SOURCES:
THIS IS A BOOK IN PROGRESS–most of the sources have not been entered yet. Some information however is already below, basically the identifications of interview sources for the first 22 chapters and some abbreviation definitions that may help you if you want a quick i.d. while you read. Source information will be eventually divided into five categories: abbreviations, identifications of people interviewed, identifications of people to whom the book refers, documentary sources and then book notes arranged by chapter. Below is part of those first two categories....
ABBREVIATIONS AND DEFINITIONS
AFL-CIO–American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
ANA–Airport Neighbors’ Alliance, headed by Mary Rose Evans
AICP–a planner certified by the American Institute of City Planners
APA–American Planning association
Appliance Park–1000 acre General Electric production facility
BOPTROT–an 1992 FBI sting operation involving Business Organizations and Professionals subcommittee overseeing the trotting races
BOZA–Board of Zoning Adjustment
BRAD–Brownsboro Road Area Defense group, heading by Theresa Stanley
CEO–Chief Executive Officer
CLA–Community Leadership Alliance, founded 1996 by Betsy Overstreet and Teena Halbig
CJ–Louisville Courier-Journal, also known affectionately as the Curious Journal or simply the Curious. Originally a privately-owned local Bingham family newspaper, by the 1960s one of the top five newspapers of record in the United States, it was taken over by the Gannett chain in the 1980s.
Cornerstone 2020–Master or comprehensive land use plan, begun in 1991, finally adopted in 2000, it involved 700 people from every walk of life working in relays with national consultants. Altered by the chamber of commerce, it was rewritten by a land use planning commission committee.
FBI–Federal Bureau of Investigation
GE–General Electric
GLI–Greater Louisville Inc. Metro Chamber of Commerce.
GN–General Motors
HBA–Home Builders Association, representing commercial and industrial builders and developers as well.
KIPDA–Kentucky-Indiana Planning and Development Area, plans transportation in a five county area: Jefferson, Bullitt, Oldham, Clark and Floyd
KSDC–Kentucky State Data Center
LCA–Louisville Central Area
LDC–Land Development Code, the regulations backing Cornerstone 2020, the master land use plan.
LLFA–Louisville Labor Force Area, the Kentucky-Indiana area identified by Paul Coomes and Michael Price, composed of 23 countries which send workers to Louisville
LOJIC–Louisville Jefferson County Information Consotium, a computer database of properties in Louisville/Jefferson County which can be searched by layer–geograpgically, topographically etc.
Metro Area–a very confusing term, sometimes referring to the five-county Kentucky Indiana Planning and Development Area [KIPDA], usually referring to the seven-county Metro Statistical Area [MSA], but since the merger between Louisville and Jefferson County often meaning “Louisville Metro.”Most confusingly, it sometimes means the Louisville Labor Force Area [LLFA], the 23-county area from which Louisville workers come. The confusion is often exploited to put a booster spin on news stories, as when the “metro area” was said to be growing at the same rate as the United States, when that was in fact true for only six months and only true of the LLFA.
MSD–a state-level quasi-governmental entity which handles sewers and water lines in Louisville/Jefferson County
MSA–Metro statistical Area, the seven Kentucky and Indiana counties surrounding Louisville.
Jefferson County contains Louisville. Around it are Jefferson, Oldham and Bullitt in Kentucky and Harrison, Floyd and Clark in Indiana.
River Fields Inc.–43-year-old river watchdog group which created the river task force report for Cornerstone runs a land conservation trust and opposes the east end bridge.
TARC–Transit Authority of River City.
UMW–United Mine Workers, part of the AFL-CIO
U of L–University if Louisville.
U of K–University of Kentucky.
INTERVIEW SOURCES (for first 22 chapters)
The sources named are those who spoke on the record in the first 22 chapters. More to follow.
Jerry Abramson--called “Mayor for Life” because he was former mayor [1985-1999] and is now Louisville-Jefferson County metro mayor elect [D.]
David Armstrong--former county-judge executive [1991-1999 D], last pre-metro Louisville mayor, Dulworth’s patron.
Minx Auerbach--chair, land use planning and regulatory commission [1987-1996.]
William Bardenwerper--Bardenwerper and Loeb, developers’ attorney, mayor of Hurstbourne, on Cornerstone and LDC committee.
David Burke--former counsel to board of alderman, there in the reform era and during airport/UPS expansion. Cornerstone committees.
Barry Barker--head, Transit Authority of River City [TARC] and the push for mass transit.
Deborah Bilitski--county attorney, counsel to land use planning and regulatory commission.
Clark Bledsoe--staff director, planning agency [1999-2001.] Credited with stopping a 60-65% staff turnover.
Michael Bosc--vice president, Greater Louisville Inc. Metro Chamber of Commerce, left in 2003.
Ann Braden--journalist, civil rights activist, head of the Carl Braden Center,
Kevin Bratcher--State representative [R], author of initiative and referendum legislation.
Carl Brown: jounalist and former “C” district county commissioner [D], local anti-corruption legislator in 1970s reform era.
