Steve Kay for Lexington

2013 Comprehensive Plan Implementation Chapter Public Hearing

The Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Thursday, February 20th at 1:30 pm in the Council Chambers on the 2nd floor of the Government Center at 200 E. Main Street.  The public is invited to comment on the implementation chapter of the Comprehensive Plan at this hearing.  If you wish t…

Code for America

Recently Mayor Gray welcomed three Code for America Fellows to Lexington to start a ten month partnership.  You can read the press release here.  Code for America is a non-profit that places technology developers, designers, and researchers from major technology companies within local governments t…

Good News for Lexington in the Bike/Ped World

Each year the U.S. Census Bureau collects information from a sample population of the United States through the American Community Survey.    In 2012, it studied cities with a population of 65,000 and greater.  The League of American Bicyclists then analyzes this data to assess the state of bicycli…

Local Food Coordinator Position Created

At its meeting on Thursday, January 29, 2014, Urban County Council approved acceptance of a sub-grant from  the Blue Grass Community Foundation that provides major funding, along with support from LFUCG, for creation ofa position of Local Food Coordinator within the Office of Economic Development o…