Skyview housing project keeps moving forward in Perry County
Perry County’s Skyview project is past the groundbreaking stage, with water and sewer draws approved and plans for up to 178 homes on high ground in Hazard.
Skyview is no longer just a promise on paper. Perry County records show the high-ground housing effort is still advancing with water and sewer work, and state documents outline a development that could grow into as many as 178 homes on about 59.2 acres in Hazard.
The project broke ground in March 2025 and is taking shape as one of Perry County’s largest residential builds. Kentucky disaster-recovery documents describe Skyview Estates Area 1 as a roughly 49.2-acre subdivision planned for 90 to 153 single-family detached homes. A separate market study described the project as a proposed 95-lot affordable housing subdivision for families displaced by the 2021 and 2022 floods, along with other income-qualified buyers at or below 80% of area median income.
That mix of numbers matters because it shows who the first buyers are likely to be: households that need stable housing after repeated flood damage, plus local families who meet income limits and have struggled to find housing in Hazard. State materials say the community is about five minutes from downtown Hazard and close to schools, shopping and a medical center, placing the development within reach of daily services rather than on the edge of town.
The work behind the homes has been just as important as the framing. Perry County Fiscal Court approved draw requests for the Sky View Housing Development Water & Sewer Project totaling $295,921.11 in an April 1, 2025 agenda item. Two weeks later, in a special-called meeting on April 22, the court approved Requisition Certificate #14 for the Sky View Water & Sewer Infrastructure Project. County records also show the infrastructure work had already been moving in March 2024, when Draw 3 for the Sky View Housing Development Infrastructure Project was approved.
Gov. Andy Beshear joined local leaders in Hazard on April 25, 2025, to help raise the walls on one of five new homes being built at Skyview. During that visit, he announced more than $8 million in funding for Perry County, a sign that the development sits inside the broader Eastern Kentucky recovery effort rather than as an isolated subdivision.
Housing Development Alliance executive director Scott McReynolds has described Skyview Estates as a large-scale subdivision built for long-term growth. The organization says it has worked in Eastern Kentucky for more than 30 years and that every HDA-built home in its disaster-recovery program will have solar panels.
HDA later said it planned to dedicate five new model homes at Skyview on Aug. 26, 2025. That shift from underground utilities to finished model homes marked a visible step toward a neighborhood that is meant to last, not just to respond to one disaster.
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