# Planning Commission Zoning (Sub) Committee - December 4, 2025 > Auto-transcribed civic record · Commission · December 4, 2025 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/6639 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/6639?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2025-12-04 - **Body**: Commission - **Last revised**: February 15, 2026 - **Length**: 28,815 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed by OpenAI Whisper-1, with speaker labels folded in from Granicus closed-captioning. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude Sonnet. Speaker labels and verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Zoning Committee met on December 4, 2025, at 1:30 p.m. at the Phoenix Building, 3rd Floor Conference Room. The meeting covered 8 agenda items spanning a range of planning and zoning matters. Of those items, 3 were approved (PLN-MAR-25-00022: Subtext Acquisitions, LLC; PLN-MAR-25-00023: Anderson Village at Great Acres, LLC; and PLN-MAR-25-00019: Anderson Midtown Apartments, LLC), 3 were postponed (PLN-MAR-25-00017: Legacy Trail, LLC; PLN-MAR-25-00015: Ball Homes, Inc.; and PLN-MAR-25-00018: Dailey Homes, LLC), 1 zoning ordinance text amendment (PLN-ZOTA-24-00006: Revisions to Article 23A-10 for the Economic Development (ED) Zone) was also postponed, and 1 item — a Downtown Master Plan Update — was heard as an informational presentation. The committee took 6 votes in total and heard 1 public comment during the course of the meeting. No presiding officer is identified in the available meeting record. ## Votes and Decisions The Commission took action on six items during the December 4, 2025 meeting, with all votes passing or being postponed unanimously. - **PLN-MAR-25-00022** — A zone change for Subtext Acquisitions, LLC from R3 and R1E to B1 was approved unanimously. The motion was made by Commissioner Davis and seconded by Commissioner Nickel. The vote constitutes a recommendation to the commission for the January 29th hearing. [timestamp: 29:12] - **PLN-MAR-25-00023 (Zone Change)** — A zone change for Anderson Village at Great Acres, LLC from R3 to B3 was approved unanimously. The motion was made by Commissioner McClure and seconded by Commissioner Forrester. [timestamp: 55:30] - **PLN-MAR-25-00023 (Variance)** — A variance request for Anderson Village at Great Acres, LLC was unanimously postponed. The motion was made by Commissioner McClure and seconded by Commissioner Jonathan Davis. [timestamp: 56:00] - **PLN-MAR-25-00019 (Zone Change)** — A zone change for Anderson Midtown Apartments, LLC from R3 to R4 was approved unanimously. The motion was made by Commissioner Forrester and seconded by Commissioner Jonathan Davis. [timestamp: 1:10:49] - **PLN-MAR-25-00019 (Variances)** — Variance requests for Anderson Midtown Apartments, LLC were approved unanimously. The motion was made by Commissioner Forrester and seconded by Commissioner Jonathan Davis. [timestamp: 1:11:19] - **PLN-ZOTA-24-00006** — A zoning ordinance text amendment for the Economic Development (ED) zone was unanimously postponed. The motion was made by Commissioner Jonathan Davis and seconded by Commissioner Molly Davis. [timestamp: 1:36:54] No roll call vote breakdowns were recorded for any item. All six actions were decided unanimously. ## Public Comment One member of the public addressed the Commission during the public comment period of the December 4, 2025 meeting. - **Rolanda Woolfolk** [timestamp: 28:42] requested a postponement of the hearing. Woolfolk stated that the delay was needed in order for their attorney to properly represent them in the matter. No other public comments were recorded during this session. ## Contested Items Two items on the December 4, 2025 agenda generated notable disagreement, resulting in postponements for both. - **PLN-MAR-25-00022: Subtext Acquisitions, LLC** — This item drew community opposition centered on the scale and impact of the proposed development. Concerns raised by community members prompted revisions to the proposal and ultimately led to a postponement, indicating that the project had not yet reached a form acceptable to those affected by it. - **PLN-ZOTA-24-00006: Economic Development (ED) Zone** — This item involved a procedural dispute rather than broad public opposition. The applicant and staff were in ongoing disagreement over the specific language of the proposed zoning text amendment. The unresolved nature of those discussions resulted in a postponement, with both parties needing additional time to reconcile their differences before the item could move forward. In both cases, the Commission did not reach a final decision, and the matters were deferred for further review. ## PLN-MAR-25-00017: LEGACY TRAIL, LLC [timestamp: 00:30] This agenda item (I.a) concerned a petition filed by Legacy Trail, LLC for a zone map amendment at **1170 Newtown Pike**. The applicant sought to rezone approximately **12.64 net acres** from an **Agricultural Urban (A-U)** zone to a **Corridor Business (B-3)** zone. The item was not heard on its merits at the December 4, 2025 Commission meeting. **Daniel** was noted as a key speaker in connection with the item. The applicant requested a **postponement**, and the Commission accommodated that request. No substantive presentation, debate, or public discussion of the rezoning petition took place at this meeting as a result. - **Petition type:** Zone map amendment - **Current zoning:** Agricultural Urban (A-U) - **Proposed zoning:** Corridor Business (B-3) - **Property size:** 12.64 net acres - **Location:** 1170 Newtown Pike - **Outcome:** Postponed at the applicant's request No concerns, findings, or recommendations regarding the merits of the rezoning were recorded at this time. ## PLN-MAR-25-00022: SUBTEXT ACQUISITIONS, LLC [timestamp: 01:05] The Commission took up agenda item I.b, a petition filed by Subtext Acquisitions, LLC, requesting a zone map amendment for approximately 0.51 net acres of property located at 118 Montmullin Street, 121 & 123 Prall Street, and a portion of 545–549 and 553 S. Limestone. The petition sought to rezone the subject parcels from a Single Family Residential (R-1E) zone and Planned Neighborhood Residential (R-3) zone to a Neighborhood Business (B-1) zone. Key speakers on this item included Jeremy and Nick Nicholson, who participated in the presentation and discussion of the request. The item was brought before the Commission as a discussion matter, with the presentation covering the nature of the proposed rezoning and its implications for the affected properties. The Commission considered the request, which involved consolidating parcels under two different existing residential zoning designations into a single Neighborhood Business classification. The Commission ultimately approved the petition. ## PLN-MAR-25-00023: ANDERSON VILLAGE AT GREAT ACRES, LLC [timestamp: 30:47] The Commission took up a petition for a zone map amendment affecting property located at 2788 Ruby River Drive. The applicant, Anderson Village at Great Acres, LLC, requested a rezoning of 0.658 net acres from a Planned Neighborhood Residential (R-3) zone to a Corridor Business (B-3) zone. Key speakers on this item included Jeremy Young and Dick Murphy. The item was presented and discussed before the Commission as a formal discussion item. The Commission approved the zone map amendment request. *Note: Detailed presentation content, specific arguments, and any concerns raised during deliberation are not available in the provided source materials beyond what is summarized above. Readers seeking the full discussion are encouraged to view the meeting recording beginning at timestamp 30:47.* ## PLN-MAR-25-00015: BALL HOMES, INC. This agenda item concerned a petition for a zone map amendment submitted by Ball Homes, Inc. for property located at 451 Chilesburg Road. The request sought to rezone approximately 12.35 net acres from an Agricultural Rural (A-R) zone to an Expansion Area Residential (EAR-2) zone. The item was listed as a discussion item on the agenda. No key speakers were recorded in the available data, and no detailed account of presentations, debates, or specific concerns raised during the meeting is available from the provided materials. The Commission ultimately **postponed** this agenda item. No further details regarding the reason for postponement or a scheduled return date are reflected in the available data. ## PLN-MAR-25-00018: DAILEY HOMES, LLC This agenda item concerned a petition submitted by Dailey Homes, LLC for a zone map amendment affecting property located at 2914 Clays Mill Road. The request sought to rezone approximately 3.267 net acres from a Single Family Residential (R-1B) zone to a Mixed Low Density Residential (R-2) zone. The item was listed as a discussion item under agenda identifier II.b. No detailed transcript timestamp data is available for this item, and no specific speakers, presentations, or debates are recorded in the available meeting data. The Commission's action on this item was a **postponement**; no final decision on the rezoning petition was reached at the December 4, 2025 meeting. ## PLN-MAR-25-00019: ANDERSON MIDTOWN APARTMENTS, LLC [timestamp: 56:35] The Commission took up agenda item II.c, a petition for a zone map amendment affecting property located at 401 Woodland Avenue. The request sought to rezone 0.585 net acres from a Planned Neighborhood Residential (R-3) zone to a Medium Density Residential (R-4) zone, submitted by Anderson Midtown Apartments, LLC. Key speakers on this item included Jeremy Young and Dick Murphy. The discussion centered on the proposed rezoning and its implications for the subject parcel. The Commission ultimately approved the zone map amendment. *Note: Additional detail on the specific arguments presented, concerns raised, and the full deliberation on this item was not available in the source data beyond what is summarized above. Readers seeking a fuller account of the discussion are encouraged to consult the meeting video beginning at timestamp 56:35.* ## PLN-ZOTA-24-00006: Revisions to Article 23A-10 for the Economic Development (ED) Zone [timestamp: 1:14:28] The Commission took up agenda item III.a, a proposed text amendment to modify Article 23A-10 governing the Economic Development (ED) zone, case number PLN-ZOTA-24-00006. Key speakers on this item included Andrew and Brandon Gross. The discussion centered on a text amendment intended to revise the regulations applicable to the Economic Development (ED) zone. At the time of the meeting, the applicant and staff were still in the process of finalizing the specific language for the proposed amendment. No substantive debate or formal presentation of revised language took place during this agenda item, as the underlying work between the applicant and staff had not yet been completed to a point where the Commission could meaningfully review or act upon the proposal. - **Item type:** Text amendment (discussion item) - **Status:** The item was **postponed**, pending completion of the language being developed collaboratively by the applicant and staff. No final recommendations, votes, or conditions were issued at this meeting. The item is expected to return before the Commission once the amendment language has been finalized. ## DOWNTOWN MASTER PLAN UPDATE [timestamp: 1:37:42] Under agenda item IV.a, the Division of Planning provided a brief informational update on the ongoing Downtown Master Plan planning process. Boyd served as the key speaker for this presentation. The update was informational in nature, offering the Commission a progress report on where the Downtown Master Plan process currently stands. No vote or formal action was taken as a result of this agenda item. No additional details regarding specific milestones reached, upcoming phases, concerns raised, or debate among commissioners are reflected in the available record for this item. --- ## Decisions - **PLN-MAR-25-00022** — passed (0-0): Zone change for Subtext Acquisitions, LLC from R3 and R1E to B1 - **PLN-MAR-25-00023** — passed (0-0): Zone change for Anderson Village at Great Acres, LLC from R3 to B3 - **PLN-MAR-25-00023** — postponed (0-0): Variance request for Anderson Village at Great Acres, LLC - **PLN-MAR-25-00019** — passed (0-0): Zone change for Anderson Midtown Apartments, LLC from R3 to R4 - **PLN-MAR-25-00019** — passed (0-0): Variance requests for Anderson Midtown Apartments, LLC - **PLN-ZOTA-24-00006** — postponed (0-0): Zoning ordinance text amendment for Economic Development (ED) zone --- ## Full transcript There, there, can you hear? Is that okay? All right. Good afternoon. Today is December 4th, and this is the Lexington-Fayette-Urban County Government's Planning Commission's Zoning Committee meeting. Our first item on the agenda today, new items, zoning map amendments, PLN-MAR-2517, Legacy Trail. And, Mr. Chair, I just wanted to let you know the applicant has requested a postponement on this item, so they'll come back through the following cycle. Okay. All righty. Thank you, Daniel. Our next item on the agenda is PLN-MAR-2522. Jeremy, I'm planning staff. I'll be presenting PLN-MAR-2522. It is Subtex Acquisitions, LLC. And the applicant is requesting a zone change from R3 and R1E to a B1 with a form-based development plan. The zone change is for 0.51 acres net and 0.61 acres gross. They're suggesting the corridor and high-density place type and development type. And it is for an eight-story, 90-foot tall structure with 170 units, 490 bedrooms, and 215 parking spaces with 1,000 square feet of retail space. And to give you an idea of the area, you've got the subject property there in the center. And then this big area here, that's UK campus, and you've got Limestone running this way, Red Mile here, downtown, just to kind of get you oriented a little bit. The zoning in the area, the brown areas here, that's R3. The darker brown is R4. You've got B1 in red and R1E here in yellow. And this purple is B4. And this aerial view gives you a little better idea of the location. You can obviously see the UK campus here, and there's our subject properties. It's a much smaller scale than what you may have seen before on a previous application for this property. And this is the existing site. So the development will be just for this commercial area. It won't include any of the neighborhood to the rear. So basically it's going to be, the proposal is for this commercial structure and the parking lot behind it. And these are just views. This is a view from Mount Mullin facing Limestone, facing the UK campus. And this is from Prawl Street. And this is a site plan for the area, just to give you an idea. This is Limestone here. And the building extends back to, there's an existing parking lot behind the commercial area. And it essentially covers the entire site, and we'll have internal parking associated with this development. Staff feels that this proposal is appropriate for the area along the Nicholasville Road corridor. The comprehensive plan calls for increased intensity, increased density, more walkability. This proposal, we feel, meets those requirements. The sidewalks will be widened on all three frontages. There's sufficient transit in the area. There are numerous buses that run up and down Nicholasville Road. It's located convenient to walk into UK campus, so it meets the requirements for increased intensity along those corridors. Let's see, oh yes, it also increases the tree canopy. They're going to include street trees in this. Currently, there are no street trees anywhere on the existing site. So that's one of the requirements, is to increase tree canopy. It has an interior courtyard also that will have some green space. And like I said, the comp plan calls for increased intensity along the corridors, which Nicholasville Road certainly qualifies for that, for transportation and walkability as far as transit connections. If you all have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. Alright, thank you Mr. Young. Thank you, Chair. Jeremy, could you go back to the slide which shows the view from the street? Sure. Back one more if you could. Back another one. Okay, so what I'm trying to understand, so this does not actually front South Limestone, this development? Yes, so this is Limestone here. Yeah, so with the parcel in question. So there's a portion of these parcels that is already zoned B1. So they're split zone parcels. It's only the rear section, so half of these parcels are zoned R3, and half, the front portion is zoned B1. So we're essentially rezoning about a half acre, but the entire development site is just shy of one acre. Okay, so it would be the entirety of that area that we're looking at from Limestone, the first building on the right, the first storefront, second storefront, all the way back to where the multiple windows are? Yes, so it'll be the entirety of this block from this corner to this corner, and then back to roughly where you see that tree line and that car park. So there's an associated parking lot with this development. So it'll go back roughly to that area, and then I don't think the other street view will show you, but there is a parking lot on the other side of the structure as well. So it'll encompass both the commercial area and the parking areas to the rear. Okay, thank you. And maybe the overhead might, and if I could zoom in, I would, but so you can see the parking areas and the commercial structures to the front will be included. Okay. Thank you. Do we have any other questions on the zoning aspect of this application? Seeing none, thank you, Mr. Young. Good afternoon. Let's see. Okay. Is that it, or do we have details? Oh, there we go. Okay. So this is the associated development plan, MJDP 2568. So this shows the structure with the other floor. So this is showing the ground floor off of Limestone with an entrance for an interior parking garage off of Mount Mullen in this area. And then, I'm sorry on this, I can't really tell which is which, but on the next level, because there's a little bit of a slope to the property from Limestone going up, there's an entrance off of Prowl Street into the interior parking structure. There's also a basement structure that's accessed from, a basement level that's accessed from inside the ground level. And then above that, floors three through seven are, or three through eight, is it eight? Three through eight are residential, and then there's an open air courtyard in the middle with the residential along the outer portion of the structure. And then in the southern, southeastern corner, this is indicated as retail, with this northeastern corner as like the lobby leasing area. It's a very simple development plan from that standpoint, especially compared to the previous development plan. And with that, I'll open it up if you all have any questions for me on the development plan. Okay, thank you, Chris. Do we have any questions on the development plan? Seeing none, Mr. Nicholson? Are my slides after? No. Let's work. Well, good afternoon. Nick Nicholson here again on behalf of Subtex Development. We have a different kind of development that we're here to discuss. And what I kind of wanted to focus this afternoon to be on is all of the changes that we made to this proposal from the last time you all saw it, that is a direct response to the concerns that we heard last time, with regards to how much it went into Prawl Town, how kind of the massing and scale was different from what was kind of there existing today and historically, and kind of just walk through how much of a revised proposal this is. First, we do want to talk about kind of what has happened between Subtex and the neighborhood since you all kind of last seen us and kind of the neighborhood engagement that we have had. I'm hoping that this will be able to slide. There we go. There we go. So this is Ryan with Subtex, and he's going to talk about kind of the neighborhood engagement perspective. Hey, good afternoon. Ryan Baum with Subtex. Since last year, we've met with the neighborhood a number of times. We presented a revised plan back in January, so we wanted to make sure we gave plenty of time to the neighborhood to be able to digest that and come back with any comments and thoughts. Since then, they were gracious enough to invite us to Prawl Town Day, which was a really good experience for me personally. We were able to set up some tables at Prawl Town Day, share the revised plan, and