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Please welcome a new addition to the District 6 team, Dare Cima. She will be joining us as a part time Community Organizer. Her primary responsibilities will include organizing the District 6 Advisory Council, outreach with neighborhood organizations, and assisting with tasks around the office. She is a junior at the University of Louisville majoring in Urban Studies, and lives in Old Louisville. |
Public Works would like to share important updates regarding the ongoing street improvement projects on West Kentucky Street and South 6th Street. Additional sidewalk repairs will be taking place on the west side of the Ida B. Wells Hall located on the campus of Simmons College of Kentucky.
Traffic Impacts: There will not be any road closures, however, please note that motorists headed northbound on South Sixth Street will be restricted to one lane. The contractor will be working diligently to minimize any major inconveniences, attempting to complete the work in 1 week as opposed to 2. Please see attached traffic plan for additional details.
Expected Start Date: December 8, 2025, weather permitting.
Expected End Date: December 22, 2025, weather permitting.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out:
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Office: 502-574-5931
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Mobile: 502-356-8882
We appreciate your patience and cooperation as we work to enhance the safety and accessibility of our city streets and enhance our community’s infrastructure.
Alcoholic Beverage License Advertisement
Ad Date: 11/12/2025
Protest must be submitted by: 12/12/2025
LMPD Division: 4TH DIVISION
BARD LOUISVILLE ENTERTAINMENT LLC, 511 E Burnett Ave, Hereby declares intention(s) to apply for a NQ4 Retail Malt Beverage Drink and Quota Retail Drink license(s) no later than November 10, 2025. The business to be licensed will be located at 511 E Burnett Ave, Louisville, Kentucky 40217 doing business as The Bard. The owner(s) are as follows: Sabrina Spalding Stein, owner, 923 Stone Street Daniel Riddlesmith, owner, 2205 CHERIAN DR. 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. November 12 2025 LSBN0405097
Notice of Application for Wrecking Permit of Historic Structure
The Office of Construction Review has received a wrecking permit application for the property listed below:
Subject Property: 1216 Logan Street
Case Number: BLD-WRE-25-00465
The above reference property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing building to the Shelby Park Historic District. 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): 12/12/2025. 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.
You are invited to attend an Old Louisville Architectural Review Committee hearing for the review of the after-the-fact installation of a metal fence with wooden posts in the front yard of the property.
Subject Property: 1230 S. Floyd Street
Case Number: 25-COA-0084
Case Manager: Bradley Fister (bradley.fister@louisvilleky.gov)
Meeting Type: Old Louisville Architectural Review Committee (ARC)
Meeting Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Time: Meeting will begin at 4:30 pm and continue until all cases are heard
Location: Metro Development Center — 444 S. 5th Street, Room 101
If you wish to submit comments on this case prior to the hearing, please submit them in writing to the case manager by NOON Tuesday, December 16, 2025. You may also speak at the meeting.
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 usually 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: Arthur S Kling Center - 219 W Ormsby Ave.
The funny thing about organizing for community power is that it can’t be done from the top down. The power is with the people, and that power can only be wielded by the people. All of the efforts of an organizer, whether they’re a worker trying to start a union or organize in one for power in the workplace; or students seeking to change a university policy; or people in Louisville who want better conditions in their neighborhoods or to meet unmet needs in the community, none of this is done directly by the organizer. All of those efforts are aimed at building consciousness of the problems, drawing together the collective power of the people impacted by the problems and activated to seek change, and focusing that collective power on the solutions to the problems.
None of that is possible if people don’t come together. An organizer can have a great understanding of the problems and a thorough plan for how the people can act together to solve it, but if they don’t have people listening, learning, and moving into action nothing can be accomplished. For the organizer, if you don’t have people, you don’t have power.
Because the power can’t come from above, we’re very fortunate to have incredible grassroots organizers in our district who want to build that people power in our community. Some of them have been doing to for a long time, and some of those efforts in one area can have an impact that’s broader from where they started out.
In 2022, the Park Hill/Algonquin Community of Opportunity Advisory Board was established to provide community input and engagement with the redevelopment of the former Rhodia site for affordable housing. The community engagement provision for the development created a board, and the opportunity for organizing was seized by the people on that board. This has led to the creation of a new neighborhood association for Park Hill & Algonquin as the people involved in that process recognized the possibility before them of continuing to engage with one another, to expand their scope from beyond the development into something that encompassed their neighborhoods as a whole.
This development was organic in the community, but it wasn’t accidental! People involved saw an opening to talk about problems in the community, got their neighbors listening and acting, and are now working collectively towards change they know they need. That’s organizing and building people power! I’m proud to stand with these organizers and excited to do what I can organizing with them to keep building that people power and to keep fighting for even more change, but ultimately that power belongs to the community and can’t exist without them. There’s a lot to be learned from their success!
Solidarity,
Councilman JP Lyninger
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