From our Complete Streets Coordinator, to our Traffic Engineering, to our Division of Planning, to our Metropolitan Planning Organization. And especially, a big thank you to our Neighborhood Champions who helped to push this initiative forward in our community. To learn more, visit lexingtonky.gov forward slash roadpilot. Let's keep moving Lexington forward, together. Music We're standing in the heart of the 1st District at Charles Young Park, hosting Hunger Does Not Take a Spring Break. Hunger Does Not Take a Spring Break started about two years ago under Council Member Fogle and myself when I was working in the office. We realized that during spring breaks, kids with hunger, specifically in our district, we serve a very underserved and undervalued district where we know that kids needed food and had food insecurities. But this is something that we realized the whole city has taken advantage of. We have six locations. We have Charles Young Center, Dunbar Center, Douglas Park, St. Martin Village Park, Green Acres Park, and Windburn Park. Where the kids can come and have programming, as you'll see in the gym, where they have access to community centers, access to the parks, or access to organizations doing programming. They can get free food, free meals, hot meals, different meals every day, but also a snack bag to take home and get that snack bag refilled each day so that they can eat throughout the evening. We know when folks are in school throughout the year, they are counting on the breakfast and counting on the lunch from school. So that's why, that's honestly where this program came from. Those kids are counting on school lunches. We wanted to make sure we would fill at least one void. The main goal is to make sure that our kids have something to eat during the spring break because we know that hunger does not take a spring break. While also making sure that we're activating our parks, activating our community centers. These parks, over time, have not been as activated as we'd like to see. But this initiative, we see that they are getting out there. We're seeing at least between about an average of 50 kids per location, and it is a great thing. I think this initiative is so important because, one, we know in our undervalued communities we need to bring the resources to their footstep. And that's exactly what we've done. We've looked at all over the first district. We've made sure that the radius is wide-ranging so that kids have to walk less than a mile or kids have to be transported less than a mile to get free food and free snacks. But it hits home for me because, as a kid, I used to go up to the shelter. You know, we're not at a shelter right now, but we will be at one. And I used to get free lunch. And as I grew older and got into college, I used to question, you know, where's the free lunch? Where's the programming? Why aren't our kids having things to do? Poverty is a gateway to many things, for example, gun violence or for the needs of lack of resources or criminal activity. We know now more than ever that we need to address that issue of poverty head on. So this initiative is one of them. We've seen that not only does it address the need for food insecurity, but it addresses the need of getting youth in the gym, getting youth off the street, maybe making better decisions. It's addressing the need for other nonprofits providing wraparound services, knowing that we've seen, well, this is the city's open to the whole city, that nonprofits in the different daycares are taking advantage of providing, you know, getting these kids food and getting them snacks because they see that it's a great program. So we've seen all over the district that we have different centers and different kids coming out. And the main goal is just making sure kids get food, kids get fed, kids get snack and that kids are happy. So if it's coming from a nonprofit, it's coming from neighborhoods, no matter what, we are serving them. And so this initiative, the gateway of addressing the poverty and working together as one community, as one unit to address that. It takes dollars to get and donations to get the food to the snack. So that's the first piece. And any folks that are willing, that are committed to making sure that the kids are fed, that would be very helpful. The second piece was communication. We're trying to find as many innovative ways and many different ways to reach the kids and reach the family so they can know that this resource is available. We've realized that that is our biggest barrier is a communication piece. They always say you can take horse to water, but you can't make a drink. Well, we have brought the water to the horse. Now we've got to figure out how to get them to in the centers to take those resources. And the last piece is just making sure our volunteer piece. So making sure that we can run these buildings and our neighborhoods have stepped up. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon. Mr. Gross. Good afternoon. It is 1.30 on June 26th, and we are calling the meeting to order of the Lexington Urban County Government's Planning Commission for zoning items. First item. Okay, is this better? Thank you. First item on the agenda is the approval of the April 10th, 2025 minutes. Chair, we'll entertain a motion on the April 10th minutes, please. Are there any additional directions? If not, I'll make a motion. Thank you, Mr. Wilson. I move to approve the minutes of April the 10th, 2025. Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. Wilson. Second from Ms. Wirth. Any discussion? Seeing none, we will put that to a vote. All right. And that carries unanimously. Thank you. Next item, postponements and withdrawals. Mr. Gross. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I will bring your attention to page 3, item 2, and it goes over to page 4. This is the RD Property Group's rezone application for property at 1811 Winchester Road. A couple items. We've met additionally with the Eastland Neighborhood Association. I'm going to meet next week with the Patchin Wilks. We've worked with staff. We're down to one issue, which is the variance at this point. I think I'm going to get that done hopefully next week. And so I would request that we have a two-week postponement to your July 10th date. And at that point, we should be ready to be heard. