Land preservation group leader compliments efforts on Lexington’s growth management plan while still having reservations
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The Fayette Alliance is described on its website as a non-profit dedicated to achieving smart, sustainable, and equitable growth through land-use advocacy, education, and research. So, not surprisingly, the Alliance took a keen interest in the development of the Urban Growth Management Master Plan in Fayette County. The Planning Commission gave its final approval last week. Fayette Alliance Executive Director Brittany Roethemeier was complimentary of the effort.
“In many ways the consultant and the planning staff’s work really can be commended. They have built a roadmap for new ways of development in Lexington-Fayette County that our community should be grateful for,” said Rothemeier.
Roethemeier said her organization’s objections to the 28-hundred-acre expansion remain. Those include deciding on expansion without what the Alliance believes was sufficient research or data and failing to do more with infill development.
Roethemeier maintains development consideration inside the County’s Urban Service Boundary should not be minimized.
“I hope that we continue to see infrastructure investment in those areas. I hope that we don’t leave the areas that have so much opportunity for development behind as we focus on new areas further and further out from our existing community,” said Roethemeier.
When it comes to the complete Urban Growth Management Master Plan, Roethemeier said the “devil will be in the details.” Also, Roethemeier said the growth roadmap contains no specific recommendations to address affordable housing needs.
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