IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE
Implementation Items Comprehensive Plan in Action
Comprehensive Plan Action Items
# Implementation Tasks = 117 55% in progress 14% complete 31% yet to begin
50% in progress 11% complete 38% yet to begin
Status After Year 1
Status After Year 2
Comprehensive Plan Action Items
• Regulatory changes
• Studies & plans
• Education & outreach
• Government-wide initiatives
• New programs
• Other agencies
Comprehensive Plan
A New Way Forward
• Lexington Preservation & Grown Management Program
• 5-Year Growth Trends Report & Recommendations
• Imagine Lexington Analytics Research Center
• Allows for Robust Comprehensive Planning
IL Analytic Research Center
ILARC Lab Reports
Studies + Plans
Urban Growth Master Plan Implementation Tasks
• Infrastructure Funding Plan
• In progress
• Blue Sky Master Plan
• In progress
• UGMP ZOTA
• Coming soon
• Complete Streets SRA
• Coming soon
Blue Sky Small Area Plan
• Infrastructure improvements to support businesses & employees (roads, streetlights, sidewalks)
• I-75 interchange improvements
• Better integrate and connect Blue Sky to the USA
• Identify any industrial zone regulatory changes needed
• Completion: Spring/Summer 2026
• Contact: Eve Miller, Planner Senior, Long Range
Downtown Master Plan
• The master plan to shape the future of downtown
• Extensive community-wide interest & engagement
• Emerging themes:
• safety and connection
• housing that people can afford
• a downtown that works for everyone
• planning that respects Lexington’s uniqueness
• Completion: Spring/Summer 2026
• Contact: Boyd O. Sewe, Planner
Senior, Long Range
• Regional plan to reduce GHG emissions
• Led by LFUCG
Environmental Service w/ MPO & Planning support
• Completed in 2025
• Plan website: lexmsaplan.com
• Emissions dashboard: Climate View
Imagine Nicholasville Road Feasibility Study
• Partnership w/ LFUCG, MPO, KYTC & Lextran
• Modeled land use scenarios & future travel demand
• Modeled impact of transportation improvements, tested feasibility, determined phasing and cost
• Estimated ridership, capital & operating costs
• Completed in 2025
Public Engagement
Community Events
• Attended or hosted 59 public events
• Direct interaction with 3,635 individuals
• Audiences & event types
• Community events
• Youth / schools – classroom activities, civic & career fairs
• Neighborhood meetings
• Guest speaker & lecturer
• City boards & commissions
• Sentiment / issue / topic tracking
Project Based Engagement
• Downtown Master Plan
• Blue Sky
• Lexington Preservation & Growth Management Program
• Complete Street Projects & Initiatives
• Neighborhood Voices
Neighborhood Engagement
• Planning attends a significant number of neighborhood meetings
• Meet people where they are
• Build relationships and trust
• Neighborhood Voices Pilot Project
• Initial focus on neighborhoods experiencing development pressure
• Proactive rather than reactive engagement
• Listening sessions
• One-on-one interviews
• Door-to-door canvassing
• Community events
Digital Outreach
LexAreaMPO
• Facebook
• 43,200 views
• 518 interactions
LexBikeWalk
• Facebook
• 150,900 views
• 1,500 interactions
• Instagram
• 388,800 views
• 6,300 interactions
Most popular post of 2025
Digital Outreach
Imagine Lexington
• Facebook
• 43,300 views
• 686 interactions
• Instagram
• 42,900 views
• 983 interactions
• Monthly Newsletter
• Launched in March
• Subscribers: 1,077
• Open rate: 52%
Most popular post of 2025
Digital Outreach
• MPO Project Page
• Web-based mapping and tools
• Make information more accessible, easier to find and to understand
Looking Ahead
Winchester Road Corridor Plan
• Transportation & land use plan
• Midland Ave / 3rd Street Bahama Rd
• Contract approval underway
Parks Master Plan
• Essential need for any great city
• Park planning supplements our planning efforts
• Last updated in 2018
• New tax revenue approved through voter referendum
• Led by Parks & Recreation
• Contract approval underway
Regulatory Changes
• Urban Growth Master Plan ZOTA – Winter/Spring 2026
• Complete Streets SRA – Winter/Spring 2026
• Floodplains – Winter/Spring 2026
• Landscaping & Trees – Phase 2 – TBD
• Parkland Dedication Ordinance – TBD
• Downtown Master Plan ZOTA recommendations – TBD
• Blue Sky recommendations ZOTA – TBD
Expand Engagement
• Revamp forward facing materials
• Decipher how Planning & Zoning works
• Explore other media types (e.g. Podcast, Storymaps)
• Develop curriculums for different audiences, age groups, and depth of understanding
• Engage people in new and unique ways
Implementation Focus Areas
• Analytic Research Center (ILARC)
• Urban Growth Master Plan
• Complete Streets Action Plan
• Corridor Plans
• Vision Zero / Safe Street Initiatives
• Place-based Engagement
• Reimagining the Civic Commons
• Quick Builds & Demonstration Projects
• Neighborhood Voices
• Increase & Diversify Community Engagement
• Agency & Community Partnerships
KENZIE GLEASON, MANAGER, OUTREACH & STRATEGIC PLANNING, CITY OF LEXINGTON Planning Commission Work Session – 1.22.26