Thanks to the Urban Service Boundary (USB), Lexington-Fayette County’s decades-long tradition of protecting and preserving our farmland provides a pathway forward for fighting climate change. No one had heard of the phrase “climate change” in 1958 when the USB was created to distinguish between Lexington-Fayette County’s lush farmland and our urban areas designated for development....
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Running for: Council District 11 Question: What brought you to Lexington-Fayette County? What do you love about our community? I grew up in Central Kentucky, spending time in Lexington daily, and started my adult career in Lexington 21 years ago. After going to school, I traveled extensively and lived in Mexico for 4 years. When...
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Running for: Council District 9 Question: What brought you to Lexington-Fayette County? What do you love about our community? I chose to work here because I chose to live here. Question: Like the rest of the nation, Lexington faces critical challenges around developing adequate Affordable housing for low-income families and increasing attainable missing middle housing...
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Running for: Council District 7 Question: What brought you to Lexington-Fayette County? What do you love about our community? Like many central Kentucky natives, I came to Lexington for college and decided to stay, settle down, and raise a family here. I love that Lexington feels like a small town, but has the resources and...
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Running for: Mayor Question: What brought you to Lexington-Fayette County? What do you love about our community? Like many people in our City, I originally came to Lexington to attend the University of Kentucky. It had, and still has, an excellent College of Nursing. I earned my degree and am still a registered nurse. I...
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Welcome to Fayette Alliance’s 2022 Voter Guide! Each election, we educate voters through candidate questionnaires, to ensure everyone has access to where each candidate for Mayor and Urban County Council stands on smart growth issues. We sent our questionnaire to all Mayoral and Urban County Council candidates and we have posted their responses exactly as...
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Running for: Council District 4 Question: What brought you to Lexington-Fayette County? What do you love about our community? A native of Williamstown in Northern Kentucky, I graduated from Georgetown College and headed out of state for graduate schools and my first college teaching job. Soon, though, I returned to Kentucky in 1983 committed to...
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Running for: District 9 Question: What brought you to Lexington-Fayette County? What do you love about our community? I am a native of Lexington and have called the 9th District home my whole life. Lexington is a very special community and there are many reasons why I love this town. I love that we are...
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Running for: District 1 Question: What brought you to Lexington-Fayette County? What do you love about our community? I am a native of Lexington Kentucky and have always resided in the 1st District. There are plenty of reasons to love Lexington, Kentucky. Family, diversity, our educational system, including our higher education institutions, along with our...
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Running for: Council District 2 Question: What brought you to Lexington-Fayette County? What do you love about our community? My professional career brought me to Lexington-Fayette County. In 2004, upon graduating law school I was hired by the Lexington Fair Housing Council. For 15 years I fought housing discrimination across the state of Kentucky and...
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