Traffic congestion is relative, they said. Be thankful you don't live in the Chicago or Atlanta or Washington, D.C., areas. My own thought is that a certain amount of suburban Lexington growth was inevitable. But bigger doesn't necessarily have to mean blander. Maybe Lexington is the wrong size to be a true metropolitan area or a small town.
Suburbs have a sameness.
But when I think of downtown buildings, I always think of the ones that had a continuance instead of a disappearance. The old Lafayette Hotel became the seat of local government, for instance, and the old Carnegie library became a literacy center. And the old Fayette County Courthouse is becoming a museum in the next couple of years. I think there's a relationship between blandness and disposability. This is something to think about as we grow.