Clark County, population 33,144 (2000), lies 12 miles east of Lexington in central Kentucky. The City of Winchester, population 15,799 (1990), shares a Joint City-County Zoning Ordinance with the County. In 1999, Winchester-Clark County adopted code amendments designed to protect agriculture by allowing cluster development, family farm home sites and TDR.
Sending areas include land zoned A-1. A sending site is allocated one TDR for each portion of land with 250 feet of frontage on a county road with a minimum depth of 200 feet. The County is divided into four areas for the purpose of determining TDR transfer ratios and density bonus. Please refer to Beyond Takings and Givings for the procedural details.
Receiving areas include land zoned Crossroads Community, a zoning district designed to enable rural settlements to continue to exist and allow for limited growth. Within the Crossroads Community District, the maximum density is one unit per acre without TDR.
The 1999 ordinance called for the Planning Commission to adopt subdivision regulations to permit TDRs to be used to increase densities in these Crossroads Community Districts. In November 2004, Planning Director Robert Blanton confirmed that these subdivision rules had been adopted. He also reported that Clark County had experienced its first two transfers.