get feedback from the community members. And then we also just heard a lot of stories, not just from the people who live in the neighborhood, but, you know, people whose families were from here, grandparents and parents live there, and just to hear a different perspective on why Prawl Town is special to all these individuals. So it was really a whole different perspective for me going into this and understanding the history in a more personal level versus just kind of reading what it was about. So that was back in August. We held a subsequent neighborhood meeting, more formal neighborhood meeting, and have been in continuous communication with the neighborhood representatives. So the resulting plan, really important for us to get out of the neighborhood and just keep this plan to just the commercial properties. So that was a big focus on trying to make this work. And then we're also collaborating with the neighborhood on some benefits, a variety of benefits, so we're working through that with them right now. A lot of that are just ways to strengthen the neighborhood and support them. And then we also, based on kind of what we heard on Prawl Town Day, it's how do you preserve the history and tell the story to a broader audience of people. So we're working on some commemorative ideas on how you can incorporate that throughout the neighborhood to where we make sure that story is told. And so these are the things that we're working on. There's a variety of just, you know, community enhancements and contributions that we're also discussing that we plan on making. So I'll let Nick get into the revised plan, and happy to answer any questions. So this kind of gives you a perspective of what this site is actually before you. As kind of Jeremy had indicated, the parcels that are truly right on Limestone are already Zone B1. The areas to the rear, which are kind of served as parking for that area, is kind of historically, they're residentially zoned, and so we're trying to bring those into basically a commercial zone to basically keep it more in accordance to how it is today and to allow for a single structure to be on this kind of square parcel that we're showing. To say that we have revised what was originally proposed would be an understatement, to say the least. I think the biggest takeaway we heard from the Planning Commission last go-around was how much it intruded into the neighborhood on Mount Mullen specifically and how many single-family houses that it was taking down. What we have basically changed is eliminated any type of removal of any single-family structure that is in existence today. We also took down the length of the building from basically 560 feet on Mount Mullen down to 200, and obviously that kind of resulted in a corresponding reduction in units and beds. And so this is the dramatic kind of shift that we're talking about. We reduced the size of this building by 65 percent on Mount Mullen because that is what we heard the most from the neighborhood, is we don't want a development intruding fully into Prawl Town. It's one thing to have a large structure on South Limestone. It's another thing to really be into the neighborhood, and that's kind of the extent to which we are kind of reducing what this proposal is. The good news is, though, that with that reduction, all of the benefits that we had previously told you all about with regards to the pedestrian enhancements along Limestone, along Prawl Street, along Mount Mullen, all of the multimodal kind of infrastructure that will be able to be done through the Imagine Nicholasville Road kind of plan, all of this can still basically occur and is still part of this proposal. And so we are still providing the benefits that we said that we were going to provide without kind of intruding into the neighborhood to the extent that we were. And so we've tried to basically address the massing, the scale, and the intrusion. Commissioner Mickler, I know that you were specifically concerned about the kind of sun study, and so we went ahead and kind of revised that as well. It's much harder to read on a PowerPoint than it is to see in person. So whereas before, there were several of the single family parcels that were basically not part of this development, but on Mount Mullen, we're actually not receiving any type of sunshine throughout the year. What this revision does is ensure that even in the wonderful wintertime that we are right now, that you're still getting sunlight to every single single family parcel in Prawl Town, on Mount Mullen, all of these areas are still able to basically not be blocked. It is still what is a large building without a doubt. It is eight stories, but that is exactly what the comprehensive plan is calling for on the corridor. By switching over to the B1 kind of form-based project, which is the same as what the hub did at Virginia, the same as what the hub did on Upper Street and the development, I think it's the Gateway Lofts that's at Virginia and Broadway, we aren't having to utilize the corridor node zone that everybody understood, wanted, but was still a little bit uncomfortable on what that necessarily entailed and how far a corridor node should intrude into the neighborhood. So by keeping this a neighborhood business zone, we're able to achieve the density that the comprehensive plan calls for. We're able to bring all of the benefits that we previously discussed, without intruding further therein. The other thing I did want to talk about, we are proposing 4,000 square feet of retail. Part of the conversation with the neighborhood is what that retail should consist of. We have already set aside one-fourth of that retail, 1,000 square feet to basically be more what the neighborhood is looking for. We're still talking with them with regards to, is that a grocery? What does that entail? But we basically set aside that as part of our discussions with them. We also basically have given a priority to any existing tenants. If they are interested in continuing in this location, they would have first dibs on that retail square footage. Just to let you know, while we are still trying to follow staff's recommendation for approval today, from the committee perspective, we have already agreed to not be heard at the December meeting. Their neighborhood's attorney, Mr. Simpson, is having surgery, and so we're basically kicking that down to January, but we did want to go ahead and be heard by the committees today. With that, I am happy to answer any questions you all have about this kind of revised development. I know it's certainly different than what you all saw before. Sure. Okay. Well, thank you all very much. Do we have any questions? Commissioner Davis. Thank you, Chair. Can you help me to understand, Nick, so I'm looking at this rendering. It appears to be seven stories tall. So is that eight-foot height at the rear of the building then, eight stories? Actually, at the rear of the building, it's down to six stories because the grade of the street rises. The eight stories is more of a technical. There's a mezzanine of parking. So where you see the retail, that's actually a double height space. Behind there is two levels of parking. So from the street, it will be perceived as a seven-story building, and those are shorter levels, so they're not really two full levels. So it will be perceived as a seven-story building by code, and we don't want to mislead that. Sure. So is the massing to the right at the far right side, what is that mass of building? Is that part of this development? It is. It's the same. We just wanted to break the color up and kind of break the form up to just make it feel more contextual. Sure. And do you have any – and this is probably way too much detail, but compared to other things in the neighborhood, how is this going to kind of – it seems like a very tall building to be side-by-side, cheek-by-jowl, with things that are not that large. We've provided the character study was in our submittal, and that demonstrates all along the corridor to Nick's Point, the Imagine Nicholasville corridor. Up and down there, there's definitely precedent, and then on the campus for UK as well, there's precedent for buildings of this scale. But right next to it, there's nothing this large. I mean, say, for the next 200 or 300 feet, it's going to be very large compared to everything around it now, at least. The direct adjacencies, we see that. But if you go one block or two blocks in each direction, as well as across the street, you have buildings of this scale. Of course, they are quite – for UK's property, they're pretty set back from the road of belief in comparison. I drive down there a lot, so I'm pretty familiar with it. Thank you. Okay. Do we have any other questions for the applicant at this point? Mr. Mickler? I have a question on the zone. This is the first form-based B1 that I've seen – that Lexington has seen. I'm familiar with the other examples you gave, but those were sort of heard before I was on here. Both of you were here for the Gateway Lofts. That was just at Virginia and Broadway. Okay. Yeah, you might be right. Were there changes that were made in – what is the – I guess that brings in an element of design consideration that we don't normally sort of engage in with the form-based sort of B1. This will be a question for you, and then I might have a follow-up with the staff from this too. But sort of, I guess, are we – is there – where are those design sort of guidelines coming from? How are those sort of been engaged, or how do you see those being engaged as this goes through? Or if it's approved all the way through? So Mr. Kaley can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the only kind of deviation from the rules of the B1 are that we are exceeding the height. That is truly the only deviation that there is. We're meeting the open space requirements. We're increasing tree canopy and also meeting the multifamily design guidelines. And like with the design to Commissioner Davis's kind of original question as well, like it also is in compliance with the kind of mixed-use design guidelines that we have in the ordinance itself. And so we are meeting all of Lexington's desired design kind of features when it's either a mixed-use project or it is a multifamily project. And the only thing that we're talking about is kind of height when it comes to the B1 zone itself. I don't know if that fully addressed what you're looking for. We have a full kind of neighborhood character study and an architectural study that has been submitted to Acela. I believe Ms. Wirth said that she was having issues looking at those this morning, but we are happy to send over kind of paper copies for everyone to make sure that you all have them. I think they're probably in total around 45 pages of details with regards to what we're proposing architecturally and how we are in compliance with the structures that are around us. And those are the additional sort of requirements to go above the story and change it to form-based? Yes. The form-based, basically it calls for what's called a neighborhood character study and also the architectural kind of plans that are for the structure itself. So there are, I want to say it's like 45 pages of additional details. Okay, thank you. Okay, do we have any other questions for Mr. Nicholson at this time? Okay, Commissioner Davis. Sorry, I'm not sure who it's the appropriate question for. Help me to understand the point that Robin just raised. Sorry, Commissioner Michler, if you didn't have the form-based B1 zone, how high could you go with not a form-based B1? So B1, I believe, has a height restriction of four stories and 65 feet, I believe, is 60 feet. And we are proposing basically the seven stories off limestone with one story being kind of underground, or at least partially for the kind of, as it slopes back further into basically Mount Millen and Prawl Street. And the total height right now is 90 feet that I believe is probably going to be closer to 86 or something around there. So basically you're talking about an increase in stories and then 26 to 30 feet of height. Can you do what you want to do without having a B1 form-based design? So again, I guess the B1 restriction is four stories and 60 feet. And so in order to go taller than that, you have to request a form-based project. And so that is basically what the request is. On the B1 parcels that are along limestone today, we could just submit a development plan requesting for a form-based B1 project. The reason why we're going through the zoning process itself is to bring the split-zoned aspect of the B1 and R4 parcels where the parking area is entirely into B1, and then request the form based on all of that. Okay, thank you. Okay, I believe that's all we have. And before we move on, if we could just put a footnote that the architectural study and the character studies, maybe could they be in Granicus for our hearing? It sounds like there's going to be questions about them, and that would be helpful for us to have in front of us. Again, we will not be heard on the December date. We will be there to request a postponement, and that would be on the January 29th meeting. Thank you for your consideration. Okay, is there anyone from the public who would like to speak on this zone change application today? If so, please approach the podium and just state your name. It is the policy of the Planning Commission that everybody has three minutes individually, and there's no lending or borrowing of time. Rolanda Woolfolk. Just to iterate what Nick said, that we wanted to postpone the hearing so our attorney can represent us correctly. Thank you. Thank you very much. Do we have any other comments today? If not, are there any final commissioner questions or comments? If not, the floor is open for a motion. This would be the recommendation to the commission for the January 29th hearing. Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion for the approval of PLN MAR 25-22, subtext acquisition LLC, and that's going to move it to the January 2026 meeting. Was it January 29th? January 29th, 2026 meeting. Thank you. All right. That's a recommendation of approval, and I have a second from Commissioner Nickel. Do we have any comment? If not, all those in favor, please raise your right hand. Okay. That carries with four opposed. Or any abstention? Okay. I did not catch that you said please vote for anyone who opposed. We'll try that one more time. This is a recommendation for approval to the Planning Commission from the Zoning Committee. All those in favor, raise your right hand. Okay. It's unanimous. Okay. All right. That's all right. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Nick. Thank you for working with everybody. Okay. Next item on the agenda today is PLN MAR 2523 Anderson Village at Great Acres. All right. Chairman Young, Planning Staff. I'm representing PLN MAR 2523 Anderson Village at Great Acres, LLC. It is a request for R3 to B3. And, again, this is another split-zone parcel, so there may be a little bit of confusion there, but I think the development is for a one-acre parcel. But the rezoning portion is only a 0.658-acre portion of that. It's located at 2788 Ruby River Drive. The applicant has suggested enhanced neighborhood and low-density non-residential mixed use. And they've also requested a variance to increase the vehicular use area between the building and Leestown Road from 60 feet to 96 feet. And this is the area you can see just north of this property is Masterson Station Park. You can see the urban service boundary area there in red. This is an area that's experienced a lot of growth and development in the last few years. Most of the property around it is zoned R3, which is represented by the brown. Red indicates existing B3. And just to the southeast of this property, there's actually a Starbucks that's been constructed. It's not shown here in this image. And many of the apartments across Ruby River Drive have been completed. A little bit of an older photo, but you can see the location. And one of staff's, I guess, biggest issues with this development is the corridor versus enhanced neighborhood place type selection. Located along Leestown Road might make more sense to have a corridor, but then you run into density issues because, well, you may not be able to read it, but the corridor suggests increasing density along the corridors, which the submitted development plan is a fairly low density development. So staff is currently recommending a postponement for that. We would like to hear maybe some more justification on why that was selected or just some more reasoning on why that's appropriate. So more information on the place builder, the place type and development type would be helpful, as well as some information on public outreach. And I think that that was really staff's main concern concerning this. And if you have any questions, there's a question slide. But if you have any questions, I'll still answer them. Okay. I appreciate that. Thank you, Mr. Young. This is on the zone change itself because there is also a variance on the plan. So for the zone change, do we have any questions? Okay. All right. Thank you, Mr. Young. All right. Okay. So the associated development plan, MJDP 2571. So this is the overall plan for the entire development. This amendment that goes along with the zone change affects this lot down here. And we don't have a close-up. So what this development plan depicts is the credit union building kind of in the center of the lot. This is Ruby Ridge here. This is Leestown Road here. So they're showing a drive aisle coming in and a parking lot between Ruby Ridge and the building and then a one-way drive aisle that comes in and through the drive-through aisles for the credit union here. And then there's also a parking area they've indicated for the employees adjacent to Leestown Road. And then they'll circulate back out through the front parking lot to leave the property. And so the waiver is for the VUA. It exceeds the 60 feet between Leestown and the structure. So that's the waiver they're requesting is for that extended VUA with the drive-through aisle and then also the employee parking. They do show pedestrian connections out to Leestown and to Ruby River. And then again, as Jerry mentioned, this is partially zoned. Part of the property is being rezoned. There is an adjacent residential zone. And so then there's also the associated zone-to-zone screening. And I think the applicant can speak to that. But the timing of that, they indicated that they would do all of that screening with the development of this lot. Currently, the lots, they've been graded over and there's no landscaping or trees or anything like that on the properties. Okay. Thank you, Chris. Do we have any questions on the development plan or the requested variance? Oh, I'm sorry, not the variance, but just the plan. You'll explain the – just to be sure, it is B and C on this plan that are requesting the zone change. Sorry, this – I'm not sure where I'm going. Right there. So the area of the zone change is the yellow outline. Everything to the southeast is already B3. And then this portion is – of that lot is R3. And then everything northwest would remain R3. On the other side of Ruby River is also residential, and that's a townhouse development that's under construction. Okay. Thank you. Perfect. Thank you. Yeah, I don't know. I probably can't read what that says on there, even with my bifocal contacts. It is Paula. Okay. So, okay, that's the plan. Do we have any other questions on it at this time? Seeing none, now we move on to variance. All right. So – and I'll discuss the variance, and I apologize that it's not easy to see on this, but what the applicant is requesting is a variance between – there's a maximum distance vehicle use area of 60 feet in this area between the building and Leestown Road, and they are requesting a 96-foot maximum. And you can't see very well, but there are three drive-through lanes right here. Jeremy, can you just give Paula a minute, and she'll pull up a close-up of it so that everyone can see the building? You don't want me to just describe it and just use your imagination? Well, I've seen the plan, so my imagination is pretty accurate, but everybody else's might not be. That's fair. It'll just be a second. We have materials from the applicant, so we can see it much easier. Well, for everybody watching, we'll get it pulled up. Okay, there it is. Thank you, Paula. All right, Mr. Young. All right, thank you. All right, this might make it a little bit easier. So the request is for the distance between this building and Leestown Road to be increased from 60 feet to 96 feet. The applicant has suggested that the existence of the three drive-through aisles here has necessitated this increase. That particular parking area is intended for employees, and the lot to the front would be used by customers. But with this, staff thinks that maybe with such a small building, perhaps that things could have been rearranged to either lessen or remove the need for a variance. We are requesting postponement to just provide more justification on the unique circumstances on the lot, and perhaps describe any of the steps that they took to redesign, or maybe take a look at redesigning that to either reduce or remove the need for a variance. Okay, thank you, Jeremy. Do we have any questions on the variance? All right. On this plan, just for reference, there's a lot next to it that's labeled C. And does the drive aisle that's there for lot 8 meet the 60-foot clearance? I'm just trying to get a sense of how far back it would need to go to reach, to not have to ask for a variance. Right, I'm not sure if that lot does meet. It doesn't, because it predated the ordinance change. So 60 feet is going to be a bay of parking. So that four is the drive aisle, which is 24-foot wide, and then another bay of parking. That equals 60. Okay. So generally, you could have your two bays of parking, and a normal two-way drive aisle gets you 60, or 60 feet of pavement, if you want to configure it in a different way. For instance, if you'd rather have the drive-through canopy, and just a lane that goes by, but no parking, that could probably get you 60 feet as well. And what is the limit on how far, does the building have to be a certain distance back from Leestown Road also? It does not. Okay, thank you. Not in that proposed zone, B3. