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Commerce Lexington Speaker Highlights Lexington’s Strong Features
By Knox van Nagell | October 27th, 2009 | See all in Fayette Alliance Blog, Land Use News
Lexington ‘on the verge’ of revitalization, consultant says
Excerpt from www.kentucky.com, posted Oct. 23, 2009
By Beverly Fortune, bfortune@herald-leader.com
Play to win, Lexington. That means develop the attitude that you deserve to win, believe you can win and demand excellence.
That was advice Thursday from Rebecca Ryan, a consultant from Madison, Wis. “God has dealt you a very strong hand,” she said, pointing to Lexington’s natural beauty, educated work force and more diversity than many people realize. She described the city as “on the verge” of a revitalized, energized identity… Read more at Kentucky.com
Lexington advised to “play to win”
Excerpt from BizLex.com, posted Oct. 27, 2009
By Will Rouse
Lexington, KY – People are always looking for affirmation that what they are doing is right. The familiar image of a worried person nervously lain out on a stiff couch while a spectacled psychiatrist jots notes and occasionally mutters, “Uh-huh,” comes to mind immediately.
The recent luncheon at Buster’s Backroom and Billiards with Rebecca Ryan, owner of Next Generation Consulting, conveyed this image, but instead of a person being examined it was an entire city. For most of the presentation, Lexington seemed like it had been “on the couch” with a professional city consultant who was rebuilding self confidence and trying to establish swagger… Read more at BizLex.com
Redevelopment Plans for Turfland Mall Announced
By Knox van Nagell | October 27th, 2009 | See all in Land Use News
www.kentucky.com
“Planning for redevelopment at Turfland Mall”
Excerpt from www.kentucky.com, posted Oct. 25, 2009
By Scott Sloan, ssloan@herald-leader.com
Ending a long period of speculation, the owners of Turfland Mall, which closed last year but had been weak for years, hope to transform the site into a development that would be primarily commercial office space but also include residential and some retail space.
That is one of a number of changes coming to the areas surrounding the Harrodsburg Road corridor, where longtime landmark The Springs Inn is being demolished and sold for redevelopment.
The proposed concept for what would be named Turfland Town Center would call for the razing of the area that was the enclosed part of Turfland Mall — Lexington’s first — between Home Depot and the former Dillard’s space… Read more at Kentucky.com
Housing Market Study Affirms Lexington’s Need for Innovative Growth Model
By Knox van Nagell | October 27th, 2009 | See all in Fayette Alliance Blog, Land Use News
www.kentucky.com
New growth Model
Excerpt from Kentucky.com, posted Oct. 25, 2009
Op-ed by Knox van Nagell
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 Market Study.
Lexington Ranked as 6th Best City to Raise a Family
By Knox van Nagell | October 20th, 2009 | See all in Fayette Alliance Blog, Land Use News
Children’s Health Magazine ranked Lexington as the 6th best city in the nation to raise a family, in its list of “The 100 Best (and Worst) Places to Raise a Family” . Click here to view all the rankings.
Lexington Complete Streets Public Meeting and Website
By Knox van Nagell | October 15th, 2009 | See all in Land Use News
Complete Streets Presentation, October Public Meeting
Click here to download the Complete Streets Presentation from the October 2009 Public Meeting.
Click here to view the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Complete Streets Website
City brainstorms how to make livable streets
Excerpt from www.Kentucky.com, posted October 15, 2009
By Beverly Fortune, bfortune@herald-leader.com
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
Who We Are
The Fayette Alliance is Lexington’s ONLY land-use advocacy organization that regularly educates and lobbies local government for a sustainable growth model that benefits all of us.
We believe that preserving our signature Bluegrass landscape, creating a dynamic and equitable city through infill redevelopment, and improving our natural waterways are key components to achieving economic and environmental success here in Lexington-Fayette County.
We are an alliance of citizens from the entire community, including stakeholders from the agricultural, neighborhood, and infill sectors. See "Who We Are" We are a united voice for responsible growth, and only weigh-in on those land-use issues that have countywide implications. Together we can chart our future, and positively impact local zoning decisions—the very building blocks of our community. See "Our Successes"
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Did you Know?
In 2006, the World Monuments Fund designated the inner Bluegrass Region, including Fayette County, as one of the 100 most endangered cultural landscapes in the world due to it’s alarming loss of farmland to sprawl development.
