A Kentucky widow is facing eviction in March from the home she shared with her husband for 55 years because some people want to build a road through it.
Janet Arnett, 76, bought her 63-acre home in Salyersville, Kentucky in 1969 with her late husband, Lowell, according to WYMT. They built their permanent home on the land in 1998 after living in mobile homes since their original purchase. This is the home where Arnett spent the most important years of her life. It’s where her husband died in 2015.
But now some people think it’s okay to build part of a 45-mile-long road directly through her living room. “This home and the land surrounding it, is being taken away from her- due to the Mountain Parkway Expansion and Eminent Domain,” Arnett’s family shared in a statement shared with the New York Post. “She is losing everything.”
The Mountain Parkway in Floyd County, Kentucky.@heraldleader pic.twitter.com/T6ZlLNQssP
— Ryan C. Hermens (@ryanhermens) March 14, 2024
The project website describes how the “four-land, undivided, limited access highway that spans from US 460 into Salyersville (Magoffin County) to KY404 in Prestonsburg (Floyd County).”
“Yes, they are ‘buying’ it from her. But, she doesn’t care about the money. She wants to live her remaining years in her home,” Arnett’s daughter noted in the statement. (RELATED: Rich Liberals Fume After Native Americans Decide To Build High-Rises On Tribal City Land)
“It’s a small house, but to me, it’s a mansion,” Arnett told WYMT. The home has helped raise two generations of Arnett’s family and was described as the “epicenter” of their kin. Quite frankly, I can’t believe that anyone would be so Godless as to do this to any fellow American citizen. How could anyone justify destroying such an important home to build a road?
The Mountain Parkway Expansion did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller’s request for comment and clarification on the situation.