# Planning Commission Zoning Public Hearing - July 23, 2009 > Auto-transcribed civic record · July 23, 2009 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/988 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/988?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2009-07-23 - **Last revised**: July 23, 2009 - **Length**: 54,402 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed with OpenAI's open-source Whisper large-v3-turbo model, run locally by The Lexington Times. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude. Verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Urban County Planning Commission met on July 23, 2009, at 1:33 PM in the Council Chamber, 2nd Floor of the LFUCG Government Center, located at 200 East Main Street in Lexington, Kentucky. Frank Penn presided over the meeting. The Commission addressed two agenda items during the session: a presentation on Zoning Items for informational purposes, and consideration of the Westmoreland Neighborhood Zone Change Initiation Request, which was approved. The Commission took eight votes and heard one public comment during the meeting. ## Attendance **Present:** - Marie Copeland - Mike Cravens - Ed Holmes - Mike Owens - Frank Penn - Carolyn Richardson - Lynn Roche-Phillips **Absent:** - Patrick Brewer - Joan Whitman ## Votes and Decisions **PLAN 2009-39F: Ramsey/Sullivan Property, Unit 3, Section 2, Lots 33-45 (Kearney Hall)** [timestamp: 0:15:26] Motion by Mike Cravens, seconded by Carolyn Richardson, to postpone to August 13, 2009. Passed unanimously 7-0. **DP 2009-45: Ramsey/Sullivan (Kearney Hall), Unit 3, Section 2, Lots 1-44** [timestamp: 0:16:31] Motion by Mike Cravens, seconded by Lynn Roche-Phillips, to postpone to August 13, 2009. Passed unanimously 7-0. **MAR 2009-9: Zoning Map Amendment for Paul V. & Judy A. Paternostro** [timestamp: 0:42:18] Motion by Ed Holmes, seconded by Carolyn Richardson, to approve. Passed unanimously 7-0. **ZDP 2009-48: Zoning Development Plan for Chevy Chase Subdivision, Unit 19, Lot 7** [timestamp: 0:42:18] Motion by Ed Holmes, seconded by Carolyn Richardson, to approve subject to 13 conditions as listed on the agenda. Passed unanimously 7-0. **MAR 2009-8: Zoning Map Amendment for Dennis Anderson INV 1700, LLC** [timestamp: 1:39:05] Motion by Mike Cravens, seconded by Mike Owens, to approve as amended by the blue sheet. Passed unanimously 7-0. **ZDP 2009-47: Zoning Development Plan for Sharkey Property, Unit 4, Section 2** [timestamp: 1:40:23] Motion by Mike Cravens, seconded by Mike Owens, to approve subject to 11 conditions, including amendments from the blue and white sheets. Passed unanimously 7-0. **ZOTA 2009-1: Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment** [timestamp: 1:52:37] Motion by Marie Copeland, seconded by Carolyn Richardson, to postpone to September 24, 2009. Passed unanimously 7-0. **ND-1 Overlay Zone for Westmoreland Neighborhood** [timestamp: 2:30:32] Motion by Lynn Roche-Phillips, seconded by Mike Owens, to initiate. Passed 6-1 on roll call vote. Voting in favor: Marie Copeland, Mike Cravens, Ed Holmes, Mike Owens, Frank Penn, and Lynn Roche-Phillips. Voting against: Mike Owens. ## Public Comment Jean Settle addressed the council regarding concerns about the Townley Park development [timestamp: 1:17:32]. Ms. Settle expressed frustration about the lack of communication from Dennis Anderson concerning the development plans for Townley Park and the potential impact on the neighborhood. Her comments highlighted the need for better information sharing with residents affected by the proposed project. ## Contested Items **Westmoreland ND-1 Overlay Zone** The proposed Westmoreland ND-1 Overlay Zone generated community opposition during the meeting. Some residents expressed concerns about the proposed restrictions, particularly regarding garage doors facing the street. The specific nature of the disagreement centered on how the overlay zone's design requirements would affect residential properties in the area. No outcome information was provided in the available meeting materials. ## Zoning Items The commission discussed various zoning map amendments and related plans during this agenda item [timestamp: 0:17:02]. **Key Participants** The discussion involved Bill Sallee, Traci Wade, and Tom Martin. **Items Discussed** The commission addressed zoning map amendments for the following: - Paul V. & Judy A. Paternostro - Dennis Anderson INV 1700, LLC **Outcome** This agenda item was presented for informational purposes. ## Westmoreland Neighborhood Zone Change Initiation Request The commission discussed the initiation of an ND-1 overlay zone for the Westmoreland neighborhood [timestamp: 2:30:32]. The agenda item included input from neighborhood representatives on the proposed zone change. **Key Speakers** The discussion involved three primary speakers: - Traci Wade - Doug Jones - Ben Harper **Outcome** The commission approved the initiation of the ND-1 overlay zone for the Westmoreland neighborhood. --- ## Decisions - **PLAN 2009-39F** — postponed (7-0): Postpone Ramsey/Sullivan Property, Unit 3, Section 2, Lots 33-45 (Kearney Hall) to August 13, 2009 - **DP 2009-45** — postponed (7-0): Postpone Ramsey/Sullivan (Kearney Hall), Unit 3, Section 2, Lots 1-44 to August 13, 2009 - **ZOTA 2009-1** — postponed (7-0): Postpone Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment to September 24, 2009 - **MAR 2009-9** — passed (7-0): Approve zoning map amendment for Paul V. & Judy A. Paternostro - **ZDP 2009-48** — passed (7-0): Approve zoning development plan for Chevy Chase Subdivision, Unit 19, Lot 7 - **MAR 2009-8** — passed (7-0): Approve zoning map amendment for Dennis Anderson INV 1700, LLC - **ZDP 2009-47** — passed (7-0): Approve zoning development plan for Sharkey Property, Unit 4, Section 2 - **Motion** — passed (6-1): Initiate ND-1 overlay zone for Westmoreland Neighborhood --- ## Full transcript Thank you. How do I get... It's a home. It's a home. Mr. Neal Day, would you join us up, please? It's always a bittersweet time when we do this for people who have served eight years with us. We get to know them, they get to know us, and in Neal's case, several pounds was left with us because of his bringing that little psyche in every day. But, Neal, it's been a real pleasure to serve with you, and the community is certainly honored to have you as a commissioner. We have a plaque, and to keep up with the customs, I'm going to read it, and then we'll let you have a chance to say something afterwards. Whereas we, the members of the Lexington-Fayette County Urban Planning Commission, acknowledge the fulfillment of the term of office for Mr. Neal Day from the Planning Commission, and whereas we wish to take this opportunity to recognize Mr. Day for his valuable service to this commission from July 12, 2001 through June 30, 2009. Having served on the commission subdivision committee and having served as parliamentarian vice chair of the commission by the unanimous vote of his peers And whereas Mr. Day has been influential in the adoption of the 2001 Comprehensive Plan, and whereas Mr. Day has been influential in the formation of the North Nicholasville Road Small Area Plan, the South Nicholasville Road Small Area Plan, the Rural Settlement Plan, and the Red Mile Village Development Plan. And whereas Mr. Day has been influential in the formation and adoption of the 2007 Comprehensive Plan, the Greenbrier Small Area Plan, the Indian Hills Small Area Plan, the Central Sector and East End Small Area Plan, the Residential and Non-Residential Enfield and Redevelopment Studies, the Downtown Election of Master Plan, the South End Park Urban Village Plan, the Newtown Pike Extension Corridor Plan, the Texas Amendments Encouraging Enfield and Redevelopment, and the Texas Amendments and Map Amendments Establishing the Mixed-Use Zone. and whereas Mr. Day has consistently shown a deep concern for the citizens of Lexington and Fayette County as reflected in his decisions regarding land use and development and whereas the members of this commission and the staff feel that the service and guidance contributed by Mr. Day will be greatly missed by this body. Now therefore be it resolved we the members of the commission along with the staff to hereby express our gratitude to Mr. Day for his service to the commission and to the citizens of Lexington and Fayette County and we the Fayette County Urban County Planning Commission and staff do hereby wish for Mr. Day much happiness and continued success and ask that he continue to give valuable guidance to the members of this commission, be it referral, full or resolved, that a copy of this resolution be presented to Mr. Day and also spread upon the minutes of this body. Dated election on the 23rd day of July of 2009. Thank you. I don't have a whole lot to say other than to tell you all that it has been an honor and it's been a pleasure. When you spend as many Thursdays as you spend with a group here, you really, truly get to make some good friends. My one thing that I would tell this group or anybody coming on new is don't take too long to realize how important the planning staff is, how much work goes on, how much technical assistance is available that make our job that much better. Thank you. Randall, it's your turn. Randall Vaughn, what do you say about a class act like Randall? I was fortunate to first meet Randall when I first came on the Planning Commission, and he has been a mentor and a guide for the seven years I've been here, Randall, and I know the rest of us feel the same way. We've got a resolution that I need to read, and then we'll give you an opportunity to say something. Thank you. and chair of the commission by unanimous vote of his peers, and where Mr. Vaughn has been influential in the adoption of the 2001 comprehensive plan, and where Mr. Vaughn has been influential in the formation of the North Nicholasville Road Small Area Plan, the South Nicholasville Road Small Area Plan, the Rural Settlement Plan, and the Red Mile Village Development Plan. And whereas Mr. Vaughn has been influential in the formation and adoption of the 2007 and Comprehensive Plan, the Greenbrier Small Area Plan, the Indian Hills Small Area Plan, the Central Sector and the East End Small Area Plan, the Residential and Non-Residential Enfield and Redevelopment Studies, the Downtown Master Plan, and the South End Park Urban Village Plan, the Newtown Pike Extension Corridor Plan, the Texas Amendments Encouraging Enfield and Redevelopment, and the Texas Amendments and Map Amendments of establishing the mixed use zones. And whereas Mr. Vaughan has consistently shown a deep concern for the citizens of Fayette County as reflected in his decisions regarding land use and development, and whereas the members of this commission and the staff feel that the service and guidance contributed by Mr. Vaughan will be greatly missed by this body. Now therefore be it resolved, we the members of the commission, along with the staff, to hereby express our gratitude to Mr. Vaughan for his service to the Commission and to the citizens of Fayette County. And we, the Lexington-Fayette County Urban County Planning Commission and staff, do hereby wish from Mr. Vaughn much happiness and continuous success and ask that he continue to give valuable guidance to members of this Commission and be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be presented to Mr. Vaughn and also spread upon the minutes of this body dated Lexington, 23rd day of July, 2000. Thank you very much, Chairman Penn. I really appreciate that. As Mr. Day said, you know, over these past eight years you do make some wonderful friends, both current commission members and past commission members. And it's really been a good experience, a true experience for me. I've thoroughly enjoyed working for this community on the commission. A lot of late nights, as many of them can contest. But it's been for, obviously, for the good of the community. I do want to say without reservation, the staff is tremendous. and I think probably one of the hardest working bodies in urban county government, if not the hardest working, most dedicated group in urban county government. Going to miss Thursdays. I know my first Thursday I went out of the country, so it was a big relief. But, no, I will miss this, and I do want to thank the commission for all of your service and just keep up the great work. Thank you very much. Thank you. That's always a bittersweet occasion, but that type of service is very important. much appreciated by all of us that are not only here, but those of us that have rotated off in their tenure. All right, now we have approval of the minutes. Are there any corrections or additions to the minutes that are presented on June 25, 2009? Mr. Chairman, I'll move for approval of minutes as written from July 25, 2009. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed, like a sign. So ordered. Postponements and withdrawals. Yes, sir. John Hill of Foster Rowland. If you could, I'd like to direct the commission's attention to the first page. Section 4, item A, plan 2009-39F. We'd like to ask for a two-week postponement. You want a two-week postponement? Yes. Actually, Mr. Chairman, your next meeting is in three weeks. That would be on August 13th. So it will be August the 13th. Three-week postponement then. Thank you. Okay, there's been a request for a postponement to August the 13th of Plan 2009-39F, Ramsey-Sullivan, Unit 3, Section 2, Lots 34 and 35, located in Middle Sweet Lane in Kittenjoy Circle. Do I hear a motion? Mr. Chairman. Yes. Is there anybody in the audience that want to object to this postponement? If not, then the Chair will entertain a motion. Thanks, Larry. Mr. Chairman, move a three-week postponement of Plan 2009-39F. Second. Second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed? August 13th. Thank you. Also, page 2, item B, DP 2009-45. I'd like to ask for a three-week postponement as well. August 13th. Likewise, anybody in the audience wants to respond to this request? If not, the Chair will entertain a motion. Mr. Chairman, we have a proposed appointment of DP 2009-45 for three weeks, August 13th. Thank you, sir. Second. Motion been made and seconded. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? Thank you, sir. Thank you. That's the only development plan that we have. that we have. We'll move on to the zoning items. Mr. Salley. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Members of the Commission, good afternoon. I'm pleased to say that both items remaining on your agenda for map amendments may qualify for abbreviated hearings. The first appears at the top of page three of your agenda. MAR 2009-8 is a request by Dennis Anderson Investments 1700 LLC for rezoning from I-1 to R-3 planned neighborhood residential for property located at 1700 Leestown Road. At this time we would ask if anyone is present today in the audience who would like to discuss this proposed zone change for property in the Townley Center development at 1700 Leestown Road. Thank you. We do have folks here so We do have folks here, so we will need to have a full hearing. All right. The other item which may qualify for abbreviated hearing, here's on page four of your agenda item number two, MAR 2009-9, a rezoning request by Paul and Judy Paternostro for property located at 310 Romney Road. This is a zone change request from R2 and from R3 to a townhouse residential R1T zone. Again, at this time we would ask if anyone is present in the audience who would like to discuss this proposed zone change at 310 Romney Road. Seeing none, Mr. Chairman, this item can be taken first and in an abbreviated fashion. All right, sir. We will set up and be ready to begin in just a few moments. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again, good afternoon. The first zone change appears at the top of page 4 of your agenda, MAR 2009-9, request by Paul V. and Judy A. Paternostro. This is a proposed rezoning from an R2 two-family residential zone and from a R3 planned neighborhood residential zone to R1T, our townhouse residential zone. The zone change involves just under one net acre of property, the property having an address of 310 Romney Road. The subject property is located mid-block on Romney Road, north of Cooper Drive, which is a four-way stop intersection here, and Providence Lane here, immediately south of the Catholic Cathedral for Christ the King Church at 299 Cochran Road. This intersection is not a four-way stop. Romney is a through street at this location. The subject property is immediately north of a large area zone B1 where there are a number of businesses and office uses along Romany. It is immediately south of residential zoning in the Chevy Chase neighborhood. In the residential area to the north and to the west of the subject property, Commission members may recall there's been a recent ND1 neighborhood design overlay approved for much of this area. The overlay also includes the subject property, which is not proposed to be changed with this amendment. The MAP amendment before you today is to rezone the southern half of the subject property from R3 to R1T and the northern half slightly under a quarter of an acre from R2 to R1T. In looking at the comprehensive plan, as we always do with a MAP amendment request, to orient you, I'm going to use the overhead. overhead, we have Cooper Drive here, Romney Road is here, and the uses in the Duke Road, Romney Road area are very mixed between retail trade, high density residential, low density, and medium density. First on the overhead is a photograph of the subject property. And to orient you again, before we look at a close-up of the conference at plan, this is Romney Road. The commercial area that's zone B1 is to the south, and the residential zoning for the church and for the other townhouses and single family homes are to the north and to the west of this, pardon me, the east of this location. The subject property is here, and there are three structures on the property, a prominent apartment building, a duplex, and to the rear, a hidden almost apartment building. As you'll see with the development plan, all three of these buildings are proposed to be removed once and if the zone change is approved. There are townhouses, apartment buildings, and single family homes in the general area as well. A more detailed view of the comprehensive plan shows that subject property is north of a retail trade area, the semi-public use, and the low-density residential uses. The duplex is shown as a low-density use and high-density for the property with the two-apartment building. There are currently some 24 dwelling units on the subject property. The applicant proposes to replace those with six new units. The density would be 5.71 dwelling units per net acre. The comprehensive plan recommendation for this property is for between 5 and 17 units, and 6 is being proposed. So the zone change request is in accord with the density recommendation by the comprehensive plan. There is no conditional zoning proposed as part of this zone change by the staff, but the staff is recommending approval of this rezoning from R3 and R2 to R1T for three reasons. The plan recommends low density for a portion of the property, about a quarter of an acre, defined as zero to four units per gross acre. The plan also recommends high-density residential land use for about three-quarters of an acre of the subject property, which is six to 20 dwelling units per gross acre. And the petitioner proposes six units in an area recommended between five and 17 units by the plan. Our recommendation is subject to the approval and certification of the development plan that is about to be presented to you. But this time I'd be glad to answer any questions that you may have about our staff report or our recommendation to you on the zone change portion of this request this afternoon. Any questions from Mr. Sally? Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Martin. Mr. Chairman, members of the Commission. On page four is the preliminary development plan associated with this zone change. It is ZDP 2009-48, Chevy Chase Subdivision, Unit 19, Lot 7. Again, the property, as was just described to you, fronts on Romney Road. They are proposing the six townhouses arranged here around a central courtyard that would provide the access into the development along with some associated parking. The perimeter yard you can see here it varies from 10 feet to 6 feet. This is again the entrance that they are proposing. There are garages proposed for these units as well. They are two stories. There's various floor plans. Staff in their review has asked for some clarification of the square footage per unit. We have 20,000 square feet being proposed. We're not exactly sure how between the unit types that breaks down. We have also asked that they clarify the private open space. We're fairly sure that that is what these areas you can see here are intended to be, but there are requirements within that zone for private open space, and so we'd like to have that clarified. We are also asking them to clarify the garage entrances and the orientation of the units, and it is our understanding that they are to be oriented this way on the common access. This plan was reviewed by the subdivision committee and recommended for approval. The conditions are standard sign-off conditions for a preliminary development plan. And as I stated, there are several cleanup conditions where we're just asking for some clarification and the labeling of the open space. You can also note that we have Division of Fires approval of emergency and access, and that is due to this proposal, again, for this entrance and this courtyard. There was some concern about the ability for an ambulance to enter and turn around safely and then the possibility that things may be blocked, but they are working with the fire department to address those concerns. And if there are any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. Any questions from Mr. Martin? Marie? Mr. Martin, I think there's a sewer line, and could you locate that for us? There is a sewer line that runs through this R2 property, and apparently its existence was known, but no easement was discovered. And they are going to have to relocate that at the time of the final development plan, which, again, you will see a final development plan on this property. That will have to be redone, rededicated, or dedicated in this case, before they'll be able to build these units. Well, there are now some where Michael Kennedy and Cecil Butler, those I think have been rebuilt into townhouses. So how's the sewer going to go through those townhouse lots? I would have to defer that question to engineering. I'm not aware of how this particular line functions with those properties. And do you have the location of the storm sewer on that plat there? The storm sewer, as I understand it, exists in Romney. The inlet? I cannot locate them on this map. Again, engineering may have some idea. On the final development plan, of course, they will have to. I bring that up because at James and Lucy Owen's property, which is where the chiropractor or the veterinarian or the doctor or somebody, that has in the past gone underwater. Yes, ma'am. William. Along those lines, can you talk about stormwater retention on the property? At this time, they haven't proposed any. The issue was raised by engineering in the review and will be something that will have to be demonstrated on the final development plan. Also, how many units exist on that parcel and how many are proposed? They are proposing six townhouses, and it's my understanding there are about 21, or was it 24 units, 24, pardon, 24 units total on this property now. Any other questions? Thank you, Mr. Martin. Stationer. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm Dick Murphy, representing Paul and Judy Paternostro, who are purchasing this property. Paul and Judy are with us today on the second row here. And also with us is Rory Kaley, our landscape architect from EA Partners, and Steve Graves from Murphy and Graves Architects, who will be the architect, and Chaz Height, who's a planner, here as well. And I don't have too much to add to what the staff reported to you. The property is now split-zoned between R2 and R3. We are asking for R1T. This property is about one acre in size. As Bill mentioned, we do agree with the comprehensive plan. I wanted to answer a couple questions that were raised to the staff as well or elaborate on those. We've worked with the Division of Fire on the access issue, and I would point out right now there's a 10-foot wide driveway serving this property to the building, all of it actually, including the building in the rear, with no possibility of turnaround, we will have a, we're redesigning, we will redesign this, we'll have a 24-foot wide access point, and we're talking to the Division of Fire about parking restrictions and that sort of thing so that they can have turnaround access. So one thing we all agree on is this will be a safer situation afterwards than it is currently. I'm not saying it's unsafe currently, but everybody wants to have the safest possible situation, and we will have much easier access in and out for fire and emergency vehicles. On the sanitary sewer line, we're aware of the issue and have discussed a number of ways to relocate it, and obviously we'll have to have that determined by the time of final development plan stage back to you all. On the stormwater, you all raised the question at the subcommittee's level, and Paul did check with Mr. Jones, who's the current owner of the property, who has owned it since 1976. He reported that there is a nine-foot-deep basement in the current building and that in the big rain that they had, I think, in 1994, they didn't get any water in this building. It's a little higher than the one next door. Nevertheless, it doesn't hurt to make us aware of that, so we can put the elevation of this, make our decision on the elevation of this with that in mind, so we do appreciate that as well. We're looking at stormwater options. If need to be, we could go with some underground stormwater storage on this if need to be, And, again, we'll be looking at that at the final development plan, which you, of course, will see before any construction can start on this property. I think those are the main points I wanted to cover. As I said, we agree with the staff recommendation for approval of the zone change. I think the conditions on the development plan approval are mostly routine, and we've addressed the other ones. And with that, we'd ask for your approval. Appreciate your hearing this, and we'd be happy to answer any questions you all might have. Any questions from Mr. Murphy? I just have one, Mr. Murphy. On-site parking, do you have additional spaces within the site, or garages, or how is that addressed? Yeah, we have each unit has a two-car garage. So there are six units here, so there are 12 dedicated spaces inside garages, and I think we'll have a minimum of four guest parking spaces on this one. That does, again, contrast to the current situation. I think they have one or a little less than one space per unit on there, so we should not be causing on-street parking problems here in the area. Mr. Murphy, as far as the turnaround for emergency vehicles and so forth, You do plan to create something. I know it's not the best right now, but going into a new situation, you do plan to provide that access? Yeah, this shows a separation in the entrance, and I think the separation is going to be removed, so it's a clear way in and out. And then we've discussed with the fire department about limitations on parking in this area, and obviously we'll have to have that totally resolved final development plan stage, too. But that's the way the direction things are going. Any further questions? Mike. Mr. Murphy, is that all one building? Yes. All connected, all the way around? Thank you, Mr. Murphy. Mr. Salley, I think we have a question for you. Could you please explain to me the differences between the R2 and the R1T zoning in terms of density? Neither zone has a restriction as to number of units per acre. They have very different lot size requirements. In R2, the minimum lot size is 7,500 square feet. R1-T, that can be as small as 1,500 square feet. The yard requirements of the two zones are very different. R2 requires 30-foot front yards, R1-T 10-foot front yards. The rear and side yards are slightly different, but not to the extent that the front yard setbacks are different. The R1-T zone also requires, in most instances, at least three or more attached units, where R2 obviously has a two-unit limit. Was the existing buildings, were they in conformance with the R2 zoning? The one duplex that is on the property is a conforming use. The two apartment buildings are in the R3 portion of the property. I believe that those are also conforming uses. They may or may not be conforming structures. Any other questions, Mr. Salley? Mr. Talley, I have one for you. You talked about labeling the open space. Do you want that as a condition on the development plan? I think with the development plan that's before you, it is just a labeling issue. As Mr. Martin mentioned, we've rendered that. We believe we've identified them. They're just not labeled. So, yes, as long as they're labeled, we think that would comply. But does that need to be another condition? An added condition. Yes, sir. I do not have my agenda. Let me look at that. Yes, sir. Condition number 12 would require that label. Okay. Thank you. Any further questions? Thank you. Mr. Salley, I need to ask a point of order here. On an abbreviated hearing, we don't have any audience comment. Is that correct? Not usually. It certainly wouldn't hurt to see if anyone's come in late that would now like to speak to this. Is there anybody here to speak to this application? If nothing, we'll turn over the commission. All right. Let me get it off here. Is your mic on? I think it's on. Okay. There you go. Lean into it a little bit. Okay. Zoning map amendment 2009-8? 9. 9. I move for approval. Has there been an approval? A second? Any discussion? Mr. Chairman? If I may, really no discussion. Maybe just a statement. We got into a discussion a couple of weeks ago on a similar manner. You know, my only feelings on this related to what Lynn was saying, density issues. I know this falls within the guidelines. I have no problem with it. Historically, it seems like we've been on the lesser side when it comes to density issues. I'd really like to see, you know, us move at least towards the middle somewhere down the road. I'm not saying necessarily this one, but in future plans. And we've got to be able to provide housing somewhere. And looking at this, when we're actually removing some housing possibilities, you know, I just feel like we need to go somewhere with it. But like I said, that's just a statement. I'm sorry. Marie. I will be voting for this zone change, but it falls in a gray area with me because we have 24 affordable housing units within walking or baseball-throwing distance of a grocery store, a drug store, a pub, two restaurants, a dentist, a post office, et cetera. and we're putting in, so we're taking 24 housing units that people can not have a car and walk to all of these services, including three churches, that rent for maybe $500, $600, I'm just guessing, and we're going to put in six 500,000, yes, work again, townhouses. I realize that the housing is probably outdated, and we need to replace housing in downtown, just like because the city is an organism. And just like we get hip replacements, the city needs to replace housing. I just feel that this is a problem because we are doing away with some affordable housing units. And it concerns me, and somewhere down the line we've got to make up for that. I don't know how, but we need to think about that in the long term. So for me, this is a gray area, and kind of like in the King and I where Yul Brynner said this is a puzzlement. I just want to bring that before us, but that's all. Thank you. Any other discussion? If not, the motion is on the floor and been seconded. All those in favor of MAR 2009-9 say aye. Aye. Opposed like manner? Motion carries. Mr. Holmes, you want to do the development plan? Yes. I move for the approval of Zoning Development Plan 2009-48 Chevy Chase Subdivision Unit 19, Lot 7 for approval. Second. Is there a motion and a second? Any discussion on the development plan? If not, all those in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion also carries. Thank you. Mr. Henderson. Ms. Wade. Chairman Penn, how are you this afternoon? How are you? Sorry I missed the first agenda item. Sounds like it was interesting. It was. The next item on your agenda can be found on page 3. It's item number 1, and I believe it's in tab 2 in your notebooks. It's MAR 2009-8, a request by Dennis Anderson Investment 1700, LLC. This is a zone change request from a light industrial I-1 zone to a R-3, which is the planned neighborhood zone. And on our zoning color-up maps, the subject property is located within the larger Sharkey property, which is also known as Townley Center, and it's in the southeast-southwestern corner, southern corner of the subject property as a whole. The property itself proposed for rezoning today is about seven acres, and it's at the intersection of Hatter Lane and Louie Place. And the property is I-1 today, as well as a small track to the north that's not part of this zone change that's been developed with a maintenance facility for the Anderson properties. The subject property is bounded to the south by light industrial zoning, including the sanitary sewer treatment facility that the LFUCG owns, and several other high industrial or light industrial uses along Lyle Industrial Road. Also within the Sharkey property, we have higher density residential townhouses and single family to the northwest, professional office and small businesses within that area to the north and northeast. Outside of the Sharkey property, we have offices across New Circle Road, multi-family and single-family in the Meadowthorpe neighborhood across Leastown Road, and then a large shopping center, Meadowthorpe shopping center to the east of the subject property. The applicant is proposing to develop this parcel, which is currently vacant, with 120 apartment dwelling units, which would bring the development on the Sharkey property to a total of 440 units, residential units, and a density of 17.32 units per acre and for the total Sharkey property of 14.47 dwelling units per acre. The Sharkey property has been the subject of several zone changes over the past decade. This would be the fourth within the larger Sharkey property, but the first for this particular property. It has been I-1 for a number of years, and the applicant is now wishing to expand their multi-use development to include more residential. The first zone change was in 2002, and at that time the council instituted or regulated a buffer along the R3 boundary, which at that time, and currently bounded New Circle Road and then along the rear to the I1 parcel, and then came at an angle here in 2006, that zone-to-zone buffer that was required by council at a 25-foot landscape buffer with trees every 15 feet was removed along that boundary. At this time, so the boundary here that cuts through a detention basin no longer has a conditional zoning restriction, But boundaries along New Circle and along the southwest side do have a conditional zoning restriction for landscaping. The 2007 comprehensive plan for this property recommends warehouse and wholesale land use, and the existing I-1 zone can be considered to be in agreement with that comprehensive plan recommendation. So the proposed R-3 zoning is not in agreement with the comprehensive plan. Thus, the Planning Commission should consider whether there's been any changes in the immediate area of a social, physical, or economic nature, or if the existing zoning is inappropriate and the proposed zoning is appropriate. The petitioner is arguing that the requested R3 zone is more appropriate at this location than the existing I1 zoning and brought several points forward, including the traffic within the Townley Center, Sharkey property is much more of a residential and commercial-oriented traffic and not industrial traffic. And a zone change to the R3 zone would be in keeping with that traffic pattern and eliminate the incompatible truck traffic that could come about with I-1 zoning. Also stated that there's no access to the existing I-1 in this area, or at least a majority of it, which is accessible along Lyle Industrial Road and Old Frankfurt Pike. Also, the petitioner argues that the vitality of the community is supported more by the residential zoning rather than the I-1 zoning, and that they're proposing the R-3 zone as an appropriate land use in this area, which would be consistent with the existing mixed-use center and still be in agreement or in compliance with what the council suggested for density at this area of 17 units per net acre. They set that as a benchmark in the original zone change in 2002, and that this rezoning would still keep the entire Sharkey property under the 17 units per net acre. The staff did agree with the assessment that this proposed zone change was more appropriate, or the proposed zoning was more appropriate at this location than the existing zoning of I-1. And we also found that it was supported by several comprehensive plan goals and objectives, specifically mixed-use development, which is mentioned in Goal 8, integration of a variety of housing types, which is accomplished by the entire Sharkey property, which is Goal 14, new development that enhances existing neighborhoods, which is goal 16 and then lastly encouraging alternative transportation which the Sharkey property has proposed walking trails throughout this subject property as well as the larger property. Last thing that the staff would mention is the conditional zoning restrictions that were in place or put in place in 2002. The staff felt that that zone-to-zone screening was still important especially along the southwestern boundary, which is shared with the LFUCG property of the sanitary sewer treatment plant. And since the zoning committee, the staff did meet with the applicant and discuss the recommended zone-to-zone or conditional zoning restriction for a landscape buffer of 25 feet. and we were able to come to an agreement with the applicant that the zone-to-zone screening or the additional screening that the staff recommended along the southeast property line may not be necessary in terms of a conditional zoning restriction. There is already an existing 20-foot tree protection area that's been platted, as well as a utility easement along that area and a large or a wide existing vegetative buffer that's shared on the subject property as well as the adjoining property, and that those three things combined really accomplished the buffer that the staff was suggesting with a conditional zoning restriction. So we have proposed a change to the conditional zoning restriction, which can be found on your blue sheet. I believe it's in your notebook. And that would be to keep a 25-foot landscape buffer along the planned neighborhood residential zone on the southwestern property line, which would include evergreens planted every 15 feet. That's consistent with the original conditional zoning restriction that the council imposed in 2002. But we did, after meeting with the applicant, remove the southeastern property line requirement because of those three conditions, the tree protection area already being platted, the existing buffer that's vegetative buffer that's in place, and the utility easement in that location. So the staff is recommending approval of this zone change, deciding that the R3 zone is more appropriate at this location than the I1 zone. for five reasons listed on your agenda and in your staff report, and then also because the rezoning and development is supportive of several of the goals and objectives of the 2007 comprehensive plan. And we are making this recommendation subject to approval and certification of the corollary development plan. