Good Morning Kentucky
by Darren Fisher
Title
Good Morning Kentucky
Artist
Darren Fisher
Medium
Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art
Description
A beautiful sunrise in Lexington Kentucky out in the country. On the back roads you can find barns and fields full of horses. I could not pass of this old barn on the beautiful morning. I have added digital effects and a texture to give the photo the look of a painting. Here is some information on why KY is a great place for farms and horse breeding.
Lexington faces a rare challenge among American cities in that it must manage a rapidly growing population while maintaining the character of the surrounding horse farms that give the region its identity. To do so Lexington enacted the nation's first Urban Growth Boundary in 1958, where new development could only occur in the Urban Service Area. It set a strict minimum area requirement, currently 40 acres (160,000 m2), to maintain open space in the Rural Service Area. A historic District Zoning Overlay was adopted as well to protect the historic character of the surrounding neighborhoods. Two years later, a comprehensive Design Plan for the downtown was completed,[14] which called for the removal of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway lines on what is today's Vine Street. In 1967, the Urban Service Area was decreased in area; various zoning regulations were also amended from the original 1958 issue. Several years later, in 1973, the first Lexington Comprehensive Plan was completed. In 1980, the Comprehensive Plan was updated and the Urban Service Area was modified to include Urban Activity Centers and Rural Activity Centers.The Urban Activity Centers were commercial and light-industrial districts in urbanized areas, while Rural Activity Centers were retail trade and light-industrial centers clustered around the Interstate 64/Interstate 75 interchanges. In 1996, the Urban Service Area was expanded when 5,300 acres (21 km2) of the Rural Service Area was acquired through the Expansion Area Master Plan.] This was not without controversy; the first major update to the Comprehensive Plan in over a decade was accompanied by arg
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June 24th, 2013
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