Four property owners on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Fayette County Board of Education members who declared eminent domain on portions of their yards next to the Rise STEM Academy for Girls on Versailles Road.
The land is needed for expanded bus lanes off Versailles Road up to the new school, District Chief Operating Officer Myron Thompson told the Herald-Leader this week. Moving infrastructure on the other side of the property could cost as much as $240,000, he said.
Members of the board and Superintendent Demetrus Liggins knew or should have known “of the impermissible acts “ of its employees, agents or contractors who were “trespassing on, destroying and unlawfully taking” the properties in violation of state law, the lawsuit said…