bells bend

The City Paper cannot wait to pave over Bells Bend and they want to sell you their heart-tugging phantasm sans the slippery slope that leads to the development of every square inch of rural greenspace that doesn't sit on flood plain. It still looks like a MetroCenter do-over to me.

Nashville Scene Editor Pete Kotz isn’t quite sure that Bells Bend, if handed over to developers, will ever be a net gain for the city.

Is it really wise to take this guy’s playground?

Southcomm reporter extends his personal war in print against neighborhoods, the Planning Commission, and anyone else who stands in the way of his obsessed mission to whip popular opinion against true conservation of Bells Bend and for sprawl and uneven, car-culture growth.

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.

Planning Commissioner Stewart Clifton commented thusly on Enclave:

Here is Richard Lawson's article in the Citypaper followed by my slightly different take.
--Stewart Clifton

Planning commission passes on May decision
Deferral leads to different interpretations from backers, opponents
Email Print By Richard Lawson

Enclave commenter and President of the Donelson-Hermitage Neighborhood Association, Susan Floyd, treats tonight's Bells Bend victory as Reveille:

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.

Michael Cass explores all of the good intentions behind sprawling on to Bells Bend including the May family's unreliable guarantees that development will both begin and end with May Town Center.

In a recent comment over at Urban Planet, a May Town supporter suggested that more people needed to be visiting Bells Bend Park and that allowing the urban-density May Town development would increase visitors. He was only correct that more people should visit the park.