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions on the variance? Thank you, Ms. Gian. Mr. Murphy. Thank you. Of course, I'm Dick Murphy, representing Anderson Communities, and Tony Barrett is with me, our landscape architect. Just want to emphasize that this zone change relates to only one lot. It's the lot which is under contract to the University of Kentucky Federal Credit Union on the property. We are pleased to be able to say that the light at Leestown Road and Lucille Drive is in the process of being installed. Last time I was out there, it was, you know, they have a time when they just hang it there, and they put it down, and they put it on flashing, and then they commence green, yellow, and red lights on it. So it's there, and they're introducing the lights. So that's extremely good news for Great Acres Development. I wanted to tell you we are asking for B3 zoning on the property. As was mentioned, one-third of the lot that is under contract to the credit union is already zoned B3. So we're asking for the two-thirds, I guess, on the west side of the lot all the way down need to be rezoned from R3 to B3 in order to put the credit union on here. And it's hard to classify all these zone changes when they come in under the comp plan. The debate on this one was, are we classified as an enhanced neighborhood, or are we classified as a corridor? And we had discussions back and forth with the staff on it, and there were some reasons either way on it. But the reason we classify this as an enhanced neighborhood is because that's the way we view the credit union. And partially it's because we've got the building oriented to our neighborhood. The front door is oriented to the north, to Ruby River Drive, not to Leestown Road. The back is on Leestown Road. It'll look nice, but the front door is on Ruby River Drive, which is more oriented to our residential neighborhood. When we build out Great Acres, we're probably going to have 1,300 people living there. It's a fairly sizable, it's a small community, but it's still a fairly sizable community. We at Anderson Communities want this as an enhancement to our neighborhood. We want to have a bank-type institution here. We think UK Credit Union works well. It's oriented to working people. They do car loans, house loans, CDs. They do retirement plans. They do financial planning, that sort of thing. So we thought it was ideally suited in a very desirable use for our neighborhood. You know, we joke about Starbucks, but Starbucks is viewed as a true amenity to having a neighborhood. It's a very desired amenity. Credit Union, I think, fits in the neighborhood very well. It's going to be a very desirable amenity for the neighborhood. So we felt that it's a highly desirable use. It's oriented to Ruby River Drive, not Leestown Road. So that's why we felt that it qualifies under the enhanced neighborhood category. We'll be happy to talk to the staff about that some more, get their input on it. But I just want to let you know why we had classified this. And in a way, I don't want to get too much into how you classify this, because the important question is, is this a good use for the neighborhood? And I think we all agree that it is a good use for this neighborhood coming in. On the variance, the variance is for the part of the building between the back of the building and Leestown Road. The front of the building complies with the rule about having either one drive aisle with two rows of parking or 60 feet, whichever is greater. You get to have that. Now, if it were just our parking area along Leestown Road, that would qualify. We wouldn't need a variance. But it's the fact that we do have the drive-through lanes here, which are counted as an addition to the length there that requires the variance. So it's sort of unique because this is a financial institution and the credit union, other banks, need drive-through aisles to do it. We have the setup for the parking will be customer parking will be in the front as you come in. This is going to be reserved for employee parking, and they have supervisors and that sort of thing to stop in and park there as well and suppliers on that. So customers up here, drive-through lanes there, and employee parking in the south adjacent, not adjacent. We're still screened 25 feet from Leestown Road, so we do have adequate screening along Leestown Road as well. And this is a long, narrow lot. It's not very wide. It's very long just because of the distance between Ruby River and Leestown Road. So that's another unique circumstance for the variance. So, again, we feel that this is a good zone change. We feel that I feel the enhanced neighborhood is appropriate. I feel the variance is appropriate. I'd ask you to go ahead and recommend approval. But either way, we're happy to continue our discussion with the staff on classification issues and that sort of thing. So be happy to answer any questions you all might have about it. Thank you, Mr. Murphy. So let's start with the zone first. Do we have any questions on that front? Okay, seeing none, do we have any questions on the development plan before we get to any questions on the variance? Okay. Any questions on the variance? Yes, Mr. McClure. I mean, my question on the variance would be, as you kind of pointed out, it's the combination of the drive-through and the parking on that side that requires the variance. We just had a little conversation here, but typically when I think of a bank, I think of these days, you know, a couple people in the teller line and a couple people in the offices and maybe a couple of customers. The parking here is substantially more than that, is more than I would see at maybe a typical branch bank. So I was wondering if maybe you could speak to that to help us maybe understand the need for the parking on both sides. Yeah, and as a matter of fact, I had a conversation with a representative of the credit union this morning about exactly that same thing. And as a credit union, as I said, they're oriented to working people, get deposits of paychecks and that sort of thing. And I asked them to compare this to like one of the nationwide banks, Chase Bank, that sort of thing. They said, well, they don't do counts of Chase or anything, but their perception is that they have a little heavier traffic than that because some of the nationwide banks are cutting back a little bit on services. And they are very service friendly here. They'll have at least eight people working here at all times. They have more at special times and that sort of thing. And they have a lot of drop in traffic. I personally have an account at the credit union, and when I go there, it's always busy. The drive-through lanes are busy. The walk-in traffic is high. They run specials on CDs. They run specials on car loans and home loans and that sort of thing. And they always appear to me to be more heavily trafficked than many other banks are. And they lean into convenience for their customers. They said, yeah, some people now make their deposits online, but they still see a lot of traffic, walk-in traffic on it. We have sidewalk connections. We tried to make this very friendly for walk-in traffic from our neighborhood, but still a lot of people drive there. The credit union, we said we want this as an enhancement to our neighborhood. Credit union said they want to be in our neighborhood, but they understand they're going to be picking up customers from up and down Leestown Road as well. They want to be on that side of the city to serve that side of the city as well. So it's going to be fairly high traffic for a bank. Mr. Murphy, do you know if they're going to have other services there at the location outside of the tellers and things of that nature? I do agree with you on the retail side of it. We are a big car loan bank of a credit union, so they do have a lot of retail transactions on a regular basis. But I was just curious. I think it says it's going to be 3,100 square feet. So I was wondering if they're going to have more services there. Is it one story or two stories? It's one story right now. I can ask them about that. I know they have financial planning classes. They have retirement planning classes. They have fraud awareness classes, that sort of thing. And I think they give those around the town. I'll check on those as well. Okay. If there are no other questions, thank you, Mr. Murphy. Is there anyone from the public who would like to speak on this particular application today? Okay. Okay. Do we have any commissioner comment or question? And the floor is open for a motion. It would be a motion on the zoning change and on the variance, correct? Okay. Mr. McClure? Well, I guess we had a staff recommendation for posable development. And for reasons of sort of how it's defined, I guess it seemed like our question, at least my question was mainly oriented around the variance. So I lean towards postponement on that one. But the other one seemed like it was explained well enough as far as the classification went in my book. Yeah. I mean, part of the parcel is B3 now, and they're extending that. I'm in agreement. I'm perfectly fine with the zoning question as well. Do we have any discussion of Mr. McClure's point? If not, the floor is open for this is on the zone change. Recommendation of the Planning Commission. So I guess I would make a motion to make a recommendation of approval on the zone. And I guess I'll do a second motion on the variance. Okay. All right. Thank you, Mr. McClure. Does that have a second? I'll second. Thank you, Mr. Forrester. Any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of recommending approval of the zone change to the Planning Commission, please raise your right hand. Okay. That carries unanimously. Thank you. Now we'll move on to the variance request. And I motion to recommend postponement on the variance request. I second. Okay. Motion to recommend postponement on the variance request with a second from Commissioner Jonathan Davis. All those in favor of that recommendation for postponement, please raise your right hand. Okay. That carries almost unanimously. Thank you. All right. I believe, I know. So of the postponed items, we're not hearing any of those today. Yeah, we do have one. Item C, Anderson Midtown Apartments. Okay. They had postponed because of a notice issue for variance. So we have an update. Jeremy will kind of refresh us on the zone change, but then an update on the variance request. Oh, maybe it wasn't a big loss. I'm sorry, I'm thinking of the other Anderson on Woodland. No, this is the one. This is the one. So Anderson Midtown was a revised report. Anderson Village at Great Acres was a new report, and then subtext acquisitions, those three. Are we ready? Jeremy Young for planning staff. This is PLN MAR 2519, Anderson Midtown Apartments. And this is at 401 Woodland. It's .585 acres. We discussed this one last month. I think the reception was fairly positive. The only issue that we had, the applicant, their original design, they made some modifications in response to initial comments from staff and the committee. And in doing so, they removed the need for some variances but created the need for others. But unfortunately, we didn't have time to advertise those to have them on for the meeting. So we had to postpone for a month. And as you can see down here at the bottom, the two variances in red are actually being withdrawn by the applicant. The project is to add a second residential structure with an additional 24 units. There's an existing structure on the site right now, three stories, 24 units. So basically, we'd be adding additional structures similar to what's already on the property. And here's the location, Woodland. You can see the large white blank space here. That's UK. And then Euclid Avenue here, and then Woodland. So it's at a cross street of a fairly major transit area. I don't know if there are too many roads that experience more transit than Euclid and Woodland. That area, I think they have maybe four or five different routes that go through there. The existing zoning, R3 in brown. The yellow is R1E. R2 in orange. And then there's an area of B1 in red. And then a small little area of R4 here. And you can see the Aylesford neighborhood overlay here in the hashed area just across Euclid in this area. The applicant suggested second tier urban, which is sort of a transition area between the most intense uses of downtown and the lower density neighborhoods. And in that place type, medium density residential and R4 are recommended. Staff recommended approval. It's increasing density along transit corridor. It's a walkable area. It's near Kroger. It's near UK. It's near Woodland Park. It's a well located property for increasing density. It's integrated well with the neighborhood. The structure has existed, I think, since the late 70s when it was originally constructed. It's a three story. The new structure would be very similar to what is already on the property. They're reducing some parking in response to the fact that it is walkable. It is along the transit route. I guess you could make an argument that it's better utilizing that property. A parking lot is sort of a lower intensity use and adding a new residential structure for 24 units is certainly an improvement. And we've got a blank spot. There we go. I don't know if you all wanted to see the development plan again or not. We've got it here available if you'd like to see it. Can you just point out where the variances are? Sure. Okay. So the variance requested for the zone to zone screening is along this border here. This is Woodland. This is Euclid. This is the new structure here. And the requirement is for an eight foot landscape buffer. And they're requesting a reduction to five feet here in this area. The second variance, let me take a look and see what it is. Oh, this is the interior buffer. So basically there is no buffer now. They're going to be increasing that to 5% or 5.1%. The requirement is for 10. They're improving it, but they can't quite make the 10%. But it is an improvement over the existing conditions. And then the third is for there's a maximum distance between the landscape buffers. And you can see in this area, that's the dumpster. And so it will be, they're requesting 110 feet on this side and 125. And it currently exceeds those numbers now. So actually they would be reducing it, the nonconformity to 110 and 125 respectively. So if anybody has any questions about the variances, I can answer those. Okay. All right. I'm thoroughly confused. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Our recommendation is for approval of all the variances. I got a little turned around there. We don't think it will negatively affect the public health, safety, welfare. We don't think it was caused by the applicant. And we don't think that adding those buffers that we think would restrict the use of the property. Because they're already eliminating a considerable amount of parking. And adding some of these buffers in would further reduce that. But in all areas, they are increasing what is currently in existence. So our recommendation is for approval. Okay. So it's approval on all fronts. Yes, that's correct. Okay. Any other questions for Mr. Young? If not, thank you very much. Okay. Did you say they're going to reduce one of the landscape buffers from eight feet to one and a half feet? No, that request was removed. Okay. The request is... Let's go back to that slide that had the words on it. Maybe that would help me. Okay. The requests or the variances that are in red are being removed. And the green is being added. So maybe that might explain. They had updated their plan. So initially, where you're seeing the really extreme ones, the eight and one and a half feet, they were trying to tie in an access point off of Euclid. And so that was a very tight fit between the building and the adjoining single family home. So that was removed. They had some conversations with Solid Waste on where they could locate the dumpster. So that changed where the second piece from the Woodland Avenue right-of-way. So really what we are seeing today is more or less taking the existing parking lot. You're adding a building, so you're reducing the total amount of parking, but keeping more or less the configuration. So where it's just a complete concrete flat area, there is some improvement, but they can't meet the full specs while basically doubling the amount of residential units on site. So they're trying to kind of navigate all of that. And that kind of leads to my next question, which was, where is that dumpster located again? It's located in this area here. So this is along Woodland right here. And what's the cross street closest to the dumpster? Not that on the other side? This is the dumpster area here. Yeah. And this is Woodland. That's Woodland? Yes. And that's not a corner then. There's not another street there. There's several parcels here. And then the next is Rose Avenue or Rose Lane. Rose Lane. So you've got maybe four or five parcels in this area between this property and the corner. Okay. Thank you. They don't ever get updated unless we go to council for a public hearing. So that's just your information of what we've mailed out to anyone on the notice list. They got that information at that time. Mr. Mickler. I'm just going to make a comment here, just not because I'm opposed to what they're trying to do or approving the variances. But my comment is that I think the first plan they submitted was better because we didn't have a dumpster right on the sidewalk. And it gave people an opportunity to turn right in when they were coming off Euclid. So I'm just making a note because I think all of our restrictions have caused this plan to get worse. The access onto Euclid was an issue for solid waste. And also, yeah, there was spacing issues and there's a utility pole literally right there. They couldn't meet their landscape buffer. So we were looking for other options to eliminate the problems happening on Euclid. And they said they only needed that access on Euclid for the dumpster. So that pointed to move the dumpster somewhere where solid waste can get to it, where it's functional, but not creating more issues on the site. Yeah, it's just I see this on development plan and development plan. And we just keep making our city have dumpsters on sidewalks over and over again. And so I think it's not a problem to have this one