New Nolensville Design/Review Committee to Find & Reclaim Quaint/Small Town Atmosphere?

(Our Mill Creek Right? No!But it could be if
local citizens got together and demanded it!)

BREAKING NEWS!
A Design Review Committee is being formed to
serve the Town of Nolensville. (What happened
to Planning Commission & Historic Team?)
The Committee will make recommendations to
enhance and preserve the quaint, small town
charm of Nolensville. (Precious little left? Old
Historic Area without sewers?) This committee
will study community models (Planning Com-
mission already did this? Ask Mr. Haines who
went to Pleasant Hill?) and propose design
standards for new commercial buildings.

(Good Luck! Sonic has already landed, Blue
Bell is here, 2-Banks & a Re-Do on Old Feed
Mill). What do they all have in common?
Nothing! Quaint they ain't! Small and charm-
ing? Not really? And an electronics store is just
about to pop-up on Nolensville retail strip
with neon lights/logo and retail razzle dazzle?
TIP: watch and see if city has any control over
this new retail store? It won't happen cause the
store is Mr. Fred Y. developer of Brittain Downs.
City refused to get him to pay one cent of impact
fees on his luxury $400k to $700k development.

All interested citizens are encouraged to sub-
mit their name with a short description of what
they believe they can contribute to the commit-
tee. Citizens with architectural or design exper-
ience are specifically needed. (Which means you
work for FREE!)

Submissions may be dropped off at Town Hall
to the attention of Alderman Weaver-Lothers
by June 1st. (Hop to it...committee has only 6
months until November to do miracles). After
that a new board will take over and decide if
the committee will live or die?
Committees are formed when nobody knows
what to do and it guarantees nothing will get
done. BUT office-holders can point to commit-
tee and say look how much it appears we are
doing? And it makes the voters happy. They
stop bugging interim mayor for a while.

If this was a "serious" effort to produce an
overall town design for Nolensville city leaders
would hire a professional, qualified team to do
it. They would present their plan to a public
meeting for feedback and final approval by
board. This would include inside track on how
to secure grants to pay for it.

Sorry...folks this is a page out of the "kick the
can down the road" manual for politicans run-
ning for office. Worst part of it...it really works!

Old "cut-n-run" previous mayor always told
people in historic area...don't worry I will get
some "grants" for sewer and antique lights,
old brick walk-ways and quaint shops. Turn-
ed out it was total (b.s.). He didn't care a twit
about historic area. Now we're gonna get a
new committee? To do what? Recommend
something to Planning & Historic commissions
and then onto board. Those four steps will take
6 months. No need to worry then, the town will
be safely in the hands of professionals. New
Mayor and 24/7 City Manager. This team will
appoint qualified and prepared people ready
to serve without any conflicts of interest.

Our challenge as local voting citizens is to keep
the current inmates in town hall from doing too
much damage. This means you gotta continue
to attend meetings and make your opinion count.
Six months of this current town hall performance
could really set the town back for years...don't
let it happen! Help us keep the pressure on!

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