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Any questions from Ms. Wade? Aye. Swade, you mentioned the adjoining I-1 land. Access to that, is that off of Old Frankfort Pike? Is that the only access? The I-1 property that the city owns is, if we're talking about the landfill, it is off of Old Frankfort Pike. If we're talking about the sanitary sewer treatment facility, it's off of Lyle Industrial Road. This property, which is 195, is Lyle Industrial. It's a very large parcel and mostly utilized up at the front of that part. But these parcels are all accessed off of Lyle Industrial. The one parcel that isn't is the maintenance facility that Anderson's already built. Thank you. Any other questions, Ms. Wade? I don't know if this would be better served for engineering, but I'm concerned about potential future land use incompatibility if we decided we wanted to expand our sewer plant. And I know that Jessamine County has gone to tertiary level treatment with removing nutrients from the wastewater stream. If we were to go that way, would there be an additional land requirement? And a potential encroachment on to that? I can't answer that, so I'll see if Hillard would know anything about that. Can I answer Ms. Copeland's question in the meantime? Did you have a question? Ms. Wade, if we wanted to have live-work-play concept working in that area, Is there any I-1 land left where a small, clean manufacturer could locate that the Fayette County government doesn't already control? Well, most of the property on Lyle Industrial, although developed, is not controlled by LFUCG. The stockyards are there. There are several other businesses. In terms of a small industrial or B4 business, you know, there's potential to subdivide these if they need to be redeveloped, but I'm not sure that there's vacantly in per se. Okay, so we're getting close. That's a long way down the road. Where is the McConnell Springs Park, approximately? It would be off of Old Frankfurt and probably in this neighborhood. If I use the comp plan. Okay. Let me see. McConnell Springs Road and Redmond Lane. This is McConnell Springs. This is their industrial area, and our property is here. Okay. And Lyle Industrial comes this way. and South Forbes Road. So even changing this, there's enough there that you could live, work, play in the same area without driving there across town. And there's the existing retail businesses, restaurants, office space within Sharkey Property that offers that opportunity as well to work. Mr. Newman. Lynn, do you want to rephrase your question for me? Sir, can you answer that question, whether or not there would be additional space demands if we were to upgrade to tertiary level treatment? I don't know the answer to that, Ms. Phillips, but I think there is some open space at the existing plant facility out there at the Town Branch treatment plant that the future expansion could, I believe, could occur within the existing property. Again, I honestly don't know the details of that. Mr. Neumann, while you're there, in the committee meeting there was some discussion about odor from that plant about putting residential that close to the treatment plant and with some discussion of the fact that the city's done some things to clean that up. Is it true that the odor is better there than it was? I don't live out that way, so I wouldn't know, but that question did come up. Could you answer that at this time? Do you know if we've done things to improve that? I believe the Division of Sanitary Sewers or now Division of Water Quality does have an ongoing odor control program for their facilities. Again, I don't know the details of that, but I know that's always a concern with developments. With this particular area, there's several areas of residential development that are contiguous to the back of the property there as well. Any other questions, Mr. Moon? Yes, go ahead. Yeah, I was just going to add, I guess the concerns that I have, and it's a little late now because, as Mr. Newman had pointed, there is some additional residential development that's occurring that's already existing there. I guess by allowing this other 100 units or so, you do create some obnoxious uses with odors that are there, and it could be a potential problem with, I guess, residents moving in there, having some complaints with odors. But I think we've gone down this path now with what's already there, and it's probably appropriate to put some additional housing. But it does appear that I see it as a problem with the sewer treatment plant there and putting additional housing in that area. That's why it was industrial, I think, at one point. Any other questions, Mr. Newman? Thank you. Ms. Wade? Any questions for Ms. Wade? Mr. Martin has your development plan. Thank you. Mr. Martin. Mr. Chairman, members of the Planning Commission, page 3 at the bottom, item B, ZDP 2009-47, Sharkey Property Unit 4, Section 2 is the preliminary development plan that is associated with this zone change. The applicant is proposing to develop four apartment buildings here at the end of Louie Place and Hatter Lane. One bedroom, one bedroom, two bedroom, and two bedroom in these buildings. They're all three stories. There is a little over 113,000 total square feet in the buildings. You can see the parking layout that they've proposed here. There is the large detention basin that serves this development. It does serve the regional development. There is other detention elsewhere on the property as well. This will be getting slightly smaller as this development expands this way. You can see again they have a walking trail that they're proposing throughout the property. It even goes off and on around the detention because there is additional detention up this way. We have standard sign-offs on your plan. There are two resolve issues you'll see at the bottom of your conditions on your agenda, and one of those Tracy talked to you about with your conditional zoning in this area to continue this conditional zoning that has been recommended by staff. It is this southeastern corner here where she was explaining to you there is indeed a platted 20-foot tree protection area. There is a 25-foot utility easement here. The trees that are in that area, much of them have been identified as hardwood species and that sort of thing, and that is why staff did agree that by just maintaining the tree protection area that that should be adequate screening through here. Now, there will be a necessary landscape buffer in this area between this I-1 and the R-3. We have also, on your agenda, you'll notice they need to resolve the termination of Louis Place, and you have a white piece of paper that we handed out that addresses that issue. Louis terminates directly into the property. Here's the end of the dedicated right-of-way. To meet the subregs, they will need to either build a knuckle, a cul-de-sac, or seek a waiver from this body. And if you look at that white piece of paper, again, that we handed out, it gives you condition 11. It should be hopefully with the blue page as well. We have stated that continuation of Louis Place will be determined at time of final development plan or preliminary subdivision plan for lots two and or three proposed. So again, at the time that you see a final development plan or a preliminary subdivision plan on this property, they will have to either request a waiver or bill the proper termination of Louis. I would add, too, that 10, which is resolve R3 conditional zoning, Tracy has, of course, explained that to you and made a recommendation, that could read denote conditional zoning restrictions. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to try to answer them. Any questions, Mr. Martin? With respect to the termination of Louis Place, is the staff recommending approval of that waiver? Well, you will not see a waiver until you get a final development plan or a preliminary subdivision plan. This being a preliminary development plan, it's getting ahead of myself. I apologize. Any other questions, Mr. Martin? If not, thank you. Petitioner. And I'm Dick Murphy, and representing Dennis Anderson on this, and Tony Barrett is with me today, who's our designer from Barrett Partners. As the staff mentioned, we're requesting R3 zoning for this property. It's about seven acres of land. It's in the southeastern corner of the Townley property, property. And this property has never been subject to a zone change before. It was the rest of town that was done originally in 2002. And we are proposing to construct additional apartment units similar to the ones that are on the west side of the property. Again, here's the area map. Here's Leastown Road coming through here. Here's New Circle Road. Here's, of course, our subject property. And on the western portion, if you've been out there, they're visible from New Circle Road. There's a new apartment complex out there which has been very successful. It's just completed and every apartment is rented out. It's got the amenities that people want today, the Internet access and central air and the cable and swimming pool and all that sort of thing. And a big selling point is the walking trails that are in Townley and going to be constructed in Townley, and the fact that you're within walking distance to the restaurants and shops through here. That's a major selling point for these and I think a major reason why they're all rented out. We, again, expect to do a similar complex, look very similar to that over on the eastern side. And, again, we think this will be very successful as well for the same reasons due to the proximity of Townley up here. And in doing the zone change and looking at it, we were trying to determine what would be the best use for the community overall. And in looking at it with I-1 use, we're either going to have some use that has some truck traffic associated with it using our residential streets, or it might be a passive mini-storage warehouse facility. We didn't think either of those would be a contributor to Townley because, obviously, a mini-storage warehouse facility, you're not going to have many people going to the restaurants, supporting the stores, and they really don't have much use for the walking trails through there. Similarly, the apartment uses would use the facilities here. They would benefit by the proximity to those uses. They would benefit by the proximity to the walking trails, which will tie into the Town Branch Trail somewhere down here. And they will also help the businesses up in the Townley Center. It's sort of a symbiotic thing. So we felt that having additional residents there would help the continued vitality of the community. It has worked very well. I know we've had people coming in from other communities to look at it about doing mixed-use developments, and Dennis is very proud of the way this has turned out. We have met with the Metathorpe Neighborhood Association, as Dennis has on all of townly development, and the Metathorpe Neighborhood Association has approved the plan that you have before you today. And as the staff mentioned, we looked especially at the infill goals and objectives of the comprehensive plan, and we do agree with those. We are mixed-use. This is a true mixed-use area. It encourages walking and alternate transportation modes. We are developing where the infrastructure is available and adequate. We're going to use the existing community center for the people who live here. It's compatible with the neighborhood. It continues to provide a variety of housing choice in this area. I think this is one of the strengths of Townley, the choices we have, because we do have rental facilities available for people who don't want to buy. We have single-family detached houses. We have single-family attached housing, all different choice of housing types here. And, of course, we have the retail and restaurant and professional office uses up in the front. So we think it is in keeping with the goals that have been established for Townley and keeping it as a viable community. Again, we think it's the appropriate use for this. The trail system can be used for it. We have heavy screening along the sides of the property. Just have a couple of photographs of that to show you here. What I'll show you is a picture. We're standing at about where the entrance is on the property and looking south. And again, on the left side, this is the tree line along. It's first of all the back of the shopping center there, and then along the property, the I-1, which fronts on Lyle Industrial Road. So you can see that on the left, and then the back tree line is the one along the Lexington-Fayette-Irban County Government property. So we're very heavily screened, and as the staff mentioned, there's a tree preservation area along this way, and we're agreeing to that 25-foot area along the back there. I did want to mention some of the questions that came up as you were talking to the staff on this. One was the proximity to the sewage treatment plant. And, Ms. Phillips, you had asked about whether additional land would be needed for expansion. I don't think that's the case because of the history here. And this property was owned seven years ago in July of 2002. and I don't remember the exact date, but I worked with Dennis on this. After that time, there was a land swap with the urban county government in that at that point, I think Dennis' property went down here, and Dennis traded this land, gave this land to the city, so they would have additional land there. And what he received was some of this land on the side where those apartments on the west are right now. So I know the city was planning at that time as to what its land needs were, and so that resulted in this land swap. It was an equal acre per equal acre swap out there on that. The issue came up about the odor there, and I know that had come up at the subcommittee meetings, and I was able to talk to Dennis about that. Dennis is out of town and regrets that he cannot be here today. But he has reported now, I'll preface this by saying Dennis' office is out there too. So he's out there in the area every day, six or seven days a week, so he knows what's going on out there. And reports that since we first started working with this with the zone change, the situation regarding odor has improved considerably out there. He did say that once in a while it's a problem. And he said when it is is when we've gone through an extremely dry period for a couple of weeks. And he said sometimes when you have a foggy morning, he's noticed an issue a couple times out there. But he said it's greatly improved from what it was. And I know we've had discussions with the city, or we had them back in 2001 and 2002 when Dennis was working on the acquisition about this, about what all the city was doing with the town branch treatment plant. And we know that they had major plans for that, and they have accomplished those plans with improving the situation out there. I would point out, too, that the city property borders the entire rear of Dennis' property here, and it has not resulted in a problem with marketability of the other single-family, either single-family or multifamily properties that are out there. As I said, this apartment complex over here is 100% occupied, and these units out here I know have been very popular for sale. Those are the ones that are sold out there, and it has not affected the marketability. Again, we're looking at the overall vitality of the community, and we think when this piece of the puzzle comes in, this needs to be a residential to complement this. As I said, they will have walking ability to the shops here. Most of the traffic, especially coming out, will go out Louie Place here, so we'll avoid making the big circle around there. Some of it will use this, obviously, but we have a good traffic flow situation. We have two entrances or points of egress on Leastown Road, and this doesn't show it, but if you've been out there, you know we have another connection with what I used to call the Winn-Dixie Shopping Center. I don't know what they call it now, but we do connect with it behind the McDonald's there, and they have a light out on Leastown Road there, too. so we have very good traffic flow throughout the development as well. Let's see here. Again, we feel that we do agree with the staff's recommendation of approval, and I think we're in agreement with the conditions on approval of the development plan and the proposed additional conditions that the staff has presented to you. And with that, again, we'll request your approval of this. As I said, we do feel we agree with all the infill objectives of the comprehensive plan. We feel this is a good place to supply additional affordable housing units for the community. They're going to be up to date. There are going to be one-bedroom and two-bedroom units through here. There's demonstrated a need and demand for them. And to be honest about it, we think it's important to the community to have this community here to support the retail, to make it a more viable residential community out here. We're very proud to present this to you, and we hope you'll vote in favor, and we'd be happy to answer any questions you all might have. Any questions, Mr. Murphy? Marie? Mr. Murphy, I just want to confirm if I heard something right. You said most of the traffic will exit through Louie Place? Well, I think that's likely. I'm just making an assumption here based on the layout here. You have a straight shot going out to Leastown Road there at that point. Yeah. Any other questions? Mike. Mr. Murphy, you answered part of my question a moment ago. With the I-1 property that's on the back side, the map in the book here that I'm looking at shows the address for that is 1900 Leastown Road. Do you see having to provide access to that? Which property behind us there? That's what this map is showing. I don't have that map in front of me. Let me look. Oh, okay. Okay. This map shows that has 1,900 sitting right there. I do not anticipate having to provide access to that because that's the city-owned property. They have their own access onto Old Frankfort Pike. I think they are Lyle Industrial Road through here. That was 1900 because that, as Ms. Wade was, I think the city may still own a little bit of land, but actually either now or formerly, before the trade, actually touched Leestown Road up here. And there was some reason they didn't want to give trade all that to Dennis. And I don't know if it was the topography or they wanted to keep that screening along New Circle Road. This is back six years ago, and I know there was discussion of that back at that point. I can't remember all that reasoning back there. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions for Mr. Murphy? Thank you, sir. Thank you. We have anybody in the audience that wants to speak to this proposal? Yes, ma'am. If you would come forward, give us your name, your address. My name is Jean Settle. I live in Townley Park at 172 Town Center Drive. I've been there since January of 2008. I'm not sure exactly how I feel about this proposal. because this is the first time I've seen exactly what Dennis Anderson wanted to do. We received a letter in the mail about this hearing, which I believe was sent out from this body. It definitely did not come from Mr. Anderson. Mr. Anderson has not approached any of the residents of Townley Park to explain to us what he was hoping to accomplish with this zoning change. I believe it was Mr. Murphy said that he has met with the Metathorpe Association, but we were not informed of this meeting. He has not asked to have a meeting with us to tell us what he had in mind for the development of this parcel. And so none of us in the neighborhood know what he has in mind. and before we know how we feel about it, we need to get some information. We need to see maps. We need to hear his description of what he wants to build and so forth. I do agree that probably residential zoning is preferable to the light industrial because none of us really want warehouses and trucks and things of that sort sort of in our backyard. But I'm not sure that we want exactly what he has in mind either, or we might want to suggest some modifications to his plan. But my neighbor and I who are here today do definitely have some concerns. and the first of all just being that we would like to be included in the information dissemination and gathering and have some input or be able to have a dialogue with Mr. Anderson before he goes forward with his plans with regard to the town branch treatment center I don't know how late Mr. Anderson stays at his office, but if he would go out and walk a dog at 8 or 9 or 10 or 11 at night, he would notice a very pronounced stench. A lot of us don't go out and sit on our porches in the evening because it doesn't smell good out there. Now maybe up at his end of the neighborhood It's not so pronounced And it's not so bad in the daytime But down at my end of the street And I'm down at the bottom end of Town Center Drive Near the condos that are there It's strong And it comes into the house If I leave my windows open And so I don't sit out on my porch on summer evenings Because I don't like the way it smells out there So naturally that is not something that is conveyed to potential buyers who come to look at model homes or the condos. It's not going to be expressed by the realtors because their job is to sell or to rent, and that's a negative. They're not going to mention that. They may not even know because they're not there in the evening when the smell is the strongest. but it is still pretty powerful. And it tends to be worse in the summer, which is when most of us would want to be outside. I don't know what the city plans to do about that. Like I said, I've only been here a year and a half, so I don't know what has been done and what may be done in the future, but something needs to be done. It was also mentioned that the traffic from this new development would probably use the Louis Place exit out onto Lee's Town Road. But that only makes you go to the right onto Lee's Town. So you'd be heading in towards Lexington. You can't make a left from there. And there is no light at that spot. You have to merge into oncoming traffic. And so I don't know how efficient that is going to be. The other thing you can do is make a left and go down to the town center drive light and go out, or you can go into the Kroger business area to use that traffic light. But that's already congested with just the business traffic. So I'm not sure that that's a real good setup for taking additional traffic. See what other notes I had here. We're also concerned just about the amount of green space that would be covered up. When we bought into the neighborhood, one of the things that was used to lure some of us was this idea that we had all this green space around us, and there were going to be walking trails and trees and a little bit of country around us, and now a lot of that, it looks like, is going away. And the walking trails have been mentioned. So far, we're not really seeing them. I don't know when they are going to appear or where they're going to be because they're not there yet. I don't know where the town branch walking trail is. I haven't seen it. If there are walking trails for us who live in the houses to use, I don't know where they are either. There is no, like, common green space for the people that live in the houses to use other than the median down the middle of Town Center Drive. So I feel like before, I would really urge you all, before you make a decision on this, to give us some time as the residents there to meet with Mr. Anderson and to discuss some things with him and see if we can get some answers to our concerns. And then maybe if we could come back to this at a later date and have you all make a decision on it after we've had a chance to talk to him, we would really appreciate that. I just think that it might be better for all concerned and make the neighborhood a better functioning place for those of us who live there and for the people who come in to use the businesses if we can all have a meeting of the minds and get a clear understanding of what his vision is and let him hear what those of us who already live there think is working and not working before he proceeds with any more building. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any other people want to speak to this? Not we'll go in the rebuttal phase. I would just note that the staff did notify the newly formed Townley Neighborhood Association or Homeowners Association, both in care of Ed Maggard on Walton Avenue, as well as an individual that lives in Townley Park, Mr. Prather. I guess that was going to be my question. Is there a Townley Neighborhood Association? They've just recently formed, I would say, within the last six months. Thanks. Which is why when we talked to the council office, they gave us a different name, Michael Prather, and I forwarded that same letter to him, notifying him of the zone change. we don't facilitate a meeting of the neighborhood association and the applicant or our staff if you have questions, you know, that information is provided. That would be through the applicant's outreach. Not facilitated by the city. I apologize. She said Townley is a homeowners association, not a neighborhood association. It's a homeowners association. Okay. But they were notified, right. While you're up here, the reference has been made that those trails are not there, are not put in. I know they're not on that particular place, but what about on the other development plans? Are those trails there? I don't know. I couldn't answer that question. The photo maybe shows some pedestrian walkways. Mr. Barrett, do you know? Mr. Barrett. Tony Barrett with Barrett Partners. I know the trail from, I think it's Taylor Boulevard in Meadowthorpe that crosses over at Walgreens. That connection has been made, and it runs down to the town center to that point there. Up here is Taylor Boulevard, where Meadowthorpe, at Leastown Road, and where Meadowthorpe comes in. At the Taylor Boulevard, I think it's Taylor Boulevard, Taylor Drive, thank you. at least Town Road. That connection was made and then it came up to beside the Walgreens and then that leads to the sidewalk in the town center kind of the Main Street concept here. Sidewalks are built through the, or intended to be built if they're not built just yet, but it looks like they are in the residential area. And then the trail system that comes in from the apartments and loops around and comes back up this way and will eventually access the LFUCG property, has just recently been submitted to the Division of Engineering for their acceptance of those plans and those are anticipated to be built. They could not be built until the apartments were finalized because of the grading required to build the apartments. And now that the apartments are done, this is the next step for that part of the trail. And obviously these, as you mentioned, Mr. Penn, these trails are not in yet because it hasn't been developed yet. Okay, so those trails are in the process of being built or will be built? Yes. The engineer that designed those, I met with him earlier in the week, and he said he's submitted the drawings to engineering, and they're ready to begin construction just as soon as they get the permits right within the other apartment area. Thank you, Mr. Barrett. That was really my only rebuttal comment was to note that their neighborhood or homeowners association had been notified. Mr. Murphy. I just had a couple comments. And Dennis has always tried to be inclusive in its process with neighbors. We did schedule the meeting with the Metathorpe Neighborhood Association. That was, if this had been in the original zone change part, that would have been required. Since this wasn't covered by the original zone change, that was not required. But we did that just because we've done it with everything else, and we wanted to keep them fully informed. As Ms. Wade mentioned, the Townley Association was notified by a letter of this by the staff. I talked to Dennis yesterday, and he did say that he had spoken with Mr. Prather, who's the president of that, and knew he was aware of this, and another officer, Mr. Sloan, if I wrote that name down right when I talked to Dennis. So they were aware of that. I would note on our notification list, I was just counting, there are 33 letters sent to individual property owners in Townley, and I didn't count the ones that are still owned by Dennis or his company, Harmony Home Builders. I just counted the ones of other people owning. So 33 letters did go out to people in Townley notifying them of this. So we know that the association was notified. We know that 33 members or 33 owners in Townley were notified. And I understand that everybody can't hear everything, and I know Dennis would be helpful to obviously ready and willing to able to meet with anybody who wants to talk to him about this. He will talk at length about this to anybody who wants to talk to him about this, as a matter of fact. I guess my concern about we do not want to postpone it, and that is because of the construction season concerns. If you phone on it today, we can get this hopefully through the council by end of August, and that gives us only a limited amount of time to get in and get the footers in and everything before the cold weather tends to disrupt things out there. So we do need to keep this on track. I think with this one, we know what we're getting. What we're getting is an apartment complex that is going to be extremely similar to the one you see on the ground on the other side of the property over there. Probably have a relatively similar appearance, similar massing, similar construction. We have improved the plan from the first one which we presented. At least everybody tells me it's a better plan because the first plan just had a line of buildings going down the side. We have managed to rotate them up here to present a better front at the front beginning coming in here. And everybody who has seen this, the landscape architects and I think the staff said they felt, and the Metathorpe Neighborhood Association saw both plans and felt that this one was a better plan as well. So we feel we have a very good plan for you. Now, as I said, the proximity of the sewage treatment plant has not harmed the development out here. It has been a very popular area, and we feel that this is important, the important final piece. This is the last piece of Townley that's not developed, and we think it's important for this last piece to go in as residential, as multifamily. A multifamily has been successful out there. It certainly hasn't harmed Townley in any way. It has contributed to the vitality by giving people that close access to the restaurants and the shops and things in Townley Center and the professional office up there. So with that, again, we are very pleased to present this to you. We think this is an opportunity to provide needed housing, needed modern, safe, all up-to-date housing for people in a good price range in this area, and we think it's important to our community. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Murphy. I just had one question for Mr. Murphy. Did you say, I guess, the Townley Homeowner Association, did you meet with them, or did you just notify them? I don't think there was a formal meeting. Dennis said he had talked to the President, Mr. Prather, and one other officer about this, so I don't think there was a formal meeting about it, no. Mr. Murphy, I'm sorry. I'm running laps back and forth up there. Could you tell me when those letters were sent to the 33 property owners in Townley? Do you have the date on that? Well, the staff could tell you that. It's a standard date. I think it's I don't know how many weeks before your hearing. We have that in the file. It probably was about five weeks ago. It's usually five to six weeks before your hearing. Thank you. Mr. Craven. Mr. Yeah, Mr. Murphy. I guess there's some concern about the meeting with the neighborhood. This is just a preliminary development plan, so Dennis would still be open to some of their concerns. Mr. Yes. Oh, yes. And I know he'd be happy to meet with the Neighborhood Association prior to the final development plan on this. You will be seeing this again. Mr. Yeah, it's just preliminary, and I guess you can still make some changes. Mr. