[TN-Bird] On-Going Battle to save Bell's Bell

Hello, many of you may remember that I made announcement at the state meeting 
regarding the effort to prevent approval of a large development (known as May 
Town Center) for the Bell's Bend area of Nashville. For those of you not 
familiar with the area, Bell's Bend is the area enclosed by a horseshoe shaped 
bend in the Cumberland River.  It contains two large parks, Bell's Bend and 
Beamann, and also is the area where the Whooping Cranes wintered in Davidson 
County this past winter.  The proposed development would be located directly 
across the road from Bell's Bend Park, and a couple miles (as a bird flies) 
from the area where the Whooping Cranes were seen.  This development includes a 
large bridge across the river.  NTOS is supporting the Bell's Bend/Scottsboro 
Community Group in their efforts to both opposed the current development and to 
create a development plan which will preserve the rural character of the area. 
For further information, and to find
 out how you can help, please visit www.bellsbend.org and click on "Get 
involved". You call also visit www.nashville.gov to find information on 
contacting the metro planning commision and metro council.  If you are 
interested I encourage you to do this in the near future, as the planning 
commission will be voting on July 24th. I especially hope that those of you who 
visited the Whooping Cranes from outside of nashville will take a moment to 
contact the planning commission, as I think it is helpful for them to see that 
there are other economic opportunities (ie tourism) for this area than large 
scale development.

Thanks,

Amy Potter
Nashville TOS


      
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