# Planning Commission Work Session - February 19, 2026 > Auto-transcribed civic record · Commission · February 19, 2026 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/6696 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/6696?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2026-02-19 - **Body**: Commission - **Last revised**: February 20, 2026 - **Length**: 44,001 words - **Speakers**: Chair > ⚠️ **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 Planning Commission Work Session convened on February 19, 2026, at 1:30 p.m. in the Phoenix Building 3rd Floor Conference Room. The session covered five agenda items, all of which were informational in nature, including discussions on the Blue Sky Small Area Plan, Urban Growth Master Plan Implementation Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment, Floodplain (Article 19) Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment, Planning Services Data Annual Review/Data Lab Update/Vacant Land, and Lexington's Preservation and Growth Management Program. No votes were taken and no public comments were heard during the session, consistent with the work session format focused on staff presentations and commissioner briefings. ## Blue Sky Small Area Plan [timestamp: 00:30] Sam Castro from TSW Design presented an update on the Blue Sky Small Area Plan. The presentation covered planning frameworks and potential future connections in the Blue Sky area. This item was informational in nature, providing the Commission with an update on the plan's progress. No vote or formal action was taken as a result of the presentation. ## Urban Growth Master Plan Implementation Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment [timestamp: 33:50] Daniel Crum presented this agenda item, which focused on the need for a zoning ordinance text amendment to ensure that the standards established in the Urban Growth Master Plan are carried through the development process. Crum's presentation was informational in nature, outlining the rationale for amending the zoning ordinance text as a mechanism to implement the Urban Growth Master Plan's standards. The core issue identified was the need to align the zoning ordinance with the Master Plan so that its requirements and guidelines are effectively applied during development review and approval. No outcome or formal action was taken on this item, as it was presented for informational purposes. No additional speakers, concerns, or debate were recorded in the available data for this agenda item. ## Floodplain (Article 19) Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment [timestamp: 43:32] Eve Miller introduced a presentation on a project to update the floodplain zoning ordinance, specifically Article 19, to better reflect current best practices for floodplain protection and mitigation. The item was informational in nature, with no vote or formal action taken by the Commission. No additional speakers, debates, or specific concerns are recorded from this agenda item. The Commission received the presentation as an informational update. ## Planning Services Data Annual Review / Data Lab Update / Vacant Land [timestamp: 58:19] Hal Baillie delivered a presentation covering three related topics: an annual review of planning services data, an update on the Data Lab, and information regarding vacant land in Lexington. The item was informational in nature, with no action or vote required from the Commission. The structured data available for this agenda item does not include the specific figures, findings, or details discussed during Baillie's presentation. Readers seeking the full content of the data review, Data Lab update, or vacant land analysis are encouraged to consult the meeting video beginning at timestamp 58:19 or any accompanying presentation materials submitted to the Commission. ## Lexington's Preservation and Growth Management Program [timestamp: 1:30:42] Hal Baillie presented an update on the Lexington Preservation and Growth Management Program, informing the Commission that the program has recently been adopted into ordinance. The agenda item was informational in nature, with Baillie providing the Commission with a status update on this preservation and growth management initiative. No further details regarding specific provisions, debate, or concerns raised during the discussion are available from the meeting record. The item was received as informational, with no action or vote required from the Commission. --- ## Full transcript Good afternoon. Today is February 19th and this is the meeting of the Lexington State Urban County Government's Planning Commission in work session. Our first item on the agenda today is the Blue Sky small area plan from Sam Castro. Now I'm on. Okay, perfect. Hello, good afternoon everybody. My name is Sam Castro. I work for Tenel Spangler Walsh & Associates. We are one of the sub consultants working on the Blue Sky small area plan and we're just here to provide a quick update. We're probably about three-quarters of the way through the project. We met with the advisory committee this morning. Had a great meeting and we are here now to we're gonna throw a lot at you guys in a in a short amount of time. This is a lot of stuff that you that you all haven't seen yet and I will try to walk through it as much as I can but I know you all will have questions and so let's cue those up too. Feel free to call them out as I'm going to if you want to. So just as a reminder, we got to these what we're calling frameworks. This is a very similar process to Urban Growth Master Plan. We got to these frameworks by speaking with stakeholders out on site, by meeting with the advisory committee, through public engagement, and through talking to two experts. So that's the sort of basis of them and this all really came about obviously as sort of a next steps after the Urban Growth Master Plan. If you all will recall this is area four and then this is area yeah area four, area five of the Urban Growth Master Plan and one thing that's that's really important to note is like this is one of the few areas in the the original Urban Growth Master Plan, those flex spaces where you know we had that opportunity for for some sort of industrial or office or commercial that wasn't really necessarily focused around those sort of village and town centers that we were creating in other areas. So that's important to note is like how Blue Sky will connect into those. It's also really important to remember too that you know obviously just down 8th and Spoonsboro Road we have the long-term potential for you know anywhere from 6,000 new households plus. So that and the energy of what is happening out at out at the soccer stadium is really sort of spurring this this area that had been sort of ho-hum for quite a while to all of a sudden have this latent energy that we're we're trying to work with. If you know one thing that came out of the study too was the idea that Cane Break could eventually connect all the way up to Todd's Road. So that's a thought of like potential future connections that would work its way up and then across the road the sort of entertainment district slash mixed-use is also some energy that's directly across the road. So I want to talk about this in a couple in a couple phases because I don't want to scare anybody because it's always important to remember just like with Urban Growth Master Plan these are long-term visions and by long-term I mean like 20 years plus. So none of this is happening overnight and this was very important for us to explain to the businesses and property owners that were out there. So the initial small bite out of the Apple are things that we felt like could be done either you know by the property owners themselves or through the help of the government, Commerce Flex or other you know mechanisms. And so there's just some just some ideas of general improvements out there. We heard a lot from from folks like Elliott when we did our our engagement that they really think of this east side of Blue Sky Parkway as almost like a campus. So start to think of it like like an executive office industrial campus where you you can start to almost house execs C-suite folks alongside warehousing and manufacturing. So they're they're really co-located next to each other so instead of thinking of it like a traditional office park where you just have office uses these are very much how can we co-locate and mix these two together. And so that's where you start to see this this land use type that we're calling in here office industrial. And again if you remember back to Urban Growth Master Plan we didn't want to tie these to the zoning yet it's really thinking about how we wanted to use the land first and then we'll work back into how we regulate it. And so that the eastern side becomes almost like this this campus and the way that that they were talking about improvements they wanted to see out there where there are a lot of people that are working out there all day long. You know when you're an exec you're not taking the truck out and you know answering a call you're you're at the office all day long. So there was this increased desire for walkability and there is no there are no sidewalks out there today. So people are either walking on Blue Sky Parkway which as you can imagine is fairly dangerous with all the the truck traffic that's out there or they're walking you know between buildings in their sort of campus scenario. So we think that there is a way to improve bicycle pedestrian access around Blue Sky Parkway while still the importance of course is to still maintain the fact that this is an industrial site. So we need to have the the trucks are always going to be there. They need to be delivering and you know and laying down and you know doing all the things that they need to do out an industrial site. So it still needs to function like that and not like a neighborhood street. Some other sort of small bites of the apple as I'm going to keep saying is along Athens Boonesboro Road you know we had talked in the urban growth master plan and even before that the idea that the the new arc huts would start to bring bicycle pedestrians up to Hayes Boulevard and then up to Brenda Cowan and then eventually up to soccer stadium and this potential new growth out from that urban growth master plan and then eventually also potentially out to Blue Sky Parkway. So the idea being you know if you happen to be a person that lived in one of these new 6,000 however many plus homes out there that you could walk or take your bike you know a little over a mile to your job at Blue Sky Parkway and that you know that's an added incentive that that makes the the area more attractive. The other thing that the other piece that's important out here is the county owns a piece of land that's back there that currently serves you know it's it's acting like a pseudo detention pond right next to the stream. We think that there's a way in the short term to go ahead and really make that a much more highly functioning stormwater facility but also make it an amenity space for folks that are out there. We're showing one future road connection there at Joe Marr Street and again I'm just going to keep hearkening back to the UGMP but it was very important coming out of that project to continue to show those potential connections along the edges of any areas that we're growing so that we don't cut off future growth. That is not to say that the that there is an idea that you know that we expand out in this direction but we don't want to close off that opportunity and so this is really actually probably the lowest hanging fruit that's out there. Joe Marr Street today just dead ends into the edge of the urban service area and so really all that this would mean is taking a sign out there and saying that this is you know an opportunity for a future road connection. We had worked back when I was with the city we had worked on the sub streets and you know how to sign them so that people would you know know and recognize that these streets are sub streets and not cul-de-sacs that you know go nowhere that you know feel more private. This has the potential to go somewhere. So those are sort of the the low hanging fruit options that are that are near-term and then we get into you know the the big enchilada and I want to say this completely with a caveat that this one very much has to do with responding to future market factors that we don't know yet and what that looks like. What is important to remember that we heard from our market analysis though is that this site will not you know will not be the future site of like a giant Toyota manufacturing site. Partly because of the topography challenges you know the it's very hilly out there and then also just because it's a lot of little pieces of land. So acquiring all that land into into one giant site just doesn't make sense. Now what it is great for is what it's acting as right now which is you know shops of specialty trade, lots of small business incubators, lots of space for what we think of as very traditional industrial and then like we're saying this opportunity to move into this campus executive office campus industrial mixture. And you know we worked again we worked with strategic location advisors to talk through their thoughts on that and and whether that seemed like a thing that would be appetizing out here and it definitely is based on you know the proximity to I-75 obviously and then the proximity to Lexington and you know pulling in that creative class that really likes the location near near the city but are also executives and need to be close to the highway. So as you can see what that looks like then is this this dark purple the executive office campus office industrial that we're calling it out here starts to expand and we've taken Blue Sky Parkway and really bisected it with this central road and we did that because when we were looking at the way that the land was being used it was a lot of these long skinny properties and they're almost too long and skinny and so the the function of them in a certain way lent itself to to that to that central roadway spine and we feel like what that could do is it could kind of contain it contain you know more of your your standard vehicular traffic that would serve your your executives out on the on the eastern side of Blue Sky Parkway while still you know you can still drive trucks on it but then it leaves the western side of Blue Sky Parkway for some of your heavier truck traffic and we'll get in a little bit more into the to the transportation side of it in a minute Matt will but that's that's sort of how we're we're splitting up dividing up the egg but it's all to say it doesn't have to happen but it could and so we wanted to future plan for it same thing with all of these dashed white lines these are all just ways to potential like options for breaking up the site and we tried to draw those lines based on on parcel boundaries but really there are dozens of ways that you could run those those roads through there and so it's important to know that this this is a much more flexible option than I would say we were maybe dealing with in the urban growth master plan this has like a lot more nuances to responding to to future market pressures we got we're showing a few more future road connections one off United Court and one down here off Casp Court both of which are sort of already naturally there but that just allows us to to kind of give some different options along that edge to show future expansion potential we also in the urban growth master plan had always shown that this flex space could have a connection over to blue sky when we looked at it further we really think it it makes more sense to happen closer to to that floodplain just based on how the topography goes so we're showing that connection from the west side of United Court out to Cane Break similarly another connection behind this is called a crosstalk and so the crosstalks are traditionally used like UPS was using it you know you bring in your trucks they unload and then they move them off to different trucks that are going into different locations so it's really just a stopping point where you're transitioning goods from one truck to another truck so that crosstalk we think will stay as it is right now it's for sale or I think it actually just recently got purchased I looked at PVA so it changed hands but I think it's going to be staying as is but we think there's a way to to also potentially connect to Cane Break again down in a lower area where just outside of the floodplain of the stream in the back let's see what else the commercial space up front here we we are leaving partly because we heard a lot of comments from everybody that worked back there that they would love some more options for their daily needs other than having McDonald's and Merch Emex to to eat and you know places where they could pick up you know their prescriptions on the way home etc so you know leaving that bit of commercial out there we think also based on on the energy that's happening around that interchange seemed like an important fit let's see the one last thing is the addition of a of this little central open space it doesn't look like much we'll get into it in a little bit but it is an existing low-lying spot and we think that if done correctly it could actually contain a lot of the stormwater that is right now sheet flowing all back to that stream we think it could contain a lot of the stormwater up in the front half of the site which would be huge and also huge in terms of if you could make that you know a whole system it makes it much more sellable long term for for redevelopment of that site and Matt can talk a little bit more about that so that being said I will bring Matt up here from Gresham and he's going to talk about some of the transportation improvements all right hey so my name is Matt McLaren I work with Gresham Smith civil engineer I've been working both with Sam on the GMP as well as this project so very excited to tell you a little bit more about we keep we keep drilling down in the weeds a little bit further and further so as she spoke to it you know we looked at this as a multi-phase project this isn't a greenfield development it's very dependent on how properties turn over change hands so really we looked at it as what can we do first that's doable as Sam said the kind of small bite at the Apple and then bigger more grandiose ideas so the first piece of this is really improvements along oh that's tricky along a thing's binsboro Road so what we'd be looking at doing is a little bit of widening and then also adding a side path so curb landscape area side path really give the pedestrians a place to be that's safe because right now there's really no pedestrian connectivity at all through that section and then also within blue sky itself adding a side path and a sidewalk along the loop so you can see it here so on one side full 10-foot side path sidewalk on the other side and then at the intersection of Cutters Hill really slowing traffic down because that's one of the complaints we heard was a lot of speeding the trucks really get going get lost speed so turning that from a one-way stop into a three-way stop gives us a place to cross pedestrians safely from one side to the other also helps to slow traffic down the last piece of this is kind of the initial phase would be rebuilding of Cutters Hill if you go out there today you can see evidence of overtopping of the existing culvert it doesn't seem like it's really conveying the stream overtops the culvert less than 100 year storm event so we want to make sure that that's a safe area and so right now once it you do get a flooding event you cannot get back into the back of the site so with the creation of the side path we would also be doing culvert upgrades so that's kind of the easier stuff I know it doesn't sound super easy but from an engineering standpoint it's a lot easier the other piece would be in the the next phase would be the installation of the central spine road up through here that Sam discussed and with that we'd be looking at intersection improvements on Athens Boonesboro so working our way from I-75 over the first western entrance is where we would see a lot of the truck traffic that's there today we try to concentrate that that would become a signalized intersection really promoting safety so the trucks can get in and out having their own controlled access the new road due to some site distance constraints and intersection spacing we would really be looking at that to be some type of intersection similar to a roundabout since a lot of the trucks are getting off of Athens Boonesboro at the stop before you can't really take trucks further down Athens Boonesboro so it's just a natural place to kind of start getting those trucks off and then the roundabout is really more for just automobiles less truck traffic it's a lot easier to navigate and we'll be able to serve that more auto centric road versus the industrial road and then lastly the existing intersection of Blue Sky Parkway here we feel like KYTC is probably going to push us more toward not a full access but what we call a three-quarter so you can turn left into it you can turn right into it but you can only turn left out of it we don't see a huge demand for our for autos turning left out of there also you could easily within the site if we got to this level of development there would be multiple cross streets over to the central road you could come up go through the roundabout and go out one thing I forgot to mention in phase one along with the side paths we'd be looking at doing a kind of three lane section it's a travel lane in each direction with what we call a center twiddle twin left turn lane so it's got a lot of names twiddles one of them but you can see here and I'm sure you've seen it around town a lot it lets you get out of the main travel lane and sit and turn left when it's safe so that you're not blocking the travel lane traffic can still flow but you can make your turn safely that's kind of the short-term fix the longer term fixes these larger intersection improvements cool so just kind of digging a little bit more into those cross sections so that you don't have to maybe imagine it based off engineering speak again most of it would you know one side would remain as is and they kind of working our way across traffic lane twiddle traffic lane we'd be putting in curb and gutter really bringing that kind of up to a standard landscape area and then side path that's the wrong button blue sky parkway again we have two kind of different sections within blue sky the first of those is east of Cutters Hill so to the right of the to the right of the map the way it's developed over time those businesses have come up closer to the road and that's where you can see this kind of white box here it's a little bit tight for a sidewalk through there so it might be kind of limited on the right-hand side that we would be able to get that side path we feel like much more continuous along the entire side we do not plan to move the curbs so that's one thing that we heard a lot about is like you know we want all these you know improvements but look it's still an industrial park we still need a road that's a little bigger than your standard you know 24 feet so we know the curbs work where they are today the trucks are working great going a little bit too fast in certain places so curbs stay where they are but then we use paint to kind of give that visual narrowing of the road to help slow cars down and trucks down so you still have the same amount of room to travel but it just feels a little bit narrower to promote a little bit slower slower speeds this is west of Cutters Hill again we've got a lot more room to work with businesses were set back further we've got room these cannot be within the existing right-of-way completely so these sidewalks and side paths would require working with the existing land owners to secure permanent easements and temporary construction easements as you can see but it's really not a huge ask out there there's a lot of land that's available for it Cutters Hill as I mentioned we would be doing these improvements along with raising the actual road up a couple of feet to make sure we provide that safe passage in the hundred-year storm event side path on there you know landscape buffers and again that same narrowing of the road using paint absolutely I love questions thank you yeah it does kind of look that way it's not it's businesses as well it's just a different it's just a different type of structure you're talking about up here no I'm gonna go slow okay so this is blue sky that's Cutters Hill that's that's looking up into that piece it's just the buildings kind of look like townhomes but they're all businesses that are just kind of in that same type of structure no no you're good it would really confused me when I crested that hill for the first time I don't know of any residential that's out there yeah it's all I'm just folly when you if you raise the road by two feet where where will you expect the difference in grade to be kind of taken up on the on the property owner side or I mean guess you have to yes so I'm standing like literally I'm standing in the low point of the road and there's and there's I'll go back a slide but you can see this this drive right here we tie out before that drive so we're just taking what's a really sharp curve and just kind of lifting the bottom up there is a little bit of grading that would have to happen there but nothing significant it's not like we're moving the driveway from one side of their business to the other there we go I should have done this the whole time that I could have walked around pins in Florida he wants to hear okay so the cross-section like I said is right about here which is the low point of the sag this is a driveway connection over to the cement plant and these are those two driveways you saw in the photo we do tie out pretty much at that driveway and right at that driveway so this is the piece of the road that we're lifting up it's not impacted anywhere there or really anywhere