TN-Birders, you may remember that I previously requested your help in fighting the May Town Center, a development that has been proposed for the Bell's Bend area of Nashville. For those of you visited Bell's Bend Park during the recent spring meeting, the proposed location of this development is DIRECTLY across the street from the park. I suspect that birds such as Henslow's sparrow would not stay around the park if a large retail/residential/corporate headquarters development goes in across from the park. I wanted to let you all that we are gearing up for round two of the fight. I expect that shortly there will be a letter writing campaign, etc. If you are interested in helping, please contact me off list (APotter597@xxxxxxxxx). Please also see the forwarded email below for websites for further information.  Thanks,  Amy Potter, NTOS --- On Sat, 5/9/09, adelle wood <adelleintn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: adelle wood <adelleintn@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: URGENT !!! May Town Center public hearing May 28 To: "'adelle wood'" <adelleintn@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009, 11:27 AM The May Town Center "city in a cow pasture" development is once again on the Metro Planning Commissionâ??s agenda and we need to, once again, ask you to support the Bells Bend community in its efforts to keep the Bend rural, agricultural, and residential.  The Planning Commission is tentatively set to hear the request for the May Town Center zoning change on May 28.  PLEASE SAVE THIS DATE AND PLAN TO BE THERE TO HELP US DEFEAT THIS VERY INAPPROPRIATE ZONING CHANGE! Please also be prepared to send letters to the Planning Commissioners and your city council person. We will send some specific recommendations on letter writing soon.  The date of May 28th is not currently listed on the Metro Planning Commission (MPC) website, but we have been given that date. Please check the MPC website at http://www.nashville.gov/MPC/ as well our website at http://www.bellsbend.org/ for updated information.  We will send more details about the meeting as well as our letter-writing campaign soon, but we wanted you to be aware that this is coming up. Thank you for all you have done and for your future support.  Kathleen Wolff Beaman Park to Bells Bend Conservation Community =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________