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Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Code of Ordinances
CHARTER AND CODE OF ORDINANCES LEXINGTON-FAYETTE URBAN COUNTY GOVERNMENT
SUPPLEMENT HISTORY TABLE
LEXINGTON-FAYETTE - URBAN COUNTY GOVERNMENT CHARTER
Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 2 - ADMINISTRATION1
Chapter 2A - AIRPORTS AND AIRCRAFT1
Chapter 2B - CODE ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING BOARDS
Chapter 3 - ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES1
Chapter 4 - ANIMALS AND FOWL1
Chapter 5 - BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS1
Chapter 5A - CIVIL DEFENSE: CIVIL EMERGENCIES
Chapter 6 - EMPLOYEES AND PENSIONS1
Chapter 7 - FINANCE AND TAXATION1
Chapter 8 - MINING AND/OR QUARRYING1
Chapter 9 - FIRE PREVENTION1
Chapter 9A - FIREWORKS
Chapter 10 - FOOD AND DRUGS1
Chapter 11 - HEALTH AND SANITATION1
Chapter 12 - HOUSING1
Chapter 13 - LICENSES AND REGULATIONS1
Chapter 13A - MINIMUM WAGE
Chapter 14 - OFFENSES AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS1
Chapter 15 - PEDDLERS AND SOLICITORS1
Chapter 16 - SEWAGE, GARBAGE, REFUSE AND WEEDS1
Chapter 16A - HAZARDOUS MATERIALS1
Chapter 17 - STREETS AND SIDEWALKS1
Chapter 17A - SUBDIVISIONS1
Chapter 17B - STREET TREES1
Chapter 17C - PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF-WAY
Chapter 17D - DOCKLESS VEHICLES
Chapter 18 - TRAFFIC1
Chapter 18B - SNOW EMERGENCIES1
Chapter 18C - EMERGENCY AMBULANCE, TRANSPORTATION AMBULANCE LICENSING, REGULATIONS1
Chapter 19 - WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Chapter 20 - ZONING1
Chapter 21 - COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR CLASSIFIED CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM1
Chapter 22 - UNCLASSIFIED CIVIL SERVICE1
Chapter 23 - DIVISIONS OF FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES AND POLICE1
Chapter 24 - DETENTION CENTER1
Chapter 25 - ETHICS ACT
Chapter 26 - RURAL LAND MANAGEMENT
APPENDIX A RULES AND PROCEDURES OF THE LEXINGTON-FAYETTE URBAN COUNTY COUNCIL1
CODE COMPARATIVE TABLE - ORDINANCES
STATE LAW REFERENCE TABLE
Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Zoning Code
Sec. 21-6. - Contents and format of development plans.
Publisher's Note: This Section has been AMENDED by new legislation (Ord. 079, passed 7-9-2024). The text of the amendment will be incorporated below when the ordinance is codified.
All development plans shall be prepared on Mylar or other material capable of clear reproduction using ozalid print process. Plans shall be legible and of a size and scale (generally not exceeding one (1) inch equals one hundred (100) feet) which enables clear presentation of required information. Required plan information shall be as follows:
(a)   Contents of preliminary development plan. A preliminary development plan shall contain the following information at a minimum:
(1)   A title block containing the plan name, development plan type, name and address of developer and plan preparer; and written and graphic scale.
(2)   The boundary of the subject property, its record plan designation (if available); and the record plan name or owner's name of all adjoining property.
(3)   A vicinity sketch, oriented in the same direction as the design scheme.
(4)   Topography with contour intervals not greater than five (5) feet.
(5)   Location, arrangement, and approximate dimensions of existing and proposed driveways, walkways, parking areas and arrangement of spaces, point of ingress and egress (including all gates restricting vehicular access), access points for construction vehicles, and other vehicular and pedestrian rights-of-way.
(6)   Location and cross-sections of any proposed or existing streets within or abutting the subject property.
(7)   Screening, landscaping and buffering, (as required by Article 18) recreational and other open space areas (as required by Article 20).
(8)   Approximate size, location, height, floor area, area arrangement and use of proposed and existing buildings and signs.
(9)   Storm drainage areas, floodplains, conceptual drainage controls and stormwater retention and any other designated environmentally sensitive or geologic hazard area.
(10)   Proposed and existing easements for utilities or other purposes.
(11)   A tree inventory map as required by Article 26.
(12)   Location of any existing burial grounds (including private family cemeteries) on the subject property and all adjoining property, and provisions for their protection, maintenance and accessibility.
(13)   A statistical summary of all pertinent site data, including site area, zoning, building coverage and floor area, parking, open space, etc.
(14)   A note stating that no grading, stripping, excavation, filling or other disturbance of the natural ground cover shall take place prior to approval of an erosion control plan. Such plan must be submitted in accordance with Chapter 16 of the Code of Ordinances.
(15)   An owner's certification, signed and witnessed as follows: "I (We) do hereby certify that I am (we are) the only owner(s) of the property shown hereon, do fully agree to all graphic and textural representations shown hereon, and do adopt this as my (our) development plan for the property."
(16)   A Commission's certification to be signed by the Commission's Secretary if and when the plan is fully approved, as follows: "I do hereby certify that this development plan was approved by the Urban County Planning Commission at its meeting held on (date)."
(17)   A note stating that no building permits shall be issued unless and until a final development plan is approved by the Planning Commission.
(b)   Contents of final development plan. All information required for preliminary development plans as required under Subsections (a)1. through 17. of this section, above; except that contour intervals shall be two (2) feet, a tree protection plan (as defined in Article 26 ), data block, lighting plan (as defined in Article 30), and tree protection areas shall be required and that the plan information shall be of an exact nature, rather than approximate or general.
(Code 1983, § 21-6; Ord. No. 26-88 , § 1, 2-11-1988; Ord. No. 30-88 , § 1, 2-25-1988; Ord. No. 26-94 , § 1, 2-24-1994; Ord. No. 289-2000 , § 1, 9-14-2000; Ord. No. 209-2002 , § 1, 8-29-2002; Ord. No. 5-2010 , § 3, 1-14-2010; Ord. No. 1-2011 , § 10, 1-13-2011; Ord. No. 004-2023, § 32, 1-31-2023; Ord. No. 079-2024, § 3, 7-9-2024)