Music Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome everyone. It's three o'clock, so let's go ahead and I'll call to order the Lexington-Fad Urban County Council work session June the 11th, 2024, and the first item on our agenda is issues, public comment for issues on the agenda. And we have a few people signed up today. So here's the way it will work. When I call your name, you'll come to the podium down here, and then for For the record, you'll need to restate your name and state your council district, and you'll have three minutes. First up is Lexi Holland. Welcome. Thank you, Mayor. I'm Lexi Holland, and I'm here on behalf of Denton-Floyd Real Estate Group. We have one of the items on the zoning agenda for today and I just wanted to introduce myself and let you all know that if you have any questions, I'm here. And our plan is in Council District number two, so thank you very much. Okay, thank you. All right, now I'd like to ask, is Declan Murphy here? All right, now, are you giving your three minutes to Ann Rouse? All right, thank you. So next is Ann Rouse, who will have six minutes. Welcome. And you can adjust. Yeah, adjust. Thank you. My name is Ann Rouse. I am a business operating in Council District 11, and I live in Council District 3. I'm commenting publicly regarding the Medicinal Cannabis Business Zota Planning Commission recommended text submitted May 9th, For some background on me, I have been operating in the cannabis and hemp market since 2009. I received a master's degree specializing in environmental policy related to cannabis and a Fulbright scholarship on the topic. I've advised in cultivation, owned and operated a processing entity, and started and operated brands, e-commerce channels, and most recently, a brick-and-mortar retail all within the industry. So I'm not a newcomer to this. I understand the industry very well, and my business partners and I intend to pursue a medical cannabis operations in Lexington. Today, I'm requesting Council amend the current ZODA to include medical dispensaries as a principal use under adaptive reuse projects within Section 821 Wholesale and Warehouse Business B4 Zone. I have provided a printout of the recommended changes for each of you to review specifically related to this topic, but I also included some additional recommended changes. Last year, I gained interest in a property in the Distillery District with the intent to redevelop the derelict lot into a cannabis dispensary and bar. We achieved an adaptive reuse overlay last fall, thank you, and currently operate a hemp dispensary in the front half of this property. There is a separate empty building on the back half of the lot that is an ideal location for medical cannabis dispensary. It meets all of Kentucky's criteria. It's a free-standing building we can adapt and reuse for accessible retail, complete with a dedicated garage for safe deliveries, parking, and within a 15-minute drive to most of Lexington's population. While there are minimal opportunities for dispensaries within Fayette County, a centralized location is ideal for servicing a majority of Fayette County's patients and out-of-town medical patients visiting Lexington, who will be able to legally obtain medical cannabis within Kentucky's program. However, under the current recommended text, our intended redevelopment would be prohibited because the Planning Commission staff did not address any special provision components within the zones, adaptive reuse being of primary concern. However, you can fix this today by approving the provided language. Given the general restrictive nature of these medical regulations and limited zones for businesses to operate, adding an adaptive reuse provision within this ZODA will enhance economic opportunities, advance economic opportunities, and enhance accessibility for patients in need. The creation of the adaptive reuse provisions in the wholesale warehouse and industrial zones was a boon to Lexington's economy, and allowing for cannabis dispensaries in this area will be no different. In 2008, when Lexington created and adopted the specialized adaptive reuse projects, they allowed underutilized areas to find new life as retail, residential, and commercial spaces. When planning commission staff considered the zoning areas for cannabis businesses, they concluded that dispensaries should be located in retail areas ordinarily accessible to the public. The location of our business as a B4 adaptive reuse project has already been adapted into a retail location and is absolutely accessible to the public. It's in a walkable, centralized location, directly off of a bike path, with parking and a bus stop. Conversely, the highway business B3 zone, that according to the current ZODA will allow medical cannabis dispensaries, will have limited access to individuals with mobility issues. Unlike our location, B3 is not accessible to all. In addition, under adaptive reuse, a B4 business can operate retail as a principal use, including our hemp dispensary, just as we currently operate, as well as liquor stores. Both age-restrictive businesses that, when it comes to zoning, should be considered no different than medical cannabis. For these reasons, I am requesting Council amend the current text to include medical dispensaries as a principal use under adaptive reuse projects within Section 821 wholesale and warehouse business B4 zones. Please refer to the provided language for further guidance. Thank you very much for your time and consideration, and I'm happy to answer any questions, probably not today, but you can find me on LinkedIn. Thank you very much. Next up is Nikki Gaines. Nikki, welcome. Thank you, Mayor. I apologize. I do not need to speak, I don't think today. Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much. Next is Amy Clark, signed in as A Clark. I think you're one and the same. Thank you. I'm in the 3rd District at 628 Castle Road. I'm here to speak on the growth ZODA, which is up for docketing today. I have two requests. They're simple. They're clear. I think they're very, very significant. First is to rename the proposed R2 Zone the R3A neighborhood residential zone and make no amendments to R2 at this time. The ZODA as proposed, the R2 part, would transform utterly the R2 zone in its every provision into an intensity that rivals and exceeds R3. They both have a 40-foot height limit. R3 actually limits the building footprint to just 25% of the land, the lot area. R2 has no restriction. Get a lot of building on this R2 land, according to the ZODA. I would argue more than R3 at times. It would transform utterly the R2 zone in dimensional standards, which I've mentioned, and also uses together. You know that it would allow up to eight apartments per building in a single building or up to 12 townhouses. The minimum lot size is about townhouse size, except it has a shorter front yard of only five feet. Renaming to R3A creates the new zone exactly as proposed, so you're not losing a zone and a new opportunity. For adoption in the new urban growth area land, and this was one of the objects of having this ZODA at this time, and indeed throughout the urban area, as it may be desirable and appropriate, the amended name indicates the zone is more closely related to R3 than R2. This renaming protects without regulatory changes the very tiny fraction of residential land currently zoned R2, a bare 4.58%, not 5%, of the urban residential zones. These are statistics from the planning staff presented to the commission. The zone lies mostly in our older, poorer, smaller communities, largely