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Civic issues
Topics getting the most attention in Oldham County public meetings, ranked by how frequently they come up.
Hayfield Way drainage improvement project
Multiple residents described years of worsening backyard erosion and stormwater runoff that neither the city nor county has resolved. They fear the new development's discharge will make it worse. County engineering explained the detention basin must not increase post-development runoff and pointed residents to La Grange Public Works and a county flood grant program.
Sewer availability and the half-mile rule (Section 7.4)
The whole legal saga hinges on whether the property is within a half-mile of usable sanitary sewer. Opposition says most of the 64 lots are within a half-mile of sewers on Rutland and Fairway roads, so septic is off the table; the applicant says that two-inch, 180-feet-uphill line was never built to be connected to and isn't 'reasonably accessible.'
Oldham Acres Road culvert and detention basin drainage
Neighbors near Oldham Acres Road warned that a new detention basin will drain into an unnamed creek that already floods, and described a crumbling double culvert under the county road that the road department hasn't fixed. The county engineer committed to inspecting it.