 I’m happy to be partnering with Central Louisville Community Ministries to meet with District 6 constituents who benefit from their services and talk about how my office can best represent them! I'll be at CLCM on Monday morning at 9:30am.
Barret and Ellison Construction Update
Traffic calming work has started this week at the intersection of Barret Avenue and Ellison Avenue.
This Council-Directed Traffic Calming project includes:
--Concrete medians on Barret Avenue
--Marked pedestrian and bicycle crossings with new curb ramps on the east side of Barret Avenue
--Installation of a Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon (RRFB)
--Extension of the eastbound bike lane on Ellison Avenue to Barret Avenue, connecting to the existing shared-use path on the east side
Traffic Update:
-- Ellison Avenue eastbound will be closed to thru traffic at Schiller Avenue this week.
-- During the project, Barret Avenue lanes will shift for sidewalk and center-street work, with flaggers on-site during concrete pours.
These improvements will make Barret Avenue safer and more accessible for everyone — whether you’re walking, biking, or driving through the area.
Construction is expected to be complete by mid-November.
Stay tuned for updates as work moves forward!
Louisville Water Company Oak St Project Phase 2
Louisville Water Company will soon resume work on their Oak Street Main Replacement Project. Work on Phase 2 is expected to start Monday, October 27 and will involve Oak Street just east of Brook and move east along Oak Street to Clay; St. Catherine to Swan and E. Kentucky Street to Vine Street. Work will continue until they pause for the season again in May. More information at: https://louisvillewater.com/oakstreetproject/
The I-65 Central Corridor Project is a multiyear project by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) to replace and rehabilitate interstate bridges in a heavily traveled corridor of Interstate 65, between I-264 (Watterson Expressway) and the Muhammad Ali Boulevard interchange in downtown Louisville. The project is focused on improving safety and preventing unplanned closures while adding decades of life to these structures. At least six bridges in the project area will be replaced or rehabilitated during the next three years.
For more information on the project, please visit https://i65centralcorridor.com/.
If you have questions about planning and zoning applications, or would like to view the case file, please visit http://louisvilleky.gov/government/planning-design
Contact Louisville Metro Planning & Design Services at:
Metro Development Center
444 S 5th St, 3rd Floor
Louisville, KY 40202
(502) 574-6230
A Change in Zoning from OR-2 office residential to C-2 commercial on the subject site at the address below was filed with the department of Louisville Metro Office of Planning on September 9, 2025.
ADDRESS:1117 Logan Street
CASE NO: 25-ZONEPA-0107
CASE MANAGER: Molly Clark
CASE MANAGER EMAIL: molly.clark@louisvilleky.gov
COUNCIL DISTRICT: 6 – J.P. Lyninger
APPLICANT: Sarah Duncan
In accordance with the procedures of Louisville Metro Office of Planning, we have been directed to invite you to discuss this proposal before a formal application can be filed. This will be an informal meeting to give you the opportunity to review the proposed plan and discuss the proposal with the applicant or its
representative. We encourage you to attend this meeting and to share your thoughts. This meeting will be held in addition to the established public meeting procedures of the Planning Commission and/or the Board of Zoning Adjustment.
The meeting to discuss this application will be held on:
DATE: Monday, October 27, 2025 @ 6pm
LOCATION: Logan Street Market – 1001 Logan Street
A conditional use permit application to request an increase in occupancy at the address below was filed with the department of Louisville Metro Office of Planning on October 6, 2025.
ADDRESS: 1034 S Jackson Street
CASE NO: 25-CUPPA-0192
CASE MANAGER: Zack Jones
CASE MANAGER EMAIL: zachary.jones@louisvilleky.gov
APPLICANT: Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Council of Louisville, Inc.
In accordance with the procedures of Louisville Metro Office of Planning, the applicant has been directed to invite the community to discuss this proposal before a formal application can be filed. This will be an informal meeting to give the opportunity to review the proposed plan and discuss the proposal with the applicant or its representative. This meeting will be held in addition to the established public meeting procedures of the Planning Commission and/or the Board of Zoning Adjustment.
