Planning Notes

Excellence Awards
MPC will hold their 29th Annual Excellence Awards banquet on August 26 at the Knoxville Convention Center. Tickets are $30; call 215-2500 for reservations. The keynote speaker will be Carol Evans, Executive Director of Legacy Parks Foundation

Healthy Knox
On May 13, MPC and TPO staff attended a meeting for Together! Healthy Knox. Launched by Knox County Health Department, Together! Healthy Knox is a community approach to better health that incorporates a national strategic model developed by the National Organization of County and City Health Officials. Visit www.healthyknox.org for more information.

Addressing
Addressing has finished scanning all of the development plans from their files. They have also scanned their field check maps and reports along with more than 6,000 change of address letters.

Staff have updated KGIS with project name and type of use for developments such as shopping centers. They also have entered all of the mobile home parks and apartment complexes into a database that KGIS will use to create the ability to search for such developments by name.

Congratulations
Planning Commissioner Jack Sharp was named the 2010 Fountain City Man of the Year at Honor Fountain City Day. The honor was given by Fountain City Town Hall in recognition of his long service to the City of Knoxville and Fountain City.

Commissioner Rebecca Longmire has been elected as the new MPC Vice Chair.

Commissioner Trey Benefield said goodbye to MPC in June. He has served on the commission for eight years including serving as the MPC Chair.