tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post2421759940834175260..comments2023-10-21T03:07:18.017-05:00Comments on Enclave: Planning's Support for May Town Center Highlights the Trickiness of Planning Commissioner's Strictly Land-Use AppealS-townMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05948307051485318061noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-26435400516037711402009-06-25T23:44:55.535-05:002009-06-25T23:44:55.535-05:00The Devil's Advocate('s Advocate) in me wo...The Devil's Advocate('s Advocate) in me wonders when everyone living on Bell's Bend will get their property reassigned by eminent domain so the Middle Tennesse region can turn the whole thing into a highly-developed and central park.<br /><br />The rest of me would love simply to see the part of it that's already supposedly a Metro park and actually permit visitors to, you know, use that part as a park.<br /><br />The land I'm thinking of currently has a land use listed as "single family dwelling," oddly enough, so it's not very park-like.<br /><br />Overall I agree the development idea isn't what the city needs. But I also think it's disingenuous for the May Town Center opposition to suggest the land is even slightly park-like. It's sod farms and big front yards, and there's some woods and pasture, and the only people who can really enjoy it are the few people living there. (Riding Old Hickory Blvd on the bend is nice, but it's no park.) It will be developed eventually: either via eminent domain for an actual park, or by private interests who've paid many millions for the land so far and will continue to whittle away at the "Keep It Country" base of residents with large checks. My money (not literally) is on the developers, within 30 years.<br /><br />I'd rather be wrong.aduthiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01860882117188427187noreply@blogger.com