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 =================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 _____________________________________________________________