at the center of the city, where people have invested in their homes and improved them for decades according to the established standards or even the standards of the streetcar suburb that existed prior, before there even was zoning at times. The renaming to R3A leaves open the opportunity to improve the existing R2 with moderate regulatory adjustment consonant with the existing communities in a separate ZOTA. I would also ask that the B1 principal uses to be adopted as conditional uses in R4 and R5 multifamily be amended to read as on your orange sheet before you, provided that no such conditional use shall be permitted within the infill and redevelopment area or at a half mile distance throughout the city from business zoning or use. Thank you. Thank you. that completes all the folks who are signed up to speak for issues on the agenda so next i'll ask for a motion to approve the docket thank you council member plowman second council member gray and please log in if you have items for the docket council member reynolds thank you mayor i have a walk on motion I move to place on the docket for June 13th 2024 council meeting an ordinance changing the zone from a single-family residential R1C zone to a townhouse residential R1T zone for 0.458 net acres for property located at 802 gulf view drive this is with Anthony Humphress and Council District 11, and I move to place it on without a public hearing. Vice Mayor Wu seconds. Are there questions? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Next is Vice Mayor Wu. Thank you, Mayor. I move to place on the docket for the June 13th, 2024 Council meeting a resolution amending section 3.104 of Appendix A, Rules and Procedures of the Urban County Council to expressly provide that continuing business includes requests for neighborhood development funds, council capital projects, and council committee summaries, and to allow up to three presentations per work session with priorities given to presentations made pursuant to legal requirements and presentations constituting official business. So moved. Second. Second by Council Member Baxter. Are there questions, comments? All right, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? Okay, that passes. Thank you. Council Member Lynch. Thank you, Mayor. I move to place on the docket the Thursday, June 13th, 2024, Urban County Council meeting docket, an ordinance changing the zone from professional office P1 zone to a medium density residential R4 zone for 13.09 net, 13.82 gross acres for property located at 2350 Remington Way without public comment. Without a public hearing. Without public, sorry, without public hearing, thank you. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Council member Baxter seconds. Are there any questions? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Is there anything else for the docket? All right. All those in favor of approving the docket as amended, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. And at this time, we'll need a motion to approve the Council Work Session of May 28, 2024, Table of Motions. Second. Council Member Savigny, and then second by Council Member Gray. Are there any questions, corrections, additions? All right, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. And I'll entertain at this time a motion to approve budget amendments. So moved. Second. Council Member Ellinger moves. Council Member Fogel seconds. If you have questions about budget amendments, please log in. No questions? Oh, you just got in under the wire. Council Member Sevigny. Yes, thank you. I just have a question on the budget amendment for the $200,000 on the water quality. Commissioner Albright. Welcome. I'm just trying to, generally when I look at those budget amendments, when one comes up and when it doesn't sum to zero, I'm just kind of always curious as to what actually occurred there. So I'm just trying to figure out. I think there's a, it looks like it's a rework of something. Yes, there is an issue with the dam at Reservoir Number 3, and LFUCG is a party to that property. So we are setting up a budget out of the Water Quality Management Fund balance to institute work on that project with the understanding of being reimbursed by the other parties. Got it. So it's coming out of fund balance of the water quality fee balance. Correct. And then we'll apply for reimbursement. Yes. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you, Mayor. All right. Thank you. Any other questions? All right. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. And next, council members, for your information only, you have budget adjustments. And then following that, we have new business, and I'll entertain a motion to approve. So. So. Council Member Legree moved. Council Member Blumman seconded. If you have questions, please log in. Council Member Menares. Thank you, Mayor. I had a question on Q, the ultraviolet disinfection systems at both plants. Director Martin, welcome. Hi. Good afternoon. Could you just explain a little bit what this item is and what this does? A couple years ago, we've got an ARPA-funded grant under the Cleaner Water Kentucky Program to convert the chlorine gas disinfection at both treatment plants to ultraviolet radiation. And so we've got that grant, and we've got an extra increase to it because project costs are going up, and they allow a 10% increase. along the way came some additional money available to us and so we also took that money as well now we're getting a 10% increase on top of that as well so if you take the table that's in the minute that's in the memo that's in the body of this adds up to what the total grant funded amount of the UV project will be we still haven't bid this yet but right now based on current estimates we're about a million dollars that we're going to have to put into this ourselves. But again, we'll wait until we get the bids open to see what it really is. But this is all about disinfection of wastewater before it gets discharged into a stream. Thank you. Okay. All right, thank you. Council Member Sevigny. Thank you, Mayor. I've got a question on item number F. It would be there, Mr. Atkins or Benz. And I just wanted, because we haven't, we've only done two of these in the past, I just wanted to go over what this public infrastructure forgivable loan is for. And I'm very glad that we're doing it, but I just, I want you to share with the public if you don't mind. Sure. So this, the overall project that came before the board was a 45-unit senior affordable housing. development and what the request is is for a connecting road between Wellington way and the project that's a little less than a quarter of a mile I think that connects the two and so they have requested 500,000 in public infrastructure program funds on a forgivable basis to pay for about half of that road which is it's significantly less than the project cost it's about four and a half percent of the project costs that they're requesting so they would they would under the agreement have about two years to construct the road and then forgivability would kick in at that point with staff review thank you appreciate it that's it mayor thank you council member lagree Thank you, Mayor. I have a question about item number, or excuse me, item O. This is about the Complete Streets Design Manual. I believe that would be Director Duncan or Commissioner Horn. Director Duncan, I think. Welcome. Welcome, Director. Would you be able to provide us with a little bit more context about the timeline and what's involved with this part of the initiative and what we