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Mr. Murphy, if I may, just one curiosity, I guess, as much as anything. I love seeing the big picture. You mentioned a previous zoning request, which I'm sure was the rest of the Townley Center. Why wouldn't this have been included with that at that time? Because it seems evident that it was going to happen. Mm-hmm. I think at that point, dude, the detention basin was larger on this property. We didn't know what use we were going to be able to make of this property, to be honest about it. So we sort of left this to the end, and then it was determined that the detention basin would not need to be the size that it was, that we would have a piece of property capable of being developed. We weren't sure whether this property was going to be capable of being developed with the location of the detention base, and I think that's the short answer to that question. Thank you. I guess maybe one question for Ms. Wade. And as Mike Craven has alluded to, we've got some development plans and preliminary and so forth to deal with. As far as the walking trails, they can be taken care of through those development plans, can they not? As far as connections, making sure that the rest of them are put in and the connectivity? Yes. Okay. Are we, by ordinance, are we allowed to collect letters of credit or any kind of performance bonds for the walking trails? I don't believe so. I think that it's just for streets and sidewalks, which are required improvements. Is that correct? Yeah. Because the walking trail is really a voluntary benefit to the neighborhood and to the residents here. It's not something, it would be expected to be built with the other improvements. And I would answer your question in terms of notice, Ms. Phillips. The notice letters went out June 19th. But Ms. Wade, if those walking trails are on the final development plan, they do have to be built. Yes. I just want to make that clear. Any other? If not, we'll declare this hearing closed. We'll turn it over to the Commission for any comments, discussions, motions, whatever you want to talk about. Mr. Chairman. If nobody has any comments, I can make a motion. I'd like to move approval of MAR 2009-8 for the reasons provided by staff and the other items that they put on there on the blue sheet. You've heard the motion and it includes the items that we have on our blue sheet. Is there a second? Second. Motion to invite and second. Any discussion? I would just, you know, add, you know, I guess the concerns that I have is that I would have liked to have seen a greater effort to meet with the Townley Neighborhood Homeowners Association. I do think given the situation of this industrial site and the surrounding area, it's probably better use in making it residential. So that I don't have a problem with and prefer to being industrial with the residents you have there. But that would be my only concern was that he didn't. In the development plan process, I do hope that he works with them to try and address some of their concerns. Motion to be made and seconded. Any other discussion? If not, all those in favor of MAR 2009-8, as amended by the blue sheet, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Now we'll move on to the development plan. Mr. Chairman, move approval of ZDP 2009-47 and 11 items. Mr. Cravens, could we amend number 10 to say denotes the conditional zone restrictions that our blue sheet put on them? Yes, sir. And then also number 11, we'll refer to the white paper as to that one. Very good. That's right. Everybody understand the motion? Is there a second? Second. Second, Mr. Owens. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say aye. All opposed, like that. Motion carries. Thank you. We'll take a five-minute recess before we get into the other commission items. Thank you. guitar solo Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Before I start, Mr. Salee would like to address item number C-1 on page 4. Okay. Mr. Chairman, as we told you last week at your work session, the staff has continued to work on this text amendment, ZOTA 2009-1, a proposed amendment to Article 9 to address the restrictions in the group residential projects. Although we could have done this at the start of your meeting, the staff would ask that this again be postponed. It, as you know, has been postponed a number of months. This time, I think, though, we would ask that it be postponed to your September meeting, which would be September the 24th. That would give us 60 days to continue working on this, continue the dialogues that we've begun, that we reported to you last week, and see if we can get this text amendment ready for a public hearing for you. Thank you, sir. So the Chair will entertain a motion to postpone ZOTA 2009-1, which is a group residential project until the September 24th meeting. Do I hear a motion? Mr. Chairman, I move that we postpone ZOTA 2009-1 for 60 days. Is there a second? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? September 24th. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Ms. Wade. Thank you, Chairman Penn. This comes under staff items. A, Westmoreland Neighborhood Association Zone Change Initiation Request. The Westmoreland Neighborhood Association has been working for probably two or three years now on proposing a neighborhood design character overlay for their neighborhood. Their neighborhood is located in the western portion of Fayette County, and on our comprehensive plan map you can see it's been designated an existing rural residential area, and it's located on the north side of Versailles Road at the very western portion of Fayette County, and it's also near our rural activity center for the Bluegrass Airport. The Westmoreland neighborhood area encompasses 146 properties, and all are platted as part of Westmoreland, with the exception of this large track on the west side, which has voluntarily become part of the neighborhood association. Most lots are between an acre and three acres in size, with the exception of, obviously, the large lot, which is 38 acres, and another larger lot on Gloucester Drive, which is about seven acres. The neighborhood is asking the Planning Commission at this point to initiate the ND1 overlay zone change. The Planning Commission would be agreeing to become the applicant for that zone change, with the neighborhood being the requesting party. This is the first time that we've utilized our new bylaw of notifying any property owners within a proposed overlay ahead of initiation. So we received 90 postcards returned, 66 in favor and 24 in opposition to the ND1 overlay for this area. That leaves 56 no response. And I've prepared just a quick summary of the yes-nos geographically for the Planning Commission to consider. And, again, this includes 90 postcards that have been returned with the white spaces indicating there was no response. The green, obviously a yes to the question of are you in favor of initiating the stone change, and the red to a no. The staff did receive one letter, and I guess one was a return of the petition that the neighborhood put out. And there were several concerns written in terms of the no statements, and those probably could be summarized into two categories, fences and garage doors. So that being said, I'll distribute those if anyone wants to look at them. And I would note just for the record that any existing situation, circumstance, that doesn't agree with the proposed ND1 standards would become grandfathered in. It would become a nonconforming aspect of that property, whether it's the garage door faces the road or offenses in existence. The neighborhood is proposing six ND1 restrictions, and they've prepared a neighborhood design proposal, which is at your place name. And I will point you to page 9, which outlines the six overlay standards. The first has to do with exterior building materials. The second with building height. Third with rear yard setbacks. Number four, garages being attached and garage doors facing the primary street. Number five and six both have to do with fences. First is no fencing except for as required with swimming pools. And then number six addresses how much area can be fenced with the swimming pool. The staff has not taken any stance or recommendation on these six at this point, but once the Planning Commission, if we do agree to initiate, that's when the staff would evaluate closer those six restrictions. I'm happy to answer any questions about the specifics of the postcards being returned or anything like that, but I believe the neighborhood has a representative from their ND1 committee that would like to show, So either would like to discuss their packet a little bit further and show you some photographs of the area. Before we do that, is there any questions for Ms. Wade on what she talked about, the cards or the procedures? If not, then we'll hear from the Neighborhood Association. Thank you. Thank you. Photographs are a lot prettier than one that you'll see that I did. Excuse me, if you would give us your name and address, please. Yes, my name is Doug Jones. I live at 3572 Salisbury Drive. My wife and I have resided there for around 25 years. Personally, I have served on the two terms on the Board of Directors of the association. and about two years ago when we decided to do this, the neighborhood in one of their meetings decided to authorize the board to pursue the ND1 project. We did have the opportunity to kind of look over the shoulder of the people at Greenbrier and also Chevy Chase and learn from some of the problems that they ran into, which was very useful. It's like watching Tiger Woods, watching the guy putt in front of him with the same line gives you a better opportunity to make the putt. We do have a number of people here today from Westmoreland. Some may want to speak, some may not, but we're pleased to have them there. If you would, if you'll just turn down the lights a little bit, I'll give you a very, very quick overlay. Tracy did such a great job, but I don't probably have to do a whole lot. But the slide that you see here is basically an overhead of the association or the neighborhood. Next. Up in the far left-hand corner, well, actually on the left-hand corner with a little white space, you can, like right here at the end of Versailles. Road on the left, down further on the left. There you go. That's us in Westmoreland. Next slide, please. And this is just an undoctored map of the various units. I guess Harry Wise developed those units because he would develop one unit at a time. I live in Unit 1, which is right next to Brissales Road. The next group of slides I'm going to go through very quickly are just some of the homes there, just to give you some idea of what Westmoreland looks like. Well, that's not Westmoreland. Is it there? It's probably that one right there. There you go. Okay, this is the entrance to Westmoreland. As you can say, this is another picture of the entrance with our sign. As part of the association, one of the things we do is we have a service that takes care of all of our plantings and common areas. Next, please. Most of our buildings, 87% are brick or stone. I'm just going to show you a few of those next, if you'll just go through those slowly. Colonial, most of the homes, but there are some others as well. I know this is a provincial home, but again, brick, a very nice home on Westmoreland Drive. This is one of our open space areas, which is something that we're very protective of in our neighborhood. It's one of the things that draws people to Westmoreland, the lack of fencing where you can see from neighborhood to neighborhood, from yard to yard. Another big, nice brick home. That's about a million-dollar home that was just built two years ago. This is not a very good picture, but it's the original old farmhouse, which was part of the Harry Wise estate when he developed Westmoreland. Just another stone house. This is the backyard of that particular house. In fact, this is the area where we hold our annual picnic each year. This year it's the second week in September. Come on out in the afternoon. On Sunday afternoon you can have ice cream and hot dogs with us. But you can see the wide open areas that we try to protect in our neighborhoods. Next. Another, just another example of a brick home, another colonial home. More open area that we like to promote. one of our common areas, another common area. We have about three, next three slides, there's some non-traditional homes. We call it, I can't remember the name of the term, but anyway, it's our, it's our, it's our kind of our artists' area, people that kind of built some unusual. This house here is actually kind of an oriental design. Next. Next, this one we call the Frank Lloyd Wright House. It's a white stone house. It looks like it was designed and built in 1937. That's not a very good picture. I'm not a great photographer, but anyway, that's that particular home. Next, an English two-door house. We don't try to tell people what style house, so people can use a lot of their own individuality. Just another attractive home. same thing this is a home that would not be authorized today it's the log cabin it's been there ever since I've been there I don't know who authorized it I assume Harry Wise did and that's one of the problems that we had is that we had need restrictions except if Harry wanted to change them but with Harry not there this sort of forced us into going to the ND1 program where we had to be more specific about the things that we wanted to do to maintain the neighborhood. This is a beautiful home, but it would not be authorized today. Spanish Modern. This is a house that's on an odd piece. One of the few lots that are not big, normal acre lots is down in a little hole, but it is a brick home. This is something that we call it our Andersonville. Go back to that one slide. That would be an illegal stockade wood fence that's surrounding the swimming pool. It was too large, too ugly, and something we would never approve today. I don't know how it got there. It was there when I moved 25 years ago, and it's really nothing we can do anything about. But it's one of the kind of things that we would like not to have repeated again. Next, please. This is a brick and stucco house right across the street from me. This is actually from my driveway to the home next door. Last slide, please. And that's my home. It was the original model home that Harry Wise built. It backs up to Versailles Road. And if you're driving down Versailles Road and look up to the right, they refer to my house as the house with the round living room. But that's 3572 Southbury. Next, please. Back to our last couple of slides there. There's my version of the map, and Tracy's a gentleman over here put together a much nicer map than we did. But when we did our official ballot, over 82% of all the people responded, voted yes for ND1, and I think about 18% no, et cetera. But the white area in mine are the people that voted yes, and the others are either no or no report. Next. This is one I'll just take just a few minutes on. This is one that we sort of put in there because we were concerned. We call it the Chevy Chase syndrome, where it was the Chevy Chase project that you had people that wanted to build garages bigger than the homes that were on the lot. And we sort of got panicked a little bit and spooked, and we thought, well, what can we do to make sure that we don't have someone, we call it the giant water slide syndrome where somebody would go goofy and take their entire yard and put something in it, and we would lose our green space. So using the Chevy Chase model, we designed that we would have at least 33% of the lot in green space so that we wouldn't tell people what size, how big their house could be, but it could not be any larger to violate the 33% green space. So this is kind of our little Chevy Chase piece that we put in there to make sure that we would have enough green space. The slide on the right, it would be, actually that's my yard, but that would be if I decided to get Goofy and put in something and use the whole yard, That would be illegal. The one on the left would be one that would be illegal, which is really about what my yard looks like. That's the model that I use. But that's why we put that in. Mr. Ben Harper, the president of the Neighborhood Association, is here today, and I think we've got some other folks. I would be happy to answer any questions that you might have. and I do appreciate the staff worked very hard the last two years helping us get through this project and the staff planning and permitting. They helped us pare down our original request of 25 standards down to six. So I'm sure you can appreciate the work that they've done. But we would not have been able to complete it without their help, and we do appreciate the assistance they gave us and their support. And that's all I have for now. So if you have any questions for me or Mr. Harper. I think they've got some questions for you, so don't run away. Come back to the microphone. Yes, thank you. I can run, but I can't hide. Is that what you're saying? I just had one question. In terms of the ND1 and I guess the standards that you're wanting, Why didn't you revise your homeowner's restrictions or deed restrictions and incorporate those standards? We did a lot of research into that, and we were told that in order to change our basic deed restrictions, you would have to have 100% of the people agree to them. Okay. And that's not real easy to do. So what we did basically, we tried to clean up some of the language. Since Harry Wise was no longer there, his philosophy was, well, here's the basic deed restrictions, but if there's something you want to change, call me. Well, you can't call Harry anymore because he's no longer with us. And in order to eliminate problems where to get rid of these arbitrary decisions, we wanted to have something that was more specific. And the people at Permitting particularly said the language could not be ambiguous. It had to be simple enough where someone in Permitting, that's why the language is there on the swimming pool area fencing. We started out with 100 percent, then 300 percent, then 400 percent bigger than the swimming pool in order to make sure that it was the specific language as far as the fence that you could build around your swimming pool. The garage language was the same. There were some ambiguities and some looseness there where, depending on who was running the neighborhood association at the time, might say, yeah, that's fine. But the next group that came in would say, no, you can't do that. And so we wanted to eliminate a lot of the arbitrary personal opinions of people to make it more specific and more structured so that we would have more continuity from one board to another. And that's basically what we wound up with with the six items. There were a few more things we wanted to put in, but we didn't want to get greedy. We wanted to get the things that we really had some strong feelings about to protect the integrity of our neighborhood. It's one of the last acre lot areas in Fayette County, and it's well maintained. The people are great out there, and we just wanted to help protect those property values and keep some continuity with the things that have been done. Thank you. Did that answer your question? Marie. Marie. I have questions about what qualifies as green space, because when you showed your slide, it was like a big house and a normal-sized pool. But what if I wanted to have a skateboard park for my grandchild and have that adjacent to a large patio for my church, adjacent to a helicopter landing pad, et cetera? Would all those things diminish my green space allotment or be okay? In other words. Helicopter, landing pad. Well, whatever you want to call it. We're just talking about concrete. We call it the great, great water slide. Yeah, well. Somebody wants to put a water park in the backyard. Well, just a lot of concrete for various reasons. Right. Does that, is that okay with your definition of green space? As long as it doesn't violate the 33%. We wanted to make sure that we didn't have someone come in and get goofy on us and take a lot, maybe tear down a perfectly good house and put some monstrosity in there. They would virtually take up the entire lot, pretty much the Chevy Chase model where people were building garages bigger than their homes. And we wanted to maintain the green space, at least one-third of that lot, to be green space. And that was something that had never been defined before, but we wanted that. That is, it's the intent of what was originally planned and envisioned for the area, but it had never been quantified and put into a structured specific language. So you want the ability for water to go down and not impervious surface? For water to go down? Into the ground and not an impervious surface. We just want green space. It could be grass. It could be trees. It could be a pond. You know, a natural, you know, something other than a structure or covering of concrete or asphalt. But a huge patio won't work either. Probably not. Okay. The patio is actually spelled out in one of the things where that, because most people have their patios around the back with their decks, pool, patio, and we sort of incorporated all that language together. Okay, sir. Thank you, sir. Okay. I guess I don't know whether you're speaking for or against this, so is there anybody that wants to speak against this in D1? Would you please? We'll take the against and then we'll take a for. State your name and address, please, sir. I'm Robert Riggs. I live at 3784 Gloucester Drive. And nice to be able to speak with you today. I sent in my card as no and also included a letter, which staff, we may have given you a copy of. I have a couple of pictures. These are just four of about 14 houses in the neighborhood that have garages facing the street. He didn't show any of those pictures. And in listening to his comments, I think the Planning Commission passed an ordinance 15, maybe 20 years ago, disallowing garages larger than 50 percent of the living space of the existing residents and could not be any taller than the existing residents, if memory serves me correct. So his fear about garages being larger than a 3,000 or 4,000 square foot house would not come into play under the current regulations, I think. But my concern was the sentence in statement four, the garage door opening must not be constructed to face a primary street. My wife and I moved into our house two years ago. We weren't advised that the Neighborhood Association was undertaking a route towards ND1, had no idea what was in it, until we got a letter from the Neighborhood Association a few months ago. It was never told to us that this was coming down the pike. When we bought our house, which you have a picture of that you can be shown, The concern was when we talked to the owners, the house has a basement garage, and you have to go down the driveway and around to the back of the house. Where you see the driveway disappear, that fall is about nine feet to the back of the house, and it's a one-and-a-half-car garage in the basement. And I wanted to have the opportunity to build a garage on the end of the house, right there in that picture at the end of the driveway, and widen it just a little bit more so I could continue down around the back if I wanted to. And the deed restrictions, which we thoroughly read in our study of buying the house, and you have a copy of, said that a garage could be, or an addition to the house, could be put on as long as it was attached to the roof. And so my thinking was, well, it's a gable-style house, so I just continue the roof line straight across, put a garage under it, with a slight small breezeway between the house and the garage, and all I was interested in was a single-car garage, maybe 12 feet wide. But if this indeed one thing goes into effect, I would not be permitted to build a garage anywhere on my property because of the topography. If I put one at the end of the house and turn it to a side facing, I'd have to build a brand new driveway, and the garage would be another 25 feet edited onto the end of the house, which would not look very good. So I think that this attempt to control the aesthetics of the neighborhood by stopping the addition of a garage with a door facing the street is not in the true venue of what the ND1 is supposed to do, and that's to protect the neighborhood. It would actually change the aesthetics of the neighborhood, and I don't think that's what you intend with ND1. So I would like to ask the Commission to strike that sentence in Part 4 about the garage doors not being allowed to be facing the street. And I understand some garage doors look like they came from somewhere else, but with technology today and styles available, they can look very nice. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Appreciate it. Anybody else opposed, wants to speak to oppose this? If not, then anybody wants to support this, we'd be glad to hear from you at this time. Please come up. Give us your name and your address, please. Yes, my name is Ben Harper. I live at 2686 Sussex Drive. I'm the president of the Westmoreland Neighborhood Association. We started this project talking to Emma Tibbs of Greenbrier back in spring of 2007. We had Emma to our open general meeting in October of 2007. In May of 2008, we had Rachel Phillips to our open meeting at the church in May, and then she was back, as I recall, in October 2008, and Doug gave a report, and Emma was there to answer questions. Doug gave a report at the May 2009 open meeting, which all our neighbors get notified of and are invited to attend. We've tried to be as open about this as possible. As far as the deed restrictions go, the Neighborhood Association was incorporated in 1995, and they codified the deed restrictions. They're fairly general. I believe that what they say about attached structures, that they're attached to the house and not the roof line, they're supposed to be of the same materials as the rest of the house. That doesn't mean that that's been a hard and fast rule. We've been trying to cooperate and compromise. And if you look at some of these brick houses, you'll see an addition on the back that's got siding on it. So we're not neighborhood Nazis. We're not the gatekeepers. What we're trying to do is we're trying to maintain the concept that Mr. Wise had of open field of the rural life. So do you have any questions that I might answer? No, I might just reiterate that this is a hearing to initiate the ND1. Yes. And we will, of course, have to go through that procedure. Yes. So this is not to grant the ND1. This is to initiate the ND1. Thank you. Anybody else want to speak to the initiation of the ND1? Staff, you have anything else to add? Okay. Then the Chair will entertain a motion to initiate the ND1. Mr. Chairman. So we're not concerned with these six things right now. That will be argued another time? That's right. It's just whether it. I would just note that the Division of Planning has worked with the Neighborhood Association to get to those six. And as Doug Jones said, Rachel and Barb have helped them par down from 25 to six. and I think the merits of those six will be reviewed closer by the planning staff and then have the opportunity for a public hearing in front of you. So, I mean, one of the speakers just made a request that you don't do that at this point. No. You could. Yeah, you could. But I think the neighborhood has done the research, the survey, to show that a majority of the homes in the neighborhood don't have front-facing garages, and that's why they're asking for that restriction. It looks like 114 of them do, based on your stats here. Have front-facing garages? There's 12 in front main building, 55 flush with the main building, 5 behind the face of the building, or 47 behind the face. Yeah. Yeah. That's the. I didn't say majority. I said 114 of them face the front, according to these stats. I don't see where he sees it. There's no page numbers, so. Well, that's all I was asking. If that's not something we want to take up now. Thank you. They're working on it. Yes, ma'am. Just interpreting the Neighborhood Association summary here, Mr. Jones has said that number three, answer three, in front of main building 12 was their survey answer for those 12 have garage doors that face the primary street. And Mr. Riggs has said it's actually 14. What about the 55? What's that mean? flush with main building. There's no second. The door faces the side or the rear. That's pretty unclear to me. If you want to have that discussion, we need to bring them up to the mic so we can have the discussion. I'm not one way or the other, but if you want to have this discussion, then let's have both parties come to the mic. Well, I guess my point is we're just having a hearing to initiate it, right? That's exactly right. This could say anything right now. And it could change. It could change. The reason we put in that section as detailed as we did number 11, garages, is because we wanted to make sure that in any future building or remodels, we did not have garage doors that opened to the street. and we found that only 12 of the existing garage doors of the existing homes face the street, and those were approved at some time. These are all older homes that were approved at one time. But the continuity is that we wanted to – you've got flush with the main building, and there's well over – with 112, number four, number five, flush with the main building or behind the main building face means that they are either open to the side or open to the back. They do not open facing the front of the street. That doesn't mean that to me. I mean, I read these all the time, and I'm just saying that could mean that just the garage is back and the door can face out. I mean, that's the way I would read it. Well, I'm just trying to clarify what the survey, if we miscommunicated, but that's what the facts are. Let me mention one thing that Mr. Riggs said that I think he probably misunderstood. When we were using the examples, and I tend to be descriptive sometimes, about the garages being bigger than a house in Chevy Chase, that was more illustrative. We don't have any homes that were suggesting the garage is too big. In fact, we don't actually say how big you should build your garage. That has never been an issue. It is not an issue now. So that was just a lesser division related to the garage versus the house in the Chevy Chase smaller lots. It is not an issue at Westmore. Thank you. Mr. Drew. I have one question. If this were to become law, and one of the residents who currently has a house with a garage door facing the street has a fire, and the house is destroyed, unfortunately, and they have to rebuild it. Typically, they have to get a permit to rebuild. Would the permit override the ND1 to allow them to have a house with a garage door facing the street with an ND1 law? I'm not going to try to answer that. I'll turn to Ms. Bowling. I'm not. I mean, I would kind of want to touch base with building inspection, but most of the time when you have a legal nonconforming structure, so that it was legal at the time it was built, and it is partially or substantially destroyed due to circumstances outside of the control of the owner, generally they will be allowed to reconstruct what they had before so long as the nonconformity is not made any greater than it was before. For instance, I would suspect if they'd had a two-car garage facing forward, They couldn't go back now and say, well, now I want to make it a three-car garage. That would be expanding the nonconforming. But I would normally a legally nonconforming structure can be rebuilt as it was before. I was just curious. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Ms. Wade, do you have anything else you want to add to this discussion? Ms. Copeland. It seems like they've done a lot of work and they need the authority or somebody we need to move forward with this. Let them go back and shape it up a little bit more and then bring it back to us. What do we do now? Well, the motion, the request is to initiate the ND1. That's right, Chris. That's what we're trying to do here. Correct. And just so that it's clear to everyone, if you initiate it, there will be a public hearing in the future on the merits with a full staff recommendation. And anyone that wanted to speak in favor or against any specific provision proposed at that time will be able to do that. And in the end, your recommendation would be forwarded on to council. And the final decision would be made by the Urban County Council. So, you know, if there was something, there was consensus, you wanted to take off the table today, you could do that. But if your consensus is this is all worthy of being discussed in a public hearing, then you could initiate as proposed. Can I just say that at this time, the six items we have are the items we wish to propose and we don't desire to make any changes in that. That's fine. Yeah, that's still good. All right. The Chair will entertain a motion. We need to move on with this. Mr. Chairman, I would like to move that we initiate the neighborhood design proposal for Westmoreland. There's been a substantial amount of homework done over the course of the past two years and apparent substantial interest on the part of the residents of Westmoreland to take on the ND1 overlay zoning, and I move that we initiate the formal process. Motion made. Ms. Phillips, is there a second? Second. Second, Mr. Orn. Any discussion? All those in favor of initiating the ND1? Yes, excuse me, Mike. I'm going to have to oppose this based on his last statement, that he's not willing to discuss any, change any items. That's fine. Anybody else? I guess. No, no, hang on just a minute. We're in the middle of a motion here. Now, as I understand, the initiation, all these things are open for discussion at the public hearing. Absolutely. Okay. Right. So, I mean, nothing's on or off the table at this point. Okay. That's how I understand. All we're doing is initiating it. There will be a public discussion, and you will be able to change at that time. Okay. We've got the motion. We've got the second. We're in the discussion phase. Without hearing more discussion, all those in favor of initiating the ND1, say aye. All opposed? Aye. Motion carries. Thank you all. Okay. Ms. Wade, are you going to do this next one? Ms. Rikers. Okay, we're still on page five. And we are asking that you initiate a text amendment to the zoning ordinance and the subregs based on the discussion that we had at last week's work session. This is for enhanced protection for private and historic cemeteries. It's part of the implementation of the 2007 Comprehensive Plan, and it's being done at the request of the Fayette County Cemetery Trust. And those of you who were here during the update process, you probably remember Lisa Sandum was here requesting that something be done to protect cemeteries, and she's here today to answer any questions that you might have. But we're proposing changes to Article III, Article 18, and Article 21 of the zoning ordinance, and then Article 5 of the subdivision regulations. We've been working on this since October of 2007, and we found that it still needs tweaks based on our discussion with building inspection a couple of weeks ago. But we will work on that, and Lisa said that they would like to be involved in that process. And if you do initiate it, we'll be able to present it at your September zoning hearing, which will be the 24th. And if you have any questions, I'd be glad to try to answer them. And Lisa, again, is here, the last one in the audience, and she's here to answer any questions you might have. Any questions, Ms. Reich, for Lisa? Yes, what page are you speaking from? It's page five. Page five, it's under the zoning. Item B, understaff items. This is the one we discussed last week at the work session. It's item B, Marie, under staff items. Right. Page 5. Zoning ordinance text amendment initiation. Oh, yeah. Okay. But there's no text yet. I mean, we handed that out last week, and we'll have that for you at the public hearing. I need a motion to initiate the text amendment. Mr. Chairman, I'll move for initiation of this text amendment for the enhanced protection of private cemeteries throughout Tray County. Second. Any discussion? Not all those in favor of initiating the text amendment for private cemeteries living in Omoset, aye. Opposed like manner. So initiated. Okay. Thank you. Mr. King, have you got anything? I have the happy task of directing your attention to the last item on the agenda on the addendum. This is one of the two weeks out of the year where we have an extra Thursday, and we would propose that you all take a summer vacation next week and amend your meeting and filing schedule to cancel the work session scheduled for next Thursday. Great. Thank you. So I guess we need a motion to do this. Yes, sir. But I thought Frank was going to get a lesson on how we're going to do it. If we cancel it, I won't be able to be here to see it. Frank's going to get that lesson. He's just going to be a private one. I'm all against that then. I move that we adjust our official meeting schedule to cancel next week's work session. You heard the motions. There are seconds. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, like manner. Before we go, Mr. Sallee thought he slid, but he didn't. Today is a very important day in Mr. Sallee's life. When I went to the office about 1230, there was a sign there in Mr. Sallee's birthday. He's a half a century old today. Congratulations, Mr. Sallee. Do you have any words of wisdom for us before we adjourn? The only thing I can think to say is that I'm older than dirt. Thank you. No, there's no other person in the room older than you are. I don't even remember 50. Well, congratulations. Any other items? If not, motion to adjourn. So moved. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Before the breathing air is gone Before the sun is just a bright spot in the night time Out where the rivers like to run I stand alone and take back something worth remembering Before the breathing air is gone Before the sun is just the bright spot in the nighttime Out where the rivers like to run I stand alone and take back something worth remembering Before the breathing I was gone Before the sun... Close your eyes, baby Follow my heart Call on the memories Here in the dark We'll let the magic Take us away Back to the feelings We shared when they played In the still of the night Hold me darling Hold me tight Oh, shoot, shoot me So weird So right Lost in the fifties tonight These precious hours We know can't survive But love's all that matters While the past is alive Now and for always Till time disappears We'll hold each other Whenever we hear In the still of the night Hold me darling Hold me tight Say Shoot Shoot Shoot Shoulder do so weird So right Lost in the fifties tonight Thank you. Thank you. We'll be right back. What makes us feel better? Call it love. You say you won't, I say you will. You make me crazy, but I want you still. What makes us feel better? Call it love. Do we tell the truth or do we live a lie? Is the feeling good? Is that what makes you high? When you say those words, look me in the eye Tell me why you call it love I play my hand, you call my love I push each other till we're at enough When it's all you've got, call it love If I didn't have money, would you want me still When you look real close Do we fit the deal? Call it what you want Only time will die Do we tell the truth or do we live a lie? Is the feeling good? Is that what makes you cry? When you say those words, look me in the eye. Tell me why you call it love We've got all night Let's take our time Tell me your secrets I'll tell you mine When it makes us feel better Call it love Call it love Call it love Call it love That's all you got Call it love Thank you. Just the other night At a hometown football game My wife and I ran into My old high school flame And as I introduced them, the past came back to me And I couldn't help but think of the way things used to be She was the one that I'd wanted for all times And each night I'd spend praying that God would make her mine And if he'd only grant me this wish I wished back then I'd never ask for anything again Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers Remember when you're talking to the man upstairs And just because he doesn't answer Doesn't mean he don't care For some of God's greatest gifts Are unanswered prayers She wasn't quite the angel That I remembered in my dreams And I could tell the time changed me In her eyes to it seemed We tried to talk about the old days Wasn't much we could recall I guess the Lord knows what he's doing after all And as she walked away Well, I looked at my wife And then and there I thank the good Lord for the gifts in my life. Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers. Remember when you're talking to the man upstairs. And just because He may not answer Doesn't mean He don't care Some of God's greatest gifts Are unanswered Some of God's greatest gifts Are all too often unanswered Some of God's greatest gifts Are unanswered prayers I'm going to go. What would you say? I'm a man without conviction I'm a man who doesn't know How to settle a contradiction You come and go You come and go Come, come, come, come, come, come, chameleon You come and go, you come and go Love will be easy because you're like my dream Red, gold and green, red, gold and green Didn't hear your wicked words every day And you used to be so sweet, I heard you say That my love was an addiction When we came, our love is strong When you go, you come forever You string along, you string along Come, come, come, come, come, come, chameleon You come and go, you come and go Loving would be easy if your colors were like my dreams Red, gold and green, red, gold and green Every day is like survival You're my lover, not my rival Every day is like survival You're my lover, not my rival I'm a man without conviction I'm a man who doesn't know How to sell a contradiction You come and go You come and go Come and come and come and come and come and come and chameleon You come and go You come and go Loving was easy because we're like my dream Red golden dream Red golden dream Come and go, come and go Love will be easy because life's my dream Red, gold and green, red, gold and green Come and go, come and go, come and go You come and go, you come and go Love and we're busy because we're like my dreams Red, gold and green, red, gold and green Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on You come and go, you come and go I can't stop loving you I've made up my mind To live in memories Of the lonesome time I can't stop wanting you It's useless to say So I'll just live my life Dreams of yesterday Those happy hours That we once knew Though long ago They still made me blue They say that time Heals a broken heart But time has stood still Since we've been apart I can't stop loving you I've made up my mind To live in memories Of the lonesome time I just love watching you It's useless to say So I'll just live my life In dreams of yesterday's Those happy eyes Those happy hours that we once knew Though long ago still make me blue They say that time feels a broken heart He used a broken heart But time has to stay Time has to stay Since we've been apart Since we've been apart I can't stop loving you I said I made up my mind To live in memories Of the lonesome time Sing a song, children I can't stop watching It's useless to say So I'll just live my life Of dreams of yesterday Of yesterday There's a somebody I'm longing to see I hope that she turns out to be Someone who'll watch over me I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood I know I could, could always be good To one who'll watch over me Although I may not be the man some girls think of as handsome But to her heart I'll carry the key Won't you tell her please To put on some speed Follow my lead Oh, how I need Someone to watch over me We'll be right back. Be a Lexington Litter Buster. Pick up a piece of litter on the first day of each month. Good morning. Hi, I'm Mayor Jim Newbeer, and I'd like to talk to you about some important telephone numbers. For fire, theft, and accidents, please call 911. 311 is the number you need to dial for all city services like garbage pickup, sanitary sewers, traffic, and much more. Calling 211 connects you to local health and human services provided through the United Way. Remember, 911 is for emergencies, 211 is for health and human services, and 311 is your connection to City Hall. I'm Jim Clark. I'm president and CEO of LexArts, and LexArts is Lexington's United Arts Fund and Arts Council. And as the United Arts Fund, we raise money for the arts and then distribute it to various groups throughout the community. And then as the Arts Council, we manage Arts Place and the Downtown Arts Center on behalf of LFUCG. And we also do things like Gallery Hop and Art Showcase Weekend. It was started in the 70s as the Lexington Council on the Arts. And then it merged with Lexington's United Arts Fund in the 80s and became the Lexington Arts and Cultural Council. And since that is quite a mouthful, we shortened that about five years ago to LexArts. But it's been around for quite a long time. It was part of the community arts movement that spread across the country in the late 60s into the 70s of organizing all the arts groups and trying to find public and private support for the arts. So it was really designed as a mechanism to help strengthen the arts community here in Lexington. Apart from delving into people's wallets every year with our campaign for the arts, we're probably very well known for horse mania. It happened in 2000. 79 horses graced the streets of Lexington for quite a few months. The funds generated from that have been put into a public art fund. In 2004, we did Dynamic Doors, which we utilized about 200 doors from Bluegrass Aspendale housing project when it was demolished. We took the doors, handed them over to artists and schools and community groups to create artworks with those doors. And we're preparing to do Horse Mania again in 2010 for the World Equestrian Games. Well, we know through quite a few conversations that we have had with people here in Lexington, as well as the mayor's 2040 planning process, that there is a keen interest in public art. And right now we really don't have the revenue stream to commission permanent works of art, but we did have the funds available to do a temporary project, and that is how we came up with Balancing Act. The works will be up for six months. There are ten sculptures around town. And it really is a way to show the public and some of the property owners how we could do this and sort of introduce the idea of public art, get it going, so that that might help generate ideas of how we could get a permanent program in place. The genesis of Balancing Act came about when the downtown master plan suggested Vine Street becoming a linear park. And in those conversations, people were talking about the role that public art could play in that. But it was all very distant. You know, it's going to take a very large financial effort in order to transform Vine Street into this linear park. And we thought this might be a great way to jumpstart that conversation and just start putting sculpture out there just to see how that could provoke certain ideas of what Vine Street could become. and also at the same time then we launched into the debate about Centerpoint. And then also through the mayor's 2040 plan, the key question or the grounding question is how do we balance growth while preserving the things that we cherish? And I think that's, you know, sculptures are dealing with the idea of balance all the time in a very formal way in terms of the engineering of their works, but also in a metaphorical way. And so what we did was put out a call for artists, sculptors, saying the idea is let's put together a collection of work that really begs the question of achieving balance or how do you maintain balance. And this way, artists get to participate in this larger conversation about balancing the growth of Lexington while protecting the bluegrass or protecting our way of life here. So it's just our way of throwing ourselves into a larger conversation that's impacting the growth of the city, but also of stimulating the ideas of what our city sidewalks could look like if art was more a part of it. We have quite a few local artists like James Wade, who teaches at UK, Tony Higdon and Erica Strecker who have their gallery and workshop over at Newtown and 3rd Street. And actually their studio in gallery space is, the gallery is open to the public and you can see quite a few of their works. And then we have artists from throughout the region, Berea and Louisville and other parts of eastern and western Kentucky. And if artists are interested, they could always send us either a JPEG or a DVD with their images on that. We're constantly looking. At the end of six months, we'll be looking for another crop of artists. We worked with an advisory group that helped select the artists. It was the same advisory group that helped us with the mural project. So we're really building a support system to get public art going here through this project. Actually, the sculptors are primarily located on Vine Street from Broadway to Limestone. We have a brochure that you can pick up at the Downtown Arts Center or Arts Place. I think we even have a sign out near Triangle Park that has the map showing where all the pieces are located. But it's fairly highly concentrated on Vine Street. The Balancing Act will continue into 2009, and then as those pieces come down, we'll probably find new artworks and move them around town. We have our campaign coming up. That'll be in February through April. We run that. We always have shows rotating in here at the gallery at Arts Place. And also there's the gallery hops, Keep Us Busy, which is about every other month. They can always call 255-2951, which would give you our receptionist who knows quite a bit about what's going on around town and can direct you to either the right person on staff or to another arts organization. Or you visit www.lexarts.org, and there we have a complete calendar of everything that's going on, as well as information about how to get involved in the arts. We have an opportunity to give online, but also during the campaign, we are looking for companies that could do workplace giving sites, act as an employee-based giving program, sort of how the United Way operates. and if anyone's interested in that they can contact us to get some information but more importantly they could talk to contact their human resource director and ask about getting that started at their companies as well as information about how to get involved in the arts Hi, Mayor. 911 is for emergencies. 211 is for health and human services. And 311 is your connection to City Hall. Pick it up, Lexington. You can make a difference. Be a Lexington Litter Buster. Pick up a piece of litter on the first day of each month. Pick it up, Lexington. You can make a difference. Be a Lexington Litter Buster. Pick up a piece of litter on the first day of each month. Pick it up, Lexington. you can make a difference. Be a Lexington Litter Buster. Pick up a piece of litter on the first day of each month. I was scared and fearing for my life I was shaking like a leaf on a tree Cause she was laying on me Big and bad, Lord, upon that gun at me Oh, wait a minute, miss, I didn't even kiss her Don't want no trouble with you And I know you don't owe me But I wish you would let me ask one favor from you Oh, won't you give me three steps Give me three steps of a miss Give me three steps towards your door Give me three steps Give me three steps of a miss And you'll never see on me alone For sure guitar solo And I'm telling you son Well it ain't no fun Staring straight down a 44 Well he turned and screamed And Linda Lou And that's the break I was looking for And you could hear me scream And a mile away As I was headed out towards the door Oh won't you give me three steps Give me three steps a minute Give me three steps towards your door Give me three steps Give me three steps of this thing You'll never see on me no more Show me the back door We'll see you next time. I used to think that love was just a fairy tale Until that first hello, until that first smile But if I had to do it all again I wouldn't change a thing Cause this love is everlasting Suddenly Life has new meaning to me There's beauty up above And things we never take notice of You wake up and suddenly you're in love Ooh, yeah Girl, you're everything a man could want and more One thousand words are not enough To say what I feel inside Holding hands as we walk along the shore I'm John Cobb. I own Rainscape, which is a low-impact, sustainable design, landscape design build firm. and I'm a landscape architect. I've been licensed for a long time. This rain garden is right at about a year old and it's a garden that's designed to take this one from a water from a part of my roof and it processes that water to take it out of, Eliminate it from being runoff and let it infiltrate into the soil. So I dug a depression that came even to ground level at one end and then as a ground slope to the other side, I created a little dam and so that creates an impoundment area that infiltrates the water from the roof. And then I selected plants that are appropriate to wetter areas, drier areas, areas but it can stand being flooded for a while and also can stand periods of drought so these are very resilient plants and they're they're mostly native ones the ones that know how to grow well here the runoff from this location of my yard primarily went on to my neighbor and would go down his driveway but then would ultimately drain from there across my property and back into the stream behind the property. So I've taken a fourth of my roof water and it no longer follows that path. It infiltrates directly into the ground. So the more water that I can take from my roof, from the downspouts or from the pavement, the more I can infiltrate and the less I have going directly to a stream or into the city sewer to be processed there. So the impact can be tremendous the more of that runoff you're able to capture. This was my first project, and so I was getting used to it. There are mechanical devices you can use that make it a lot quicker to remove sod and to break up the soil so that you can work with it more easily. And I was doing it all manually the first time, and so it makes it a lot better if you can rent some equipment, which is reasonably done. The only upkeep I have done, a couple of times a year, I'll go in with a pitchfork and fluff up the mulch. I'll cover it with a couple of three inches of mulch, and that makes it look better. But functionally, it holds the moisture in so that in drought periods, the garden remains healthy. So a couple of times a year, I'll go in and fluff that up to make it look better. This spring I added some more mulch to it because over time it will break down and become organic material going in and creating topsoil. So that's really all the, you know, whenever I come out to enjoy the garden, if there's any weeds poking up, I'll pull them. But that's the only maintenance that I've had to do. As to the cost of the garden, I've spent, you know, it's about a 100-square-foot garden. And in total, to rent equipment and buy the plants, maybe I've got $500 in that. And that's probably a reasonable do-it-yourself cost budget. If you hire someone to do it for you, if you don't have time or you're not of an ability level to do it, the cost is going to go up. But that's about what this cost me. And the maintenance, again, is virtually non-existent once you get it put in. The benefits of a rain garden are that it processes water falling on developed property and restores it to the profile that you would find in undeveloped property. So it reduces flooding and erosion. It infiltrates pollutants from cars and lawn chemicals and animal waste. It filters it through the water before it gets into the groundwater, which is the source of our drinking water. So the more that we can reduce that, reduce flooding in streams, it really effectively reduces the cost of drinking water because the water company has less cost of processing that. So, effects and benefits across the board. My name is Kara Binge and I am the Bluegrass Rain Garden Alliance Coordinator. The purpose of the Rain Garden Alliance is to facilitate and help people understand what rain gardens are and help them build it. The goal is 2010 rain gardens by 2010. We can come out and look at their site or I can find more of an expert to come out like John or an engineer or a commercial professional person to come and look at their site and give them advice. We have excellent resources on the web at bluegrassraingardenalliance.org and then also at Bluegrass Pride we have the Bluegrass Rain Garden manuals. So if they wanted to come into Bluegrass Pride, which is on Pimlico Parkway in Manowar, in the Park Hill Shopping Center, they could pick one of these up and it gives a step-by-step process of how to build a rain garden. You can basically do it anywhere. You can do it in a sunny spot like John has done here. You can do it with shade-loving plants. And not only is it helping out the environment and dealing with stormwater issues, it's also creating a great habitat for native insects and birds, so it's really fun to look at as well. There's two at the Arboretum, which are really easy for anybody to go and look at. There's one in the back of the property and it says rain garden. It's pretty obvious with the signage there. And then there's one closer to the building. We have so far had two rain garden tours, so being up to date with what's on the website, It's posted on the website and it's listed in the Herald. It's happened every spring, so that's a good way to go and see what other people have done. They could call Bluegrass Pride and talk to me. And then also the bluegrassraingarderlines.org. Those are the two best ones. And we have a lot of links of other states and other rain gardens and what people are doing around the country with rain gardens. We'll be right back. especially at large events that are held around town. Richard Boone, Recycling Coordinator for the Division of Waste Management, explains. What we're going to be talking about today is our new special event containers. On the right here you see the new container. On the left you see the roses that we have all over the town and in residence. This is what we normally use for special events, but we found that it takes a lot of manpower, a lot of labor, a lot of time to take these out and set them up and go back and get them when we're finished. So what we found is this little more mobile unit here. It's a little wire frame unit that just collapses real easily. You can take just a light duty pickup truck and take it to the site. And it's also a dual stream unit is something else we like about it. Before we'd had to have one Herbie and one Rosie to do both the garbage and recyclables. So that's two containers you have to take. This unit is two in one. You have your garbage on one side and your mixed recyclables on the other. So that's another good thing about it. And also the clear bag is a new concept that is being used to kind of give you a visual of what goes in the container. You notice the black bag on this side is for the garbage, and your clear bag on this side, which you can see through, will show you what's inside there for your recyclables. So when people start coming to use it, they see the water bottles, the cans on that side. It kind of helps give them a visual aid that this is for recyclables, this is for your garbage. And these will be used in special events throughout the city, so you'll start to see them pretty soon. We're going to get a trailer that's going to house the units, and so it'll be very mobile. If you have a special event, you just come hook to the trailer, and everything will be in there, the bags, the containers, the lids. You take it to the site, set it up, collect your recyclables and your garbage, and at the end of the event, you take it out. Richard explains how the Division of Waste Management developed the Dual Stream Waste Collection Program. We've been struggling with special events for some time on how do we get out of having to load up 50 or 100 of these Herbies and Rosies and take them out. It just takes so much manpower and so much time and effort to get them out there and then to service them. So we got to looking around and we found a similar unit to this that was just recyclables only. And we have some of those. You may have seen those at some events we've had in the past and we still use them from time to time. But then we stumbled across, looking around the Internet, and some information that comes through the mail. We saw these containers, ordered a sample, tried it out, and we actually had them at the Fourth of July Festival here this past couple weeks ago. And they worked real well. And people seemed to, you know, you have both materials in one spot, one container. It just seems to work very well that way. People don't have to walk two or three different spots to get rid of their items. Richard talks about some of the new initiatives the division is implementing in the coming weeks and months. Well, we have the new recycling containers that's going to be coming downtown. They're permanent containers, what we call pitch-ins. If you go downtown now, you just notice you just have a metal container there for your garbage. And that's all you have. You don't have anything for recycles. Now, this is going to be a more mobile unit for, like, special events. Like I said, it's not going to be something permanent. But what we have coming downtown in about two months are going to be new pitching containers that will take place of the ones you see now. So we'll actually be replacing those containers. It's a dual stream unit, sort of like this, that have garbage on one side and recycling on the other. So that's something new we've got coming very soon. As green issues come to the forefront, there have been encouraging signs in the usage of Lexington's recycling options. And Richard explains what is being done to keep up with the demand. It's just skyrocketing all the time. As people may be aware, we're looking at a new facility, building a new facility in the next year, year and a half, two years. And it's just strictly because of volume. We've got more volume than what the current facility has capacity to handle. So the recycling ratios keep going up all the time. And the new facility allows us to give more recycling options for, like, multifamily housing places, apartments, and stuff like that, where we can put recycling dumpsters in throughout the city, which will help also capture some of the materials. But it's increasing all the time. Richard has one final message to give to folks about using our recycling options. Well, I just want to let people know that it's very easy to recycle. It's easy. It's free. It does take no effort. I mean, basically all you're doing is just putting one thing in one side and one thing on the other. So if you don't have recycling at your home or your business or your school, or your apartment or wherever you're at, just call 311. They'll set you right up. They'll take your request, take your information, and get you a container out there. And it costs nothing. It's free. It's easy. And don't forget the e-waste collection we do. We do it six days a week now at the Versailles Road location. So if you have your e-wastes, you know, make sure to take that stuff there. Thank you. A new private and public partnership program in Lexington, however, seeks to find a harmonious balance between the two in the form of bus shelters. Yvette Hurt, coordinator for Art in Motion, enlightens us. The inspiration for this project really happened in 2004 when the tax referendum that provided stable local funding for Lex Tran was passed for the first time. Lex Tran in its history had never had stable local funding. And in 2004, when the tax referendum passed, they were finally able to begin to build the system and do long-range planning. I and many others supported that tax referendum and that local funding. And like many people, I looked around Lexington and I saw bus riders waiting out in all kinds of weather without shelter, many times without a seat. and I thought wouldn't it be great if we could get more bus shelters in Lexington. And I'm a long-time art lover, particularly public art that's accessible to everyone. And so I thought wouldn't it be wonderful if we could combine this basic need, this basic amenity like a bus shelter with seating with art, art murals, sculpture. So I jumped on the Internet and began to research that. And there were just a handful of other cities that were doing programs like that. Seattle was one of them. And so I began to put together a proposal for a program here in Lexington. And, of course, I didn't have any funding, and it was just me. And so I began to recruit other leaders in the community to work with me. And the program grew from there. Our pilot project was Bottle Stop on Brissales Road. We've now embarked on our second shelter, although we have numerous other shelters in the planning stages. This shelter is going to be more of a basic shelter, but with artistic elements. It will have five art murals. It's being built as we speak. It has an artistic screen done by sculptor Gary Bibbs, who is a renowned sculptor who's a faculty member here at the University of Kentucky. and it will have also a sculpture, a freestanding sculpture by Gary Bibbs. All those different levels are going to be incorporated. Now, the art murals in particular are going to be really interesting because those will change over time. We'll do a call for artists. We're in the planning stages of that now to invite the community to treat this shelter, the East End Art Shelter, as its own gallery, an outdoor gallery for the East End to address the concerns of the East End, the dreams and hopes of the East End, to address the history of the East End, both positive and negative, and to address the way that the East End is blossoming, blossoming through revitalization and really owning its history and the rich culture that has always been a part of the East End, including the Lyric Theater where many of the jazz greats, you know, greatest jazz musicians in the world played at the Lyric. So we are part of a larger process here, and we see this art shelter as just one piece in a puzzle that's being put together in the East End to bring it back to the wonderful, vital community that it was at one time. Yvette gives us a little more information on the future of the project and addresses the importance of supporting our public transit system. We're working in partnership with the Ellsford neighborhood to place a shelter at the corner of Linden Walk and Euclid. And this will be just adjacent to the alumni house. So it will sort of be part of the Ellsford neighborhood, part of UK. It is an existing bus stop. And we're going to do, again, a call for artists for the design of that shelter. That will be happening soon. We've also been talking to a number of neighborhood associations around the city about other shelters. We've had a lot of interest from neighborhood associations. People are really excited about this concept. They're excited about helping to build our public transit system. They're realizing how important public transit is to Lexington in being a progressive city, in being a healthier city, in reducing pollution, and in treating bus riders here in Lexington with human dignity, not forcing them to wait on roadsides and culverts without any shelter whatsoever, but to say, look, we value you. You're doing us a service by riding the bus rather than driving. Please come and wait for our bus. Use it. We're going to make it easy for you. We're going to put up maps and show you where you need to go. We're going to give you art. We're going to give you basic amenities. So I think people are really responding to that argument we're making, and I think it's really the right time in Lexington's evolution. Joseph David of the LFUCG's Division of Planning expresses the city's support for the project. These endeavors at Art in Motion have been undertaking or just what the city planning is the type of thing that we're trying to support, and it fits right in with a lot of the comprehensive planning efforts, the beautification of the streets, the stimulating transit ridership, and just creating a sense of place. This particular project is right on target with all of that, and it's appropriately located right across from the Lyric Theater, sort of casting a bow towards that historic corner with the artwork, the sculpture piece and the revolving artwork from the neighborhood. It totally embodies what this type of thing is trying to do here. And we're all extremely proud of it. And we just want to acknowledge all of the efforts of the private citizens and the group efforts that have gone into this. It's really a culmination of a lot of people. It's not just one person that gets it done. It's a community effort. The End Play golf, Lexington. You know, there's so much to do downtown. There's wonderful restaurants and great shopping. But there's no place to park. Wrong. You can park here. You can park here. You can park here. Come on downtown. There's plenty of places to park. I guess we were wrong. Thanks to Lexport, there's plenty of parking. Did you know that downtown Lexington hosts well over 50 events, parades, walks, and races? To name a few, Mayfest, Fourth of July Festival, Roots and Heritage Festival, Christmas Parade, St. Patrick's Day Parade, The Thriller Event, a Halloween favorite, Museum Go Round, Thursday Night Live, Swinging on Main, Bike Lexington, Midsummer Night's Run, Race for the Cure, and Martin Luther King Day March. Check it out. Downtown is alive with activity. From the bluegrass to the mountains, our lakes regions, I think Kentucky is one of the most beautiful places on earth. The original idea for the Bluegrass Games came from Leslie Klein, a former Olympian who had participated as a child and teen in the New York State Games. Knowing the Kentucky people as I do, I thought this Olympic sports festival would appeal to our sports tradition and the competitive nature of all Kentuckians. So I called the meeting in January of 1985, reaching out across the state to the top sports and recreation and professional experts. They all came together and believed, as they said, with a lot of effort, we could do it. With a year to plan, we could put together a great sports festival. My response was that I wasn't talking about 1986. I really wanted the first games in the summer of 1985. There was a silence in the room, and most said, It can't be done. But then soon after that meeting, I got a call from Ann Coffey, my games organizer, saying that Sue Feimster had called from UK asking to talk to me about the games. She had talked with President Singletary and Mayor Basler, and they agreed to host the first games. I was delighted. And then she told me she had only one request of me. She said, Governor, you must be the face and the voice of the games to show that the state is behind this effort. That I would appear when they needed me. That I would put the weight of the state behind the effort with volunteers and the National Guard. And so I asked, Sue, is that all you want? And she said, well, at least for now, Governor. The sports teams were organized immediately. Our state news machine went to work. We announced the games, and so much enthusiasm and momentum was building. The fundraising began, and Bob Davis took the lead in fundraising and created a team, including my husband Bill, to make pitches for the games to potential funders. Three brave sponsors stepped forward. Coca-Cola, CSX, and Ashland Oil, putting up the money to fund the games for the first three years. They became our founding sponsors. We now have 26 sponsors and a budget of half a million dollars. The first year wasn't all smooth sailing. We had huge obstacles to overcome. There was housing, feeding 20,000 people, 1,000 volunteers and the media, moving food and water to the sites, and, of course, first-rate injury care. The task was really monumental. One of the things I'm most proud of is the care and treatment of the athletes that became injured. We had athletic trainers and volunteer doctors from five states on call at various sites. Just the very best. Challenge after challenge was overcome. Finally, the games did begin. We started in Frankfurt on the steps of the Capitol with the lighting of the Olympic torch, carried by runners from Frankfurt to Lexington. The runners created quite a sensation running on US-60 with their military and their ambulance escorts, and traffic was tied up for miles. While I was in it, trying to get to the campus, finally a police escort rescued me on Versailles Road and got me in the back way to the stadium. Opening ceremony that first year was at the UK Shively Track, which seated about 12,000 people. By 5 o'clock, the stadium was packed with parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, waiting to see their sons and daughters participate in the parade of athletes. When I entered the stadium, I was filled with emotion. a packed house in the stands, and 10,000 Kentuckians set to parade in with their teams. And then it started. Good evening, everybody, and welcome to the Bluegrass State Games. I'm K. Wood Ledford. K. Wood Ledford announced in his wondrous voice, and an Olympic fanfare escorted the runner carrying the torch into the stadium from Frankfurt and handed it off to our special guest, Bob Beeman. the great gold medal winner in long jump. People went wild in the stands, cheering and standing and waving flags. Three National Guard jets flew over the stadium. It was simply stupendous. The colors of each team filled the stadium infield. And standing there, I couldn't believe my eyes. Six months, we had done it. Beyond my wildest expectations. I took the podium and after a few remarks, enthusiastically said, I now declare the 1985 Bluegrass