 
 Here are some ways we can work together to keep District 6 clean.
Keep your trash and recycling in the cart. Your trash and recycling should always be inside your carts with the lid closed. This will keep unwanted animals from opening bags, creating litter. Residents in the Urban Services District can request a cart repair or purchase an additional cart. All other residents should contact their waste hauler about containers.
Garbage, recycling, and yard waste containers must be removed from alley or curb after collection. Containers left out may be damaged, stolen, or vulnerable to scavenging. Removing them from the ally or curb reduces litter and keeps the area cleaner.
Pick up litter around your home and neighborhood. People tend to litter more in already littered areas. Help set the standard for your residence.
Secure your loads. If you are transporting large items, be sure to secure them. It is against the law to drop destructive or injurious material on a highway without immediately removing it.
If you see somebody littering, call 311 to report!
Make a Difference This Winter: Apply to Open an Extreme Weather Shelter
As cold weather approaches, now is the time to prepare. Extreme Weather Shelters offer temporary refuge for people facing dangerous temperatures, saving lives and reducing strain on hospitals and emergency services. Facilities like gyms, churches, or community spaces can play a crucial role by opening their doors when severe weather strikes.
If you’re considering opening your building as a shelter this winter, don't wait. Apply now to ensure your space meets all safety requirements and can be ready to open when needed. Early application is essential, as you must submit a Life Safety Plan and receive approval from the Construction Review division of the Department of Codes and Regulations. These shelters not only protect people from harm but also provide support during crises and demonstrate compassion for those in need.
Ready to help? Get full details and start your application today at LouisvilleKY.gov/EmergencyShelter.
The property owners at 736 Zane St. plan to submit a development proposal and request a conditional use permit to obtain a non-owner-occupied short-term rental permit.
In accordance with the procedures of Louisville Metro Planning and Design Services, we have been directed to invite you to discuss this proposal before an 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 developer or his/her 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 development proposal will be held on:
Tuesday, December 30, at 6:30pm
Old Louisville Brewery
625 W Magnolia Ave,
Louisville, KY 40208
At this meeting, Joshua Allen and Kaela Dickerman will explain the proposal and then discuss any concerns you have. We encourage you to attend this meeting and to share your thoughts.
Contact: Kaela Dickerman
Email: kaeladickerman22@gmail.com
Case Manager: Zach Schwager
Email: Zach.Schwager@louisvilleky.gov
You are invited to attend a review for a VARIANCE to allow an addition to encroach into the required side yard setbacks.
Subject Property (Propiedad Sujeta): 654 Davies Ave
Case Number (Número de Caso): 25-VARIANCE-0136
Case Manager (Administradora de Casos): Catherine Gomez (catherine.gomez@louisvilleky.gov)
Meeting Type (Tipo de Reunión): BOARD OF ZONING ADJUSTMENT
Meeting Date (Fecha de la Reunión): MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2026
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)
You are invited to attend a review for a CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT to allow a BED AND BREAKFAST INN in the TNZD zoning district (LDC 4.2.9)
Subject Property (Propiedad Sujeta): 1346 South 3rd Street
Case Number (Número de Caso): 25-CUP-0229
Case Manager (Administradora de Casos): Jude Mattingly (jude.mattingly@louisvilleky.gov)
Meeting Type (Tipo de Reunión): BOARD OF ZONING ADJUSTMENT
Meeting Date (Fecha de la Reunión): Monday, January 12, 2026
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)
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE ADVERTISEMENT
Ad Date: 12/19/2025
Protest must be submitted by: 01/18/2026
LMPD Division 4TH DIVISION
PUBLIC NOTICE
Bar Elixir LLC, 414 W Oak St. Louisville, Ky. 40203, Hereby declares intention(s) to apply for a Quota Liquor Drink, NQ4 Malt Beverage Drink license(s) no later than December 16, 2025. The business to be licensed will be located at 414 W Oak St. Louisville, Kentucky 40203 doing business as Elixir. The Members are as follows: Chelsea Tomlin and Joseph Thomas of 1234 S 3rd Street, Louisville, Ky. 40203, Kelsey Neuwirth of 222 W Esplanade Ave. Louisville, Ky. 40214. 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. December 19 2025 LSBN0426268
Community of Opportunity Neighborhood Association
The Community of Opportunity Neighborhood Association is organizing in Park Hill & Algonquin. See Park Hill - Algonquin 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
Monthly Meetings held at The Bard's Town - 511 E Burnett Ave at 6:30 p.m. on the 2nd Wednesday
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: Arthur S Kling Center - 219 W Ormsby Ave.