dumpster. But it is something I think as a commission we need to talk more about because over and over I think it is having an impact. I think that's fair, especially when we promote pedestrian anywhere we can to then put a dumpster next to that walkway. I think your point is well received, Robin. Thank you. Okay. All right. Thank you, Jeremy. Mr. Murphy. Dick Murphy again representing Anderson Communities along with Tony Barrett. And I don't have much to add from what the staff reported to you. We do appreciate the staff working with us. There was a lot of discussion about the dumpster on there. And by putting it in the location it is, a solid waste, Tony worked with solid waste and the staff, and they thought that was the best location. Solid waste approved that. It eliminates the need to have the driveway out onto Euclid Avenue. I understand what everybody is saying here on it, but I think this is best for the site. I do want to emphasize that no buildings are being torn down for the construction of this building. We're adding residential use on an underutilized site without tearing down any existing buildings. And our variances are to, as Daniel mentioned, basically we're getting this more in conformity by doing this. But working around the existing development, it's just impossible to do this like it was a blank, an open, undeveloped lot here. So we appreciate the staff working with us on that. And I think this is a good way to add density. The location of this is so close to UK. You go two blocks down Woodland to the main library. You go two blocks down Euclid to the Singletary Center in the north part of campus there. So it's just an ideal location for some additional housing. Thank you, Mr. Murphy. Do we have any questions for him? Seeing none, thank you. Is there anyone from the public who would like to speak to this application today? Seeing none, are there any final commissioner comments or questions? Okay, the floor is open for a motion on the zone, please. Mr. Chair? Yes, sir. I motion for the approval of PLN MAR 25-19. Thank you, Mr. Forster. And second for Mr. Jonathan Davis. Do we have any discussion? This is to recommend approval to the Planning Commission of the zone change. Seeing none, if you're in favor of that. Seeing none, if you're in favor of that, please raise your right hand. That's unanimous, thank you. Now we'll move on to the variance request. Okay, can we approve all the variances at one time? Okay. Hold on, go ahead. You sure? Oh, okay, okay, okay. May I make a motion to approve the variances as presented by staff? Second. Okay, thank you, Mr. Forster. Second from Commissioner Jonathan Davis. Any discussion? Seeing none, this is to recommend approval of the variance request to the Planning Commission. Please raise your right hand if you're in agreement with that. That's unanimous as well. Thank you. Thank you, applicant. Okay, I'm guessing are we now to the ED zone discussion? Okay. Jeremy, you want to give her an assist? Actually, we've got the ED zone, Ms. Paula. Oh, okay. So while she's bringing that up, I think it may be helpful to kind of talk you through what's in your binder for this section, because it's a pretty impressive stack of documents stretching back to 2024. So for your ease and convenience, what we are really talking about today is going to be in yellow, so the portions at the end. So that's going to include basically what the applicant has brought back, their proposed text, and then followed by staff's kind of response to that in a staff report, and then the staff proposed alternative language, which should be one of the last items within there, that shows the existing language in black with the applicant's changes in red, and then staff's edits or changes or tweaks to that shown in blue. But if you're interested, because I know several of our commissioners, this predates your time on the agenda, so the rest of the items are in sequential chronological order. So we'll be going through kind of some of those changes and how it's evolved over time, and thank you to Ms. Paula for bringing this up. Real quick, Andrew, before you start. Yes. The last version, the version that we're looking at today, basically, I don't want to use the word conflict, but really the blue, is that where the applicant's language, and then the staff language, and then it went back to the applicant? Is that the only remaining questions of we don't have perfect agreement between the two yet? Yes. So essentially what we'll be talking about today is, and we'll give you some information on what the applicant's proposing, but yes, those blue changes are representing our staff changes to what the applicant is proposing. So we agree on most of the framework of what they're doing. The blue is just the little tweaks, and I'll explain that in greater detail. And the only blue I see is on the last page? Basically, yes. Okay. All right. Thank you. Distill that down as much as we could so that we can follow as clearly as possible. Yes. So this is a zoning ordinance text amendment that stretches back to late 2024 that deals with an applicant that has property within the economic development zone. This was a zone that was oriented towards jobs producing uses. This was a part of the expansion area master plan that very first in 1996, and once again was sort of the employment driver. It was largely residential, but this was really one of the aspects of the areas where they wanted to concentrate sort of job growth. It had been updated several times over the years, and here is several of the areas where they're kind of most prominent. Here we're talking about this portion, or the applicant, rather, has an interest in this portion, which is out Polo Club near Winchester Road. There also is areas along Newtown Pike that's primarily owned and operated by Dennis Anderson. But speaking to kind of how this has changed over time, so originally this was largely sort of professional and industrial uses. However, over time there were additions, basically aiming to try to get better utilization of the land. So over time they started introducing things that were a little more commercial in nature, adding a residential component, essentially trying within these areas to kind of provide services that really would supplement the intent of the zone, which was once again economic development, having this area and land that could be developed for these kind of larger scale users. So there was updates in 2006 and 2016. 2024, this ZOTA was filed by the applicant. There were numerous discussions back and forth on language. Ultimately they opted to postpone and work on that some more. And so really within the past couple months they've been meeting with staff to kind of talk through what changes would be appropriate and when. So kind of to give you an idea of what that applicant's original proposal was a much larger scope. It talked about expanding the type of supportive uses. So those are the non-principal uses, things that would kind of go along with helping support these jobs producing uses. But really weren't inherently themselves. So basically adding additional uses, changing the percentage that they could occupy, the timing of these, the zoning ordinance within the economic development zone has a limit on how many of these supportive uses you can construct before you start getting into having to develop your actual jobs producing uses. So there are very specific ties in with that that the applicant was seeking to change. They were looking to change open space as well as making changes to the amount of residential development that could occur. So a whole host of changes. Staff originally had issues kind of with the bulk of what they were bringing forth. Once again, looking at this not just within the comprehensive plan, but also making sure that we were staying firm with the intent of that expansion area master plan from 1996. So trying to kind of marry those two together while also giving the applicants some more flexibility to develop their site. What they brought back is a significantly reduced proposal. Really they're just adding a single supportive use and a single accessory use that they think will be beneficial with their project. So that's athletic club facilities and laundry facilities, very low, you know, kind of minimal impact things that do sort of have a very direct tie in with kind of larger scale employers. But really the biggest change is how they want to handle residential development. They have been interested for some time with increasing the amount of residential that they can do on their property. So we were just trying to kind of thread the needle on what would be a kind of reasonable increase for this zone, while also kind of retaining the industrial sort of jobs producing focus for the site. So one of the things that the applicant's language does is currently it exists under the umbrella, residential does, of supportive uses. So basically they wanted to break that out to its own separate category with its own separate rules and essentially double the amount that they could be done. So right now up to eight and a half percent of the gross area can be residential in nature. They wanted to increase that to 17 percent. And there is also a cap on the total number of residential units at 360 for these developments. They were doubling that to 720 as well. Staff as a whole were supportive of those particular changes. It would be an increase, but you're still retaining kind of the majority of the land, even with a full build out of supportive uses and residential uses, that it's still kind of the main driver of a site. The biggest change, and where staff's blue text comes in, is how mixed-use buildings would kind of work. under this proposal. So the the staff alternative language is addressing one very particular part. And so under the applicant's original language, a mixed use building, so it would have an exist another supportive use in it that wasn't residential. Essentially the supportive use would count towards the supportive use total like it had before, but the residential that accompanied it would not count against that overall residential cap. So basically they any amount of commercial use in any of those buildings would allow them to build any amount of residential at essentially any kind of size and scope. We have sort of issues with that and in essence it would allow them to, once again by kind of strategically breaking that out, basically create a fully residential development. So really what we are looking at on the staff's end was trying to kind of retain these are the guardrails that we have for these different types of development to make sure that these sites are really being developed kind of with that economic development focus, but still allowing for those supportive uses. So we did send this language out to the applicant and this was sort of a result of some conversations back and forth. They think that they may have some additional ways to kind of tweak this language further that may work a little bit better with their plan. So this is something that we'll be in conversation with them over the next couple of weeks to see if there's a way to address kind of the mixed-use component. But the way that staff has it laid out is essentially how it's handled currently in the ordinance where a mixed-use building is just counted towards that supportive use bucket, purely residential is in its own bucket, and so staff is in favor of the alternative text which lets them do more residential but doesn't kind of open up that mixed-use building exception to, you know, build as much. So we are anticipating kind of further conversations with the applicant about this, but based on the kind of the report and the language we had when we did this report, we're recommending approval of our staff alternative language. Once again, you know, still maintaining the core intent while, yes, allowing a little bit additional residential development. But applicant is here and then I'd be happy to answer any questions you have about planning staff at this time. So once again, a number of documents in front of you regarding this case. The yellow ones are the most significant and really the staff alternative language kind of gives you a blueprint of what they're saying and how we wanted to tweak that. I guess we have any questions for staff? Yes, Ms. Davis. Thank you, Chair. So I saw in a white section of this thing, the thing that concerned me was under special provisions, the change from 25% of the net developable acreage be open space going to 15. I see no mention of that in this maybe close to ultimate iteration. So does that mean that that specific open space requirement got dealt with in another way instead of putting, changing the percentage that was allowed? Let's see here. It should not. It's gone. It's gone. Okay. Thank you. That was my question. Okay. No more questions for staff. Thank you, sir. Mr. Gross. Good afternoon. Brandon Gross on behalf of the applicant. I have Carson Bachman here with me. So what I would suggest is the white portions, just put them through a shredder. Because it was a very big ask two years ago, or I guess 18 months ago. It's been very, it's been narrowed down. This whole thing started with, it was how do we possibly increase some residential within the ED zone, but still stay within the framework and have the guardrails that are in the expansion area master plan, which is at this point a little bit out of date from what we're doing in our current comprehensive plan. It's really a suburban low-density plan. And so our idea was how can we possibly increase some housing. We have looked at the staff's language and for the most part we're in agreement with them other than this mixed-use building issue. And I think some of this was potentially miscommunication between us and them on what we're trying to attempt. But if you look at the zoning ordinance, most of the principal uses and the supportive uses are realistically ground floor uses. And so our intent with the mixed-use building is, well, once we've used up the ground floor, what's the matter if we build two stories or three stories of housing above that at that point? Because other than office buildings and hospitals and universities, they're almost mostly ground floor uses. And so I think what we have sent back to them was, well, let's allow us to not have necessarily the residential restriction like you would have if we were doing single-use apartment buildings, which would have the new language. But that as to the mixed-use, we still would have that 720 cap, which could act as that guardrail. So we're not going to put in a mixed-use building 3,000 worth of office and then 20 stories, 12 stories I guess, in the EV zone. 12 stories of residential, we're gonna do that five times. So our intent was not to bust through the guardrails. I just think there was some miscommunication. I'm confident we're gonna work through that with them over the next couple weeks to be able to be heard on the 18th. We sent them language this morning. We think they're gonna talk about it later on this week. We're gonna get with them hopefully next week and then kind of hammer that out. But so we started out really big and now we're very narrow. And so it's really just focusing on residential. And ultimately it's going from 360 units to 720, potentially, units. And if you look at the Calgill's property, we have 100 acres. And so you're going to 720 over the 50 acres. But if you look at that, yeah, essentially we have left 50 acres. We sold 50 to UK, which brings me to the Baptist Health and UK component of this. So in the 06 changes, the hospital campuses were allowed. And so it's interesting because the ED zone, at least as to the Hamburg area, went from maybe we could attract Procter & Gamble to come down from Cincinnati and have a campus to, oh my gosh, this is going to be a huge medical facility in which Baptist Health and UK could produce thousands of jobs in this area. And so the idea was, okay, how can we bring some more housing in this area so that possibly people could live and work within that area? So at least to our section, we think the hospitals are really going to provide the jobs. And we're trying to support those with some additional supportive uses. And then also have, you know, more or less doubling the ability to have residential housing from 360 to 720. So, but Carson's here. I'm here with any questions at this time. Okay. All righty. Commissioner Motley-Davis. This may or may not so apply. What happened to the language about athletic facilities or a laundries thing being, service being allowed? Is that still part of this? That's still part of this. Okay. And so the gym would be a supportive use. And the supportive use would fall within that cap. But it would just be one more supportive use we could put into a building like we could. I think restaurants are allowed and some other support. Banks are allowed and some other supportive use. So we are keeping that particular portion. Sure. So the only thing that strikes me as perhaps contentious would be if it's a facility that does the like dry cleaning processing, which can bring in. Is that the kind of laundry you are talking about? Okay. Now on the laundry, the laundry is an accessory use. And so 40 pounds or less. And so we are looking at more like, not a dry cleaner, but more like a pickup station or a laundromat. Most dry cleaners at this point, they no longer have satellite dry cleaning. It all goes to one. So the idea is for us not to have one of those larger, what I would consider maybe even I-2 in our zoning. But essentially somewhere where they do a lot of dry cleaning, this would be more of a pickup. You drop off, you pick up. You aren't bringing that kind of environmentally suspect stuff in? No, no. This is more like hearts on Harrisburg Road. Sure. That makes sense. Thank you. Okay. Do we have any other questions? Yes, sir. I've got a couple of questions. And it is a little bit about some of the thought process on some of the changes that we got to. One of which, in an earlier proposal, you all talked about changing the floor area ratio, I think from one to two. The staff did, and that's gone away. And I was gonna ask about that, but now I know it was the staff that had proposed that. But I'll go ahead and finish the question, which is that, you know, we have seen through these rezonings with R4 and R5 and other cases, we've gotten away from, we've left building height caps, but gotten away from floor area ratio maximums. And I was wondering, I mean I initially saw that the proposal was to increase that, and now I've seen that we've dropped it. And I guess what was the logic that we didn't eliminate that entirely if we have open space requirements? Yeah, so part of when planning staff sort of first looked at changing the floor area ratio from one to two, we had basically, and I think it's included in this proposed language, proposed an entirely new way of looking at basically supportive uses to where it would be based on just the land area and trying to kind of build up from there. So when we instead abandoned, you know, we presented that to the applicant and they decided, no, we kind of really want to work more within the existing framework. That's where we really were like, okay, we're not totally changing the paradigm. But there is some implications to, you know, especially out within the expansion area of exactions, infrastructure, some of that gets very, very complicated very quickly. So insofar as to say when we were sticking with kind of the existing framework for the rest of it, we felt most comfortable kind of leaving that as a one. We had some preliminary conversations with the applicant. They don't think that that, the floor area ratio itself is going to be really a limiting factor. You know, they've got a lot of land to be kind of, you know, factored in with the request. It's really from their perspective getting kind of the ability to use more of that floor area ratio that they're allowed and the allowable square footage towards that residential use. So basically it was just a relic from when we were kind of proposing larger changes to how that was looked at. Thank you. Okay, I have a question really for staff. We've talked about this countywide zone change in relation to one property. Is there anything that stands out to you of how it would change the possible