 Tree Week celebrates the roles trees play in our lives through creative, informative, and fun-filled activities and events for people of all ages, hosted by local organizations, businesses, and individuals. From October 9th-18th over 50 events will take place across Jefferson County including; Tree ID hikes, giveaways, workshops, nature based arts and crafts, yoga in the park, tree trivia, and more!
To learn more or register your very own tree event visit https://treeslouisville.org/tree-week-home-page
 Office for Women Ambassador Class of 2027 applications are OPEN. This six month program focuses on leadership and civic engagement and issues impacting women and gender diverse individuals. Applications will be accepted until Nov. 1, 2026. Apply here: OFW Ambassadors Leadership Training Program 2027
 In collaboration with Parks and Recreation and community partners, the Office of Violence Prevention is hosting a series of four workshops directed toward preteens and teenagers. Each event will begin with a 30-minute facilitated conversation with youth around mental health, violence prevention, and visioning for the future, and the conversation will end connecting the overall discussion with the day’s engagement activity (varies per site) for 90 minutes.
One of these workshops will be right here in District 6 on Thursday, September 24 from 5:30-7:30 pm at the Parkhill Community Center. The event will focus on visioning for the future and the participants can make their own t-shirts. Please spread the word!
 The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, Solid Waste Management Services, and the Waste Management District will be hosting a Waste Tire Collection Event in Louisville on October 1-3, 2026
Event website: https://louisvilleky.gov/events/waste-tire-collection-event
Event Details
📅 October 1, 2, & 3, 2026
⏰ Thursday & Friday, 7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
⏰ Saturday, 7:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
📍 1030 Phillips Lane, Louisville, KY (across from the Kentucky Exposition Center)
Who Can Participate? Any Kentucky resident or business may participate, with the exception of tire retailers, scrap/salvage yards, and recycling facilities.
Accepted Tires
- Tires on or off rim
- Passenger vehicle, light truck, and truck tires
- Tractor and farm implement tires
- Bicycle, motorcycle, golf cart, and ATV tires
Not Accepted
- Foam-filled tires
- Calcium-filled tires
- Off-road construction tires
- Rubber tracks
- Solid tires with or without press-on rims
- Tires generated outside Kentucky
- Tires from tire retailers, scrap/salvage yards, or recycling businesses
Please note that tires must be separated by type prior to arrival.
Alcohol Beverage License Advertisement
Ad Date: 08/24/2026
Protest must be submitted by: 09/23/2026
Police Division: 4TH DIVISION
SHREEJI FOOD 303 LLC NILESHKUMAR PATEL RAKESHKUMAR GHOGHARI, 303 W CARDINAL BOULEVARD LOUISVILLE KY 40208, Hereby declares intention(s) to apply for a NQ4 RETAIL MALT BEVERAGE DRINK LICENSE license(s) no later than August 11, 2026. The business to be licensed will be located at 303 W CARDINAL BOULEVARD LOUISVILLE KY 40208, Kentucky 40208 doing business as HOME RUN BURGERS & FRIES. The owner(s) are as follows: 512 CHEROKEE DR NEWALBANY IN 47150. 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. August 24 2026 LSBN0581634
You are invited to attend a review for a CHANGE IN ZONING from R-6 Residential Multi-Family to R-8A Residential Multi-Family with a DETAILED DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT PLAN subject to binding elements.
Subject Property (Propiedad Sujeta): 1715 BOLLING AVENUE
Case Number (Número de Caso): 26-ZONE-0079
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, OCTOBER 1, 2026
Time (Tiempo): Meeting will begin at 1:00 PM Eastern / 12:00 PM
Central 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 VARIANCE to encroach into the required side/rear yard and to have a fence taller than permitted.
Subject Property (Propiedad Sujeta): 1038 Lampton St
Case Number (Número de Caso): 26-VARIANCE-0105
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, SEPTEMBER 28, 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)
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.
Last month, TARC rolled out changes throughout Louisville in accordance with the 2025 redesign of our city’s public transit system. There are efficiency improvements to TARC due to the design, and in some cases, buses will come more frequently with more reliability. There have also been recent news stories about how this change has impacted people in Louisville in less positive ways. Personally, I’m sad to see the loss of the closest stop to my home, as well as a new, less direct route to City Hall than I enjoyed before.
These changes were made in response to a fiscal cliff TARC was facing due to years of neglect from state and local government, especially in terms of refusing to face the fact that the funding mechanism for TARC has not been updated since its inception in the last half of the previous century when it was created under the administration of Harvey Sloane. While the changes made in the past year forestall the immediate financial failure of TARC, they still do not address the long-term health of the service. Further, it is possible that—as has happened in the past—cuts to service means a decline in ridership, which only exacerbates the problem.
Louisville needs a public transit system that can meet the needs of the working class, so that residents can get from home to school, work, or the grocery store (and back!) without a car. Louisville needs a public transit system that can meaningfully meet the needs of our environment and the goals our city has set and, so far, failed to address. Louisville needs a public transit system that can meet the needs of a residential downtown, where we know young people want to live but right now lack the basic infrastructure to make it feasible for many, infrastructure that starts with buses that travel where people need to go, frequently enough to make it work.
We need these things, but we don’t have them yet. While the people at TARC have done everything they can with the resources available, the only way for Louisville to have that transportation system that the working people of our city deserve is through more funding. Louisville doesn’t look like it did in the mid-1970’s when we created TARC, and we must update the occupational tax to make sure we’re meeting the needs of a much larger and more diverse city. If you agree, I urge you to get involved with people organizing to get those needs met.
Solidarity,
Councilman JP Lyninger
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