The meeting to discuss this application will be held on:
DATE: October 29, 2025 @ 6:00pm
LOCATION: Family Success Center – 1029 S Preston Street
You are invited to attend a review for a Traditional Neighborhood Zoning District (TNZD) MAP AMENDMENT to change the General Neighborhood Type from Institutional to Corner Commercial to allow a theater.
Este es un aviso para una audiencia pública relacionada con una solicitud en la propiedad que se enumera a continuación. Para obtener más información, o para servicios de traducción, escanee el código QR que aparece arriba o llame al (502) 574-6230.
Subject Property (Propiedad Sujeta): 100 W Ormsby Ave
Case Number (Número de Caso): 25-TNZD-0001
Case Manager (Administradora de Casos): Mark Pinto (mark.pinto@louisvilleky.gov)
Meeting Type (Tipo de Reunión): PLANNING COMMISSION
Meeting Date (Fecha de la Reunión): THURSDAY, October 30, 2025
Time (Tiempo): Meeting will begin at 1:00 PM and continue until all cases are heard
Location (Ubicación de Reunión): 514 W Liberty Street, 40202 (OLD JAIL BUILDING)
An application for a Change in Zoning from R-7 Multi-Family Residential to C-M Commercial Manufacturing at the addresses below was filed with the Louisville Metro Office of Planning on September 15, 2025.
ADDRESS: 1444 & 1146 S 7th Street
CASE NO: 25-ZONEPA-0111
CASE MANAGER: Mark Pinto
EMAIL: mark.pinto@louisvilleky.gov
APPLICANT: Bruce E Cohen
In accordance with the procedures of Louisville Metro Office of Planning, the applicant has been directed to invite the community to discuss this proposal before a formal application can be filed. This will be an informal meeting to give the opportunity to review the proposed plan and discuss the proposal with the applicant or its representative. This meeting will be held in addition to the established public meeting procedures of the Planning Commission and/or the Board of Zoning Adjustment.
The meeting to discuss this application will be held:
NOVEMBER 6, 2025 at 6:30pm
OLD LOUISVILLE INFORMATION CENTER
1340 S 4TH STREET, LOUISVILLE, KY 40208
Bruce Cohen is the primary point of contact for any questions or comments. Any questions or comments received will be incorporated into the meeting record. The contact information is: bruceecohen@gmail.com
Notice of an informational meeting regarding Residential Parking Permits
Property owners and residents are invited to a meeting with representatives of PARC to discuss the Residential Parking Permit Program (RPP) for East Breckinridge St (Barret to Swan Street), Vine and Swan Streets (East Breckinridge St-Brent St), North Goullon Ct, and Lampton Alley.
DATE: Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 6:30PM
LOCATION: 751 Vine Street
The Office of Construction Review has received a wrecking permit application for the property listed below:
Subject Property: 2315 Bolling Avenue
Case Number: BLD-WRE-25-00415
The above reference property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The requested wrecking permit may be issued on or after the following date provided that the application meets the development or deed restriction requirements of the LMCO (150.110): 11/19/2025.
The purpose of the 30-day hold is to provide time for the community to consider the demolition and, if warranted, prepare a petition to review designation of the building as a local landmark. If a petition is desired, please contact Savannah Darr, Historic Preservation Officer, at savannah.darr@louisvilleky.gov and 502-574-5705.
Alcoholic Beverage License Advertisement
Ad Date:10/22/2025
Protest must be submitted by: 11/21/2025
LMPD Division 4TH DIVISION
Propagators LLC , 1154 Logan St. Louisville Ky 40204, Hereby declares intention(s) to apply for a Microbrewery, Quota Retail Drink, NQ4 Malt Beverage Drink and NQ Malt Beverage Package license(s) no later than October 20, 2025. The business to be licensed will be located at 1154 Logan St. Louisville, Kentucky 40204 doing business as Atrium Brewing. The Members are as follows: Spencer Guy of 320 Brunswick Rd. Louisville Ky 40207 and Sean Myers of 1816 Tyler Pkwy. Louisville Ky 40204. Any person, association, corporation, or body politic, may protest the granting of the license(s) by writing the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 500 Mero St 2NE33, Frankfort, Kentucky, 40601 , within thirty (30) days of the date of legal publication. October 22 2025 LSBN0393027
Community of Opportunity Neighborhood Association
The Community of Opportunity Neighborhood Association is organizing in Park Hill & Algonquin. See website for more details.
