1. Public Conversation #5 is tonight
You are respectfully invited to the TYP’s fifth public conversation meeting. It will take place at the Cansler YMCA tonight, Wednesday, August 25 from 6-7pm and will address the topic of addiction treatment in the community as that treatment relates to the TYP.
Hilde Phipps, Director of Adult Addiction Services, Helen [...]
1. Press last week: MetroPulse feature, News Sentinel editorial
MetroPulse
Frank N. Carlson wrote last week’s MetroPulse cover story about the TYP. It’s very well-crafted, thorough, and fair. We encourage you to take the time to read it and pass it on to others. Carlson’s piece focuses attention on some of the controversy surrounding the TYP, and it [...]
1. Ten-Year Plan Goals and Strategies for Year 5
The TYP office has been working with its advisory board to shape goals and strategies for year 5 of the TYP’s implementation. These goals and strategies will drive a detailed work plan, presently in development, that will inform the day-to-day activities of the TYP office for the [...]
Summary is at the top of this update. It’s expanded below.
1. Coming up this Wednesday: Public Conversation #4 — Mental healthcare services delivery. The TYP will hold its next public conversation on 6pm Wednesday, July 21 at the Cansler YMCA.
2. Reminder: Neighborhood meeting about Flenniken Housing. The TYP will dialog with residents of the neighborhoods [...]
1. Lakeshore: TYP has no plans to pursue development of PSH at Lakeshore Park
The July 9, 2010 edition of the Knoxville News Sentinel ran a front page article titled Ashe against idea for park to be future site for homeless residence. This article contains some elements that are unfortunately misleading. We have spoken to the reporter [...]
Summary is at the top of this update. It is expanded below.
1. Flenniken Housing: Parking variance request withdrawn. Southeastern Housing Foundation, the TYP’s nonprofit real estate development partner and developer of proposed permanent supportive housing at the old Flenniken School, has withdrawn its request for a zoning variance that would have permitted a smaller parking [...]