this way so it's pretty limited thank you understand of course so if I may since miss Davis interrupted I love it's a wide sidewalk it's a 10-foot wide multi-use path okay the new term for it they're called a lot of different things multi-use path I don't know if you might be able to chime in with the different names it's had over the years but it's a 10-foot multi-use path it's designed for people to walk on bike on you know push a push a stroller pull a wagon and have room for everybody to work on a five-foot sidewalk it's just kind of narrow you can do two side by side but you can't do two-way traffic very good thank you yep and this is just that central roadway the proposed road you can see here we do stick with the more traditional 24 foot of pavement curb and gutter sidewalk side path one of the big challenges this is that section that's west of Cutters Hill these are the existing commercial driveways and you can see the businesses are up on the road so this section is really challenged because ultimately at this point you've just got little pieces of sidewalk between large aprons so this is one of the more challenging areas where we kind of got to come up with some better engineering solutions a lot of those have to do with different types of pavement finishes maybe different pavement colors it's really a bigger thing than this this small area plan but you know how you deal with those industrial crossings for sidewalks inside paths it's done a lot of different ways in a lot of different places do you have another question I do not concerning that haven't been out there several times in the past three months you're mentioning curb to curb not changing that correct seems like there's always a tractor-trailer rig stopped unloading on the road how do you deal with that same way you do today you just go around okay and that's the that's the reason we're not changing the curb right so like we're not fundamentally changing the way traffic operates on Blue Sky Parkway it's working for a reason we don't want to mess it up it just visually makes you think it's a little bit tighter without it actually being any different okay everybody's favorite topic sanitary sewer so we did an existing conditions analysis we looked at how much capacity the pipes currently have and then we moved to okay let's let's say that the entire vision comes to fruition what do we know we're gonna have to upgrade out there and you can come up later and examine the exhibit if you'd like but these colored pipes kind of at the bottom half of the site are where we look we would have to do infrastructure upgrades with her in the road so the existing sewer pipes have plenty of capacity as it currently stands but if you built this thing out every square foot to the new plan you would have to do upgrades of the pipes in the ground it just is what it is but there's a lot of redevelopment capacity before you get to that point as Sam mentioned I do a lot of private work as well and one of the best things I hear when we get from landbrokers is stormwater quantity and quality is already taken care of with a regional facility that means great my life is so much easier so what we looked at doing was how can we use that existing basin that's in the middle of the site to cover LFU CG's redevelopment requirements to treat 20% of the redeveloped area so we we did some calculations and we do have to put some pipes in but we don't really think that's a huge lift if if we're at the point where we're already going to be building the center spine road it feels like there's enough redevelopment that we can get this other infrastructure planned to be able to capture that whole front half and treat that in a regional facility the remainder of the properties would have to do it on a case-by-case or a lot-by-lot basis as they would do today anyway and I do believe that is my last slide in regards to which oh yes so sometimes the engineering pieces get cut out of pretty exists pretty exhibits so one of the things that we heard from a lot of people out there was the desire for redundancy for both power and telecom and so talking with KU spectrum and the other telecom providers there's a lot of work that has to happen off-site from blue sky to really be able to provide that redundancy but one of the things that we would want to do if the side paths and sidewalks did get built would be to go ahead and drop PVC conduit under them empty for today so that it's a lot easier when KU or a telecom provider does have what's needed to provide that redundant feed they can just pull it they're not having to go out there get permission rip up the yards rip up driveways all that stuff it would already be there it's a low cost in it's a low cost investment on the front end to prevent a lot of disruption when that development does happen okay do we have any I guess sure mr. I do have one more and Sam you mentioned it with the our cuts and pedestrian improvements back down the road are the arc that's going to provide the pedestrian house how does that work it seemed like we're gonna get pedestrian improvements because now we have our cuts I'll let you take a first Sam do you want us to talk about the archives so that isn't part of this project in particular so that that's part of the urban growth master plan with the urban growth master plan we were focusing on trying to provide an awful lot of shared use pathways that would be off of the roadway system that would run along the whole of Athens Boonesboro feeding back into the development that would be on the easternmost side of I-75 so we're we are seeking to provide those areas the complications that we might see in the future is trying to cross the road to the area that is the soccer stadium and I believe that the MPO and KYTC is looking at how that might occur as development comes online a little bit snarkiness here because something good coming from the archives the best part about the archives is saving lives that's why we put it into place it is the safety metric it is proven to drop potential collisions that could cause either serious injury or fatality down to close to zero okay do we not have any other questions if not thank you all very much we appreciate it okay our next item on the agenda today is the urban growth master plan implementation zoning ordinance text amendment with mr. crumb good afternoon everyone Daniel crumb planning staff and as noted this is a text amendment that is sort of going to be accompanying the back end of all the efforts that you all as a planning commission put in to the the urban growth master plan creating kind of the standards on the front end or the update to the zoning ordinance putting that plan together and so this is sort of a follow-through we are working on the branding because that is a quite long a name for a title but just kind of giving a quick overview just reminding everyone kind of what that plan was you just got a refresher as it kind of pertained to the blue sky area but in 2023 just to set sort of a timeline we designated that those 2,800 acres approximately to add to the urban services area but in 2024 we finalized the process creating the urban growth master plan once again this document laid out land-use expectations it planned out potential roads laid out potential changes to the zoning ordinance to accommodate some of these these future developments but really set the tone in the standard for hey how are we going to govern all of this land that is going to be used to kind of develop housing and kind of build out that core in 2025 we did kind of have a shake-up to the system and how we looked at land use in general with a house bill 443 taking effect so a framework that we sort of had planned for in 2023 and 2024 suddenly did need to change a little bit and so the point of this ZOTA is essentially to make sure that the things that we're talking about in the UGMP that you all reviewed and adopted gets carried forth and continued out throughout the development process not just when you all are looking at the documents and so just a refresher the UGMP added these the five areas comprising of that 2,800 acres once again mostly concentrated on the eastern half of the county there the regulated plans that was the map based element so that laid out the densities the roadway networks the town centers all of that were part of that document what we'll be talking about kind of today in the piece that kind of needs the tie-in is is the regulatory framework so this wasn't just okay here the where the roads are going to be located or what the densities are going to be but kind of the discussion on how do we want these areas to develop how do we want to handle things like access site design pedestrian infrastructure parking all of those are included in the in the document you have in front of you is the section of the section 6 of the overall plan that talks about those recommendations so these were things that the when the plan was being developed that they said hey these are ways to kind of meet the goals of how you want this area to develop so they kind of lay a framework of how staff looks at it when we develop or reviewing these respective plans and then kind of sets the stage from there once again hitting a variety of different topics ranging from density connectivity multimodal transportation etc and here is just a particular example of one such recommendation that talks about when we have development and involving commercial development that they should share driveways they should have interpersonal access these are just a kind of a glimpse at how this looks within the plan as it was currently implemented once again these are recommending this language that it says should so it's not mandatory language it's not an objective standard and so bringing us to kind of how we're reviewing UGMP development you all have kind of seen this once already the the Basler property on Cane Break came through earlier this year and so the left side with the preliminary development plan in the preliminary subdivision plan are the only parts of this process for development within the UGMP that we've seen so far and these are the areas where you all even in a post House Bill 443 world have the ability to kind of look at these plans and actually make that recommendation so in the same way when you're looking at other zoning development plans you get to look at how is this meeting the comprehensive plan and you get to evaluate is this an agreement with the adopted urban growth master plan that's a the power that you all have you can look at that and say oh no the densities aren't in line with what we were looking for here or where is that roadway that we were promised here all of that hand is handled at the preliminary stage where you all still have that discretionary review and so you pass the zone change in these areas and then it proceeds kind of the right side of the screen this is where we're talking about the final development plan where in a post 443 world it doesn't necessarily go to the Planning Commission unless there is a specific health safety or welfare concern those are reviewed using objective standards so unlike the beginning piece where you can say this isn't an agreement with the master plan once it becomes a final development plan really we are governed by the the rules we have on the books so the intent behind the ZOTA is to take the the prescriptions that are in the urban growth master plan as far as hey this is how we want these site specific things to be developing and making them into objective standards that are appropriate and then kind of applying to these areas so the intent behind the the efforts that we're kind of starting here and and we'll be taking to you all further down the line is to create any of these necessary standards to make sure that we're not losing something for when you all look at a preliminary plan say yes this is worth rezoning and you're meeting the comprehensive plan that that's sort of carried through with objective standards later specific language is going to be tailored so this is we're not looking to change anything outside of the the boundaries of the master plan area so this isn't going to affect development anywhere else these would be specific language in respective sections that would tie into a particular topic and so wouldn't impact anything outside of the the urban growth master plan areas and the focus is going to be on implementing these same concepts we don't want to suddenly create brand new additional things or hoops to jump through you all spent a lot of time hearing feedback from the community going through this year-long process to adopt this plan we're really looking at taking this language and just making it applicable and making it so that it can be objective that the developers will have firm ideas of what's going to be expected to them kind of developing down the line and making sure that that's all kind of carried through so going back to that same slide that I showed before just to highlight kind of what we're looking at here the lift that we're looking at changing language like should to shall is a very simple but it changes it from a recommendation to a requirement so this would in this particular example in the section of the ordinance that deals with other commercial access or connectivity requirements there would be a statement to the effect of within the boundaries of the urban growth master plan X shall apply and so that is the process that we're looking at taking what was recommended here making sure that it's sort of appropriate and that that were you know when it's applied is not going to result in any any overt issues and then making it so that it's objective and able to be kind of utilized and held on to even when you all are not the bodies that are going to be reviewing it because once again unless there is a health safety or welfare concern or they need a waiver from any of these regulations then this would just be reviewed through the Technical Review Committee. So as far as a general timeline of kind of what staff was projecting once again dependent entirely on feedback from you all in the direction that you all would like to go we're introducing you all to kind of the concept and what we think is the need for this ZOTA hopefully by the next work session that we would have some draft text kind of showing the direction that we are going in if so it could be then initiated in March filed in early April taken to committees in May with a kind of May 28th kind of projected hearing date if additional time kind of wasn't needed and so then it would be taken to the council for them ultimately to kind of act on it but that was the general timeline and so once again this is something that we want to are asking you all to to kind of take a look at to make sure that we're getting consistency throughout this process and to kind of hopefully create a better project kind of end of goal for these expansion areas so with that it's just sort of the the general framework but I'd be happy to take any questions that you all have at this time and then ultimately next month hopefully bringing you all some actual text to consider and look okay great thank you Daniel do we have any questions for Daniel at this time great thank you Daniel our third item on the agenda today is the floodplain article 19 zoning ordinance text amendment with Eve Miller how's that is that better great okay good afternoon Planning Commission my name is Eve Miller I'm a senior planner with the long-range planning team and the division of planning and I'm here this afternoon to provide to all a very quick introduction on a project we just begun for the floodplain article 19 zoning ordinance so we're looking to have a zoning ordinance text amendment on that article which is the floodplain conservation and protection article 19 so imagine Lexington 2045 our comprehensive plan calls for in theme B to update our ordinances and regulations to reflect best practices for floodplain protection and mitigation article 19 was created in 1983 it was amended in 1987 to bring the city into conformity with the National Flood Insurance Program and then it was updated again in 2005 to update definitions that include the flood elevation standards and also to include the division of engineering and the review and variance processes regarding floodplain in 2016 the article was amended to reflect revisions to the stormwater manual which the division of water quality overseas so it's not been touched in about ten years so it's also a very timely and significant topic that we're talking about here in our nation and the state of Kentucky we're very familiar with the dangers of increased rain and severe weather events which cause runoff erosion and pose public and welfare safety threats unfortunately the state of Kentucky has had a hundred flood related deaths from 1996 to 2020 so we're not new to this issue and we want to do what whatever we can to ensure that we have the best practices available to us so with more severe storms occurring more frequently we want our city to have more modernized current best practices in place and not only does this effort ensure the safety of our residents but also allows for those residents who are on or near a floodplain to have more affordable flood insurance through our FEMA community rating system which is a voluntary program that is offered to local governments through the National Flood Insurance Program that if we implement flood mitigation practices they will offer discounts ranging from five to forty five percent for those residents for implementing flood mitigation regulations so it's it's a win-win for everyone so in the article itself we're looking to achieve several policy updates first we're going to update the purpose and the definitions within the article so we're looking to update floodway manufactured home which per state legislative changes we want to make sure is updated as well and I believe we achieved that last year we're also looking to update special flood hazard areas substantial improvement and watershed and then we want to incorporate the most recent flood rate maps and the flood boundary maps like other manuals that we mentioned in the zoning ordinance currently in the article we reference maps that are from 2008 as well as 2014 those are now outdated so we're looking to just incorporate that so we can use whatever map is most recently available to us in our floodplain review and tech review development process we want to add as prohibited uses in the floodplain that no dumpsters can exist which is an obvious you know implementation item and then we also want to require that no future residential parcels can be on a floodplain and this implementation item would have the most impact on our new urban growth master plan areas for the floodplain appeals committee which the division of engineering and the urban county engineer overseas they've asked us to take a look at membership requirements for the floodplain appeals committee and then insert Robert rules of order for them as well which is always good it's always best practice and then finally if Commission members remember our former staff member mr. Tom Martin who retired I believe last year he had developed when he had his tenure here some language for a future flood plain Zoda to codify our Greenway dedication and transfer process so we're looking to utilize his draft language that he crafted while he was here to put inside the land subdivision regulations let's see so in the coming months we'll be working with the division of engineering water quality and environmental services staff to begin that draft language process to bring back to you all later this year and then we'll also begin some outreach and education efforts while we're out in the community this spring to get feedback that we can utilize during this project and yesterday afternoon I had the opportunity to introduce this topic to the Green Space Trust so it was really great to go ahead and start to get feedback and input from the community so that is a very quick overview and introduction but I will happily take any questions or feedback you might have for us. Okay thank you Eve. Commissioner Molly Davis. Thank you chair. Thank you Eve. Just a question because it kind of caught my attention that floodplains can't be included in a new residential lot but they can be in all other categories? Oh that is a great question. The example I would like to use is commercial floodplain regulations are obviously different than residential floodplain regulations. On a residential lot you have someone there could be 24 hours any time of the day a commercial lot typically you're going to see interaction or activity you know a nine to five maybe a late evening basis so I think the regulations at least for national standards pertain more to a residential lot so have more impact I would. I think we're also looking at that as a option for getting rid of flood insurance on residential property so a lot of the times what is happening is people are the rear of a property or something like that is just touching a floodplain and if there's any floodplain on your property depending on your mortgage your bank or anything like that they might require you to have or hold that flood insurance even though your elevation much might be much higher even I have kind of looked through this and it's been a topic that we've wanted to tackle in the past as well and it gives us an opportunity to review that within the government and externally. Thank you and is the the requirements for being on the floodplain appeals committee going to be more stringent and or is it loosening or tightening the kind of requirements? I wouldn't say either we're just making sure that they adhere to ethical and absence standards things like that so we want people to show up we want people to participate and follow you know proper parliamentary procedure. Okay thank you. And just a quick add-on within our expansionary master plan from 1996 we did have the requirement not to have floodplain on properties so we've been doing that for 30 years we just haven't been doing it for the whole of the community. And that Hal is I think the context that might be missing is Lexington over the course of the 20th century as far as planning goes we've we've not always considered how important flooding is and we have the city has had to purchase homes from individuals over the course of the last five or six seven decades because of that so that that's the context that I'm glad you mentioned it. Mr. McClure did you have a? Yeah I wanted to ask you about if there's been a discussion of some of the unintended consequences of this proposed ZOTA what I guess comes to mind is I know this body since I've been on it has seen some consequences to restrictions on sort of development and floodplains being that they come in and dump a lot of fill to make it not a floodplain or they put a culvert in or channelize a small stream to make it not count as a floodplain so I can think of a couple that I've seen I'm sure the staff here can list many more but you know I remember one where the parking lot for the apartment complex would have gotten too close to an open stream so instead of leaving an open stream with a parking lot we put the stream you know basically in a culvert through the property that eliminated the the problem they were able to solve their problem that way but as a community we kind of put the stream in a tube and then you know we also saw that development plans for like the the iterative plans for the drive-thru coffee along for sales road which were first this these scooters and then the seven brew where the flood plan is you know issues were solved just by like how much fill are we gonna dump here and you know I guess I wonder when like in that case when we get so restrictive that you know we can't build a seating area with a pergola for people to sit in the floodplain then especially speaking thinking from a commercial or multi sort of family sort of development situation are we pushing people to eliminate the floodplains and then maybe causing some unintended negative environmental consequences by being so restrictive thank you Commissioner I think that's a really wonderful point and like I said we're in the very early stages of this discussion and what we've discovered through talking with engineering and water quality folks they are much more knowledgeable and technical at this than I am what I'm trying to figure out is how I can prevent those unintended consequences in a policy realm and hearing from them has been really eye-opening and helpful so you were right on it we are discussing that and it's also a little tricky because currently the Urban County Engineer and the Division of Engineering they have discretion when it comes to working with the Floodplain Appeals Committee and looking at development plans to ensure that parcel has the best practices or mitigation in place so we're trying to figure out legally what that looks like in a post House Bill 443 world but also we know that every parcel is different with their floodplain or water stormwater strategies so it's a little bit tricky but we are discussing that point so thank you for highlighting that. I'd like to build on to that because I'm still not clear on what we're asking for here I remember Charlie Martin saying you can sewer anything if you have enough money and when I'm not talking about sewers here now I'm talking about floodplains but we see we saw Lexington Clinic flood plain area over there where they expanded and we had a stream running through the golf course which used to flood are we saying as a practice we're going to manage better developers attempts to re-engineer a floodplain to avoid to get past a regular what are what are we actually saying here? So I would say that we need to make a differentiation between what the zoning ordinance is doing and what the engineering manuals and the stormwater manuals are doing. This gets into some best practices regarding how things might work impact on the property buffers things like that when it comes to the engineering of the site we are heavily way we are heavily