So I am happily serving as your chair today. So let's get started. It is that time. The first item on our agenda is the approval of the January 14 2025 committee summary. Let's see, are there any additions or corrections? Motion approved. Second. Thank you. We've had a motion and a second by Councilmember Ellinger and Councilmember Baxter. Are there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. That motion passes. Moving on to our next item on the agenda is the 2025 Blue Sky Area Plan. Our presentation will be given by Eve Miller, who is a senior planner with our long-range planning division. Welcome, Ms. Miller. We're excited to have you and we look forward to your presentation. Thank you and good afternoon, Councilmembers. My name is Eve Miller. I am a senior planner with the division of planning's long-range planning team and I'm here this afternoon to discuss with you our project for the Blue Sky Small Area Plan. And with that, we'll jump right in. As you all may be aware, in the fall of 2023, during discussions of Lexington's comprehensive plan, Imagine Lexington 2045, the area known as the Blue Sky Activity Center was identified as part of the overall acreage to be added to the urban service area. In the fall of 2024, last year, the planning commission approved the Urban Growth Master Plan, or the UGMP as we like to call it, to guide future development of the new growth areas except for the Blue Sky Activity Center. And this area was left out because of its current land uses and its unique history. The planning commission instead recommended a small area plan for the site and funding for the project was allocated in the amount of $500,000 in fiscal year 2025 for the small area plan. An RFP for the project was released on January 24th and we've been working with the Division of Procurement to solicit proposals. The goal of the small area plan is to provide an analysis of existing conditions and to, let's see here, identify opportunities for Blue Sky to help Lexington meet its current and future industrial land use needs and economic development plans for the city for the next 30 years. Tasks for the consultant include developing objectives and strategies to guide future economic development while also protecting the environment through sustainable site development and building methods, achieve community consensus and provide clarity on the desired land and land uses in the activity center, and evaluate the existing conditions of infrastructure and the built environment including sanitary sewer, stormwater infrastructure, public facilities, public safety, and emergency services, as well as how to integrate and connect Blue Sky with the urban service area including areas 3, 4, and 5 of the urban growth master plan. This slide exhibits the area of study located off of Athens Boonesboro Road near the I-75 highway interchange and the 301 acre site is outlined by the red line that you see on this map and has a few different zoning designations but is primarily zoned I-1 for industrial use. Other nearby current zoning includes the B-3 corridor business zone, the B-5P interchange service business zone, and the P-1 professional office use zone. For context for this site, in 1999 the first rural land management plan for the rural service area was adopted as an element of the 1996 comprehensive plan and that document was the first extensive effort dedicated to the planning and management of land uses of the four activity centers at that time which were Avon, Blue Grass Station, Blue Grass Airport, Blue Sky Activity Center, and the Spindletop Research Park. The rural land management plan, as we know, is updated in 2017 and as we mentioned on the previous slide, in 2024 this area was moved to the urban service area during discussions of the comprehensive plan. Regarding a timeline for the small area plan, Planning has been working with the Division of Procurement to release the RFP which we did on January 24th and proposals are due three weeks from that date which will be on February 14th next Friday and then staff will have two weeks to review those proposals. Pending contract approvals and acceptance by the City Council, we're aiming to have our notice to proceed on April 24th and Planning staff aims to have that project completed within a one-year time frame with periodic updates being presented to the Planning Commission and the City Council throughout. And with that, I'll take any questions or feedback you may have. Thank you very much. Thank you, Ms. Miller, for your presentation. Colleagues, please log in if you have any questions for Ms. Miller. Council Member Savicny. Thank you, Chair, and thanks for the presentation. So this is what the Planning Commission decided to bring in as into the urban service boundary. It already has all these land uses and existing things on it. Is the plan for redevelopment of that? That's a great question. Thank you, Council Member. We hope that the selected consultant will reevaluate and we do ask that they complete an existing conditions and a market analysis report. And from