Fayette Alliance Blog

Best estimates say that an additional 60,000 people will call Lexington home by 2030.

So one of the central questions facing our community is not if we grow, but how we grow—and can we do it in a way that positions our built, natural and social environments for success in today’s rapidly changing world?

National and local market studies shed light on this complex issue. Our demographics are changing along with our housing preferences — determining how our community will look and function in the future. The single-family detached home in the ‘burbs has become less and less the housing unit of choice, when other options are available and affordable.

This summer, the Lexington-Fayette County Government completed — with the help of several national and local real-estate planning firms — a housing market study that identified our demographic trends, available land for development and preferred housing types and needs over the next 20 years…Click here to download Knox’s editorial on the Housing MarketStudy.

For More Information,

Capacity & The Need for an Innovative Growth Strategy

A new study on Lexington’s housing market shows an increasing demand for affordable housing, more rental space, higher-density housing and housing in more urban settings.

The study, commissioned by the Lexington Fayette Planning Commission, said most of Lexington’s growth through 2025 will be in one- and two-person households made up of younger people who typically prefer more urban settings… Read more at Kentucky.com

Click here to read the Executive Summary of the study and the LFUCG Housing Market Study.

To learn more about the LFUCG Housing Market Study visit LexingtonKY.gov

You might never have thought about how public health is impacted by streets.

But consider that 40 percent of all trips are less than 2 miles long, equivalent to a 10-minute healthy bike ride. Yet 65 percent of all trips are made by automobile, Adam Krom told a group of Lexington residents who met Wednesday night to talk about Lexington’s streets.

Or what about this: In 1969, 50 percent of children walked to school, but in 2008, less than 14 percent did… Read more at Kentucky.com