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Kreps said street murals can be applied to intersections, curb extensions, crosswalks or midblock areas and that they are “one tool out of many” in a Complete Streets toolbox. She cited national research showing reductions in vulnerable-user crash rates and near-miss incidents when street murals are used in conjunction with traffic engineering measures and said city staff plan to collect before-and-after qualitative and quantitative data for pilot projects.

The planning division described a community-driven pilot in District 1 that grew from a temporary chalk demonstration at the city’s StreetFest event. The pilot will invite local artists to submit letters of interest and proposals; a community Art Selection Review Committee will convene to recommend a final design. Staff estimated individual street-art projects typically cost about $20,000, though Kreps said costs can vary and that “more is better” for durable installations. Traffic engineering will review all designs to ensure compliance with safety standards, and the Public Art Commission will be involved if its funding is used.

Council members praised the pilot and underscored the need for community-led selection, interdepartmental coordination and attention to traffic-engineering standards. Council Member Morton and others said the program should prioritize local artists and neighborhood engagement; Kreps said staff will coordinate community meetings and artist outreach as part of the pilot.

No committee vote was required; the presentation closed with members expressing support for the pilot and for continued collaboration among planning, traffic engineering, community outreach and the council office.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Lexington - Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee","oneSentenceSummary","The Division of Planning presented a street-art (asphalt art) pilot to the Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee, proposing a community-led selection process, estimated project costs and a temporary demonstration on Shropshire Avenue tied to a September selection process.","taxTitle","Lexington City, Fayette County, Kentucky","taxId",5707,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6505754,"Committee orders feasibility study comparing Mint Lane pump-station sites after lengthy consent-decree briefing",5026,840000,5866000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5563697-e3b6d34ce0c268ecbcb3051038190a74&start=840&end=5866","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5563697-e3b6d34ce0c268ecbcb3051038190a74/thumbnail_840000.jpg","/articles/6505754/Lexington-City/Fayette-County/Kentucky/Committee-orders-feasibility-study-comparing-Mint-Lane-pump-station-sites-after-lengthy-consent-decree-briefing","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6505754-31b0278397dfce54acfe981672611763/orig.mp4?Expires=1770445282&Signature=ExZXf3JMB8KZ9BDgMCO9UogqoDpdutbyrCHb~wMi7lNJEQD4ZsQKTj5v15IIq6Ppo2FKBNxcnI0iRmtT2kLWABLP49aEDkovCN8hvTqpCwidkA9pJGr3oz0T4jJXuwax-HoHQzY7yRhpqsRwEr9IQO3FSlVMvPG8epK-AS0vCbt-GoHwFpVW4e7E4KwblEbiL4o8DG~F50mEWpO-pUby8bP1Ql0P-2jL-YNFu1fZ3pN2uYKMJGUt9tJ5zSeV6lghfrIHd2zhHwuxIuDWk3EvYrX57FnMHluYoZjh3Xfv71Mtgk6ebxmfw4P6-SmvFvFGOzYHG-z4D4q5cuKQhMGMgQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Lexington City Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee discussed the Mint Lane pump station, a consent-decree remediation site, and voted Aug. 12 to advance a study comparing two candidate locations for pump-station improvements.

Council Member Savigny introduced the agenda item and said the study was requested because of past contention about the pump station’s location and future sewer-service planning. Director Charlie Martin, director of water quality, told the committee the Mint Lane pump station sits on a tightly constrained 0.08-acre parcel behind Dunbar High School and that it has a history of wet-weather overflows that placed it in a consent decree requiring remediation before December 2030.

“We’re intending to construct a new pump station and wet weather storage tanks within the limits of the existing urban service boundary,” Director Martin said during his presentation, describing a plan to build a diversion pump station and storage tank behind Dunbar High School, then rebuild the existing pump station on its footprint. Martin said the existing dry-weather pumping capacity is sufficient to accept the additional dry-weather flow from Area 1 (an expansion area bounded by Parker’s Mill and Man O’ War), but that wet-weather storage would need to be increased to handle peak storms.

Martin reviewed monitoring logs showing the station cycles normally in dry weather but runs continuously during rain events, which triggers overflows. He said the city’s 2023 sewerability study modeled how Area 1 could be served and that the study’s role was to inform decision-makers, not to set expansion policy. Martin said locating the pump station farther downstream, nearer Mill Ridge Farm and Bowman's Mill Road, could offer hydraulic advantages because it sits lower in the drainage network and could serve more land by gravity, but he cautioned that moving downstream raises questions about how to convey additional flow to the treatment plant and about legal and policy implications tied to the urban service boundary.

Several council members asked about property ownership and acquisition; Martin said the nearest in-boundary site lies on Fayette County Public Schools property and would require negotiations for additional land. He also described tentative engineering estimates provided by consultants: maintaining the dry-weather capacity at 3.6 million gallons per day (MGD), increasing wet-weather storage to roughly 4,800,000 gallons, and a peak diversion rate near 4.0 MGD. Council members raised aesthetic, odor and long-term planning concerns tied to storage-tank size and location.

