Seven Vital Questions for Lexington-Fayette County’s Future

Every honest answer welcome, both positive and negative

The Seven Vital Questions invite you to think and reflect, hope and dream about your own vision for Lexington’s long term future. The form is designed for short answers, just a sentence or two.

Greatest Asset

1. Every community has a variety of assets that give it certain advantages and provide real quality and value as a place to live. Lexington-Fayette County’s greatest asset is:

Greatest Weakness

2. Every community has weak or missing elements that detract from its overall strength and unity. The weak or missing element that hurts Lexington-Fayette County most is:

Greatest Opportunity

3. Every community has unrecognized opportunities that need to be identified and acted upon in order to realize its full potential. The biggest untapped asset or source of new opportunity in Lexington-Fayette County is:

Greatest Challenge

4. Every community faces a number of challenges to be overcome as it moves forward through time. The greatest challenge our community must resolve at this time is:

Legacy / History

5. Every community has a legacy - a history or identity by which the community and its people are most widely known. If a stranger were to ask you to describe the legacy of Lexington-Fayette County, what things would you mention in your response?

Vision / Future

6. You may or may not think your answer to Question 5 is the best legacy that Lexington-Fayette County could be leaving. If you could change one thing about the community to give it an even stronger, more important legacy for the next generation of Lexingtonians, what would it be?

Personal Vision & Insight

7. Based on your answers to Questions 1-6, what is your great idea for moving Lexington-Fayette County forward, to be the kind of community you envision in the year 2040?