Germantown-Paristown Neighborhood Association
GPNA has public meetings on the 3rd Monday of each month at 6:00 PM at the Hope Mills Building, located at 1000 Swan Street.
Limerick Neighborhood Association
Meetings on the third Wednesday of the every month at 7:00 PM Locations can vary but the calendar is updated here.
Meriwether-Fort Hill Neighborhood Association
The Meriwether-Fort Hill Neighborhood association meets on the second Wednesday of every month at 6:30PM. This month the meeting is at The Bard, 511 E. Burnett Avenue.
Old Louisville Neighborhood Council
OLNC meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 7pm. Location: the Historic Old Louisville Visitors Center (1340 S 4th Street)
Shelby Park Neighborhood Association
SPNA members meet most months on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. Location: Shelby Park Community Center (600 E. Oak Street)
Taylor Berry Neighborhood Association
Meetings held on the 1st Tuesday of the month (except August) at 6 pm at the South Louisville Community Center (2911 Taylor Boulevard).
Toonerville Trolley Neighborhood Association
Meetings on the second Wednesday of the every month at 7:00 PM Location: Noble Funk Brewery - 922. S. 2nd St.
The Federal Government shutdown recently became the second-longest in United States history, surpassed only by 35 days spanning December 2018 and 2019 under the first Trump Administration. Federal workers already furloughed have had their permanent employment threatened, government programs & offices have been thrown into disarray, and now a crisis is on the horizon that threatens to overwhelm Louisville's safety net.
A week from Monday, 600,000 Kentuckians will lose their SNAP benefits. That number represents 1 in 8 residents of the Commonwealth. The majority of the people who receive these benefits are unable to work: children, the elderly, and the disabled; the majority of the remainder who can work, do. While there is no need to justify feeding the hungry, it's worth painting the full picture for clarity.
Even before the loss of SNAP benefits, area food pantries have already seen a steady increase in demand this year as the economy lags for the working class and the prices of basic groceries continue to rise. In fact, today for the first time ever in five decades of serving the community the Calvary Episcopal's food pantry on 4th Street ran out of food and had to close early. Twice this week, 164 people visited the pantry in only two hours. Both days were the most people who had ever been served by the pantry.
I have a partnership with Central Community Ministries for regular Coffee with A Councilman community office hours that coincide with the pantry. I've seen first-hand the need being served there. Our District 6 Advisory Council recently identified La Casita Center, with their food assistance program and other critical community benefits for our Latinx neighbors, as a nonprofit that they were interested in exploring ways we can support. Even before the shutdown and this threat to critical benefits, we knew that there has been increased demand to help provide for basic human needs—now, it is a crisis.
The working class is already squeezed by unbearable pressures as the costs of housing, food, energy and healthcare skyrocket. Real wages have dropped steadily for fifty years. Rent, legally barred from price controls in our state, spirals out of control and everyday it costs more to buy a loaf of bread, a gallon of milk, a dozen eggs, a bag of oranges, and everything else we need to survive.
Even after this shutdown ends, the need will still be with us. In the richest country in the history of the world, with an economy that provides enough for all but only for a few, what will we do to meet these needs?
While we ponder these larger questions, Calvary Episcopal is at 821 S 4th Street. The food pantry is open Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 9:30 to 11:30 AM. Non-perishable food items or monetary donations donations are accepted 9 AM to noon on those days. To ask questions or address other needs you can reach out to the office of Central Community Ministries at 502-587-1999.
Solidarity,
Councilman JP Lyninger
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