influenced by our engineering department and the manuals that they are abiding by so I don't believe that we'll be getting as far into some of the things that have been brought up but there they are currently reviewing the stormwater manuals and some of the engineering manuals for updates and I think those are the places in which we would want to have those conversations about culverting or the amount of fill or something that goes in because those aren't currently covered in a lot of what we do. Correct it's much easier to update and modernize a stormwater or engineering manual compared to the zoning ordinance so the more technical discussion happens in those manuals. I'm trying to integrate the technical piece of this with what it what is it we're trying to accomplish with our policy regarding preservation of the floodplain in the flow and that mean to me that's the conversation we're talking about here. And I think to Eve's point before we'll be working through that with the engineers as we go along to make sure that we're getting this in the best way possible. If I may, we've got to look at the whole picture on this when it comes floodplains and water and so forth. We often look at a plot of land right there just one lot and so forth but we can push water off that lot but it's got to go somewhere. And I do remember sitting in this room on one occasion someone said well that's downstream we don't have to worry about that. We've got to worry about it so. Okay I think we're good. Thank You Eve. Very important topic. Okay our next item on the agenda is the Planning Services Data Annual Review Data Lab Update and vacant land for Mr. Bailey. Let's put this back up for tall people. Thank you very much Hal Bailey, Division of Planning. I am going to go through a couple of different things. Tracy Wade is very nice to allow me to go through these. It allows me to kind of continue to be part of the the Planning Services Review at the year-over-year. It also is important for us to be looking at what we have been doing from a department every year not only to give that information to you all and the public but it's great for our analysis within staff. A lot of the information you're seeing today will also be replicated and put up on our website which I'll talk about in a little bit but this is just another way for us to continue to push forward a our transparent review of applications and also highlight a lot of the work that Planning Services does that you never see. There is a significant amount of work that go on it goes on every single day by a lot of our staff members that never get to you and even before the KRS 100 or 100 275 or House Bill 443 went through it was still happening. These are still the applications that we take in. So just jumping into the overall kind of review from this year there were a total of 675 or 774 applications or permits that were reviewed. This includes all of what you see down here. Many of those you see like a map amendment request or a zone change but many you do not. The Board of Adjustment applications which I haven't broken down here but they're numerous and then the zoning compliance permits accessory dwelling units and some of the other permits that are letters of compliance that people bring in. Those are going on every day and those are things that the public rely on especially for confidence in the development of a property. Just in this past year you all reviewed a total of 15 cases for map amendment requests or zone changes. Nine were approved, one was disapproved, four are still in process, and then you do have one that is indefinitely postponed. This is not completely abnormal from what you have been seeing over the years. Here we just have a comparison between the 2013 comprehensive plan which is the last comprehensive plan that we had that was a land-use map based plan into the 2018 comprehensive plan which was our shift over to the place builder and with our place types development types. So you do see a little bit of a change in the numbers but not completely out of character as we go along. Any type of conversation in which people have been saying oh well it's a little hard to get through there are greater amounts of disapprovals. It's not particularly true but I will say that it was a easier process because in the zone change with a map that tells you what the future land use should be it's easier to just point to that and go a little bit further and say like this is what we were supposed to be applying for rather than our zone change process being more of a conversation, context-based, making sure that people are developing for the future and not just reflecting the map. From 2018 to 2023 again we see a similar amount of cases that are being brought in. From 2024 to 2025 we're seeing a lot more kind of activity with some bigger projects primarily multifamily housing that you have experienced in the near downtown or downtown area. The staff is diligently going through these applications and with all applications that you see with these year-by-years they do carry over into the next year. So we're constantly kind of going back updating our files making sure that we're reflecting everything that has been finalized as it has been done. When it comes to the development and subdivision plans you have been seeing a lot of the major development plans a little bit less recently, but what we're seeing here is the breakdown of the different plans throughout Lexington. 36 final record plans, 66 minor subdivision plans, 4 major subdivision plans, then we're getting into our minor development plans. Those are the ones that you don't see again unless it is heightened to needing a health safety or welfare concern or that they are hitting something that is just a little bit off. And then getting into our major development plans you had 77 applications from this past year. In terms of the Board of Adjustment, they had seen a significant increase between 2023 and 2024. I think we have we all know that that is because of the short-term rental craze that has gone through. We've seen a significant decrease kind of coming back to the numbers that we were used to. Historically dropping down to 150 applications. That is still bolstered by the short-term rentals. That is largely because we are still requiring a conditional use permit for those that are coming through with an unhosted short-term rental, but that number has dramatically decreased since 2024. So just breaking it down off of the numbers that we have within Acela, 55 of those BOA cases were variances. 93 were those conditional use permits with the majority being the short-term rentals. We did have one appeal and then one non-conforming use. Jumping into the zoning compliance permits, this is something again that you would not see but is done every single day and has also been impacted dramatically by the short-term rental applications throughout Lexington. We saw actually between 2022 and 2024 over a thousand percent increase in requests for this. Now we did see a little bit of a lag between 2016 and 2022, but that's largely because we made it a little easier to find the information about what's going on in our zoning ordinance and made it so that a lot of, we did a fair amount of text amendments leading into that point of time to make sure that people can utilize their property to the greatest amount possible. So we are seeing a decrease in that. 293 permits were completed during that, during last year. Accessory dwelling units. We only had two new filings. One was withdrawn and one is still in process. Now this is a significant drop from what we had been seeing previously. With the first year that we updated our ADU ordinance, we had 11 applications. Then we saw a bump up to about 25. Now we're seeing a drop-off. We're going to keep on monitoring that. We're interested to see what is the complication in that. When we've been reviewing some of our meetings with the public, we found that the building code requirements to do a attached, I'm sorry, accessory dwelling unit is a bit onerous. That gets into building code requirements of having firewall separation, not having access between the structures, having separate HVAC systems, all kind of played into that. And we're reviewing different ways currently that we would be able to maybe bolster this number back up, make it something that people want to do. This might include what Louisville has done, which is create off-the-shelf plans that people might be able to come, pull off the shelf, say that is a good-looking plan. Maybe I can have that on my property. Establish that and move it forward. It cuts down a little bit on their costs as well, and it cuts down a little bit on the permitting time for some of those things. They did that in a coordination with the AARP approximately three years ago, Chris? Yes. Regulation amendments. Some of our favorite things. We've dropped a little bit. The past, I'm sorry, five new submissions, that should say from 2025, not 2024. But we saw five new applications go through the fullness of the process during 2025. Two of those are directly because of modifications to KRS 100. That includes KRS 100-275 and KRS 100-348. 275 is that House Bill 443 about enactment of the zoning ordinance and ministerial review. And then KRS 100-348 is the manufactured home modification that you all had moved forward to the Council on the Council Pass this past year. In addition to that, we modified the lot coverage for the B3 zone. That was a concern of the development community throughout Lexington. We included micro distilleries in the B2 zones, and then we included short-term rentals as a regular primary use within the PUD 3 zone, which PUD 3, we only have one. That's the Turner Commons way. In addition to reviewing all of this information, we are trying to update a lot of the information on the Imagine Lexington Analytic Research Center. You guys are going to hear me talk about this non-stop from this point until the end of my career. So we are hoping to get a lot of this information onto the website so that people can see the trends of applications. And that will also allow us to update the public through lab reports about what changed. If we see a drop-off in zoning compliance permits, what might be that reason? Or if we see less applications for conditional use permits for, say, a home office. That is because that's a direct relationship to a zoning ordinance text amendment that you all had passed previously. So just providing the public with greater context of what we're doing, how we're changing things to make things a little easier for the public, as well as to highlight some of the things that our Planning Services staff does not really get recognition for with all the work that they do on a daily level. One of the things that we have updated on the Analytic Research Center is we have included all of the Sustainable Growth Trends Report data onto the website now. This includes information that's coming out of the U.S. Census, the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, FRED data. And then we are utilizing a private service called CoStar. This is helpful, especially with our industrial and office metrics, but also will give us all the information that's coming out of Apartments.com and a few other organizations. That's very helpful for us to be able to get what the current rents are going for in Lexington, so that we can see some of those different variations, not just for the whole of the city, but comparing Lexington to surrounding counties, and then comparing the different areas around Lexington. You can see where the highest rents are for different apartments, the highest construction, and a few other things. We currently have all that data on the website. We need to update it again because we're always getting new information. We want to make sure the public has access to that. As you can see, these are just a few of the new metrics that we have added. I know that this looks a little bit complex, but you can go ahead and click on any of the top buttons up here with the different counties and take them off the map. It makes it a little bit more focused. You'll be able to also download all of the Excel files by using our little three-button click over there so that everyone has access to that. They can then use the information on our website to go ahead and do their own analysis. One of the things that was consistently brought up in your review of when we should expand, when we should not expand, if we're doing it the right way, and then getting into the Lexington's Preservation and Growth Management Program, was that how are we dealing with our housing shortage or need compared to surrounding counties? If you get into our website under the housing or the residential tab, it'll compare Lexington with surrounding counties. Specifically, what share do we currently have of multifamily or residential in the region? I know that that was a particular concern from some of our development communities saying that we were losing share. The data doesn't quite support that assumption, but our surrounding counties are growing. They are adding multifamily and that is a necessity as we as a bluegrass region, specifically the central Kentucky bluegrass region, is growing. One of the elements that we we know that everyone is interested in is the continued review of vacant land within Lexington. This is the 2024 data that we currently have on the website. It highlights all the properties that are considered vacant based off of the criteria that we utilize. It also provides the number of vacant land by parcel and then acreage, each by zone. We felt that it was very important to highlight the zone aspect of that because if someone were to come in and say, hey I have a a B3 use or a corridor use and I would like to establish that in Lexington, we would be able to highlight some of the properties that are currently vacant and direct them to maybe the owners of that property or someone that could help them with that. So that is something that has been a really important portion of the site, but what is most important is that we are going to go through and update that information annually. So just recently, meaning this morning, we finalized our review of the acreage and the parcels that are considered vacant within Fay County, specifically within the urban service area. I want to highlight that that we are not looking outside of the urban service area for vacancy, largely because this is a metric that will be going into the growth management program talking about how urbanized land uses are available or not available. So what we have seen is that this is the changes that have occurred since 2024. We've seen a bit of infill and finalization of construction of projects in the P2 zone, specifically in the Cold Stream area. A lot of that area has filled out with some residential uses, office land, and research land uses. There has been some finalization of some projects in the ED zone north of 6475, and then also we, as part of our analysis, we do not include University of Kentucky property into the analysis of vacant land. Now that is an important thing to note on two different fronts. One, we can't control what they do with zoning, and then two, they have a different time span that we can't push them to move along on. So University of Kentucky recently purchased a portion of land off of Winchester Road, as we go out of town right near the interstate, for potential hospital facilities. This is the Cowgill property, near the Cowgill property now, it's a UK property, that we actually took off of the vacant land. That is important to note because when we put these numbers out here, it'll show a pretty drastic decrease in the amount of ED land that is available, or that is considered vacant, and we want to highlight the fact that UK property, we don't have control, we can't really push that, but that is not considered vacant under our criteria. Other things that have continued to happen, we've seen a lot of final certificates of occupancy be given to properties in the EAR zones, specifically in the areas that have had subdivision plans that have come through over the past couple of years. And then our R4 zone land, it has been experienced in greater utilization, so we're kind of filling in that R4 land. That is interesting for us to see, especially with some of the regulation changes that we have made over the past two years with the UGM ZODA. We anticipate the R2 and R4 zone, as they are the recommended zones in the comprehensive plan, being picked up quite a bit more as we go along. Just to give you an idea of what this looks like from a parcel or acreage perspective, we have seen, or we saw, a decrease between 2020 and 2022 that led to the eventual request or the dictate by the council to expand our urban service area. So, of course, we were going to see that kind of dramatic rise in vacant land between 2022 and 2024, but we are seeing consumption of that land between 2024 and 2025. So, one of the things that few people have asked me about when it comes to the parcels, I tend to tell people not to focus on the parcels, focus on the acreage. When we have a subdivision plan that comes in that planning staff will review, and they go from one really large golf course to several hundred small single-family or multi-family lots, that's going to bump that number up. But the real focus will be when we start to utilize that acreage, that vacant land acreage number. If we are building in our community and we're developing, that should be going down time by time. This will be an important element of the Lexington growth management process, preservation growth management process, as we go forward, and we'll be reporting out some more of those numbers associated with this over the coming months. So, that's a quick review of planning services, continued efforts, as well as what we are documenting on the planning website with Imagine Lexington Analytic Research Center. Mr. Wilson? Testing. Thank you. I appreciate that. Hal, in the past you've also reported on underutilized land. Are you tracking that as well? So, we've never really tracked underutilized land. It is somewhat hard to tell someone that their business is not big enough, or small enough, or that they're not utilizing the land in the appropriate way. It gets into a practice of planning that I don't think we want to go back to, largely because that was urban renewal within planning's history was really focusing on land that they thought wasn't utilized well enough, and that resulted in a fair amount of destruction of housing in specific locations. So, we have never really reported on anything associated with underutilization. That's something that other organizations have. We focused on this metric of vacant land since 2007. Correct, sir? In the past, for example, one figure, I heard two figures. One figure that we had 17,000 available acreage of land, and about 5,000 to 6,000 vacant, and the other part was underutilized. So, we did have that somewhere. I believe that was primarily being conducted by Fade Alliance and other organizations as they reported what they thought was underutilized, specifically parking lots, things like that. Okay. Thank you, Chair, and Hal. Mr. Bailey, those maps, some of the orange areas look a lot like a road network. So, is it that the area, the white inside there, is the vacant land, or is it really those really funny things that look like roads, those are vacant? It's the really funny things, and that's largely because they're parcels. Parcels that are often bound by roadways. Okay, so those really are, if they were filled in, they would appear much larger and more like they are. Yes. Okay, I have a stupid question. No. It really is a stupid question. I was telling someone about the Analytic Research Center and the different things that we, you know, hear about, and they said, but Molly, those are so bad for the environment. They use up so much, you know, water, and so what, how do I explain that this is not that sort of thing? Yes, so we are not utilizing AI for any of this. So, I think a lot of people are confusing what we're doing as our website, as the center of information, rather than a center of the production of data processing. Okay, so I can reassure them that is not what Lexington is doing with their data. Absolutely not. We are generating it person by person, essentially. Great, thank you so much. You're welcome. All right, Mr. Owens. Thank you. Hal, it came up earlier with Blue Sky Parkway, kind of as follow-up with what Mr. Wilson was asking. I thought it was FedEx, maybe it's UPS out there in Blue Sky, 32, 37 acres. Was that considered vacant land? So, that lot currently does not have a principal primary use on the site, and does not have a current operation. So, that is considered vacant. So, we get into, when we review this, we look at, does it have an operation that's occurring? Does it have a principal structure? Does it have a principal land use? I think some of the concerns when we get into having a conversation about, is a parking lot downtown considered to be a vacant lot, or something like that? It's not vacant, and from our standpoint, it is currently a principal use in the zone. So, it would not be underutilized in that sense, because they're utilizing it per our zoning ordinance. We really focus in on how are properties built upon, do they have a user, those types of things, rather than if that use specific is something that we think could be done better, or could be done differently. So, that out of Blue Sky was in the... Actually, I think I might have misspoken. I actually believe that because it has a principal structure on that site, it is not considered vacant. But it's going to be utilized, very much so. Yes, and I believe that someone, we talked to Ms. Castro earlier today, she's indicated that that property has been purchased, and someone is seeking to utilize it. So, we wouldn't consider that vacant. Yeah, so, you know, that is land that's coming into the system that wasn't counted. Correct. Yeah, and that's, ultimately, that's a good thing. We want to, we don't want to see a lot more land come onto the vacancy. I'm just trying to figure out how we can recognize that land, because I'm hearing there's like 22 acres on Newtown Pike that has been for sale and has just recently sold, and I consider it vacant land. I've been told that it's part of it is parking lot, where, who was it, Amazon had a storage facility of trailers at one point in time. Oh, that would be the Lexmark property, and I believe that that has a principal primary use on it. And that gets into the land use that is allowable in that zone. But now we've got 22 acres that's going to be utilized for something else. Yeah, yeah, and that just means it's going from being utilized to utilized. Mike, you can imagine, Mike, the challenge that we would face if we tried to evaluate whether a parcel was empty versus underutilized, and when we can come up with an ironclad, replicable, easy to explain process that says how property is vacant, then we all cannot be criticized for saying we've inflated the numbers or we've deflated the numbers. They are just there, and if a building ends up being empty for a year and we get it back, that's all the more benefit to us. Just like the Peninsula and the Spring Valley Golf Course, those were not on our vacant land inventories, but they came in and provided hundreds of units, so there's a bonus there. But our vacant land evaluation is ironclad. Anybody can see how to do it, and they should be able to replicate it themselves if they want to. And I will say that it is now founded in law as well with what we have just passed with the Lexington Preservation Growth Management Program. Mr. Wilson, one other quick question about, you said that you give these reports annually. Is it possible through the technology we have, like they do in the supermarket, every time they take a can off, they put that as a part of the inventory. Can they get an up-to-date inventory quicker than annually by just to keep through the use of technology? It gets a little complicated. I will say that when we do this analysis, it is not a short process for staff to do. It necessitates what we are currently doing with a review and a month-to-month review of our commercial new construction, residential new construction, and demolition. So we are basing a lot of our information based off of what others are doing. The annual is what we have kind of agreed to, and I'll also say that that annual is actually more frequently than we had ever done it before. With sustainable growth, it was every two years. With our comprehensive plan, it was previously every five. So if we can get a way to work our time down, that it's not taking one staff member a couple of weeks, I think we could get there. But at this point in time, I couldn't agree to doing it more frequently. I love more work. I just want to be able to do the other stuff too. Okay, sure. Could we go back to that question about downtown parking lots being utilized and not being vacant in your role as kind of helping guide the downtown master plan? Specifically, there was a meeting last week near Gatton Park, and you were there, and the consultants talked a lot about how the parking lots appear, I guess, you know, people have called it like a mouth with rotten teeth. So I'm sure there are, are there any mechanisms that they can think of, or you will be talking with them about, to improve downtown and maybe address the parking lot proliferation? That is something that the consultant is looking at for that plan, and I look forward to Boyd and the others back there. Boyd and the consultant are bringing you more information as we go along on that. Thank you. Yes, sir. Well, I just want more or less second, not in those exact terms, that I don't think that considering surface parking lots with no primary use is the same as calling historically black neighborhoods underutilized and demolishing them in urban renewal. And I don't necessarily want to, like, that equation does seem a little bit like extreme to link those two. I think that it would be, it would