uses with the other ED land? Or just, I guess I'm trying to see, are there any unintended consequences? Yeah, so this would apply to both, I mean really both of the main areas. So this development on Winchester and kind of the Polo Club and then Newtown as well that does have does have an existing residential component as well. So they would be able to take care, I mean, advantage of the same proposals. Really the way that we were looking at it is, you know, kind of regardless at the end of the day even increasing the residential percentage, you're still looking at it where the majority of that site is being used for those uses. So, and I believe their attorney is sitting behind you. I don't know if Mr. Murphy's had a chance to form an opinion about the language or not, but definitely will be one of the stakeholders that we kind of will want to hear from as this kind of progresses. Okay, I'm not, this is, it is a specific question, but it's a question I try to ask any time we're talking about a ZOTA that affects countywide when it's really brought about by one parcel or one. So I just like that to be on the record that it is countywide. Okay, if there are no other questions, anything from Mr. Murphy? I'll say, we have met with Brittany, or I have not, Carson has met with Brittany, and they they may not have seen the latest language, but Carson said he'll reach out and have discussions. Sorry, Fayette Alliance. Sorry, Fayette Alliance. Yes, so, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. So we have talked, so he has talked with Fayette Alliance, and then he's gonna circle back around with him after today to get their feedback. That's great. Okay, if there are no other questions, thank you. Thank you all, and thank you for working with everybody. I appreciate that. Okay, is there anyone from the public who would like to speak to this ZOTA today? Seeing none, do we have any final commissioner comment or question? If not, the floor is open for a motion. So we have a staff report recommending approval of the staff's changes, the staff alternative tax. Oh, Mr. Chair? Okay, here's a clarification question for Council. Just a quick question. So we have before us a staff report with a recommendation of approval of the staff alternative tax. You've indicated that you believe you're 99% there. In a perfect world for Mr. Gross, what recommendation comes from the Zoning Committee today? Oh, in a perfect world, I'll bring you my alternative language, and you'll approve that. Well, I just know that, but no, I'm just teasing. No, obviously it's not gonna happen. Ms. Jones, are we having, in either case, since this is a ZOTA, there's gonna be a public hearing. So we're okay with you either approving the staff's language, knowing that we are gonna be giving an alternative at the hearing, or to do a postponement while we work to the 18th. Because in either case, this is not one of those where there's abbreviated. So whether you say yes or no at this point, it won't really matter much procedurally. We're still gonna have a hearing on this in front of you. Okay, does that make sense? Yes, and I want to be as clear as we can. So if you're more comfortable, a postponement's fine with us. Okay, that's the awkward question I wanted to ask. Yes, and we're fine with that. Okay, great. Thank you, thank you. Okay. Regarding ZOTA 24-6, per applicant's request, we are... Sorry. Regarding ZOTA 24-6, per applicant, we are requesting a postponement. Thank you, Commissioner Jonathan Davis. This is... Thank you. Second from Commissioner Molly Davis. So this is a recommendation for postponement to the Planning Commission. Do we have any comment on that motion? If not, if you are in favor of that motion of postponement, please raise your right hand, and that carries unanimously. Thank you. Now, do we have the downtime master plan update today? Okay. You have three minutes. State your name. No, I'm just kidding. I'm not sure if you were here earlier on when I said this presentation was so long. We need about two hours, so I'll try making it as short as possible. So this is an update to the downtown area master plan, and this is from the Project Advisory Committee. This is what was part of the summary of what was presented to them. Original presentation was super long, two hours, you might agree with that, and there was a lot of details on that, and I'll try to get as much of that as possible. So right now, we are on task number four of the plan, which is plan development. We have ongoing community outreach. This will go on throughout the entire project. We are meeting with various organizations, and now we've moved from meeting the people who were in the infill and redevelopment area. We are expanding outwards to the whole county. So far, we've had engagements. We had an event on October 8th. Over 200 people showed up, and we've had online surveys, stakeholder meetings, and so far we've engaged with over 4,100 people. This is the Downtown Dreaming, the interactive workshop that was held at the Lyric Theatre, and there were over 200 people who showed up for that. This event included surveys, paper surveys that people took, talking to the consultants. There were consultants that dealt with open space, consultants that dealt with planning, transportation, and we had our director and assistant director also taking pictures, and some of our staff family was there helping out with that. Then we had also an online survey that was taken by 118 people. 84 percent of those did not attend the Lyric Theatre, so we've been able to reach people in the community as well as engage people online. So the survey that's been taken, this is part of the questions in the survey, was where people, the neighborhoods they lived in and the zip codes they came from. As you can see, 4508 had 34 percent of people who participated in this, and East End, Belcourt, and Ellsford were the biggest participants in the survey. So when it comes to part of what we've gone through so far, there's the housing opportunities, affordable, walkable neighborhoods is something that a lot of people are asking for. Mixed housing types like lofts, townhomes, and adaptive reuse was also ranked high on that. And then when it came to retail opportunities, most of the people requested in the survey requested every day use retail opportunities, and very few people, nine percent, wanted national brands and chains within the downtown area. Then when it came to dining opportunities, there was the casual sit-down. This doesn't show up here, but someone mentioned that we don't have a breakfast place downtown, and I think we need that. The CBD. Exactly, thank you, that's exactly what I was just thinking. When we get there, we will see. But someone was, and we have two vacant lots, build spaces across here, so maybe someone can invest in that so that we can have breakfast. We need breakfast. I come in hungry and I live hungry. Then we also looked at the parks and open spaces, and something that was interesting about this was the lowest score here was gathering area and event loans, and that was interesting because we had, part of our outreach was done in the Gatton Park opening and on the Phoenix Park opening, but I guess people think that might be just enough, we don't need more. So landscape areas and green infrastructure ranked really high, and pocket parks too. We have very few pocket parks within those three, what do you call it, three lines, so hopefully we can improve on that. And then safety, affordability, and connectivity came up when it came to transportation related stuff. So these are the emerging themes so far, and I'd point out that Lexington's unhoused population is a top concern. This was not in the RFP, but in all, most of the outreach we've done, people have asked how to support the unhoused community, and so the consultants are looking into that. We are meeting with various groups, we've met with the police, we're meeting with the social services. This week alone, I've had scheduled five meetings, and we are also meeting with the Homeless Prevention Task Force sometime in the next two weeks. So the key existing conditions. The marketing analysis studied the housing and affordability, storefront visitor experience, and the office spaces within the downtown area. And this was a very interesting thing. When you look at this, my biggest takeaway on this was when you compare the downtown core with the infield development area, was the medium home value, which is at five hundred and twelve thousand, and the median income is only at twenty eight thousand. That was eye-opening, and interestingly the population is growing, and hopefully we can grow it some more so that it can support our retail and maybe bring down some of the housing prices. So this was, in this chart, I'll have to read this because this was a very complicated part of the presentation. This chart shows how affordable housing align with income levels in Lexington, infield and redevelopment area, Lexington's infield and redevelopment area. We are looking at the relationship between income brackets and what kinds of housing those income levels can realistically support, both in terms of rent and home purchase prices. Housing mismatch exists. The medium home price in the downtown area is five hundred and twelve thousand, as previously mentioned, which is well above what a moderate income household can afford. Cost burden risks is high or low for low income households unless housing is deeply subsidized or preserved as naturally affordable. This data reinforces the need to create a spectrum of housing, especially in the sub three hundred thousand price range and under thousand in rent. Without intervention, only high income earners can afford to own homes in downtown, so we need housing according to that. This further supports what we saw in the previous chart, where there's four thousand six hundred rental households that are severely cost burdened. This slide focuses on the cost burden among renters and owners in the infield redevelopment area compared to Lexington as a whole. It reveals a significant affordability gap, especially among renter households. Okay, I was thrown off by that. Come in hungry, leave hungry. Some are still eating. Okay, well the plan can solve all, well this plan can't solve all housing issues. Downtown can contribute roughly four hundred to nine hundred affordable units. I had a question as soon as I left the other presentation on this. This one? Yeah. Okay. What my question is, is how are they able to define that without having the lines of downtown defined? So what happened was, we had a study area that we gave them. So the study area is where these numbers came from, the infill and redevelopment map. So that number is actually the number for the infill and redevelopment. Let me take you back a few slides. So yeah, the white line is the infill and redevelopment, the downtown core is the one in blue. So these numbers come from there. Sorry about that, it's not the white, but the downtown core. So that's where the numbers came from. So you did give them a parameter on that? No, we did not give them a parameter. Or a boundary. You gave them a boundary? So these are the studies, and if we go to the end, you'll see how they narrowed it down. So originally they started with the whole infill and redevelopment area, and then once the lines started coming up, that's when they started giving this, if that makes sense. Because you told us several times during the exercise that downtown hadn't been defined. It's not been defined, it's part of the presentation. Yeah, so I guess I was struggling with the juxtaposition of like, where's downtown, where's the line, and then sort of starting to quantify like estimates of population, because it seems like in order to do sort of quantitative analysis with people, you would need a specific geographic area. Okay, let's... I will come back to this slide once I get towards the end so that we can compare notes. That's okay. Where were we? So storefront demand, two-thirds of our overnight visitors will support about 660,000 square feet, and this is some of the spending. When I tell you they come in hungry, live hungry, that's because all households here spend $12, but people who come for overnight stays spend about $129 on dining and entertainment. Then if you look at the implied housing demand, there's a demand to sustain the retail that we are looking for and dining. We need about 2,500 new or rehabbed units, about 50 to 75,000 new class A and class B office spaces, and about 200 to 400 new hotel rooms. No, just on the implied demand for office space, I guess I just want to see how they arrived at that number. There's no way. You know the numbers? Yes. They indicated that that's for class A office space for the next 10 years, so replacing some of the older stock and stock that might be transferred over to housing. So then that's not including, that's not new, that's including existing. New and repositioned class A and class B, so repositioned meaning rehabbed as well. That's still a lot. We talked about that quite a bit. They actually said that they were shocked with how large that was and modified that from there. They were shocked with how large it was? Yes. What do you think, Al? We're gonna rely on the consultant on this, but we've asked for a little bit more information. Yeah, I didn't want to put you down on this. I was curious seeing what you thought, because you live downtown. It depends. We will get to that here in just a moment. I'm going to add though, because I don't think you said this, but they said this in the presentation, which is that 2,500 new and rehabbed units, they just took 10% of the city's estimate and assigned it to downtown, is what I got from their presentation. So I don't know that they defined office, but that was the methodology on the new and rehabbed units. So I will have a conversation with a consultant, because we, they cut down the presentation into this. If I knew we're going to dwell deeper into this, I would have given you more than three minutes, boy. I'm fine, but we we can come back with a presentation just on the market analysis, because that was it's even the original presentation. The whole plan was, can we have a separate presentation, because they said it was super long, and they had only two hours, but they cut it down to that. So if you want to schedule another meeting and just do the financial, and I mean the housing and market analysis, we can do that. Well, yeah, or we could, yeah, if they send us something that we can read in our time, I think Robin's point is very good. We have these numbers, can we just, we want to put stock in them. If we could just see how they got there, I think it would allow us to understand, to comprehend everything in a more complete way. We will do that. Thank you, Boyd. Implied retail demand and new support. Potential population of 2,500 households. The implied demand would be about 160,000 square feet of retail and dining. 240 workers, about a thousand square feet, and 300 plus hotel rooms is the same as 2,500 households at 160,000 square feet. The market stuff would be, the computations would be helpful for that too. I will make sure I get that to everyone. As I said, I actually did take a lot of time trying to figure these numbers because this came through really quick, and so this, if you look at this chart, this is one of the things that's guiding how we are moving forward. If you look at the top, top right, that is good economics with strong demand. Bottom right, strong demand but challenged economics. Then left is low demand, challenge, that's the lower left, low demands, challenged economics, and good economics, low demands on the top right. So that is the basis of the information on this chart. So things like student housing, hotel, visitor dining, student dining, market rate housing, that's good economics, strong demand, but things like high-end condos, it's good economics because there are people who can afford it, but a small percentage of population, but that's low demand for that. Then things like conventional offices, resident service, retail, that's low demand and challenged economics. And this is our current zones in the downtown area. We have B2, B2A, B2B. This is the land use, most of it is residential, and this is the historic districts within the same area. There's a total of 15 historic sites in Lexington, 12 of them are within the downtown area. And then the project goals. So this is a back from the Lyric Theater, as you can, as I mentioned, we had our director and some director in there, they were part of the people talking to the crowd. So establishing project goals, this is set, this is to set the tone for the plan, and we have eight project goals. These are our project goals, and as you can see still support Lexington and house population is one of our goals on this. So now defining the downtown. Financial had a lot of discussion, I hope this also has some discussion. This is what downtown is not. This is, the master plan is just going to be a guiding documents and everything that comes from there, any changes that are made will have to go, especially related to land use, will have to go through the same process. This is not going to change anything, it's going to be recommendations. And then we've met, we've been meeting the community. One thing we've done is given them a map of the infill and the development area and different people had different sketches, and that went on for the first three months, and we took all those maps and the consultant put all that together, and this is what we came with. Majority of the people wanted the medium-sized downtown, which was around Third Street all the way to Maxwell, Midland all the way to Oliver Lewis Way. And then the second most favorite was all the way to Loudon. Someone pointed out that her lives downtown, that's around Loudon. Then to Euclid, Woodland and McConnell Spring. And the smallest, the most compact one was just the CBD. And with all that information, there was discussions on which one to choose or where to draw the lines, and the consultant said all three can work. And the way we make that work is have an area of influence, then we'll have the downtown core, then we'll have the CBD. This map is definitely going to change. It will be outgoing, we'll have it on our website tomorrow, and there will be comments that will lead to changes. So far it's, this presentation hasn't been out that long, but we're already receiving people asking for some changes to do with this. So that starts from Loudon, goes all the way to Cooper Drive, goes past the cemetery, goes all the way past, I forget the name of that road, just past Main Street. No, not Waller, it's, it goes from Avenue of Champions all the way to Winchester Road. Not Euclid, it starts with an R. If it comes back to me before I'm done, I will bring it back to you. And then from there we have the downtown core, so if we go back, that's the area of influence, then we have the downtown core, then we have the CBD. I, it almost, it looks like Henry Clay Boulevard, but I can't see because it's kind of obstructed. We will get back to it. How does that compare to the infill and redevelopment zone? Is there, can you, can you ask the consultant to like overlay them? Oh, we can overlay each. Yeah, that'd be great, I think it'd be fun to see. And then, I've explained this, then, so the next steps is refine the project goals, continue identifying opportunity areas. We need areas for the catalytic sites, and then the advisory committee will be meeting again in February, and we'll have another community-wide meeting in February after the advisory committee meeting, and we will continue to update the website and the public engagement will continue throughout the process. Questions? Go back to watch. Okay. Boyd, for presenting on an empty stomach, you did great. I really appreciate that. Glad you didn't hear the sounds coming from it. Okay. What questions do we have for Boyd today? Yeah, to follow up on Robin's question, if you go to the next slide, and sorry, maybe one or two more, that one. So they determined, the consultants determined an area, and then got these numbers based on those boundaries? I believe that's what happened. And when you say the pink is the downtown Lexington, you don't think that's the CBD, you think it's the, it was the black boundary, kind of the