Imagine Lexington (2024 Comprehensive Plan update) is the city's master land-use document, guiding zoning, infrastructure, and the Urban Service Boundary. It is updated roughly every five years by LFUCG Planning.
Imagine Lexington is the official LFUCG Comprehensive Plan, last updated in 2024. It establishes goals for housing, sustainability, mobility, equity, and rural land use. Most importantly, it reaffirms the Urban Service Boundary (USB), the 1958 first-in-nation growth limit that separates urbanized Lexington from rural Bluegrass equine country. New zoning amendments and major development plans must demonstrate consistency with Imagine Lexington and pass through the Planning Commission and Urban County Council. The plan also sets neighborhood-scale design expectations and corridor-specific guidance. Residents can comment during periodic updates and proposed zoning map amendments.
Imagine Lexington itself is policy. Zoning amendments inconsistent with it can be denied. Development plan violations under Chapters 24 and 25 carry separate enforcement and possible permit revocation.
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LFUCG adopted Empower Lexington (2018, updated 2024) as the city's climate action plan, setting greenhouse gas reduction targets and guiding sustainability p...
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LFUCG offers limited density bonuses for affordable housing through Imagine Lexington policy and zoning text amendments. There is no automatic statewide dens...
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