The Fayette Alliance, a privately funded Lexington public interest group representing farmers, conservation groups, agricultural and urban redevelopment interests, has developed an eight-point set of recommendations and guidelines for consideration in the development discussion among community business and civic leaders.
In part one of a series examining the various ideas offered by this organization, Fayette Alliance Executive Director Knox van Nagell focuses on the subject of infill redevelopment incentives.
The Fayette Alliance and its purpose for this study
"The Fayette Alliance is truly an alliance of neighborhood associations, urban developers and farm interest," van Nagell said. "The Fayette Alliance's mission and purpose really is to promote infill redevelopment as the primary mechanism for new growth and to promote it responsibly while also protecting our renowned rural landscape. So really, the whole focus and purpose of our organization is essentially to promote urban and rural vitality in Lexington, Fayette County. And in this vein we, over the past six months, have gotten together with several key leaders in infill redevelopment and in the neighborhood associations and in the ag community to come up with a vision statement, some infield policy guidelines and some infield policy recommendations.
County-wide infill approach
The first question van Nagell and the alliance came across was