City of Knoxville
Madeline Rogero, Mayor
Knox County
Tim Burchett, Mayor

Monthly Archives: December 2008

TYP Advisory Board list

December 22, 2008 – 4:01 pm

The Ten-Year Plan Advisory Board.

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Joint Council/Commission and PSH siting task force

December 19, 2008 – 2:08 pm

The TYP is committed to a scattered-site approach to developing housing to end chronic homelessness. In order to reach its goal of creating 400 units of permanent supportive housing, the TYP will need to encourage construction and/or rehabilitation of perhaps a dozen or more apartment complexes scattered across the city and county. Last week the [...]

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Advisory Board meeting report

December 19, 2008 – 1:07 pm

This morning’s quarterly meeting of the Ten-Year Plan Advisory Board (TYP AB) was the first to welcome its new neighborhood representatives. They are Ed Eckenrod and Whitney Stanley, both from COIN (Council of Involved Neighborhoods). Diana Conn and Dan Smith are alternate neigborhood reps on the TYP AB, and both of them come to us [...]

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Advisory Board Meeting: Fri, Dec 19

December 12, 2008 – 5:04 pm

TYP Advisory Board meetings are public, and you’re invited. The Ten-Year Plan Advisory Board meets quarterly. Its next meeting occurs at 8am, Fri, Dec 19, at the Knox County Public Defenders Community Law Office, 1101 Liberty Street, near the intersection of Liberty and Division Street just off Sutherland Avenue. This meeting is open to the [...]

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Joint Council/Commission workshop tonight: 5pm City/County Building

December 11, 2008 – 12:05 pm

Last night’s public meeting about the Ten-Year Plan and permanent supportive housing was very well-attended (we’ll post some follow-up to the meeting here by the end of the day tomorrow). We hope the same will be true for tonight’s joint City Council/County Commission workshop which is open to the public. One goal of this workshop [...]

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December 10: Public meeting

December 4, 2008 – 2:21 pm

A public meeting will give neighborhood representatives and interested members of the public an opportunity to learn about and comment on critical aspects of the Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness. The meeting will take place at on December 10, 2008 at 6pm in the small assembly room in the City/County Building. According to TYP [...]

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