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Hardin County court declines to authorize negotiations for Pearl Hollow land transfer
Summary
After extended debate about endangered-bat habitat, buffer zones and the landfill’s long-term value, the Hardin County Fiscal Court voted down a motion to authorize negotiations with the Kentucky Heritage Land Trust over a roughly 158-acre land transfer; opponents cited operational and environmental risk to the county landfill.
The Hardin County Fiscal Court on Nov. 25 considered Resolution 2-32, a proposal to negotiate the sale of roughly 158 acres at Audubon Trace to the Kentucky Heritage Land Trust for addition to the Vernon Douglas Nature Preserve, but members voted against moving forward with negotiations.
Judge Executive (unnamed in the transcript) introduced the proposal, saying the property under consideration is on the east side of a Blue Line stream, is not part of the permitted landfill area and had been identified in earlier work as containing endangered-bat habitat covering about 162 of the roughly 193 acres originally surveyed. The proposal would have combined the parcel with the adjacent Vernon Douglas Nature Preserve. The judge noted the Kentucky Heritage Land Trust received a $1,000,000 state grant and had…
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