Funded by Concerned Residents, Not Developers
Funded by Concerned Residents, Not Developers
According to the Commonwealth of Kentucky Department of Insurance, everyone in Jefferson County currently pays an additional 5% on all insurance policies on their home, cars, boats, motorcycles, RVs, trailers, fire and allied perils, life, and all other risks in Jefferson County (excluding health). Your insurance provider collects that 5% fee and sends a check to Louisville Metro quarterly.
Do you know how those funds are used to service our area?
By becoming a Home Rule City and a taxing Jurisdiction, OUR area gets it all, 100%.
That would fund our Police Department on its own and then some. Remember, you are
already paying for this. It simply diverts those funds to OUR area and is used exclusively for us
According to the Louisville Metro Comprehensive Review, “large areas of the county
are underserviced.” LMPD Div 1 has 1 officer per 374 residents, Div 3 has 1 officer per 1,051 residents, and in our area, Div 8 has 1 officer per 2,887 residents.
DID YOU KNOW... “The area outside the Watterson Expressway provides 80% of the tax dollars in the Metro Government and gets less than half the services”. See WHAS Article dated January 11, 2024.
By becoming a Home Rule City, we would receive money from KYTC, known as the
MRA funds and those funds would be used exclusively for road repairs and sidewalks within our area? Those funds, based on population will increase year over year as our population increases. Initially, the focus would be used on high-priority “trip hazards” on sidewalks and local potholes.
Virtually all new development proposals include Traffic Studies, but traditionally, those studies are performed by a single firm and “funded” by the developer. As a Home Rule city with funds available, we would be able to request and fund an independent study with local residents’ input since they travel the roads every day. Accurate data into the model yields more accurate results.
The new City, working with other organizations and concerned citizens, would create
its own Land Development Code, structured around Plan 2040, and would be able to create its own
Comprehensive Plan designed to protect our area and still allow development that fits the vision of our residents while supporting opportunities and diversity for all.
As a Home Rule City, working with representatives like US Congressman Brett Guthrie, we could seek Federal and State Grants for projects that the city drove. Having vision and funding allows for opportunity. Imagine an “Eastwood Village” comprised of small boutique shops and local businesses, much like Old Main Street Middletown.
With the funding collected, the City could purchase small tracts of strategically important properties and use those for future development that the community would approve. This would be in concert with the Vision and Comprehensive Plan of the New City.
DID YOU KNOW
The proposed Land Development Code reform includes sections aimed at changing the requirements for R4 land within the proposed area?
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