City of Knoxville
Madeline Rogero, Mayor
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Tim Burchett, Mayor

Tag Archives: City Council

Follow-up to City Council workshop

October 4, 2010 – 11:32 am

[Note: This was originally distributed to City Council, County Commission, and the TYP Advisory Board as a stand-alone weekly update.] Knoxville City Council invited the Ten-Year Plan to a workshop last Thursday evening to discuss the TYP’s communications plan and to hear from Brad Greene, the systems engineering consultant who is helping to refine the [...]

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Flenniken: use on review appealed

June 24, 2009 – 4:35 pm

Today, Southeastern Housing Foundation, a nonprofit developer of affordable housing in Knoxville, appealed the Metropolitan Planning Commission’s June 11 denial of use on review for Flenniken Housing, a proposed 48-unit permanent supportive housing development at the old Flenniken School in South Knoxville. MPC staff had recommended approval of  the Flenniken Housing proposal because it conforms [...]

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Minvilla fully funded

April 22, 2009 – 8:22 am

City Council has approved the contracts governing allocations of funding for Minvilla Manor. This means that the funding is secured for this complicated and difficult project. The News-Sentinel’s Hayes Hickman has been covering the Minvilla saga and reports here. If you want to know more about the project, you can visit our Minvilla website. This [...]

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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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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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