Today in “why Lexington’s zoning code suddenly cares about gift-shop bourbon”: a one-word change to Article 8-1, an unanimous recommendation, and a structural objection from a Lexington resident that nobody on the dais wanted to take up.
If you read the agenda for the May 7 LFUCG Planning Commission Zoning Subcommittee and squinted, item PLN ZOTA 26-3 looked like routine zoning housekeeping — one of those text amendments that fixes a comma somewhere in Article 8 and gets approved without comment. It was not that. The applicant was Keeneland. The change was about alcohol. And the backstory, told from the podium by Keeneland’s lawyer, involved a closed gift shop in City Center, a stranded liquor license, and a stack of unsold commemorative Maker’s Mark bottles…