can expect from the design manual? Yes, Councilman would agree. The consultant has already been selected for this project for Complete Streets, so we're ready to proceed, but we need to get that consultant under contract and need to get the funds in place. So as soon as we do that, we expect to start very likely next month in July with the consultant, and this will probably take about 18 months. So it'll be the better part of 2025 before we're finished, in part because there will be a lot of public engagement associated with this project so it's going to take longer but but this will be something that we're ready to start immediately and we'll keep moving until we're finished okay thank you i appreciate that thank you mayor that's it all right thank you all right there are no other questions so all those in favor of new business please say aye Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that passes. Thank you. There are communications from the mayor appointments, so I would request a motion to approve. Vice mayor moves. Council member Fogle seconds. Are there any questions? All right, all those in favor, say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. There are no donations under communications from the mayor, and there are procurements under communications from the mayor, so I'll entertain a motion to approve. Council Member Fogel moved. Council Member Plumman seconded. Are there questions? All right. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. At this time, we have continuing business and presentations. So first, I'll call on Council Member Worley for his committee report. Thank you, Mayor. This will be the report out from the May General Government and Planning Committee, and then we also have a partial report out from today's once we get done with this, Mayor. The first item was an approval of the committee summary from April 16th. That motion to approve was made by Council Member Ellinger, seconded by Council Member Baxter, and passed unanimously. The second item reviewed by the committee was the short-term rental recommendations for the rural service area from the Rural Land Management Board. Beth Overman, the Director of Purchase Development Rights Program, presented the RLMB short-term rental recommendations. There were ten recommendations in total. The recommendations pertain to conditional use permits, host requirements, occupancy limits, as well as others. No action was taken on that item at that time. The next item was an update on the Expansionary Master Plan and Urban Growth Master Plan. Chris Taylor gave a brief update on the plan and the consultant team. There has been extensive public outreach. One event had over 200 people in attendance. the Planning Commission will get an update on the frameworks and land use recommendations, and once school is back in session, they will have another round of public input. They will then get into developing the regulatory framework with additional input. No action was needed or taken at that time. The next item on the agenda was the Urban Growth Management Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment. Hal Bailey provided a recap of the ZODA and the presentation from the previous meeting on this particular ZODA in February 13th committee meeting he highlighted several changes that were proposed including drive up and drive-through changes when reviewing the ZODA the committee amended stick with me section 1b to delete exterior amplification and adds all stacking and pick up shall be limited to single lane in section 1c in sections 816 820 and 12 3 where applicable changes were made to comply with recent state law concerning petroleum retail establishments of vehicle fueling stations in section 816 D drive-through facilities were added as conditional use in the B1 zone provided that the parcel has lot frontage along arterial collector roadway as a final approved final development plan which has lot frontage on interior or collector roadway and the parcel complies with section 820 L of the ordinance which provides various other regulations related to those uses section 816 D9 was amended to add a micro distillery as a conditional use in the B1 zone with applicable regulations to be considered by the Board of Adjustment. And Section 11-2A was amended to remove, 11-2 in various places, excuse me, was amended to remove square footage limits for gas stations in the B5P zone. After the committee's work amending the zoning orders text amendment that was recommended by the Planning Commission, Councilmember Baxter made a motion to approve which was seconded by Council member Lynch that motion passed unanimously so on behalf of the committee I so move there's all right Councilmember Ellinger seconds are there questions covers a lot of territory all those in favor say aye I'm sorry Councilmember Sheehan did you have a question thank you mayor I I don't have a question but I have a potential amendment is this an appropriate time to do that okay colleagues as you know and in our committee we spent a lot of time discussing the B1 neighborhood business zone and the drive-through facilities and chair Worley mentioned the amendment to section 8.16 that would allow for conditional use for a drive-through in an arterial or collector roadway. This ZODA is a much needed modernizing of our planning practices, but it's happening at a time when we have seen increased pedestrian accidents. And we've had many discussions about pedestrian safety around our community, and even within the last week, we have had two pedestrian accidents, one resulting in a fatality. We have been working hard to make our community safer for pedestrians which is consistent with our complete streets policy and addresses community concerns around safety so i propose that river move uh... just the collectors from at this conditional use uh... language and i've given uh... as sec copy of this to i like cv folks that have so you can see exactly what i'm talking about if you were in your packet uh... it's the top corner page number is eighty five uh... but my proposed amendment is that we would remove or collector from the drive through uh... conditional use just for this b one sound uh... to be clear it would not uh... affect any existing businesses they would still be allowed to have their drive throughs and it would not affect uh... development that already has a development or a site plan that's approved by the date that we set on the page right before that in the exceptions here for accessory uses. So I propose that we remove or collectors from the language here. So moved. Second. Councilman Reynolds, you were a tad louder. Second. All right. Let's have some discussion of the amendment. Is there any? Councilmember Worley. Thank you, Mayor. I certainly appreciate the sentiment behind the council member's motion and wanting to protect our neighborhood streets as much as possible, which is part of the overall theme of this particular zoning ordinance text amendment, is to make the neighborhood business zone as usable and as safe as possible for neighborhoods. I will not be supporting the motion simply because in all of the work that we have done through this, this was a particular compromise to the retail community and is intended to be very narrowly tailored and restrictive. So this is, again, for a conditional use, which would require approval from the Board of Adjustment. so the idea was that these uses would not be in a neighborhood zone unless they were able to show to the Board of Adjustment that that particular arterial or collector was an appropriate place for for a drive-through that would not affect the neighborhood uses and we have drive-through we have collectors that are actually large roads in certain places but neighborhood roads and others And so while I may misstate this, Pasadena, Regency, Beaumont Circle, Pimlico Parkway, Mount Tabor are collector roads, but that in certain places are commercial in nature. And so the thought was the Board of Adjustment would be able to sift out that, and that way we would not completely foreclose those opportunities for our businesses. we did very specifically foreclose the opportunity on a local street in B1. It's actually stated as a prohibited use. So we've tried to make a very detailed step-down process of how we could make these zones used. So I appreciate the sentiment and the reasoning, but I believe the compromise was in there very intentionally, and I think the Board of Adjustments is capable of handling that, so I won't support the amendment. Thank you, Mayor. Okay, thank you. Council Member James Brown. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Council Member Sheehan, for bringing this item forward. I just want to ask planning how you foresee this potential change or this amendment impacting development going forward in the B1 zone. Yes, sir. So this amendment that was made at the GGP was specifically to blend a compromise. It added in the arterial and the collector roadways where it was not allowable within the B1 zone previously. as that conditional use. So the add-in was meant to be that compromise. This would not affect the Zoda in any real sense, but it would limit any drive-through facility within the B-1 to those arterial roadways. So, and this may be for Council Member Worley or Planning, so have we not already set a date on this to go into effect? Have we talked about that or we've set a date or is that still to be determined? The portion that was referenced by Council Member Sheehan on the previous page. This would take effect upon passage. Okay. Unless we set a date to be determined. So there is a date to be determined for the accessory nature of a drive-thru that's already established. there would not be a date set in the future for someone that would want to bring something in as an accessory use. This would be associated with what is currently operating. Okay. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Okay. Thank you. Vice Mayor Wu. Thank you, Mayor. I like this amendment. I think it's another step towards compromise, and I support this amendment in a very broad philosophical way because it aligns with our ethos on complete streets to be able to kind of be more intentional about what kind of city we want to be and being multimodal and less car dependent. And obviously, we are not chasing all drive-throughs out of the city. We're just making adjustments to kind of figure out where they belong the best. So I will be supporting this amendment. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Legree. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Sheehan, for this amendment. I do believe that this change automatically creates a better and safer situation for people who are traversing the B1 zone, which is a neighborhood business zone on foot or via bike or via public transportation. And it makes it so that people are less likely to have a point of collision with someone entering or exiting a drive-through. And I do think, as the vice mayor shared, that this is a question of pedestrian safety. and the intention is to create fewer sites of friction between people and vehicles and it is in alignment with better practices when it comes to complete safe streets in our neighborhood business zones so colleagues i am also in support of this motion and this amendment i believe that it's a smart compromise and it is very much in alignment with the neighborhood b one zone intention thank you thank you council member savigny thank you mayor I want to thank Councilmember Sheehan for bringing this up. And Councilmember Worley mentioned a few streets. Because I did look at all the streets that were affected in District 10. And most all the property that are on the few streets that I was concerned about is B3 or P1. So I just want to make sure from planning that if somebody has an issue with being in a B1 neighborhood zone, they can also ask for a zone change as an alternative. Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. And part of the element of this would be including the B3 or the corridor business zone into the place builder or the comprehensive plan for future rezonings. Okay. Thank you. Thank you again. That's it. All right. Thank you. I have no one else signed up to speak. Has everyone spoken to the amendment who wants to? All right. We'll vote now on the amendment. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? No. Okay. We have two. Do we have two no votes right here? All right, so the amendment passes, and so the main motion on the floor is now the amended motion, and I'll ask if there are any comments to the main motion as amended. Yes, I'll vote it. I believe James Brown was yes and I believe Councilmember Ellinger was a no is that correct mm-hmm Councilmember Fred Brown is absent right now did we get that all right all right thank you all right now to the main motion as amended any Any comments? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Anything else? Yes, Mayor. So the next item on the agenda were items referred to committee and the title of item number 11 was changed from equitable representation on boards and commissions-tenants bill of rights to boards and commissions comprehensive review which is council member Lynch's item then we adjourned at 2 49 p.m. and then I have a partial report out from today mayor okay from the June 11th 2024 general government planning committee we heard from the public input subcommittee which made a partial report out regarding council rules concerning public input we received report and a request for a report out after the Jennifer Sutton Council research analyst presented on behalf of the subcommittee she shared updates on the new public information officer position who is doing a great job by the way public input technology additions events that have been added to engage the public more and then updates to the council rules particularly the sub committee recommended amending the council rules and procedures to modify the USB policy or any sort of digital media policy and clarify that public input is a time for residents to give spoken comment to council. A motion was made by council member Baxter to approve the proposed changes to the council rules which was seconded by Vice Mayor Wu. That passed unanimously and so on behalf of the committee I move that resolution forward. Right, is there a second? Second. Council member Baxter seconds. Any discussion? All right, all those in favor say aye, please. