do. There's many reasons why it's important to have walkability and have everything in close proximity to your urban core. You're going to see a lot more connectivity and that's going to drive a lot more job recruitment and a lot more people wanting to live around it. With housing, transportation, entertainment and other quality of life factors at the forefront, Lexington continues to be a desirable place for both employers and those seeking opportunity.