LEXINGTON — A proposal to carve 57 single-family lots out of vacant land near an existing mobile home park along Price Road was postponed Thursday after neighbors raised traffic, safety and environmental concerns during a lengthy and at times tense meeting of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Planning Commission’s Subdivision Committee.
The committee unanimously voted to postpone action on the Suburban Point Subdivision Expansion, a preliminary plan that would extend streets into the St. Martin’s Village neighborhood and create dozens of new homes on roughly 34 acres at 421 Price Road.
Committee members said the postponement would allow staff time to review revised plans that were submitted electronically but not in hard copy by the deadline, and to sort through unresolved issues including street design, tree preservation and stormwater management.
Traffic and connectivity dominate public comment
Residents from St. Martin’s Village packed the room and warned that opening new street connections would worsen speeding and cut-through traffic already plaguing their neighborhood…