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SNOW REMOVAL POLICY Why does Woodlawn park have a policy to clear our city streets from Snow and Ice? - First and foremost, it's a safety issue!
- Our first
priority is to make sure that emergency first responders (fire, EMS and police) can easily access our residents and their property, if there is an emergency.
- Our second priority is for the United States Postal Service, school buses, Tarc 3, Amazon and other deliveries to access.
- And our third
priority, is for our residents to access the streets if absolutely necessary.
- For every storm, the mayor is in contact with our plowing vendor even before the storm hits to determine a plan of action. Every time they are plowing or laying salt they are doing so because the mayor has given them permission as snow removal costs money. With an average storm of 2-4" we normally plow and salt at least two times
depending on the level of temperatures. In comparison, the snow and ice storm in early January, required 3 plowings, and 7 saltings (4 regular saltings, and 3 magic saltings as temps went below 20 degrees).
- The city's responsibility is to clear the streets of snow and ice. The city is not responsible, nor will the city be responsible for maintaining residents property regarding shoveling
snow.
- We highly recommend not to clear your driveways all the way to the street until we are finished clearing the city streets because snow will pile back up in your driveways once the plow comes through again until the roads are clear.
- Even though 10" snow storms like this are rare around here, residents might
want to have someone lined up to shovel your driveways if you so desire in the event this happens again. The city cannot manage, line up, or publish snow shovel persons as it becomes a liability if something should happen.
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Our entire city was honored for the month of January City Pride Award for helping and assisting our neighbors through the historic snow and ice storm. (The city pride award is in the city hall yard)! We appreciate everyone for helping out during this event- some shoveled drives, some helped neighbors dig out their vehicles, some visited the elderly,
some went to the store to get bread or milk for their neighbors- it was a team effort and I couldn't be prouder of a city than I am of ours!
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Planning & Zoning Meeting Recap for 4251 Westport Road held on January 16th
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- The property located at 4251 Westport Road (The current Koester trust) was unanimously approved by Louisville Metro to be sent to the St. Matthews City Council for a FINAL VOTE!
- I attended the 2.5 hour meeting and here is what I took from it:
- The building proposed will be a plastic surgery building that should only see about 10 patients per day, if that.
- The property would be rezoned to Office Residential which is good to see as Commercial Zoning still has not been approved for any of these lots.
- Trilogy and the new surgery center would share a common right of way between the two that will eventually become part of the Perryman extension to Rudy Lane.
- The existing Trilogy entrance would eventually go away.
- Woodlawn Park has No Vote in this matter, however, the city council and
the mayor all agree that the building should not be a big issue for the area. But, traffic is not being addressed as we wanted it to be. There have been way too many accidents from Hubbards Lane to I-264 over the last several years. We have been vocal in the process about traffic and safety concerns relating to such!
- I will be contacting the State of KY Highway Department and District 7 Rep. Paula McCraney to
recommend lowering the speed limit to 35 mph from 264 to Hubbards Lane.
- We have recently found out that a daycare will be proposed for the Thieneman property at 4301 Westport Road right across from Ahland Road. This is the same property that we fought and won for no storage facility.
- Please stay informed about this
developing plan for the area and try to make any public meetings regarding the upcoming daycare proposal.
- Together We Can Achieve More!
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On October 30th, I orchestrated and invited Jeff O'Brien and Brian Davis (both from the Office of Planning Louisville Metro Government) to a meeting in Woodlawn Park City Hall. We were joined by Mayors from Windy Hills, Lyndon, Douglass Hills and the Jefferson County League of Cities Executive Director, Jack Will. It gave each Mayor to share his/her objections to this proposed draft
regarding "Middle Housing". It was a meeting for each of us to offer our objections & oppositions. I had already attended several meetings about this issue, but wanted a smaller venue to share my thoughts as your mayor. In summary, here is what was shared that morning: - Woodlawn Park has been here since 1954 and all of us bought our homes because we knew that this is a single family residential community.
- We request that all small cities would have its zoning rights restored so that we could say no to any "middle housing" opportunities occurring in our cities. Woodlawn Park, like other smaller cities under a population of 3,000, used to have zoning powers, however, that has now changed.
- We request that the proposal
would be limited to only vacant properties (meaning there would be no tear downs of existing homes).
- We request that infrastructure was not designed in the 50's to adequately add "Middle Housing" structures.
- Ultimately, Louisville Metro said they would rework their draft to include as much as they could into the proposal that would eventually be voted on by Metro Council sometime this year.
- This is an ongoing, fluid conversation, but I wanted to let everyone know that we
are involved and making our objections heard. You as residents can be more informed by finding out more about what is "Middle Housing" below.
- In a nutshell, Louisville Metro wants to change the R-4 residential zoning rules to make it easier for developers to put up these "middle housing" structures.
- I am opposed to any such change to our existing residential zoning parameters.
- I suspect we will be hearing more about this in the next few months.
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City Forester Report We are encouraging all residents to think about adding a tree or two this coming year. Please email James at falltrees502@icloud.com for more information about the type of tree you might consider adding to your property.
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Did you know? - Correction to last months edition: Our first Mayor was Mr. Burn Speer, not Speers!
- New city entrance signs are coming this spring!
- The new LED lights (that allow more lumens to point downward vs. the others that lose a lot of their light upward) are up and running at each city entrance and this offers a new sense of safety and cost savings.
- About 10% of the cars using Walser Road speed over 26 mph- Let's make an effort to slow down in the entire city.
- 351 residents are signed up to receive a copy of this email each month. Please keep reminding your neighbors especially if they are new, to sign up for this email and Reach Alert on our website to get important information about our city!
- This email, our website, and Reach Alert is where you can always find out more about what's happening.
- Mayor Brown's City cell phone # is (502) 341-1004 and the Chief of Police Rich Wilson cell phone # is (502) 650-2230 and city hall phone # is (502) 895-6620.
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Please make sure your neighbors
are aware of my monthly news update- they can sign up on the front page of our website at www.woodlawnpark.com. This monthly
news will be emailed out on each Monday following the City Council meeting.
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