meet the criteria of replicable, easy to understand, if we were to say that a surface parking lot with no primary use is equivalent to vacant. So I want to make two very strong statements. Number one, I was not saying that in any way, shape, or form are we protecting surface lots because that is a combat to urban renewal. I was stating specifically that surface parking lots are a principal use in the downtown zones. So we cannot say that that is an underutilized use because of how that is being conducted in the downtown area. If we want to take that out as a use, if we want to, as a community, start to talk about those things, that's something different. What I was making a reference to is the history of Lexington and of planning in saying that certain housing is an underutilization of that property. Just because a large portion of our downtown is in the R3 and there are, which allows all the way up to multifamily, does not make a single family dwelling unit an underutilized property in that zone. And I want to avoid any conversation, and I believe Jim would agree with me historically, we want to avoid any conversation about saying someone's house, whether it's small, large, multifamily, single-family, attached or detached, is underutilization. That makes sense to me. I just was hearing that parking lots were kind of getting rolled into that, and it does seem to me that, you know, as we're, it does seem to me that at some point, well I mean this is not necessarily a community opinion, this is my personal opinion, but it does seem to me that they should be in the figure of vacant. Okay, do we have any other questions for Mr. Bailey? If not, our next item on the agenda is Lexington's Preservation and Growth. Mr. Bailey. Yeah, and the good part about that is we can leave this screen on blank and you don't have to listen to me too long. Hal Bailey, Division of Planning, thank you for having me. Really wish I wore a tie today. I wanted to bring you an update specifically on the Lexington's Preservation and Growth Management Program. On February 12th, the council approved the program and voted it into ordinance. You should have a copy of that ordinance in front of you now. It was signed by the mayor approximately today, so we got the the upload today and it is available for anyone from the public to see. It runs through the fullness of the process. That does bring us to our next steps. During our last work session, we went through what is in the document as well as what would be coming in the next month. We are anticipating doing a public notification for a amendment to the comprehensive plan. This would allow us to adopt what has been kind of adopted already into ordinance as an element of the comprehensive plan. This goes back to the goal and objective that really pushed us to complete this process, and we would like to move that forward at your March 26th hearing. Again, just because this lays out the framework for the process, what we will be discussing in the future once we go through the comprehensive planning process and then into the growth trends report process is what's the type of information we can put into the growth trends report so that we can establish and move that along. A lot of that information will be heavily tied to what we are showing on our analytic research center, not our data processing center, and that way we'll be able to make sure that we are getting ahead of things, not scrambling towards the time that we get to the growth trends report, and that if there is information that you all would like to see, information or analysis that should be done, that we can get that to you as soon as possible. That's just a quick update on that. That's great. Okay, do we have any questions for Mr. Bailey on that front? No questions. Frank is running out of reading material in Florida. Can you email that to him? Yes, we can. Okay, do we have anything else for Mr. Bailey? If not, thank you, Hal. Thank you. Mr. Duncan, do we have anything? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Very quickly, you all have a Planning Commission zoning hearing next Thursday, February 26th at 1.30 in the council chambers. We look forward to seeing you then. Just a very general question, Mr. Duncan. How does our agenda look as far as... It is manageable. Okay, that's fair enough. You never know. Okay, well, if there is no other Commissioner item for today, then without objection, we are adjourned. Thank you very much. Ooh, dream weaver, I believe we can reach the morning light. Though the dawn may be coming soon, there still may be some time. Fly me away to the bright side of the moon. Meet me on the other side. Ooh, dream weaver, I believe you can get me through the night. Ooh, dream weaver, I believe we can reach the morning light. Dream weaver. Dream weaver. Dream weaver. Have a little love on a little honeymoon. You got a little dish and you got a little spoon. A little bitty house and a little bitty yard. A little bitty dog and a little bitty car. It's all right to be a little bitty in a little hometown or a big old city. Might as well share, might as well smile. Life goes on for a little bitty while. A little bitty baby and a little bitty gown. It'll grow up in a little bitty town. Big yellow bus and little bitty books. It all started with a little bitty love. It's all right to be a little bitty in a little hometown or a big old city. Might as well share, might as well smile. Life goes on for a little bitty while. You know you got a job and a little bitty check, a six-pack of beer and a television set. Little bitty world goes around and around, little bit of silence and a little bit of sound. A good old boy and a pretty little girl start all over in the little bitty world. Little bitty plan and a little bitty dream, it's all part of a little bitty scheme. It's alright to be little bitty in a little hometown or a big old city. Might as well share, might as well smile, life goes on for a little bitty while. It's alright to be little bitty in a little hometown or a big old city. Might as well share, might as well smile, life goes on for a little bitty while. A little bitty while. Will you be a vision in white? How'd you get your pants so tight? Don't know what you're doing, but you must be living right. Yeah. Oh, we got some places to see. I brought all my mess with me. Jump in, lay no sin, take a ride in my machine. City traffic's moving way too slow. Drop the pedal and go. Go. Go. We're going riding on the freeway. Oh, love is against our plans. We're going riding on the freeway. Oh, love is against our plans. We're going riding on the freeway. Oh, love is against our plans. Hey, we're riding on the freeway. Oh, love is against our plans. Never you mind the exercise. We've got lots of time. We can't quit till we get to the other side. Ah-ha, ah-ha. We're the radio playing a song. We keep rolling on. Who knows how far a car can get? Who knows how far a car can get? Before you think about your love slowing down. Yeah. City traffic's moving way too slow. Drop the pedal and go. Go. Come on now. Go. We're going riding on the freeway. Oh, love is against our plans. We're going riding on the freeway. Oh, love is against our plans. We're going riding on the freeway. Oh, love is against our plans. Yeah, we're riding on the freeway. Oh, love is against our plans. Oh, yeah. Here we go. Here we go. So drop the top, baby. And let's cruise on into this better than ever street. City traffic's moving way too slow. Drop the pedal and go. Go. Come on baby. Go. Do it for me now. We're going riding on the freeway. Oh, love is against our plans. We're going riding on the freeway. Oh, love is against our plans. We're going riding on the freeway. Oh, love is against our plans. Yeah, we're riding on the freeway. Go down a road called yesterday. Take a left on a lost highway. And make a right on memory lane. Drive until you feel the pain. And at the river of tears, take one last turn. And cross the bridge that just won't burn. Run down houses, love's graveyard. That's where you find my haunted heart. Well, my haunted heart can't rest in peace. It's buried with her memory. It's a living hell here after dark. All alone with a haunted heart. Late at night, a slamming door. Shadows move across the floor. Footsteps fall on silent stairs. I hear her call, but no one's there. Her photograph hangs by the bed. A grim reminder, love is dead. The love I killed just won't depart. It's a living hell, my haunted heart. Well, my haunted heart can't rest in peace. It's buried with her memory. It's a living hell here after dark. All alone with a haunted heart. I said, all alone with a haunted heart. All alone with a haunted heart. All alone with a haunted heart. I won't be back for a long, long while. Give me $85 worth of highway miles. I ain't got no luggage as you can see. Just a whole lot of heavy memories. I was finally up for just a settling down. Till I found out she's been fooling around. You can send me north, you can send me south. Just don't send me past my house. Don't ask me where I'm going, cause I don't care. I want a ticket that'll take me anywhere but here. A ticket that'll take me anywhere but here. Well, I hear it's cold up in Saskatoon. But it couldn't be colder than our bedroom. The skies are blue down in Alabama. But they won't be any bluer than I am. You can send me north, you can send me south. Just don't send me past my house. Don't ask me where I'm going, cause I don't care. I want a ticket that'll take me anywhere but here. A ticket that'll take me anywhere but here. I hear it's cold up in Saskatoon. But they won't be any bluer than our bedroom. You can send me north, you can send me south. Don't ask me where I'm going, cause I don't care. I want a ticket that'll take me anywhere but here. I want a ticket that'll take me anywhere but here. Well, I ain't Bert Reynolds and I ain't Tom Selleck. I got bills up the pike and my car's an old rally. I get Chevrolet paint but I got a big smile. But my little baby loves me Cadillac style. Well, I don't have a condo in Panama City. I used to say I'm a member of the Poor Boy Committee. But I kind of feel rich when I've been with her a while. Cause my little baby loves me Cadillac style. Well, about 10.30, Lord, she puts me in drive. Turns all the lights down and man alive. All eight cylinders are firing in line. Never out of gas and I'm always on time. Well, I ain't Goldfinger and I ain't old-fashioned. And you can't buy much with the checks I'm cashing. So people, if you wonder why I'm riding with a smile. It's cause my little baby loves me Cadillac style. Well, about 10.30, Lord, she puts me in drive. Turns all the lights down and man alive. All eight cylinders are firing in line. Never out of gas and I'm always on time. Well, I ain't Goldfinger and I ain't old-fashioned. And you can't buy much with the checks I'm cashing. So people, if you wonder why I'm riding with a smile. It's cause my little baby loves me Cadillac style. Yeah, my little baby loves me Cadillac style. Well, my little baby loves me Cadillac style. Well, my little baby loves me Cadillac style. My little baby loves me Cadillac style. Spirit move me. Every time I'm near you. Whirling like a cyclone in my mind. Sweet Melissa, angel of my life. I answer to all answers I can find. Baby, I love you. Baby, I love you. Come, come, come into my arms. Let me know the wonder of all of you. Baby, I want you now. Now, now, and hold on fast. Could this be the magic at last? Now, now, and hold on fast. Could this be the magic at last? Now, now, and hold on fast. Could this be the magic at last? Now, now, and hold on fast. Now, now, and hold on fast. Lady, take me high up on a hillside. High up where the stallions meet the sun. I could love you, build my world around you. Never leave you till my life is done. Baby, I love you. Come, come, come into my arms. Let me know the wonder of all of you. Baby, I want you now. Now, now, and hold on fast. Could this be the magic at last? Could it be magic? Come, come on, come on, come into my arms. Let me know the wonder of all of you. Baby, I want you now. Now, now, and hold on fast. Could this be the magic at last? Could it be magic? Come, come on, come on, come into my arms. Let me know the wonder of all of you. Baby, I want you now. Now, now, and hold on fast. Could this be the magic at last? Could it be magic? Come, come on, come on, come into my arms. Let me know the wonder of all of you. Baby, I want you now. Now, now, and hold on fast. Could this be the magic at last? Could it be magic? Come, come on, come on, come into my arms. Let me know the wonder of all of you. Baby, I want you now. Now, now, and hold on fast. Could it be magic? Come, come on, come on, come into my arms. www.mooji.org www.mooji.org And while I'm away, Dust has demons inside, And it won't be long before you and me will run To a place in our hearts where we'll hide. www.mooji.org And I guess that's why they call it the blues. Time on my hands, And time spent with you. Loving like children, Living like lovers, Rolling like thunder Under the covers. And I guess that's why they call it the blues. Just here in this space, Picture my face in your hands. Live for each second, Without hesitation, And never forget I'm your man. Wait on me, girl, Cry in the night if it helps, But more than help, I simply love you More than I love life itself. And I guess that's why they call it the blues. Time on my hands, And time spent with you. Loving like children, Living like lovers, Rolling like thunder Under the covers. And I guess that's why they call it the blues. Wait on me, girl, Cry in the night if it helps, But more than help, I simply love you More than I love life itself. And I guess that's why they call it the blues. Time on my hands, And time spent with you. Loving like children, Living like lovers, Rolling like thunder Under the covers. And I guess that's why they call it the blues. And I guess that's why they call it the blues. Loving like children, Living like lovers, And I guess that's why they call it the blues. Loving like children, Living like lovers, And I guess that's why they call it the blues. And I guess that's why they call it the blues. I once thought of love as a prison, A place I didn't want to be. So long ago, I made a decision To be footloose and fancy free. But you came and I was so tempted To gamble on love just one time. I never thought I would get caught, It seemed like the perfect crime. Baby, you left me fenced in, I've only got one plea. Lock me away inside of your love, And throw away the key. I'm guilty of loving the first degree. I thought it would be so simple, Like a thousand times before. I'd take what I wanted and just walk away, But I never made it to the door. Now, babe, I'm not begging for mercy, Go ahead and throw the book at me. If loving you's a crime, I know that I'm as guilty as a man can be. Baby, you left me fenced in, I've only got one plea. Lock me away inside of your love, And throw away the key. I'm guilty of loving the first degree. Loving the first degree. Baby, you left me fenced in, I've only got one plea. Lock me away inside of your love, And throw away the key. I'm guilty of loving the first degree. Loving the first degree. Loving the first degree. Loving the first degree. Loving the first degree. Loving the first degree. Loving the first degree. Loving the first degree. Look at me, I'm as helpless as a kitten loves a tree. I'm walking on a cloud, I can't understand love, I'm a mistake holding your hand. Walk my way, And throw away the key. And a thousand violins begin to play, Or it might be the sound of your love, That music I hear alone. I'm a mistake, know what you need. You can say that you're leading me on, But it's just what I want you to do. Don't you notice how hopelessly I'm lost, That's why I'm following you. Should I wander through this wonderland all night, Never knowing my right foot from the left, My head from the glove box, I'm a mistake and too much in love. You can say that you're leading me on, But it's just what I want you to do. Don't you notice how hopelessly I'm lost, That's why I'm following you. You can say that you're leading me on, But it's just what I want you to do. Don't you notice how hopelessly I'm lost, That's why I'm following you. Should I wander through this wonderland all night, Never knowing my right foot from the left, My head from the glove box, I'm a mistake and too much in love. Too much in love. Too much in love. Don't you feel it growing day by day, People getting ready for the move, Some are happy, some are sad, Oh, we're gonna let the music play. What the people need is a way to make them smile, It ain't so hard to do it somehow, You gotta get a man to see, Get it all through, So that mamma calls you after a while. Oh, we're gonna let the music play. Oh, we're gonna let the music play. Oh, we're gonna let the music play. All the time. Well, I know that you know better than everything I say, Meet me in the country for a day, We'll be happy and we'll dance, Oh, we're gonna dance the blues away. But if I'm feeling good to you and you're feeling good to me, There ain't nothing we can't do or say, Feeling good, feeling fine, Oh, baby, let the music play. Oh, we're gonna let the music play. Oh, we're gonna let the music play. Oh, we're gonna let the music play. Oh, we're gonna let the music play. All the time. Like a lazy falling river, Surrounding castles in the sky, And the cloud is growing bigger, Oh, let the music play. Oh, let the music play. Oh, let the music play. All the time. Oh, let the music play. Oh, let the music play. Oh, let the music play. Oh, let the music play. All the time. Moonlight on canvas. Midnight and wine. Two shadows start to softly combine. Picture their pain as one of the heart. And to those who have seen it, it's a true work of art. Oh, the red strobe. Passions unkept. Thundering moments of tenderness raged. Oh, the red strobe. Tempered and strong. Burning the night like the dawn. Steam on the window. Salt in the kiss. Two hearts have never pounded like this. Inspired by a vision that they can't command. Erasing the border with each brush of a hand. Oh, the red strobe. Passions unkept. Thundering moments of tenderness raged. Oh, the red strobe. Tempered and strong. Burning the night like the dawn. Oh, the blues will be blue and the jealousy's green. But when love picks its shade, it demands to be seen. Oh, the red strobe. Passions unkept. Thundering moments of tenderness raged. Passions unkept. Thundering moments of tenderness raged. Oh, the red strobe. Fearlessly drawn. Burning the night like the dawn. Oh, the red strobe. Passions unkept. Thundering moments of tenderness raged. Oh, the red strobe. Fearlessly drawn. Burning the night like the dawn. Steam on the window. Salt in the kiss. Two hearts have never pounded alike. Well, I'll still be her rabbit. She's ready for flow. Old Mississippi, she's calling my name. Catfish are jumping. That paddlewheel thumping. Black water keep flowing on fast as the sea. Old Blackwater, keep on rolling. Mississippi Moon, won't you keep on shining on me. Old Blackwater, Mississippi Moon, won't you keep on shining on me. Old Blackwater, keep on rolling. Mississippi Moon, won't you keep on shining on me. Yeah, keep on shining you're life. Gonna make everything great. Mama gonna make everything alright. And I ain't got no worries cause I ain't in no hurry at all. Well if it rains, I don't care. Don't make no difference to me. Just take that streetcar let's go in uptown. Yeah, I like to hear some funky tipsy landmen dance on funky tone. And I'll be fine everybody drinks all around. Old Blackwater, keep on rolling. Mississippi Moon, won't you keep on shining on me. Old Blackwater, keep on rolling. Mississippi Moon, won't you keep on shining on me. Old Blackwater, keep on rolling. Mississippi Moon, won't you keep on shining on me. Yeah, keep on shining you're life. Gonna make everything great. Mama gonna make everything alright. And I ain't got no worries cause I ain't in no hurry at all. Yeah. Yeah. I like to hear some funky tipsy land pretty mama take me by the hand by the hand take me by the hand pretty mama jumping, dancing, with you daddy all night long. I like to hear some funky tipsy land pretty mama come and take me by the hand by the hand by the hand take me by the hand dirty mama join and dance with your daddy all night long. I like to hear some funky tipsy land pretty mama come and take me by the hand by the hand by the hand take me by the hand dirty mama join and dance with your daddy all night long. I like to hear some funky tipsy land pretty mama come and take me by the hand by the hand take me by the hand dirty mama join and dance with your daddy all night long. I like to hear some funky tipsy land pretty mama come and take me by the hand by the hand take me by the hand dirty mama join and dance with your daddy all night long. I like to hear some funky tipsy land pretty mama join and dance with your daddy all night long. Mangled and dance with your daddy all night long. All night long. All night long. All night long. All night long. All night long. All night long. All night long. All night long. All night long. All night long. All night long. All night long. All night long. All night long. Free. Only want to be free. We've heard them close. Hang on to a dream. On the boats and on the planes. They're coming to America. Never looking back again. They're coming to America. Home. Don't it seem so far away. We're traveling light today. In the eye of the storm. In the eye of the storm. Home. To a new and a shiny place. Make our bed and we'll say our prayers. Freedom's light burning warm. Freedom's light burning warm. Everywhere around the world. They're coming to America. Every time that flag's unfurled. They're coming to America. Got a dream to take them there. They're coming to America. Got a dream they've come to share. They're coming to America. They're coming to America. They're coming to America. They're coming to America. Today. Today. Today. Today. Today. My country, this is thee. Of thee I sing. Of thee I sing. Today. Today. Today. Today. Today. Today. Today. Today. Today. Today. Hey. I can't explain. This. I just need one more chance. To prove my love to you. If you come back to me. I'll guarantee. That I'll never let you go. Can we go back to the days? That love was too hard. Can you tell me. How a perfect love goes wrong. Can somebody tell me. How to get things back. The way they used to be. Oh god give me a reason. How to blend in. I'll never walk out again. Until you come back to me. I'm down on my knees. So many nights I dreamed. Holding my pillow tight. And I know. That I don't need you to be alone. When I open up my eyes. To face reality. Every moment without you. It seems like eternity. I'm begging and you're begging. You come back to me. Can we go back to the days? That love was too hard. Can you tell me. How a perfect love goes wrong. Can somebody tell me. How to get things back. The way they used to be. Oh god give me a reason. I'm down on my knees. I'll never walk out again. Until you come back to me. I'm down on my knees. Baby I'm sorry. Please forgive me for all the wrong I've done. Please come back home girl. I know you put all your trust in me. I'm sorry I let you down. But please forgive me. I'm gonna swallow my pride. Say I'm sorry. Stop pointing fingers. The blame is on me. I want a new life. And I want it with you. If it feels the same. Don't ever let it go. You gotta believe in the spirit. I'm Neal Noah and welcome to Lexington Now for the week of February 16th, 2026. This year's stormwater grants are getting ready to open for applications. Frank Matson, administrator of the program, tells us what it's all about. My name is Frank Matson. I'm working with the Division of Water Quality for the city of Lexington. And I'm overseeing the stormwater quality projects and center grant program. The grant program was established to help private companies and neighbors, some of our neighbors, mitigate some of their stormwater concerns, issues. It was helped to provide funding for stormwater infrastructure pieces. We have two different types. There's class A neighborhood projects. For example, if you have erosion along a stream. Say you have a group of homeowners that are losing their backyards because of erosion. So you might have them apply for a class A grant that we may be able to help fund some of that stream restoration. And there's class B, which is for our commercial fee payers. So we do stuff like permeable pavers, bioswales, spillway projects to assure up spillways to make sure that the erosion is not occurring over spillways. Residential fee payers pay a flat fee. And that would be your homeowners association, residential condo associations. They can apply as a group, which represents those residential homeowners. And then the commercial property owners, they pay based on the square footage of impervious areas on their properties. This program receives 10 percent of the revenue, the water quality management fee revenue that's collected the previous year. So we receive 10 percent of the funding. Then we allocate so much to the class A type grants, so much to the class B education grants, and so much to the class B infrastructure grants. So there's different tiers. Gray Line Station, which is right off of Loudoun, East Loudoun, 109 Loudoun. That was a project that the incentive grant program helped with. LexTran, which is also on Loudoun, did some bioretention areas, some permeable pavers, town branch project that just happened. The program helped fund some of the depaving activities. So you had this giant parking lot right in back of Rupp Arena. Our program helped get rid of all the concrete. We helped remove all the concrete, and we helped incorporate two treatment devices where the water passes through. And it's kind of like what you call an oil water separator. And we also did the educational signage. You would submit your application. The Division of Water Quality will put together staff to evaluate those applications. And once we finish scoring those, they would come to a meeting where the Water Quality Fee Board would then make the