LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Urban County Planning Commission is scheduled to take up a set of subdivision and zoning items on Thursday, Oct. 22, beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the Council Chamber of the LFUCG Government Center, according to the published meeting agenda. The most prominent zoning request on the docket is from Ball Homes, LLC, which seeks to rezone 37.15 net acres at 5085 Athens Boonesboro Road from Agricultural Rural (A-R) to Medium Density Residential (R-4). A companion development plan for the Encore Partners, LLC property would depict a group residential development with 560 units if the zone change moves forward.

Planning staff has recommended postponement rather than approval. The agenda says the applicant's justification letter does not substantively address the Urban Growth Master Plan beyond land use, and it asks the applicant to explain how the request meets minimum residential density requirements. Staff also flagged connectivity goals, a limit of 250 feet on cul-de-sac length, a requirement that stub streets sit no more than 750 feet apart, and the need for a traffic study. The Zoning Committee likewise recommended postponement. The request was among the eight rezonings pushed back at the September 24 hearing, when a representative said the team needed more time to finish development plan work.

The agenda also lists a Land Subdivision Regulation amendment, PLN-SRA-26-00001, which the Planning Commission initiated. The proposal would remove conflicts between the city's Complete Streets Policy and its Complete Streets Design Manual and streamline related requirements. Staff recommended approval, tying the change to the 2045 Comprehensive Plan and to the city's Vision Zero goals, and the document describes design strategies aimed at travel speeds of 20 to 35 mph. The city adopted its Complete Streets policy in 2022, and the Planning Commission previewed the subdivision changes at an October 15 work session.

On the subdivision side, the agenda includes a final plan for GDK Farm, LLC's property at 5447 Tates Creek Road in Council District 12. The amendment would divide the site into nine single-family lots, 20 townhomes and two open space lots, and it would modify the Tree Protection Plan in a way the agenda describes as inconsistent with the approved preliminary plan. The Subdivision Committee recommended postponement, and the applicant would need to prepare a revised Tree Protection Plan and a mitigation proposal. The agenda lists a separate waiver request tied to the Standard at Lexington project, where staff recommends approving the elimination of certain Newtown Pike Extension design standards.

Any zone change the commission considers would still need to move to the Urban County Council for final action, and the agenda itself does not record how any item will be decided.