Month: November 2024

The Mentelle Neighborhood Association’s annual membership meeting is at 7 p.m. Wednesday (Nov. 13) at the meeting room behind the Children’s Advocacy Center of the Bluegrass, 162 N. Ashland Ave.

This is an opportunity for you to ask questions and share your ideas for making our neighborhood better. Here’s what is planned:

• Updates from neighborhood association officers.
• An update from Third District Council Member Hanna LaGris.
• An update from Warehouse Block owner Chad Walker.
• Mark Sanders, the engineering section manager in the city’s Division of Water Quality, will discuss storm sewer projects planned in the neighborhood over the next year.

The association also will elect officers and directors for one-year terms. All current officers and directors have expressed interest in serving another term, and no members responded to a call asking for other candidates. However, additional nominations, if any, will be accepted at the meeting.

We hope to see all members there!

The Mentelle Neighborhood Association’s annual membership meeting is at 7 p.m. Wednesday (Nov. 13) at the meeting room behind the Children’s Advocacy Center of the Bluegrass, 162 N. Ashland Ave.

This is an opportunity for you to ask questions and share your ideas for making our neighborhood better. Here’s what is planned:

• Updates from neighborhood association officers.
• An update from Third District Council Member Hanna LaGris.
• An update from Warehouse Block owner Chad Walker.
• Mark Sanders, the engineering section manager in the city’s Division of Water Quality, will discuss storm sewer projects planned in the neighborhood over the next year.

The association also will elect officers and directors for one-year terms. All current officers and directors have expressed interest in serving another term, and no members responded to a call asking for other candidates. However, additional nominations, if any, will be accepted at the meeting.

We hope to see all members there!

In case you missed it, the Lexington Herald-Leader published a story Oct. 23 about how lobbyists for AirBnB, VRBO and other short-term rental interests want the General Assembly to prevent local governments from regulating them, as Lexington has done.  (Click on the link to download a PDF of the article: 241023 Short-term rentals.)

If such legislation, which was proposed last year, is passed and becomes law, there likely could be no limit on how many properties in our neighborhood could be converted from full-time residences into short-term rentals. It would reverse the local ordinances Lexington has approved.

If you have opinions about this issue, contact state lawmakers.