Louisville Keep Your Fork is for clean water, for natural wildlife habitats, and for maintaining the form, function, and character of the Floyds Fork watershed. While we are pro development, we are adamantly opposed to irresponsible development. We do not want to be the generation that kills the life within Floyds Fork.

Our goal is to inform the public and decision makers as to what is happening along the Fork. Some want to believe this is a NIMBY argument ("Not in my back yard"), but that is patently absurd as Floyds Fork is 62 miles long with 31 miles flowing through Metro Louisville. Floyds Fork is a natural treasure that is available to everyone in the city and beyond. People travel from all over the region to come and visit this beautiful place. Floyds Fork isn't in just one neighborhood or backyard. We are trying to protect Floyds Fork like other concerned citizens in the past fought for Yosemite, Yellowstone, and even Daniel Boone National Forest. Floyds Fork is worth protecting from people who do not value it.

Our city needs developers. They provide amazing opportunities for so many people. They create jobs for people of all different trades. They create communities, they create opportunities for countless people and they do it all while taking on a lot of risk. They are not bad people. We want them to build. We need them to build, just not in environmentally sensitive areas! We want our city and developers to protect the Floyds Fork watershed. We don't want them to alter, fill, or build in the floodplain. We want them to respect, honor and even strengthen the Floyds Fork Development Review Overlay (DRO) through stronger language and creating a DRO Committee and Director.

Louisville Keep Your Fork was created to inform and engage people and decision makers. We believe that Louisville has a natural treasure that must be protected and if we don't become serious immediately, the life within this river will die.