State Games open for competition. We started State Games in Florida in 1980. I was really concerned about what our home state was going to do. I'd already seen opening ceremonies in Montana, in Ohio, Indiana, and South Carolina. I was at that opening ceremony. I couldn't believe what my home state was doing. The Bluegrass State Games was already one of the best state games in the nation, and it had just started, and it still is. Way to go, Kentucky. Way to go, Governor. Can you imagine that little old Kentucky had the largest first-year state games ever, that we consistently rank in the top five nationally in participation, beating out other states with much larger populations like Indiana, Ohio, Florida, and New York. In 24 games, 350,000, yes, 350,000 have participated, and we have been a training ground for people of all ages and skill levels. One of our most recent success stories is Tyson Gay, whose mother encouraged him as a youth to run in the games. Now an Olympian, Tyson ran the third fastest 200 meters in the world in winning the Reebok Grand Prix. Now that's what I call the spirit of Kentucky. You know, in about 20, 25 years from now, historians may look back and say that Martha Lane Collins and her administration were very key in bringing about to education reform in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, but what they may overlook is the fact that this lady right here had a very important part to play in the bringing of the Bluegrass State games here to the Bluegrass State. There are so many people who have made these games successful. It's not just me. Each governor after me has supported the games, each mayor in Lexington, Richmond, Frankfurt, and Georgetown, and the presidents of those colleges and universities who donated facilities and people and all the little things that made a big difference. The volunteers who do yeoman's work and our sponsors who help fund the games. And the people. The people from every part of the state who came together in kinship and competition. The people of Kentucky are the spirit of the games. Their love of competition, their embracing of Kentucky, and the unity of this state has helped the games to reach their first quarter century. May the games go on for another 25 years. Thank you. and I'm here downtown next to one of the pay and display meters. Never used one. I'm not sure how it works. Look, here's Gary Means, Mr. Parking Authority himself. How are you doing? So these are somewhat new and people are still learning how to use them, and I'm one of those. It's still learning how. So explain it to me. There's three main things you want to remember. First of all, you need to pick out how much time you want before you put your money in. We're finding some people are just walking up and sticking their money in like the old meters, but you've got to decide how much time you want. So let's just say we're going to part for 15 minutes. So that's selection number four. So I'm going to hit number four, and it's 25 cents. So I don't stick any money. And now I can pay with a dollar bill, or I can put a quarter in, or I can pay with a credit card. So I'll put my quarter in. All right. It tells you that you paid. It says, please wait. And it's going to print the receipt. It's printing a receipt. The receipt comes out down here. So the second thing is place this on your dash. A lot of people will take that, put it in their pocket and walk off, and then they're going to receive a ticket. So that's their proof that you paid instead of having the old meters that show. Right, exactly. So first thing, pick out how much time you want. Second thing is after you get your receipt, put it on your dash. And the third thing is really cool. This receipt's good for ever how long you paid, and if you don't use all the time here, you can move your vehicle to any of our other meters in town. Great, and much easier than I thought. Exactly. This is great, but if people have other questions, how can they find out more information? Well, the best place to go is our website, and that's lexpark.org, or you can call the Lex Park office at 231-PARK. That's 231-7275. Great. Thanks so much. No problem. Okay. What to do? What to do? Here's the answer. It's all in the new fun guide from Lexington Parks and Recreation. Look for it in your mailbox. Things for everyone to do. Parks and recreation style. Activities for all ages from 1 to 91. The new 2009 fall fun guide. Look for it in your mailbox soon. Let's recreate people. Thank you. Oh, no, I can do that. When you're headed to everything you see I got, when you hold me down with holy water, if I get too high, when you take me places I'd never go, now I can do that. Oh, no, I can do that. After a while, you'll forget everything. It's a grief and salute, And you'll see that it's time to move on I won't do that I won't do that I know the territory up and round It'll all turn to dust and we'll all fall down Sooner or later you'll be screwing around I won't do that No, I won't do anything for love. Oh, I won't do anything for love. I won't do anything for love. But I won't do that. No, I won't do that. I'm sorry. There's something sacred when you're 17 Bout a football jacket and a high school ring And it sure looked nice When you wore mine That late October at the homecoming dance We slipped outside and we took a chance In the middle of the night Sure felt right We let go right then and there We were loved and we were scared For the first time Love and mind we dove right in For the first time We gave everything and then Graduation came And our dreams called our name With broken hearts we moved on with our life For the first time Well, I heard the other day You're a Sunday school teacher Got the PTA Got a real good life You're a real good wife I'm living in this circus world No, I ain't married But I got a girl and I'm her man We're making plans But I still smile when I think of her Together we learn how to love For the first time Love and blind we dove right in For the first time We gave everything And then graduation came and our dreams called our name. The broken hearts we moved on with our love for the first time. Now graduation came And our dreams called our name Broken hearts we moved on with our life For the first time For the first time Love and bond we dove right in for the first time We gave everything in them for the first time We moved on with our life for the first time guitar solo I sent a long neck bottle on the table beside my bed With a short little note said I had a good time It was written in lipstick red She didn't sign her name, I wonder If that's a little secret that she keeps Ooh, she's walking around in my sleep Dream walking, hello talking She's calling my name again Day is breaking, I ain't waking up I'm sleeping in I'm on a roll now, I gotta know how this dream ends She took my new sunglasses and my old jean jacket And she never even bothered to ask You could say I haven't seen her since late last summer But every night she comes back Just like smoke through the keyhole She slips in so silently She's walking around in my sleep Dream walking, little talking She's calling my name again Day's breaking, I ain't looking up I'm sleeping in I'm on a roll now, I gotta know how this dream ends Oh, there's a thin line between dreams and memories I'll be losing my mind until she comes back to me Dream walking, bill talking She's calling my name again Days breaking, I ain't waking up I'm sleeping in I'm on a roll now I gotta know how this dream ends I'm on a road now I gotta know how this dream ends I'm on a road now I gotta know how this dream ends She's walking around in my sleep She's walking around in my sleep We'll be right back. The boys and girls, tell your brother, your sister, and your mama too, cause they're about to throw down, and you'll know just what to do. With your hands in the air like you don't care, fly by the people as they start to look in step. Do your dance, do your dance, do your dance. Quick, mama, come on, baby, tell me what's the word of, wait up. Up, up, everybody say When you hear the call You got to get it under white Word up Up, up, it's the cold word No matter where you say it You'll know that you'll be her Now all you suck are DJ So leave your flight There's you to be a reason And we know the reason why You try to put on roses And act real cool But you gotta realize that you're acting like bulls If us use it, we can use it We need to dance We don't Have the time for psychological romance No romance, no romance, no romance for me Mama, come on baby, tell me what's the word I word of Everybody say, when you Hi, I'm Renee Jackson with the Downtown Lexington Corporation, and we're very excited to be talking about Central Bank Thursday Night Live. We're kicking off the event this evening, and it'll be going on all summer and through early fall into October. We're going to finish up on October the 15th. It's every Thursday night. We get started right around 5 o'clock. Music starts at 5.30 and goes until about 7.30, 7.45, but we've got a little bit of You can get drinks, and there's lots of food vendors that come out. We do a lot of activities for kids. We have different vendors that come down. I know we're going to have a chiropractor out every night at Thursday Night Live. We always have a nonprofit that people can learn about and donate money to if they so choose. For information about the different bands that we have, you can go to downtownlex.com, which is our website. You can also call our office at 425-2590. All of our events are family-friendly. We also encourage people to come down with their pets. In, I believe it's July, we'll be having a pet costume contest. This will be our third annual pet costume contest, which is very popular. We've had lots of creative different dogs and other animals come out for that. So we try to do different themes. If you look at our website, again, it'll list if there is a special theme. We try to have many, many different types of vans out, and the whole schedule is out there through October 15th. We also want to let people know that there's plenty of parking when you come down. The lot at the corner of Market and Short Street is $1 every Thursday, and that's courtesy of Central Parking Systems. but there's also, I believe, almost 3,000 parking spots within walking distance of Cheapside Park, which is, when I say walking distance, I mean about one to two blocks. There's parking garages, there's surface parking and on-street parking, and people should know that when they come downtown after 5 p.m., they do not have to pay the meters. I'm Renee with the Downtown Mexican Corporation. What's your name? I'm Matt Vincent with Bluegrass Kettlemasters. And you come out to Thursday Night Live every week. What do you enjoy about it? I enjoy the music. I enjoy the food. I enjoy the kettle corn. And have you seen it grow over the years? I have. I've been here for six years, and I've seen it grow a lot. I've seen it grow in quality and quantity, both. What do you think about the park so far? I think they did a great job. I think that grass is going to be a premium, so people are going to want to get down here early to get their grass spots. That's definitely what I think. I think that utilizing the better times of the year as far as weather goes, May, September, and October, is going to improve the quality of it, get better weather, cooler. I think it's going to go great. We really never thought about that, but a lot of people think the midsummer is really hot. and we are at the weather's mercy. Well, we don't have fountains anymore, so we're going to want the cooler weather now. My name's Al. I'm here from Goodfellas Pizzeria. Where's Goodfellas? It's right across the way at 110 North Mill Street. We have the biggest pizza in town, 22 inches, biggest breadsticks. We're open until 3.30 a.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday. And what do you think about coming out to Thursday Night Live? Thursday Night Live's great. It's a great place, great music, great food, great fun. Do you see people of all ages? All ages, all sizes, and all shapes. Moffs right across the street get to walk out and enjoy some beverages and some live music. And, you know, weather holds out most of the time, so it's a great event. It's the shiny, happy bubble that's around Cheapside Park. Yeah. And it seems to get better and better every year. I think it started out with probably about 30 people, 20 to 30 people showing up, and it seems like maybe we get a couple hundred these days. Yeah. It's great to be out here. This is an awesome location. It keeps getting better with these changes. But as far as parking goes, we did a little survey the other day and found there are 3,000 parking spaces within two blocks of Cheapside. And most of them are available after 5 p.m. So all 3,000 are not typically available during the day, but for functions like Thursday Night Live, there's 3,000 parking spaces within two blocks of Cheapside. Pretty cool. This is Laura Farnsworth of the Downtown Mexican Corporation. I want you to tell us about some of the special events that we know we have planned throughout On June 18th, the Lexington History Museum will be conducting a birthday party for Belle Breezing. It's going to be Belle's birthday bash. This event will go on inside the History Museum, located here in Cheapside Park, as well as during the band breaks, we have girls that are going to be dressed as Belle acting out vignettes from the different scenes of her life. There will also be a carriage, all kinds of things. And it's a fundraiser point. It is a fundraiser for the Lexington History Museum. What other ones do we know we have coming up? In July, we will have a pet costume contest. It's Better Off Dead is the band, and we encourage everyone to bring your pets out. Last year we had, I think, 14 animals come out in the array of costumes. It's an awful lot of fun. And then we actually kick off the 4th of July season. I agree. What I can tell, it's going to be a long weekend. Fourth of July falls on Saturday, and this school will have Friday off. We're going to have... We do. On July 2nd, we have Rob Dredd. He'll be performing here in the park, and we're going to do a beach party. All kinds of great beach festivities going on out here. And anything else we're going to have? The last Thursday Night Live of the Year, October 15th, we're going to do a People costume party. We did that last year, the week before Halloween, and it was just a blast. The weather's right. Everybody's already got their costume. It's going to be a great time. And that's a great reason to wear your costume again. I like to wear my costume as much as possible. We're next week. Negative. We just wanted to remind everybody that during the month of May, which is bike month, anybody who rides their bicycle down to Thursday Night Live gets one free beverage voucher of their choice. And that's good every Thursday through May. There's also lots of great bike activities that are going on here in Cheapside Park during the month of May. We're here with downtown Jessica, and I wanted to ask her what she thinks of the event. I'm just so excited that on our first Thursday Night Live of the year, it did not rain. It's beautiful. We have a happy, shiny bubble above Cheapside Park. It doesn't rain on Thursdays. Believe me, I won't let it. I love Thursday Night Live because I love to eat. If I can eat, I'll do it. And there are so many food vendors this year at Thursday Night Live. We have snow cones. We have kettle corn, which we've always had. We have pizza, burgers straight from the grill, and, of course, cold beer to go with it. So come on down to Thursday Night Live. Don't miss it. It's a lot of fun for your family. Everything is here just for you, something for everyone. I'm here today with Matt Cordell from All Tech, Kentucky Ale. Thank you, Matt, for coming out. One of our great sponsors of the event. Do you enjoy coming out every week? I love it thoroughly. It's one of our favorite events. Every Thursday evening, getting the local community involved, the downtown business people. I like the relief, getting off work, having a cold beer, and loving the entertainment. It's a fantastic event. I'm here with Steve Kelly of Central Bank. First of all, Steve, thank you all so much for being such great sponsors of the event. Each year it gets bigger, it gets better, the crowds are better, there's more food, there's more fun. We love it! How many years has Central Bank been involved now? I think this is our fourth year. And this is an idea that came back from, I believe, Greenville, South Carolina. Right. Greenville, South Carolina. Mayor Miller was on that chamber trip and brought the idea back, and we've been fortunate to have folks who were willing to sponsor the event and have stayed with it, and it's developed its own following. We're just thrilled that we could kind of come in when we did and keep it going. And we're thrilled that you did. And I agree. I've been coming for years and know that the crowd has gotten bigger, And I think the park improvements are only going to help the space. More people are bringing chairs. Yes. They're sitting. They're bringing baby strollers, the whole bit. Yeah, you do see it. We've been encouraging lots of families. We always have activities, bubbles and chalk for the kids. And the dogs have a watering station. So it's just growing, and we love it. It's very family friendly. Well, thank you again, Steve. Our pleasure. Let's keep it going. Okay. We'll be right back. piece of litter on the first day of each month. Good morning. Hi, I'm Mayor Jim Newbeer, and I'd like to talk to you about some important telephone numbers. For fire, theft, and accidents, please call 9-1-1. 3-1-1 is the number you need to dial for all city services like garbage pickup, sanitary sewers, traffic, and much more. Calling 2-1-1 connects you to local health and human services provided through the United Way. Remember, 9-1-1 is for emergencies. 2-1-1 is for health and human services. And 311 is your connection to City Hall. I'm Jim Clark. I'm president and CEO of LexArts. And LexArts is Lexington's United Arts Fund and Arts Council. And as the United Arts Fund, we raise money for the arts and then distribute it to various groups throughout the community. And then as the Arts Council, we manage Arts Place and the Downtown Arts Center on behalf of LFUCG. And we also do things like Gallery Hop and Art Showcase Weekend. It was started in the 70s as the Lexington Council on the Arts. and then it merged with Lexington's United Arts Fund in the 80s and became the Lexington Arts and Cultural Council. And since that is quite a mouthful, we shortened that about five years ago to LexArts. But it's been around for quite a long time. It was part of the community arts movement that spread across the country in the late 60s and into the 70s of organizing all the arts groups and trying to find public and private support for the arts. So it was really designed as a mechanism to help strengthen the arts community here in Lexington. Apart from delving into people's wallets every year with our campaign for the arts, we're probably very well known for horse mania. It happened in 2000. 79 horses graced the streets of Lexington for quite a few months. The funds generated from that have been put into a public art fund. In 2004, we did Dynamic Doors, which we utilized about 200 doors from Bluegrass Aspendale housing project when it was demolished. We took the doors, handed them over to artists and schools and community groups to create artworks with those doors. And we're preparing to do Horse Mania again in 2010 for the World Equestrian Games. Well, we know through quite a few conversations that we have had with people here in Lexington, as well as the mayor's 2040 planning process, that there is a keen interest in public art. And right now we really don't have the revenue stream to commission permanent works of art, but we did have the funds available to do a temporary project, and that is how we came up with Balancing Act. The works will be up for six months. There are ten sculptures around town. And it really is a way to show the public and some of the property owners how we could do this and sort of introduce the idea of public art, get it going, so that that might help generate ideas of how we could get a permanent program in place. The genesis of Balancing Act came about when the downtown master plan suggested Vine Street becoming a linear park. And in those conversations, people were talking about the role that public art could play in that. But it was all very distant. You know, it's going to take a very large financial effort in order to transform Vine Street into this linear park. And we thought this might be a great way to jumpstart that conversation. and just start putting sculpture out there just to see how that could provoke certain ideas of what Vine Street could become. And also at the same time, then we launched into the debate about Centerpoint. And then also through the mayor's 2040 plan, the key question or the grounding question is, how do we balance growth while preserving the things that we cherish? And I think that's, you know, sculptors are dealing with the idea of balance all the time in a very formal way in terms of the engineering of their works, but also in a metaphorical way. And so what we did was put out a call for artists, of sculptors saying the idea is let's put together a collection of work that really begs the question of achieving balance or how do you maintain balance? And this way, artists get to participate in this larger conversation about balancing the growth of Lexington while protecting the bluegrass or protecting our way of life here. So it's just our way of throwing ourselves into a larger conversation that's impacting the growth of the city, but also stimulating the ideas of what our city sidewalks could look like if art was more a part of it. Well, we have quite a few local artists like James Wade, who teaches at UK, Tony Higdon and Erica Strecker, who have their gallery and workshop over at Newtown and Third Street. And actually, their studio and gallery space is, the gallery is open to the public, and you can see quite a few of their works. and then we have artists from throughout the region of Berea and Louisville and other parts of eastern and western Kentucky. And if artists are interested, they could always send us either a JPEG or a DVD with their images on that. We're constantly looking. At the end of six months, we'll be looking for another crop of artists. We worked with an advisory group that helped select the artists. It was the same advisory group that helped us with the mural project. So we're really building a support system to get public art going here through this project. Actually, the sculptors are primarily located on Vine Street from Broadway to Limestone. We have a brochure that you can pick up at the Downtown Arts Center or Arts Place. I think we even have a sign out near Triangle Park that has the map showing where all the pieces are located. But it's fairly highly concentrated on Vine Street. The Balancing Act will continue into 2009, and then as those pieces come down, we'll probably find new artworks and move them around town. We have our campaign coming up. That'll be in February through April. We run that. We always have shows rotating in here at the Gallery at Arts Place. and also there's the gallery hops keep us busy, which is about every other month. They could always call 255-2951, which would give you our receptionist who knows quite a bit about what's going on around town and can direct you to either the right person on staff or to another arts organization, or you visit www.lexarts.org, and there we have a complete calendar of everything that's going on as well as information about how to get involved in the arts. We have an opportunity to give online, but also during the campaign, we are looking for companies that could do workplace giving sites, act as an employee-based giving program, sort of how the United Way operates. And if anyone's interested in that, they can contact us to get some information, but more importantly, they could contact their human resource director and ask about getting that started at their companies, as well as information about how to get involved in the arts. Hi, Mayor. Good morning. Hi, I'm Mayor Jim Newbeer, and I'd like to talk to you about some important telephone numbers. For fire, theft, and accidents, please call 911. 3-1-1 is the number you need to dial for all city services like garbage pickup, sanitary sewers, traffic, and much more. Calling 2-1-1 connects you to local health and human services provided through the United Way. Remember, 9-1-1 is for emergencies. 2-1-1 is for health and human services. And 3-1-1 is your connection to City Hall. Pick it up, Lexington. You can make a difference. Be a Lexington Litter Buster. Pick up a piece of litter on the first day of each month. Pick it up, Lexington. You can make a difference. Be a Lexington Litter Buster. Pick up a piece of litter on the first day of each month. Pick it up, Lexington. You can make a difference. Be a Lexington Litter Buster. Pick up a piece of litter on the first day of each month. Hi, I'm Diane Bonford with the Downtown Development Authority, and I'm here downtown next to one of the pay and display meters. Never used one. I'm not sure how it works. Look, here's Gary Means, Mr. Parking Authority himself. How are you doing? So these are somewhat new and people are still learning how to use them, and I'm one of those that's still learning how. So explain it to me. There's three main things you want to remember. First of all, you need to pick out how much time you want before you put your money in. We're finding some people are just walking up and sticking their money in like the old meters, but you've got to decide how much time you want. So let's just say we're going to park for 15 minutes. So that's selection number four. So I'm going to hit number four, and it's 25 cents. So I don't stick any money. And now I can pay with a dollar bill, or I can put a quarter in, or I can pay with a credit card. So I'll put my quarter in. All right. It tells you that you paid. It says, please wait. And it's going to print the receipt. It's printing a receipt. Receipt comes out down here. So the second thing is place this on your dash. A lot of people will take that, put it in their pocket, and walk off, and then they're going to receive a ticket. So that's their proof that you paid. instead of having the old meters that show. Right, exactly. So first thing, pick out how much time you want. Second thing is after you get your receipt, put it on your dash. And the third thing is really cool. This receipt's good for ever how long you paid, and if you don't use all the time here, you can move your vehicle to any of our other meters in town. Great, and much easier than I thought. Exactly. This is great, but if people have other questions, how can they find out more information? Well, the best place to go is our website, and that's lexpark.org, or you can call the Lex Park office at 231-PARK. That's 231-7275. Great. Thanks so much. No problem. Okay. What to do, what to do. Here's the answer. It's all in the new fun guide from Lexington Parks and Recreation. Look for it in your mailbox. Things for everyone to do. Parks and Recreation style. Activities for all ages from 1 to 91. The new 2009 fall fun guide. Look for it in your mailbox soon. Let's recreate people. Me and Mrs. Mrs. Jones Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones, bitch We got a thing going on We both know that it's wrong But it's much too strong to let it go now Well, it's time for us to believe in It hurts so much, it hurts so much inside Now she'll go her way And I'll go mine Tomorrow we'll meet The same place The same time Me and Mrs. Mrs. Jones Mrs. Jones Mrs. Jones We've got a thing going on We've got to be extra careful We can't afford to build Our hope not too high I want to meet and talk with you At the same place, the same cafe, the same time. And we're going to hold hands like we used to. We're going to talk it over, talk it over. We know, they know, and you know and I know that it was wrong. But I'll take it strong. We've got to let it go now. We've got a thing going on, a thing going on. I don't know what it is that makes me love you so I only know I never want to let you go Cause you started something and you see That ever since we met you had a hold on me It happens to be true I only want to be with you It doesn't matter where you go or what you do I want to spend each moment of a day with you Although what has happened with just one kiss I never knew that I could be in love like this It's crazy but it's true I only want to be with you You start to smile at me Ask if I care to dance I fell into your open arms And I didn't stand a chance Now listen honey, I just wanna be beside you everywhere As long as we're together honey, I don't care Cause you started something, oh can't you see That ever since we met you had a home on me No matter what you do Oh, we wanna be with you Oh, you stopped and you smiled at me Asked if I cared about I fell into your open arms And I didn't stand a chance Now hear me tell you I just wanna be beside you everywhere As long as we're together, honey, I don't care Cause you started something Can't you see That ever since we met you had a hold on me No matter what you do I only wanna be with you I said, no matter what you do, I only want to be with you. I'm not alone. I've got so much love for you And needing you so much My love for you I'll never let go I've got so much love, baby All I want is to hold you Let me show how much I love you, baby I don't mind and I don't mind Girl, I love There's no one above you You are the sun You are the rain It makes my life this foolish way You need to know I love you so And I do it all again and again Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah Tell me it's true I can't believe you do what you do I've got so much love And my love you'll see We'll stay together Just you and me I've got so much love Only you Tell me how to love you, baby I don't mind and I don't mind Girl, I love you Always thinking of you You are the sun You are the rain That makes my life this foolish day You need to know I love you so And I'll do it all again and again Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah, yeah, yeah Oh, God, I know you know the way I feel I need your love for always cause When I'm with you I fall in love Again and again and again baby You are the sun, you are the rain That makes my life this foolish game You need to know I love you so And I do it all again and again You are the sun You are the rain, baby It makes my life look full and straight You need to know I love you so much I don't know why I act the way I do Like I ain't got a single thing to lose Sometimes I'm my own worst enemy I guess that's just the cowboy in me I got a life that most would love to have But sometimes I still wake up fighting man And where this road I'm heading down my knee I guess that's just the cowboy in me The urge to run, the restlessness The heart of stone I sometimes get The things I've done for foolish pride For me that's never satisfied The face that's in the mirror When I don't like what I see I guess that's just the cowboy in me The urge to run the restlessness The heart of stone I sometimes get The things I've done for foolish pride The me that's never satisfied The face that's in the mirror when I don't like what I see. I guess that's just the cowboy in me. Girl, I know there's times you must have thought. There ain't a line you've drawn I haven't crossed. But you set your mind to see this love on through I guess that's just the cowboy in you We ride and never worry about the fall I guess that's just the cowboy in us all guitar solo We'll see you next time. Thank you. What do I gotta do to make you love me? What do I gotta do to make you care? What do I do when lightning strikes me? And to wait to find that you're not there What do I do to make you want me? What have I got to do to be heard? What do I say when it's all over? The siren seems to be the hardest word. It's sad, so sad, so sad, it's a sad, sad situation, and it's getting more and more absurd. It's sad Why can't we talk it over Oh it seems to me The siren seems to be the hardest word Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh It's sad, so sad What can't we talk it over? Oh, it seems to me The sorry seems to be the hardest word What do I do to make you love me? What have I got to do to be heard What do I do when lightning strikes me What have I got to do What have I got to do The siren seems to be the hardest word So long to see you around Seen all I want to see of this town I'm out of time and I'm out of tears Out of my mind and I'm out of here Who needs a heartache, baby? Who needs a pain? Who needs to hang around and take the blame Who needs a woman to make him blue Who needs your baby, I do Why are you wearing that negligee Sure makes it hard to walk away I gotta go, I can't take this abuse Why are you smiling but I lie to you Who needs a heartache baby who needs the pain Who needs to hang around and take the blame Who needs a woman to make him blue Who needs you baby I do You got your fingers in my hair Whispering in my ear Feeling my head full of doubts Tell me just what you think you got That I can't live without Who needs the heartache, baby? Who needs the pain? Who needs to hang around and take the blame Who needs a woman to make him blue Who needs your baby Who needs a heartache, baby Who needs the pain Who needs to hang around and take the blame Who needs a woman to make him blue Who needs your baby I guess that'd be me Who needs the heartache, baby? Who needs the pain? Who needs to hang around and take the blame? Who needs a woman to make him blue? Who needs your baby? I walk along the city streets you used to walk along with me And every step I take reminds me of just how we used to be Well, how can I forget you, girl? And there is always something there to remind me Oh, there's something there to remind me Shadowed foil, I pass a small cafe Where we will dance at night But I can't help recalling How it felt to kiss and hold you tight Oh, how can I forget you, girl? There is always something there to remind me. Always something there to remind me. I was born to love you. I will never be free. You'll always be a part of me. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Thank you. places where we used to go. And I'll be there. Well, how can I forget you, girl? When there is always something there to remind me. Always something there to remind me. I was born to love you. I will never be free. You'll always be a part of me. Cause there is always something there to remind me. Always something there to remind me. Always something there to remind me. Oh, there's something there to remind me Oh, there's something there to remind me Lexington 9-1-1, where is your emergency? Lexington 9-1-1, where is your emergency? Staff Sergeant Delmar White was not only a soldier, he served as a correction officer at Lexington Fayette, Urban County Government, Community Corrections. The Officer Delmar White that we knew and loved was a very quiet and reserved man who had a great love for his country and his family. Officer White had a lot of friends at Community Corrections, and that is why we are honoring him today with this monument. We will vow never to forget him and the price that he paid for our freedom. I'm humbled by this opportunity to honor one of our great soldiers, a man who gave his life for his country, a man who died in the line of duty, protecting his friends, his family, and his nation. Staff Sergeant Delmar White was a consummate warrior. A former Marine, he lived a life that merits our admiration and certainly deserves our respect. As you all know, following his service in the United States Marine Corps, he served as a correction officer here with the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government for many years. In 2005, he joined us to work full-time to recruit and work one of the special events team for the Army National Guard. He loved telling his story to folks about how great the Guard was, and he loved what he did. George Patton was once quoted as saying, I consider it no loss to die for my country. In my mind, we came here to thank God that men like these have lived rather than to regret that they have died. And yes, I thank God that Delmar White lived. And I was fortunate enough at one time to be his leader, a mentor, and his friend. I want to thank the commissioner, the director, and everyone here at Community Corrections for this great tribute to a fallen citizen soldier. Who knows, perhaps 100 years from now someone will see this monument and say, I knew of Staff Sergeant Delmar White. He was a great American, a great citizen, and a true Kentuckian. Thank you all for what you've done here today. Del Mar first came into my life at Fort Campbell during Operation Noble Eagle. I was a young Butter Bar Lieutenant in the Headquarters Battery, and I used to see Del Mar around the Battery area. I didn't really get to know Del Mar until 2004 when I became a platoon leader in Bravo Battery. There I remember him as always cheerful, a hard worker, and as mentioned before, he was always ready for a cigarette, a Mountain Dew, and a card game. When I first took command of Bravo Battery, I wanted to ensure the proficiency at our duty assigned weapons, because we knew we were going to have a mission to Iraq. So I'd often walk up out of the clear blue to one of my soldiers and challenge them to clear, disassemble, assemble, and perform a function check on their weapon. I'd usually try and catch them when they weren't ready for it, so I had a fighting chance against them. Frequently, I'd see groups running around, challenging each other, kind of caught on, caught on and Delmar was always right in the middle of it. More often than not, Delmar was the winner. One day, one of those days Delmar may have been having a cigarette there or something, I walked up to him and said, ready, clear, disassemble, assemble, function check. And I was after it before he had a chance to know what I was talking about. Well, he still caught up with me. Right towards the end, as you know, you start to drop the guide spring into the spring of your slide there. It shot off from him. Spring shot off from him, I beat him that day. Well, the gambler in Del Mar, he just wouldn't let that be. He immediately challenged me to another one. I said, I'll tell you what, when you can bring the lowest ranking man in your squad to me and he can beat me, I'll give you your challenge. Two days later, his PFC, I forget his name today, beat me two out of three. Then Del Mar beat me with a big smile on his face the whole time. Didn't even give me a chance. Now that's the kind of non-commissioned officer and soldier Delmar was. Thank all of you for coming today too. This is an important day and we really appreciate you being here. Mayor Newberry sends his regrets that he couldn't join us today. He's out of town and his schedule wouldn't permit him to be here. But he did ask that I deliver a commemoration to Staff Sergeant White on his behalf. A commemoration in memoriam honoring Staff Sergeant Delmar White. Whereas Staff Sergeant Delmar White, 37, was killed on Sunday, September 2, 2007, by an improvised explosive device while on a convoy escort mission in Baghdad, Iraq. And whereas Staff Sergeant White is survived by his wife, Michelle, their two children, Shelby and Seth, his stepmother, Hazel, and a brother, Robbie Christopher. And whereas Staff Sergeant White was assigned to Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery of the Kentucky National Guard, and was a Marine Corps veteran who served in Operation Desert Storm. And whereas he was employed as a corrections officer with election in the Fayette Irma County government from February 2003 and had attained the rank of corporal when he left corrections in December 2005 to recruit for the Kentucky National Guard. And whereas Captain Robert Mattingly, the commander of Sergeant White's unit, said he was an excellent non-commissioned officer who led by example. Never asked anything of his soldiers that he wasn't willing to do himself. And whereas on May 20, 2009, the monument was dedicated in front of the Lexington Corrections Facility in honor of Staff Sergeant White, now therefore, I, Jim Newberry, mayor of the Lexington-Fayette Irma County government, on behalf of all Fayette Countyians, honor Staff Sergeant Delmar White for his dedication, service, and sacrifice this 20th day of May 2009. I'd like to deliver this to Sergeant White's will. This occasion is a serious and a somber one, but it is an affirmation of the character and courage of the heroic men and women who serve in the branches of our military service. The men and women who on a daily basis put themselves in harm's way to keep this country strong and free. Staff Sergeant Delmar White was just such a man. Husband, father, correctional officer, friend, soldier. A patriot who left a job that he loved and was good at for a job, a cause, and a calling closer to his heart. He left the service of this community for the service of his country. Those of us who knew Staff Sergeant White would not be surprised at those actions. He loved his family, his job, his community, and his country. Very honorable day. I'm always honored to do anything for him and everything. It's just not what I expected. It was, I expected, you know, just a few people talking and doing the ceremony and going on. The people that was here really surprised me. I mean, it doesn't surprise me that they were here, but it surprised me that that many people was talking and the stories about the person he really was, not just another soldier gone. We would go out shopping and we'd run into people that had been released from jail, and they would walk up to him and shake his hand and say, thank you for what you did for me at the jail. You've turned my life around. I don't know what he'd say to these people, but he did a lot of good with the inmates. The End The End Welcome back to Safe and Secure. My name is David Jarvis, and I'm the Director of Code Enforcement. Lexington Fayette Urban County Government. Today I have with me, I have Kevin Ingram. Kevin is an inspector in the Division of Code Enforcement and he is our resident deck expert. Also we have George Dillon. George is a supervisor in the Division of Building Inspection and later we're going to talk to George about obtaining a permit for doing any kind of structural work on decks or adding a deck. Kevin, what are some of the things that we see when we're doing our inspections? I know we work on a complaint basis, but we also do comprehensive inspections. What are some of the things we see wrong when we look at decks? One of the biggest problems we find is the deterioration in the materials of wood, metal posts, columns, concrete decks with pans and stuff that have been rusted out. One of the other issues that we look at is decks that have been rebuilt without a permit. Sometimes the construction is not very good or sometimes they do a pretty good job on building the deck but the way they attach it to the structure is just not very good. It's a possibility to collapse. So that's something that we look for to make them get an engineer or they can go to the Division of Building Inspection and work with building inspection on getting a permit to rebuild the deck. Sure. I guess handrails are probably an issue we come across. A lot of times there's some problems with handrails as far as the structural stability and the spacing and that sort of thing. And stairs, I guess stairs are something that we find that a lot of times are rotted out. Correct. A lot of times we'll find handrails that are just attached properly at all. Sometimes they'll just need a few repairs. Other times they're in, again, imminent danger of collapse. If somebody was to lean against them or fall into the rail, they'd probably fall on off the deck. Sure. We find stuff like that every day. And I guess if you do live in a property and you have a problem with your deck, you can always call LexiCol and report up to code enforcement. We'll be glad to take a look at it. Absolutely. I'll be out there as soon as I can and take a look at it. Thanks. Okay, we're back with George. George is in the Division of Building Inspection. George, let's talk about the process for getting a permit to do deck work. Well, if you're a homeowner or a contractor and you're planning on constructing a deck or remodeling a deck, repairing a deck similar to what you're going to see here today, you do need a permit. When you come down to see us to get your permit, you need to bring at least two things with you, a minimum, a site plan and a framing plan. The site plan allows us to look at your property, where you're putting the deck on the property in relation to the house and the property lines, and to make sure it meets all the zoning ordinances. The framing plan allows us to look at your deck as far as how you're going to build it to make sure it's going to meet the building code requirements. Most of our permits fall into the range of $50, a minimum fee. You can obtain a permit at our office in the hours between 8 and 5 at 101 East Vine Street, the second floor. Give us a call, 258-3770, or look us up on the web at www.lexingtonky.gov. Great. Thanks for watching another episode of Safe and Secure. I want to ride my bicycle, bicycle, bicycle. I want to ride my bicycle. I want to ride my bike. Welcome back to Safe and Secure. I'm Marshall Griggs with the Lexington Fire Department, and today here at Thoroughbred Park we wanted to show you some of the newest equipment or apparatus that we have on the fire department. But it's not an ambulance or an EC unit. It's not a fire engine or a ladder truck. No, in fact, this piece of equipment only carries one person. Yes, we're talking about a bike. Lexington's very own fire and EMS bike program. And right after we come back from this break, we're going to talk a little bit more about it, look at the equipment and see how and why we have this new apparatus. Hi, Mayor. Good morning. Hi, I'm Mayor Jim Newbeer, and I'd like to talk to you about some important telephone numbers. For fire, theft, and accidents, please call 911. 311 is the number you need to dial for all city services like garbage pickup, sanitary sewers, traffic, and much more. Calling 211 connects you to local health and human services provided through the United Way. Remember, 911 is for emergencies. 211 is for Health and Human Services, and 311 is your connection to City Hall. Welcome back. I'm here with two of our bike medics, Captain Mike Bonford and Firefighter A.J. Johnson. And we're going to talk here a little bit about this new bike program, these new pieces of apparatus. And maybe, A.J., you can just fill me in on how this whole program got started. Well, it all started when we were working at the Rolex a couple years ago, and we found it was difficult for us to get into some of the areas that had large groups of people and large crowds of people. In a particular incident, a lady was hit by a golf cart, and we couldn't get the trucks in there to her. Our ambulances are big, our fire trucks are big, and there's lots of crowds of people with blankets and stuff, and it was difficult clearing the crowds, and the sirens were loud trying to get to her, so we had some trouble getting back into her. So a couple of us on the job, we do a lot of recreational bike riding. So we looked at some ideas of how we could make it a little better for us, and this is what we came up with. I see. I see. So how long has the program been up and running now? We've been working on it for about two years. There's a lot of training that goes involved with getting you to the instructor's level so you can teach and train your other guys. We're getting close to that level now, so we'll be able to train and get some more guys out there. Currently, we have eight bikes fully equipped with the bags that we have here. Okay, very good. So let's talk a little bit about the bikes themselves. I notice these bikes, they look identical, but they're actually not. Yeah, actually, the way we ride is we ride in teams of two. So it requires two of us to complete all the equipment that we have. So we try to balance the weight between us because we have anywhere between 50 and 55 pounds of weight on these bikes. So they are fairly heavy. And what we do is we'll have one guy carry one set of equipment here, and then this other guy will carry another set of equipment. And we try to balance those to get those as close to being equal as we can. That way one guy's not working any harder than the other. Typically, if someone has to work harder, I work harder because I'm just a lot stronger than these other guys. So usually I make it heavier on myself. Very good. Well, let's talk about what we got in there. Let's see just a little bit of what's in there. I know that's an AED or an automatic external defibrillator. So tell us what else we got in there. Okay. Many people are starting to see these in businesses around town, your place of work. They're starting to show up everywhere. You can see them at the mall. And basically what an AED does is it will allow us, if someone's heart stops beating, we can give them an opportunity to survive that because we can be there quickly with this. So we do carry this with us, and it's charged and ready to go at all times. I assume. And along with the AED, we carry drugs also, so we can take it to the next level because we are all paramedics who ride these bikes. So we're able to start IVs from these bikes. We carry, again, we carry all the drugs that we would need to run what's called an ALS or an advanced life support type of incident. So we can do all that from this bike. This particular bike here, we carry oxygen. I see. So we have the oxygen with us at all times. A lot of times at the events that we work, people are doing outside activities, biking events, races, fun walks, all that sort of thing. So people can get winded and we can take care of that with some oxygen. We have the ability to intubate these people, actually breathe for them in the event that something happens where they can't breathe for themselves. So open an airway, I see. Open an airway, exactly. And also we carry all the drugs that are involved with airway type emergencies. We can handle, the drugs here can handle people who are in anaphylaxis or are allergic to bee stings. We work a lot of events with children who may be out there and they may forget their EpiPen or they may be scared to use it. We have all that stuff and we can do that for them. And we can be there quickly to them because we don't have to take the big trucks in places that we can't go. Well, you know, even though these bikes are obviously small in limited space, it looks like you've got a lot of equipment. What don't you have that an ambulance or a first-in engine company would have? Well, there are a couple things. The main things are the long boards. The long boards. You know, there's nowhere to put a long board on here if someone is in a car. So you're not going to transport anybody on one of these bikes. Well, and we don't have a stretcher. That's right. So we're not going to transport them. But this team of bikes also works with a gator that has been equipped with a stretcher. So if we're in an event and we need to transport someone, we can contact our command and they can send us a gator that has a stretcher. And what a gator is, for those who don't know, is basically like a big golf cart. But, you know, it's got a bed on it and we can lay you down in there and we can get you out of the crowd and away from all the people and then go to an ambulance that stays closer. Very good. Excellent. So basically you can do everything on scene, you can get it all started, you can stabilize the patient long before an ambulance could ever get to them. That's correct. And many times what happens in the events, you know, if injuries are minor and someone just needs, if they hurt their ankle or something minor along scrapes and burns, instead of having an ambulance come, because we only have nine ambulances for this whole city with the fire department for 911, instead of calling them, we can try to take care of those issues before we have to raise a call to those guys. Very good. So it makes it a lot better for everyone. That way it saves our resources. Now, I also noticed that your attire is a little different than a typical firefighter on the line. Tell me a little bit about that. Yes. Well, it's a little different for a couple of reasons. The main reason is safety. Safety is the most important priority for all of us because if we're not safe, then we can't help anyone else. So you'll notice that we do wear helmets. Helmets are very important. It protects the most important tool we have, which is our brain. So that's more important than any tool that we carry with us. So we've got to take care of those. But as far as our shirts, this is what's called high visibility yellow. This yellow protects us in low-light situations, and then it also allows motorists to see us. It also seems like it may breathe a little easier than a typical shirt. It does. It is almost like an Under Armour-type material, a moisture wicking that is called B-Dry. So we do ride a lot, and when we ride the events, you know, we can ride 30, 40 miles and some of the events that I've rode in the bike races, carrying 50 pounds of weight, anyone who's ever rode 30 or 40 miles, and carrying 50 pounds of weight, realize that it can be hot on some days. Sure. So we do wear this, and you'll also notice some trim around the arms here. This is for night because we ride at night also, and that's why we have our lighting systems on the bike. And this also reflects light for motors to see us. Okay, so the bikes actually have lights and sirens as well. That's right. Yeah, very good. The bikes are equipped with lights. The headlights are to help us when we're responding, give people an idea of what exactly we're doing. And in the crowd, they don't have to move as much. It just gives them a little notice that you're coming through. Just a little notice. And we have a little siren here, and usually voice commands, please move to the side. Usually works your best. But it's much more pedestrian friendly is how we like to say it. Instead of taking the ambulance to a crowd of people off the road, ambulances are heavy. Now, Anthony, I'm looking at these bikes, and I'm recognizing that there's some money involved in these things. I'm no expert, but it looks like it costs a pretty penny. How is it that in these tough economic times we're able to afford something like this? These bikes were grant money. We received a grant two years ago that paid for this equipment. The bikes here, eight bikes and eight sets of bags, and all the other accessories that come with it were covered by grant money. So the bikes are around $1,500 for us, and Shell's bike shop was able to build those for us and get those equipped for us, and they help us maintain anything that we can't do on our own. Amazing. So basically the taxpayers didn't have to pay for any of this, but they get to benefit from the results of having it. They benefit from the results every time that we're in an event, and many people don't even know that we exist. They have events that we're perfectly capable of going to for them, and if they request for us, we can be there and we can cover them. So it's an excellent, yet another tool that we're able to provide an excellent service to the community that otherwise in the past would have taken longer or not been as efficient, and now we can be more efficient with it. So that's excellent. Now, Anthony, you were talking about your helmet earlier, about your safety equipment, and we recognize as firefighters, of course, we wear helmets, and our bike medics are no exception. They wear helmets as well. And we recognize that helmets are vital for safety, not only for our careers, but for our young people in our community, for anyone that rides a bike or a skateboard or even rides a horse like the ones behind us here in Thoroughbred Park. And so as a result of that, we're working with the horsemen, the Lexington horsemen, to kick off a program about the importance of wearing helmets. We're calling it a Heroes Wear Helmets campaign. And so we're going to be working with that within the school systems in conjunction with the horsemen to really encourage our young people to wear helmets. We recognize the value of it, and we hope that through this program we'll increase helmet safety and helmet awareness within our community. Well, I thank you guys for coming out today. Thank you, Captain Bonford. We've enjoyed getting to look at these bikes. So this is Bataliant Chief Marshall Griggs thanking you for this opportunity and hope you have a safe and secure day. Hi, Mayor. Good morning. Hi, I'm Mayor Jim Newbeer and I'd like to talk to you about some important telephone numbers. For fire, theft, and accidents, please call 911. 311 is the number you need to dial for all city services like garbage pickups, sanitary sewers, traffic and much more. Calling 2-1-1 connects you to local health and human services provided through the United Way. Remember, 9-1-1 is for emergencies. 2-1-1 is for health and human services. And 3-1-1 is your connection to City Hall. Welcome back to Safe and Secure. My name is Tim Brandwee, and I'm the Metropolitan Medical Response System Coordinator for Lexington and Central Kentucky. The Metropolitan Medical Response System is a federal grant program that assists local communities in preparing for large-scale mass casualty incidents, whether they be the result of destructive weather, industrial accidents, terrorism, or potentially an accident at the depot in Madison County. The Metropolitan Medical Response System primarily provides funding to ensure commonality of equipment, training, and exercising amongst the main response disciplines here in Lexington, as well as the region. In Lexington specifically, we primarily work with the hospitals, the health departments, and work very heavily with the Division of Fire and Emergency Services. The EMS, or Emergency Medical Services, portion of fire, as well as the hazardous materials portion of fire, are intricately involved in this planning process. and MMRS funding has provided a significant amount of equipment and capability to assist us in responding to mass casualty incidents utilizing fire and emergency services. Recent examples of the use of the MMRS equipment and capabilities were the recovery operations for the crash of Comair Flight 5191, the ice storm of earlier this year, additional destructive weather events, including the swine flu outbreak that occurred just a month ago. The Metropolitan Medical Response System was involved in providing supplies and equipment and support. For more details on some of the response activities and the equipment and the capabilities that we have here in the county as a result of the MMRS, I'll refer you next to the Lexington Division of Fire and Emergency Services, Major Wood. Thanks, Tim. My name is Brian Wood. I'm a major with the Lexington Fire Department. I'm in the Division of VMS Operations, and we're standing in front of one of our trailers that come from the MMRS Grant. This is MobileCare One. It's a 30-foot gooseneck trailer. We use it for all types of events. We use it in any type of mass casualty events. We also stage it at different areas where there's a potential for any kind of threat. If we can, we can go inside, and I'd be happy to show you some of our capabilities with it. inside of Mobile Care One. It's basically a small emergency room that we can transport anywhere in the surrounding area. We have the ability to treat four stretcher bound patients, two on either side. We also have the ability to administer oxygen to all those patients. We carry our own oxygen supply with all our supplies in our cabinets above us. Depending on what time of the year we can deploy, it is air conditioned and heated so we can keep the inside at a comfortable temperature. We also carry all of our mass casualty equipment supplies and our bags which are easy to deploy and when called for we can deploy this unit in quite a short amount of time with great success. This time I'd like to pass this off to our hazmat specialist Jeff Garris. Thank you Major Wood. Hi I'm Captain Jeff Garris. I'm a platoon commander for the hazardous materials team. I want to talk a little bit about the MMRS portion of the hazardous materials team. MMRS has funded a lot of the equipment for the hazardous materials team in Fayette County. We use it not only for Fayette County but for regional responses also in the surrounding counties around Fayette County. One of the things that we have is mass decontamination units. These are ZoomRoak tents which are inflated, they're mobile, can be set up anywhere at any time. We also have heated water that we can bring with us, air-conditioned tents for the comfort of the victims. Not only can they be used for decontamination, they can also be used for an event where you need shelter, immediate shelter. We can use those for those. Also, the MMRS program has supplied and funded chemical monitors for the hazmat team and radiological monitor. One of the things that the tents can be used for is for our CSEP plan, where we do the chemical stockpile emergency preparedness plan in case there's an event in Richmond or Madison County. Some of the tents that MMRS has provided go along with the CSEP provided tents. Stay tuned for more Safe and Secure. 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They say, you're going to be a spleggy boy, spleggy boy. And so at an early age, he hits the street. Wines uptight with who he believes. And he hits the bloody floor. His folks are overjoyed. In the credo, we'll ride Yes, the credo, the credo will ride I say rock gold Hey! Rock gold Rock gold Rock gold Rock gold Sing it on a new bed, child Rock gold I'm so radical Radical Radical Radical Radical Radical I thought it was forever I thought it would last Gotta try to make it A page of my past You didn't even say goodbye When you slammed that door Now I'm lying here alone And what once was our bed Trying to forget all the cruel words you said While the radio was playing What once was our favorite song Oh, enough is enough I won't take anymore I'm picking myself up off the floor Cause you can't keep a good man down Can't keep a good man down Oh no Can't keep a good man down Baby Can't keep a good man down I want to try to briefly talk to you and share with you a program that we have that's called the Neighborhood Emergency Network. And it's a philosophy that we're trying to make a reality. We've got several neighborhoods signed up. And basically, you might say, well, why do I want to participate in this? Why do I want to be prepared? Well, you all love your family. We all love our families. And we want to make sure that they're safe during an emergency and a disaster. So it's pretty much common knowledge across the country that if we had a real significant disaster, that there's just not enough emergency responders to get to everyone at the same time. There's just not enough of us. So if you can be somewhat prepared, and then you can have your neighborhood prepared, and we can also in turn prepare the community, that's a win-win situation for all of us. Everyone fares better. We can get back to what we call normalcy or a life quicker than that. So that's what we want to try to do tonight is give you some tools that you can take with you that will help you and your family become prepared and then also give you a start on how you can get your neighborhood into a preparedness mode and do that. Usually, if you see someone hurt in your neighborhood, you're going to run over there and try to help them, right? That's just kind of normal instinct. Well, if you have the tools to do that better, like how to do first aid, how to do CPR, how to maybe put out a small fire and some things like that, then you're going to be much more useful and helpful to them and to yourself. So it's another way to get prepared. A lot of times also you're there before police or fire are there. I mean, they're very quick in their response, but neighbors or someone in an accident is right there. You're there much quicker than the responders. So help can be started to be given very quickly. And the Neighborhood Emergency Network is just that. It's a neighborhood who prepares an emergency plan on how their neighborhood is going to organize and work together in an emergency situation. One of the things that we do offer, and I'll talk about this a little bit more, is called the Community Emergency Response Team. We partner with the Division of Fire, and we offer training for folks and teach them how to become a neighborhood emergency responder. They're obviously not trained to the level of police and fire professional people, but it gives you some tools that you can learn, and then also you're credentialed to help in an emergency. So if police and fire does need some assistance with some things, they know who some of the credentialed people are and what their training is in order to utilize them. One of the things that you do, and I've got some packets. I don't have enough packets for every single person, but if you're really interested in your neighborhood starting the program, then we have some specific packets of information to give you. One of the things you do is you just identify contact people for your neighborhood, someone that we can be in dialogue with for working through the neighborhood program and also during an emergency to get good information out to the neighborhood and also get good information back from the neighborhood. Another thing we ask you to do is to do a survey, two types of surveys. One is to survey the people in your neighborhood and see if you have any kind of special skills or assets that can be available to the neighborhood if they need those. You know, you may have some registered nurses or doctors or some people that can drive special equipment or a chemist or all different kinds of things that could be useful to you on your neighborhood emergency response team. We also ask you to help us pre-identify folks who may need special assistance in an emergency. Maybe they're at home and they live alone and they're on oxygen. Or maybe they don't have transportation of their own. If we can pre-identify these folks, and you're going to know who they are a lot better than any of us would, then we can have them listed in a database and we can proactively check on them during a disaster during a disaster or prepare in advance what we may need to help them, how many things of transportation we would need, how many oxygen we would have or different things like that. So again, special skills, special needs. And then do a hazard survey. It's sometimes surprising. You drive through your neighborhood every day, but you don't really look around and identify the hazards. Now, if it's in your backyard, you may know if you have a transformer in your backyard. Anybody know if they have an electric transformer in their backyard? Well, that's a potential hazard in your neighborhood. Does anybody know if they have sinkholes in their neighborhood? Does anybody know if they have a chemical facility in their neighborhood? And I'll bet a bunch of you do. So going around and really getting familiar with what some of the hazards are in your neighborhood so you kind of know specifically what to prepare for in your neighborhood. You may have to do something a little different. If you live in some of the subdivisions right off of Man of War and you have the interstate in your backyard, well, you have a totally different risk and hazard than someone who doesn't have that. So, again, what you have in your backyard can help you prepare your neighborhood for what you may need to do. So what we try to do is try to create a partnership between my office, emergency management, and the neighborhood. And we'll help you. We'll come out and we'll sit down with neighborhood leaders or whatever group you want to put together as a committee to try to do this. We'll walk through the program, explain it to you. We'll produce all the survey forms for you. We'll help you with database management. And we'll just kind of keep an on flow of information flowing back and forth to the neighborhoods. And then you also take ownership of the contact information and everything like that, the database, the procedure, how you're going to develop it, and we work with you with that. We're hoping very shortly to have a new alert and notification system in the city, and we'll use that to help update and notify and do wellness checks on folks as well. So it's kind of a partnership between what you can provide and prepare and help with us, and then we'll help maintain it and keep it, and you can help us update that. The CERT team goes through a little bit of what that is. Again, it's sponsored by our office and the Division of Fire, and it is usually eight three-hour classes and two usually what they do it is one night a week for like eight weeks and you're you're taught how to preserve life property go ahead how to do small fires how to put them out a lot of people truly have never ever really used a fire extinguisher it's amazing people kind of see it you read directions but how many people have actually took it in your hand and put out a small fire not too many people and when you have to do that. It's a little scarier than just kind of acting through it. So you get a chance to put out a real small fire. You get to learn how to do a search and rescue for people. You learn some of the structure in the command system that the police and fire department and emergency management uses. You talk about team organization and how you work together as a group. Disaster psychology, because there kind of is a different mindset in doing disaster medical management than there is everyday medical treatment. Terrorism, a little bit about terrorism and why we're concerned about that and maybe what some of the risks are. And then at the end of the eight weeks, we put a little small-scale exercise together. Previous CERT teams come back, and they act as victims, and you get to practice what you've learned on people. So everybody says it's a lot of fun, and you're nodding. I know you've been through a CERT class. So it is a lot of fun, and it gives you some skill sets to use in any kind of situation you might be in. We began this program in 2004. We have had 11 classes, 120 people trained so far, and they're kind of scattered throughout the community, actually. We try to do at least two trainings a year. We try to do quarterly updates so that you're not just trained and then kind of just left out there on your own. We try to have real interesting things, whether it's learning about pandemic influenza or learning how to help the Red Cross or all different kinds of things, becoming a weather spotter. So there's all kinds of training that you get as you go along. And then we give you lots of opportunities to help us with preparedness information. We've had CERT members who work at educational, some of them worked at the Home and Garden Show with us to promote educational information, to actually be victims in a real exercise that the whole community participates in and go through hospitals and get decontaminated, and it's really a lot of fun. So we give you lots of opportunities to do those things as well. Okay, let's talk a little bit about individual and family preparedness. How many of you have an emergency plan for your home? Okay. Good job, David. David Boggs as well. Very good. But it's really important. How many of you have homeowner's insurance? Okay, it's kind of the same principle. Your home is very valuable to you. You hope you never have to use it, but if you have homeowner's insurance, it makes when something happens to you a little easier to swallow. We hope you don't ever have to use your emergency plan. But if you're a family and you're affected by a disaster or you have to evacuate your home, you've already thought about all those things in advance and you have a plan, you're going to be really thankful. It's just kind of like insurance. So, and again, it goes back to the beginning. You care about your family. You want to make sure they're safe. How many of you have children that sometimes go home alone? Okay. You know, you want to make sure that they know what to do. You know, maybe you have elder care in your home. What if they're home alone, and you want to make sure that they're taken care of? So it's a really good idea. And one of the best things, can anyone imagine what you can do, the number one thing you can do to protect yourself in your home? Have a weather radio. And guess what? Mary Ann has given me permission to give one of these away tonight. So we're going to give one of you lucky souls a NOAA weather radio. And it's really, really important that you have that because our outdoor warning sirens, if any of you live near parks, you might hear them go off. But they're intended for outdoor warning. You're not really meant to hear