that, we're hoping to be able to get an idea and recommendations for adaptive reuse opportunities, future industrial opportunities. So we'll see where that process takes us. So I guess, do you feel like if we spend a half a million dollars doing this, it's money well spent? And is it a smart thing to do? It does seem like it seems like this was brought in just to meet a requirement, but it wasn't necessarily brought in with the idea that it would be it wasn't basically greenfield, right? That is correct. I believe only 10 acres is considered vacant currently. And how much is the total acreage out there again? It is 301 acres. All right. Thank you. Thank you. That's all I have, Chair. Thank you. Council Member Brown. Director Duncan would like to speak. Go ahead. Chair, if I may, I'd like to continue with Council Member Sviggum's question. Jim Duncan, Director of Planning. You asked, Council Member, if you think this is money well spent. I will say that for several comprehensive plans, the plan has recommended to review and evaluate the Blue Sky Rural Activity Centre. So with the Planning Commission's decision to include this as part of the urban growth, we saw this as an opportunity to address a longstanding goal of considering whether Blue Sky was meeting its potential and whether there were new opportunities. So it's doing both, and we do believe it will be money well spent. Council Member Brown. Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Eve, for the presentation and your work on this. I guess my question is how many of the parcels are vacant? How many are not currently being utilized by a business entity? Yes. It is currently 10 properties that we consider to be vacant, and it totals about 10 acres. So 10 acres in total. So is one possibility is that the study will inform us on how we need to rezone those as a city? Just because I'm thinking that this could be an opportunity that we can help initiate and foster businesses without adding additional costs to them. So if the study helps identify the best land use for that land, can we rezone it on the front end to spare businesses that cost? I know that's not something that we typically do, but I think, you know, in addition to, because I'm thinking about the potential infrastructure cost that's going to be out there. Once it gets identified, that cost is just going to fall on us now that it's in the boundary. Is that right? So I ask two questions. Is there an opportunity or potential opportunity for us to rezone these properties based off the study on the front end to help businesses with their costs? And once the infrastructure needs are identified, does that immediately fall on us as the city since it's inside the urban service boundary? Council Member, thank you for that question. We hope that in the process the consultant will provide to the city recommendations for future regulation changes or changes to our zoning ordinance. But if my colleagues would like to further answer that question, I'll let them. Hal Bailey, the manager for long-range planning. Thank you very much for your question. In terms of the infrastructure associated with this, as it was brought into the urban service boundary, it did force us to start to look at what was needed for infrastructural development in this area. This will also be informed by some of the work that is being done by the infrastructure funding plan that has already started in this process, looking at ways to ensure that that is meeting the needs and capacity for those areas. In regards to potential zone changes, that will come out of that with the land use recommendations, and that is an opportunity to allow for businesses to grow and thrive within that place. Okay. Good answer. Let me ask another question. So is the whole site, is it on its own? Oh, never mind. I remember the whole conversation about sanitary sewers now. All right. Thanks for the answers. I may come back to you. Thank you. Vice Mayor Wu. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Ms. Miller, for the presentation. Just for clarity's sake, I know we have an urban growth master plan that kind of governs the expansion that we just had. Is this small area plan discreet from that master plan, or is there any overlap between any of those ideas or plans? That's a great question. We hope it will work in tandem with the urban growth master plan's recommendations, especially when it comes to transportation. We hope to extend the UGMP's recommendations in order to better connect Blue Sky with the urban service area, especially since it's so close to the highway interchange, and we want to be able to provide opportunities for future development to have access to walking and bicycle and other transportation options. So we believe it will work, we hope it will work very well with the UGMP. I'm kind of, I guess I'm thinking about not just the overlaps, but a lot of the differences, because this area is very distinctly different than kind of the rest of the expansion areas. So I'm very curious as to how that will apply. I know the master plan is not