My coWorkers had grown up here, maybe 20 years ago one of them moved down to Tate’s creek road in the general area of Man o War and there were no houses, gradually over time the area infilled. Another co worker used to tell me tales of Man o War being mostly gravel and not the four lane through road it is today. Now fayette and jessamine counties have run into each other just south of that intersection.
the arrival of Toyota in 1988 kickstarted the local economy, and the recreational horse dollar can’t compete with the developer dollar or the tb industry. Granted prices are lower here than the coasts they are still high for the Midwest, and Lexington is filling in the land closest to it in a classic urban sprawl scenario
it is a nice state to live in, property taxes,aren’t bad at an average of 1 percent of assessed value and property over 10 acres automatically has an exemption, since we got here the state has improved and widened the major arteries, that would be 25, 127, parts of 68, it is a really nice road to Paris, but they are not widening the roads before they are developed for housing or having the developers bear part of that cost, I think Toyota put in their ring road for their own needs and there is a new freeway off ramp at the rest stops in the past two years that serves Toyota, but if so it is because they are one company with funds to expand for themselves. A mall developer doesn’t have that pressure.
i have two least favorite intersections, one in Georgetown and Mall road at Fayette Mall. Mall road was part of the parking lot, I don’t know if is a city easement but when they developed the adjoining property (that when I first got here we used to cut through a car dealers lot to get to the new movie theatre, lol) that road became a through road with not one change. It still has perpendicular parking on one side and no turn lanes into the bulk of the mall parking, it is pointless and dangerous. Nicholasville road had been expanded but was going to have to eminent domain homes and the new businesses that had helped to increase traffic to widen any further. I can’t seem to link on this iPad and it won’t do satellite anyway.
The other may be familiar to folks who have been to the KHP, it’s Oxford drive right at the BP, The Walmart is across the main drag and Applebee’s is on the road you’d want to turn left on. it doesn’t look like much but there are two large subdivisions served by a road with no lights at one exit and no keep clear at the other. Checking the map looks like there are four subdivisions now. People wanting to turn left get rear ended with regularity at the one and killed outright trying to turn left at the other, Timberland. The city takes down the roadside memorials or there would be a half dozen. That’s Georgetown, which in the older part of town has plenty of lights but the newer stuff is on its own.
my last trainer used to live in downtown, in a big old mansion with a coach house in back and enough room to keep her pony. she told me about the winter it snowed real bad and they hitched the pony up to the sleigh to go groceries, then the city up and took that land for a road extension. She inherited a third of her grandpa’s farm but the farm next door went to Mcmansion’s. One of them has a little barn and nice horses but the bulk of the acreage is lawns.
No, it’s not the same as when you lived here Jenners.