Charles Brown-- partner, Brown-Noltemeyer, developer/builder for 38 years.
Frank Burke–Louisville mayor 1979-1983, US congressman, Kentucky state legislator, attorney.With Todd Hollenbach, rebuilt local Democratic Party after the fall of the bosses.
John Carr–deputy director, Kentucky Transportation Department.
Carl Christansen–special agent, FBI, lead investigator in BOPTROT sting and in Louisville payback investigation, now retired.
Louis Coleman–reverand, director of Justice Resource Center, civil rights activist.
Paul Coomes–PhD, university of louisville [U of L] economist.
Joseph Corradino–senior partner, Corradino Group, consulting engineer on the Hall of Justice and the waterfront, project manager of the airport expanson, “B” district commissioner 1999.
Martin D. Cramton–Charlotte, NC land use commission directot, an AICP planner who came
to Louisville/Jefferson County in 1994 at the same time as Zucker Systems.
Ron Crouch–director, Kentucky State Data Center.
Bob Deweese–physician, Kentucky legislative representative, House [R-Louisville]
Barbara Davis–former “B’ district county commissioner [R], head of the southeastern county neighborhood association.
Charles Davis–veteran planner, entered staff at the beginning of the 1970s reform era, rose in a
27-year career to staff director, was planning consultant to the pre-metro city government [board of aldermen, served on the Cornerstone regulations committee and is a planning consultant to metro government.
Mark Davis, attorney, Brown Frost Todd [formerly Brown Heyburn], land use commission
counsel in the reform era, later developers’ attorney, spearheading the push of the commercial Hurstbourne Corridor through farmland. Zoning attorneys call him the Dean of Planning and Zoning.
Jack Dulworth–former land use commission member [1191-2001] and highly controversial chair
[1996-2001], Democratic party fundraiser and Armstrong appointee on the land use commission. Head of Cornerstone rewrite committee and the LDC committee.
Mary Rose Evans–head, Airport Neighbors’ alliance, a coalition the 15 airport neighborhoods
condemned during the 1994 round of airport expansion, with an outreach to 80,000 people affected by airport noise.
Connie Huber Ewing–spokesperson, land use system.
Thomas FitzGerald–environmental attorney, director, Kentucky resources Council, analyzing
bills and amendments as they are rapidly entered in the state legislature, serving as an early warning system for the state environmentalist/conserbationist movement; on the Cornerstone rewrite and LDC committees.
Owsley Brown Frazier–philanthropist and financier, former vice-chairman Brown-Forman, seen
as one of ten most powerful people in Louisville area.
Monica Gaines–head, Okolona neighborhood group STOP
William Geiger–a white child during the era when blacks were pushed into a ghetto and west end whites were stampeded into the swamps.
Norman Graham–developers’ attorney. With developer Huneke, Graham, at the time with Wyatt Tarrant Combs. took a public stand against a specific development. They wer the first industry people to do so.
William Gray–president, Valley View-Moorman Road Neighborhood Association, first
neighborhood advocate to support a developer against the system, co-plaintiff with developer Thieneman in suit against county government.
Ollie Green–MBA-CPA, CEO, Ollie Green Associates, Kentucky’s first black accountant, one of the first to break out of the ghetto.
Barbara Gregg–Louisville alderman until 1988-2002 when pre-metro government ended.
Robert Griffith–attorney, Stites harbison, River Fields representative.
Fred Hatmaker–attorney and developer with commercial rights in the environmentally-important Floyd’s Fork area.
Teena Halbig–Co-founder of Floyd’s fork alliance and of the Community Leadership Alliance.
Mark Hamrock–FBI special agent, Christiansen’s partner in BOPTROT sting and land use system probe, now agent in charge.
Winnie Hepler–environmental and civil rights advocate.
Hal Heiner–CEO, Capstone Realty, commercial developer of upscale office parks like
Commerce Crossings, metro council member 2003-, second developer to publicly support an area in a fight against a development, alleged target of political payback in 2001.
William Herron–director, department of public works, land use commissioner 1989 onward,
under metro government working with metro parks.
Lula Howard–as an African American computer code clerk in the 1960s, a pioneer in many
senses; planning staff manager, an independent planning consultant to industry and in 2003 chair of the metro land use commission.
Daniel Huneke–President, Dancor Inc. Commercial developer in the Highlands and eastern
county, the first developer to publicly support a neighborhood coalition against development.
Jerome Hutchinson–land use commission chairman 1980-1985, on commission 1976-1994.
Louis J. “Todd” Hollenbach III–Jefferson Conty judge-executive (top official) in the 1970s and
with Frank Burke rebuilt the Democratic party after the fall of the bosses.
Rebecca Jackson–county judge-executive {R] 1999-2002.
Ivonne Jones–urban anthropologist, assistant professor, U of L anthropology department who is
studying the Walnut Street area.
Mattie Jones–northwestern county community advocate and civil rights activist.
