Fayette County school officials were thinking about cost savings when they decided to declare eminent domain on five properties next to the Rise STEM Academy for Girls on Versailles Road.
That land was needed for expanded bus lanes off Versailles Road up to the new school, Fayette schools’ chief operating officer Myron Thompson said in an interview on Wednesday.
Expanding to the right of the property would require a strip of backyards of houses on Fair Oaks and Port Royal Drives. That appraised cost would be about $40,000 paid to homeowners if the school district condemned the land under eminent domain…