It may not compare to the high-stakes partisan showdown over the debt in Washington, but Lexington’s city council does have a big decision on its plate and just weeks remaining before the deadline. It’s the update of the city’s comprehensive plan, which will set the roadmap for the city’s growth over the next two decades.
And that means revisiting whether to expand the urban service boundary, a highly-contentious issue that packed council chambers just a couple weeks ago.
"It's tricky to say where council is going to fall on the issue," says Jillian Riseman with CivicLex.
Riseman says the council has heard strong arguments both for and against expanding the boundary, or adopting proposed rules for when and how to set the expansion process in motion. Whatever the case, they’ll need to sign on to a plan soon.
"There is a deadline and these goals and objective need to be adopted by the middle of June per state laws, so they are on a bit of a time crunch," she says.
The last planned meeting on the issue is Tuesday at 5 PM.
