Services Included
Market & Economic Analysis
Land Use Planning
Project Description
Preserving Lexington’s unique balance with a strategic framework for sustainable urban and rural development.
MXD worked in partnership with Stantec, EHI Consultants and Urban3 to generate a planning framework to advance the goals of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. As part of its efforts to fulfill a central goal of the 2018 Imagine Lexington comprehensive plan, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government engaged the consulting team in developing an objective, transparent, and reliable framework to inform long-term land use decisions involving the Urban Service Boundary (USB) and its role in protecting the urban and rural balance that makes Lexington unique.
This framework will provide local officials and community stakeholders with the tools to evaluate land use decisions within the context of the ideal use and preservation of resources within the USB, with a particular focus on maintaining a strong economy and high quality of life throughout the Lexington community. The framework explores and assesses existing conditions within the USB, which include: the inventory of available land; past and current planning efforts; economic and population trends; and the insights and priorities of the diverse stakeholders and constituents that call Lexington home. Three representative land development scenarios within the USB helps identify the methods and criteria for the evaluation framework.