final decision about who receives those awards. And then once the awards are met, then we would send out a grant award agreement for consideration by those applicants. And once they return it signed to us, we would present it to the Urban County Council, who would then make the final approval consideration for those contracts. The deadline for class A and B education grants is on first Friday in May. And that would be May 1st. And then for our class B infrastructure grants, that deadline is the last Friday in July, which is July 31st. You can go to our Lexington-fed Urban County Government, the city's main website, and just go to the Division of Water Quality. And there's a link there for the Stormwater Quality Projects Incentive Grants Program. If you click on that link, you'll see the different types of grants. And you can just click on the link for that particular type of application that you're looking for. In celebration of Black History Month, we took a tour of the Historic Lyric Theater with Christian Adair. Hey, everybody, I'm at the Lyric. I'm going in here to talk to Christian. He said he'd meet me over here. Hey, Christian, what's going on? Hey, how you doing? Good to see you. So tell us about the Historic Lyric. Well, first of all, the Historic Lyric is a home to everyone, right? This is a place where everybody needs to come and visit us. But we have a very self-guided tour if you want to come here to see what we're about. Right here on our wall, which turns from black to white to color. So if you walk down this wall, you'll see where we first started, our history. You'll see the dormancy time, unfortunately, for 48 years. And you see a background that turns from black to white to color. Then you'll see today what we're about. And now you're going to kind of see this future where we're now have our own Hall of Fame. And so these are posthumous inductees of famous artists that performed here when we were first open. And now we've created a Hall of Fame. But we're also going to create a Hall of Fame for current people, people that are influencing the world right now. So every year we'll start having an induction, a Hall of Fame induction. And this is going to be a hospitality suite based on the Hall of Fame. So the Lyric is constantly growing. We are about the future. We're also standing on the shoulders of the past. We have this room that we haven't done a grand opening yet. I'm going to give you guys a sneak peek. Oh, sneak peek. I like it. So it's our library. OK, cool. And you can see up here, first of all, the quilts used to be in our library, which was the museum at that time. And we have them up. The community created these quilts. Very nice. When the building first opened. OK. And that was in this room. But this room is now. We're going to run up here. Because I'm really excited about showing people this. Again, no grand opening yet. Well, sneak peek, everybody. Here we have. Very nice, Christian. We have our brand new bookshelves. Books. We have our wall here. It's an LED screen wall. We change every month based on theme. We have the wall over here all about Lexingtonians and the givers. Very nice. So we have takers and givers. And we have people that gained more than they took from society. They're on this wall. And then we have our wall about America and contributions. Oh, that is very nice, Christian. I mean, very nice. Let's run across the hallway real quick. All right. Let's do it. So a reminder. There is an art gallery here. And this art gallery, it displays art from people from the community, right? But what we're going to start doing is taking this art on the road. Oh, art. Okay. So you see all this art around here? We're going to actually take the pieces to large conferences around the country. Instead of selling it for $200, we might sell it for $2,000. Oh, nice. Because we want the artists here to also be able to make some money. They always say the word starving artist, right? Sure, right. That's what you hear all the time. And Lyric being a place of a platform, we want to expand our platform. We are a historical institution. We're a nationally known treasure. And so some people don't know about us. They don't know upstairs has a library like that or an art gallery. Let's go downstairs where everybody knows about this place. Oh, yeah. This is where the weddings take place. This is where a lot of community events take place, meetings, banquets. I'll tell you what, every time people come here and then they leave, they leave here happy and they're smiling. But we just turned it into a dance studio as well. Oh, okay, cool. So we have those free dance classes. We have Afro beats, Latino dance classes, line dance classes. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Because now we have this mirror here to allow line dancing and all that. Oh, that is cool. Very nice. A lot of college students come to your step practices here, which is what we're going to see this weekend, right? Oh, sure. Yeah, absolutely. That's great. And then we have a beautiful courtyard. Oh, yeah, that's fantastic. Hopefully we get this ivy. If there's a person out there that's really good at planning stuff, we need your help. Oh, yeah. We want to turn this whole wall into a big ivy wall. A big ivy wall. That's neat. And so we have a kitchen and we have all that stuff. But this is a space that we call community room. Okay. Again, we don't cost very much to rent. Right. A lot of people, a lot of nonprofits use our space to give back to the community. Now we've got to run over to the crown jewel. Yes. The reason why we even exist. That's the theater. Yes. Excellent. Okay. Theater is for plays, for movies. We have big movie screens in there. We have brand-new sound, brand-new lighting. Excellent. And of course you have snacks. Yeah. We have our concession. Oh, our popcorn is amazing. And this is a place with 525 seats, intimate seating. That corner there, that corner there, all of them have great seats. We just had Dolly here last year. Oh, yes, that's right. I forgot about that. And here we are in our historical crown jewel. This is fantastic. I've always loved this theater. Come watch a movie. Three movies on Tuesday nights. So, Kirsten, I've got to ask, where does everybody need to go? Historiclyric.com. On our social media is Historic Lyric. Our website is Historic Lyric.com. If you want to know anything about us, go to that website. You can read about us and understand how to get in contact with us, how to support us. We need the community support in order to provide for the community. We can't do it by ourself. We are a nonprofit. We are a partnership with LFUCG as well. But our partnership and our goal is to provide as many opportunities to the community as possible and to make it free. And so can't do stuff free for real, right? We've got to have the people with the big money come through here. But even then, if you have an educational resource that you want to share with the community, this is the place to do it. So it's not always about money. It's about human content. It's about your knowledge. We're looking for people that have history, that want to share or want to tell people how to buy a house, how to get into the housing market, how to do banking, how to do all these different things that we actually struggle with. We're always looking for partnerships in that way. So it's not always about money. It's about your time as well and your knowledge. Again, we are a platform to be able to do all those things. Historiclyric.com. Thanks, Christian, for the tour. Thank you. You've got to come out, folks. You've got to see it. LexTrans Transit Center has gotten a facelift and will take you there after this. Lexington, Kentucky, a city known for its beauty, tradition, and unbridled spirit. You can take in the beautiful scenery in one of the country's most historic and top-rated cities. Enjoy the horses at historic racetracks and embrace the team spirit of our numerous championship sports teams. Nightlife, diverse community celebrations, the art scene, and shopping opportunities abound. With a great education system, an unmatched culinary experience, and some of the best parks in the nation, Lexington is truly a place where you can live, work, and play. But what makes our city special is the strength and bond of our Lexington Public Safety family. Our Public Safety family is made up of five dedicated teams, each working with pride and a deep commitment to our community. The Lexington Police Department is here to protect us with honor and professionalism. Lexington Fire and Emergency Services is always ready to respond with bravery, care, and compassion. Our 911 operators are the calm, reassuring voices you hear in times of crisis, getting you the help you need. Emergency Management, working hard to make sure our city is ready to respond regardless of the challenge. And the Division of Community Corrections plays a vital role in both keeping the city safe and helping our residents rebuild and thrive. These five divisions come together to form Lexington's Public Safety family, a network of strength, integrity, and service. Each role is essential to protecting Lexington and making our city a safer and better place to live, work, and play. When you join the Lexington Public Safety family, you're choosing more than just a career. You're becoming part of a community. Here, you'll find a place where your work makes a difference and where you can enjoy life to the fullest. Join Lexington's Public Safety family. Our Police, Fire, E911, Corrections, and Emergency Management divisions are looking for professionals ready to protect, serve, and grow with us. Together, we're building a brighter, safer future for Lexington. Make a difference. Come be part of our Public Safety family. Welcome back to Lexington Now. LexTran has completed a months-long renovation to the downtown transit center. We got a first-hand look at the improvements. My name is Fred Combs. I'm the general manager of LexTran. The renovations to our downtown transit center began around 2019 with design. It's a project that we've had in mind to do for several years. We were very fortunate to be in a position to get that done starting in 2025 and concluding early 2026. With the transit center, we wanted to reimagine the space that we had, so it's a much more functional use of the square footage that was within the customer service and the employee centers. We've added real-time arrival-departure information for customers. We've provided a much better experience for customers to communicate with customer service staff. And we've completely renovated the employee space in sort of the back of the house in the transit center to give our employees a much better, more comfortable break room and better amenities. So the platform of the transit center was also redone. We installed truncated domes, which are the tactile detection systems for people with visual impairments to understand that a curb is approaching. We installed those along the entirety of the platform, which was not done before. We also installed real-time arrival-departure kiosks in each bay of the transit center. They'll also have ADA features with those as well. So one of the amenities that we're excited about is to bring the customer experience inside Before, you can imagine having a conversation with a customer service representative with a bus rumbling behind your shoulder. That made communication very difficult. And now that we have our new space, it's much more quiet and gives us the ability to deliver exceptional customer service that our riders deserve. So one of the surprises that we found through the construction project is when we brought our service to High Street on a temporary basis, we had so many people in the community reach out, we were surprised to see how many people used the bus here in the community. We were happy to see that feedback. We know internally that there are so many people that use the service. We're glad that others noticed that as well. We expect to serve about 20,000 people a week here at the new transit center. The renovation's total interior next year is somewhere around $3 million. I don't have all the numbers here with me, but it's roughly $3 million. So far, we've had overwhelmingly positive feedback from both the public and our employees. Everyone is enjoying the new break rooms, both the employees and the customers. And just, yeah, the new amenities, they've gone over well. We've had great feedback so far. 2026 is going to be a big year for LexTran. We are launching two new pilot programs, the first being LexRide. That is the downtown circulator. We hope to get that off the ground in April of this year. And the second is our microtransit service. We hope to get that sometime probably later in the second half of this year. The microtransit program is through a partnership with Lexington-Fayette-Urban County Government, which will provide curb-to-curb transportation services in a zone in the northern part of the city. And that is intended to augment our fixed route service and help bring people into the LexTran service area. In the last year at LexTran, we served about 3.5 million trips in the Lexington community. For more information, please feel free to reach out to us at www.LexTran.com. It's time again for our Pets of the Week. Here's Randy. Hey, everyone. Welcome to this week's Lexington-Fayette County Adoptable Pets from LexTV and the Lexington Humane Society. Oh, look. We have adorable Aloka, tan, white in color, a male, approximate age 10 months, mature size is medium, does well with other dogs, great for apartments, and also does well with children. Oh, my gosh. Look at adorable Apollo, white and tan in color, male, approximate age is 5 years old, looks like a pit bull mix, size is large, does well with other dogs, and is great for apartments, and yes, does well with children. Adorable Apollo. Oh, would you look at Brawny. Absolutely handsome guy, black and white in color, approximate age is 1 year, a border collie Labrador mix, mature size is large, does well with other dogs, meet and greet is required, does well in apartments, and also does well with children. Take a look at Brawny. Thanks for watching these adorable and handsome pets available at LexingtonHumaneSociety.org from LexTV and the Lexington Humane Society. Thanks, Randy, and now LexTV's Tyler Rowlett brings us a preview of this weekend's events. Hey there, I'm Tyler from LexTV. Here's some upcoming events coming up this weekend, February 21st. Junior Naturalists, all about birds, Saturday, February 21st at 5 p.m. Junior Naturalists are students ages K through 5th grade that love nature and want to learn more. Program topics will change each month, including activities, crafts, and a guided walk. Registration is required. Teen Cooking Class Waffles, Saturday, February 21st. Join us Saturday, February 21st from noon to 1.30 p.m. for a free and fun teen cooking class making a breakfast staple, waffles. Email trose at lexingtonky.gov to RSVP. All materials are provided. Salamanders in Winter, adults only, Saturday, February 21st at 8 a.m. You can join park staff on an exploration through the creeks and forests of Raven Run for elusive salamanders. If you've got the right gear, winter is a great time to observe several species of salamanders at Raven Run. Registration is required, and all participants should be registered. This program is for adults only. Please contact the Nature Center at 859-272-6105 if you need water booths to participate or if you have any questions. The Owl Prowl at Heisel Farm Park on Saturday, February 21st at 1 p.m. Join outdoor programs for a night hike. This hike will be approximately 1.5 miles. Our focus will be on listening and calling for owls in the park. We have a healthy population of screech owls around our natural area parks, but we'll also be looking for more elusive owls like the barred owl and the great horned owl. Dress for the weather and bring flashlights if you would like your own. We will have a limited supply of flashlights available. Registration is required. McConnell Masterpieces Watercolor Winter at McConnell Springs Sunday, February 22nd at 9 a.m. Join the McConnell Springs staff for a watercolor program to celebrate summer in bloom. The program will provide beginner-friendly instruction and a selection of thematic summer scenery inspired by McConnell Springs Park. This program will be outdoors, weather permitting, and it requires advanced registration intended for ages 16 and up, but all supplies are provided. I'm Tyler, and that's just some of the things going on this weekend in Lexington and Fayette County. You may need to pre-register for some of these events, and for even more events and more information, be sure to visit lexingtonky.gov and click the calendar at the top. Thanks for watching, and we'll see you next week. Tyler also brings us a peek at this week's meeting coverage. Hi there, I'm Tyler from LexTV. Here's our current live meeting schedule this week, February 16th, 2026, 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, February 17th at 1 p.m., it's the Social Services and Public Safety Committee, and then at 3 p.m., live coverage It's the Social Services and Public Safety Committee, and then at 3 p.m., watch the Council Work Session. On Thursday afternoon, the 19th of February, watch the Planning Commission Work Session at 1.30. That's our current live meeting schedule for LexTV for the week of February 16th, 2026. You can watch all of our live meeting coverage on LexTV Channel 185 or always online at lexingtonky.gov. Click the LexTV tab at the top. I'm Tyler, and we'll see you later. 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. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ My dog, Kato, is a dual-purpose patrol and bomb dog. So he does both. When we look for the dogs, we look for a dog that is environmentally sound. We need to make sure that they're comfortable in every environment because it can be really weird out there in the world, right? We look for dogs that have great noses. Pat mentioned their best feature for us is their nose. It helps us locate what we need to find whether it's missing people, criminals, narcotics, explosives. So we always look to make sure that they have a really good hunt drive and that they hunt and that they have really good changes and they can find things. First, it's just the ball because they know what a ball is. It's easy to see. So we make sure they have a lot of ball drive and that they hunt methodically. So they're always checking and looking and hopeful that they're going to discover something because that makes the training take a lot better than if they, you know, didn't care. And you remember going up in the helicopter doing the air support unit and you did a fly-along with us? Yes. And I didn't get sick. You didn't get sick. And that was a good thing, right? Nicole, you used to be in a cruiser on the ground. So we're about a thousand feet right now over the city. What are your thoughts? What do you think about it? Do you like it? I love to fly. So I think this is awesome. The first time I flew, I didn't know our cruisers had our P numbers on the hood because I was like, how do you tell whose is who? Yeah, that helps us out a whole lot because there's been several times that we would have to reposition cruisers. And by having that P number on top of the car, we can certainly tell where everybody's at. It's definitely a different perspective from up here. You know, it's truly a bird's eye view. So, again, it's all about safety, keeping the officers safe, but also keeping the citizens safe. And we also do a lot of large-scale events. We're command and control for U.K. football games. Any time we've got a large traffic event where we can monitor traffic flow up here and advise arteries to go green and assist with traffic flow. So there's all different types of uses for this. One of the benefits from us, a lot of times the call will be dispatched and we can get over the call relatively quickly to give the ground units information that they need. For instance, it may be an accident on I-75. We're able to get over there pretty quick and let them know what they've got and how it's going to impact traffic flow and what kind of fire apparatus is going to be needed, different things like that. So we do not have to worry about stop lights up here. We are right now we're about 70 miles per hour as far as ground speed goes. We do everything by knots, but we're roughly about 70 miles per hour right now. So we always maintain about a 60-knot forward air speed just in case we were to lose an engine. Bell Aircrafts says that we can do an auto rotation and land safely as long as we've got that forward air speed. So you'll never see us hovering in the air. It's only on takeoff and landing. So question. Yes, ma'am. Is the visibility better like in the wintertime because you have all these trees and the leaves and we can't see through them like spring, summer, but if we're trying to find someone in the wintertime, is it better when there's no leaves on the trees? That is a great question. So a topical flight officer loves wintertime because we don't have leaves and it does. The visibility is completely different. How we compensate for that is flight patterns. We adjust those a little bit in the summer when we've got a lot of foliage. And then we also have the thermal imager, the forward looking infrared, if we're on board. So depending on how thick the vegetation is, we'll utilize that a lot of times. If we have somebody fleeing on foot or if we have a lost subject on the ground, we'll be able to use the forward looking infrared to detect body heat and try to locate them that way through foliage. And one of our most recent episodes was the drones. The drones. The drones. I always love the technology. So when the drones were put into patrol, we put one in each sector. And we've trained two pilots each shift for each sector. Those folks train quarterly according to policy. So they come in and they do their quarterly training. We do a night training to make sure they're proficient in their skills. And those drones have proven to be very beneficial for finding not only missing folks but also suspects that are wanted in crimes. Yes. So do we have some success stories? We have a lot of success stories. Additionally, we've been able to find some missing people, missing children that have been either run away or gotten away from home that they can't find their way back. We've been able to use that. But more importantly, we've been able to protect our officers on scene when they're responding to calls. One specifically happened within the last year where a person had assaulted their significant other, fled in a vehicle, and then the police got behind that vehicle. The person wrecked and then fled into a wooded area. What you have there is a wooded area where somebody can take up an advantage against the police. We were able to use the drone and find a heat signature. What that did is allow the officers to form a perimeter and call that person out to them rather than potentially harming not only our officers but the suspect that was in there. It makes an overall safe environment because, once again, you have that third perspective and you're able to say, we know we see you in there. You need to come out to us. And that person actually did give up. And that's just one of many success stories where we've been able to find folks that have fled from traffic stops or domestic violence or any kind of crimes in our community. They've been able to dispatch those drones from the patrol officers that have those with them, put those up immediately after and find these folks. Man, that was great. Who puts all this together? That was some pretty great material, let me just tell you. And, you know, Tyler Rowlett, he's our producer, our editor with the project with LexTV. He's awesome. Awesome. Fantastic job. Surely we don't have any bloopers, though, do we? I keep all of them. I don't believe it. You do? Yeah, I've got two years' worth. Let's check some out. Well, it's not my fault, that's his fault. Keep it down. Hey, we are back here with Sergeant Gary Thurman with, let's start over. That's on the bloopers, okay. Do what? I'm having one of your moments. We are here with Matt Grayhouse, commander of the, oh, God, sorry. Commander of, oh, God. All right. All right. 1917. Why don't you play your video games back there? I feel like I don't have anything to hold on, hold on to. Right there. There you go. Oh, Jesus. That's just. Oh. All right. Man, it is two seasons. It's hard to believe. It's hard to believe. It was fun today, though. It was. Going back. It was fun. It was fun. It was fun. It was fun. It was fun. It was fun. It was fun. It was fun. It was fun. It was fun. It was fun. It was fun. So going back and watching, we've had so much fun doing this project. And are you ready for season three? Yes. So, I know we've interviewed a whole lot of specialized units already in the first two seasons. Who do we have lined up coming up for season three. You know, we've still got many, many specialized units. I know that we already have some planned as far as E911, the 911 center, where everything starts when people call the police department, call the fire department. And we've got the emergency response unit, our SWAT team. We're going to be talking with them. So we've got other partnerships, other specialized units, a full lineup for season three. I'm excited. I am too. So we, again, thank everyone for watching Your Lex PD and make sure that you join us for all of our episodes on season three. And catch the great men when they dive down the 4G floor. When Black Friday comes, I collect everything I own. And before my friends find out, I'll be on the roll. When Black Friday falls, you know it's got to be. Don't let it fall on me. When Black Friday comes, I fly down to Muswell Grove. Gonna strike all the big red words from my little black book. Gonna do just what I please. Gonna wear no socks and shoes. With nothing to do but beat all the kangaroos. When Black Friday comes, I'll be on that hill. You know I will. When Black Friday falls, you know it's got to be. Don't let it fall on me. When Black Friday comes, I'll be on that hill. Gonna strike all the big red words from my little black book. Gonna do just what I please. When Black Friday comes, I'm gonna dig myself a hole. Gonna lay down in it till I've satisfied my soul. Don't let the world pass by me. The archbishop don't sanctify me. The archbishop don't sanctify me. And if he don't come across, I'm gonna let it roll. When Black Friday comes, I'm gonna stick my cane. I guess I'll change my name. I guess I'll change my name. When Black Friday comes, I'll be on that hill. Gonna strike all the big red words from my little black book. Gonna lay down in it till I've satisfied my soul. Gonna lay down in it till I've satisfied my soul. I'll drive a million miles to be with you tonight. So if you're feeling low, turn up your radio. The words we use are strong, they make reality. Now the music's on, oh baby, dance with me. Yeah. Pick it up, down. Pick it up, move it down to the ground. Pick it up, down. Pick it up, don't hang me on a falling line. Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody waking up tonight. Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody waking up tonight. Everybody have fun. Deep in the world tonight. I hope it's safe and sound. I'll hold you so close. Just let yourself go down. Drip it up. Drip it up. Move it down to the ground. Drip it up. Get down on some side of you. Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody wake up tonight. Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody waking up tonight. Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody have fun. On the edge of Epiphan. All the world is Babylon. All the love and everyone. A ship of folks sailing on. Everybody. Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody. Everybody have fun tonight. Across the nation, around the world. Everybody have fun tonight. A celebration to spread the word. Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody wake up tonight. Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody wake up tonight. Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody have fun. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. I'm coming home, I've done my time. Now I've got to know what is and isn't mine. If you receive my letter telling you I'd soon be free. Then you'll know just what to do. If you still want me. If you still want me. We'll tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree. It's been three long years. Do you still want me? If I don't see a ribbon around the old oak tree. I'll stay on the bus, forget about us. Put the blame on me. If I don't see a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree. Bus driver please look for me. Cause I couldn't bear to see what I might see. I'm really still in prison and my love she holds the key. A simple yellow ribbon's what I need to set me free. I wrote and told her please. We'll tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree. It's been three long years. Do you still want me? If I don't see a ribbon around the old oak tree. I'll stay on the bus, forget about us. Put the blame on me. If I don't see a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree. Now the whole damn bus is cheap. 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 really 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, let's just 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 and 9. Way too hard. I want you to back off. So just kind of be mindful of that as we move through class. You can activate more legs here now by starting and getting a little more up and down. Oh, 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. Take it 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. Touch. Right there. Nice side to side. Oh, yeah. You got it. Big steps side to side. I'm sure 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. But you are balancing. You are shifting your weight here. Engage your tummy and your core. And you got it. Oh, yeah. If you can't choose, 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. Nice little 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. Up. Nice little march. Put this in the memory bank for later. Kick back. March it. You can do a little jump row. Knees up. March jump row. Yeah. Take it back. March jump row. 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. Let's see when 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. And a really nice big inhale up. Into the nose. Exhale down. Nice big shoulder circles back. Can I spit it out? Oh, yeah. Take it up. Bring it down. Shoulder rolls to the front. I like it. And now just few wrist 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. Helps like the buttoning of the shirt. Find 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. Thumb muscle. 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 any time during class you need to sit down and you want to still do something, here you go. Great modification. Any time. 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. And 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. Tummy's 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. 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 the counter, whatever it might be. Get a quick drink of water. And 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. If you 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. 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. Knees up. 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 were 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. Yeah. 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? It's 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, 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. I could stay right here because 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's 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. Imagine 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's 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. Last 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. And I want you to think about what you might use 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. 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. And 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. I 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. Anytime. 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. 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. 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 of 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 of a scoop. Scoop it. Use that heart rate a little bit. How about it? Four. Three. Two. Step touch two or grapevine. Come on. Have fun with it. Laugh a little bit at yourself. It's all good. Four more. Three. Are you ready? Single touch. Scoop it. Down and up. Get that heart rate up. More in the legs. Are you sure? Here. A little bit. Easier. Catch your breath. Four. Three. Let's grapevine. Come on. Splish splash. Going to need to jump in the pool after this. One more. Each way. Scoop it. Come on. Do it for you. Do it for a good day. Oh, yeah. Almost. Just make it easy. Step touch. Easy. Catching your breath. Oh, yeah. Little march. Okay. Just to kind of make the mind think a little bit. Right foot V slow. It's out. Out. Back. Back. V step. V step. Back. Back. Again, slow. Out. Out. In. In. One more. Take it up to tempo. Out and back. Swing it if you want. Oh, yeah. And a proven. Four more here. I don't care if you're exactly with me or not. Come on. Easy march. We're just going to practice. That left side. Slow V step first. Little out. Out. Back. Back. Little out. Out. Back. And you can stay right here if you didn't want to pick it up. I'm doing one more slow. Pick it up. Get the legs going. I'm changing the arms. Are you ready? It is. Double, double. Clap. Two. Up. One. A little more leg action. Get down. And up. Come on. We're almost through class today. You can work it now. Four more. Yeah. Tap your right toe. And breathe. Other side. Take a breath. Pump your heels. Oh, yeah. Coming down just a little bit. Nice deep breath. Easy march. Easy. Oh, yeah. We're going to practice a little bit of balance. Remember, you can sit down if you need to. Don't let go of anything if you're not sure you're balanced. And if you're home alone, maybe take a minute to get a drink of water. And make sure you're okay with it. Maybe skip the balance for just a minute. I'm going back to my chair. And I'm going to hold on. And I'm going to stand up nice and tall. And I'm just going to take my outside leg out. And open up. Shoulders back and down. And right now I'm holding on to the chair. Remember, do you. Don't worry about anybody else. I will progress this so I can let go. But I'm keeping my toe down. And I'm just going to kind of take a look around. Take some breaths. Everybody wants to hold their breath when they balance. Changing the direction of your head, even when walking, can really throw you off balance. If you need to stay here for safety reasons, stay here. Or hand on. And I'm going to lift that leg up. So both sides of my heel, big toe, little toe are touching the ground. I'm light in the knee. Don't walk that knee joint out. Engage right here in your glutes and your core and tall. I'm sure. Hold on. Hold on to that countertop or that chair, wherever you are. I could do the fingertip. I could let go. When you balance, you work every muscle in your body. And if you're getting frustrated because you have to catch yourself, don't. That can give you muscle memory, we hope. If you're walking along and kind of trip, catch yourself. So all is good. If you're feeling it right here in this thigh, you're strengthening that thigh, it's normal. Wiggle it out. Just go to the other side. Start again, just checking in. Don't assume that one side is as good as the other. Take a breath. Shoulders back, down. I'm engaging my core. My foot is still down, and I'm going to change the direction of my head. Just nice and slow. You don't want to be jerky or anything. And I'm going to come back. Now, if you really want to challenge, sometimes looking up can really affect your balance. And I don't mean just the eyeballs. I know we can get our eyeballs up there. Really tilt the head. Take a breath. I'm holding on, and I'm going to lift off. Now, wherever you're challenged, just stay wherever that is. Everybody's different. So many things can affect your balance. Eye sight, hearing, sinuses, lack of sleep, dehydration, neuropathy, arthritis in the feet, probably a thousand more things. And just hold. Yes. Beautiful. Ideally, you should be able to try and hold your balance 20 to 30 seconds if you can. Wiggle it out. Good job. Come on down. Have a seat. Sit at the very edge of the chair. We're just going to work our abdominals for just a minute. And then we're going to stretch. And you've got the whole day ahead of you or evening or whatever time of day it is when you watch this. Just taking the weight. Shoulders, again, for the thousandth time. Back and down. Arms nice and long. And I'm just going to rotate one hand on top, nice and slow, like you're driving a car. And I want you to take me to the beach, please. That's where I always want to go. To the beach or the farm. One hand on top of the other. So you're working your little deltoid muscles right here in the front of that arm. And, of course, if that's too much for you, bring it in. That's a lot easier. So just rotate. I'm sitting at the very edge of my chair. And I'm going to hold center. And I'm just going to go back until I feel my abdominals engaged, not touching the back of the chair. And I rotate. And then using these stomach muscles right here, sit up. And drive the car. So that's all we're doing. Just a couple. Here we go. Take it back. Two, three, four. And drive. Sit up nice and slow. And drive. How about just two more? Can we do it? This is great for the core and the abs. Yes. And then just sit up. You got one more to do. Make it your best one yet. Just take it back. Back. Keep that neck nice and neutral. Just give me a hug. Cool. I didn't tell you we were going to do that. Drive it. Use those abs. Sit up, sit up, sit up. Thank goodness. Set that weight down. Just roll it out. Give me a nice big inhale up. Exhale down. One more time. Roll it out. Big inhale up. As you bring your arms down, extend one foot out. Reach out past your toe about 45 degrees. Just feeling the back of the legs there. That hamstring stretch. And I'm going to bring it in. Inhale up. Exhale down. Take the other leg and just extend out about 45 degrees. And I'm just sitting up nice and tall. I'm just going to cross at the ankle. So I'm going to do three different sets here. Sometimes it just depends on your hips and your knees and your lower back where you can go. Put the knees together. Give yourself a nice hug. And so if you feel all that in your hips and your lower back and it's intense, just stay there. Or I'm going to sit like a lady and lean in. Try not to round out that back. Just kind of lean in nice and natural. Then I'm going to sit up nice and tall. The number four, this is the one that everybody can do. And if you take a look, if you are able to do this, if your knee is up, you've got tight hips. Sit up somewhere in the middle. Sit up nice and tall. Lean in. Gently press down on that leg. Now that's going to make it a little deeper, active stretch for you. On that perceived insertion scale, you should be about back to normal. One, two, maybe three if you're new to exercise. Just switch sides. I'm going to check in first. Feet together. Sit like the lady. You can stay with whatever feels best for your body today. And the number four. Tall, lean in, gently press down. Come see us at the Lexington Senior Center. We have a lot of fun here. All kinds of classes, something for everybody. Inhale up. Exhale down. Pat yourself on the back. Good job, everybody. See you soon. I'm Jack Patty, and this is the Senior Minute. Successfully serving seniors. Welcome to another episode of the Senior Service Commission's The Senior Minute. Today we have with us Mrs. Kim Gooch. She's a senior advocate. Thank you very much for being here. Thank you. This is the last in a three-part series on a topic that she's discussing, Are Your Ducks in a Row? This last episode, we'll go into the details about the last section, the acronym being ROW. So thank you again for joining us. So can you give us a quick rundown again of Are Your Ducks in a Row before we get into ROW? Sure. So Are Your Ducks in a Row has turned out to be a workbook or guidebook, if you will, just to help families and seniors learn and plan so that they can live and end well. So we, you know, having your ducks in a row simply means being really organized and prepared for something that's going to happen in the future. And we all know that we're all going to age, and eventually we're all going to not be here. So let's do that the best we can. We plan for lots of things. So let's kind of adopt our planning, you know, for births and weddings and all the things, retirement. Let's adopt that same kind of mindset for aging and get our ducks in a row. That's right. What a good idea. Yeah. That is a great idea. So let's get into the ROW, so Rapid Response File. Yes. So as you know, each section of the book follows the acronym Ducks in a Row. Anna doesn't have anything, ducks. Each letter has its chapter. And so ROW, each letter has its chapter. And so the chapter for R stands for Rapid Response File. And so we all know that today a lot of our information is stored electronically. Our medical records are electronic, just a myriad of things, right? And so if we have an opportunity where we need to call for emergency assistance in our home, we need to have ready access to information. What medications are we taking? Who's our doctor? Who's our emergency contact? If that's all stored in the computer and they can't get to it, that just delays things. So if we can have a Rapid Response File printed out, let your emergency contact know where it is, identify where it is if you can in your home by use of sticker or some other label, and let's make sure that we have in there our current medications, our emergency medical data sheet, a plan for pets if we have them in the home because we don't want to be taken away from the home or have a car accident and no one goes home and our pets are left. Children, if they're living in your home with you, or dependents, anyone who's depending on you, we need to have a plan for them too. So in the Rapid Response File, anything that an EMT would need to give you as rapid and efficient response as they possibly could. Now, not only could we fall or have an illness that we need to have a response for, we could have an emergency in our home, a fire, a gas leak, a water break, and so we need to make sure that we have all of those things labeled so that if we have to call for assistance for any of those things, they can quickly shut off our electric, gas, and water. And so we need to have that in our Rapid Response File. We need to have that labeled, but we also need to have it in our file so that they know immediately where to go to shut those things off. And then we talk about, in the Rapid Response section also, some things that you might be able to do in your community if you have Enhanced 911 or if you use the SMART 911 app, you can go ahead and let, they can build a profile for you, and you can go ahead and let them know if there's someone in your home who's dealing with maybe memory issues, vision or hearing loss, if there's mental health issues in your home. All those things, you can kind of go ahead and let, build that in your profile so that if you need to call, the emergency responders would know that. They would know what they're going into. So that's the R, to help you get as rapid and as efficient response to something that you could. And then O, in this section of the workbook we go into just trying to keep ourselves organized online. Now, I am guilty of not visiting a website, you know, for shopping or whatever for a little bit, and then try to go on, and I don't know my password, so I change it. I change it all the time. And I have been guilty in the past of using the same one, just changing one or two little things, and that's not good. So we talk about how to build passwords safely, when to change them and kind of keep track of when you change them. So we give you a log sheet to get you started. What websites do I visit? What is my password? When was it changed? Now, we don't want to leave that laying out, so we talk about how to secure that. But if that's what gets you started and gets you organized, let's start there. And then we lead you through talking about password journals and that sort of thing, or even online password management systems. We also talk a little bit about how to keep yourself safe and where to find information on current scams that are going around. So we give you some resources to find that information in the O section. And then the W section, we get here and we want to talk about our life well done. We all want to live our lives well lived, well loved, well done. That's kind of my sentiment anyway. And so how do we live in a manner that someone would say, that was a well done life? And so let's think through that a little bit. Let's think through when we are finished with our finite time here, what kind of celebration do we want? Have we secured where we want our remains to go? Who do we want involved? Do we want a big celebration? Do we want a small, not very attentive sort of observance? All sorts of things in the well done section for you to plan kind of what happens after that. And then we also talk a little bit about if there's something beyond our finite time here on earth. And if you have questions about that, where you might find some answers or information or just explore a little bit about that. So we try to get through just talking about all the celebrations. I guess you could call that a celebration or at least an observance of our life. And what are people going to think about and look back on? And what do we want them to remember about us so that they can say those things? And maybe we need to make a change or two or maybe we need to do something different in the last years of our life to feel like we've lived a life more well done, I guess. So that's the W. Well, those are three really, really interesting topics and important topics for people to consider. Thank you. You're welcome. So where can this book be found? For now, you can visit our website. It's www.ducksinnerrowguide.com. Okay. So ducksinnerrowguide.com. And that will give you some information about where you can purchase the workbook and some residual things like your password journal. There's some links on there for that if you need one of those. And then also if you would like to go through this workbook with a group of your friends or your church group or a small group, there's some information about how you can do that as well. Very good. Well, thank you. You're welcome. So once again, thank you for joining us for another episode of the Senior Minute. Mrs. Gooch, thank you so much not only for this episode but the other two episodes. So many really important pieces of information for people to consider. Thank you and have a nice day. I know for younger women Live myself a little while Though I ran away They come back one day Still could manage to smile Just takes a while Just takes a while Mother, mother ocean After all the years I've found Occupational hazard be Occupation just not around I feel like I've drowned Gone ahead of time I feel like I've drowned Gone ahead of time I feel like I've drowned Seems everything I buy these days Has got a foreign name From the time the car I drive To my video game I got a Nikon camera A Sony color TV But the one that I love is from the USA It's standing next to me My baby is American made Born and bred in the USA From her silky long hair To her sexy long legs My baby is American made She looks good in her tight blue jeans That she bought in Mexico And she loves wearing French perfume Everywhere we go But when it comes to the loving part One thing is true My baby's genuine USA Red, white and blue My baby is American made Born and bred in the USA From her silky long hair To her sexy long legs My baby is American made My baby is American made Born and bred in the USA From her silky long hair To her sexy long legs My baby is American made My baby is American made Born and bred in the USA From her silky long hair To her sexy long legs My baby is American made My baby is American made Born and bred in the USA From her silky long hair To her sexy long legs My baby is American made My baby is American made Never before have I turned on you You look too good to me Your beady eyes they can cut me in two And I just can't let you be But if you're free for all and heart is dead You can bet your life Stakes are high and so am I It's in the air tonight Come on! I see you there with your shy grin I got my eyes on you I shake your tail feather in my face As I don't tell her what I do But lookie here between your legs The magic's in my hands Where the doubt at? Rip it out I got me a rock and roll band It's a fever all Baby Yeah! It's a fever all Ow! Suck it! Here we go Look out below I'm on the prowl tonight When I say it's done I'll have my fun I can chew anything I like Come on come on Till the midnight call The invitation's there I'm comin' on and I'm drivin' home I'm healthy I do declare It's a fever all Baby Yeah! It's a fever all Ow! Number four Now I've turned on you You look too good to be Comedian They can cut me in two And I just can't let you be It's a fever all And I hardly say it You can bet you're lying Stakes are high And so am I It's in the air tonight It's a fever all Lookie there It's a fever all Ow! Suck it! It's a fever all Yeah! It's a fever all Look baby Oh I got ya! Oh baby It's a fever all Fever all baby Fever all baby You want it You got it Yeah I said yeah I said oh yeah Oh baby If you want it Take it I want you tonight Oh Beat me Beat me Come on I said I said no I said no I said no Come on I said no I said no Come on I said no I said no I said no Come on I said no I said no I said no It's just a small town girl She was living in a lonely world She took the midnight train Going anywhere Just a city boy Born and raised On this edition of Lexington Now, Stormwater Grants, a tour of the historic Lear Theatre, and LexTrans Transit Center renovations. I'm Neal Noah and welcome to Lexington Now for the week of February 16, 2026. This year's Stormwater Grants are getting ready to open for applications. Frank Mabson, administrator of the program, tells us what it's all about. My name is Frank Mabson. I'm working with the Division of Water Quality for the City of Lexington and I'm overseeing the Stormwater Quality Projects and Center Grants Program. The grant program was established to help private companies and neighbors, some of our neighbors, mitigate some of their stormwater concerns, issues. It was helped to provide funding for stormwater infrastructure pieces. We have two different types. There's Class A neighborhood projects. For example, if you have erosion along a stream, say you have a group of homeowners that are losing their backyard because of erosion, so you might have them apply for a Class A grant that we may be able to help fund some of that stream restoration. And there's Class B, which is for our commercial fee payers. So we do stuff like permeable pavers, bioswales, spillway projects to assure up spillways to make sure that the erosion is not occurring over spillways. Residential fee payers pay a flat fee and that would be your homeowners association, residential condo associations. They can apply as a group, which represents those residential homeowners. And then the commercial property owners, they pay based on the square footage of impervious areas on their properties. This program receives 10 percent of the revenue, the water quality management fee revenue that's collected the previous year, so we receive 10 percent of