those in your home. That's not the purpose of them. They're meant for people in the parks to know what's going on because they don't usually carry a radio or a television or anything else with them to know what's going on. But if you have this and you have it turned on, and now with the new technology that they have in it, it won't go off except for what you program it. If you program it just to go off for watches and warnings in Fayette County, that's the only time it'll go off. And I promise you, if you are asleep at night and you're a very sound sleeper, it will still wake you up. There's no question. So it's one of the best investments you can make for your own safety in your home is to have a weather radio. We do have 26 warning sirens, but again, they're all in parks. They're meant to be heard outdoors. They're not meant to be heard indoors. Have the weather radio. What kind of hazards do we have? Anyone want to make a guess on what is our number one hazard in Lexington, Fayette County, or our risk? Thunderstorms, wind. Chief Boggs, you want to take a guess? I'll put you on the spot. That's probably not one we even put in the matrix, it's so high. But actually, it's release of a hazardous material. And I know that that surprises most people because we're not necessarily known as an industrialized city or location, but we do have a fair amount of fixed locations. We have interstates. We have rail lines. And so truly, one of our largest hazards is the release of a hazardous material. So that's something you need to learn to be prepared for. The next one is probably severe weather, whether it's tornado or ice storm. I think they're pretty well balanced in this community in my tenure, unfortunately. But, again, know what your hazards are so you know what you have to prepare for, because it's really difficult to prepare for everything. So you have to prepare for the ones that are most likely, most probable, and that could cause you the most harm and damage. So, again, you start making your plan. What are all your hazards? And think about this kind of in three components. Look at it at your home. Look at it maybe where you work, and hopefully your workplace has an emergency plan. If they don't, have them call us at 258-3784, and we'll be glad to help them develop one. Also, if you go somewhere frequently, like your child's school or a church or a particular shopping mall, try to think of all the places, and gosh, if there were a tornado right now, what would I do? If there's a tornado warning right now in this building, what would you do? Okay. You'd stay in the building. Go to the center of the building. How would you know? Luckily, some of us in this room would get notified. That's probably how you would know here, but think about those things. How would you know that the hazard is happening or the emergency is happening? How would you get notified? Again, one of the best reasons right here, best ways. You know, what would you do? Have an action plan. It's, again, statistically pretty much known that cell numbers and landlines tend to go down where you are, but outgoing lines seem to work more often than not. So try to have a family contact somewhere else that your kids and your husband or wife or whoever can call, And that way at least someone knows that the whole family's safe. Have a place where you can go. And definitely think of your pets. Again, in most significant disasters, people do not leave their home because they have pets. So you've got to think of the arrangements you're going to do for your pets. Some of the things, and I'm not going to read this list, but your disaster supply kit has to be specific to your family. If you go to our website, lexingtonky.gov backslash DEM, and look for preparedness, there's a list of what should be in your family plan and what a kit should be. But it has to be specific to your family. There are some basic things. You want water. You want a first aid kit. You probably want an AM, FM battery radio because, again, if the electric's out, you may not be able to get television or a regular radio. So you want that. You want a little bit of food. If you have pets, you need those things. If you have a baby, you need those things. One thing that is on there that a lot of people forget about, medicine's good, but cash. And I know that's hard to come by for a lot of us. But ATMs don't work when the power's out. So cash, even if it's just a little bit to kind of tide you over until maybe things can start working again, is a really good thing. So have a plan and have a kit. Put these things in some place that's easy to carry. Don't bury it in the back of the top shelf of the closet that you're never going to be able to get to if a disaster strikes. Have it in something easy to carry. And I even suggest, too, one kit that you can have right there in your home, and another kit if you had to leave. If you got an announcement over the weather radio or over the television that says you need to evacuate now, that doesn't mean you have 30 minutes to gather up everything. Have a kit that has some basic things in it that you can grab and carry out the door and go, whether that's to a shelter or to a family member or to a hotel. Have a go kit, an emergency go kit that's for leaving your home. Again, have a plan for your pets. It's a big issue. Some kennels will take them, so you just need to make sure if hotels will take them, if you have arrangement with your vet or with a kennel, or what you are going to do with your pets. Again, some of the training opportunities, first aid, CPR, American Red Cross has great things. You can come and work in the emergency operations center, or you can be victims during a disaster. And the health department also has a program called the Medical Reserve Corps, where they're trying to gather a listing of medical professionals that they can use in an emergency to help do, whether it's inoculations or giving out medications or whatever. So that's another thing. Definitely be prepared. There's our phone numbers, our emails. Again, I really appreciate the opportunity. I hope some of you will take the opportunity to get your neighborhood going and emergency preparedness. Do you enjoy great music, food, and fun? then bring the whole family down to Cheapside Park and Central Bank Thursday Night Live. Thursday Night Live features the best in live local entertainment, great food from local restaurants, and a lively, family-friendly atmosphere. The fun runs from 4.30 to 8 p.m. every Thursday through October 15th, and admission is free. Food and drink are available for cash purchase. So if you are looking for a great place to relax and enjoy live music, come down to Central Bank Thursday Night Live at Cheapside beside the Lexington History Museum. Thank you. Any place that we have an opportunity to place what we call mutt mitts, I guess we would like to see pet owners that take their pets through the park as part of their recreation or walk into their pet, make sure that they pick up after their pets. Thank you. Thank you. Well, the idea for it started when the Hillandale Neighborhood Association was throwing a party here to celebrate the naming of the creek. It was part of an effort to help clean up the small waterways in Lexington that I think are tributaries of Wolf Run Creek. Bruce Burris and I got to talking about what a nice spot this would be for a garden. It's so well It's still lit, most of the day gets full sun, and because of that it's pretty hot and no one really used it very much. It was just sitting here and we thought a community garden would be a great way to use the space to get people into the park and enjoying the park. It would be an added source of education and enjoyment for the kids that come and play. There are a lot of kids that come through here during the day. And we worked with the Neighborhood Association and the City Council and the Parks Department. Everyone was very enthusiastic about the idea and very supportive. It turned out this was actually the first community garden that's been put into a public park. And they like the idea. They like the effort that we've put into it and what it's produced. And they'd like to do more if there are more people who are willing to get people in the neighborhood interested in that sort of effort. We were given some money by the city council. We were also given some money from a grant that a friend of ours had received to start their community garden, the London Farrell Garden on 3rd Street. They had, as part of their grant, they were encouraged to help start other similar efforts in the city. And so they shared some of their grant money with us. And with the money from the council and the grant, we were able to pay for the lumber and the dirt and mulch. And we just put up flyers around the neighborhood, all along Southland in the businesses. looking for people who were interested. And we had more than enough people who were interested to start with. And then actually once we actually got the garden in and built and had plants growing, that generated even more interest. So we haven't had any problem attracting gardeners. Well, because we are just a group of individuals who don't really have any sort of legal status, status, we wouldn't have been able to take funds from the council without the help of the neighborhood association. They helped us out initially by just being supportive. I don't think the parks department or the council would have been pleased with the idea of putting this in over the objections of the neighborhood association. So when they heard the idea, they liked it and that helped us clear some hurdles in the beginning and then they have helped us with the financial aspect of taking the money from the council and reimbursing us for our expenses. And they also threw a kickoff party for us last summer where they had a cookout and we built the scarecrows that you see and invited all the neighborhood kids and everything and so the neighborhood association has been a really good partner for us in the project. When we have the building parties, we expanded this year, built seven new plots because Parks was so happy with what we did last year. And whenever we have those build parties, you know, the kids come out and, you know, having a big pile of dirt is all a kid needs to have fun. A couple of shovels and a big pile of dirt and they just have a great time helping us wheel the wheelbarrows and shovel the dirt. They've really enjoyed that. Then it's just a lot of fun to bring your family out here to work on the garden because they're interested in it for about two minutes. They like to help you water for a little bit, maybe pull a weed or two, and then they run over and play on the playground. So it's great to have those two things right next to each other. And then all last summer, whenever I would come to work on the garden, one of the best things about it was I would always see families out here bringing their kids to play on the playground and then the toddlers would toddle over here and just go all through the plots and see what was growing and their parents would help them identify the plants and what vegetables were growing on them and it was great to see the kids enjoying that. In terms of the impact it's had on the kids in the neighborhood, my favorite story was I was out here working one day and a little kid came running up and I had put a cherry tomato plant in my plot and put up a sign that anyone was free to pick from it. And this little kid starts, you know, trundling up to the garden going, tomato, tomato, tomato. And his mom looked at me and said, every time we come up here, he has to have his tomato. And, you know, just the idea of that kid getting his, you know, fresh homegrown tomato every time he comes to the playground, I thought was great. The fact that we were able to expand this year, we've dedicated four plots to the community. and all the produce grown in those plots is going to go to charitable organizations. One of them is being tended by a local group called Lexpro, which runs day programs for adults with disabilities. And the other three are being tended by all of our other gardeners. We'll be right back. It features the best in live local entertainment, great food from local restaurants, and a lively, family-friendly atmosphere. The fun runs from 4.30 to 8 p.m. every Thursday through October 15th, and admission is free. Food and drink are available for cash purchase. So if you are looking for a great place to relax and enjoy live music, come down to Central Bank Thursday Night Live at Chiefside beside the Lexington History Museum. Do you enjoy great music, food, and fun? Then bring the whole family down to Chiefside Park in Central Bank Thursday Night Live. Thursday Night Live features the best in live local entertainment, great food from local restaurants, and a lively, family-friendly atmosphere. The fun runs from 4.30 to 8 p.m. every Thursday through October 15th, and admission is free. Food and drink are available for cash purchase. So if you are looking for a great place to relax and enjoy live music, come down to Central Bank Thursday Night Live at Chiefside beside the Lexington History Museum. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Music Music Music Entertainment, shopping, and the many new developments invite you to experience downtown Lexington. Downtown Lexington is a safe, low-crime area for singles, couples, and families to enjoy all it has to offer. At the start of 2008, Lexington experienced its lowest crime rate in 34 years, even though our city continues to grow, drawing new residents who recognize what a safe place Lexington is to live, work, and raise families. We invite you to come play, shop, dine, live, or stay downtown. And don't forget to say hello to all of your friends in blue. New to downtown this summer, it's Tuesday Night Live, a local teen band concert series. Held from 5.30 to 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday evenings at Cheapside Park, this event will feature local high school-age bands who will perform live in the shadow of Lexington's Historic Courthouse on Main Street. This free concert is geared towards families and people of all ages. This alcohol-free event will take place during June and July. Bring your lawn chairs, pets, and friends to Cheapside Park on Tuesdays this summer. For more information, visit www.downtownlex.com or call 859-425-2593. The Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority is listening to you and reigning in the parking problems downtown. Meter feeders, beware. It's illegal to park at a meter for longer than the time limit. And the Lex Park Outriders are coming. Bounted on electric chariots, these heroes are creating space. Didn't think there was enough parking downtown? With over a dozen garages and 1,100 on-street spaces, your outriders pledge to clear the meter feeders so you can enjoy a vibrant downtown. Championship golf at its finest. 18 holes of a first-class golf encounter. Kearney Hill Golf Links, designed by world-renowned architects Pete and P.B. Dye. Kearney Hill Golf Links has a 10-acre practice area, a great golf shop stocked with the latest equipment and apparel, and a professional staff eager to serve you. Make your next golf experience a great one at Kearney Hill Golf Links, a touch of Scotland in the bluegrass. Call today at 253-1981 for your tee time. Do you enjoy great music, food, and fun? Then bring the whole family down to Cheapside Park and Central Bank Thursday Night Live. Thursday Night Live features the best in live local entertainment, great food from local restaurants, and a lively, family-friendly atmosphere. The fun runs from 4.30 to 8 p.m. every Thursday through October 15th, and admission is free. Food and drink are available for cash purchase. So if you are looking for a great place to relax and enjoy live music, come down to Central Bank Thursday Night Live at Chiefside beside the Lexington History Museum. Downtown is your place for the arts. There are theaters, galleries, and music venues throughout downtown. From the opera house to a lively after-hours music scene, there is something for everyone. On Wednesday nights, visit Arts Place, where Red Barn Radio presents a stellar lineup of bluegrass musicians. While at Arts Place, enjoy the gallery, which features local and regional artists. For you theater-goers, you can find the Actors Guild here at the Downtown Arts Center, or for something more exotic, head over to Natasha's Bistro to experience contemporary dining with theater and music. I'm Jim Clark, here at the Black Box Theater at the Downtown Arts Center, inviting you to make downtown your destination for the arts. Hi, I'm Jennifer Ebert from the American Heart and Stroke Association. Summer brings fun-filled days at the pool and enjoying family picnics, baseball, and other outdoor activities. It's also a great time to kick up your walking program. Whether you enjoy fun in the sun or prefer to stay indoors, the American Heart Association Start Walking Program gives you tips to get started and stay motivated. You'll find everything you need to know in our Start Summer Walking Guide at startwalkingnow.org, including what to wear and when and where to walk. Learn what to eat and how much to drink before and after walking. You'll also find suggestions for pairing up with a partner and important safety tips for warming up and beating the heat. For more information about the American Heart Association Start Walking Program and our Start Summer Walking Guide, please contact the American Heart Association at 859-278-1632 or visit startwalkingnow.org. I'm going to go to the next one. The End Play golf, Lexington. There's so much to do downtown. There's wonderful restaurants and great shopping. But there's no place to park. Rome, you can park here. You can park here. You can park here. Come on, downtown. With plenty of support. I guess we were wrong. Thanks to Lexport, there's plenty of parking. Did you know that downtown Lexington hosts well over 50 events, parades, walks, and races? To name a few, Mayfest, Fourth of July Festival, Roots and Heritage Festival, Christmas Parade, St. Patrick's Day Parade, the Thriller Event, a Halloween favorite, Museum Go Round, Thursday Night Live, Swinging on Main, Bike Lexington, Midsummer Night's Run, Race for the Cure, and Martin Luther King Day March. Check it out. Downtown is alive with activity. From the bluegrass to the mountains, our lakes regions, I think Kentucky is one of the most beautiful places on earth. The original idea for the bluegrass games came from Leslie Klein, a former Olympian who had participated as a child and teen in the New York State Games. Knowing the Kentucky people as I do, I thought this Olympic sports festival would appeal to our sports tradition and the competitive nature of all Kentuckians. So I called the meeting in January of 1985, reaching out across the state to the top sports and recreation and professional experts. They all came together and believed, as they said, with a lot of effort, we could do it. With a year to plan, we could put together a great sports festival. My response was that I wasn't talking about 1986. I really wanted the first games in the summer of 1985. There was a silence in the room, and most said, it can't be done. But then soon after that meeting, I got a call from Ann Coffey, my games organizer, saying that Sue Feimster had called from UK asking to talk to me about the games. She had talked with President Singletary and Mayor Basler, and they agreed to host the first games. I was delighted. And then she told me she had only one request of me. She said, Governor, you must be the face and the voice of the games to show that the state is behind this effort. That I would appear when they needed me. That I would put the weight of the state behind the effort with volunteers and the National Guard. And so I asked, Sue, is that all you want? And she said, well, at least for now, Governor. The sports teams were organized immediately. Our state news machine went to work. We announced the games, and so much enthusiasm and momentum was building. The fundraising began, and Bob Davis took the lead in fundraising and created a team, including my husband Bill, to make pitches for the games to potential funders. Three brave sponsors stepped forward, Coca-Cola, CSX, and Ashland Oil, putting up the money to fund the games for the first three years. They became our founding sponsors. We now have 26 sponsors and a budget of half a million dollars. The first year wasn't all smooth sailing. We had huge obstacles to overcome. There was housing, feeding 20,000 people, 1,000 volunteers and the media, moving food and water to the sites, and, of course, first-rate injury care. The task was really monumental. One of the things I'm most proud of is the care and treatment of the athletes that became injured. We had athletic trainers and volunteer doctors from five states on call at various sites. Just the very best. Challenge after challenge was overcome. Finally, the games did begin. We started in Frankfurt on the steps of the Capitol with the lighting of the Olympic torch, carried by runners from Frankfurt to Lexington. The runners created quite a sensation running on US-60 with their military and their ambulance escorts, and traffic was tied up for miles. While I was in it, trying to get to the campus, finally a police escort rescued me on Versailles Road and got me in the back way to the stadium. Opening ceremony that first year was at the UK Shively Track, which seated about 12,000 people. By 5 o'clock, the stadium was packed with parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, waiting to see their sons and daughters participate in the parade of athletes. When I entered the stadium, I was filled with emotion. a packed house in the stands, and 10,000 Kentuckians set to parade in with their teams. And then it started. Good evening, everybody, and welcome to the Bluegrass State Games. I'm K. Wood Ledford. K. Wood Ledford announced in his wondrous voice, and an Olympic fanfare escorted the runner carrying the torch into the stadium from Frankfurt and handed it off to our special guest, Bob Beeman. the great gold medal winner in long jump. People went wild in the stands, cheering and standing and waving flags. Three National Guard jets flew over the stadium. It was simply stupendous. The colors of each team filled the stadium infield. And standing there, I couldn't believe my eyes. Six months, we had done it. Beyond my wildest expectations. I took the podium and after a few remarks, enthusiastically said, I now declare the 1985 Bluegrass State Games open for competition. We started State Games in Florida in 1980. I was really concerned about what our home state was going to do. I'd already seen opening ceremonies in Montana, in Ohio, Indiana, and South Carolina. I was at that opening ceremony. I couldn't believe what my home state was doing. The Bluegrass State Games was already one of the best state games in the nation, and it had just started, and it still is. Way to go, Kentucky. Way to go, Governor. Can you imagine that little old Kentucky had the largest first-year state games ever? That we consistently rank in the top five nationally in participation, beating out other states with much larger populations like Indiana, Ohio, Florida, and New York. In 24 games, 350,000, yes, 350,000 have participated, and we have been a training ground for people of all ages and skill levels. One of our most recent success stories is Tyson Gay, whose mother encouraged him as a youth to run in the games. Now an Olympian, Tyson ran the third fastest 200 meters in the world in winning the Reebok Grand Prix. Now that's what I call the spirit of Kentucky. You know, in about 20, 25 years from now, historians may look back and say that Martha Lane Collins and her administration were very key in bringing about to education reform in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, but what they may overlook is the fact that this lady right here had a very important part to play in the bringing of the Bluegrass State games here to the Bluegrass State. There are so many people who have made these games successful. Not just me. Each governor after me has supported the games. Each mayor in Lexington, Richmond, Frankfurt, and Georgetown, and the presidents of those colleges and universities who donated facilities and people and all the little things that made a big difference. The volunteers who do yeoman's work and our sponsors who help fund the games and the people, the people from every part of the state who came together in kinship and competition. The people of Kentucky are the spirit of the games. Their love of competition, their embracing of Kentucky and the unity of this state has helped the games to reach their first quarter century. May the games go on for another 25 years. Hi, I'm Diane Bonfort with the Downtown Development Authority, and I'm here downtown next to one of the pay and display meters. Never used one. I'm not sure how it works. Look, here's Gary Means, Mr. Parking Authority himself. How you doing? So these are somewhat new and people are still learning how to use them and I'm one of those that's still learning how, so explain it to me. There's three main things you want to remember. First of all, you need to pick out how much time you want before you put your money in. We're finding some people are just walking up and sticking their money in like the old meters, but you've got to decide how much time you want. So let's just say we're going to park for 15 minutes. So that's selection number four. So I'm going to hit number four, and it's 25 cents. So I don't stick any money. And now I can pay with a dollar bill, or I can put a quarter in, or I can pay with a credit card. So I'll put my quarter in. All right. It tells you that you paid. It says, please wait. And it's going to print the receipt. It's printing a receipt. Receipt comes out down here. So the second thing is place this on your dash. A lot of people will take that, put it in their pocket, and walk off, and then they're going to receive a ticket. So that's their proof that you paid instead of having the old meters that show. Right, exactly. So first thing, pick out how much time you want. Second thing is after you get your receipt, put it on your dash. And the third thing is really cool. This receipt's good for ever how long you paid, and if you don't use all the time here, you can move your vehicle to any of our other meters in town. Great, and much easier than I thought. Exactly. This is great, but if people have other questions, how can they find out more information? Well, the best place to go is our website, and that's lexpark.org. or you can call the Lex Park office at 231-PARK. That's 231-7275. Great. Thanks so much. No problem. Okay. What to do, what to do. Here's the answer. It's all in the new fun guide from Lexington Parks and Recreation. Look for it in your mailbox. Things for everyone to do. Parks and Recreation style. Activities for all ages from 1 to 91. The new 2009 fall fun guide. Look for it in your mailbox soon. Let's recreate people. Hi, I'm Jennifer Ebert from the American Heart and Stroke Association. Summer brings fun-filled days at the pool and enjoying family picnics, baseball, and other outdoor activities. It's also a great time to kick up your walking program. Whether you enjoy fun in the sun or prefer to stay indoors, the American Heart Association's Start Walking program gives you tips to get started and stay motivated. You'll find everything you need to know in our Start Summer Walking Guide at Start Walking now.org including what to wear and when and where to walk learn what to eat and how much to drink before and after walking you'll also find suggestions for pairing up with a partner and important safety tips for warming up and beating the heat for more information about the American Heart Association start walking program and our start summer walking guide please contact the American Heart Association at 859-278-1632 or visit startwalkingnow.org. I try and I try, Lord knows I do But each time my heart beats back to you Meanwhile, I'll go on living my life now I'll find a way somehow Oh, but meanwhile Back in the back of my memory You'll always be with me But I'll never hold you again Meanwhile ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ As hard as kerosene Weren't your mama's only boy But her favorite one at sea She began to cry When you said goodbye Sank into your dream Moncho was a banded boy His horse was fast as far as steel He wore his gun outside his pants For all the honest world to feel Poncho met his match, you know On the deserts down in Mexico Nobody heard his dying word Oh, but that's the way it goes All the federalists say They could have had him any day They only let him slip away Out of kindness, I suppose Lifty he can't sing the blues All night long like he used to The dusty poncho bit down south Ended up and left his mouth The day they laid for poncho low Lefty split for Ohio Where he got the bread to go There ain't nobody known All the federalists say They could have had him any day We only let him slip away Out of kind size four guitar solo Cleveland's cold So the story ends, we're told I still need your prayers, it's true Save a few, we're lefty too He only did what he had to do And now he's grown old Oh, better are they say We could have had him every day We only let him go so long Out of kind and size full A few great better are they say We could have had him any day We only let him go so long Out of kindness I suppose Here you come again Just when I've begun to get myself together You walked right in the door Just like you've done before And wrap my heart round your little finger Here you come again Touch what I'm about to make it work without you You look into my eyes and lie those pretty lies And pretty soon I'm wondering how I came to doubt you All you gotta do is smile and smile And therefore all of my defenses Just leave it up to you And in a little while You're messing up my mind And filling up my senses Here you come again Looking better than a body has a right to And shaking me up so That all I really know Is here you come again And here I go All you gotta do is smile and smile And therefore we're mighty missing I should leave it up to you I've been a little while You're messing up my mind And filling up my senses Here you come again Looking better than a body has a right to And shaking me up so That all I really know Is here you come again And here I go Here I go And here I go And here I go Here you come again And here I go Here I go We'll be right back. When I get you in my arms, you better beware. I go insane cause I can't beat them. Like a tiger. Ooh, like a tiger. Ooh, just a sea smile. Hi, I'm Jay McCord, city councilman in the 9th District. I just want to take this time to introduce myself and tell a little bit about what we're doing in the 9th District. I'm serving my third term as city council member. I'm a lifelong resident of the 9th District. I've lived in the Clays Mill Road corridor my whole life. And has that corridor ever changed over the last 40-some years? But it is a real honor and a privilege to serve the district that I've lived in. I am deeply, deeply passionate about a number of issues and a number of specific projects that I want to share with you. But before we do that, I want to just again give you the general outline of where the district falls. Basically, the 9th District goes from Harrodsburg Road on one side to Nicholasville Road on the other, from New Circle Road out to the county line, the Jessamine County line. And so Clays Mill Road is kind of the middle of the district, if you will. Now granted, we also have South Point subdivision in the 9th District. Inside the 9th District, probably the largest project that is going on that we all are very familiar with is the Clays Mill Road widening and improvement project. That specific project is actually two phases. The first phase is to go from Manowar into New Circle Road. That was supposed to have been completed by 2010. And due to a number of funding issues from the state and some other things, that had gotten postponed. The good news is that there's utility work going on and being done right now as we speak, and that construction will begin as soon as that utility work stops. And you'll start to see from Keithshire Way up to Old Higby Mill, from Old Higby Mill to Keithshire, that portion improved very rapidly once the utility work is wrapped up. From there, you'll see the other ends of Clay's Mill from New Circle out to Man of War being done. And what you're going to have on Clay's Mill is you're going to have a three-lane road. So you have a center turn lane, two lanes going and coming, and you have also four-foot bike lanes, curb and gutter, and a wider sidewalk to work with. So it becomes a lot more pedestrian friendly. It becomes a lot safer road, and we don't infringe upon where the sidewalks actually exist right now. That's obviously a huge, huge project that's been talked about for 30 years, and so it's something that obviously we all see every day. Other things, though, that are going on that are really vital to the 9th District are the park improvements that we've been working on, specifically, Shelltoe Park. We have put a tremendous amount of resources into Shiltoe. My goal is to make it a national destination park. We've done that with the Miracle League. It was only the 17th field in the country built this way for the physically, mentally challenged, and it is a real jewel and has really been an asset for that park. But we're also building the Healthway trail system in and throughout Shiltoe. There will be 3 1⁄2 miles of trail built inside Shiltoe. That construction will start this year and go into next year, 2010. We've also built Wellington Park, which is on the corner of Clay's Mill and Wellington Way and New Circle. And this is a 32-acre park that for 12 years sat there dormant. And we were able to put a mile and a half worth of trail in, the dog parks, and it will remain a very passive park, much like the Arboretum where we're shooting this right now. It's going to be a place where gardens can be, and we can blade, bike, walk, push a stroller, have your dog there. We also have put trails into South Point Park and Old Higby Mill Park. And all of these ultimately will connect up to one another. So for me, what I've spent a lot of time on council trying to do is move monies into things that allow us to be together and recreate as families. And we use the 9th District as a template for a lot of these things for the city as well as for around the state. And with that, one of the projects that sort of sprung up out of our efforts in Shiltoe Park and Wellington putting trails in is the Legacy Trail. And the Legacy Trail is a monumental project because it's going to be done before the World Equestrian Games begin in 2010. And it will connect our downtown to the horse park. You'll be able to get on a bike or be able to walk from our urban core into our rural character and ultimately to a tremendous tourist destination at the horse park. And this is, again, an outcrop of something that happened in the 9th District that started there. So what I really enjoy about council, and the reason I enjoy being part of the city right now, is because as a native Lexingtonian, I can say this is an exciting time to live in Lexington, Maybe the most exciting, but yet it's also the most challenging. And it is incredible to see the dynamics that are happening in our city, in our downtown, and as I say, with trails connecting and statewide connectivity that's happening that hadn't happened before. That's why, again, it's wonderful for me to serve in the capacity as the city councilman for the 9th District. Hopefully this gives you a little insight into who I am and what we're working on. And granted, there are a myriad of committees that I serve on that touch a number of things, from economic development to the services of our government. But I just wanted to give you a snapshot of who serves in the 9th District. Again, I appreciate the opportunity to serve. And my information is at the bottom. And if my office can do anything for you, please do call. Thank you so much. The Best One Something's always missing Till you share it with someone else There's a difference in living and living well My days are brighter My sky a deeper blue My nights are sweeter When I'm with you There's a difference in living and living well You can't have it all all by yourself Something's always missing Till you share it with someone else There's a difference in living I thought I was living There's a difference in living and living well This one