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Thank you, Mayor. That concludes the report out from the General Government Planning Committee. All right, thank you very much. Any further questions for Council Member Worley? All right, thank you again. At this time, I'd like to ask Craig Benz to come to the podium. He is going to give the presentation on the Lexington Fayette Urban County Industrial Authority welcome. Good afternoon. So this is an annual update regarding the work of the Industrial Authority as well as presentation of their proposed budget for next year for your approval. industrial authority was created in 2018 and again the section 2-5154 does require the authority to submit its proposed budget to the urban County Council for review and approval so that's what we're here for today the industrial authority has an eight-member board and Tyler Morgan is the chair of that board and our council representative is councilmember plowman back in 2018 council executed an MOU that transferred approximately 250 acres of land in the Coldstream Research Park area that was owned by UK at the time transferred it to LFUCG and in turn LFUCG transferred certain campus area streets and alleys owned by the city to the University of Kentucky for their use I believe there are about 25 road segments that were involved in that. LFUCG also agreed through that MOU to provide $100,000 annually for 10 years to fund any sort of improvements that could be identified related to pedestrian, bicycle and vehicular safety in and around campus, primarily on those segments of road, presumably. So the 250 acres of land that we received through this MOU in Coldstream, we refer to kind of generically as the 50-acre site, which is land that we have for sale for economic development purposes. And proceeds from those land sales are divided 50-50 between the city and UK. the city's portion of those proceeds go back to the 200-acre site Legacy Business Park for the development of that site. Legacy Business Park was transferred to the city in July of 2022. This image just shows the 50-acre site. The lots that you see in red have been sold, and the lots that you see in blue are the remaining lots that are for sale so we've sold four and we have four left at this point and again it's just over 50 acres total for all of these lots the zoning is p2 which is a university research campus which is consistent with the the surrounding site there and the lots that have been sold have been or will be used for credit union corporate office medical office and veterinarian office uses all consistent with that p2 zone this is a context map that's a little bit tough to see but it just wanted to show you the whole area where the 200 acre site legacy business park lies it's it's right at the corner of georgetown road in 64 and you can see that that kearney hall neighborhood is right across the street and the coventry neighborhood is just south of it and that 50 acre site that we're talking about is actually off the map but it's right down on the bottom right corner on McGrathiana so this is zoomed in a bit and this shows our approved master and development plan for the site again it's about 200 acres about a hundred and forty seven acres of that are intended to be lots for sale there's 19 of those lots and we have about 40 acres significantly of greenway lots on this site and those are those are lettered on the map there lots a b c and d you can see kind of on the north side of the site there's a dashed line there that's legacy trail as it moves through the north side of the site adjacent to 64 before it crosses under 64. the orange lines that you see going through the the greenway lots are legacy trail connections so this site will provide connections to legacy trail that'll serve the surrounding community and significantly both of those neighborhoods that are adjacent to the site the lot configuration for this site is intended to be flexible we identified more lots than we think we're going to need because we wanted to have some flexibility with configuration in other words we might have a potential user come in and want to combine two or three of those lots for a larger use and that is the that is the intention the total project cost of the infrastructure for legacy park is about 22.4 million and that does include our contingency and the project funding right now essentially the project's fully funded we have 22.2 million there but that does not include the land sale proceeds that i just spoke about with the 50 acre site that would also be going towards this 10 million of the funding is the recently announced hud community project funding a federal grant that's that we're just starting through the administration process for that 6.9 million are construction dollars currently in the budget that were originally part of the 9.5 million dollar arpa allocation for this project so 9.5 million of ARPA funds were moved over for legacy business park 6.9 million of that were separated out into the general fund or into this capital fund for these improvements and 2.5 million of those ARPA funds remain it as ARPA funds essentially for designing construction admin 2 million of our funding is is through KPDI Kentucky project product development initiative which is a grant half a million of the funds are lfucg match funds which was a ba on your agenda today to to help fund our phase three archaeological survey for this site and then finally we have a two hundred thousand dollar lgne and ku grant going towards the funding of this site as well so we have a pretty diverse funding package for this project groundbreaking is expected in fall of 2024 this year with 18 months to substantial completion so this is the this is a snapshot of the Industrial Authority's budget for both legacy business park which is shown on kind of the bluish column to the left of the slot of the slide and the column on the right hand side of the slide that's the actual Industrial Authority operating budget their operating budget is remains the same as last year at 146,000 the 500,000 again was was subject to a BA today so it's essentially moved over to the other column for a legacy business park for a phase three study going through those cold stream or legacy business park line items there the the anticipated open revenues the first line you see there under sales of real property that's the actual net revenue that the city still has on hand from those property sales that will go towards this project and then again the 9.5 million and ARPA design funds are represented under outside funding on this slide the ARPA design funds as well as the general fund capital project line items and then we have some authorized expenses for professional services for Gresham Smith who is doing the design on this project as well as construction administration we had Ethan Howard had done some due diligence and some other work on this project and Commonwealth economics has recently updated the economic impacts related to this project so with all of that the only other thing that you see on this slide that I've added is just again the expected grant funding which adds up to 12.2 million for the project. And with that, I'm glad to answer any questions and I'm guessing it's probably better if I leave it on the budget slide. Thank you. If you have questions, please log in. Are there any questions? Okay, Council Member Reynolds. