 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing with 40 years of being in the hearing care industry you'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. Prestonsburg Mayor Les Stapleton and Floyd County Judge Executive Robbie Williams joined together today to officially sign for the acquisition and engineering of two vacant lots for high-ground housing. This acquisition is possible following the $2 million community development block grant the county received in July. The good thing about the high-ground initiative we had a shortage of affordable homes in eastern Kentucky and it was really creating an issue for us as far as keeping our population here, getting adequate housing. So the the high-ground initiative is really going to help in that it's going to create sites for us to actually build affordable housing on. And you notice I keep emphasizing affordable because we we're looking in that 125 to 150 range that people can afford to live in. The lots will provide land for over 70 affordable homes to be built in Floyd County with construction estimated to begin in spring of 2024. To me this is why we do what we do. I mean this is why you know I tell them you know anyone can go out and put asphalt down and replace drains and clean ditches and and do those things. These are the things that affect families long term. This is going to change people's lives going forward and we're talking you know I'm my plan over the next five years and the mayor and I spoke about this. Our plan over the next five years is to it's through the high-ground initiative we would like to build anywhere between 200 and 250 homes new homes in and around the Prestonburg Floyd County area. For further updates on this project stay tuned to Mountain Top News. Reporting for Mountain Top News I'm Brianna Robinson.