ordinance, it's not you have to do things a certain way, it's a guiding sort of document. But I'm curious to see how it plays out, but I'm also very curious to see why it, to some degree, almost makes sense for them to be two discrete plans without a lot of overlap. But this is maybe, I don't really have a question here, I'm just kind of raising the thoughts out loud. So thank you. Thank you, Chair. Council Member Baxter. Thank you, Chair, and thank you for the presentation. Do you know if during this planning process if they will identify any environmental remediation that needs to be done? I know there's a lot out there, so I'm just curious. Yes, I think it primarily will focus on the infrastructure capabilities of the site, but I am sure that will come up in the process and we'll report back and share that information with you all. Okay, and I guess similarly to Council Member Brown's question, would we be responsible for that environmental remediation? Would it fall on the developer of the parcel, essentially? Thank you very much. In terms of the development of a specific property, if there are the needs for, if this is something that is identified as a brownfield site or something similar, there are opportunities for public grants outside of the government. And with any development, if someone wanted to move faster than those opportunities, they typically bear the cost of the upgrade or remediation of the site. So it would be primarily focused on developer positioning in that. Okay, that's very helpful. Thank you so much. Thank you, Chair. Council Member Allengren. Thank you, Chair. Did you say there were how many acres that's undeveloped? Ten acres currently. Ten out of 300 and? 301. 301. When we did the expansion, how did we define that? Did this count as 301 or did it count as 10? 301. Now, when we look at net and gross, was that the 301 as net or gross then? There was not a discussion about net or gross at that time. So this is the total area. So the 301 is just the overall area, not counting floodplain or other areas that would be subtracted out from developable space. So out of the 2,800 that we expanded, this would have been 301 that would have been included in that? Yes. Not 10, right? Not 10. All right, thanks. All right, colleagues, do you have any more questions? Seeing none, thank you so much, Ms. Miller, for your presentation. We look forward to hearing more from this about this plan. All right, moving on to our next item on the agenda is a report, an update from a sense of place. I'd like to welcome Ms. Tiffany Brown, who's the chief opportunity officer in the mayor's office, to the podium. And I would like to throw it over to Council Member James Brown. I know you are the sponsor for this item, so would you like to give introductory remarks? Yes, Madam Chair. I would like to welcome Ms. Brown to the podium. Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Chair. I just want to give a nod to Council Member Plowman and her efforts with getting this started, and then Tiffany Brown in the mayor's office for staffing and continuing to work on this initiative. And then also the community stakeholders that have been involved, and I think we have a few here with us today. Also, I just want to thank the families and the descendants of the families for their contribution to this project, along with Council. I know the Council has been supportive and also have contributed funds to this initiative. And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Commissioner Ford and the Department of General Services and Parks for the role that they continue to play, especially Lisa Grover, and then also Olivia, legislative aide to Council Member Boone. And I just look forward to continuing Council Member Plowman's work on this initiative with Council Member Boone. So with that, I'll turn it over to you, Tiffany. Thank you, Council Members. Tiffany Brown, Chief Opportunity Officer in the mayor's office, and I'm going to present to you all just some of the highlights of the Ascent of Place initiative. It is Remembering and Celebrating the History of Fayette County's Rural Black Hamlets. So just as a brief introduction, in 2022, former Council Member Plowman put the hamlets into committee, and we began this project with her support and partnership. But it is really about addressing the history of Lexington-Fayette County's Rural Black Hamlets, their significance and impact, and how we continue to highlight and celebrate, making sure that that history isn't lost due to different priorities. This is just a graphic of all the members of the committee. I do want to, like Council Member Brown stated, this is an example of a great public-private partnership and a co-governing model. So we have members from local government on the committee, as well as members of the community that are making decisions together to advance the history of Lexington's Rural Black Hamlets. So there are some folks here today, Reverend Slatter is here, Lisa Grover is here, and there may be some others that I, if I turn around, I'd see them. But