“The transition from the campaign to elected office is hard for us, because we did not grow up worshipping elected officials. They were the source of a lot of different emotions. Now to become one is quite surreal. I think the way you bridge the gap between those two things is to ensure that you’re not just accountable to yourself. That’s what separates all the many politicians who have been far more talented and intelligent than me — the organization around them.
You go into that chamber, and the whole way it is set up is for you to bend to power. All of the incentives are for you to bend to power. And what will stop us from doing so is not some individual brilliance or anything about who we are as people.”
—Zohran Mamdani, Jacobin Interview with Hadas Thier, 2/9/2021
I have quoted this interview with Zohran since it was published nearly five years ago. I brought it up to him when I met him in Chicago at the 2023 DSA National Convention, and if I ever meet Hadas Thier in person it will be the second thing I'll bring up with her (the first being her incredible primer A People's Guide to Capitalism).
Now, after a year in office, I have lived it to some measure, and I wish I had quoted it even more.
Everything about elected office is designed to resist change. At every level, our systems are designed to slow down and subvert efforts at reform, to control the democratic will of the governed. As an elected official, the pressure to conform to that system is overwhelming. The pressure comes in many forms: the rules of the body, the rules of political caucuses; committee assignments where there can be a slight edge in influencing the shape of legislation before it comes to the floor of the council; the initial proposed budget introduced by the Mayor setting the bounds for what will eventually pass, not a legal constraint but one of political will; common, every-day peer-pressure to get along with the people you say ‘hi’ to in the hall on your way to the water fountain.
All of this and more weighs like iron chains on top of anyone who has ever said, “What we're doing isn't working. People deserve better.” Knowing about the weight of those chains before I took office just isn't the same as having experienced them, and if I thought I could shrug them off by force of will I would be disappointed, as I'm sure many have been before me.
Only the power of organized movement can lift those chains and make real change possible. That's why our office was dedicated from the start to building that movement. Our district newsletter returning was a priority because we wanted to make sure our constituents were informed, whether they agreed with us or not (there are those that don't!). We created our District 6 Advisory Council because we wanted our constituents to not only be informed but engaged. We gave the Advisory Council the mandate to make decisions about discretionary spending because that experience in actual democracy is exactly what's missing in our lives and has helped forge the chains that keep us from making real change.
When I knocked doors in District 6 in 2024, I was honest that building a Louisville where everyone's needs were met would take time. When a future constituent (whom I am very fond of) angrily shook my pushcard in my face and said she agreed with everything I was standing for but I wasn't going to be able to pass it, I told her she was right, that we couldn't pass it—yet. I told her I was going to lose some votes my first year in office, but I wouldn't be afraid to lose those votes because the people of Louisville seeing what the majority supports be voted down and seeing what side their elected representatives chose when the chips were down was the best way to build the movement needed to get to the eventual winning vote, however long it takes.
We won some votes this past year, and we lost some others. In every case, I have tried to increase the organizational power of the working class. Building movement takes time and energy, it takes organizing. Successful organizing takes experimentation and experience. Our office is a year into our efforts to organize from City Hall for a better world, at least our corner of it. To everyone who has been part of that organizing, whether it's reading these newsletters and being informed, contacting our office about what's missing from our district and city, taking part in the Advisory Council, advocating for the People’s Budget Amendment, or just talking to your neighbors and coworkers about what Metro Council is or isn't doing about our problems: thank you. I'm just some guy, and without you I would bend like the system is set up to force me to do. Together, we have nothing to lose but these chains.
Solidarity,
Councilman JP Lyninger
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