Louisville Metro Council

Licensed massage therapists in Louisville say they've been caught in the crossfire of city officials' attempts to crack down on illicit businesses.

LPM's Roberta Roldan says they're asking Metro Council to figure out some changes that address human trafficking without hurting legitimate businesses.

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and the signs reflecting the fact that people are now being monitored.

Those cameras aimed at the entries and exits are due to regulations passed by Louisville Metro Council that went into effect in June.

Davis is also worried about the requirement to leave doors unlocked.

The Louisville Planning Commission voted yesterday to endorse a stricter set of data center regulations than what was initially proposed.

LPM's Roberta Roldan says the recommendation will go to Metro Council, who will have the final say.

The Planning Commission wants to require nearly all new data centers to undergo a rezoning.

That process requires a public hearing where residents can voice their concerns as well as approval from city leaders.

I think we have captured a lot of the essence of what we heard, and we have put it into what I think is a well-crafted ordinance.

They also recommended keeping new data centers at least a quarter mile apart and banning facilities larger than 500,000 square feet.

A Metro Council committee plans to take up the proposal on September 15th.

I'm Roberto Roldan in Louisville.

Louisville Metro is looking to address the concentration of liquor stores in the South and West Ends.

LPM's Roberto Roldan says Metro Council approved new distance requirements at its meeting on Thursday.

The changes require any new liquor stores to be located at least a thousand feet from each other.

They also have to be a thousand feet from any nearby schools, parks, and religious buildings.

There's an exemption for large grocery stores that want to have a liquor store located on the same property.

The new zoning rules are similar to the restrictions that Metro Council placed on vape stores back in 2020.

The ordinance is now in effect.

I'm Roberto Roldan in Louisville.

That letter came to Louisville, came to several other major cities.

One thing that I always point out at the beginning of this conversation is that Louisville had in place policies that folks across the community had advocated for with Metro Council, had been passed by the Metro Council and included in that policy among several things that LMPD does not cooperate and do immigration enforcement.

But another one of those things was that LMDC, Louisville Metro Department of Corrections, the jail, was not holding people for additional time on something that's called an ICE detainer, meaning Immigration, Customs and Enforcement has some reason that they believe that a person has an immigration violation.

And once that person takes care of their local level charges, ICE wants the whatever entity it is to hold that person for up to 48 hours after they normally would have been released from the facility so that they have time to come and pick them up.

Before we get out, I want to, you know, again, kind of tie this back to local decisions as well as the vote in and of itself.

Obviously, we're doing this podcast.

We've got this push to get people to actually understand why their vote matters and why it's important for us to use our voice Can you talk about what is the role? And you've already touched on this a little bit, but can you help people to understand what is the role of these folks who we elect, whether that be at the Metro Council, mayoral, state and federal levels? What is their role in all of this?

Yeah, I mean, I would start by saying we have to pay attention to what is being said during an election cycle.