the funding. Then we allocate so much to the Class A type grants, so much to the Class B education grants, and so much to the Class B infrastructure grants. So there's different tiers. Gray Line Station, which is right off of Loudoun, East Loudoun, 109 Loudoun, that was a project that the incentive grant program helped with. LexTran, which is also on Loudoun, did some bioretention areas, some permeable pavers, town branch project that just happened. The program helped fund some of the depaving activities, so you had this giant parking lot right in back of Rupp Arena. Our program helped get rid of all the concrete. We helped remove all the concrete, and we helped incorporate two treatment devices where the water passes through, and it's kind of like what you call an oil water separator. And we also did the educational signage. You would submit your application. The Division of Water Quality will put together staff to evaluate those applications. And once we finish scoring those, they would come to a meeting where the Water Quality Fee Board would then make the final decision about who receives those awards. And then once the awards are met, then we would send out a grant award agreement for consideration by those applicants. And once they return it signed to us, we would present it to the Urban County Council, who would then make the final approval consideration for those contracts. The deadline for Class A and B education grants is on first Friday in May, and that would be May 1st. And then for our Class B infrastructure grants, that deadline is the last Friday in July, which is July 31st. You can go to our Lexington-fed Urban County Government, the city's main website, and just go to the Division of Water Quality, and there's a link there for the Stormwater Quality Projects Incentive Grants Program. If you click on that link, you'll see the different types of grants, and you can just click on the link for that particular type of application that you're looking for. In celebration of Black History Month, we took a tour of the Historic Lyric Theater with Christian Adair. Hey, everybody, I'm at the Lyric. I'm going in here to talk to Christian. He said he'd meet me over here. Hey, Christian, what's going on? Hey, how you doing? Good to see you. So tell us about the Historic Lyric. Well, first of all, the Historic Lyric is a home to everyone, right? This is a place where everybody needs to come and visit us, but we have a very self-guided tour if you want to come here to see what we're about. Right here on our wall, which turns from black and white to color. So if you walk down this wall, you'll see where we first started, our history. You'll see the dormancy time, unfortunately, for 48 years. And you see a background that turns from black and white to color. Then you'll see today what we're about. And now you're going to kind of see this future where we're now have our own Hall of Fame. And so these are posthumous inductees of famous artists that performed here when we were first open. And now we've created a Hall of Fame. But we're also going to create a Hall of Fame for current people, people that are influencing the world right now. So every year we'll start having an induction, a Hall of Fame induction. And this is going to be a hospitality suite based on the Hall of Fame. So the Lyric is constantly growing. We are about the future. We're also standing on the shoulders of the past. We have this room that we haven't done a grand opening yet. I'm going to give you guys a sneak peek. Oh, sneak peek. I like it. So it's our library. OK, cool. And you can see up here, first of all, the quilts used to be in our library, which was the museum at that time. And we have them up. The community created these quilts when the building first opened. OK. And it was in this room. But this room is now, I'm going to run up here because I'm really excited about showing people this. No grand opening yet. Well, sneak peek, everybody, sneak peek. There we have it. Very nice, Christian. We have our brand new bookshelves, books. We have our wall here. It's an LED screen wall we change every month based on theme. We have the wall over here all about Lexingtonians and the givers. Oh, very nice. Oh, neat. So, you know, we have takers and givers. And we have people that gave more than they took from society. They're on this wall. And then we have our wall about America and contributions. Oh, that is very nice, Christian. I mean, very nice. Let's run across the hallway real quick. All right. Let's do it. All right. Let's do it. So a reminder, there is an art gallery here. And this art gallery, it displays art from people from the community, right? But what we're going to start doing is taking this art on the road. Oh, art. Okay. So if you see all this art around here, we're going to actually be taking pieces to large conferences around the country. Instead of selling it for $200, we might sell it for $2,000. Oh, nice. Because we want the artists here to also be able to make some money. They always say the word starving artists, right? Sure, right. That's what you hear all the time. As Lyric being a place of a platform, we want to expand our platform. We are a historical institution. We're a nationally known treasure. And so some people don't know about us. They don't know what Upstairs has a library like that or an art gallery. Let's go downstairs where everybody knows about this place. Oh, yeah. This is where the weddings take place. This is where a lot of community events take place, meetings, banquets. I'll tell you what. Every time people come here and then they leave, they leave here happy and they smile. But we just turned it into a dance studio. Oh, okay, cool. So we have those free dance classes. We have Afro beats, Latino dance classes. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Because now we have this mirror here to allow line dancing and all that. Oh, that is cool. Very nice. A lot of college students come to your step practices here, which is what we're going to see this weekend, right? Oh, sure. Yeah, absolutely. It's great. And then we have a beautiful courtyard. Oh, yeah, that's fantastic. Hopefully we get this ivy. If there's a person out there that's really good at planning stuff, we need your help. Oh, yeah. We want to turn this whole wall into a big ivy wall. A big ivy wall. That's neat. And so we have a kitchen and we have all that stuff. But this is a space that we call community room. Okay. Again, we don't cost very much to rent. Right. And so a lot of people, a lot of nonprofits use our space to give back to the community. Now we got to run over to the crown jewel. Yes. The reason why we even exist. That's the theater. Yes. Excellent. Okay. Theater is for plays, for movies. We have big movie screens in there. We have brand new sound, brand new lights. Excellent. And of course you have snacks. Yeah. We have our concession. Oh, our popcorn is amazing. And then this is a place with 525 seats, intimate seating. That corner there, that corner there, all of them have great seats. We just had Dolly here last year. Dolly Parton. Oh, yes. That's right. I forgot about that. And here we are in our historical crown jewel. This is fantastic. I've always loved this theater. Come watch a movie. Three movies on Tuesday nights. Oh, my. So, Christian, I got to ask, where does everybody need to go? Historiclyric.com. On our social media is Historicallyric. Our website is Historicallyric.com. If you want to know anything about us, go to that website. You can read about us and understand how to get in contact with us, how to support us. We need the community support in order to provide for the community. We can't do it by ourselves. We are a nonprofit. We are a partnership with LFUCG as well. But our partnership and our goal is to provide as many opportunities in this community as possible and to make it free. And so can't do stuff free for real, right? We got to have the people with the big money come through here. But even then, if you have an educational resource that you want to share with the community, this is the place to do it. So it's not always about money. It's about human content. It's about your knowledge. We're looking for people that have history that want to share or want to tell people how to buy a house, how to get into the housing market, how to do banking, how to do all these different things that we actually struggle with. We're always looking for partnerships in that way. So it's not always about money. It's about your time as well and your knowledge. But again, we are a platform to be able to do all those things. Historicallyric.com. Thanks, Christian, for the tour. Thank you. You've got to come out, folks. You've got to see it. LexTrans Transit Center has gotten a facelift, and we'll take you there after this. Lexington, Kentucky, a city known for its beauty, tradition, and unbridled spirit. You can take in the beautiful scenery in one of the country's most historic and top-rated cities. Enjoy the horses at historic racetracks and embrace the team spirit of our numerous championship sports teams. Nightlife, diverse community celebrations, the art scene, and shopping opportunities abound. With a great education system, an unmatched culinary experience, and some of the best parks in the nation, Lexington is truly a place where you can live, work, and play. But what makes our city special is the strength and bond of our Lexington public safety family. Our public safety family is made up of five dedicated teams, each working with pride and a deep commitment to our community. The Lexington Police Department is here to protect us with honor and professionalism. Lexington Fire and Emergency Services is always ready to respond with bravery, care, and compassion. Our 911 operators are the calm, reassuring voices you hear in times of crisis, getting you the help you need. Emergency Management, working hard to make sure our city is ready to respond regardless of the challenge. And the Division of Community Corrections plays a vital role in both keeping the city safe and helping our residents rebuild and thrive. These five divisions come together to form Lexington's public safety family, a network of strength, integrity, and service. Each role is essential to protecting Lexington and making our city a safer and better place to live, work, and play. When you join the Lexington public safety family, you're choosing more than just a career. You're becoming part of a community. Here, you'll find a place where your work makes a difference and where you can enjoy life to the fullest. Join Lexington's public safety family. Our police, fire, E911, corrections, and emergency management divisions are looking for professionals ready to protect, serve, and grow with us. Together, we're building a brighter, safer future for Lexington. Make a difference. Come be part of our public safety family. Welcome back to Lexington Now. LexTran has completed a months-long renovation to the downtown transit center. We got a first-hand look at the improvements. My name is Fred Combs. I'm the general manager of LexTran. The renovations to our downtown transit center began around 2019 with design. It's a project that we've had in mind to do for several years. We were very fortunate to be in a position to get that done starting in 2025 and concluding in 2021. We're going to be doing a lot of renovations. We're going to be doing a lot of renovations. We're going to be doing a lot of renovations. We're going to be doing a lot of renovations. We're very fortunate to be in a position to get that done starting in 2025 and concluding in early 2026. With the transit center, we once reimagined the space that we had. So it's a much more functional use of the square footage that was within the customer service and the employee centers. We've added real-time arrival and departure information for customers. We've provided a much better experience for customers to communicate with customer service staff. And we've completely renovated the employee space in sort of the back of the house in the transit center to give our employees a much better, more comfortable break room and better amenities. So the platform of the transit center was also redone. We installed truncated domes, which are the tactile detection systems for people with visual impairments to understand that a curb is approaching. We installed those along the entirety of the platform, which was not done before. We also installed real-time arrival and departure kiosks in each bay of the transit center. They'll also have ADA features with those as well. So one of the amenities that we're excited about is to bring the customer experience inside before you can imagine having a conversation with a customer service representative with a bus rumbling behind your shoulder. That made communication very difficult. And now that we have our new space, it's much more quiet and gives us the ability to deliver exceptional customer service that our riders deserve. So one of the surprises that we found through the construction project is when we brought our service to High Street on a temporary basis, we had so many people in the community reach out, surprised to see how many people use the bus here in the community. We were happy to see that feedback. We know internally that there are so many people that use the service. We're glad that others noticed that as well. We expect to serve about 20,000 people a week here at the new transit center. The renovation's total interior next year is somewhere around $3 million. I don't have all the numbers here with me, but it's roughly $3 million. So far, we've had overwhelmingly positive feedback from both the public and our employees. Everyone is enjoying the new break rooms, both the employees and the customers. And just, yeah, the new amenities, they've gone over well. We've had great feedback so far. 2026 is going to be a big year for LexTran. We are launching two new pilot programs, the first being LexRide. That is the downtown circulator. We hope to get that off the ground in April of this year. And the second is our microtransit service. We are looking to get that sometime probably later in the second half of this year. The microtransit program is through a partnership with Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, which will provide curb-to-curb transportation services in a zone in the northern part of the city. And that is intended to augment our fixed-route service and help bring people into the LexTran service area. In the last year at LexTran, we served about 3.5 million trips in the Lexington community. For more information, please feel free to reach out to us at www.lextran.com. It's time again for our Pets of the Week. Here's Randy. Hey, everyone. Welcome to this week's Lexington-Fayette County Adoptable Pets on LexTV and the Lexington Humane Society. Oh, look. We have adorable Aloka. Tan, white in color, a male, approximate age 10 months. Mature size is medium. Does well with other dogs. Great for apartments and also does well with children. Oh, my gosh. Look at adorable Apollo. White and tan in color, male, approximate age is 5 years old. Looks like a pit bull. Mixed size. Is large. Does well with other dogs and is great for apartments and, yes, does well with children. Adorable Apollo. Oh, would you look at Brawny. Absolutely handsome guy. Black and white in color, approximate age is one year. A border collie Labrador mix. Mature size. Is large. Does well with other dogs. Meet and greet is required. Does well in apartments and also does well with children. Take a look at Brawny. Thanks for watching these adorable and handsome pets. Available at www.LexingtonHumaneSociety.org From LexTV and the Lexington Humane Society. Thanks, Randy. And now, LexTV's Tyler Rowlett brings us a preview of this weekend's event. Hey, there. I'm Tyler from LexTV. Here's some upcoming events coming up this weekend, February 21st. Junior Naturalists, all about birds, Saturday, February 21st at 5 p.m. Junior Naturalists are students ages K through 5th grade that love nature and want to learn more. Program topics will change each month, including activities, crafts, and a guided walk. Registration is required. Team Cooking Class Waffles, Saturday, February 21st. Join us Saturday, February 21st from noon to 1.30 p.m. For a free and fun team cooking class, making a breakfast staple, waffles. Email trose at lexingtonky.gov to RSVP. All materials are provided. Salamanders in winter, adults only, Saturday, February 21st at 8 a.m. You can join park staff on an exploration through the creeks and forests of Raven Run for elusive salamanders. If you've got the right gear, winter is a great time to observe several species of salamanders at Raven Run. Registration is required, and all participants should be registered. This program is for adults only. Please contact the Nature Center at 859-272-6105 if you need water booths to participate or if you have any questions. The Owl Prowl at Heisel Farm Park on Saturday, February 21st at 1 p.m. Join outdoor programs for a night hike. This hike will be approximately 1.5 miles. Our focus will be on listening and calling for owls in the park. We have a healthy population of screech owls around our natural area parks, but we will also be looking for more elusive owls like the barred owl and the great horned owl. Dress for the weather and bring flashlights if you would like your own. We will have a limited supply of flashlights available. Registration is required. McConnell Masterpieces, Watercolor Winter at McConnell Springs, Sunday, February 22nd at 9 a.m. Join the McConnell Springs staff for a watercolor program to celebrate summer in bloom. The program will provide beginner-friendly instruction and a selection of thematic summer scenery inspired by McConnell Springs Park. This program will be outdoors, weather permitting, and it requires advanced registration intended for ages 16 and up, but all supplies are provided. I'm Tyler, and that's just some of the things going on this weekend in Lexington and Fayette County. You may need to pre-register for some of these events. And for even more events and more information, be sure to visit lexingtonky.gov and click the calendar at the top. Thanks for watching, and we'll see you next week. Tyler also brings us a peek at this week's meeting coverage. Hi there, I'm Tyler from LexTV. Here's our current live meeting schedule this week, February 16th, 2026 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, February 17th at 1 p.m., it's the Social Services and Public Safety Committee, and then at 3 p.m., watch the Council Work Session. On Thursday afternoon, the 19th of February, watch the Planning Commission Work Session at 1.30. That's our current live meeting schedule for LexTV for the week of February 16th, 2026. You can watch all of our live meeting coverage on LexTV channel 185 or always online at lexingtonky.gov. Click the LexTV tab at the top. I'm Tyler, and we'll see you later. That's all for now, but as always, you can keep up with us on social media, check out the latest traffic updates on ExitLexRex, or catch our live traffic cams on lexingtonky.gov. For all of us at LexTV, I'm Neal Noah, and that's it for now. LexTV is a production of LexTV, LLC. ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ I'm no angel now, I'll admit I've made a few bad moves and I should regret I hurt you once, well so you said Just one more chance is all you get Didn't mean to do you wrong again Worst things have been done by better men Better, better don't, don't treat me this way I know you've got to pay now, I'll still pay you Well if I could walk on water And if I could find some way to prove If I could walk on water Would you believe in me? My love is true Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, oh All year long, I told the lie To every human, forgiveness is a lie Don't be a fool, don't settle the score Cause I can't take it no more I can't take it Well if I could walk on water And if I could find some way to prove If I could walk on water Would you believe in me? My love is true Well if I could walk on water If I could, is that what I'm gonna have to do? If I could walk on water Would you believe in me? My love is so true Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, oh Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, oh Do I have to walk on water? Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, oh Hey baby, baby, that's a little time Let's spend it together We'll get over what we left behind In the future together Come on, let's stay together Ooh, yeah I keep walking and walking, walking For you, for you Well if I could walk on water And if I could find some way to prove If I could walk on water Would you believe in me? My love is true Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, oh My love is so true Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, oh Do I have to walk on water? Walk on water for you, yeah Baby please If I had to walk on water If I had to walk on water If I had to walk on water Walk on water for you If I had to walk on water Well I had to find some way to prove If I had to walk on water Walk on water for you If I had to walk on water Well I had to find some way to prove If I had to walk on water Walk on water for you I'm not the hero who will always save the day Don't always wear the white hat Don't always know the way I may not even be the dream you wanted to come true But I'll always be the man in love with you I'm not the king that opens every door But I'll always be the man in love with you And do you know what we're celebrating? It's unbelievable. It's our last episode of season two. It's hard to believe it's two seasons, right? I remember starting in late 23 when we started working on this project. And we have had so much fun with it. And we've learned a lot, too, I think. And we've gotten to be really good friends. It's been a great, great project. But before we do what we're going to do today, which we're going to have some fun with, we want to thank some people. So first of all, Chief Weathers. Hey, is this the theater for Doppler? It's my favorite Christmas movie. It's not a Christmas movie. You know, we haven't seen you since episode one. And now you show up at the theater here and you're at the wrong place. Oh, man. Bye. Chief Weathers and the command staff have been fantastic. So supportive of this project. And we really, really appreciate them. We appreciate all of the guests that we've had on. We've worked with so many different topics, so many special guests. We can't forget the production crew behind the scenes. They're amazing. Lex TV is phenomenal. We have had so much fun with them, getting to know them. They are fantastic. So talented. And they have been so supportive of this project. They have done a fantastic job. And let me just say, it's the viewers, right? We have had so many people have come up to us in the community, outside the community, outside the state, that have come up to us and said, hey, we watched the show. We absolutely love it. And we've learned so much about the police department, about policing, about police technology, all the different things we talked about. So we really just want to thank everybody here at the end of Season 2 for everybody's involvement and everybody's support of this project. Let's get ready for Season 3. I can't wait for that. So today we are going to go back. We're going to watch some highlights of the first two seasons. And we're actually going to look at some bloopers. That should be the fun part. And we've got our popcorn here at the historic Kentucky Theater. So sit back and let's watch Season 1, Season 2 highlights and bloopers. