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Future Land Use from the 2007 Comprehensive Plan

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The largest future land use category in the Plan area is Warehouse & Wholesale (WW), covering 25 percent. Office, Industry, and Research Park (ORP) is 16 percent; Medium Density Residential (MD) is 14 percent; Low Density Residential (LD) covers 13 percent; and 10 percent of the Plan area is recommended for Light Industrial (LI). Six other future land use categories cover small amounts of the area: Semi-Public (SP) seven percent; Green Space/Open Space (GS) five percent; Other Public Uses (OPU) five percent, High Density Residential (HD) three percent, and Retail Trade (RT) two percent.

The two largest future land uses, WW and ORP, are used as farms. The ORP, along with LI, covers the UK Horticulture Research Farm, except for a strip of Green Space (GS) along Nicholasville Road. Agricultural research is ongoing on this farm with a greenhouse/lab complex constructed on the property, along with crop fields and orchards. The ORP and LI areas were designated as such since the 1988 Comprehensive Plan. In the 1973 Comprehensive Plan, the UK Horticulture Research

Farm property was designated for Industrial. These parcels, however, have been used as farms for decades.

The WW land is located on the two parcels south of Waveland. In the 1973 Comprehensive Plan, the WW land was designated Industrial, but changed to WW in 1980 and is now farmland.

The third largest future land use coverage in the Plan area is MD, with most of its 55 acres used for farming and a garden center. The Country Place Garden Center is a conditional use at the northeast corner of Nicholasville Road and Man o’ War Boulevard and is designated both MD (about 37 acres) and HD (about 12 acres). The southeast corner of Nicholasville Road and Man o’ War Boulevard has about 11 acres of MD land currently being used for a berry farm called Caludi’s Fields. Therefore, about 48 acres of the MD designated land is currently used for farming or garden center.

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