Lexington City Coucil March 20 unanimously approved a conditional use permit to allow Yellow Brick Road to operate a second location out of Murray Hall in the rear portion of Lexington Presbyterian Church, which fronts onto Randolph Street.
David Sigler made the motion to approve the use and Nicholas Betts provided the second.
As part of the permit application, Misty Camden, Yellow Brick Road’s executive director, requested that the four parking spaces in front of the Randolph Street entrance be changed from two-hour parking to 10-minute parking Monday through Friday.
City staff recommended that the spaces be made 10-minute only during the proposed dropoff and pickup times (7:30-8:30 and 3:30-5:30) and remain two-hour parking outside of those hours.
Following a public hearing on the conditional use permit at its meeting on Feb. 13, the city’s planning commission recommended that one of the four spaces be changed to 10-minute parking all day and the others only have 10-minute parking during the dropoff and pickup times.
The decision on the parking spaces was made by City Manager Tom Carroll. He told The News-Gazette Monday in an email that he plans to follow the Planning Commission’s recommendation, saying that the plan “strikes the ideal balance between meeting the needs of the much-needed daycare and the more generalized parking needs of the downtown.”
