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Our District-Wide Advisory Council met last week to discuss and make decisions on priorities for their neighborhoods. Members discussed funding for Old Louisville Live and Old Louisville Springfest and voted to acquire 36 Air Conditioning Units that D6 residents will be able to apply for this summer through the Office of Social Services. We will also soon reopen applications for new members to join the Advisory Council, and details will be announced in an upcoming newsletter. Serving on the council is a wonderful way to meet your neighbors, learn about issues affecting our community, and work together to make our neighborhoods an even better place to live. All residents of our district are invited to apply; living in the district is the only requirement! If you have any questions about the Advisory Council, please contact Dare Cima in our office for more details.
 Navigating the I-65 Closure: Sign up to stay informed!
The I-65 Central Corridor Project is a major Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) initiative to replace aging interstate bridges and rehabilitate pavement between I-264 (Watterson Expressway) and Muhammad Ali Boulevard in downtown Louisville. Several bridges in this heavily traveled corridor are more than 60 years old and in poor condition, serving key destinations like UPS, Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, the Fair & Exposition Center, UofL, and the medical district.
To complete critical bridge replacements, a section of I-65 will be closed in June and July 2026, with interstate traffic detoured. I-65 is expected to reopen with reduced capacity by August 1, 2026.
Residents, commuters, and businesses are strongly encouraged to stay informed. Sign up for email and text alerts and view detour maps at: https://i65centralcorridor.com/
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Louisville Nature Center Programs
Unsure of your spring break plans? Looking for a fun way for your kids to connect with nature while the seasons change? Spring break camp registration is now open! This camp is open to kiddos 7-10 years old and will take place April 6-10 lasting from 9am-4pm each day. Sign ups are available for individual days or for the full week. Learn more here!
This fall, Louisville Nature Center will open a second Swallowtail Forest School outdoor classroom, increasing enrollment from 40 to 90 students in our half-day nature-based preschool program. Our program is entirely play-based and student-led, guided by caring teachers who encourage curiosity in the outdoors. We take pride in providing an environment that is safe, welcoming, and fun, where children are free to play, learn, and grow. Since opening Swallowtail Forest School in 2020, we have witnessed first-hand the positive impact that outdoor learning has on our students. They demonstrate improved teamwork, creativity, and communication skills, as well as other social and emotional benefits. To learn more visit their website here.
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You are invited to attend a review for a Change in Zoning from R-6 Residential Multi-Family to C-R Commercial-Residential with a Detailed District Development Plan with an assiociated waiver(s) and binding elements.
Subject Property (Propiedad Sujeta): 860 Vine St, 1127 E Breckinridge St (one property with
two addresses)
Case Number (Número de Caso): 25-ZONE-0051
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, March 19, 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 VARIANCES and WAIVERS to construct two dwelling units.
Subject Property (Propiedad Sujeta): PARCEL ID #022E01580000
Case Number (Número de Caso): 26-VARIANCE-0016 & 26-VARIANCE-0023
Case Manager (Administradora de Casos): SYDNEY FAWCETT (sydney.fawcett@louisvilleky.gov)
Meeting Type (Tipo de Reunión): BOARD OF ZONING ADJUSTMENT
Meeting Date (Fecha de la Reunión): MONDAY, MARCH 16, 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 CHANGE IN ZONING from OR-2 Office / Residential to C-2 Commercial with a Detailed District Development Plan and binding elements and associated
Waiver(s).
Subject Property (Propiedad Sujeta): 1107 LOGAN STREET
Case Number (Número de Caso): 25-ZONE-0159
Case Manager (Administradora de Casos): Jude Mattingly (Jude.Mattingly@louisvilleky.gov)
Meeting Type (Tipo de Reunión): PLANNING COMMISSION
Meeting Date (Fecha de la Reunión): THURSDAY, March 19, 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)
Central Park West Neighborhood Association
Central Park West will be hosting a neighborhood association meeting virtually on Wednesday March 18th at 7pm. This meeting will take place via Google meet.
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.
Hyperscale data centers are a hot topic of conversation, both locally and nationally. These are large industrial sites dedicated to the remote processing of digital information, and they are popping up across the United Sates with the explosion of so-called artificial intelligence in computing. Whether it’s procedural generation like creating images from prompts or facial recognition, AI requires a massive amount of data processing to operate. The massive computing networks that are being built to support this processing are highly resource-intensive, both in terms of electrical power consumption and the use of water for cooling. One of these sites can use the same amount of electricity in a year as 2000 average households and millions of gallons of water.
As more and more hyperscale data centers proliferate across the United States, communities have started to demand their regulation from governments at every level, and have even organized to prohibit them from being built. For both environmental concerns, the burden they place on our utility bills, and potential direct impacts to the quality of life for people near potential hyperscale data centers, we’ve seen residents in neighboring counties here in Kentucky reject proposed construction, and the same is happening peer cities regionally.
In October of last year, the Metro Council passed a resolution asking the Louisville Metro Planning Commission to research regulations for data centers and to recommend changes to our land use code by January. Weeks ago, recommendations were published online and then quickly removed. No official recommendations have been sent to Metro Council yet, and when I asked the office to see what drafts were available, I was denied. Meanwhile, months past the deadline, public input forums have been cancelled while the overwhelming majority of public responses to surveys were to ask that we severely regulate, limit, or reject the construction of hyperscale data centers in Louisville.
Also last Fall, a moratorium on data centers was introduced to the Metro Council to coincide with this research, but it was held in committee at the request of the sponsor. No vote has ever taken place on the moratorium, so it has neither passed or failed as legislation. This past week at the Planning and Zoning Committee, it was announced that the legislation was again being held, and the Metro Council Clerk informed the body that this meant that the legislation will expire before the next meeting of the subcommittee. The moratorium died with not one vote ever taking place.
Yesterday, the Planning Commission voted to advance the construction of a hyperscale data center in Louisville, on Camp Ground Road. This location is in Rubbertown, an area in Louisville notorious for the working class bearing the health costs of failing to regulate industrial pollution. The vote yesterday was affirming changes to a plan that was approved unanimously last year for the project. Because we have no zoning laws governing hyperscale data centers, no zoning changes were needed; without zoning changes, Metro Council has no direct say over approving or rejecting individual projects. That means, despite widespread concern and apparent majority community rejection, the project advances to serve the needs of the wealthy while the poor suffer and elected leaders watch on without action or direct accountability.
That’s wrong.
These events—in the past week in the past six months—have been a failure of both democracy and policy. The people of Louisville absolutely deserve a say in how these proposed projects impact our lives now and in the future, and they deserve to know the positions of their elected representatives on these questions.
We cannot turn a blind eye to the grave concerns hyperscale data centers raise in the name of increased in tax revenues or economic development. Even if the will of the Metro Council is to move forward with hyperscale data centers in Louisville (a position that I reject) we need regulation, we need transparency, and we need some semblance of balance between increasing shareholder value and the health, safety and future of our people.
If you agree, I absolutely encourage you to join the people organizing in our city demanding the Mayor and the Metro Council act. We should continue to take advantage of opportunities for public input and make it clear that we demand more avenues for doing so.
Solidarity,
Councilman JP Lyninger |
