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This week we had successful meetings for the Germantown/Paristown Pointe and Park Hill/Algonquin/Taylor Berry sections of our advisory council. Thank you to everybody who came out and participated! We have two more meetings next week:
Old Louisville: Tuesday, October 20 at 6:30pm at 219 W Ormsby Avenue (Arthur S Kling Old Louisville Community Center)
Shelby Park/Meriwether-Fort Hill: Thursday, October 22 at 6:30pm at 600 E Oak Street (Shelby Park Library)
Louisville Water Company Construction Update
 Because of peak season demand, our work on Oak Street paused, but we will resume construction activities the week of October 19.
Starting that week, two active construction zones at each end of the project route will work towards each other in order to complete our project as quickly and efficiently as possible. You can see the whole project route in the map below.
Here are the details for each active construction zone:
- One zone begins near the intersection of East Oak Street and South Clay Street with work moving east towards Clay. Work will continue north on Clay Street and then east on East St. Catherine Street to the intersection with South Shelby Street.
- Another zone begins at the intersection of East Kentucky Street and Vine Street. Work will move west to the intersection with Swan Street.
We greatly appreciate your understanding as we work to complete this important project.
- Local access will remain available for residents and businesses impacted by road closures and detours. Please follow posted signage as local access may change based on where crews are working.
- On-street parking will be limited or unavailable in areas in and around the active construction zone, but we will make parking spots available again once we move beyond that location.
- This water main replacement project requires us to “dig and replace” to install the new water main. In order to safely complete this work, we will need to close roads, detour traffic, and limit parking near our construction zones. We are committed to providing access for local traffic on either side of our work zone.
- Note: you will not lose water service during construction.
- Just like any large construction project, you can expect lane closures and detours. We will provide regular updates via this dedicated project webpage and social media channels.
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If you have any questions, please contact our Project Engineer Eric Walls at (502) 333-4858 or via email at ewalls@LouisvilleWater.com.
Construction Resumes: Fall 2026 – Summer 2027
Where:
- East Oak St. between Hancock and South Clay
- South Clay St. between Oak and East St. Catherine
- East St. Catherine St. between South Clay and South Shelby
- South Shelby St. between Mary and East St. Catherine
- East St. Catherine St. between South Shelby and Swan
- Swan St. between East St. Catherine and East Kentucky
- East Kentucky St. between Swan and Vine streets
Why: Rehabilitating this 130-year-old water main is crucial for overall system reliability
Phase 2 of this water main replacement project requires us to “dig and replace” to install the new water main. In order to safely complete this work, we will need to close roads, detour traffic, and limit parking near our construction zones. We are committed to providing access for local traffic on either side of our work zone.
Just like any large construction project, there will be lane closures and detours. We will provide regular updates via the dedicated project webpage: https://louisvillewater.com/oakstreetproject/
The Office of Construction Review has received a wrecking permit application for the property listed below:
Subject Property: 1525 Dumesnil Street
Case Number: BLD-WRE-26-00314
The above reference property is eligible for listing 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): 11/11/2026. 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.
For additional information regarding the wrecking permit process, please visit:
https://louisvilleky.gov/government/office-planning/historic-building-wreckingdemolition-reviews
Louisville Metro Government, Office of Planning
444 S. Fifth Street, Suite 300, Louisville, KY 40202
502-574-6230
https://louisvilleky.gov/government/office-planning
You are invited to attend a review for a NONCONFORMING RIGHTS REQUEST for a commercial
boarding house.
Subject Property (Propiedad Sujeta): 1708 S 2ND STREET
Case Number (Número de Caso): 25-NONCONFORM-0010
Case Manager (Administradora de Casos): ABBY BILLS (abby.bills@louisvilleky.gov)
Meeting Type (Tipo de Reunión): BOARD OF ZONING ADJUSTMENT
Meeting Date (Fecha de la Reunión): NOVEMBER 2, 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 an AMENDMENT to the TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD
ZONING DISTRICT (TNZD) PLAN to change the General Neighborhood Type Mapped Use from
Single- or Two-Family to Multi-Family Residential.
Subject Property (Propiedad Sujeta): 1013 & 1015 S. 1st STREET
Case Number (Número de Caso): 26-TNZD-0001
Case Manager (Administradora de Casos): KAITLIN DEVER (kaitlin.dever@louisvilleky.gov)
Meeting Type (Tipo de Reunión): PLANNING COMMISSION
Meeting Date (Fecha de la Reunión): THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 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)
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.
Automated license plate readers have been proven to be a tool that are easily misused and abused. This week, the city of Frankfort joined a growing list of cities in the United States that have decided to stop using the system due to concerns about privacy and civil liberties. Newport, Kentucky did the same thing a few months ago. In all, at least a dozen communities in our Commonwealth have made the choice to tell Flock that their cities would no longer support the system. While there are legitimate police uses of the systems, the demonstrated negatives and erosion of our rights must take precedence, and it is time for Louisville did the same.
WKYT in Lexington recently published an investigation into audit logs of every search in that city’s ALPR system for the first seven months of this year. The review revealed that there had been more than seven million searches in that system in that time frame—more than a million searches a month for a city with a population of only 330,000. 96% of these searches came from an out-of-state agency or the federal government. The city of Lexington wasn’t even the most frequent user of the system from Kentucky in those seven months; that would be Louisville Metro Government, by a margin of roughly 15,000 additional searches.
A million searches a month in a city of 330,000 people. What does that look like in our city of more than twice that size?
I don’t know the answer to that question, but I’d like to. What we do know is that we’ve had documented abuses in our system, instances where our laws were broken. Even searches that don’t directly violate our code of ordinances can be unlawful based on intent, such as an officer misusing the system to track their intimate partners. Even if a search doesn’t violate the law, it can violate our moral senses or our sense of safety. State agencies in Texas have used Flock to track women leaving the state to seek abortions in order to build cases to charge them under that state’s laws. ICE has used the system to track our immigrant neighbors, of course, but also people that they know to be citizens.
At the end of the day, the warrantless mass surveillance of our entire community leads to the government treating us all as permanent suspects in never-ending investigations for crimes that haven’t been committed. Enough is enough. Across Kentucky, cities are cancelling their Flock contracts, and Louisville should be next.
Solidarity,
Councilman JP Lyninger
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