(A) Neighborhood organizations shall be advisory to the Mayor, Metro Council, and other Metro Government boards, Commissions, and officials on matters affecting their neighborhoods.
(B) Neighborhood organizations may submit to the Metro Government departments and elected or appointed Metro Government bodies requests or proposals for projects or activities needed in their neighborhood.
(C) Neighborhood organizations may apply to the Metro Government for financial assistance, subject to availability, to develop neighborhood plans and proposals for land use, zoning, transportation, housing, economic development, parks and recreation, and other activities and services affecting the neighborhood in accordance with §§ 161.01 through 161.08.
(D) Neighborhood organizations shall continue the planning process by reevaluating the goals, objectives, and recommendations contained within the neighborhood plan.
(E) Neighborhood organizations may address themselves to all matters which affect them and may establish relations, not in conflict with Metro Government-neighborhood relations set forth in this subchapter, with any agency or jurisdiction with which they have mutual concerns. This subchapter governs only the relationship between recognized neighborhood organizations and the metropolitan area.
(F) Neighborhood organizations shall inform themselves of neighborhood needs and desires and maintain communication with their neighborhoods on plans, proposals, and activities affecting their areas.
(G) It shall be the responsibility of the neighborhood organizations to keep themselves informed of all proposed legislation affecting their neighborhoods so that they may participate in the legislative process.
(1999 Lou. Code, § 153.37) (Lou. Ord. No. 197-1980, approved 11-26-1980; Lou. Am. Ord. No. 67-1986, approved 2-27-1986; Lou. Metro Am. Ord. No. 75-2007, approved 4-30-2007)