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you so much for the presentation. uh so for those of us who aren't on the authority and don't know the ins and outs of everything can you help explain why um i guess why we haven't sold anything yet and it's we're still at 200 acres and it's it's been quite a while that sure that we've certainly um the the property while we've master planning it for a few years the property has only been owned by LFUCG for for a short time and we've in that time we've we've completed a development plan but we cannot sell any of the property in the 200 acres until it's platted until it shows that utilities and roads are coming to the sites so that will be occurring kind of midway through that construction process we'll working on platting and getting that done so that we can begin to do move forward with property sales cushman and wakefield is marketing the site they have a website for it and they're actively fielding phone calls but they're also communicating with everybody and letting them know that they're collecting information right now but that property sales are a little bit down the line still and that 22 million was all for infrastructure of the site yes ma'am that's correct that's for the roads coming into the site, all of the you know the water and sewer and internet everything that is going to service the site as well as adjacent road improvements, the installation of signalized intersection and that sort of thing. And then when could we expect that it's ready to go and that if somebody calls and they're interested that they could jump on it? So the construction we anticipate will be done in 18 months from groundbreaking which we're looking at beginning this fall i can't give you an exact date because we're still going through some permit requirements but once we begin in this fall it'll be about 18 months before sites are actually accessible and ready we'll be able to sell property before that as the plats are completed and recorded okay so you could start selling property this summer um maybe probably not this summer. I'm guessing and some of this is dependent on a lot of different things but I think we're going to be about halfway through the construction process before we actually begin selling land. I'm sorry I misunderstood. So probably next summer would be would be a reasonable estimate to start seriously considering selling land. Okay thank you very much. Thank you mayor. You're welcome. If I I might add also it has taken us a long time to assemble enough money to do the infrastructure. You were on the council when we came to you, I think, two years or so ago to request infrastructure money. And the council put in the $9 million. But it's taken quite a while to assemble all those pieces of money. So that's also been part of the time delay. Yeah, Councilmember Savigny. Yeah, thank you for the presentation. It really helps to at least know where we are. Has our marketing firm, have they given us any sort of forecast on like how long it takes to actually sell out a business park like this? And then my second question is kind of what will the process be to actually sell a lot? Like, does this body have to act to sell something? Right. So I'll take the last question first, if that's okay. The process will be very similar, I expect, to what it is on the 50-acre site where the Industrial Authority Board will hear the request and approve it, and then it will move forward for your approval. Okay. In terms of the sell through for all of the lots, it seems like the economy is changing rapidly with interest rates and everything, and that is definitely going to affect everything. Our broker, Cushman and Wakefield are optimistic that we can sell these lots, but they can't commit to a certain timeline. They are receiving interest on at least a weekly basis, and they do send an email blast nationally every month for this that generates a flurry of phone calls as well. So they're keeping it kind of top of mind for everybody so that when it does come online, it's not the first time people are hearing about it. Okay. And then lastly, that contract with them, is it probably, I think, is it an annual renewed contract? Is that what it is? Sorry? Is that an annually renewed contract? It was recently renewed for a two-year period, I believe. Okay. Thank you. That's all I have. Thanks, Mayor. All right. Thank you. Council Member Baxter. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you for the update. I appreciate it. And you'll have to forgive me if I'm asking a redundant question. Are we only going to be offering these pieces of property for sale, or is there an opportunity for a lease? That's my understanding, is that they would all be for sale and typically to an end user, so we wouldn't be targeting like spec use and things like that. We would want to know what the use is, and it would be kind of just simple sales of the property. Okay. Was it ever considered for us to do land leases out there? I'm just thinking about from a revenue perspective, if it would be beneficial to us to look at that. Or if we're allowed to do it. I don't know if that was written into something long ago. Sure. I mean, most of the interest that I'm hearing through Cushman and Wakefield is that people are far more interested in owning that land than leasing it so that they have more control over what happens there, and it's more of an investment for them. But, yeah, as long as I've been involved with the project, it's been the understanding, and I think that was the intent of the MOU as well, is that it would be for sale. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Okay, thank you. Any other questions? Councilmember James Brown, do you have a motion for us? Yes, ma'am. On behalf of the administration, I move to place on the docket for the June 13, 2024 council meeting a resolution approving the FY 2025 budget for the Lexington Fayette Urban County Industrial Authority. So moved. Second. Councilmember Fogle seconds. Are there questions about the motion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? Thank you, that passes. Thank you very much, Greg, for your presentation. And that brings us to council reports. Councilmember Lynch. Thank you, Mayor. I would like to make a motion to move to put an item in the General Government and Planning Committee. That would be for an annual report of our Landlord Advisory Board Group and our Tenants Advisory Board Group that is being led by our Commissioner, Charlie Lanter. Second. I heard one here, one here, one there. I think I heard Council Member Brown a little first. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Thank you, Mayor. I just have a few more announcements. I would like to remind all of our neighbors that the Bluegrass Fair is going on in Mashman Station Park as we speak. I know there's some phenomenal food vendors out there. I have yet to get my funnel cake, but I plan to get there before Friday to get my funnel cake. So I just want to invite everyone to come on out to Madison Station Park to enjoy the Bluegrass Fair. I've been hearing great reviews all week long, so I can't wait to get out there myself. Also, I'd like to remind my Madison Station neighbors that tomorrow is, oh, there's a video from the Bluegrass Fair. That's a ride that I thought I wanted to get on, but then I changed my mind once I got in line. Tomorrow at the Madison Station Neighborhood Clubhouse will be Hangry Hump Day. It's a great time for my Madison Station neighbors to come out to patronize some local food trucks. There's plenty of games for the kids, and I'll be set up. Shaylin II will be there to give out resources, information, and answer questions. So I encourage all my Madison Station neighbors to come out to Hangry Hump Day on Wednesday from 5 to 8 p.m. And then later on in the month, oh, that's me at the last Hangry Hump Day. And then later on, Parks and Recreation is having yappy hours at Madison Station Dog Park on June 26, 6 to 8.30 p.m. I will again be there setting up my Shayla in the second table. I just want to encourage everyone to come out to Madison Station Park for a really fun evening. There's usually lots to do and lots of treats for our dogs, so please come out. And I should have special treats for our dog friends as well for that event. And then just a flyer about Shaylin II happening at Yappy Hours in Madison Station Dog Park. Thank you so much, Mayor. Thank