Nursing home group opposes stockyards

The proposed relocation of Blue Grass Stockyards to Midway "puts at severe risk" the plans for a new nursing home/assisted-living center in that Woodford County town, according to a non-profit task force that has worked eight years to make the nursing home a reality.

For that reason and others, the Midway City Council passed a resolution this week asking Woodford Fiscal Court to withdraw the fiscal court's application for a text amendment in the county zoning law that would allow the stockyards to move to an industrial park north of Interstate 64.

That amendment must be recommended by the county planning commission and approved by the Midway City Council before the stockyards could move from Lexington.

A public hearing on the text amendment is scheduled for Feb.