SUBDIVIDING COULD FUEL DENSITY-VS.-SPRAWL ISSUE

  Although it has spread to other neighborhoods, our story starts on a corner.

About 25 years ago, Richard Mook's parents moved into a new house on Lakeshore Drive at Von List Way. Last year, the Mooks wanted to subdivide their lot so Richard could build a second house for his own family. "My parents paid their dues," Mook said. "They had a buyer."

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NEW PRESIDENT HITS GROUND RUNNING

  The new president of the historic Woodward Heights Neighborhood Association was elected barely a month ago , but he is already hard at work with preservation efforts.

Chuck McKee, a three-year resident of the neighborhood, is working with the city on Woodward Heights' corridor landscaping project and the downzoning of the neighborhood from R4 to R2.

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BRYAN STATION ROAD STUCK IN CONSTRUCTION PURGATORY

  If Lexington neighborhoods can be downzoned to protect them from malignant growth, why not roads? I have the perfect first candidate for downzoning: Bryan Station Road.

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EASTSIDE WINS RESTRICTION TO SINGLE-FAMILY HOME ZONE

  No new apartment buildings will be allowed in a section of the Eastside neighborhood near downtown Lexington.

The Urban County Council last night voted unanimously to change the zoning for an area north of Main Street and bounded by Walton, Cramer and North Ashland Avenues.

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EXCLUSION NO WAY TO REBUILD AN AREA

  While some assume down-zoning (R-2D duplexes to R-1 single-family residences) is the way to protect their neighborhoods from developers and absentee landlords, let me suggest the change probably feeds both and makes impositions on the entire community, including those trying to protect their neighborhoods.

In the Eastside neighborhood (North Ashland Avenue to Walton Avenue and in between), the petition drive for downzoning by nouveau arrivals was deliberately escalated using a false, hysterical fea

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  DOWNZONING IS RATIONAL

WAY TO PROTECT AN AREA

  Controversy surrounds downzoning as a way for neighborhoods to protect themselves from unwanted development. The claim is that existing urban neighborhoods, attempting to have a less dense zoning designation, trod upon a community-wide interest in controlling urban sprawl.

As a leader of a neighborhood right in the middle of this process and debate, I want to share my thoughts on our experience so far. Downzoning is not a fever suffered by panicked residents in neighborhoods under siege. Rather, it

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COUNCIL GRANTS 9TH DOWNZONING REQUEST

  With an Urban County Council vote last night, another Lexington neighborhood will be able to keep out unwanted apartment buildings.

By an 11-3 vote , the council approved a request to rezone the Mount Vernon-Hollywood neighborhood near Chevy Chase to allow only single-family homes.

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  THE ONLY WAY TO FIGHT

DOWNZONING NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE FEW OTHER OPTIONS

  Fear, plain and simple, is driving Lexington residents to downzone their neighborhoods to single-family homes only.

Fear that their neighborhood will be trampled by University of Kentucky students unofficially majoring in Animal House.

Fear that a domineering developer will plunk down a grim apartment colossus outside their bedroom window.

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SOME STARTING TO QUESTION EFFECT OF DOWNZONING TREND

  Residents of Oldham Avenue cast the first pebble in the pond.

Then came neighbors on streets like Transylvania Park, Marquis Avenue, Colfax Street, Tremont Avenue, North Ashland Avenue.

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  GUARDIAN OF HISTORY

BLUE GRASS TRUST ADAPTS TACTICS TO MEET GROWING THREATS

  Nearly three decades ago, Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation member Lucy Graves sat down in front of a bulldozer in an attempt to save homes on Lexington's High Street. That action put the late Mrs. Graves' photograph in The New York Times.

Today, confrontation has given way to mediation and compromise, but officials from Lexington's only private preservation advocacy group say they are no less determined to save and revitalize the area's historic sites.

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  PRESERVE AYLESFORD

COMMISSION SHOULD GRANT REQUEST FOR HISTORIC ZONE

  Like a good surgeon, the Lexington planning commission sacrificed a limb to save the rest of the patient. That's what it did late last week when it decided to pare down the size of the proposed Aylesford Historic District.

As originally proposed, with more than 1,300 homes, Aylesford would have been larger than Lexington's other 12 districts combined. During the many months of debate, it became clear that preservationists had bitten off more than they could chew.

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  SOUTH HILL AMBIENCE

RESIDENTS UNITED

IN EFFORT TO PROTECT AREA'S CHARACTER

  It all began when a surveyor started poking around a tobacco warehouse at Lawrence and South Mill streets in South Hill historic district.

Some curious residents found out a developer had bought the warehouse and was planning to turn it into a 45-unit apartment complex.

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  ONTHE

AGENDA

  Here are meetings of general interest scheduled for Fayette County this week:

Today: The Fayette County Board of Education meets in regular session, 7:30 p.m. , central office, 701 East Main Street. An informal session begins at 6:30 p.m.

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REYNOLDS ROAD AREA HEARING EXTENDED

  The stormy debate over developing the Reynolds Road property was simply too large to contain in a single night.

Faced with an overflow crowd of about 400 people and high emotions on both sides, the Urban County Council took the unprecedented step of continuing a zone-change hearing on the 450-acre development until next week.

The property's developer, the non-profit National Development Council, was moving into the sixth hour of its presentation on the proposed development early today.

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REYNOLDS ROAD PLAN TO RECEIVE FINAL AIRING

  Lexington's planning commission is about to decide a zone change that could make life a lot different for people who live or shop in south Fayette County.

Lexington planners have been working for more than three years on plans to develop the Reynolds Road property, a 450-acre piece of land between Clays Mill and Nicholasville Roads.

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