you. Councilmember Gray? Thank you, Mayor. Chris? There it is. Thank you, LexTV, for pulling that up. I would just like to say another thank you, a sincere thank you to E911 and to the Lexington Fire Department. As many of my colleagues and residents of the 6th District know, that I have been dealing with a family emergency for the past couple of months. And while we were away out of town, my father was dispatched from Cardinal Hill. But in the meantime, thankfully, the fire department has showed up numerous times to help my family out. They did not know that that was my family at all. But they were there to help get my dad out of the bed at least two times and showed up again just to check on the family, and that's when they saw that was my family. And then they showed the neighbors in the neighborhood in Winburn how the kids that have never been in a fire truck, they had an opportunity to get to know their firefighters. But I just want to say thank you for all that our public safety team does in our community. Things that we don't even think that they do, they do. And we don't think they're going to show up. There they are doing some of the most courageous things that you can even comprehend. So thank you for all that you do for families. Thank you for all that you are doing for me right now as I struggle. and as I'm exhausted. So thank you all for being there for families in the midst of emergency. Truly appreciate you. Thank you. Council Member Reynolds. Thank you, Mayor. This Wednesday and every Wednesday all summer, you can go to the Gardenside Community Market off of Alexandria Drive and Gardenside Plaza from 4 until 7 p.m. There will be local vendors as well as the Lexington Farmers Market vendors there. So check that out for some great produce and locally sourced items. And then on Saturday, the Pine Meadows neighborhood is going to have a yard sale from 9 to 4. And I can attest that that yard sale is a really great yard sale if you're looking for things for your house especially. So check that out. And then Addison Park is having a field day by the Gulfview Neighborhood Association. And so that will be from 12 to 3 in Addison Park. And then Meadowthorpe is having their party in the park from 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday. So there's lots of opportunities if you live in those areas to go to the park and have a great time with your family. Thank you very much. Thank you. Council Member Fogle. Thank you, Mayor. First of all, I would like to invite any dads and people in community, come out to Douglas Park Saturday, please. It will be the annual Father's Day celebration. They will march from First African Church to Douglas Park. They'll have breakfast at 9, and then the festivities will begin. It's phenomenal. David Cozart does a wonderful job. And so I wanted to invite everybody out. And as I'm saying this, I want to say Happy Father's Day to all the fathers that are here and those who stand in the wake of being a father for someone or a mentor. Secondly, as I took my glasses off and can't read my writing, I would like to thank Black Soil for all the produce that they're giving out for our community. The families who have scarcity. It is great to know that this particular Miss Ashley and her group provides those produce. Also, one of my last announcements, as I too am going through a family crisis right now, and thank you to the fire department. But I would like to turn my attention to the Lexington Police Department. In our district, we have been riddled with so many deaths in the last six weeks, including the suicides for murders. And just recently, y'all hear me talk about fuchsia in real time, but I've got to give it to you guys. Commissioner, you and your guys, and through all the technology, was able to apprehend two folks that committed heinous crimes, one on Newtown Pike and the other on Dakota Street. And so, ma'am? Okay. So I knew the victims as well as the perpetrators. And so thank you for a job well done. And I don't know what else to say, but there's some families on both sides that are suffering. But it is good to know that these systems are working. You ain't got me 100%, but I'm up in the 90 percentile. And so I just wanted to say thank you to you and the police force for that because there's some people that can sleep safely. And, Mayor, that's my report on a job well done from our Lexington Police Department. We'll get you to 100%. I'm creeping. I'm creeping. Thank you. Council Member Savigny. Thank you, Mayor. Well, join me tonight at Moondance for this week's big band at Moondance at the Big Band and Jazz Show featuring Miles Oslin's Little Big Band. The free show starts at 7 o'clock. Grab your lawn chair and blanket and head to the music capital of Lexington tonight. And my other announcement is on Thursday, Hillandale Neighborhood Association is meeting at their park, which has needed some work. And they're at 630. Our parks and recs team is meeting with them to discuss some of the playground equipment replacement. So I'll be in this meeting, but they will be meeting with our very capable staff to discuss some potential new stuff there. So that's great. That's all I got, Mayor. Thank you. All right, Councilmember Flumman. Thank you, Mayor. I've got a couple announcements too. This Saturday, June 15th, will be the annual Kentucky River Clean Sweep. And this is something that we've had historically many times before. What's so exciting about this year is it's going to be held at the Kellys Landing, which is our new park that will be coming in, I guess, in the spring of next year. So what we need is we need volunteers to come down there. You can come down as early as 830, but don't arrive after 10. And there'll be a free lunch and t-shirt. There's going to be boats down there, but it will be a BYOB. Bring your own boat if you have one, because we need some more. So you can register, call, Lex call at 311 to sign up. And then another reminder, next Wednesday is Juneteenth, and There is a lunch that will be taking place, a program actually, over at the Cadentown Missionary Baptist Church, which is where our Rosenwald School is, where the sense of place will be located. And that is going to be a program. And then what's going to be followed, we've got the Edward Sisters from Jimtown singing, which is really great. We're going to have catering by Black Soil. And it's free and open to all. And it's a big gathering. I think there's something that night. and the rest of the Juneteenth activities are kind of spread out over a week but this will be the only one that day at lunchtime so come join us it'll be fun. Thank you Mayor. Thank you Councilmember LaGree. Thank you Mayor. I wanted to go ahead and wish everybody a happy Pride Month. June is the month that we take even more time to honor the history achievements and resilience of the LGBTQIA plus community. And I think that we can agree that our city is a place where love and acceptance and inclusivity thrive. And this month we have the opportunity to reflect on how far we've come, recognize the challenges that we still have ahead as a community and commit to making Lexington an even more safe and welcoming place for everyone, regardless of who they are or who they love. And you all may already know and have your calendars marked, but this is in a lexington's 11th but the lexington pride festival will be celebrated on saturday june 29th at central bank center and there's more information on the website lexpridefest.org thank you and happy pride thank you council member ellinger thank you mayor