Mentelle Neighborhood Association

The next board meeting for the Mentelle Neighborhood Association will be Monday October 19, 7pm at Chad Walker’s office, 250 Walton Ave. in the back at unit #150.

Agenda items:

1. Call to order
2. Approval of September minutes
3. Approval of Treasurer’s report
4. November 2nd General meeting 7pm, at 732 National Ave. Mirror Twin Annex, Tom Eblen and Chad Walker to speak
5. Nominating committee slate of officers
6. Skunk update
7. Halloween block party
8. Neighborhood statement regarding historic building demolition and student housing
9. Home and Garden Tour June of 2027
10. Heritage Baptist sale

The annual Mentelle Neighborhood Potluck will be Sunday, Sept. 27, from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. in the Mentelle Park median nearest Cramer Avenue. The picnic is open to all Mentelle neighborhood residents and their families.

Please bring a favorite dish or two to share. The Mentelle Neighborhood Association will set up tables and chairs, but feel free to bring your own chair to make sure we have enough.  The association will furnish paper goods, utensils, ice and water. If you would like other beverages, please bring them.  See you there!

From: Walt Gaffield, Fayette County Neighborhood Council, Inc. President

FAYETTE COUNTY NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL – GENERAL MEETING
Monday, September 14th
Registration begins at 6:15, Meeting Starts at 6:30 PM
Tates Creek Christian Church – 3150 Tates Creek Road

Dear Neighbors,

The LFUCG Division of Planning has developed a Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment that over time will increase the density, height, mass, and size of Lexington’s downtown. A text amendment will not change existing zones. However, if a real estate investor asks for a zone change and proposes a building or use on the map for “downtown” that meets the new zoning language, it almost certainly will pass quickly. Think of this as facilitating the approval of zone changes and limiting public engagement..

Hal Baillie from LFUCG long-range planning will be discussing the proposed Text Amendment, will cover some of the issues below, and will be available for questions,

This will be an educational experience. Neither the Planning Commission nor the Urban County Council have approved the Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment to this point, and it is important that the public engage in the decision making.

More information about the FCNC can be found here.

The Mentelle Neighborhood Association (MNA) will hold its next board meeting on Monday, September 21st at 7:00 PM.  Please note – we will meet at Chad Walker’s office at 250 Walton Ave in the back of the building behind RP Fabrics at Unit 150.

Agenda Highlights:

• • Planning discussion for the September 27th potluck
  • October annual membership meeting discussion
  • Nominating Committee
  • Adopt-a storm drain follow-up
  • Skunks
  • Home and Garden Tour 2027 (now featuring skunks!)
  • And more!

Please feel free to join us in person or via Zoom.  All Mentellians? Mentellees? Mentelleors? Mentelleorians? are welcome.

If you have any questions or items to add to the agenda, please email us at mentellelex@gmail.com.

The Yellow Dog Jazz Band of the Bluegrass is inviting neighbors to a performance on trumpeter Andrew Mooney’s front porch (24 Mentelle Park) on Saturday, August 29th from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.  Bring a chair to set up in the median and enjoy the sounds of our resident Dixieland band!

The Mentelle Neighborhood Association (MNA) will hold its next board meeting on Monday, August 17th at 7:00 PM.  Please note – due to work being done at the Children’s Advocacy Center we will meet at Chad Walker’s office at 250 Walton Ave in the back of the building behind RP Fabrics.

Agenda Highlights:

• • Mark Sanders, Director of Water Quality, will speak and answer questions
  • Reina Slaymaker, assistant to Tom Eblen, will share updates on the storm sewer project
  • Discussion of bump outs at N. Ashland and Cramer Ave
  • Discussion of the annual potluck in September
  • October annual membership meeting discussion
  • And more!

Please feel free to join us in person or via Zoom.  If you have any questions, please email us at mentellelex@gmail.com.

 

The Yellow Dog Jazz Band of the Bluegrass is inviting neighbors to a performance on trumpeter Andrew Mooney’s front porch (24 Mentelle Park) on Saturday, July 18th from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.  Bring a chair to set up in the median and enjoy the sounds of our resident Dixieland band!

Coming soon to a Mentelle home or business near you – the 2026 Mentelle Neighborhood Association (MNA) Member Directory!   All MNA members and all listed businesses will receive a copy hand-delivered to your doorstep in the next week or two.

If you are a MNA member and do not receive your copy, please let us know by sending an email to mentellelex@gmail.com.

If you are not an MNA member and would like to join and receive your very own directory, please click here.

Happy summer to all!

From Tom Eblen, 3rd District Council member:

The long-anticipated storm sewer construction project along Cramer and North Ashland avenues from Mentelle Park through Hambrick Avenue will be getting under way around July 13. But there is a new twist.

Kentucky American Water Co. (KAW) decided last month to use the opportunity of the streets being torn up to replace century-old water mains and service lines in the affected area. The good news is that it will provide cleaner, safer water pipes and keep the streets from being torn up again in the near future. The bad news is that it will make the entire project take longer.

I attended a virtual construction meeting last week involving KAW, city engineers, and their contractors. A major emphasis of the meeting was the need to get as much work as possible done around Ashland Elementary School before school resumes in August. But the entire project will continue for months after that time.

I have urged both KAW and the city’s Water Quality Division to complete the project as quickly as possible to minimize disruption to the neighborhood. But it is a big project and there will be disruption for many months.

• • • Click here to download KAW’s info sheet on the water pipe replacement project.
    • Click here to download the city storm sewer project’s plans.

After this project is completed, there will be a second phase of storm sewer work to address periodic flooding problems on the lower end of Mentelle Park, nearer to Richmond Road, as well as nearby parts of North Hanover and North Ashland avenues. Details and schedules for that work have not been completed.

If you have questions or concerns, please email me.