Katie Miller Kamin–originally hired by the urban renewal agency, then a city/county planner for
15 years, she is chair, local government committee, League of women Voters.
Chuck Kavanaugh–vice president, Home Builders Association, on the oriinal Conerstone, the
rewrite committee and LDA.
James Kennedy–PhD, head, Old Henry Neighborhood Association.
Carl E, Kramer–Kentucky’s only planning historian and only agribusiness historian, AICP
planner and former land use commission chair in Indiana,
Chris McClellan–developer, partner, Quadra Development.
Jill LeMaster–executive director, state government’s Executive Branch Ethics Commission,
interviewed by Rachel Kamuf of LEO.
Joan Lindop–current president, local Sierra Club, onle of two people credited with saving the
Red River Gorge.
John Locke–John Locke Properties LLC, owns and operates Locke Plaza, Jackson Square,
Springhurst Plaza and Glenview Plaza.
Stuart Mack, attorney, American Planning Association.
Russ Maple–most powerful member [D] of pre-metro fiscal court [county legislature] which
approved and denied development.
Kathryn Matheny–attorney, planning commissioner, surogate of Rebecca Jackson.
J.D.Nichols–CEO, NTS Development Company, the creator of upscale residential developments
like Blankenbaker Crossings and Lake Forest.
Alan Oller–a white west end child during the era when blacks were pushed into a ghetto and
whites into the swamps, later a Ford Motors shipping coordinator, MA, community development, he is an eastern neighborhood leader on the Jefferson County/Shelby County line.
Darryl Owens–attorney, pre-metro “C” District county commissioner [D], key figure in rezoning approvals and denials during final pre-metro decade.
Betsy Overstreet–president and co-founder Community Leadership alliance, one of the heads of the 1998 legislative push, organizer of Citizen’s Guide project.
Woodford Porter Sr.–CEO, A.D. Porter and sons Funeral Homes, community advocate from esteemed family of civil rights advocate.
Glenn Price–developers’ attorney, Greenebaum Doll McDonald, and planning commission chairman at age 28 , in the 1970s reform era.
Michael Price–a Kentucky State Data Center [KSDC] a demographer with economist Coomes first described the Louisville Labor Force Area.
Meme Sweets Runyon–executive director, River Fields Inc., which is a 43-year-old river
watchdog group, head of anti-east-end-bridge coalition and the River Fields Land Trust.
Heidi Sanders–MA in urban planning, Harvard, former Massachusetts land use commission
chair, Board of Zoning Adjustment [BOZA], original Cornerstone, Cornerstone Committee, LDC regulations committee, River Fields staff.
Tom Sawyer–KSDC statistician.
E. Philip Sawyer–president, Grubb-Ellis: Commercial Kentucky Inc., which is a full-service real
estate brokerage firm, former chair, landmarks commission.
William Seiller–Seiller and Handmaker, neighborhood attorney for 30 years.
Mary Shadowen–owner/editor
Theresa Stanley–chairman, Brownsboro Road Area Defgense [BRAD] coalition; original
Cornerstone; chair, Louisville Coalition of Neighborhoods [L-COn] land use committee.
David Stengel–commonwealth’s [state’s] attorney [D.]
Marvin “Gene” Strong–secretary, Kentucky economic Development Cabinet.
Peggy Swain–planner, now mayor of Crossgate, worked on the LOJIC project.
Clifford Thieneman–retired developer, planning commissioner 1980-1999, chair, Land, Design
and Development [LD&T] committee, brother of Tom, uncle of Chris and Tom Jr.
Kenneth Thieneman–developer/builder, current planning commissioner occupying the “developer’s seat.” Nephew of Tom and Clifford, cousin of Chris.
Tom.Thieneman–developer, Clifford’s brother, Kenneth’s uncle, father of Chris and Tom Jr.
David Tomes–Thieneman–developer, partner, Triad Development, building Norton Commons, a
New Urbanist village designed by world-renowned Andres Duaney.
Harold Tull–director, Kentucky Indiana Planning and Develoment Agency [KIPDA]
Terry Turbeville–developer in Ferrill–Turbeville, specializing in upscale residential projects like Alia.
Amy Turner–attorney, Legal Aid community development program, briefly won at Berrytown-Griffytown, one of the few “neighborhood” wins, only to lose it on appeal.
Elmus Ussery–retired general, economist, former head of Home Builders association, former land use commissioner.
Paula Vincent–Jefferson County personnel director.
Jim Wayne–[D-Louisville] state representative, House, chair, Kentucky state legislative
subcommittee on land use, head of Smart Growth and campaign finance reform pushs.
Paul Whitty–attorney, Greenebaum Doll McDonald, former land use commission counsel.
Paul Zucker–AICP, Zucker Systems, San Diego, the land use system consultant who evaluated the system in 1994.
These are the interview sources for the first 22 chapters only. The documentary sources for those chapters are not yet online, and I have not put the interview and documentary sources for the other chapters online, but I hope that this sample may be of some help to readers who are in effect listening to a townful of people speak ut about their world.