Council Member Savigny moved that staff prepare “a complete site analysis and cost feasibility study of the two locations, the existing site and downstream at Bowman's Mill Road on Mill Ridge Farm property, that includes future growth of the facility and the region per the master plan for Area 1,” to be delivered to the full council at a regularly scheduled work session by March 1, 2026. Council Member Curtis seconded the motion. The committee voted to advance the study request; the motion passed and will be brought to full council in the form of a resolution for final action.

Budget and schedule notes discussed during the meeting: $2 million is in the FY26 budget for design and property acquisition; the Capital Improvements Program (CIP) lists about $6.19 million for the project next year, for a combined rough project-dollar placeholder of about $8 million in current dollars, though final costs depend on site selection and design.

The committee advanced the request; no final project site selection or construction authorization was made that day.","After a presentation on chronic overflows at the Mint Lane pump station and service-area planning, the committee voted to ask staff to prepare a site-analysis and cost feasibility study comparing the existing, in-boundary site and a downstream site near Bowman's Mill (Mill Ridge Farm), to be delivered to the full council by March 1, 2026.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6505759,"Lexington staff outline MS4 stormwater program, volunteer monitoring and maintenance manual due Jan. 2026",334,388000,722000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5563697-e3b6d34ce0c268ecbcb3051038190a74&start=388&end=722","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5563697-e3b6d34ce0c268ecbcb3051038190a74/thumbnail_388000.jpg","/articles/6505759/Lexington-City/Fayette-County/Kentucky/Lexington-staff-outline-MS4-stormwater-program-volunteer-monitoring-and-maintenance-manual-due-Jan-2026","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6505759-fa6548981b65a7e7d86f4e7cb6cab44b/orig.mp4?Expires=1770445282&Signature=Fem2gSkFZsBiYAEHvAXyNxFPaChTMC8jqKOwQRcV-FOaXnLYnxdqxtSvHhuop5yao7bouxiAI3NUdBM7h8gfyoyjqTwdJGH4XmusoZAGGBtq2VB2RygF83LENhDQiHLsKvnGNl7ImRmpNQN0DzSfCIBl~9uR~tcVMjza0vIDxuep72xF4DniRwUtl47bdYQ0R0ZjHXUJnIAmNKVEK3iPKQ-DhdeK~HUTZkpYHCxKgvl3vVdtyckivzEUIBUVi7N1q26Ws2rRXxLtX7g3kIRAxXZt5Qi9G8jeyofFeVU3KJsh7Y7U6kr-OslnaVVxMuSUoDiA5FqEehxm6XTNLHVjLA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Bailey Young, MS4 section manager for Lexington City, told the Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee on Aug. 12 that the city’s MS4 program continues under a stormwater discharge permit issued by the Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection and that staff have shifted monitoring and outreach strategies over the past year.

Young said MS4 — municipal separate storm sewer system — covers stormwater that drains directly into local creeks and streams rather than to wastewater treatment plants. “Just normal everyday activities like car washing and pet waste and oil and grease from automobiles can transport directly into our storm sewer system and then get washed into streams and creeks,” Young said.

The presentation highlighted four program elements that changed over the past year. For illicit-discharge detection and elimination, staff said they plan to shift from repeating dry-weather screening at the same large outfalls to a risk-ranked approach that targets subwatersheds and outfalls with higher likelihood of nonstormwater discharges, such as locations near sanitary sewer defects or high-density commercial areas. Young said other jurisdictions have adopted similar risk-based screening and that Lexington has consulted with peers about the practice.

Young also reviewed post-construction stormwater management. Lexington currently tracks almost 3,000 stormwater control features and performs more than 5,000 inspections a year. To clarify owner responsibilities, staff are preparing a comprehensive maintenance manual for post-construction stormwater controls that will distinguish commercial and residential responsibilities; Young said staff expect to publish the manual in January 2026 and will convene a developer-and-resident work group at the end of August to review drafts.

On water-quality monitoring, Young said the city moved from a one-watershed-a-year approach to a countywide annual monitoring program. Lexington’s proposed program, approved by the state in January 2025, includes 64 monitoring sites countywide and combines grab samples, wet-weather sampling, macroinvertebrate surveys, habitat assessments and fish surveys. Young said volunteer groups assist with quarterly grab sampling and that a volunteer training is planned for February 2026.

Committee members thanked Young for the update and asked how residents could volunteer; Young said interested people should contact her division and that staff could provide materials for council newsletters. The committee had no further questions and the presentation concluded.","City staff updated the Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee on Lexington's Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permit, changes to illicit-discharge screening, a new countywide water-quality monitoring plan and a post-construction maintenance manual expected in January 2026.","actionData","errors"]

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Planning unveils pilot street-art program; Shropshire Avenue demo to test safety and placemaking

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Lexington staff outline MS4 stormwater program, volunteer monitoring and maintenance manual due Jan. 2026