Scope
Resolution R-236-2026 initiates zoning ordinance text amendments, including sections 8 and 21, to regulate data centers in Lexington-Fayette County. It directs that those amendments be initiated. It does not itself adopt the zoning text, change a permitted use, or pause permit acceptance.
- Geographic scope
- Lexington-Fayette Urban County, Kentucky
- Jurisdiction
- Local
- Authority type
- Local government
- Issuing authority
- Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council
Dates
- Adopted
- 9 June 2026
- Effective
- 9 June 2026
- Scheduled expiration
- None scheduled
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- None stated
- Source document
- 9 June 2026
- Last checked
- 5 October 2026
Summary
On June 9, 2026 the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council passed Resolution R-236-2026, Legistar file 0529-26. The signed copy initiates zoning ordinance text amendments to regulate data centers and says the resolution takes effect on passage. The mayor and the clerk signed it. The resolution starts the amendment process. It does not itself change which zones allow data centers, and it does not change the separate permit pause in Resolution R-235-2026.
What this does not establish
- The signed resolution was read from the image of the two-page council scan. Its text layer is empty. The same operative sentences appear in the Legistar text pane for file 0529-26.
- Section 1 initiates amendments. It does not contain the zoning text, a megawatt threshold, or a permit pause.
- The second page of the scan is the motion to place the resolution on the June 9, 2026 docket, not a second enactment.
Unresolved questions
- Whether the council later adopts, rejects, or tables the zoning ordinance text amendments that this resolution initiates.
- How those amendments, if adopted, would relate to the October 31, 2026 end of Resolution R-235-2026.
Relationships
Supersession means a later instrument replaces the earlier legal effect. Repeal links identify the repeal instrument and the measure it ends. A later implementation or related letter is not treated as a replacement unless the record says so.
- Related, not a replacement Lexington-Fayette Urban County: data center zoning and permit pause to 31 October 2026 (In effect)
Sources
https://lexington.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=15585047&GUID=48148BC6-BF3C-40D4-9269-1A049AF26A33
- Legistar matter record for file 0529-26 Matter record stating approved status, enactment number R-236-2026, and final action on June 9, 2026 · 9 June 2026