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ Do you remember earlier this year, it was like one of the coldest days of the year? How could I forget? And we did the patrol episode. It was so cold. Well, and that's the thing about patrol. Every day is different. Every shift is different. Every, I mean, you see, you obviously go to work every day knowing that you can see the worst of the worst. And that's what a lot of people don't realize, I don't think, about patrol, is that somebody has to respond to these things, right? And it all starts with patrol. And we're your first line of defense. We get the calls. We initiate the initial report before it goes to its specified bureau or detective that it's going to go to. And if an officer wants to follow up with that particular case, they can get with that detective that gets assigned that case and they'll assign it to them as well. And they can work in unison with that detective to see this case, if it goes all the way through the court system, and if it has to go to trial and stuff like that. So we do like doing that because there's a few cases that just hit home. You're just like, oh, man, can I follow through with this case, whether it's domestic or narcotic related, or you got someone and it closes out like five to six burglary reports because they've been tied to all these other criminal offenses. And you remember when we did the motor episode and Larry Wilcox from Chips came in? Absolutely love that. Yeah. Good morning and a happy day to everybody in Lexington and the PD department. God bless you. You mentioned that you rode before the show and that you went through police motorcycle training. Was there any differences in what you knew before you went through training compared to after you went through training? You think your riding changed a lot? Yeah, it really changed a lot. You know, most of the stuff that I knew before were problem areas that get in the way in terms of police training. But, you know, for example, just your head placement in terms of what you look at and where you're looking at things that you don't want to be looking at because you're going to hit them. You know, they always say don't look at the rock in the middle of the road because you're going to hit it now, right? Which, sure enough, you do, right? And, you know, then turning, you know, it's always looking about what people forget is that police bike is very heavy, number one. And it's a lot of, you know, the difficulty is all the slow riding, the inertia and the balancing of the bike when you're just braking and clutching and barely moving through traffic and trying to balance it in kind of weird areas. So, you know, we got really good at that. And doing figure eights in a small rectangle without laying the bike down is always an issue. And that's why I always say that, you know, anyone can ride a motorcycle fast, but not many can ride it really, really slow. Well, high-speed braking was another issue. You know, I didn't know anything about that. And so my braking was usually just the rear brake. CHP train different where you use both brakes and easily use them. So, you know, I probably laid the bike down multiple times and all that, but you have those bars on the side that it falls on. So that spares you a little bit. Yeah, without gloves and, you know, some pads and stuff, it can bruise you up a little bit. But once you learn how to do it, it's not a big deal. And then so braking was one issue, high-speed braking, in terms of where the rear end comes around and says hello to you. The motorcycle, I'm exaggerating to make my point, but it does come around. And, you know, that's pretty intimidating. But once you learn how to do it, you know, look pretty cool when you come in hot and that happens. It's not a big deal, right? And then also, you know, being quiet and logical instead of emotional so that you can process information on a motorcycle because you have another, you have multiple other factors going on. And do you also remember a couple months ago, one of my favorite episodes, canine unit with all the puppy dogs? Everybody loves the dogs. So how do we use the dogs? What are the purposes and what do we have? Patrol dogs, we have different types of dogs. What do we have? Yeah, so our primary three things are going to be patrol dogs, narcotic dogs, and bomb dogs. Obviously, we use dogs because they smell better than us. So the main breeds that you're going to see is obviously your typical German shepherd. That's what everybody thinks about for a police dog. We also have Belgian Malinois. We have a Dutch Shepherd. And then obviously you saw Raya. We have a Lab Floppy Ears dog sometimes for single-purpose use. Okay. What is the difference between the three, the patrol, narcotics, and bomb? So the patrol dogs, they're going to be used primarily whenever we need to find subjects who have committed crimes. Whether it's someone's broken into a building, they've committed a violent crime, and we need to track their odor and find them for the sake of us and the public. Your explosive dogs, I'm sure Chaz can go into it more. This is going to be for your big events to make sure that we don't have any explosives hidden. And then narcotics, primary use is going to be for vehicles that we suspect there's narcotics inside. So I know we talked about the different types of dogs. Are they multipurpose, or do they just – if that's a narcotics dog, that's just a narcotics dog? No, most of our dogs are dual-purpose. We'll have – I think we have two single-purpose dogs. One was Raya, who you spoke with earlier. Yeah, I spoke with her. Yeah, spoke with her. She's an explosives dog. That's her only job. We have another narcotics detection dog, and he's with our narcotics unit. He's only narcotics. All the other dogs are dual-purpose, which means they'll do patrol, which is apprehension, finding people, finding evidence, and they're also either narcotics or explosives. My dog, Kato, is a dual-purpose patrol and bomb dog, so he does both. When we look for the dogs, we look for a dog that is environmentally sound. We need to make sure that they're comfortable in every environment because they can be really weird out there in the world. We look for dogs that have great noses. Pat mentioned their best feature for us is their nose. It helps us locate what we need to find, whether it's missing people, criminals, narcotics, explosives. So we always look to make sure that they have a really good hunt drive and that they hunt and that they have really good changes and they can find things. First, it's just the ball because they know what a ball is. It's easy to see. So we make sure they have a lot of ball drive and that they hunt methodically. So they're always checking and looking and hopeful that they're going to discover something because that makes the training take a lot better than if they didn't care. And you remember going up in the helicopter, doing the air support unit, and you did a fly-along with us? Yes, and I didn't get sick. You didn't get sick, and that was a good thing, right? Nicole, you used to be in a cruiser on the ground, so we're about 1,000 feet right now over the city. What are your thoughts? What do you think about it? Do you like it? I love to fly, so I think this is awesome. The first time I flew, I didn't know our cruisers had our P numbers on the hood because I was like, how do you tell whose is who? That helps us out a whole lot because there's been several times that we would have to reposition cruisers, but having that P number on top of the car, we can certainly tell where everybody's at. It's definitely a different perspective from up here. It's truly a bird's eye view, so again, it's all about safety, keeping the officers safe, but also keeping the citizens safe. We do a lot of large-scale events. We're command and control for UK football games. Anytime we've got a large traffic event where we can monitor traffic flow up here and advise arteries to go green and assist with traffic flow. There's all different types of uses for this. One of the benefits for us, a lot of times the call will be dispatched, and we can get over the call relatively quickly to give the ground units information that they need. For instance, it may be an accident on I-75. We're able to get over there pretty quick and let them know what they've got and how it's going to impact traffic flow or what kind of fire apparatus is going to be needed. Everything's like that, so we do not have to worry about stop lights up here. We are right now, we're about 70 miles per hour as far as ground speed goes. We do everything by knots, but we're roughly about 70 miles an hour right now, so we always maintain about a 60-knot forward airspeed just in case we were to lose an engine. Bell Aircrafts says that we can do an autorotation and land safely as long as we've got that forward airspeed, so you'll never see us hovering in the air. It's only on takeoff and landing. So, question. Yes, ma'am. Is the visibility better like in the wintertime because you have all these trees and the leaves, and we can't see through them like spring, summer, but if we're trying to find someone in the wintertime, is it better when there's no leaves on the trees? That is a great question. So, a topical flight officer loves wintertime because we don't have leaves, but the visibility is completely different. How we compensate for that is flight patterns. We adjust those a little bit in the summer when we've got a lot of foliage, and then we also have the thermal image of the forward-looking infrared before we're on board. So, depending on how thick the vegetation is, we'll utilize that a lot of times. If we have somebody fleeing on foot or if we have a lost subject on the ground, we'll be able to use the forward-looking infrared to detect body heat and try to locate them that way through foliage. And one of our most recent episodes was the drones. The drones. I always loved the technology. So, when the drones were put into patrol, we put one in each sector, and we trained two pilots each shift for each sector. Those folks train quarterly according to policy, so they come in and do their quarterly training. We do a night training to make sure they're proficient in their skills. And those drones have proven to be very beneficial for finding not only missing folks, but also suspects that are wanted in crimes. Yes. So, do we have some success stories? We have a lot of success stories. Fortunately, we've been able to find some missing people, missing children, that have been either run away or gotten away from home that they can't find their way back. We've been able to use that. But more importantly, we've been able to protect our officers on scene when they're responding to calls. One specifically happened within the last year where a person had assaulted their significant other, fled in a vehicle, and then the police got behind that vehicle. The person wrecked and then fled into a wooded area. What you have there is a wooded area where somebody can take up an advantage against the police. We were able to use the drone and find a heat signature. What that did is allow the officers to form a perimeter and call that person out to them rather than potentially harming not only our officers, but the suspect that was in there. It makes an overall safe environment because, once again, you have that third perspective and you're able to say, we know we see you in there. You need to come out to us. And that person actually did give up. And that's just one of many success stories where we've been able to find folks that have fled from traffic stops or domestic violence or any kind of crimes in our community. They've been able to dispatch those drones from the patrol officers that have those with them, put those up immediately after, and find these folks. Man, that was great. Who puts all this together? That was some pretty great material, let me just tell you. And, you know, Tyler Rowlett, he's our producer, our editor with the project with LexTV. He's awesome. Awesome. Fantastic job. Surely we don't have any bloopers, though, do we? I've got a whole folder. I keep all of them. I don't believe it. You do? Yeah, I've got two years' worth. Let's check some out. Well, it's not my fault. That's his fault. Keep it down! Hey, we are back here with Sergeant Gary Thurman with... Let's start over. That's on the bloopers, okay. Do what? I'm having one of your moments. We are here with Matt Grayhouse, commander of the... Oh, God. Sorry. Commander of Oh, God. All right. All right. 1917. Why don't you play your video games back there? I don't have anything to hold on to. Right there? There you go. Oh, Jesus. That's just... Oh. All right. Man, it is two seasons. It's hard to believe. It's hard to believe. It was fun today, though, going back and watching. We've had so much fun doing this project, and are you ready for season three? Yes. So I know we've interviewed a whole lot of specialized units already in the first two seasons. Who do we have lined up coming up for season three? You know, we've still got many, many specialized units. I know that we already have some planned as far as E911, the 911 center, where everything starts when people call the police department, call the fire department. And we've got the emergency response unit, our SWAT team. We're going to be talking with them. So we've got other partnerships, other specialized units, a full lineup for season three. I'm excited. I am, too. So we, again, thank everyone for watching your Lex PD, and make sure that you join us for all of our episodes on season three. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. [♪upbeat music playing♪♪. 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And so we thought doing something that might overrepresent us a little bit might be a really neat idea. So this is an all-call for stories about how women are making our society work. It could be everything from a six-year-old saying, my mom is the best, to someone who has an employee that just always lifts the morale, all the way up to Isabel Yates as an icon and everything in between. So it's a quantity versus quality type of an initiative. And all of the people who are submitted, their stories will live in a display here at the Lexington History Museum. So you can come and visit and type in the name and be able to see the impact that those women have made. Thank you. And so this started with the League of Women Voters of Lexington, but you are now partnering with the History Museum and we're in the Lexington History Museum right now. Mandy, tell us a little bit about this partnership, how it has evolved, and what the History Museum's role is going to be. Yeah, so Liza came. Liza kind of cold-called me, which was great. She said, I have this idea, and I think the museum would be a great partner. And so we met at Marteen's. If someone wants to nominate Marteen's, that might be a great one. And had a conversation about the importance of what the work that we can do in uplifting women's stories. So the Lexington History Museum tells everybody in Lexington's stories, and we were immediately really intrigued with this idea of being a place where you could come to learn a little bit more about everyday Lexingtonians as well as our most well-known folks. So we started talking about how we could do that, how we could honor women. It came to the conclusion that a permanent kiosk of nominated and self-nominated stories would allow us to do that. And then what's so exciting for us and for history lovers is that we're going to get stories we never had before to understand Lexington. And so we're really excited to see who people nominate and what kind of stories we can tell that tell us a lot about the larger Fayette County over the course of its 250 years and how we're thinking about ourselves today. Yeah, and we're standing next to some great women of Lexington's history, like we've got Isabel Yates here and Pam Miller here, among some other women that are highlighted. But this is a broader call, right? So we oftentimes think about like award winners or you have to do something grand to be nominated for an award. But this is broader than that. So it's not an award, but it's like a recognition of, like you said, all the everyday people. So tell me a little bit more about the stories you'd like to share or some examples of who to nominate. You mentioned a couple before. Yeah, so for me, history is made by all of us, right? So any one of us are impacting the people around us every day. Those are the stories we want. The person who made sure that kids went to school with shoes every day, but we didn't know their name. Or the Fortune 500 banker who made sure that a small business got a loan, which led to the next thing, and we didn't know the banker's name, right? We only know about that business that took off. We want those stories because that tells us so much about who we are and who this community is and who it could be if we all knew all of these sorts of things. And we also want for individuals to realize their own power in this, right, that you every day are interacting with people, that you are making a difference when you're doing that, and you may not know it. So this is a chance for me to nominate a friend or a colleague who I see doing really incredible work, and for that to be recorded in history, and it doesn't just stop with me knowing they did it. Now everybody has a chance to know they did it. Yeah, and I think the stories can not only recognize someone whose work might have not gotten recognized in the past, but also can inspire others to do something that they might see as like a simple task but really has an impact on someone else's life and the growth of Lexington overall. So tell me a little bit about how to nominate someone. We try to make it as easy as possible. We do have flyers that we're kind of placing around town with little QR codes, but you can go to the League's website, which is LWVLexington.com, and slash her story will get you right there. And so it's a short form that it'll ask for your name, the name of your nominee, a little bit, about 250 words, up to 250 words, doesn't have to be that long, about the person. We're also asking when this impact happened, because maybe it was a grandmother that, you know, from several generations ago that made some sort of an impact. And then you can upload pictures or a little video or whatever you'd like to to be able to contribute to your story. Then we're excited that in March, we're going to do a reading of all the names that have been submitted down at the stand. So everybody will be able to have their name publicly brought forward. And then we're real excited about the opportunity to maybe get more people into the museum so that they can come in, type in Lee Sheehan, and see the wonderful impact that you've made. Well, maybe. So tell us where the stand is, too, because not everyone might be familiar with that, because that is also an achievement for our community. It really is. Very few monuments are made for women. And Breaking the Brown Ceiling was an organization really designed to make that happen here in Lexington. And so there is this gorgeous, like, super tall statue of suffragettes that is on the backside of the blue building. So I believe that's on High Street. Yeah. So you can see that that monument downtown. But that's where the reading of the names for all of those in this project will be. So the call to action here is for you to think of one, two, three, five, ten women whose stories that you want to recognize and then go to the League of Women Voters of Lexington's website and submit those stories so they can be preserved and everyone can know about all of the great things going on in Lexington. Thank you, everyone. It's where I drank my first beer. It's where I found Jesus. Where I wrecked my first car. I tore it all to pieces. I learned the path to heaven is full of sinners and believers. I learned that happiness on earth ain't just for high achievers. I learned, I've come to know there's life at both ends of that red dirt road. I went out into the world and I came back in. I lost Mary. Oh, I got her back again. Driving home tonight, feels like I found a long lost friend. It's where I drank my first beer. It's where I found Jesus. 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Try now, we can only lose. And our love become a funeral pyre. Come on baby, light my fire. Come on baby, light my fire. Try now, we can only lose. And our love become a funeral pyre. Come on baby, light my fire. Come on baby, light my fire. Try now, we can only lose. And our love become a funeral pyre. Come on baby, light my fire. Come on baby, light my fire. Try now, we can only lose. And our love become a funeral pyre. Come on baby, light my fire. Come on baby, light my fire. Try now, we can only lose. And our love become a funeral pyre. The time to hesitate is through. No time to wallow in the mire. Try now, we can only lose. And our love become a funeral pyre. Come on baby, light my fire. Come on baby, light my fire. Try to set the night on fire. You know that it would be untrue. You know that I would be a liar. If I was to say to you, girl we couldn't get much higher. Come on baby, light my fire. Come on baby, light my fire. Try to set the night on fire. Come on baby, light my fire. Come on baby, light my fire. Try now, we can only lose. And our love become a funeral pyre. Down in Louisiana, fires by and by. Hero pole or your natural soul. Keeps you tied to a tree high tide. Near joint lines, come on. And if the crowd starts rolling in. You got stars on the water. You got stars on the water. You got stars on the water. Let it rain. Hold my tube for luck's sake. Sea breeze out your door. Gypsy rains, dank hurricane. White silver sandy shore. Moonlight lounges shine. Way out on the view. You got stars on the water. You got stars on the water. You got stars on the water. Let it rain. When it's midnight down in Moby. Moonbeams on the bay. Couple miles around the dance the jukebox down. And if the good times sound just wait. All across the harbor. Night light shining in. It looks just like stars on the water. Just like stars on the water. Just like stars on the water. Let it rain. You got stars on the water. You got stars on the water. Just like stars on the water. Let it rain. Sittin' in the morning sun. I'll be sittin' in the evening calm. Watching the ships rolling by. Sittin' in the morning sun. I'll be sittin' in the evening calm. Watching the ships rolling by. Then I'll watch them roll away again. Yeah, I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay. Watching the tide roll away. Ooh, just sittin' on the dock of the bay. Wastin' time. I left my home in Georgia. Headed for the Frisco Bay. I've had nothing to live for. And it looks like nothing's gonna come my way. So I'm just gonna sit on the dock of the bay. Watching the tide roll away. Ooh, I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay. Wastin' time. Looks like nothing's gonna change. Everything still remains the same. I can't do what ten people tell me to do. So I guess I'll remain the same. Listen, I'm sittin' here resting my bones. And this loneliness won't leave me alone. Listen, two thousand miles I roam. Just to make this dock my home. Now I'm just gonna sit at the dock of the bay. Watching the tide roll away. Ooh, I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay. Wastin' time. Whistlin' You tell me only this, that I have your heart. For all we have is you. That I have your heart. For all we have is you. Want me by your side. Whispering the words I'll always love you. And forever too. I will be your lover. And I know if you really care. I will always be there. I need to tell you this. There's no other love like your love. And I, as long as I live, I'll give you all the joy of my heart. And soul can give. Let me hold you. I need to have you near me. And I feel with you in my arms. This love will last forever because I am truly, truly in love with you girl. I truly head over hills with your love. I do. And with your love I'm free. And baby, you know you're all I need. When I think of all the worries people seem to find. And how they're in a hurry to complicate their minds. By chasing after money and dreams that can't come true. I'm glad that we are different. We've better things to do. May others plan their future. I'm busy loving you. One, two, three, four. Sha-la-la-la-la-la live for today. Sha-la-la-la-la-la live for today. And don't worry, back tomorrow. Sha-la-la-la-la-la live for today. One, two, three. We're never meant to worry the way that people do. And I don't mean to hurry as long as I'm with you. We'll take it nice and easy and use my simple plan. You'll be my loving woman. I'll be your loving man. We'll take the most from living. Have pleasure while we can. One, two, three, four. Sha-la-la-la-la-la live for today. Sha-la-la-la-la-la live for today. And don't worry, back tomorrow. Sha-la-la-la-la-la live for today. Baby, I need to feel you inside of me. I got to feel you deep inside of me. Baby, please come close to me. I got to have you now, please, please, please, please. Give me some love. Give me some loving, to give me some loving. Give me some loving. Baby, give me some loving. Give me some loving. Got to have all your loving. Give me some loving. Need all your loving. Give me some loving. I need all your loving. Sha-la-la-la-la-la live for today. Sha-la-la-la-la-la live for today. And don't worry about tomorrow. Sha-la-la-la-la-la live for today. I love you. Baby, I love you so. I want you to know that I'm gonna miss your love the minute you walk out that door. So please don't go. Don't go. Don't go away. Please don't go. Don't go. I'm begging you to stay. If you'll leave at least in my lifetime, I've had one dream come true. I was blessed to be loved by someone as wonderful as you. So please don't go. Don't go. Don't go away. Please don't go. Don't go. I'm begging you to stay. Yeah. Baby, I love you so. I want you to know that I'm gonna miss your love the minute you walk out that door. So please don't go. Don't go. Don't go away. Hey, hey, hey. I need your love. I'm out on my knees begging. Please, please, please don't go. Don't you hear me, baby? Don't leave me now. Oh, no, not my love. Please don't go. I want you to know that I, I, I love you so. Please don't leave me, baby. Please don't go. Please don't go. I don't have a lot to show for these years of hard work. If you look at what I own, still she's always telling me to hold on to my dreams, even when my hope is gone. Some may say that dreaming's just for fools. There are times I thought that might be true, but she thinks I could roam the moon. On this edition of Lexington Now, Stormwater Grants, a tour of the historic Lear Theatre, and LexTrans Transit Center renovations. I'm Neal Noah, and welcome to Lexington Now for the week of February 16th, 2026. This year's Stormwater Grants are getting ready to open for applications. Frank Mabson, administrator of the program, tells us what it's all about. My name is Frank Mabson. I'm working with the Division of Water Quality for the City of Lexington, and I'm overseeing the Stormwater Quality Projects and Center Grants Program. The grant program was established to help private companies and neighbors, some of our neighbors, mitigate some of their stormwater concerns, issues. It was helped to provide funding for stormwater infrastructure pieces. We have two different types. There's Class A neighborhood projects. For example, if you have erosion along a stream, say you have a group of homeowners that are losing their backyard because of erosion, so you might have them apply for a Class A grant that we may be able to help fund some of that stream restoration. And there's Class B, which is for our commercial fee payers. So we do stuff like permeable pavers, bioswales, spillway projects to assure up spillways to make sure that the erosion is not occurring over spillways. Residential fee payers pay a flat fee, and that would be your homeowners association, residential condo associations. They can apply as a group, which represents those residential homeowners. And then the commercial property owners, they pay based on the square footage of impervious areas on their properties. This program receives 10% of the revenue, the water quality management fee revenue that's collected the previous year, so we receive 10% of the funding. Then we allocate so much to the Class A type grants, so much to the Class B education grants, and so much to the Class B infrastructure grants. So there's different tiers.