Metro council's Yates: “And we’ve reached out to people all over."

Yeah, he seems like the "reaching out" sort, all right.

Where have I heard all this before?

Council members clash over change to landmarks ordinance, at LEO's "Fat Lip" blog.

Last night was the final public hearing on the proposed changes to Louisville’s historic landmarks ordinance, which would give the full Metro Council final say instead of the Landmarks Commission, and require that the majority of signatures on petitions to protect a landmark be from citizens within a 1-mile radius of the property ...

... Speaker after speaker strongly condemned the changes, to healthy applause from the crowd. One common complaint was that the commission has experts in this feild who understand the issue, and council members are not only lacking such knowledge, but might be tempted to side with developer/business interests in order to block a site from being landmarked.