we just want to thank all of them for their participation and support and input in driving this initiative forward. So this is a brief timeline of key events. It really goes to show that Lexington has been very progressive, or Fayette County has been very progressive in the development of the Rural Black Hamlets here in our city, even prior to the emancipation in 1865. We have Fort Springs that was founded in 1826, Coletown in 1843, Athens was founded in 1854, and then so on and so forth. So it really goes to the resilience of the community and how they really, how ownership was important to them and how they developed the land. And so, but we also have where in 2022, where this initiative was established, and then phase one of this project will get started in March of 25. And we'll get more into that in just a moment. The work of this group has identified 20 historic rural Black Hamlets. There are Hamlets that are, that are not considered rural. They may have been rural at the time, but as our city has grown and expanded, they wouldn't, we don't consider them as rural, but they are still Hamlets, and areas where individuals settled after the emancipation. The history of the Black Hamlets, most every community had their own school, cemetery, their religious traditions or churches, and they had economy. And so, um, one of the properties that the, um, Lexington Fair Harbor County government holds is 705 Caden Lane, which is a historic site, uh, where Caden Town is, uh, we have in our, um, one of the properties that we own is a historic church, the historic Caden Town missionary, um, the historic Caden Town Baptist Church, sorry, Reverend Satter is the pastor of Caden Town Missionary Baptist Church, um, and the Caden Town Rosenwald School. There is also a cemetery behind that school that needs a lot of work done, and which, and that work has been started, but every, uh, community had these focal points, um, of tradition and culture and heritage that we need to highlight and continue to preserve. A lot of the activities that went on in the communities were agriculture, education and religious institutions, domestic services, skilled trades, and then small-scale commerce. Um, many of you know, if you go down Russell Cave Road, you still see the Jot-Em-Down store, um, that's still there, and that has been there for decades, um, and is a, is a staple to the Maddox Town, um, community, which is a historic, um, rural Black Hamlet. But farming, livestock raising, crop production, um, then schools and the churches were also anchors of the Black Hamlets as well. I'll skip that. And so, um, our main focus, our anchor point, uh, for this project is the Caden Town community, uh, which is in District 7. Uh, constructed in 1923 during a time when Fayette County's Black residents couldn't attend white schools. It ceased being a school in 1943. According to records, we do have someone on our committee that was a student and a teacher at the Rosenwald School. Um, so he offers a lot of input and great insight, um, into the work that we do. Um, but this, it's a wooden school, one-story building, um, it's tucked away in Caden Town, off Caden Lane, so if you didn't know it was there, you, you wouldn't know it was there. Um, it's easy to miss, but it has a very huge historical significance, um, to, um, our communities. And that property will become a dedicated cultural heritage hub that houses the history and legacy of all of the Hamlets in Fayette County. So, about the project and the updates on the project, so we've kind of, we're doing this in phases, uh, with, um, with the school, the church, the cemetery, and exhibit design and programming. So, right now we are in phase one of the, um, repairs of the school, so it needs repairs to the wooden siding, the envelope, windows, paint, and HVAC. Uh, the RFP for that will go out in February of 25, or this month, um, and the repairs are slated to begin March of 2025 with an estimated completion of 90 days or so, so we're looking at June. We're hoping to do an unveiling of those repairs, um, at our Juneteenth program that many of you, um, usually attend, and so, um, we would love to have you, um, there. Phase two would be, um, adding ADA-accessible, uh, bathrooms and a pathway in the church. That is the only bathroom area on the site, and so we do need to add accommodations, um, for, uh, bathroom access in the, in the church. Formerly it had been used as a residence, and so it makes it a little bit difficult to, um, do tours and things like that there because of, of its former use. The cemetery cleanup and site identification has also begun, um, Parks is managing that process. They met with Clausing, the Clausing group to do an invasive species removal on 12-17, and they are slated to do four treatments, and then an archaeologist will be out there to begin the work once the invasive species have been removed. Then the next step on this would be our exhibit design, and we're already in the beginning stages of doing that with a feasibility study being conducted by Travis Robinson, um, and who, he