Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct a detail about a lodging tax.
Louisville voters on two occasions have approved a sales tax to fund historic preservation in the city’s downtown area. With that tax sunsetting in 2028, Louisville leaders are pondering asking voters if they want to keep paying.
The city’s Historical Preservation Tax, approved in 2008, is a one-eighth of one percent (0.125%) sales tax, with the funds spent “exclusively for historic preservation purposes within Downtown Louisville and historic Old Town,” according to a Louisville staff document. In November 2017, voters approved the continuation of the tax for another 10 years, updated to include funding of the Historical Museum Campus…