LEXINGTON, Ky. ( FOX 56 ) — After a heated debate that lasted hours at The Government Center Tuesday night, the Lexington Fayette Urban County Council members decided to deny a proposed zone change.
It intended to transform a local neighborhood from a single-family residential zone to a mobile home park zone.
Dozens of residents piled into the meeting to express their disapproval and make their voices heard. Community members say St. Martin’s Village was the first Lexington neighborhood built for African Americans in 1955.
“At that time, we could not buy a house,” said Anne Green, a neighborhood resident of more than 60 years. “In any other areas of the city. We were not welcome there.”
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The zone change would have connected the west Lexington neighborhood off Price Road to the mobile home park adjacent to it.