Remarks by Shameka Parrish-Wright
5 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 45:19
“Thank you. Thank you for your presentation. I did get some notes thanks to my aide being here. So my questions are, how are the jobs calculated? Because I know that there's construction jobs, there's jobs to get it up and running, but maintaining those systems, when you say apparently it might bring 2,000 jobs by 2030 with this new Microsoft plant, how are those calculated?”
Planning and Zoning Committee · Oct 6, 2026
- Play at 47:50
“It does. And my other question is about you said the one you visited was did you say three quarters a mile from residence? Is that what you said? Or two thirds?”
Planning and Zoning Committee · Oct 6, 2026
- Play at 49:15
“I appreciate that. My last question, Mr. Chair, is I'm sure you probably heard that we have one that's nearly a million square feet that got under before we could do any regulations about it. So there's no tips, there's nothing built in to mitigate the harms yet. Hopefully we can achieve that. This question is, when I did just a general search of Mount Pleasant, and I'm looking at what I see. It's an aerial view. I don't see a lot of bodies of water. Are most of the data centers located near bodies of water? Ours uniquely is closer to our Ohio River, this bigger one that's being built. I just…”
Planning and Zoning Committee · Oct 6, 2026
- Play at 1:23:33
“Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for being here and listening to you reference the STAR program really brought back memories of of Tom Pierce of just door knocking with REAC and in the Rubber Town community and understanding how that community has been so affected by the pollution and all those things. I, um, my colleague Hudson's responses and your responses make me, um, really want to make sure that we are working on an amendment that has a health impact statement. We do financial impact statements. We clearly need a health impact statement for this. And that's an amendment that I want…”
Planning and Zoning Committee · Oct 6, 2026
- Play at 2:00:39
“Yeah, it just evoked so many emotions thinking about what you're saying about West Louisville, too, as well as Southwest Louisville, which is one of the districts I share and border with colleagues here. I think about the high cancer rates, the high heart disease rates, the respiratory issues, and I think about when these decisions were made. I think the industrial zoning is too vague, and that's what allowed this one to be in Councilwoman Hawkins' district as she spoke about. And I think we got a chance to get ahead of that. And it doesn't mean we're closed for business in the ways that we…”
Planning and Zoning Committee · Oct 6, 2026