project: LEXINGTON – FAYETTE INFILL REDEVELOPMENT STEERING COMMITTEE
date: 2007 – 2008
location: LEXINGTON, KY
client: LEXINGTON – FAYETTE URBAN COUNTY GOVERNMENT
contact: CHRIS KING, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF PLANNING
Urban Collage, Inc. was retained by Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government to help lead a blue ribbon panel of stakeholders in developing proactive policies and plans for promoting infill and redevelopment with the existing Urban Services Boundary, the first growth boundary in the country.
In 2007, the Planning Commission’s decision to not expand the Urban Services Boundary created renewed and expanded interest in creating policies, standards and an implementation plan for how to encourage, incentivize and direct new infill and redevelopment. Urban Collage served as a “technical facilitator” for the Steering Committee and its three Task Forces in developing recommendations for where to direct growth, how to ensure quality development and sense of place, what incentives were necessary to level the economic playing field, how to ensure affordability and what improvements could be made to the development review process.
