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Richard Lawson surfaced again this week in all the chicken-hearted pseudonymity of "Rex and the City" accusing the Planning Commission with making its Bells Bend decision based on economic development rather than land use reasoning.

Commissioners support Bells Bend neighborhood by passing their plan and indefinitely deferring the Planning Department's alternative, which would have allowed bridges and urban developments to sprawl across the Bend.

Just tuned into the Metro Planning Commission debate on the Planning Department's alternate proposal for development of Scottsboro/Bells Bend that would open the door to May Town Center.

Is Tony Giarrantana just a May family mercenary lobbyist hired to grease the Planning Department machinery for a zone change, and then walk away?

We’re trying to land an interview with May Town Center developer Tony Giarratana to we can ask him a simple question: Will you actually develop any part of May Town Center? Or are you just a lobbyist for Jack May?

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

Neighborhoods Defense Fund leader and former CM John Summers told the Planning Commission tonight that with 92% opposition to the Planning Department's alternative plan for Bells Bend, it was a mistake to bring it to the Commission.  He pointed out rightly that the sub-area planning process was designed so that plans violently opposed in neighborhoods are never supposed to be brough

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