will give us those recommendations from that study on whether or not we can, we can, if it's feasible, to house the exhibit, whether it be in the school, the church, or some other location. Um, but the, the exhibit design is important because it's going to be the, the essence of the cultural heritage, um, designed with artifacts, oral histories, photos, and etc. from all of the Hamlet communities within Lexington. So to date, um, when Councilmember Plowman, um, was on the council, or former Councilmember Plowman was on council, uh, we started with the initial, uh, goal, fundraising goal of raising $500,000 for the school, church, cemetery, and programming. To date, we have raised a total of $730,144.97. Um, $432,271 is the unrestricted. Uh, we received a, an anonymous donation that was to go toward an endowment, and we matched that with some of the other funds that we had raised. So we have $106,874 in an endowment that we cannot touch until, uh, the end of each year when we get a spendable amount back. And I think this year was like $3,000 we were able to move into our unrestricted capital. And then we have $175,000 in unrestricted, uh, or excuse me, in special projects. And that includes the historic marker, um, grant that we'll be doing, as well as $75,000 for, uh, the cemetery cleanup. These are some of our sponsors that have, um, contributed to our, to this project along the way. Our fund is held at BGCF and at LFUCG, uh, just to make it easier for individuals who want to give to this initiative. So we have done, um, actually we have done about 14 public community engagement meetings now, um, where the Hamlet history is surveyed. We've received collections of oral histories and artifacts, um, and then the steering committee is comprised of members of the Hamlet communities. And we meet, we were meeting twice a month. Uh, we have changed that to now once a month, uh, which I think is going to be better for engagement on the committee as well as in the community. We do have, um, well, let's talk about this, but we do have an event coming up, um, soon. The historic marker grant, uh, historic marker grant program, uh, we have, we were given $100,000 um, in 2023 fund balance, um, to do, uh, to put up historic markers in the, uh, rural Hamlet communities. Um, we're kind of transitioning how that program is going to work. And we've been working with Betty Kerr in historic preservation to, um, begin drafting a template of what an LFUCG historic marker would look like. And we can, um, move forward with that, but it's going to cover the design production costs, the installation costs and site preparation, also educational material for the, for the marker. And so the members of the community will request this and we will pay for it on their behalf. So moving forward, we're going to continue to do our community engagement, um, targeted preservation and rehabilitation efforts, um, historic resource inventory and assessment. A lot of those have been named in the rural settlement study from 2006. Um, and then, of course, again, capacity building and historic tourism. I do have a vision for this to be a stop on other African American heritage tours for our city, um, so that folks really understand, um, the significance of the Hamlet communities and what they mean, uh, past, present and future. So on April the 15th, uh, which is tax deadline, uh, at 6 p.m. at the Lexington History Museum, we'll do an oral history seminar and collection. So we're going to train individuals from Hamlet communities or other communities on how to do their own oral history. Uh, we have found that folks feel safer, uh, with people that they know, uh, and allowing them to, to learn how to extract those stories or just in conversation or whatever the case may be, how to record them if, if they want to do video or just audio and things like that. And then we'll, uh, be doing collection. And so we'll have the scanners and things like that, um, there as well that day. And so if folks want to bring pictures of their family history or different, um, things that were going on during that time, we're able to take in that as well. And right now, Lexington History Museum is, is, um, holding the collection for us. Uh, but you can find out more information at www.lexingtonhamlets.org. Any questions? Thank you, Ms. Brown, for your presentation. Colleagues, please log in if you have any questions for Ms. Brown. Council Member Reynolds. Thank you, Chair. And thank you so much for the presentation. We're grateful for all the people that have worked on this. I think it's fabulous that we're trying to, um, preserve these Hamlets, uh, and work with the community to do so. Uh, I just wanted to clarify something for, so that I understand. So the historic markers that would go up, would that be at all 20 locations? Yes. So one of the things that we have to take into consideration is the willingness of the community. So if, if it's something that they desire, we want to have the funds available if they want it. Um, so it's going to be led by the community and we'll, we just hold the funds if they, if they desire to have one. So the city doesn't own any land or buildings anywhere but at Cadentown, is that correct? To my knowledge, yes. Okay. So that, yeah, that was my bigger question as to do we have other properties that we need to, you know, restore or keep track of ourselves? I do, I, I, Lisa may be able to answer this better than I can. If we hold any other historic properties, this is the only historic Hamlet site that I am aware of that we own. Okay. And so then if somebody, you know, it's private property and they were willing to put up a historic marker, then. Correct. That's how we would get those done. Okay, thank you. That helps me a lot. