Habitat for Humanity is accepting applications for preliminary work on their plans for a 10-home subdivision on KY 144. The project is one step closer to coming to fruition after final plans for the site were approved Thursday by the Owensboro Metropolitan Planning Committee.
Local Habitat Executive Director Jeremy Stephens said plans for the neighborhood have largely remained unchanged since the top of the year. Most of the changes have pertained to piping and infrastructure.
“There’s been nothing pertaining to the amount of homes that has changed,” he said. “It’s just drainage things that they found when we started. So we’ve been hyper-focused on ensuring nothing affects the businesses around the area.”
The neighborhood will be named Carter Court Community in honor of former President Jimmy Carter. It sits on about 3 acres of land and will connect to Glenn Ct. When choosing the land, Stephens said they aimed to select a location close to shopping, bus routes, medical care, and schools.
Habitat previously received a Community Development Block Grant for $1 million from the Daviess County Fiscal Court. Stephens said they are going to use the funds for infrastructure needs — such as sewage, electric, gas, etc. The grant requires a 25% match from Habitat.
“Now we can start putting together our bid requests and open them to the public so that anybody who has an interest in putting a bid in can do that,” Stephens said.
Even though the ground hasn’t been broken, Stephens said they already have 5 of the 10 homes reserved by families.
“They know we’re not going to be building for a minute. Some of them have been assigned for months now, and they knew that it’ll take a little longer because we’re not going to build out there for a while they were willing to wait,” Stephens said previously.
Stephens hopes to have the first 5 homes finished by December 31, 2024, even though he knows several timelines will have to be coordinated to make that happen.
However, Stephens said Habitat will focus on finishing the 5 current projects throughout the county before they begin to work on Carter Court.