middle? Yes, the downtown core. Okay, downtown core. Does that make sense, I guess, Robin? Yeah, okay. So good. So I guess if you could confirm that with them. It was sort of the confusion, because it was like, these are some proposed map lines, but then we're also then pulling those numbers, and I think it is important to, I think almost with our way that we're looking at this, show the maps, and then define that, and then go into the numbers, so that there's a space, there's a geographic area that's associated with the numbers on the report. I think I see what you're saying, it's, we presented this without a specific area, and then show you what the area is, which doesn't really make sense. What is the area? What is the number applied to? Makes sense. Okay, all right, Boyd, that was great, very informative and helpful, and we appreciate it. And once again, this presentation will be on the downtownlexplan.com starting tomorrow, so all comments, there'll be another survey coming up, and all your opinions matter, so please give us your opinions and we'll make the changes. Thank you. Okay, thank you, Boyd, very much. Okay, do we have any other staff items today? Thank you. Then without objection, we are adjourned. Thank you very much. We're the ones who had an ocean, an ocean deep inside. That ain't no sin to be glad you're alive. I want to find one face that ain't looking through me. I want to find one place I want to spit in the face of these bad odds. You've got to live it every day like I'm broken. I'm sad because the pressure's gotta pay. Burn it down. People are searching for the kind of love that we possess. Some go on searching their whole life through and never find the love I found in you. And when I speak of you, I see envy in other man's eyes. And I'm well aware of what's on their minds. They pretend to be my friend with all the time. They long to persuade you from my side. They'd give the world and all their homes for just one moment. We have no time to talk. They want you because of the pride that it gives. But burn it down. I want you because I need you to live. But why live only to hold you? Some other men, they long to control you. But how can they control you? When they cannot control themselves? From wanting you, needing you. You belong to me. I tell the world, you belong to me. I tell the world, you're the soul of me. I tell the world, you're a part of me. Burn it down. In your eyes, I find the kind of peace of mind the world is searching for. But you, you give me the joy this heart of mine has always been longing for. In you, I have what other men long for. All men need someone to worship and adore. That's why I treasure you and place you high above. For the only joy in life is to be loved. So whatever you do, burn it down. Keep on loving me. Burn it down. Keep on needing me. Burn it down. Burn it down. You're the soul of me. Heart of me. You're a prayer to me. Burn it down. You mean more to me than what was ever meant to be. Well, it's one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready. Now go, cat, go, but don't you step on my blue suede shoes. Well, you can do anything but take me over my blue suede shoes. Well, you can knock me down, step in my face, slander my name all over the place. Well, do anything that you want to do. But now, honey, lay off them shoes and don't you step on my blue suede shoes. Well, you can do anything but take me over my blue suede shoes. Let's go, cat. Oh, walk the dog. Well, you can burn my house, steal my car, drink my liquor from an old fruit jar. Well, do anything that you want to do. But now, honey, lay off my shoes and don't you step on my blue suede shoes. Well, you can do anything but take me over my blue suede shoes. Well, it's one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready. Now, go, go, go, but don't you step on my blue suede shoes. Well, you can do anything but take me over my blue suede shoes. Well, it's blue, blue, blue suede shoes. Blue, blue, blue suede shoes. Yeah! Blue, blue, blue suede shoes, baby. Blue, blue, blue suede shoes. Well, you can do anything but stay off of my blue suede shoes. Now, when I was just a little boy, I was standing to my daddy's knee. My papa said, son, don't let a man get you. Do what he done to me. Don't forget you. Don't forget you, Nana. And I can remember the 4th of July, running through the backwoods, baby. And I can still hear my old hound dog barking, chasing down a hoodoo there. Chasing down a hoodoo there. Born on a bayou. Born on a bayou. Born on a bayou. Born on a bayou. Born on a bayou. Born on a bayou. Born on a bayou. Born on a bayou. Born on a bayou. Born on a bayou. Born on a bayou. Born on a bayou. Born on a bayou. Born on a bayou. Down on the boulevard, they take it hard. They look at life with such disregard. They say it can't be won, the way the game is run. But if you choose to stay, you wind up playing anyway. So play! You know the kids are in shock up and down the block. The folks at home playin' beat the clock. Down at the Golden Club, they set the young ones up. Under the neon light, sellin' day for night. So ride! Nobody rides for free. Nobody gets it like they wanna be. Nobody hands you any guarantee. Nobody. No! Nobody, baby. The hearts are hurt and the times are tough. Down on the boulevard, the night's enough. Times will always be a good show in the street lights. Everybody walks right by like they're safe or something. Oh, no! Nobody knows you. Nobody, nobody. Nobody owes you nothin'. Nobody, nobody. Nobody shows you what to think of. Nobody, nobody. Nobody knows you. Hey, hey, baby. Got to watch the street and keep your feet on the ground. Make your pay, baby. It's only time on the boulevard. It's like this. The way it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, baby. It's only time on the boulevard. And the pavements are burning, I sit around. Trying to smile, but the air is so heavy and dry. Strange voices are saying, What did they say? Things I can't understand. It's too close to comfort me. She has got right out of hand. It's a cruel, cruel, cruel summer. Leaving me here on my own. It's a cruel, it's a cruel, cruel summer. Now you're gone. Now you're gone. The city is crowded. My friends are away and I'm on my own. It's too hard to handle. So I gotta get up and go. It's a cruel, cruel, cruel summer. Leaving me here on my own. It's a cruel, it's a cruel, cruel summer. Now you're gone. You're not the only one. It's a cruel, cruel, cruel summer. Leaving me. Leaving me here on my own. It's a cruel, it's a cruel, cruel summer. Now you're gone. Now you're gone. Now you're gone. There was a time. When I was so broken hearted. Love wasn't much. Of a friend of mine. The tables have turned. Yeah. That kind of love. Was the killing kind. So listen. All I want. Is someone I can't resist. I know all I need to know. So listen. I know all I need to know. I need you... To... Love. Me. Now you're gone. There was a time. When I was so broken hearted. Love wasn't much. Of a friend of mine. The tables have... Turned. Yeah. Now you're gone. There was a time. When I was so broken hearted. Love wasn't much. Of a friend of mine. The tables have... Turned. Yeah. Now you're gone. There was a time. When I was so broken hearted. Love wasn't much. Of a friend of mine. The tables have... Turned. Now you're gone. There was a time. When I was so broken hearted. Love wasn't much. Of a friend of mine. The tables have... Turned. Yeah. Now you're gone. There was a time. When I was so broken hearted. Love wasn't much. Of a friend of mine. The tables have... Turned. Now you're gone. There was a time. When I was so broken hearted. Love wasn't much. Of a friend of mine. The tables have... Turned. Now you're gone. There was a time. When I was so broken hearted. Love wasn't much. Of a friend of mine. The tables have... Turned. Now you're gone. There was a time. When I was so broken hearted. Love wasn't much. Of a friend of mine. The tables have... Turned. Now you're gone. There was a time. When I was so broken hearted. Love wasn't much. Of a friend of mine. The tables have... Turned. Now you're gone. There was a time. When I was so broken hearted. Love wasn't much. Of a friend of mine. The tables have... Turned. Now you're gone. There was a time. When I was so broken hearted. Love wasn't much. Of a friend of mine. The tables have... Turned. Now you're gone. There was a time. When I was so broken hearted. All you're regretting. And now I try to change it. Just leave it, leave it. You're not the only one. I see it, believe it. Is the only way. You'll never know... Ah! Ah! And now I try to change it. Just leave it, leave it. You're not the only one. I see it, believe it. Is the only way. You'll never know... She's an easy lover. She'll get a hold of you. Believe it. She's like no other. Before you know it. You'll be on your knees. You'll be on your knees. She's an easy lover. She'll take your heart. But you won't feel it. She's like no other. And I'm just trying to make you see. Trying to make you see. She's an easy lover. She'll get a hold of you. Believe it. And like no other. Before you know it. You'll be on your knees. Yeah, yeah, yeah! She's an easy lover. She'll take your heart. But you won't feel it. You won't feel it. She's like no other. And I'm just trying to make you see. Trying to make you see. She's an easy lover. She'll get a hold of you. Ebony and ivory Live together in perfect harmony Side by side on my piano Keyboard, oh Lord Why don't we Why don't we We all know That people are the same Wherever you go There is good and bad In everyone And we learn to live We learn to give each other What we need to survive Together alive Ebony and ivory Live together in perfect harmony Side by side on my piano Keyboard, oh Lord Why don't we Why don't we Ebony and ivory Live together in perfect harmony Ebony and ivory Side by side on my piano We all know That people are the same Wherever you go There is good and bad In everyone We learn to live When we learn to give each other What we need to survive Together alive Ebony and ivory Live together in perfect harmony Side by side on my piano Keyboard, oh Lord Why don't we Side by side on my piano Keyboard, oh Lord Why don't we Why don't we Ebony and ivory Live together in perfect harmony Ebony and ivory Live together in perfect harmony Ebony and ivory Live together in perfect harmony Ebony and ivory Live together in perfect harmony Ebony and ivory Live together in perfect harmony Ebony and ivory For your eyes only Can see me through the night For your eyes only I never need to hide You can see so much in me So much in me that's new I never felt till I looked at you Christmas at Ashland On this edition of Lexington Now Winter Car Care Tips Christmas at Ashland and the Firefighters Toy Track Christmas at Ashland and the Firefighters Toy Track I'm Neal Noah and welcome to Lexington Now for the week of December 1st, 2025. Winter weather is just around the corner so it's a good time to prepare your vehicle. Emily Fay of Emergency Management joins us with some tips. Hi everyone, I'm Emily Fay, the Public Information Officer with Lexington Emergency Management. Stay tuned, we've got a special inclement weather segment coming up next. Everybody's needs are going to look a little bit different when it comes to winter, but we do have some basic things that everybody should have in their car. You do want to remember to include food and water but keep in mind that perishable food is best. If the water will freeze, you might be better off taking that with you every time you go out. Seems like a hassle until you need it, but that's the point of being prepared. So we've got a first aid kit to help you patch yourself up before help can arrive. We've got the very important ice scraper. Remember never to pour hot water, boiling water on your windshield, it will just crack it. It does not get off any faster. A blanket, keep yourself warm. If you get stuck on the side of the road, your car breaks down. This one's pretty cool, it's an electric blanket. You can plug it into the cigarette lighter or the phone charging outlet and it'll help keep you warm. We've also got some of these emergency blankets. They kind of look like tinfoil, but they help you stay warm if you don't have that big fuzzy blanket or you need an extra layer of protection. Hand sanitizer, you never know when you're going to get dirty. So we've got our jumper cables here, in case somebody else can help you. But if you can't get help, sometimes it's useful to have a way to restart your battery on your own. And this is a battery-powered jumper cable set. Make sure you charge it at home. It's got battery cables in the case. And in theory, you can jumpstart your car wherever you are. There are different sizes, just FYI. I have a small car. So if you're stuck on the side of the road, and you're waiting for help, you need to be able to be seen, especially if you're at night or if it's snowing really hard, you want a way to mark yourself. I've got a flashlight here. Always a good way that you can flash that, wave it around for first responders to find you. Of course, the goal is not to blind them, but just to alert them of your location. You've seen the red triangles in the back of cars. It's always a great option. They're reflective. This is for my personal car kit. It is a magnetic hook light that you can just turn on and it flashes for you. It's got a bunch of different settings. This will be bright here in a second. But it takes AAA batteries. It's also magnetic. It's got a hook. And you can put those on the side of your car while you're waiting for help. You can attach them to a tree if you're stuck underneath one. But just another way to alert first responders to your location. And, of course, if it's bad weather, we have the all-important weather radio. This one happens to be battery-powered and solar-powered. You can also hand-crank it. It's also a flashlight and an emergency phone bank. It has weather radio function and then regular FM and AM radio function. So you can listen to the weather. You can listen to the weather forecast if you need to. If there's alerts coming your way. You can also use it to see if you get lost in the dark. It's one of those really handy tools you never know you need until you have. Again, when you're trying to be found, if something happens, you go off the road, you're waiting for rescue. This has a little whistle here. It's got a little chain cord to keep it around your neck. But another way for people to help find you. Because if you're stuck in the snow, sometimes you get covered with snow banks. We don't see that a whole lot in central Kentucky. But, again, you can never be too prepared. And this is a multi-tool here. It's got pliers and a little knife in there in case you need to cut something you need to get out of wherever you are. Again, one of those things you don't really think about you need until you have. And I've been stuck on the side of the road and been happy I had. So sorry for a multi-tool like this just to help me make the day a little bit easier. Some of the dad advice includes having like a little Ziploc bag of rock salt or like the defrosting salt that you can use, even sand. So having a little Ziploc bag of salt or sand that you can use to get your car out when it's stuck, kind of sprinkle it under your tires. So we always have our phones with us. You want to make sure you keep that charged. A charging cable. It does plug into our handy-dandy weather radio here. But it's got all the different cable ends in case you need it. Just keep your phone charged because that's how we're going to get help these days. And then last but not least, we've got our awesome umbrella. Like we mentioned before, you never want to drive with snow or ice buildup on your car. And then you never want to pour boiling water on your windshield to try to defrost it faster, break off that ice. One of the tools you can use is a de-icer. Different brands you can use. Spray it on there. It helps accelerate that defrosting process. This one has a built-in scraper to help get those thick chunks off. But again, you want to be safe. Never get on the road without making sure you're fully prepared. You can find more preparedness information, especially about vehicle kits, at BeReadyLexington.com. Sign up for LexAlerts at BeReadyLexington.com to get weather information sent to your phone, email, text message, voice call, or even to assistive listening devices to help alert you of severe weather when it's incoming and so you can hopefully stay off the roads and stay safe. Ashland is a great place to visit around Christmas. Jim Clark gives us a preview. Well, this year we're doing things a little differently. Last year we had a big holiday market before the illumination here at Ashland, but this year we're starting on December 1 on Monday with opening the Christmas shop at the cottage. So the cottage, which is right near the parking lot, will be filled with all sorts of great products from local artists and craftspeople. So we're using that week leading up to December 6 when we have the illumination, which will start around 4 o'clock. We have the Kentuckians Chorus coming. We also have Santa, who will be posing for photographs with the kids and some adults and probably a whole lot of dogs. And then we will launch our Christmas season with the full illumination of all the buildings on the property as well as some of the trees. And then that is the first night of our candlelight tours. So that will start right after the illumination. We run it like an open house. It's on timed entry. People can go to henryclay.org to get tickets for the candlelight tours. And we're offering those on the 6th and then on the 12th and the 14th. It's a great tradition. Every year we try and do something a little different. This year the theme is Christmas through the eyes of children. So that's the first that we've actually focused on the children that lived here over the five generations of Clay family members. And that came about because recently a descendant gave us a whole treasure trove of artifacts that included photographs and drawings, ink drawings of the kids from the 1880s up into the 1920-1930 period. So each room is decorated a little differently. Where we are right now focuses on the teddy bear because a little known fact is that Theodore Roosevelt stayed here at Ashland. He was friends with Henry Clay McDowell who was Henry's grandson-in-law. And they were members of a hunting club. And through that connection, that's how the teddy bear came about because there was a story of Theodore Roosevelt not wanting to kill a captured bear. There's a lot of stories that we're able to tell through the lives of the kids that lived here and different ways in which Christmas was celebrated here. But also people can come and just take the regular tours and they'll see the house decorated. It's just a little different when it's at night. It's a very romantic and intimate environment at night. And because it's open house, you can go through the house at your own pace versus the docent-led tours. People can always go online to henryclay.org and they'll find information about our regular tours, the candlelight tours, and any other events that will be going on. Toys for Christmas, right after this. Hello, I'm Lieutenant Chris Van Brackle with the Lexington Police Department Traffic Unit. Today we are talking about disability accessible parking and the aisles between those parking places. Accessible parking is a valuable and necessary resource for people with disabilities and that includes the striped area next to accessible parking spots. These are access aisles and it is illegal to park here even if you have an accessible parking permit. Police in Lex Park will write tickets when they see vehicles parked in an access aisle or parked in an accessible space without a placard and the fine is $250. Know where and where not to park. Keep the access aisles clear. Thank you and drive safe. Check out LexTV this Christmas. Welcome back to Lexington Now. Lexington Fire's annual toy drive continues in the run-up to Christmas and there's no better time to give to those in need. Each holiday season, the men and women of the Lexington Fire Department come together for one mission, outside and beyond emergency response. That mission is to bring hope and happiness to children across our community. It's only through the generosity