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Vice Mayor Wu. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Ms. Brown for your presentation and, um, it's really important work and it's one thing to kind of get a presentation and look at some of the stats and some of the photos. Um, I've had the privilege of attending some of these community events and getting to see some of these, um, historic buildings, uh, and hear firsthand some oral histories from some of these community members, um, as well as videos that were recorded years back from folks that aren't with us anymore. Um, so I would just encourage my colleagues, any chance you get to go to any of these events, see these buildings, see the kind of the living history and really get to engage with community members who have these deep ties, um, within our community because history is not just history. It's, it's also our presence, also our future and, uh, and you get to meet some really cool people. Thank you. Thank you, Chair. Council Member Morton. Uh, yeah, I want to do the same thing. I want to thank you for your hard work in the committee, Council Member Brown, former Council, uh, Council Member Plowman, and then, um, the work that Council Member, um, Boone will do on it. It's, it's very important. Um, I actually, it's not an election. I come, my church family is a Hamlet, New Zion, United Methodist, and it's north, it's actually on the map north. It's on the borderline of Scott County, um, and, and Lexington. And, um, that church instilled many values within me that actually is the reason I'm here today. Um, they, they were the, the cat, they catapult me as well. And when we talk about, you know, cultural significance, cultural, um, ties, all those things, one thing I want to mention is resiliency. I mean, these communities are resilient. Um, specifically my, my church, um, the good old boys, um, with the white hoods came by and, and lit it on, on fire in the early 1900s. But what they do, they, they got back right to that church, they built it back up, and to this day, um, we stand and we sing in that church, um, now. And that same church that caught on fire is back standing. So resiliency is, is definitely key that I want to mention, um, regarding these Hamlets. Um, I just had a couple just questions regarding the community engagement piece that was mentioned on the, the slide. Um, so I guess what, what will community engagement look like in the future? Will it be any different, um, than what we've done in the past? Or is there any different, uh, plans? So, yes, we are kind of moving to, so initially, um, the first two years that we've done community engagement, they've just been open forums where we're sharing about the project, getting feedback from them on what they would like to see. Now we're moving into more intentional, um, contribution by exhibit design. We're also opening the committee up to more, uh, folks that represent each Hamlet. So we want someone that represents each Hamlet on the committee. Um, so that's another form of engagement that we're doing, but we're moving more toward some intentional engagement where we're educating the community about how to collect oral histories, um, what it means to, um, for, for us to have such a cultural heritage. So we don't have an African-American history museum in Lexington, and this will be almost the first of that. And so it's helping the community to come along with us to do this work is really important. Great. And then just looking toward the future, um, I guess it's my understanding that, um, as for right now, Cadentown is the only, um, Hamlet right now receiving some of those stabilizations and restoration funds. Do we have any plans in the future to restore any other significant structures in any of our other Hamlets, um, here in Lexington? Um, yeah. Yeah, I think that, I think that's an opportunity, um, for us as a, as a, as a government to, um, help support and do some, um, economic repair. Um, but we are, um, and I've been working with Councilmember Brown and Councilmember Lynch on, um, really going over the rural settlement study and how we can be, what has not been implemented from that study as it relates to the Hamlets, and then how we can further, further that work outside of just Cadentown. But right now, Cadentown is the only property that, where we have ownership and can kind of drive some of the initiatives forward. Well, I look forward to supporting this great initiative in the future. