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Rick Bernhardt rejected Matt Pulle's conjecture that his scheduled NY trip with several Bells Bend residents to a rural conservation retreat signals a softening of his support of Planning's alternative high-density vision for rural Bells Bend:

As he leaves the arena, possibly for good, Emily Evans reflects on the legacy of former Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell:

City Paper columnist Richard Lawson, writing today about the whole Bernhardt-Kleinfelter-McLean-AHR-Neighbors-Swiss Ridge mess is apparently perplexed about the notion of conflicts of interest in ci

Jeff Woods reports that the city is not renewing Planning Commission attorney David Kleinfelter contract:

It’s a story straight out of a political potboiler. A tough-minded government bureaucrat trying to enforce zoning rules crosses swords with two developers—one the chairman of the city planning commission and the other the vice mayor’s husband. The mayor’s office intercedes, and the bureaucrat loses his job.

It appears that tempers hit their boiling point over the weekend as council members and constituents staged e-mail offensives in the wake of last week's announcement of Charlie Tygard's LED task force interest group.

Here is CM Tygard's salvo from last Friday at Anna Page for expressing disapproval of his LED bill on the District 16 listserv:

Once again in a public meeting opponents of Charlie Tygard's LED bill outnumbered proponents, although at today's Planning Commission meeting two churches (rather than just one) brought supporters of the bill.

An Enclave commenter writes:

Yesterday, I e-mailed Rick Bernhardt at Planning asking about allegations that the consent agenda placement of Charlie Tygard's LED bill was used at the Planning Commission to keep the bill from reaching public hearing. Here is his quick response to me: