Hello,
Welcome to the home of the Frankfort-Franklin Co. Comprehensive Plan update. The site’s purpose is to be the landing page for all information, engagement, and resources for residents and community members. Our goal is to work with YOU to form our region’s future vision, a future that is DISTILLED TOGETHER.
THE LATEST
FUTURE LAND USE MATERIAL
The FFC Plan team is ready to share and hear from the public on the plan’s Future Land Use map and Land Use chapter.
Since 2022, the FFC Plan’s process has held more than 12 public meetings and 20 committee meetings to engage with residents and stakeholders about Frankfort and Franklin County’s future needs and expectations. The input from those meetings helped shape the Plan’s Land Use Districts and how they were applied to the Future Land Use map. The map will help guide future development and be a tool for city leaders, developers, and residents to make development-related decisions based on the community’s vision for Frankfort and Franklin County.
The links below allow you to view the Interactive Future Land Use Map (where you can search the Land Use District for your property or key areas of interest) and the draft Land Use Chapter.
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The Planning Commission amended and approved the plan’s Goals and Policies during its hearing on March 14th. The goals and policies are currently under review by the Fiscal Court and Board of Commissioners ahead of the public hearing. Check back for the hearing date!
FFC Phase Four Schedule
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Next Advisory Committee Meeting
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May 23rd @ 5:00, Franklin County Fiscal Court
315 W Main St, Frankfort, KY 40601
Join us for a plan update and help make revisions.
What is a Comprehensive Plan?
A comprehensive plan is a document that will assist in guiding the development of your community for the upcoming decades based on the current and future needs of Frankfort and Franklin County.
The plan is a collaborative effort between Frankfort, Franklin County, and its residents. The advisory committees, along with your ideas and voice, will bring together the community’s top stakeholders to influence key aspects of the plan.
In the first phase, we will gather information on Frankfort and Franklin County and establish working relationships between consultants, planning staff, and the community. We will launch two committees to guide and champion the project. Learn about the consultant team and each committee in The Teams section below. In addition, we will perform a SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunity, threat) analysis with stakeholders and the public to help focus our analysis and to guide future phases.
Engagement Opportunities:
• Visioning Survey and Pop-Up Events
• Public Kick-Off Event
In the second phase, we will explore alternatives to address the critical areas and themes identified in the SWOT Analysis, conduct demographic and geographic analysis, and then explore options at a communitywide and neighborhood level with the public. This will be a great point to identify areas to preserve and protect, where change is appropriate, and how it should happen.
During this phase we will also organize the plan’s critical themes and create the plan’s framework, including the vision statement, goals, and objectives.
Engagement Opportunities:
• Policy Exploration Workshop
• Draft Vision and Goals Survey
The third phase will be focused on drafting the plan recommendations, including the policies and strategies to flesh out the framework by working with the Steering Committee and staff and testing concepts with the public using online surveys. This phase will be primarily dedicated to the creation of a graphically-rich, interactive, multi-platform document that is concise, user-friendly, and relies heavily on the use of annotated maps and graphics. The plan’s structure will be predetermined in
Phase 2.
Engagement Opportunities:
• Planning Commission Endorsement
of Framework
• Draft Plan Content Survey
In the fourth phase, the Comprehensive Plan will be refined and finalized. The plan will be presented to the public for review and input and then will go through the formal public review and adoption process.
Engagement Opportunities:
• Plan Review Open House
• Public Hearing
• Adoption Hearing
In the first phase, we will gather information on Frankfort and Franklin County and establish working relationships between consultants, planning staff, and the community. We will launch two committees to guide and champion the project. Learn about the consultant team and each committee in The Teams section below. In addition, we will perform a SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunity, threat) analysis with stakeholders and the public to help focus our analysis and to guide future phases.
Engagement Opportunities:
• Visioning Survey and Pop-Up Events
• Public Kick-Off Event
In the second phase, we will explore alternatives to address the critical areas and themes identified in the SWOT Analysis, conduct demographic and geographic analysis, and then explore options at a communitywide and neighborhood level with the public. This will be a great point to identify areas to preserve and protect, where change is appropriate, and how it should happen.
During this phase we will also organize the plan’s critical themes and create the plan’s framework, including the vision statement, goals, and objectives.
Engagement Opportunities:
• Policy Exploration Workshop
• Draft Vision and Goals Survey
The third phase will be focused on drafting the plan recommendations, including the policies and strategies to flesh out the framework by working with the Steering Committee and staff and testing concepts with the public using online surveys. This phase will be primarily dedicated to the creation of a graphically-rich, interactive, multi-platform document that is concise, user-friendly, and relies heavily on the use of annotated maps and graphics. The plan’s structure will be predetermined in Phase 2.
Engagement Opportunities:
• Planning Commission Endorsement of Framework
• Draft Plan Content Survey
In the fourth phase, the Comprehensive Plan will be refined and finalized. The plan will be presented to the public for review and input and then will go through the formal public review and adoption process.
Engagement Opportunities:
• Plan Review Open House
• Public Hearing
• Adoption Hearing
The Team
Our team is a collaborative effort between the city, county, consultants, committees, and residents.
City of Frankfort
Eric Cockley |
Director of Planning &
Community Development
Jordan Miller |
Senior Community Planner
Vicki Birenberg |
Historic Preservation Officer
Franklin County
Robert Hewitt |
Director of Planning & Zoning
Ben Judah |
Planning Supervisor
McBride Dale Clarion (Prime Consultant)
Elizabeth Fields |
Public Planning Manager
Kyle Gibbs |
Planner
Human Nature & Strand Associates (Subconsultants)
Sara DiLandro, AICP |
Environmental & Community Planner
at Human Nature
Mike Woolum, P.E., P.L.S. |
Vice President at Strand Associates
Frankfort and Franklin County Residents
Residents will have the opportunity to engage and work with the city, county, and consultants every phase of the planning process. In the end, the plan is for the people of Frankfort and Franklin County, and the resident’s contributions to the plan are heavily valued and dependent upon their voice and ideas.
The Executive Steering Committee…
is made up of representatives of the Planning Commission, the Franklin County Fiscal Court, The City Board of Commissioners and the respective City and County Planning Staffs. This group will be working hand in hand with the Comp Plan Consultant Team to facilitate the overall process of the Comprehensive Plan rewrite to ensure that effective community engagement opportunities are included as part of the process and to ensure that the process moves along as efficiently as possible. This group will be a sounding board for the process to ensure that the recommendations and vision created for the plan by the Advisory Committee and the greater public input are in line with community expectations.
William May – Planning Commission Chair (Governors Appointment)
Charles Stewart – Planning Commission Vice-Chair
Brent Sweger -Planning Commission
(City Appointment)
Unfilled Currently – Planning Commission (County Appointment)
JW Blackburn – Magistrate
(Fiscal Court Representative)
Layne Wilkerson – Mayor (Board of Commissioners Representative)
The Advisory
Committee is…
a wider group of stakeholders in the community from a variety of backgrounds, specialties, interests, and locations within the city and county. This group will be tasked with the hands-on review of the plan content, while providing input and ideas throughout the planning process. It is intended that the members of the advisory committee will also assist the process by informing their own individual networks about engagement opportunities and events.
Kaylah Smith or John Senter – Downtown Frankfort Inc.
Robin Antenucci – Frankfort
Tourism Commission
Tish Shade – Chamber of Commerce
Ford Childs – Walk/Bike Frankfort
Melanie VanHouten – FrankArts
Chris Schimmoeller – Envision
Franklin County
Adam Leonberger – UK Extension Office
Joe Sanderson or Coe Norton –
National Guard
Paul Thompson – Frankfort Independent Schools
Mark Kopp – Franklin County Schools
Brittany Sams – Architectural
Review Board
Sam Ruth – Finance Cabinet
Sonia Sanders – Kentucky
State University
John H. Carlton – At-Large Member
Sarah Snipes – At-Large Member
Bob Pelosi – At-Large Member
Bryan Hix – At-Large Member
Kristie Powe – At-Large Member
Jim Jackson – At-Large Member
Boday Borres– At-Large Member
John Meyer– At-Large Member
Eric Northcutt– At-Large Member
Begin engaging today!