of our residents, our local businesses, and community partners that we can meet that mission through the annual firefighter toy drive. This program embodies the true meaning of community and what makes Lexington special and that's neighbors helping neighbors. So we're excited to announce today that all Lexington Fire Stations, our collective point for our toy drive, also for the Lexington Big Give food drive. We'd also like to encourage everyone that can to donate because together we can make a real difference. Sign-ups will begin Monday, a week from today, on November the 10th, and they will run through the following week from that day, Tuesday, where we'll have make-up days those last few days. Those will be posted on our website and our Facebook page. As the chief mentioned, all 24 stations are a drop-off location. If you see here next to me, we have a special Herbie that will be out in front of each station. It's just so that our toys will stay clean and dry. fire trucks inside the station. That means that they're out on a run and this is an opportunity for you to drop those in. They stay safe and they'll bring them in. If you notice there's a sign on the front that says that we're looking for new unwrapped toys. So you can get a new unwrapped toy, drop it off as part of your family tradition to any of our fire stations. We also are utilizing stations 15 and 21. Station 15 is out at Shiltoe Park and station 21 is off Maple Leaf Drive which are close to our two shopping districts and we are partnered with Believing in Forever with Divine Karma. He is our director of One Lexington. We're doing a coat drive for that as well. So a lot of things going on. We have toys, new unwrapped toys to the fire stations. The Big Give food donations can go there and then the coat drive. So we kind of hope that everyone will turn that into one of their family traditions to go maybe buy a new coat, a new toy, get some canned foods and everyone in Lexington wins at that point. It is the season for children to receive gifts and many times these children won't receive gifts from any other source and so we're really happy to be able to do this and this year we've talked a lot about our history. We're 250 years old here in Lexington and as was previously mentioned this program is 96 years old and it has served our community really well for a long time. We look forward to celebrating their 100th anniversary in just a few short years but it started during the Great Depression, if you can imagine that, when almost every family was suffering and yet families were able to give to others so that children could have toys at Christmas time. It has continued through recessions, booms, busts, even a pandemic and so it's resilient and lasted a long time. So to make the Firefighters Toy Program work, our firefighters go above and beyond every year and they collect and give away toys for about 3,000 children. It's a lot of children and they produce a lot of joy for those kids and it comes with a lot of hard work. Our firefighters volunteer their time to reach out and encourage the community to give and then make sure that the toys are ready for Christmas morning. It's easy to give as you heard just a minute ago, drop off your new unwrapped toys for ages 0 to 12 and that can be at any fire station and I want to congratulate our firefighters and thank also the generous businesses, the citizens, the churches, the community groups who donate toys. Now this is the most exciting part for me because I'm going to start by donating the first toy to Assistant Chief Harris and Lieutenant McFarland and the FOF and of course you probably know what it's going to be but here it is. It's a nice big fire engine. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Eric Howard joins us again this week to give us a look at this weekend's events. Hey Lexington, I'm Eric in Human Resources and here's some upcoming events this weekend in Lexington and Fayette County. Holiday Nature Ornaments. Join Raven Run staff this Saturday at 11 a.m. to make Holiday Nature Ornaments. We will be using materials found in nature to craft ornaments and decorations for the winter season. We're also going to be doing a special event for the winter season. The program is recommended for adults in ages five plus. There will be options for multiple ages and ability levels. This program is free but registration is required. Please register all guests attending. If you have any issues registering, please call the Nature Center at 859-272-6105. The program will be held indoors. The Queens Club Girls Mentorship Group is meeting this Sunday at 6 p.m. December the 7th at the Castlewood Community Center. Meet with other women and girls from the community for a safe space to discuss everything that being a queen in today's society involves. Free food will be provided and any female under age 18 is eligible to attend. I'm Eric and that's just some of the things going on this weekend in Lexington and Fayette County. For more events and more information be sure to visit lexingtonky.gov and click the calendar tab at the top. Thanks for watching and we'll see you next week. Eric also has a preview of this week's live meeting coverage. Hey there, I'm Eric from Human Resources. Here's our current live meeting schedule this week, December 1 for LexTV. Remember you can watch all our live meeting coverage on LexTV Channel 185 and always online at lexingtonky.gov. First up on Tuesday, December 2nd at 9 30 a.m. it's the Public Art Commission meeting in the Council Chambers downtown, Lexington located at 200 East Main Street. Then there's the General Government and Planning meeting at 1 p.m. and later at 3 it's the Council Work Session and later that evening at 5 it's a special Council meeting. On Thursday morning at 8 30 watch the Planning Commission Subdivision Subcommittee meeting live from the Phoenix Building followed later by the Planning Commission Zoning Subcommittee at 1 30 and later that evening in Council Chamber it's a regular Council meeting in the Council Chambers. That's our current live meeting schedule for LexTV for the week of December 1. Watch all our meeting coverage on LexTV Channel 185 or always online at lexingtonky.gov and click the LexTV tab at the top. I'm Eric and we'll see you next time. That's all for now but as always you can keep up with us on social media, check out the latest traffic updates on X at LexRex or catch our live traffic cams on lexingtonky.gov. For all of us at LexTV, I'm Neil Noah and that's it for now. I'm so glad that I got to know him. He's so shy. Cause he's the one in a million that I'll love until the day I die. Oh yes I do. He's so shy. The smile of my baby. He's so shy. I know he's driving me crazy. That sweet little boy who caught my eye. I said he's so shy. It took a long time to know him. He's so shy. And I'm so glad I got to show him that I'll love him till the day I die. Oh yeah. He's so shy. He's so shy. He's so shy. He's so shy. He's so shy. Guess mine is not the first heartbroken. My eyes are not the first to cry. Not the first to know there's just no getting over you. I know I'm just a fool who's willing to sit around and wait for you. But baby can't you see there's nothing else for me to do. I'm hopelessly devoted to you. But now there's nowhere to hide. Can't you push my love aside. I'm out of my head. Hopelessly devoted to you. Hopelessly devoted to you. Hopelessly devoted to you. My head is saying oh forget him. My heart is saying don't let go. Hold on to the end. That's what I intend to do. I'm hopelessly devoted to you. But now there's nowhere to hide. Can't you push my love aside. I'm out of my head. Hopelessly devoted to you. Hopelessly devoted to you. Hopelessly devoted to you. Stranger Stranger Stranger Stranger Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Why can't you know that it's hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight Stranger Stranger Stranger All the dreams we used to keep are all the same on a hot summer night Don't be no fun, don't forget you're young on a hot summer night Sometimes someone you hold on, won't wait to see what you've got But you know that you're hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight Alright Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight Alright Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight We'll walk until my feet drop, I'm a train when I hate to fall You lay right down now, I'll ride until your head is bruised I'll walk until my brain pops, I'll move with the beat now I'm a train when I hate to fall, I'm ready when I need now New York Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight New York Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight You ain't nothin' but a hound dog, you're cryin' all the time You ain't nothin' but a hound dog, you're cryin' all the time Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine Well, they said you was high class, well, that was just a lie Yeah, they said you was high class, well, that was just a lie Yeah, you ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine You ain't nothin' but a hound dog, you're cryin' all the time You ain't nothin' but a hound dog, you're cryin' all the time Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Well, they said you was high class, well, that was just a lie Yeah, they said you was high class, well, that was just a lie Well, you ain't never gonna have it and you ain't no friend of mine Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Well, they said you was high class, well, that was just a lie You know, they said you was high class, well, that was just a lie Well, you ain't never gonna have it and you ain't no friend of mine You ain't nothin' but a hound dog and a quackin' all the time You ain't nothin' but a hound dog and a quackin' all the time Well, you ain't never gonna have it, you ain't no friend of mine You ain't nothin' but a hound dog and a quackin' all the time I can get no satisfaction I can get no satisfaction Yes, I tried, and I tried, and I tried, and I tried I can't get no, I can't get no When I'm driving in my car When I'm driving in my car When I'm driving in my car When I'm driving in my car When I'm driving in my car Hey, it's Bozzie Nicole with another episode of Your Lex PD. I'm kind of excited this month because, look, first time I've ever had to wear, get to wear something like this, right? Feel like a champion. We're gonna be talking about our PAL program, Police Activities League. Yes, they are under the Bureau of Training and Wellness under the Community Services section. So who are we gonna be talking to today? So we're gonna talk to Sergeant Donald Horton. He's over the unit, actually, the PAL part of Community Services. And also we're gonna be talking to retired Johnny Washington. Love him. And Officer Keisha Compton. Love her too. All right. All right, let's go talk to him. Hey, we are here with Sergeant Donald Horton. Thank you for joining us today. No problem. Glad to be here. So can you tell us how you became in your position? So I joined Lexington Police Department nine years ago. Worked patrol for three years and ended up joining the Detective Bureau. After that, I joined the training section as the wellness coordinator. And when PAL opened up through the Community Services section, I was really encouraged to do it because before I became a cop, my wife was actually the PAL volleyball coach. And I just remember really great memories with him, working with John Washington. He would travel and take us down to different parts of Tennessee for different tournaments that we engaged in. So I just had a really good time and I just knew how important it was seeing all those people and how much they loved. Well, that's interesting that you had a vested background in it, that you knew all about it from that. So I know PAL goes way back. Obviously 1917 is kind of when it originally started officially. And then 1940s, National PAL started. So when did it actually start in Lexington? So yeah, it came to Lexington in 1985. Roy Modris, a K-9 officer for us, started the PAL Commander's Football Team. Sergeant Walker Webb was its first coach. So we started with football and it's grown to so many other things with basketball and softball, e-sports. It's really exploded. Impacted a lot, a lot of lives over the years, right? So we're going to be talking with some of your officers today. How many officers actually are working in the PAL program now? So in the PAL program, we have a PAL coordinator, but we also have our Explorer coordinator, our DARE coordinator. All of them kind of work together to kind of help with PAL and everything they need to do. So we have four officers, including our CPA officer, Officer Stephanie Ward. And we all kind of chip in and do what we need to do to make it work. Well, I know there's probably over 300 chapters around the United States, but Lexington has always been known nationally as a fantastic PAL program. So, Nicole, let's go find out a little bit more about PAL. All right. Thank you. Dara, we're back with our PALs. Nice. We are here with Officer Keisha Compton and Retired Officer John Washington. Thank you for joining us. So can you all tell us how you became involved with PAL, your background and history? Well, I'm going to start off. I got an invitation to go see Chief Berry at the time. He was interested in me coming into community services. And at the time I was on patrol, but I was in a specialized unit called 4th Platoon. So I went to Chief's office, sat down and talked to him. True story now, true story. I sat down and talked to him, and he asked me if I was interested. And I told the Chief, Chief, I appreciate you thinking about me, but I'm committed to working patrol and in the streets, just working for the community. So we shook hands and I walked out of Chief's office, but there was a more matured officer, a veteran officer, asked me, he's like, Johnny, did you take the job? I said, no, man, I didn't. So the senior officer, he kind of like grabbed me a little bit and said, man, the Chief was not asking you for your opinion. So what you need to do is go back in the room and tell him you're going to take the position. And I did. And I want to tell you something. That's the best decision I ever made in my life as far as the police department. Well, it was obviously a good decision for the police department, too, because you were in that role for how many years? 20 plus. Yeah, that's what I thought. So you impacted a lot of kids, a lot of kids over those years. Keisha, what about you? So I first joined the police department back in 2013. And shortly after joining, I ran into now-retired Sergeant Barry, who asked if I was familiar with the Police Activities League. I told him I wasn't. He took the time to explain to me what PAL was, the mission of PAL. And he explained all the fun things they got to do in the unit. And I knew when that spot became available, I wanted to apply. So I was on patrol until 2020. And when the spot became available for PAL, I put in for it. And I've been in the unit ever since. And I just love it. It's the best job ever. Well, I've had an opportunity to work with you a lot as well, Johnny, for many, many years, but you for several years. And I know both of you truly care about the kids and do a lot of good work. So when we talk about the kids, what kind of programs do we have? How do we serve them? Because when we think about Police Activities League, I think years ago, wasn't it called Police Athletic League? But that's not the case now, right? Police Activity League. So what kind of programs do we have? The programs we currently offer are basketball, boxing, cheer, football, and karate. Boxing operates out of 1317 Center Parkway. Right here is our boxing ring. Right next door is our karate room. And we have, what, 15 to 20 kids that participate. So our karate program, they just participated in the Bluegrass State Games. And they represented PAL well. Our football team, it's out at Gainesway Park. We currently have an 11U team. And we are very fortunate to have Officer Greg Gerton and Officer Andrew Miller as our coaches. So looking forward to the season. And then with cheer, their season is about to begin. They'll start competitions in September and it'll last until March. Basketball, we have nine teams. And that's kids all across the city. We know you're successful in a lot of these things because you saw our belts at the beginning, right? For the boxing. And when we think of PAL, obviously we do think of some of the athletic programs and all. But you do some other things as well, right? As far as mentoring. Yeah. One time during COVID, you know, everything was kind of like shut down. But we had a good relative of mine who just moved back from New York City. And he brought a program to us. He said, man, I think the kids in the community could benefit from this. And it was called the Stock Market Game. And our kids learned the value of money. Like two ways to legally make money. You work for it and your money works for you. So they had a great understanding about the Stock Market Game. We also, within that game, we competed against New York City. And our teams finished in the top 15. That's awesome. And you also do some tutoring too, correct? Yes. So we partnered with UK Pharmacy and they have their students come over sometimes and tutor the kids with whatever they need and whatever subjects. And also with the tutoring as well, because I have to give a shout out to the UK softball team and also the volleyball team. They also come and help with the tutoring. So, Officer Compton, you had mentioned that PAL is for children between the ages of 7 and 17. So after they graduate high school, or for you, what are some success stories or what happens after they graduate? Well, the list goes on. I can't name everybody or everything, but after they graduate, some of them became... Doctors? Professional players, college scholarships or academics. Man, it's like I say, it's just so many. So many people have been involved with the PAL and have been given back. And hopefully, some of them may come back to be future officers. Which we do have one, Officer Greg Gerton. He is now our PAL football coach and he was once a PAL kid. He actually played football for PAL. That's great. Love to see those success stories. Well, I know we appreciate everything that you all do for the community, everything you do for the police department. A lot of success stories. I know that. I've watched you over the years and seen that. So I think it all comes down to what's the motto that you use for PAL? Every kid needs a PAL. That's true, right? And let me tell you this. Once we PAL you, we are PAL for life. But I also want to mention this now because I can't forget this. Safety Officer Connie Rayford has a lot to do with this. And she's been around, I think, for the police department since 1993. And she was instrumental in me becoming into PAL, into the unit. So I just want to give a shout out to her. A lot of folks that have committed a lot of years to this program and to this police department. So if someone wants to learn more information about PAL, how do they go about doing that? Well, they can contact us through email, Facebook, or our website. All right. And we've actually got that information on the screen right now and a QR code where you can get in touch and see how to join. Thank you all for joining us today. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. So it was really great talking to the officers with the Police Activities League. They do a lot of good work. And over the years and years and years in Lexington, they've impacted so many lives, helped so many young people. And, you know, the whole philosophy of PAL is that relationship between police officers and young people and deterring crime, deterring, you know, juvenile violence, different things like that. And we know it works and all the success stories. And they just celebrated their 40th anniversary and had a community day last week. Yes. Yes. Forty years. That's very significant. And you're right. They had a community day. So many folks came out through that. And they looked back to all the people that had been involved over the years. All the officers have been involved. All the volunteers have been involved. So, yeah, it was absolutely a great day. Everybody needs a PAL. They do. Absolutely. I've got a PAL. I do too. All right. So what are we going to talk about next episode? All right. So next month, next episode, we're going to be talking about our traffic section, which is also under the Bureau of Special Operations. And they are in charge of so many different things. Everything from major events in Lexington, coordinating traffic and so forth, to selective enforcement, writing citations, motorcycles, safety officers. So many different components to that. So next month, we'll take a look at that and all their different functions. And with school coming back into session, we need that information. Absolutely. Talking about how people are driving. And maybe we can ask them some of the things that they see out there that are problems. So join us next month. Join us next month. