LEXINGTON, Ky. — A secretive advocacy group calling itself “Concerned Citizens of Chevy Chase” has been running an online campaign urging residents to oppose a proposed mental health facility in the Chevy Chase neighborhood — characterizing it as a “drug rehab clinic” despite official planning documents and the facility’s own executives describing it as a residential mental health and eating disorder treatment program. A scheduled vote on the project was postponed Monday after the applicant requested more time.
But searches of the Kentucky Secretary of State’s business registry and the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance turn up no record of any entity by that name. The site’s domain registration is shielded behind an anonymous WHOIS proxy. Attempts to reach the group’s administrators through both the website’s contact form and contact information listed in ICANN’s WHOIS registry received no response.
The project at the center of the dispute is conditional use permit application PLN-BOA-26-00006, filed January 28 by Behavioral Health Real Estate Associates, LLC on behalf of Roaring Brook, a Lexington-based behavioral health company, and ZLD Partners. The facility would occupy an existing 23,216 square-foot, two-story building at 319 Duke Road that has housed personal and residential care uses since the 1950s and is licensed for up to 60 beds…