The State authority of liquor licensing seems to have been totally given over to the city to hand out to whomever to contort parking requirements, legal distances between bars by measuring down one side of the street to a light, then back up the other side, sometimes using the back door of an establishment as the “legal” entrance–all to gain the required distance of one bar from another, when some of these places are across the street from each other. Then there are the “restaurants” operating as night clubs/bars selling liquor way above the legal ratios of food to alcohol, who operate year to year in violation. When their offenses are brought to light, they get a delay and they continue to operate all out.

This harms the livability and safety of neighborhoods. I suggest that somebody in State authority have a look at the violations, the complaints, the crimes, the problems from this preponderance of city granted liquor licenses.

The long-term viability of our neighborhoods depends upon the best use of assets and it appears the current administration is sacrificing the people who live in Louisville to cater to a transient bunch of businesses and partiers without a stake in what really goes on in the city. Spending public money on nightclubs, stadiums, Museum Plazas or whatever during a time of economic crisis is a mistake to say the least.