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Do whatever you like. Thanks. Take care, everybody. See you next time. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. See you next time. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Take care. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. 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I'm a personal trainer, instructor, and a board certified health coach here at the Lexington Senior Center. And I'm getting ready to do a get up and go class. This class is in and out of the chair. You are more than welcome to sit anytime, stand anytime, and certainly make modifications along the way. Today I'm just using a variety of hand weights. I like to have two different sets. So if it seems too light, I can go a little heavier. If it gets too heavy, set it down. And remember, you can always use your own body weight. If you don't have hand weights at home, get some canned goods, fill up a milk jug. Just do whatever you can to just try to get a good workout. So let's just go ahead and get started. Stand up nice and tall, shoulders back and down. Just start to give me a nice little march. And I just want you to think about simply picking up your feet. Often in times we're walking along and we're not paying attention when we're going up the stairs. We're fine with that first step, but the second one will just hit that step. So think about picking up the feet. Have those shoulders back and down, tummies tight. Pump those arms right here. Let's go. And smile. Let's just exercise. It doesn't have to be anything serious if you're moving, you're improving. Tap your toes out in front. Open and close your arms. Think about waking up your back muscles. Right now we're just working on raising up that body temperature. Yeah. And just tap it. So as we're warming up, think about that perceived exertion scale from 1 to 10. 1, 2, and 3, we're warming up right now, raising that body temperature. And that's how you should feel. 4, 5, 6, starting to work. Flex your feet. That's when we really get going. 7, pretty intense. Couldn't hold forever. 8, 9, way too hard. I want you to back off. And just kind of be mindful of that as we move through class. You can activate more legs here now by starting getting a little more up and down. Yeah. Feels good. Wake up those arms, the biceps, the legs, the feet. We will be teaching this interval style today. So we'll be sitting and standing. Back to a big march. Picking up the feet again, pumping the arms, pumping the legs. Nice and simple. Now while you're at home, make sure your surroundings are clear. No trip hazards. Step touch. Right there, nice side to side. Oh, yeah. You got it, big steps, side to side. If you're unsure of your balance, feel free to stay right here. Or give me a little hamstring curl. And all that is, is just your little foot to your hiney. Right there. If you can't get it there, maybe you need to go get something to eat, like a milkshake. Put some junk in the trunk. Or actually it might be range of motion issues with your knees. That's okay, too. Feel free to stay right here or add a little squat in the middle. Are you breathing? You should start to be about a three now on that perceived exertion scale. Switching directions on you. Knees up. Now be mindful of the balance. Feel free to always hold on to that chair. Nothing is ever worth a fall. If you are balancing, you are shifting your weight here. Engage your tummy and your core. And you got it. Oh, yeah. Knee issues, you might choose to stay right here. Or go ahead and give me a few kicks out. Just like that. Loosening up the back of the legs and the hamstrings. Feel free to lean back. Come on, let's do a few more. Oh, yeah. Feeling good now. Four more. Three. Take it back to the knees up, please. Right there. Oh, yeah. Nice big knees up. Give me a nice big march right here. Come on. Oh, yeah. Backing up a little bit closer to my chair. Four knees. Nice big march. Do that again. Four knees. This is part A. Big march. Give me a little kick back. It's just a kick back. Squeezing those glutes. Give me a little push with the arms. Push it out. Okay, nothing fancy. Nice march. Yeah. A little bit more. Pull the tummy tight. Shoulders back and down. So we're just going to work that back kick. Four kicks back. I don't care what leg goes. It doesn't matter. And a little march. When we put it together, I don't care which leg goes first. Kick back four. Little march. Four knees. So I'm going to teach it first in place. Big march. Maybe at home you don't have room to move. Kick back four. Or maybe you just want to stay close to the chair. Big march. Let's do that again. Four knees. March it. Kick back. Yeah. March it. You can do it in place one time. Watch me. Four knees up. Little march. Kick it back. Come on, big kick. You got it. March it. Now move it if you would like to. Or stay here. Nice little march. Put this in the memory bank for later. Kick back. March it. You can do a little jump rope. Knees up. March jump rope. Yeah. Take it back. March jump rope. One more time. Four knees up. March. Come on, circle those arms. Take it back. March it. Easy march. Easy. Give me some shoulder shrugs right here. Take a breath. Should be sweating a little bit. Yeah. Going back to that tippy tippy top. Just tap your toes. Nice and easy. If your heart rate got up a little bit, I'm bringing it down on purpose. Yeah. Come on, reach out there. Like you're going to smash a little spider. If I see one, I'm out of here. Yeah. A little bit more right there. And just go back to the little heels and flex. Super easy, right? Taking a breath. A little bit more. Four, three. I just want a really nice big inhale up. Into the nose. Exhale down. Nice big shoulder circles back. Can I spit it out? Yeah. Take it up. Bring it down. Shoulder rolls to the front. I like it. And now just few wrists circles here. This is for carpal tunnel. Arthritis in those wrists. Other way. Good job. Open and close your fingers. Sprinkle me with some love and kindness right there. Again, this is for the arthritis in those finger joints. I love the slight buttoning of the shirt. Fine motor skills. Maybe you like to paint or sew. Play the piano. And one finger to each thumb. Same little thing. Yeah. And I always like to kind of loosen up the hands because we're about to grip some hand weights. And I have a lot of clients that get arthritis right in here. All right. Inhale up. Exhale down. Shoulder rolls to the back. Have a seat. Get a drink of water. And I want you to grab some hand weights that you might use for your legs and your back. So I'm going to go and start with my heavier weights because I can always drop down and go lighter. So I like sitting to the very front of my chair. Sit up nice and tall. Just make sure you've got a sturdy enough chair that it won't flip on you if you're to the front. Shoulders back and down. Abs in. And I'm placing my weights on the meaty part of my legs. You don't ever want to put anything like on your knee joints or your hip joints. So right here. And I'm going to work on my posture. So even though I'm in the chair, I can definitely still work my core, engage my abdominals, which is great for balance. You have to have leg strength, core strength if you're worried about your balance. So I'm sitting up nice and tall, and I'm just going to start with some leg extensions where you lift, extend, in, and set it down. I lift my leg up off the chair, extend my leg out, in, and down. So what does this do for you? A, this is a great modification for squats and lunges. If you have any injuries anywhere and you're just not able to squat and lunge, great. If you've had, like, knee replacement or getting ready to go have knee surgery, it's actually strengthening the quadriceps here, front of the leg, and lengthening and strengthening the back of the leg, your hamstrings. These are the muscles that help you go up and down the stairs, lift your leg out of a bathtub. You've got a nice tall bathtub. And try not to lean back too much. You want to sit up nice and tall. So anytime during class you need to sit down and you want to still do something, here you go. Great modification. Anytime. Still working your strength. Give me one more each way. Yeah. And then sit up nice and tall. This next is really important. I want you to draw your shoulders up, bring it back and down, and really pinch those shoulder blades together, holding your abs in nice and tight. I'm going to have you hinge forward just a little bit, not a whole lot, one arm out in front and the other. All you're going to do is drive those elbows straight back, squeezing the shoulder blades together, and release. And I actually want you to try to keep your neck in alignment with your spine when you do this. So try not to look right up at the TV or down at your feet, just nice and neutral. Just listen if you need to. And take time to really squeeze those shoulder blades. Right there. Good. You've got four more right now. Last one. Sit up nice and tall. Leg extensions right there. Yeah. So let's talk about using weights for a moment. Always slower is better. Try not to go too fast. That uses momentum and not your muscle. I would always rather you go very light in your weights and work form than heavy and be sloppy. One more. Each leg extension here. Each leg. Yeah. One more time. Shoulders back and down, tummies in, hinge forward, arms out. Let's work it. Squeeze the muscles. Squeeze the back shoulder blades together nice and tight. I just put a $100 bill back there. Go catch it. Keep it. Don't drop it. Yeah. Give me about four more if you can. And we're going to go back one more time to those leg extensions. Sitting up nice and tall. A little up, out, in, set it down. Beautiful. Getting strong, staying healthy. Exercise does a lot for you. All right. One more. Yes. Now I'm going to open up my legs just a little bit. Okay. If it felt better to you to stay with the back rows we just did a minute ago, stay with those. No problem. Or I'm going to hinge over this time. I'm going to start with one arm up and one arm down. And I want you to think of a little pulley. And I'm actually activating my waistline as well as I go. Oh, yeah. Pull in the belly. That helps support that spine and that lower back. Give me about four more. Three, two, one more. All right. Sit up nice and tall. I'm going to do that again except with a little surprise. You may stay right here in the chair or stand up. Hinge over, shoulders back and down. Okay. I'm kind of in a little tiny squat here. And I'm just going to row, push and pull this way. And I can really feel my shoulder blades working, my back working. Just like that. Good. Take a nice deep breath. Don't hold your breath. Give me about one more. Stand up nice and tall. Make sure your chair is there. Have a seat. Shoulder rolls. All right. One more little move. Readjust. Shoulders back and down. Belly in nice and tight. Hinge forward. You need to stay here. That's fine. Nice and center. You need to stay with that back row we did a minute ago. Fine. Or now I'm going to go side to side. Reaching almost like I'm reaching for my ankles. Boom. So, of course, here's the seated version for you. And sit up nice and tall. One more set, I promise. You can stay seated. Repeat that. Or come up. Shoulders back and down. Pulling in that belly. Hinge side to side this way. Again, think about keeping that neck in alignment with the spine. Getting the back, the lats, your waistline stronger, healthier you today. Four, three, two, one. Come on up. Have a seat. Go ahead. Take your hand weights. Tuck them out of the way. Underneath the chair. On a counter. Whatever it might be. Get a quick drink of water. Now we're going to stand up and move again. Come on up. Oh, yeah. Told you to put the little warm-up in your memory bank. Okay. I'll start very easy, but I'm going to increase the intensity. It's up to you whether you do it or not. Okay. You remember the four knees. I'm teaching it in place first. March and jump rope. Easy march. Kick back four. Yeah. Easy jump rope. You want to stay here? Fine. Four knees. Yep. I can. High knees to make it a little more intense. Kick back four. Jump rope. High knees. Four knees. Are you ready for it? You can skip it. Kick it back. I love to skip. Skip it. So one more time in place. Four knees. It can be easy, medium or skip. Yep. Kick back. It can be easy, medium or skip it. Four knees up. Your way. Skip it. March it. Take it back. Take it back. Your way. Four knees up. Yes. March it. Easy. One more time. Skip it. Take it back. Work it. I think you get the idea. Anyway, you're moving, you're improving. That's my motto. I don't care if you're itty bitty. You're moving. You're not eating a bag of Doritos right now. Yes. One more up, one more back. Go. Yes. Take it back. Take it back. Hold here. Come on. Let me see what you got. Work it. I don't care. What do you got this day? How we feeling? Yes. Make it easy. Easy. Take a breath. On that perceived exertion scale from one to ten, what did you get to? I want a seven. Not sure you could have kept going. Six, still working. Good. Tap your toes. Yes. Let that heart rate come down a little bit. Taking a breath. Why do I do that? Why do I want you to bring the heart rate down before we go into muscle work? Or before you sit down? Because I don't want you getting dizzy. I want you to take some breaths. Medications can have a big effect on that. Dehydration. It doesn't have anything to do always with your fitness level. Just wiggle a little bit. Inhale up. Exhale down. Roll it out. I want you to think about what you might use for a little shoulder and for your legs. I'm only getting one hand weight. I want you to get a drink of water, but I need you to squat to pick it up, trying to keep your head above your heart. Again, dizziness thing. Get a drink of water. I'm actually picking my lighter weight right now. I'm just going to place that weight in one hand. In the weightlifting world, we kind of call this rat. It's not resting on my shoulder. It's just right here. I've got a little isometric hold right here on my bicep. I'm just going to stand up nice and tall right now. You're going to turn that opposite foot in. I'm going to progress this. You just pick where you need to go. Again, it has to do with a lot of issues with hips and joints and back and knees and feet and this and that. Do you. I turn my opposite toe in, and I lift and lower, trying to target my outer thigh. If you feel extremely unsure of your balance, here's the chair. That's fine. You can choose to stay there the whole time. But I do want to try to be nice and tall. Try not to lean so I can stay right here. Maybe my shoulder bothers me. Maybe I have rotator issues. I'm not supposed to go up overhead. I could squat and lift right there. Now take your time. I'm sitting back in my heels, tummy in, chest proud. I can take it down, come up. Opposite arm, opposite leg. Just like that. Down, up, down, up. Just give me eight more. Take a break. All is good. Four more. Three. Just nice little march. Switching sides. Nice and tall. Do you know everybody has a natural body imbalance? Maybe this side, you don't balance well. Remember, hold on to the chair. Turn that opposite toe in and lift. Here is fine. And just a reminder, here again. Maybe I'm tall. Working my core. I could do the fingertip. I could hover. I could let go, but it's there, right? Right here. Or I'm going to add that little squat. Take it down and lift. Notice that my arm is not going up. Maybe I have a shoulder issue this side. Sit back in the heels. Drive up through the heels. Chest proud. Add the arm if you wish. You got a lot going on here. Multiple body parts. Multiple joints going. And you want the good news. Last set of eight right here. Let's do eight. Seven. Six. Four more and you get to sit. How's that? Three. Two. Last one. Good job. Easy march. Have a seat. Definitely get a drink of water. Okay. I'm going to get two hand weights now. This is for your biceps. So I'm just going to grab my other weight. I'm sitting up nice and tall. Kind of giving you a little break. Maybe you're feeling about five or six. Maybe. Remember when you do weights, you really want to go to muscle fatigue. That's what really helps you get stronger. And the older we get, we need to do weights so much more than cardio. Sit up tall. I say that a lot. I say shoulders back and down a lot. I say pull your abs in a lot. It's really important to do. I'm just going to give a little hammer curl. And I want you to kind of keep it kind of slow for me, please. Just a little up, a little down. And when you do your hammer curl, I actually want you to stop about a fist distance or two from the top. People are like, well, why? Well, if I go all the way to my shoulder, that releases my bicep. We're trying to work that muscle. So just keep it under resistance. Nice little hammer. And remember, if this feels best for you for any reason, you can always stay right here. And just give me about four more here. Three. Yeah. And then, once again, I'm going to kind of open my legs up. Okay, I'm going to show you the seated version first. And then you can join me standing if you want to. It won't be for everybody. Arms come front right here, palms out, shoulders back and down. I'm just going to do a little bicep curl. Think slow. Don't think anything fast and jerky. Nice and slow. Oh, yeah. Sweating. You can choose to stay right here. Or I'm going to come up. And if you notice, my legs are kind of wide. So it's more of a wide squat that I'm going to go into. My toes and my knees go in the same direction when I go down. Again, I'm pulling the abs in, chest is proud. So let's just start with the squat first. So you just kind of take it down and up, same direction, almost like you're pulling a piece of paper apart with your legs. Okay, rip that paper. You don't want the knees to come in. Take everything nice and tight. And again, you need to drop this part. Drop it. And I'm going to add, I'm going to squat. I'm going to curl and stand up. I squat, curl, stand up. Feel free to sit back down and just work the curls. A little down. Yes. Good job. Down. Curl. Working your legs. Working your upper body. You're getting low to pick something up, like a heavy box or something. Make it functional for you. Take it down. Squeeze. Don't lean forward. Let's just do several more. Right there. Just so you got it, take a break. Down. Two more, two more. Last one. Come on up. Shake it out. Good job. Tuck in underneath. Get a nice little drink of water. Let's get ready to move one more time. Start with a little march. Oh, yeah. How much water should you have during the day? Everybody always says eight eight-ounce glasses, but really take your body weight and divide it by half, unless you have a medical reason, of course. A little march. Start to exercise. You need more water. Hot outside. You need more water. Step touch, right and left. Right there. Nice big steps. Feet nice and flat. Again, check your surroundings a little bit, because I'm going to have you step two to the right and bring it back. Oh, yeah. You can swing your arms if you wish. Notice that my feet are nice and flat. Oh, yeah. I'm sure your feet and your balance, you're going to stay right here with the step touch, too. Or you can make it a grapevine. Right there. Out behind, out together. You can make it a little funky if you want. This is about as dancy as I get. I have no groove. Oh, yeah. Let's go. Give me about eight of them. Seven. You have four more. Three, and we're going back to that single touch. Single touch. You can stay tall, or you can give me more.