The fight over a 7-story, 800-bedroom high-rise apartment on South Limestone near the University of Kentucky will continue next month after the Urban County Planning Commission decided Thursday it wanted more information.
The Urban County Planning Commission voted unanimously Thursday to continue discussions about a zone change for more than a dozen properties on South Limestone, Prall and Montmullin streets. Those discussions will resume at its Oct. 24 meeting.
The vote to postpone came after a more than three-hour hearing.
St. Louis-based developer Subtext has agreed to meet with neighbors to determine what could be done to make the proposed development more palatable.
Those who spoke against the zone change said it would further deteriorate Pralltown, a historic Black neighborhood.
251 apartments, nearly 800 beds
Subtext has filed an application to change the zones for properties from an assortment of retail and residential zones to a corridor node zone, a new zone that allows for more density — such as more apartments — along major corridors such as South Limestone.