A judge will consider arguments after attorneys for former residents of the North Fork Mobile Home Park and the City of Morehead attended a motion hour in Rowan Circuit Court Monday.
Seven displaced residents filed a lawsuit against the City of Morehead officials to challenge an ordinance creating the Morehead Gateway Development Area at North Fork Mobile Home Park. The lawsuit alleges that the City of Morehead failed to follow the Kentucky law establishing the process a local government must follow and facts it must find before creating a development area.
The City filed a motion to dismiss the suit in July, which was refuted in a subsequent motion.
Attorney William Lear is representing the City of Morehead. He told the court the former residents were asking for action to cure the harm done to them, which is not possible since the mobile home park no longer exists.
Attorney Ben Carter is representing the former residents argued that the city did not do proper due-diligence before creating the tax-increment financing district, which paved the way for the sale of the property.
There is no timeline for when Judge William Layne will make a ruling.