Join our Email List
Stay updated on news, meetings, surveys media, and other engagement opportunities.
Click the button to check for available surveys.
City of Frankfort
Eric Cockley | Director of
Planning & Community Development
Jordan Miller |
Senior Community Planner
Vicki Birenberg |
Historic Preservation Officer
Franklin County
Ben Judah | Planning Supervisor
McBride Dale Clarion
(Prime Consultant)
Elizabeth Fields, AICP |
Public Planning Manager
Kyle Gibbs | Planner
Human Nature &
Strand Associates
(Subconsultants)
Sara DiLandro, AICP |
Environmental & Community Planner at Human Nature
Mike Woolum, P.E., P.L.S. |
Vice President at Strand Associates
Frankfort and Franklin County Residents
Residents will have the opportunity to engage and work with the city, county, and consultants every phase of the planning process. In the end, the plan is for the people of Frankfort and Franklin County, and the resident’s contributions to the plan will be heavily valued and dependent upon their voice and ideas.
The Executive Steering Committee…
is made up of representatives of the Planning Commission, the Franklin County Fiscal Court, The City Board of Commissioners and the respective City and County Planning Staffs. This group will be working hand in hand with the Comp Plan Consultant Team to facilitate the overall process of the Comprehensive Plan rewrite to ensure that effective community engagement opportunities are included as part of the process and to ensure that the process moves along as efficiently as possible. This group will be a sounding board for the process to ensure that the recommendations and vision created for the plan by the Advisory Committee and the greater public input are in line with community expectations.
William May – Planning Commission Chair
(Governors Appointment)
Charles Stewart – Planning Commission Vice-Chair
Brent Sweger – Planning Commission
(City Appointment)
Unfilled Currently – Planning Commission
(County Appointment)
JW Blackburn – Magistrate
(Fiscal Court Representative)
Layne Wilkerson – Mayor
(Board of Commissioners Representative)
The Advisory Committee is…
a wider group of stakeholders in the community from a variety of backgrounds, specialties, interests, and locations within the city and county. This group will be tasked with the hands-on review of the plan content, while providing input and ideas throughout the planning process. It is intended that the members of the advisory committee will also assist the process by informing their own individual networks about engagement opportunities and events.
Kaylah Smith or John Senter – Downtown Frankfort Inc.
Robin Antenucci – Frankfort Tourism Commission
Tish Shade – Chamber of Commerce
Ford Childs – Walk/Bike Frankfort
Melanie VanHouten – FrankArts
Chris Schimmoeller – Envision Franklin County
Adam Leonberger – UK Extension Office
Joe Sanderson or Coe Norton – National Guard
Paul Thompson – Frankfort Independent Schools
Mark Kopp – Franklin County Schools
Brittany Sams – Architectural Review Board
Sam Ruth – Finance Cabinet
Sonia Sanders – Kentucky State University
John H. Carlton – At-Large Member
Sarah Snipes – At-Large Member
Bob Pelosi – At-Large Member
Bryan Hix – At-Large Member
Kristie Powe – At-Large Member
Jim Jackson – At-Large Member
Boday Borres– At-Large Member
John Meyer– At-Large Member
Eric Northcutt– At-Large Member
Begin Engaging Today!
Join our Email List
Stay updated on news, meetings, surveys media, and other engagement opportunities.
Click the button to check for available surveys.
City of Frankfort
315 W 2nd Street, Frankfort, KY 40601
502-875-8500
ecockley@frankfort.ky.gov
https://frankfort.ky.gov/
Franklin County
321 W Main Street, Frankfort, KY 40601
502-875-8751
robert.hewitt@franklincounty.ky.gov
https://franklincounty.ky.gov/
City of Frankfort
315 W 2nd Street, Frankfort, KY 40601
502-875-8500
ecockley@frankfort.ky.gov
https://frankfort.ky.gov/
Franklin County
321 W Main Street, Frankfort, KY 40601
502-875-8751
robert.hewitt@franklincounty.ky.gov
https://franklincounty.ky.gov/