Small Area Plan Boundary and 1/2 Mile Buffer Combined

Low Density (LD) residential land use covers 866 acres of the combined Plan study area and ½ mile buffer. This is followed by MD which covers 270 acres and by RT (163 acres), Public Recreation (PR) (113) acres, WW (98 acres), and HD (97 acres). Of the large LD future use coverage, all of it is built out except for a small portion west of the railroad tracks and a larger area east of Nicholasville Road near the Cobblestone Road future greenway connection. However, both of these vacant LD areas have certified subdivision plans.

Medium Density (MD) has the second largest amount of coverage in the plan boundary and buffer area combined. Portions of it are still not built out. The Mahan Property, east of the Plan area, has certified development/subdivision plans that include apartments and other housing types. However, the MD located at 4100 and 4210 Nicholasville Road does not have any certified development plans for residential, nor does the HD area of the 4100 Nicholasville Road property. There is a Board of Adjustmentapproved conditional use in the A-U zone on 4100 Nicholasville Road for the garden center.

Overall, for the 1,894 acres within Plan area and ½ mile buffer combined, the land is designated as shown on the 2007 Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map. Please see Appendix page 85 for a breakdown of acres by future land use category.

The buffer area includes more than half of the recently expanded regional Fayette Mall shopping center, new retail strip centers, new restaurants, new movie theater, Lowe’s and Wal-Mart. Only nine percent, however, of the combined study area and ½ mile buffer is designated as Commercial land uses on the 2007 Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use map. Residential makes up 66 percent, 15 percent is designated as Public/Semi Public, and 10 percent is for Employment.

Comparing the proportions of land use in this area to the proportions of the future land for the entire Urban Service Area reveals that both have the same percentage of Employment designated land. Yet, all of this Employment designated land in the study area is being used for farming, a research farm, or garden center use. The study area has a higher percentage of Residential land, at 66 percent, than the Urban Service Area as a whole, at 61 percent. The study area has four percent less land designated as Public/Semipublic and slightly less land designated as Commercial than the Urban Service Area as a whole.