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Originally Posted by jmecklenborg

The sprawl stops right where I-75 and I-71 split, but that's a solid 20 miles south of the Ohio River.

There is definitely a pretty solid separation between the end of that sprawl and the northern fringe of Lexington, which is the giant Toyota plant in Georgetown, KY.

Lexington doesn't get much credit for being one of the only cities to successfully deflect not one but two interstate highways. They passed the first urban growth boundary in the United States in 1958, and that seems to have helped them both keep I-75 and I-64 far away from Lexington's downtown, but to also sustain the health of the downtown despite its relatively poor interstate highway access. It's really one of the only places where the interstates act like how expressways do in Europe.

That's interesting.

It could explain why Lexington punches far above its weight. I know multiple people who have lived there at multiple points in time and absolutely loved it.