City planner Hal Baillie will meet with neighbors at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 27, to discuss the possible rezoning of the Warehouse Block to allow Mirror Twin Brewing’s expansion.
The meeting will be at 250 Walton Avenue, Suite 150. (Back side of the building.)
Mirror Twin hopes to expand its brewing operation into a third building on the south side of National Avenue, across the street from its current location.
Current zoning allows brewpubs but not microbreweries, which is what the third building would be. Therefore, city planners are advising Walker Properties to seek a rezoning of its entire development plan from Wholesale and Warehouse Business (B-4) to Light Industrial (I-1).
This action also would create an opportunity to more closely tailor National Avenue’s future development through a process called conditional zoning: The city could zone out otherwise permitted uses that would be incompatible with our neighborhood and the city’s plans for the area.
A rezoning to I-1 would allow all the uses now permitted in B-4, plus others. Both zones allow uses that would conflict with the adjacent residential neighborhood and the redevelopment of National Avenue in accordance with its adaptive reuse overlay.
It’s important that neighbors participate in this process and make their voices heard.
Here are the relevant sections of Lexington’s zoning ordinance: https://library.municode.com/ky/lexington-fayette_county/codes/zoning_ordinance?nodeId=ZONING_ORDINANCE_ART8SCZO_S8-21WHWABUZO