first i want to to thank all my colleagues, the mayor and administration. This is senior intern week, and we've had 46 interns here on day two, and everything's going well. We haven't lost any yet, so that's good. Everybody's having fun and learning a lot and really enjoying ourselves. This is our 38th year we've been doing this, so we did have a little snafu with parking yesterday, but outside of that, everybody's really having fun, and we'll be having our graduation on Friday and looking forward to everybody who's going to be there for that and also mayor I want to congratulate you and also the administration for the national award you just received for town branch commons for exceptional engineering projects across the nation so that's that's exciting I think this is our third national award that we've we've received so it was a game changer and it's it's proved nationally how how much that this has really helped Lexington so thank you and thank the administration for all the work in the council because we were a little part of it too we had to finance it yes that's right thank you and i also want to thank and recognize brandy peacher who had a huge role in that so thank you very much all right now we are to the public comment for issues not on the agenda and we have several people signed up and so um first up is Pat Diamond, and then following Pat will be Melody Zental. Pat, if you want to come to the podium, please, and you need to speak at the podium. No, I'm sorry. Can you speak at the podium? No one can hear you if you don't come to the podium. Thank you so much. And you'll need to state your name and your council district. I'm Pat Diamond, and I'm from District 7, and I do not need to speak at this time. Okay, thank you. But I do want to thank all the council members. It has been so educational. I did not know, and, you know, to find out all the hard work that you all do, and I appreciate you so much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next is Melody Zental. Welcome. Hi, I'm Melody Zental, 1st District, and I do not need to speak either, and I too appreciate everything you are doing. Thank you very much. Now, I'd like to ask if Crystal Mundy is here, and are you giving your time to Rick Day? Okay. Is Barbara, excuse me, is Brenda Whittington here? Brenda where are you? She'll need to be in the count I'm sorry. Brenda Whittington needs to be in the council chamber for us to know that she's here to give her time to you. All right, Brenda Whittington, are you here? And do you want to give your three minutes to Rick Day? Okay, thank you very much. Rick, you will have nine minutes, and you'll need to state your name and your council district. My name is Rick Day, and I live in the third district. I have told you that our compensation system is far more fair and equitable for some than for others. I am now being asked by other employees for suggestions of how they might get into the more fair and equitable category. I tell most of them that if they are not there by now, they probably will never get there. But I also tell them that if an opportunity does come along, they need to be ready. So eventually I will be here to tell those employees specific things to do and when to do them. But today I'm going to give examples of how others have done it, and hopefully hearing these success stories will inspire the others. In 2020, Gabe Hensley was promoted to water quality manager. HR recommended the standard percentage salary increase. Gabe requested more. At the time, Gabe had been here only nine years and was well above the midpoint. And Charlie Martin did not give him what he wanted. But he did give him something. Here is how Charlie justified giving him what he did. Mr. Hensley has been a valuable asset to the division since his arrival in January of 2013. His experience and professional skills lead us to believe that he will maintain and build upon the successful program established by his predecessor. For that reason, Charlie recommended that he be given the same salary as his predecessor. Now don't feel bad for Gabe. He is still well above midpoint and making more than others in the same pay grade that had been here much longer. And as far as Gabe's predecessor that Charlie mentioned, he had been here for over 25 years. In 2020, this person was hired as an environmental inspector, a now 520 position. They had worked here part time for several years, but officially they were a new hire and HR salary recommended salary recommendation reflected that. This person requested an additional 5% over and above HR's recommendation. Charlie Martin agreed. Here's how he justified that. This person has worked with all aspects of the compliance and monitoring program during over eight years with the group. Their experience, knowledge, and commitment are an asset to the division and to the compliance and monitoring section. This division believes that a 5% over and above was justified. Now that 5% was not a lot of money, but it was enough to put this person well above several others in the division who had been here years longer. In 2009, Water Quality advertised for a new sewer line maintenance superintendent. There were 18 applicants and seven people were interviewed. This was not a hard to fill position. TJ Taylor was selected. Now, instead of using the standard 10% salary increase for a two-pay grade jump, HR reevaluated TJ's education experience and recommended a 16.8% increase. Apparently that was not enough. Charlie Martin asked for an additional 2% on top of that. that. What did Charlie have to say? Mr. Taylor Taylor has been an extremely valuable employee to the division since his arrival. Mr. Taylor has all the skill set and attitude the division needs in the position of superintendent and as we move forward to identify and correct deficiencies in our system as you are aware the section presents some unique employee relations challenges that we are confident mr. Taylor will be able to successfully address HR gave in and TJ received an almost 19 percent increase for a two-paid great job. Eighteen months later, TJ took a voluntary demotion and went back to his old position. Now, don't feel bad for TJ. He is still the highest-paid construction supervisor and well above others who have been here much longer. In 2020, Greg Lubeck was selected to be the deputy director water quality HR used her standard formula and recommended a 14% salary increase apparently Greg said no Charlie appealed he requested an additional 15% over and above the HR recommendation here's why mr. Lou Beck has been a valuable asset to to the division since his transfer in 2007 The deputy will replace enormous challenges in implementing change within their area of responsibility. For this reason, we are recommending the higher salary. HR agreed. And Greg received an almost 30% $26,000 pay increase for a four pay grade jump. So now for those who of you who are those employees who are looking to get into the more fair and equitable group, I hope I've inspired you. If not, I have many more examples to bring to you and so we will keep trying. Thank you. Next up is Sierra Hagedorn. Are you here? And you will be our final speaker today. Welcome. Hello. Sierra Hagedorn, District 4. I won't need to speak. I will not need to speak. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. All right, council members, before we have a motion to adjourn, remember we have a 5 o'clock council meeting. And so I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. All those in favor say aye. We are adjourned. Thank you very much.