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New Albany Hopes to Slow Traffic, Improve Safety With Spring Street Changes
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Construction has begun on a road diet project along New Albany‘s Spring Street. The redesign covers an eight-block, .8-mile stretch of Spring between Vincennes Street and Beharrell Avenue. The project goals include increasing user safety and reducing traffic speeds.
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Produce Park Brings Fresh Fruit to Vacant Lot in Russell
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A vacant lot in the Russell neighborhood has been transformed into a fruit-filled community orchard. This past Friday, July 15, community leaders and officials gathered at the corner of 30th Street and Cedar Street to celebrate the opening of the new public space. Called Produce Park, the space is a collaborative effort of the nonprofit […]
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Proposed Parking at Third Street’s Crescent Centre Erodes Sidewalk
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A proposal to reconfigure parking at Third Street’s iconic Crescent Centre Apartments would further erode the pedestrian environment in the area. The situation on the ground at the Crescent Centre already isn’t ideal for pedestrians. Four curb cuts leading to a pair of wraparound driveways and four parking spaces on each side of the street already […]
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Century-Old Puritan Uniform Rental Could Be Razed for Another SoBro Parking Lot
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A sturdy, orange-brick building has been keeping SoBro clean for almost a century. Puritan Uniform Rental’s simple yellow lettering above its doorway at 206–208 West Breckinridge Street near Second Street has long been a fixture of SoBro, playing off the building’s signature brick color. But since the business closed several years ago and the passing of Puritan […]
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New Office Building Elevates Design Tone at Downtown’s Nucleus Block
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There’s another large building slated for the eastern edge of Downtown Louisville. Last Friday, the University of Louisville Foundation‘s real estate arm and NTS Development Company submitted their development plan for the next project at the J.D. Nichols Campus for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, aka the Nucleus block.
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Road Diet on Third Street South of Watterson Now Under Construction
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Third Street south of the Watterson Expressway, from Southern Heights Avenue to its terminus at Kenwood Drive, is about to undergo a road diet. The four-lane street will be converted to three lanes—one lane in each direction with a turning lane under the $500,000 plan. As part of the project, sidewalk ramps at intersections along […]
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Speed Over Place: Ousting the Confederate Monument for Cars, Not Morals, the Wrong Decision
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On Wednesday, May 25, Jefferson Circuit Judge Judith McDonald-Burkman denied an injunction to dismantle and store the Confederate Monument on Third Street near the University of Louisville‘s Belknap Campus clearing the way for Metro Louisville to remove and eventually relocate the 121-year-old monument. “I am pleased with the judge’s ruling that the city owns the monument and […]
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Taxpayers Are on the Hook for Sprawl When Impact Fees Are Illegal
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In Kentucky, development impact fees are illegal. What’s an impact fee? According to the American Planning Association (APA), “Impact fees are payments required by local governments of new development for the purpose of providing new or expanded public capital facilities required to serve that development.” In short, they cover the cost of infrastructure required to
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Andy Blieden’s Butcher Block Shows Strength of Small-Scale Economic Development
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On the edge of Butchertown, East Main Street bends to become Story Avenue. On this block, a row of sorry looking shotgun houses and boarded up buildings belie the rejuvenation that has been going on in the neighborhood for years. While someone speeding through might think no more of this block than as an eyesore awaiting its date with
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New Aerials Show Spaghetti Junction’s Enormous Footprint in Downtown Louisville
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When you’re zooming through Spaghetti Junction for most of the day when there’s no traffic, it might seem like the tangle of highway ramps isn’t really that big. Or if you’re stuck in construction traffic, it might seem like it never ends. Speed has a way of distorting our sense of distance. But the reality
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Plan to Issue Fake Citations to Youth Jaywalkers, Promote “Defensive Walking” Draws Criticism
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Bike Louisville, the city agency that oversees both bikes and pedestrians, has received thousands in grant money from the Paula Nye Memorial Bicyclist & Pedestrian Education Grant, which is supplied with funds from those “Share the Road” bike license plates on cars. Rolf Eisinger, bike and pedestrian coordinator at Bike Louisville, recently accepted the award of $29,400
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Louisville Among Nine Cities to Get Federal Help to Promote TOD
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The Federal Transit Administration (FTA), under the United States Department of Transportation (DOT), has selected Louisville among nine cities to receive technical assistance from the agency to encourage economic development around transit. The agency is partnering with Smart Growth America on the four-year nationwide initiative, called the National Public Transportation/Transit-Oriented Development Technical Assistance Initiative. The FTA’s technical
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