public hearing

Big Easy codes officials promise public hearing before demo, but demo anyway. It looks like a violation of a federal consent degree intended to protect residents against quick city tear-downs.

Almost predictably, Southcomm's May-Town-Center-apologist-on-staff is giving voice to 30 shadowed Benders whom he insinuates were arbitrarily excluded from the public hearing on Planning's alternative (which would have paved the way for the May Town Center development).

Planning's announcement:

A pastor from Bells Bend asks to get a witness against the May Town Center team and the Planning staff in Sunday's Tennessean:

Nate Rau reports:

And Thursday’s overflow crowd, with many watching the proceedings in another room, many with the promise of a chance to speak their minds, delayed any official vote by the Planning Commission again.

One of opponents of May Town Center opponent argued at tonight's public hearing that the case that Scottsboro residents generally defend their right to rezone not with the idea of building apartments or office campuses, but in order to build a place for their elderly mothers or for small bed and breakfasts.  That's a whole different scale than the urban density the Planning Department is prop

The Bells Bend discussion tonight is divided into two sections:  the plan and the May rezoning request.  The Public Hearing is on the plan and 55 people have signed up to speak for or against it.  That's a possible two hours of public hearing without either consideration of the rezoni

Two weeks ago just before the second reading vote on Erica Gilmore's Ardelia Park bill Vice Mayor Diane Neighbors mentioned the possibility of a deferral so that CM Gilmore could get approval from Stormwater and Public Works, which had not yet signed off on the SP rezoning to allow the high-density detached single-family homes at 7th and Garfield.  Perhaps she should have avail