Lexington for Everyone’s 30-by-30 campaign is asking the city to create a housing tracker, conduct a yearly review of vacant land and hire a development liaison in the city government as part of that push, arguing the current process for major developments to get approved takes too long.
“We need to come into some sort of balance where we are having the appropriate regulations, but not a bottleneck, where developments are getting stuck in the process and not being able to move forward,” Lexington for Everyone board member Carla Blanton said.
A study by EHI Consultants says Lexington is 22,000 housing units short, with that number expected to grow. The study says that the shortage has also driven up rent prices in Lexington by 47% from 2019 to 2024…