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Boone. Thank you, Chair. Yeah, thank you, Tiffany, for the update and the presentation. And, uh, I'd like for the record to thank Kathy, uh, former Councilmember Plowman for all the work that she did to establish and fundraise for this project. It's an honor to serve as a member of the Steering Committee and help further the work that she started. It's going to be an exciting year for a sense of place in Cadentown as Phase 1 begins, and I look forward to working with Councilmember Brown and the committee to keep the momentum for these projects going forward. All right, colleagues, do you have any more questions for Ms. Brown? Councilmember Brown. Chair, I'll default to Councilmember LaGree since he hasn't spoke yet. Councilmember LaGree. Thank you, Chair. Um, Ms. Brown, I'm just curious. I know that, um, Councilmember Plowman had encouraged us to, um, help support this initiative, um, and related projects with, um, our Council capital funds and whatnot. And, um, and we're excited to promote it and share this information with our constituency. I'm wondering if there are other ways that we could be helpful and supportive, um, moving forward, um, financially or otherwise. Sure. Um, well, I think as we, and as we continue to move along, of course, one of our first means is to try to fundraise outside. Uh, we are currently in the process of applying for a, um, a grant through the African American Cultural or African American Heritage Fund. Um, so that's one opportunity. Letters of support, things like that, we might reach out, uh, about those type of things. Um, and then maybe just also, um, when we have information to share, it's so much easier to send it out to, uh, through the Councilmember so it gets to the community. Um, so that's another way to support us, help us to educate, um, the community and invite them to events. Um, but anytime you want to be involved, um, we are certainly open to it. Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. That's a great update. Um, thank you, Chair. Councilmember James Brown. Thank you, Chair. And I'll just kind of close us out on this, on this issue is, you know, the next time I think this committee or Council may hear about this is an update in regards to the Rural Study, uh, the Rural Settlement Study recommendations. I think this will help guide us as we look to, uh, invest, protect, and preserve these hamlets, uh, going forward. So I just want to, and then I also want to give out a shout, a shout out to, um, Sean Denny, who was, uh, Council Aide to, uh, Councilmember Plowman when she first started this initiative. Um, so I'm excited, um, for the work going forward and I appreciate all the support and acknowledgement from, uh, Councilmembers. So thank you, Chair. Colleagues, do you have any additional questions? Okay. Thank you, Ms. Brown. We appreciate you. Our next item on the agenda is, um, Lexington's Preservation and Growth Management Program. It's an update from Vice Mayor Wu. There's no formal, um, presentation, so he's going to provide us with the update. Vice Mayor Wu. Thank you, Chair. Uh, colleagues, you'll recall at our last GGP meeting on January 14th, uh, we had a presentation from Long-Range Planning Manager Hal Bailey, uh, and that day, uh, at work session, we placed this item, Lexington's Preservation and Growth Management Program, uh, into this committee. Uh, as we all know, local land use policies and growth strategies have been and will continue to be a huge piece of conversation within our community. And so with that in mind, I'm currently working, uh, in the process of working with staff and leadership of this committee to organize, um, public engagement opportunities, uh, over the course of this next year. These sessions will complement our ongoing feedback that we plan to receive through, uh, council's online engagement tool, uh, Engage Lexington. Uh, we intend to report back progress on this item at the May 6th, 2025, GGP committee meeting. And so colleagues, in the meantime, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me or to, uh, Chair Sheehan. Thank you. Thank you, Chair. Colleagues, do you have any questions for Vice Mayor Wu? All right. Seeing none, we'll move on to our last item on the agenda, um, which is the items that have been referred to committee. Does anyone have any, um, needed adjustments or amendments? Vice Mayor Wu. Thank you, Chair. Uh, I don't think this needs a motion on, uh, the item I just spoke on, uh, Lexington's Preservation and Growth Management Program. Uh, just a correction, uh, I think it was a typo. March should read May under status in terms of, uh, updates. Alicia, can that be reflected? Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you, Chair. Anyone else? All right. Thank you, colleagues, for a great opportunity for me to chair this first meeting. Um, thank you for, um, the presentations and the presenters and, uh, council members. We stand adjourned.