If you thought the discussion surrounding the expansion of Lexington's Urban Service Border was over, think again.
"We will continue talking about it through at least August of 2026," CivicLex's Adrian Bryant said.
City leaders didn't just expand the boundary in late 2023. Given the controversy surrounding that move, the agreement also included language calling on the council to revisit how such decisions are made.
That's not a first. Bryant notes there have been previous attempts to place guardrails around the process, and those will likely serve as the foundation for whatever changes the new council discusses.
Bryant says the council will be "building on that past work to end up at something with the goal of being a little more data-driven, so that the council can feel like they're making more informed decisions about any potential future urban service boundary expansions."
To be clear, the upcoming discussion is only about how to guide future boundary decisions. No additional expansions are on the table.
"They won't be deciding any time soon whether to expand the Urban Service Boundary again," Bryant notes. Instead, the idea is to make any potential conversations in the future more tethered to the numbers.
