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Erin Thompson, Louisville’s Urban Forester, will host a community dialogue aimed at crafting a public campaign to support a healthy tree canopy across Metro Louisville. The Louisville Tree Campaign Collaborative Meeting will be held Wednesday, June 11, 2014 from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. The location is Whitehall House & Gardens at 3110 Lexington Road. This is an effort to collectively craft the beginnings of an inclusive campaign that welcomes participation from the many groups and individuals that support a community with a healthy tree canopy. All voices are invited to take part in the discussion that will establish the first steps in pulling a public campaign together by this fall.
Meeting topics will cover whether an umbrella campaign is needed, campaign priorities, fundraising, naming or branding, communication, education, next steps and more. Anyone intending to attend the meeting is asked to RSVP to Erin Thompson at Erin.Thompson@louisvilleky.gov or (502) 574-4030.
The 9th District Urban Services District (USD) will have junk collection set-out on a select weekend in June 2014, depending on your address. You may begin setting out your junk Friday afternoon prior to your junk pick-up week and must have it all out by Monday at 6:00 AM. For your specific junk set-out weekend please visit http://mapit.louisvilleky.gov/ and enter your address, call the office at 574-1109, or email Kyle Ethridge. For collection guidelines please visit www.louisvilleky.gov/solidwaste. You may now sign up for junk set out reminders by email and text. Click here to sign up today!
From Monday, June 23 – Saturday, June 28, to correspond with Junk Pick Up dates, River Metals Recycling (RMR) is inviting 9th District Residents to receive higher rates for recycling scrap metal: an extra $10 per net ton for sheet metal/appliances and 5 cents per pound extra for aluminum cans and copper. To participate, print the coupon attached to this email and bring your scrap metal to RMR at 2045 River Road between June 23-28. Thanks to RMR for offering this incentive and for its support of the Green Triangle. Go green with RMR and get your green! Keep metal out of the landfill by taking it to River Metals to be recycled instead of setting it out for Junk Pick Up.
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MetroTV City Files has just released an update on Beargrass Creek and Beargrass Falls at Karen Lynch Park located at Brownsboro Road and Story Avenue. Learn more about the demonstration projects onsite in the Park. Click here to view the video.
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Grinstead Drive will be one of the next Louisville Metro roadways to get bicycle lanes. Work is scheduled to begin on Grinstead on June 23. The new bike lanes are part of a continuing effort to expand our community’s urban bike network and will complete a doubling of bike facility mileage from 40 to 80 mile in the last twelve months. Mayor Greg Fischer has included $300,000 for additional bike lanes in the budget he proposed for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The Grinstead Drive project, described in public meetings April 9 and April 10 at the Peterson-Dumesnil House, runs between Stilz Avenue and Lexington Road. The road will be reduced from four motor vehicle travel lanes to two, plus a center turning lane, through most of the corridor. That will permit bike lanes on both sides between Peterson Avenue and Crescent Court. At Interstate 64 a single bike lane will go in alongside four existing motorist travel lanes. The Grinstead bike lanes will not have buffer strips. Shared lane markings will be used to connect bicyclists from where the bike lanes end to the Beargrass Creek Trail which leads to downtown as well as Cherokee Park. Questions please contact Harold Adams at 574-6153.
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