Scott Co. residents continue to voice concerns about regional business park

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (WKYT) – The proposed Triple Crown Business Park that could go in off of McClelland Circle in Georgetown continues to move forward, even in the face of growing opposition.

“The (Georgetown News-Graphic) newspaper poll was 80 percent opposed to this project,” said Erin Hsu, who has been vocalizing her opposition to the project for months. “There are over 830 members of our Facebook group opposed to it.”

The interlocal agreement to establish a regional business park authority for Scott, Fayette and Madison Counties was approved 5-3 by Scott County Fiscal Court on October 11. Scott Co. Judge-Executive Joe Pat Covington said then that the six-person board puts emphasis on equal partnership – and it starts with the Triple Crown proposal.

“The charge of this board will then be to go develop another park in another county, Madison or Fayette,” said Covington.

But locals worry they’re losing control over what goes on in their own county.

“Only two of those people are from Georgetown-Scott County, but we’re footing the bill for the police, the fire, the infrastructure,” said Sarah Price, another opponent of the business park.

So, opponents continued to plead their case to Georgetown City Council Monday to pump the brakes on the project.

“Instead of keeping it farmland or making it a residential neighborhood, we are irrevocably changing the nature and the tone of this area of Historic Georgetown,” said Ellen Murphy, who lives near the proposed business park site.

While the process isn’t slowing down just yet, council members are listening to their constituents. They’ve decided to set up a work session for next week on October 2, so they can give deeper consideration to the terms of this agreement before making a final vote.

Covington says each of the government entities (which also include Lexington’s urban government, the city of Berea, the city of Richmond and Madison County’s fiscal court) will take a vote on this agreement by the end of the month. For Georgetown’s city council – that vote is set for October 28.

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