Fountain City Cell Tower

Fountain City’s neighborhood is fighting the same battle against a Branch cell tower that we did.  They have asked any of us who would be at the August MPC meeting to wear one of their “Protect Knox Neighborhood” hats at the meeting (they will be available there – see Carrera Romanini or Kelly Ellenburg) if we could.

They also sent along this link to show they are getting press, too.  http://wate.com/2015/07/22/fountain-city-neighbors-unite-to-fight-cell-tower-plan/

Knoxville Neighborhood Advisory – Vol. 8, No. 26 – Tuesday July 28, 2015

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1. Lindbergh Forest Forms a New Neighborhood Association
2. Edgewood Park Elects Pallesen as President
3. Neighborhood Directory Updated: Please Check Your Listing
4. Testify on Blighted Properties at Meeting This Week
5. Neighborhood and Government Calendar

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All residents of Lakemoor Hills,

The meeting that had been scheduled at the church at 7 PM on Tuesday, July 28 is cancelled. Since the projected cell tower in our neighborhood has been cancelled, we decided to cancel the meeting. We are so grateful for the efforts made by so many to reject this planned cell tower. Thank you! No meeting Tuesday night!

Charlie Mulligan on behalf of Dick Graf

The Beautification Committee funded and installed Doggie Poop Stations throughout the neighborhood in the past few years.  One is at Circle Lake Park, one in the Bluff Point median strip, two adjacent to the trail at Lake Hills Church and one is at Maloney Road Park by the trailhead.

If you forget your plastic bag to pick up after  your pet, please avail yourself of one of the bags in the poop stations and clean up what your pet has left behind.  You wouldn’t want to find a big surprise in your yard when you are mowing that someone else’s dog deposited.

Just as they ask us to do  in the Smokies, please don’t leave a trace.

Thank you for your help to keep our neighborhood beautiful!

Knoxville Neighborhood Advisory – Vol. 8, No. 25 – Tuesday July 21, 2015

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1. City to Hold Public Meeting on Old South High
2. Session on Cell Phone Towers Open to the Public
3. Lonsdale Homecoming Set for Next Weekend
4. City Seeks Public Comment on Police Department
5. Knoxville’s 311 Call Center Takes on Regional 211
6. Are you 50 or over? Make Sure Your Car “Fits” You!
7. Neighborhood and Government Calendar

Published by the City of Knoxville’s Office of Neighborhoods to report news important to Knoxville’s residential neighborhoods. News & calendar deadline: 5 p.m. Mondays.

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Knoxville Neighborhood Advisory – Vol. 8, No. 24 – Tuesday July 14, 2015

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1. Linda Hill to Perform at Edgewood Park Event

2. Dedication Set for Everly Brothers Park
3. City Council to Consider Urban Agriculture on Second Reading
4. City Council Okays Lower Sign Heights
5. MPC Backs Office Zoning on Gibbs Drive
6. City Names Foster as Director, Council Appoints New Recorder
7. Sign of the Times: Church Hosts “Active Shooter” Seminar
8. On Thursday, Learn about Solar Energy, LED Lighting
9. Neighborhood and Government Calendar

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I want to sincerely thank all who posted signs, made phone calls, fretted and fumed in an effort to prevent a scar on this beautiful neighborhood we call home. Let us never take for granted what we have on the “quiet side of the river”. This effort should inspire all of us to commit to be vigilant for anything that would negatively impact our niche of the world. And may we wish a similar result for our friends in Fountain City and Bluegrass.

Forrest Orr

Dick Graf, who is returning home from South Carolina has been on the phone with Mary Miller, the attorney representing Branch Towers, LLC. They sent a letter to the MPC (and Dick called to confirm they have received it) saying that they are withdrawing the application “because they can’t meet the grading requirements.”

LHHA and its cell tower committee, the 7 neighbors who brought the lawsuit, Forrest Orr and his team of activists who produced the signs and got the letter mailed to all residents of the peninsula, Pat and Alex Shivers, John King – all of us can relax and smile.

Please take down the signs but save them as Branch is looking for another site. That could be a long process and Mary Miller remarked that hopefully it won’t be in Lakemoor Hills.

We all believe this is a significant victory for our neighborhood and demonstrates what informed neighbors can do to preserve the beauty of the “Quiet side of the River.”

Thank you!

Charlie Mulligan on behalf of the travelling Dick Graf.

Wandered into 3929 Maloney Rd.  Tennessee department of health collar. Tuesday, July 7 at 9:10 PM. If it’s yours, please come and get it.

Toby Tumpson