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The Dry Stone Conservancy has announced its 2009 Public Workshop Schedule. Registrants for these workshops spend two full days with our talented instructors, and come away with the skills needed to build your own dry-laid stone masterpieces. Whether you're interested in learning how to build a beautiful Kentucky rock fence, or just wanting to know how to build something in your back yard, these workshops are for you! We'd love to see you this year. Please visit our website at… Continue

The Dry Stone Conservancy recently met with Strand Associates and CBA, the engineers and designers for the Legacy Trail. Many interesting ideas were generated for potential drystone projects along the Trail, including a learning wall that the community can be involved in building over a number of years. We're excited to be included in the planning at this stage, and hopefully have gi… Continue

Please feel free to create your own letter of support or download this one - send it to the address shown, or email to saustin@bgcf.org and we will include it in our submittal package. Thank you! ------- December 4, 2008 Board of Adjustment LFUCG Division of Planning 101 East Vine Street Suite 700 Lexington, KY 40507 Dear Chairman Brown and Board of Adjustment Members: Please let this letter serve as an indication of my (our) strong support for the application by Vulcan Materials for undergr… Continue

Legacy Trail FAQs Prepared by The Legacy Center at Blue Grass Community Foundation December 2008 What is the Legacy Trail? The Legacy Trail is a nine-mile walking and biking trail leading from downtown Lexington to the Kentucky Horse Park. While in downtown, the Trail will be located on existing streets. The Trail goes off-street north of Loudon Avenue. In the short term, there will be only one major street crossing at Newtown Pike and Citation Boulevard. Eventually, the plan is to creat… Continue

Wow! What an event on the Legacy Trail! We had nearly 150 turn out on a… Continue

DRAFT!!!! East End Goals The Goals of the East End Small Area Plan are designed to serve as the social and economic drivers for the planning and redevelopment of the neighborhood. The East End Plan is about improving the quality of life through a set of goals that can be used to guide planning and development decisions that will have an impact on the area. The goals are about housing and its affordability, creating a viable and sustainable retail area, creating local employment opportun… Continue

Legacy Center Library Please contact us to check one of these books out of our library. Please also feel free to recommend a book for the library or make a donation. Author: Bill Bishop Title: The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us ApartReview "Essential reading for activists, poli-sci types, journalists and trend-watchers." (Kirkus Reviews ) "A timely, highly readable discussion of American neighborhoods and the implications of who lives in them."… Continue

I am interested in hearing from everyone about how we might get rock fences added to the 2010 World Equestrian Games, not only at the Games themselves, but along the Legacy Trail, and elsewhere. Continue

click over to the Legacy Center Channel on You Tube. http://www.youtube.com/user/LegacyCenter click on favorites... We've collected a bunch of cool videos about greeway trail development, car free cities, neighbo… Continue

We had a great time as we formally announced the opening of the Legacy Center at the Blue Grass Community Foundation - over 100 people came out to show thier support. More pics are found in the photos section at left. Continue

Looking forward to the upcoming Columbus trip! Thanks to the vision of Steve Austin, I've been fortunate to be able to take several trips per year ...... looking for progressive new ideas and concepts that we can bring back to Lexington. This trip should result in successes similar to those of the past. Two way streets, new downtown streetscape, Yellow Bikes, Main & Rose and Nunn Building Lofts are just a few of the ideas we've identified on prior fact finding missions. Continue