project: LEXINGTON SOUTHEND PARK DESIGN GUIDELINES
date: 2006
location: LEXINGTON, KY
client: EHI CONSULTANTS
contact: EDWARD J. HOLMES, AICP
Urban Collage, Inc. was retained by EHI Consultants, on behalf of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (LFUCG), to develop the Master Plan and Housing Pattern Book for the Southend Park Neighborhood that lies adjacent to the proposed Newtown Pike Extension (NPE), visioned as a grand urban boulevard.
Created with affected residents & area stakeholders, the NPE plan recognizes the inseparability of land use and transportation by outlining strategies for economic development and neighborhood redevelopment that would be leveraged by the construction of the new road through some of the more distressed urban areas. The presence of a high-volume road sets the table for mixed-use retail development that would not only bring commercial amenities to under served neighborhoods, but would act as architectural transitions to lower-scale residential districts. The main open space, Southend Park, would improved to contain a community garden, a playground, and recreation area. Single-family detached housing would occupy most of DeRoode Street, while the more intensely-developed southern portion would contain mixed-use and apartment buildings and the new mission surrounding a formal plaza.
The Southend Park Urban Village Plan anticipated the need for a set of design guidelines that would inform the development of residential construction. Each single-family prototype was chosen on the basis of local historic precedent and maximizing plan variations. Four different multifamily prototypes are also included that provide a broad range of unit sizes and layouts. Site standards are also included to ensure that proper relationships between buildings and their sites, and buildings and other buildings, are maintained.
