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An investigation into nearly 20 years of city meeting transcripts reveals a pattern of study, debate, and deferral — while the affordable housing gap grew from 6,000 units to 30,000. On a Tuesday afternoon in February 2014, a consultant named Charles Buki stood before the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council and laid out the math.…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Vice Mayor Dan Wu announced Wednesday that a second wave of medical debt relief has erased $5.6 million in unpaid bills for more than 3,200 Fayette County residents, bringing the city’s total debt cancellation to roughly $18 million for nearly 10,000 households since the program launched. Wu shared the news during…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Planning Commission’s zoning hearing lasted just seven minutes Thursday after every item on the docket was postponed, leaving a proposed 67-townhome development, a South Broadway car wash and a rewrite of economic development zoning rules all in limbo for at least another month. The Feb. 26 session…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Lexington recorded seven more traffic fatalities and 54 more serious injuries than its safety goals called for last year, the region’s transportation planning body learned this week, even as staff raised pointed questions about whether the governor’s recommended state highway plan would help close that gap. The Lexington Area Metropolitan Planning…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A proposed resort-style hotel and entertainment complex at the Red Mile drew a postponement from Lexington’s Technical Review Committee after staff flagged concerns that the project’s commercial square footage exceeds what the zoning ordinance allows before mixed-use components are built. The Red Mile mixed-use development, planned for 101 Windback Way, would…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Members of Lexington’s Rural Land Management Board voiced strong reservations about large-scale solar installations on agricultural land during their February meeting, even as a draft zoning amendment that would allow such projects with a “dual use” provision advances through the Urban County Council’s committee process. Councilmember Hil Boone, who sits on…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Austin Simms, the longtime executive director of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Housing Authority, announced his retirement last week after leading the agency for nearly five decades, closing a chapter that reshaped the city’s approach to public housing. Simms made the announcement Thursday, Feb. 19, at the Housing Authority Board of Commissioners’…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council moved forward Tuesday with a ground lease for a 357-acre solar farm on the former Haley Pike Landfill, though several council members pressed for a better deal and voted to require a separate council approval of any community benefits agreement tied to the project. The work…