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Gross. Do we have any questions or discussion? If not, we'll entertain a motion. Mr. Owens. Sure. I'll move for a postponement of RD Property Group, LLC. It's plan MAR 25-8, along with the associated variance and development plan until July 10th, 2024. Thank you, Mr. Owens. Is there a second? Yes. Thank you, Mr. Jonathan Davis. Any discussion? Seeing none, we will vote. All right. That carries unanimously. Thank you. Stay cool and have a happy 4th of July. Thank you, Brandon. Do we have any other postponements or withdrawals? Mr. Chair, on page 5 of your agenda, staff is recommending a postponement for on-the-block LLC. That's MAR 25-09. There is a deed issue that needs to be addressed. We've spoken with the applicant. The applicant believes it can be resolved within two weeks. So requesting a two-week postponement for the July 10th meeting. All right. That's July 10th as well? Yes. Okay. Thank you, Daniel. Do we have a motion or any discussion? I'll move for a motion. Thank you, Mr. Jonathan Davis. Do we have a second? We're looking for a postponement on PLN MAR 25-09. Postpone that until July 10th. Thank you, sir. Any associated variance? Mr. Davis, does that include the associated variance? Yes. And development plan. And development plan. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Do we have a second to that motion? A second from Commissioner Barksdale. Thank you. Any discussion? Seeing none, we can take that to a vote. Okay. That also carries unanimously. Do we have any other postponements or withdrawals? Okay. So, if I'm correct. Chair Davis, that leaves us with one zone change item on the agenda. And I will tell you that the staff did not update our recommendations for this item. Which is Anderson Campus Rental Properties, LLC. Its associated variance and preliminary development plan for South Broadway Place. Because the information submitted is still not enough for the staff to change our recommendation from postponement to approval. Okay. So, at this point, the staff would suggest to the planning commission to postpone this item for a month. There are also several development plan issues that the staff remains concerned about that weren't addressed with a revision just two days ago. Well, we will put that to the commission. Is there any discussion or any questions for Mr. Murphy? We'd like to go ahead. I represent Anderson Communities, Dick Murphy. We've been working diligently on this. We've had a meeting on the drainage issue. We had a meeting with Division of Engineering and Division of Water Quality a week and a half ago. And came to an agreement on a conceptual solution to the drainage issue. We prepared a parking study as requested. And that was submitted Monday or Tuesday before the cutoff for corrections for the zone change. We had a neighborhood meeting earlier this week. And we invited, we sent out 144 letters of invitation to everybody within the 500-foot radius. Nobody came to our meeting. We had it at the Midtown Apartments Clubhouse right in the neighborhood there. And nobody came to that meeting. So we feel like we're ready to go on this. Leave it up to you. But we feel like we've completed what we needed to complete and we're ready to proceed. Thank you, Mr. Murphy. Do we have any questions or discussion or objection to allowing Mr. Murphy to present today? Ms. Worth. I could not hear exactly what you said about the reason staff wasn't prepared. Could you repeat that, please? Sure. So the applicant did, we understand, meet with the Division of Engineering last week. The Division of Planning was not invited to that meeting to provide and receive input from the applicant to understand really what the changes proposed would be. And then we haven't had an opportunity to sit down with the Division of Engineering to understand those changes related to their stormwater improvements. To be able to sufficiently say to the Planning Commission, represent that this is something that can be approved. In addition, there are some other issues that they still have not addressed on the zone change related to multifamily design guidelines. And Daniel can chime in if there's some other stuff that they still need to address. There's some connectivity issues that are, again, not being addressed. So the staff really feels like the next meeting would be the best time to have the public hearing. And the commission does have 90 days to consider a zone change application. And so we do still have time to postpone this to the next hearing. Thank you, Ms. Wade. Again, is there any further discussion or any objection to Mr. Murphy presenting today? Yes, sir, Mr. Wilson. I'm confused a little bit now. Are we considering whether or not we should postpone or whether we should go forward? Is that... From what I understand, we're being told by the staff that they're not in a position to give a fully complete staff report at this time. Or I want to... Not an updated report. Not an updated staff report. Applicant is saying he's prepared to present today. Okay. Well, I'll tell you what I'd like to do. Yes, sir. I'd like to postpone. So I move for postponement of Anderson Campus Rental Properties, LLC. I think it's PLNMAR25-7, Anderson Campus Rental Properties. Thank you, Mr. Wilson. For one month. Two weeks. How much time do you need? Two weeks? It's completely up to you. I think we need an opportunity to at least meet with the Division of Engineering and Water Quality to assess the information that they've discussed. Because our understanding was they met, but there wasn't necessarily buy-in from our divisions that the answer was there. So I would prefer a one-month postponement. I like all the zone changes to be at the late meeting as opposed to the early meeting because it divides up your work into a public meeting and a hearing. That's... Really what the bylaws suggest is that zoning items be at the fourth Thursday meeting. But our question to you is do you need a two-week or are you asking for a four-week? I would ask for a four-week postponement. Okay, then I amend my motion to say four weeks. Thank you, Mr. Wilson. I don't know what the actual date is on that. 24th. So that second... I'm sorry, that motion has a second from Ms. Worth. Do we have any discussion on this motion to postpone? Mr. Owens. More than anything, just a comment, I guess. First and foremost, it seems like we as a Planning Commission have always been fairly lenient as far as postponements. This is kind of odd because it's not often that we have a situation where the applicant wants to go forward but yet the staff needs more time. So we're kind of in an odd situation here. I would offer that I'd probably lean towards a postponement. But I'm just curious if they came to terms, it sounds like, with engineering last week. It just seems odd that the staff doesn't have that information this week. We received conflicting information from the Division of Engineering in terms of supporting their design. So they met, we understand they met, but internally we have not met with the Division of Engineering to understand whether they support the proposal. My understanding is it may not meet the manuals. So at what point should we, again, our division wants an opportunity to sit down and meet with those other two divisions to understand. Because we're hearing conflicting information from the applicant and the division. Mr. Davis. Yes, thank you. I had one quick question. Are all the parties that you had questions about, are they all present today, engineering included? Engineering is, but not water quality. So the other parties would need to. Okay, thank you. Okay, so we have a motion, we have a second. Is there any other discussion to Mr. Wilson's motion? If not, we will put that to a vote. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Aye. Motion carries. We have a motion to delay or postpone for one month. All right. That motion carries five with two in the negative. Correct. Wow. That takes us to page seven. Is that right, Bill? Yeah. Which would just be, as far as I know, oh, I'm sorry, Boyd, the downtown report, yes. Good afternoon, Planning Commission. I'm here to give you an update on where we stand with the downtown master plan. Brief story on what's going on. This was part of the recommendation from the 2045 comprehensive plan where it called for an update to the downtown master plan. Council allocated $500,000 for this project and an RFP was sent out. There were eight applicants and the winning application was by MKSK at a cost of $495,075. And when this master plan is done, hopefully we'll bring it before the Planning Commission so that it's adopted as part of the comprehensive plan. So far in the project, the RFP was issued, proposals came in, award was given. It was awarded to MKSK and we are now carrying on with the project. We've had several meetings. Let's see the timeline first. We've started up with our coordination and this is part of the project timeline, which we are working out the fine details to exact dates when we can expect to see some of these. So far we have the project advisory committee that's been selected. The project advisory committee will meet with a consultant four times in the one-year period where the master plan will be ongoing. The same team will be meeting with the planning staff every month to update them on what's going on. The consultant team and the planning house also met with council members. We've met with four so far. We have two more to meet with this afternoon and those are council members whose districts fall within, not within, but touch the infill and redevelopment area. LFECG staff also is forming an advisory team. It's an internal team where there will be people from planning, people from other departments like traffic, engineering, so that we can review everything that the consultant brings in. Another thing we are working on with the consultant is the stakeholder group. We provided a list of names that included council members, neighborhood leaders, and general public, people who mostly reside downtown or work downtown, and we're still building on that stakeholder group. So once that is done, we'll send out an email and invite them for meetings. Then we'll update you on what that process will be like. The next steps in this process is there's a project management team, which is Hannah Krebs, myself, and Hal Bailey, and we meet with the consultants every two weeks. The first public outreach engagement will be next Friday with the 4th of July events. Those of you who run, there's a 10K going on in the morning. You can do that. Then come join us at the tent and see what downtown is all about. On the 31st, we will be introducing the consultant team to the planning commission. Right now, we are working on the first meeting for the advisory committee, which will be mid-August, the week of August 11th. We are working on a community meeting, which will be in early October once schools are open and everyone is settled in. As I said, this is a project that we want to see being successful and being a part of the community. So community outreach is important. Anyone who's listening, watching, please participate in this and be a part of this. That is a short update for what we are doing. Any questions? Thank you, Boyd. Do we have any questions? Mr. Evans? Thank you. One question, just curious. One of the slides there indicated that you had met with six council members. Yes. Is that a... We've met five. We are meeting with two at 3 p.m. today. You've met with five council members so far? Yes. My question would be, is that a committee, a certain committee within the council, or is that just five individual council members? So the original RFP said the master plan is going to be... The area that we were given to work with was the infill and redevelopment area. That infill and redevelopment area cover part of six different council districts. So those council members whose districts were touched by that are the ones we've met with. But we plan on meeting all council members, so probably within the next two weeks we'll have met all of them. Okay. You covered it. Thank you. All right. Do we have any other questions for Boyd at this time? Seeing none, thank you very much. Thank you. Our next item is not on our printed agenda, but it is the reporting out of the nominating committee. Ms. Worth. Yes. Nominating committee met on Zoom yesterday. I've lost track. And we have nominations for the coming year. Chair, Mr. Zach Davis. Vice Chair, Ms. Irene Barksdale. Secretary, Robin Mickler. Parliamentarian, Judy Worth. Thank you, Ms. Worth. And I suppose action will be taken on that in July. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Duncan, do we have anything else? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I remind you all that on Independence Day Eve, you all will have your committee meetings on July the 3rd, 8.30 and 1.30 in the Phoenix Building, next meetings. And then we also wish you a happy Independence Day. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Duncan. Do we have anything else from anyone? Seeing none, without objection, we're adjourned. 19 minutes. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ I'm Tyler Rowlett, and welcome to Lexington Now for the week of June 23, 2025. We broke ground on the Legacy Business Park this past week as part of a collaboration with LFUCG and the University of Kentucky. This 200-acre park includes 19 lots totaling 147 acres for development, bike and pedestrian trails that connect to the city's Legacy Trail, and extensive green spaces.