Over a year after the Lexington Urban County Council shot down a plan to expand a mobile home park next to the St. Martins Village neighborhood, a new plan for single-family homes on the same property has been approved.
But if and how those homes will connect to the historically Black neighborhood is still up in the air.
The Lexington Urban County Planning Commission approved a plan for 57 new houses to be built at 421 Price Road. The property separates the Suburban Pointe mobile home park from the St. Martins Village neighborhood, built in the 1950s as a suburb for middle-class Black residents who could not buy homes in other subdivisions due to racial deed restrictions…