The developers of a proposed mini-city slated for Nashville’s Bells Bend community may have to look elsewhere for help conserving part of the property. The Land Trust of Tennessee has rejected an informal offer to own conservation easements on the 1500-acre site.
Jeanie Nelson is the Land Trust’s executive director and says the May Town Center development might not fit the Land Trust’s core mission.
“We really have to look at things on a case-by-case basis. So until something was real and concrete, it’s really not possible for me to answer that question.”
The Land Trust has been working acquire conservation easements in other parts of Bells Bend, which sits north of Nashville surrounded by the Cumberland River.
May Town Center would be a mini-city of corporate office parks and condos in an area that has historically been farmland. The proposal includes conserving several hundred acres, and other entities could own those conservation easements.
The Metro Planning Commission heard today from the Land Trust, Metro Parks and the Chamber of Commerce about potential environmental and economic impacts. Commissioners also toured Bells Bend. They will vote July 24th on a new community plan that, as drafted, would allow the development.
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