Week of May 10th, 2021
Monday, May 10
♿️ - Commission for People with Disabilities
📺 - 11am on May 10 via Zoom
📖 - Read the Agenda
The Commission will review several projects, including on-street ADA parking and a proposed letter of support for Accessory Dwelling Units.
🏘 - Board of Adjustment Meeting
📺 - 12pm on May 3 via Zoom
📖 - Read the Agenda
There's a lot on the agenda! Here's what we're looking at:
Variances:
3601 Lemons Mill Pike (Council District 12)
840 Angliana Ave. (Council District 3)
299 Squires Circle and 480 Squires Road (Council District 7)
Conditional Uses:
3380 Paris Pike (Council District 12)
1200 S. Broadway (Council District 3)
Adminsitrative Appeals:
523 Kingston Rd. (Council District 6)
862 Angliana Ave. (Council District 3)
Tuesday, May 11
💰 - Environmental Quality & Public Works Budget Link
📺 - 11:00am on May 12 via Zoom - email Stacey Maynard for login info
The budget process is one of the most important things that happens in city government. On Tuesday, council will meet with city employees that fall under the Environmental Quality & Public Works to see what priorities were included or left out of the Mayor's proposed budget.
If you've been following our budget coverage, you'll likely know that Energy & Environment issues are one of the largest items in the full budget, accounting for almost 25% of the city's entire $700M+ annual appropriations.
Wednesday, May 12
🌳 - Tree Board
📺 - 10:30am on May 12 via Zoom
📖 - Read the Agenda
The Tree Board will meet to discuss the Urban Forestry program and a proposed Urban Tree Canopy analysis.
Thursday, May 13
🏘 - Planning Commission - Subdivision Items Meeting
📺 - 1:30pm on May 13 via LexTV
Friday, May 14
💃 - MIAAC Executive Committee Meeting
📺 - 11:00am on May 14 - no public viewing option available
MIAAC stands for the Mayor's International Affairs Advisory Committee.
🎷 - Lyric Theatre Board Meeting
📺 - 12:00pm on May 14 via Google Meeting
🏃 Get engaged
🗳 - Voting for the 21st Century - Digital Panel Conversation
Join CivicLex in an online panel discussion called 'Voting for the 21st Century'. We'll explore topics around new approaches to voting, including Ranked Choice, the National Interstate Popular Vote Compact, and Kentucky's new electoral reforms. The panel will feature Alicia Hurle (KY Civic Engagement Table), Josh Douglas (UK College of Law), and Jennifer Jackson (Lexington League of Women Voters).
📺 - Wednesday, May 12 - 6pm - watch here
💰 - CivicLex Budget Workshops
The Mayor's Proposed Budget is out! Join CivicLex and let us guide you through the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government (LFUCG) - FY 22 Budget. In these workshops, we'll talk about how the budget gets made, what's new in this year's budget, and reflect on how the budget matches up with our values and priorities as residents.
📺 - Join in the fun at these times:
🏘 - Neighborhoods in Transition Survey
The Task Force on Neighborhoods in Transition - focused mainly on Gentrification - has completed its work. In lieu of having a final in-person forum and in an effort to not put the public at risk, the Task Force seeks community input via survey. Specifically, the survey requests input on two reports, the TFNT Report, which includes the recommendations and a map report, Maps of Vulnerabilities to Displacement.
Interested in participating? Fill out the survey here before May 14.
✋ - Public Comment Survey
In case you didn't know, we just released a survey in partnership with the City of Lexington to examine and reimagine the public comment/input process. We'd love to hear from you about your experience interacting with City Government, and how you think it could be better.
Interested? Fill out the survey here before May 21.
🚘 - Imagine Nicholasville Road Public Hearing
After over a year of study, data collection and public input, a vision has been put forward for Nicholasville Road, one of Lexington’s most important corridors. The result is a concept that focuses on safety and efficiency for people traveling by car, bus, bike or on foot.
Read the draft document here. There will be a public hearing via Zoomfor this proposal on May 20, 2021, at 1:30 p.m. Community members with thoughts on the proposal who cannot attend the public hearing can email imagine@lexingtonky.gov and comments will be passed along to the Planning Commission.
🅿️ - Community Parking Survey
The Division of Planning has put out a call for community members to help gather data to evaluate the current parking situation in our city. Learn more and take the Parking Survey here.
🗞 Did you miss it?
🚔 - May 4th Planning & Public Safety Committee
A ban on no-knock warrants moved out of committee unanimously, but it faces an uphill climb between now and its June 4th Council Work Session after Mayor Gorton came out against the proposed legislation to ban no-knock warrants.
From the Herald-Leader: Lexington Mayor supports use of no-knock warrants
🏢 - May 4th Council Work Session
CM David Kloiber's resolution encouraging the city to focus on housing issues went through some revisions and passed unanimously.
🏢 - May 6th Council Meeting
Council unanimously banned Conversion Therapy in Lexington.
From the Herald-Leader: Lexington council votes to ban conversion therapy