way love affair ain't fair, it ain't no affair to me It's all give and take and you just did I can't take it, you see Well, I'm giving up all of this time. Me and my friends will do just fine. I've done everything for you. You've done nothing for me. I've done everything for you. You've done nothing for me. Someday I'd have a whole lot of money I'd be a millionaire But when that didn't happen overnight I found out how much you really cared Well, all you want is a whole lot of money All the rest is just jiving, honey I've done everything for you You've done nothing for me I've done everything for you You've done nothing for me When I first met you You didn't know how to love a man All those things about making love You didn't understand But now you know about everything I'm turning you in for my knees I've done everything for you You've done nothing for me I've done everything for you. You've done nothing for me. I've done everything for you You've done nothing for me I've done everything for you You've done nothing for me I'm going out on the town tonight Get as wild as I can be I'm going to find out what it's real I like to be loose, high and free I don't care what the people say I'm taking my mind, I'm changing the state I've done everything for you You've done nothing for me I've done everything for you You've done nothing for me You've done nothing for me You've done nothing You've done nothing You've done nothing for me Two o'clock this morning This is your time of calling I wouldn't seem to turn her away And if it got hot and heavy I know she'd be electric I better take her chances with me You see She gets what she wants Cause she's hot and cold She's hot and cold She's got it all I've been loving every night Oh Oh, can't you see her standing there? See how she looks, see how she cares Let her steal the night away from me Nine o'clock this morning She let me go to learn it I let her take the damage of me You see, she got what she wanted Cause she's hard and soul She's hard and cold She's got it all I love it every night Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Yeah, she's hard and sore She's hard and cold She's got it all She's hard and sore She's got this love in every night Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh She's got it all She's hard and so She's hard and so She's hard and soul She's hard and soul She's hard and soul I'm sorry. Digging up bones Then I went through the jewelry And I found our wedding rings I put mine on my finger And I gave yours a flame Across this lonely bedroom Of our recent broken home Yet at night I'm sitting alone Digging up bones I'm digging up bones I'm digging up bones Exuming things that's better left alone I'm resurrecting memories of love that's dead and gone Yet tonight I'm sitting alone, digging up bones And I went through the closet and I found some things in there Like that pretty negligee that I bought you to wear And I recall how good you looked each time you had it on Yet tonight I'm sitting alone digging up bones I'm digging up bones, I'm digging up bones Exhuming things that's better left alone I'm resurrecting memories of a love that's dead and gone Yet tonight I'm sitting alone, picking up bones I'm resurrecting memories of a love that's dead and gone Yet tonight I'm sittin' alone Diggin' up bones I'm diggin' up bones Exhuming things that's better left alone I'm resurrectin' memories of love that's dead and gone Yet tonight I'm sittin' alone Diggin' up bones I'm diggin' up bones Diggin' up bones Exhuming things that's better left alone I'm resurrecting memories of love that's dead and gone Now here you go again, you say you want your freedom. Well, who am I to keep you down? It's only right that you should play the way you feel it. Well, listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness Like a heartbeat drives you in And I still remember what you have And what you love And what you have And what you love Oh, thunder only happens when it's raining Players only love you when they're playing Say a whiff, they will come and they will go When the rain washes you clean, you'll know You'll know Now here I go again I see the crystal vision I keep my visions to myself We're telling me Who wants to wrap around your dreams And have you any dreams you like yourself Dreams of loneliness Like a heartbeat that you made And you're still as a man And what you love What you love What you love Wonder what happens when it's raining Players only love you when they're playing Women, they will come and they will go When the rain washes you, clean your load Oh, thunder only happens when it's raining Players only love you when they're playing Say women, they will come and they will go When the rain washes you clean You'll know You'll know You will know You'll know We'll be right back. I was riding into overload It was extreme I took it so high, so low So low, there was nowhere to go Like a bad dream Somehow the wild sun crawled Tables were turned Never knew I had such a lesson to learn I'm feeling good from my head to my shoes Know where I'm going and I know what I'm to do I've tidied up my point of view I've got a new attitude I'm in control, my worries are few Pass out my load like I'm overdo Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh I've got a new attitude I'm wearing a new dress, new hat Brand new ideas as a matter of fact I've changed for good It must have been the whole night New mood might change Or then the bigger of other people I'm in control. My worries are few But I can't look like I'm overdo Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh I got a new attitude Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Somehow the wires uncrawled The tables were turned Never knew I had such a lesson to know I'm feeling good from my head to my shoes Know where I'm going and I know what to do I tidied up my point of view I've got a new attitude I'm in control, my worries are few I'm in control, my worries are few I've got a new attitude Feeling cool Feeling cool My head's in my view I got a two-way to I got a two-way to Everything about me that's me Baby, I got a two-way to I got a two-way to I got a two-way to I'm not a bad boy. I'm not a bad boy. I was walking you home. We got down to the gate and I was dreaming of the night. Would it turn out right? Hard to tell you, girl. I want to build my world around you. Tell you that it's true. I want to make you understand I'm talking about a lifetime plan That's the way it began We were hand in hand Ben Miller's band was better than before We yelled and screamed for more In the morning, you made us dance across the room It ended all too soon On the way back home, I promise you'd never be alone Hurry, don't be late I cannot wait I said to myself When we're on We'll go dancing in the dark Walking through the park And reminiscing Friday night it was late I was walking you home We got down to the gate And I was dreaming of the night Would it turn out right Now as the years roll on Each time we hear our favorite songs The memories come along Older times we're missing Spending the hours where we're missing Hurry, don't be late I can hardly wait I said to myself, when we're old We'll go dancing in the dark Walking through the park and reminiscing Thank you. They read you Cinderella, you hoped it would come true That one day your Prince Charm would come rescue you You like romantic movies, you never will forget The way you felt when Romeo kissed Juliet All this time that you've been waiting You don't have to wait no more I can love you like that I would make you my world Through heaven and earth If you were my girl I will give you my heart, be all that you need, show you your everything that's precious to me. If you give me a chance, I can love you like that. I'd never make a promise I don't intend to keep So when I say forever Forever's what I mean I'm no cast of no hope But I swear this much is true I'll be holding nothing back When it comes to you You dream of love as everlasting Well, baby, open up your eyes I can love you like that I would make you my world Through heaven and earth If you were my girl I will give you my heart Be all that you need Show you your everything that's precious to me If you give me a chance, I can love you like that. You want a man, I've got a man, and I see through the heart of you. If you want a man who understands, you don't have to look very far. I can love you, I can, I can love you like that. I will make you my world, new heaven and earth. If you are my girl, I will give you my heart. Be all that you need Show you your everything that's precious to me I can love you like that I would make you my world In heaven and earth If you were my girl I would give you my heart Be all that you need Show you your everything that's precious to me I can love you like that. I will make you my world. Be heaven and earth. Oh, it's raining again. I know my love's out of hand I know it's raining again But you know it's hard to pretend I know it's raining again Too bad I'm losing a friend I know it's raining again Oh, will my heart ever mend You're old enough, some people say To read the signs and walk away It's only time that heals the pain That makes the sun come out again It's raining again I know my love's at an end I know it's raining again Too bad I'm losing a friend Come on you little fighter No need to get up tighter Come on, you little fighter And get back up again It's raining again Oh no, my love's at an end Oh no, it's raining again Too bad I'm losing a friend Bye-bye I'm sorry. Come on, you little fighter No need to get up tighter Come on, you little fighter And get back up again Oh, get back up again Oh, do your heart again Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Banders playing kind of soft and low All the lovers swaying to and fro You and me together Dancing real slow Tonight's the night I want you to know I can't hold out any longer And that my love can't grow Very much stronger You better hang on to your heart Hold on tight Or I'm gonna steal it away tonight I'll take you in my arms And never ever let you go There's a new moon out The stars are shining bright You're here with me and it feels so right So hang on to your heart Or I'm gonna steal it away You're living proof that dreams come true And I can't believe I'm really holding you So close, so tight, the whole night grew If I could only make time stand still forever. It'll always be just you and me here together. You better hang on to your heart. Hold on tight or I'm gonna steal it away tonight. I'll take you in my arms But never ever let you go There's a new moon out The stars are shining bright You're here with me and it feels so right So hang on to your heart Or I'm gonna steal it away Hang on, hang on Hang on to your heart. Hang on, hang on, hang on to your heart. Hang on, hang on, hang on to your heart. Thank you. You're no good, you're no good, you're no good, baby, you're no good. I want to say it again. You're no good, you're no good, you're no good, baby, you're no good. I broke a heart, it's gentle and true. Well, I broke a heart over someone like you. I'll beg you for giving me something to me I won't blame it if it's set to free You're no good, you're no good, you're no good Baby, you're no good I'm gonna say it again You're no good, you're no good, you're no good Baby, you're no good guitar solo my way Forget about you, baby Like I'm leaving the same You're no good, you're no good You're no good, baby You're no good I'm not saying I can't, you're no good You're no good, you're no good Baby, you're no good Oh, oh, oh You're no good, you're no good You're no good, baby You're no good guitar solo Thank you. Thank you. It must have been cold there in my shadow. To never have sunlight on your face. You were content to let me shine. That's your way. You always walked a step behind. So I was the one with all the glory While you were the one with all the strain A beautiful face without a name For so long Beautiful smile to hide the pain Did you ever know that you're my hero And everything I would like to be I can fly higher than an eagle For you are the wind beneath my wings It might have appeared to go unnoticed But I've got it all here in my heart I want you to know I know the truth. Of course I know it. I would be nothing without you. Did you ever know that you're my hero? You're everything I wish I could be. I could fly higher than an eagle For you are the wind beneath my wings Did I ever tell you you're my hero? You're everything, everything I wish I could be Oh, life, I can lie higher than I may go Cause you are the wind beneath my wings Cause you are the wind beneath my wings Oh, the wind beneath my wings You, you You are the wind beneath my wings Fly, fly Fly away You let me fly so high Oh, you, you, you, the wind beneath my wings. Oh, you, you, the wind beneath my wings. Fly, fly. So high in the sky. So high on your toes, touch the sky Thank you, thank you, thank God for you The wind beneath my wing He don't love you like I love you If he did, he would break your heart He don't love you like I love you He's trying to tempt us apart Farewell, I know you're leaving I know you're leaving For the new love that you found A handsome guy that you've been dating Oh, I got a feeling he's gonna put you down Cause he don't love you Like I love you If he did, he would break your heart He don't love you like I love you He's trying to tear us apart He uses all the great votations He says the things I wish I could say But he's had so many rehearsals Girl, to him it's just another place But wait, when the final act is over And you're left standing on When he takes his bow and makes his exit Girl, I'll be there to take you home He don't love you He'll like out of you Cause if he did, he wouldn't break your heart For he don't love you, girl, like I love you He's trying to tear the walls apart He don't love you Like I love you If he did, he wouldn't break your heart He don't love you like I love you He's trying to tear us apart Fare thee well, I know you're leaving For the new love that you found The handsome guy that you've been dating Oh, I've got a feeling he's gonna put you down Because he don't love you like I love you If he did, he wouldn't break your heart He don't love you like I love you He's trying to tear us apart now He uses all the great quotations He says the things I wish I could say Oh, but he's had so many rehearsals Girl, to him it's just another play But wait, and when the final act is over And you'll let standing all alone When he takes his bow and makes his exit I'll be there to take you home He don't love you And he never wins like I love you Because if he did, he would love Praise God Well, it's Saturday night and I just got paid. Pulled up out my money, don't try to save. My heart say go, go. Have a time cause it's Saturday night and I feel it fine. I'm gonna rock it up. I'm gonna rip it up. I'm gonna shake it up. Gonna burn it up. I'm gonna rock it up. And ball tonight. Got me a date and I won't be late. Pick her up in my 88. Shaggo down by the Union Hall When the judge start jumping I have a ball I'm gonna rock it up I'm gonna rip it up I'm gonna shake it up Gonna ball it up I'm gonna rock it up And ball tonight Along about ten I'll be flying high Walk on out onto the sky But I don't care if I spin my goal Cause tonight I'm gonna be one I'm gonna rock it up I'm gonna rip it up I'm gonna shake it up Gonna burn it up I'm gonna rock it up And ball tonight Well, it's Saturday night and I just got paid. Who about my money don't try to save? My heart say go, go. Have a time cause Saturday night and I'm feeling fine. I'm gonna rock it up. I'm gonna rip it up. I'm gonna shake it up. Gonna ball it up. I'm gonna rock it up. And ball tonight. I long about it and I'll be flying high. Walk on out unto the sky But I don't care if I spin my gold Tomorrow tonight is gonna be one episode I'm gonna rock it up I'm gonna rip it up I'm gonna shake it up Gonna ball it up I'm gonna rock it up And ball tonight Thank you. Coming your way next on Channel 3, a groundbreaking moment for the Lyric, next month's Minority Business Expo, and the horse park's newest venue. This and more coming your way on Lexington Now. Thank you. Hello, everybody. I'm David Sullivan. Welcome to this week's edition of Lexington Now. It's your place for updates on the latest news, events, and programs of the Lexington and Fayette Urban County government. Thanks for being with us. We're coming to you from the studios of GTV3. We begin this week with a pivotal moment in the revitalization of the Third Street Corridor. Last week's groundbreaking for the rehabilitation of the Lyric Theater and Cultural Arts Center. The groundbreaking ends years of struggle to replace a downtown landmark, a landmark that means a great deal, not just to the local African-American community, but also to the rich, diverse history of Lexington. Good morning. This is a very, very special day for not only the East End of Lexington, but for the entire community. The long-awaited rebirth of the Lyric Theater and Cultural Arts Center officially begins today. Just a few days ago, the council and I moved the Lyric off the drawing board, where it's been languishing for well over 10 years, and now it's time to dig in and to start the construction. This is a great day for our entire community, and we have a lot of people that we need to recognize today, including the members of the hard-working Lyric Theater Task Force including its chair Juanita Betts-Peterson and longtime member Robert Jefferson who are here behind me. And then perhaps most of all we need to recognize the enduring support of all of the citizens of the East End who have for so many years just refused to give up on the Lyric. Thank you for your presence here today and your support over the years. So in thinking about what I wanted to say, I thought I would take this approach is I'll just have you raise your hand if you fit one of these criterias. If you've participated on the task force, raise your hand and keep your hand up. If you've participated on the business plan work group, raise your hand and keep your hand up. If you've ever written an email in support of the Lyric, raise your hand and keep your hand up. If you've ever called your council member or another public official in support of the lyric, raise your hand and keep your hand up. If you've ever had a conversation about the lyric and the need for it to revitalize, raise your hand and keep your hand up. If you've ever said a prayer or had a thought about the lyric, raise your hand and keep your hand up. Now take that hand and give yourself a pat on the back or the person next to you a pat on the back because you're the reason why. Good job. Job well done. I want to thank all of you for coming today. This is a red-letter day. It's a day we'll always remember. And I can't thank all of you enough for supporting us. Andrea, you stole my thunder. I was going to do some of that same thing here. Everybody who had done something, called somebody, said something, participated, spoken, whatever, to come forward. But I cannot tell you that we were in this alone. There have been allies all along, people who said, this will never be done. And I said, oh, yes, it will. I used to be a cheerleader, so I've been cheering for the Lyric for over three years. And when I first moved here in 1981 and I passed by the Lyric and I looked at it, I said, something ought to be done with that. That could be a beautiful place to go. And, you know, my mind started daydreaming, but I didn't know what to do. So somebody gave me an opportunity, Mayor. Three years ago, well, in 2005, Mayor Teresa Isaac appointed this task force. And then in 2007, Mayor Newberry reappointed us. And to that end, we came to today. We didn't know how long it would take, but that determination prevailed. And I am so happy to be a part of this process. I can't thank you enough. Whether you came to all the meetings, whether you came to the open houses, whatever you did, you did it from your heart. And that's the way we feel about today. Approximately 20 years ago when there was a discussion about restoring the Kentucky Theater after it had a major fire, I went to Mayor Baszler and told him that if we are going to talk about the historic nature of the Kentucky theater, then I want to have some discussion about the Lyric Theater, because as a native Lexingtonian, I never had the right to go to the Kentucky Theater because of the segregation at that time. But the lyric represented a new era for Lexington, and therefore I felt that we should be considered in any process or any revitalization of a theater in Lexington. So he awarded the initial $250,000. dollars. Subsequent to that, a group called the Second District Retirees formed, and one of the things that they were concerned about was this building located here, and remembering the history of it and their participation in the activities, they wanted to know what was going to be done. And I told them that the mayor had allocated $250,000, and they said, wow, and they became involved in that effort. Unfortunately, of over 75 individuals who were in the second district retiree group, approximately half of them are deceased. And I'm here on their behalf to say I represent you for a fact that occurred that you did not feel would happen. Everybody ready? One, two, three. My love is coming on. Turning now to the Economic Development Front, news of next month's Minority Business Expo scheduled for August 5th and 6th. Anthony Wright, who heads up economic development for the urban county government, serves as co-chair of the Expo. The Expo, now in its seventh year. I'm Anthony Wright, co-chair for the Minority Business Expo. The Minority Business Expo will be held August 5th and 6th at Lexington Center. And we're excited about the Expo this year. It's a challenge every year to try to make it bigger and better than the year before, and we think we've done that this year. We start the Expo off on the 5th with the exhibit hall and our signature feature, the one-on-one sessions. We've expanded that opportunity this year to allow minority businesses to meet with majority companies and talk specifically about how to do business with each other. We think that this will create an opportunity for mutual business exchange, and we've actually asked companies that are very serious about supply chain diversity to be involved in the one-on-one sessions. And, of course, we also have a wonderful exhibit hall where we'll feature a lot of local minority businesses, women-owned businesses, and some majority companies, again, who are interested in diversifying their supply chain. On the 6th of August, we're going to start out today with one of our keynote speakers. We have two keynote speakers on the 6th. The first is Mr. Stephen Hightower. He's the president of Hightower Petroleum, a phenomenal company. started in 1957 as a family-owned business. Mr. Hightower has been the head of that company for many years and incorporated the company in 1987. This company has been on the Black Enterprise 100s list and I believe has actually been number three in the industrial services sector. We're excited about Mr. Hightower and what he can bring to us at this event because we know that having a family-owned business since 1957. Certainly he's encountered difficult times and difficult economies before. He can share with us what it takes to have ingenuity, creativity to weather tough times like this. We're excited about him being here. And then followed by Mr. Hightower, we'll have six breakout sessions. The breakout sessions are designed to make sure that we provide opportunities that are available in the central Kentucky area. We start off with a session that's talking about strategic partnerships, strategic alliances, and we think that those partnerships are very, very key in terms of building capacity between companies that may not be of a large size, but two companies working together can certainly grow to different market opportunities. We'll also be talking about what we think are some great opportunities related with the stimulus and going toward more of a green economy. Certainly with the building challenges, the challenges we have in our built environment, moving toward a greener economy will provide opportunities for contractors, for those who want to get in different areas of the green economy, in services and in materials. And we think that this is going to be an interesting session for people to come here. We'll also have a breakout session on the strategy to survive a tough environment. That's a very, very important topic right now as we deal with the challenges in our local economy. We'll also examine what I think is a wonderful opportunity, a signature opportunity coming up for central Kentucky and for Kentucky in general, and that is the FEI 2010 World Equestrian Games. We know that that's going to be a wonderful opportunity for Lexington and for our businesses and to really showcase our community. And we really believe that this year, this is the time when a lot of the spending will start to take place for that signature event. We also have a company that is involved with doing inclusion for the project, and that's National Diversity Solutions. They will talk specifically about what some of the opportunities are and where we can actually receive benefits from being involved in the world of equestrian games. But I must say a word about our headline keynote speaker, Ms. Patricia Russell-McLeod. In a word, she's an absolute star. She has spoken to over 200,000 people annually in both public and private sectors, as well as nationally and internationally. Well-acclaimed, well-respected, and highly recommended by our last year keynote, Mr. George Frazier. She is a graduate of Kentucky State University, so we're bringing her back to Kentucky. And she is a lawyer, business owner, writer, and has several books that will be available on sale for a book signing. So we really invite everyone to come and share in this expo. We think it's a wonderful opportunity for our companies to get to know each other and see how we can do business together, and then also to inform our overall community on what kinds of businesses are here in Lexington, Kentucky. Again, the expo was held August 5th and 6th at Lexington Center. For more information on our breakout sessions and any updates that we have regarding the expo, you may visit us online at www.lexingtonmbe.com, or you may call us at 285-1173. I'm Marcus Sepsin, Vice President of Marketing at Technology Consulting Group America. We provide enterprise technology solutions and IT products, services and support for businesses in the Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky areas and beyond. We've partnered with IT companies like Cisco, Barracuda Networks, Microsoft, HP to provide technology products and services for small and medium businesses. We provide managed services like spam filtering, online backup. We have a managed services offering. We do web hosting. We basically are the IT outsource provider for small and medium-sized businesses. With the Minority Business Expo, whenever you get suppliers and contractors in the same room with buyers, good things happen. And it's all about networking. It's all about finding out who needs what service or what product, networking with the folks, and making a big difference in your community and in your business. Especially in a struggling economy like we have now, networking is vital. Networking is important. When other businesses are kind of cutting back on expenses, small businesses like ours actually try to increase our market share with exposure, with networking, and with just communicating with people, meeting people, and assisting them with their needs and responsibilities. So networking is very important, and the Minority Business Expo is a part of that whole process. To meet people, to talk with people, and to network and exchange business cards is important. Hi, I'm Tina Williams, Vice President of Operations at Technology Consulting Group America. We are an IT consulting firm here in Lexington. We provide technology services, sales, and support to small and medium businesses. You can find out more about our company by visiting our website at www.tcgamerica.com. TCG America was started in May 2006 with three owners and recently, even in the struggling economy, we've added seven new people and have grown to a company of ten. We're excited to add this new talent and think that it's going to be a great way for us to increase our business and to increase our support for our customers. The Minority Business Expo is a great way to meet large companies who are looking for minority businesses to do business with, as well as meet other minority businesses to partner with or to do business with as well. Another milestone is reached at the Kentucky Horse Park. This edition is a big part of the preparation for next year's World Equestrian Games, the opening of the new indoor arena. Horse Park Executive Director John Nicholson is joined by Mayor Jim Newberry and Governor Steve Beshear to dedicate the $45 million, 6,000-seat venue. This is an era in the life of the Kentucky Horse Park where we seem to be assembling like this quite often for these historic occasions and these great milestones. and not only the history of the Kentucky Horse Park, but the history of the horse industry and for the entire Commonwealth. We do seem to have a lot of these historic days, and that's what makes it fun. Today, specifically, our occasion is that we are going to cut the ribbon and open this magnificent, state-of-the-art, 6,000-seat, world-class, $40 million equestrian competition facility at the Kentucky Horse Park. Only a few months ago, right before the Rolex three-day event, we all came together out here just over the hill and cut the ribbon on the new outdoor arena here at the horse park. We obviously have a world-class facility for this indoor arena here today. What an accomplishment. What an accomplishment for this horse park. What an accomplishment for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. This is going to be a jewel in the crown of the horse park, and the horse park is a jewel in the crown of Kentucky's entire equine industry. And the horse park's success and growth will engender progress for horse-related businesses all across this Commonwealth, and thus it's going to help us create a healthier economy for our state. We have talked a lot about the impact the games are going to have on Lexington in September and October of 2010, but as John has said repeatedly, I'm a lot more interested in the impact the games will have in 2011 and beyond, and this facility particularly will have a profound impact on this community for many, many years to come. It will move the horse park to a higher level within the equine world. No question about that. But it's also going to move the bluegrass to a higher level in the equine world, And these investments will pay for themselves time and time and time again. I am excited to be a part of it. And on behalf of not only the 280,000 citizens of Lexington, but for all of the citizens of the Bluegrass region, we are very grateful for the leadership the state has shown in locating this facility here. We're looking forward to the next 436 days, but we're really looking forward to using this for decades to come. One, two, three. That's it. After heavy rains postponed last month's Kentucky River Clean Sweep, it was rescheduled to Saturday, July 25th. Details now on how you can help pick up trash and debris and protect Fayette County's primary drinking water source. Jacqueline Phelps of the Department of Environmental Quality with more information. My name is Jacqueline Phelps. I am the Kentucky River Clean Sweep Coordinator. I work for the Department of Environmental Quality. The Kentucky River Clean Sweep is a cleanup effort of 12 miles of the Fayette County border of Kentucky River. We require volunteers and we also need people with boats and we need just able bodies to come out and help us clean up the river. It's a fun day on the river. You'll spend most of the day out on canoes or on other boats just cleaning up the river. And then we'll come back and we'll have lunches provided and we'll have some prizes and some giveaways for the volunteers. Not only do we need volunteers, but we also need boats and people with boats that are willing to take people out and ferry them up and down the river to help the cleanup effort. We need people to be able to drop people off and clean up the sides of the river. We also need canoes. If you have a canoe, that would be awesome. If you have just a regular pontoon boat, those are excellent to do the cleanup. And we just need people to bring volunteers back and forth along the shoreline. If you have a child under the age of 18, we do ask that you pre-register them. But if you just want to show up Saturday the 20th and you have family or friends that you want to bring, you can just register on there. Or you can call LexCall at 425-2255 or 311 and they'll give you information about the RiverSweep. It's a rain and shine event, so we ask that volunteers be prepared to get dirty. They need to wear sturdy shoes and clothes that can get wet. Obviously, if it's really bad weather, we will cancel it, but for the most part, we have it every year, and we just ask that people be prepared to get dirty. Sometimes gloves are helpful, but we provide gloves. We also provide trash bags, but they just need to prepare to have sunscreen and towels if they need towels, but we'll provide everything else like bags and gloves and that type of thing. Kentucky River is our primary source of drinking water. The uptake is right there by Clay's Ferry. So cleaning it out helps keep our drinking water clean, so it's always important that we do that. It's at Clay's Ferry Boat Dock, which is off of 25. It's right under Clay's Ferry Bridge off of I-75, and there will be signs about where it is. Time now for Lexington Now's Lane Closure Report. A weekly update on traffic delays, detours, and roadway construction. The Lane Closure Report is provided by Channel 3's morning show, Crosstown Traffic. It airs weekday mornings at 630. Here is a look at this week's lane closures from Crosstown Traffic and the Traffic Management Center. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. traffic every weekday morning from 630 to 830 a.m. on GTV3 for live traffic surveillance cameras, collision and impact reports, and up-to-the-minute lane closure information. 311 is your one call for City Hall. Call 311 for everything you need regarding city services. Whether it's solid waste issues, garbage collection, recycling, social services, or code enforcement issues, 311 is your one call for City Hall. Welcome to this week's Parks Minute. Beat the Heat during the Summer Pool Fun Days. Held from noon to 3 p.m. weekly throughout the summer, this event will feature games, prizes, and plenty of fun. Activities are free with your paid admission to the pool. The July 21st Fun Day will be held at the Woodland Aquatics Center. Constitution Pool will host the July 22nd event. Grab your lawn chair and blanket and join us at Ecton Park for Big Band and Jazz. This This event will be held from 7 to 8.30 p.m. every Tuesday through August 18. Colonel's Choice Dixieland Band will be the musical entertainment for the July 21 concert. The Saplin Jamboree will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday evenings through September 1 on the lawn area adjacent to Collins Bowling Lanes. Lawn chairs or blankets should be brought for seating. The entertainment for the July 21 concert will be provided by Stoney Creek. Prana in the Park, a weekly body movement series, will be held at 9 a.m. on Saturday mornings through September the 12th at the gazebo area of Woodland Park. Bring a yoga mat or beach towel. The July 25th class will be Tai Chi. That's this week's Parks Minute. For more information, visit the Parks website at www.lexingtonky.gov. As summer break for City Council continues, we have a light week of meetings ahead. As you take a look at the rundown, remember you can view complete listings of upcoming urban county meetings and events by going to the city's website, lexamanky.gov. Thank you. A major construction reminder. South Limestone between Euclid and Maxwell will be closed beginning July 22nd for a comprehensive streetscape project. The work is due to last well into 2010. Detour signage will be in place for motors. That wraps it up for this week's edition of Lexington Now. We'll see you back here next week with more updated news and information from your urban county government. For Election and Now, I'm David Sullivan, and that's it for now. Thank you.