Paducah City Commissioners Go Back on Housing Contract

WKMS | By Todd Hatton

Published March 21, 2012 at 8:56 AM CDT

Paducah City commissioners last night rejected an ordinance that would have changed a property swap agreement with the city’s Housing Authority. In May 2009, both parties agreed to exchange city property on H.C. Mathis Drive with Housing Authority land at 14^th and Martin Luther King Junior Drive. The swap was contingent on the authority’s demolition of housing units on their land. However, the Housing Authority was unable to secure federal approval to spend the necessary funds. Earlier this month, commissioners introduced an ordinance eliminating that requirement, but last night’s vote leaves the original agreement intact.

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Todd Hatton

Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.

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