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Lesa Jordan
8 years ago

Please tell more people quickly to stop this project. It is not who we are!

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Douglas Hampton
8 years ago

In-fill development only benefits the developers. It ruins the character of a neighborhood and damages property values by destroying trees and concentrating the number of people in the area. I have seen this happen in Miami's Coconut Grove area over the last couple of decades, and I was shocked to find it unrecognizable on my last visit.

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Demetrius Boyland-Sykes
8 years ago

Preserved our neighborhood

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Eddie Settles
8 years ago

This proposal to continue carpet-bombing Yorkshire with McMansions needs to be stopped. If the City approves this project, one more step toward the irrecoverable loss of Yorkshire's beauty can be laid at the doorstep of an out-of-touch City government-mayor, city council, and office of planning and development.

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Jackson Boyd
8 years ago

McMansions are hideous. No more soulless front loading monstrosities!

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Jim Strickland
8 years ago

Well said

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Rodney Nash
8 years ago Featured

I have been restoring old homes in Memphis for 33 years. Theses homes are about the same age now as the midtown homes I started on back then. This neighborhood is approaching historic status. Please allow it to be preserved as it is.

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Martha Patchell
8 years ago

We chose to live in this neighborhood because of its character: the unique design of each home, the large tree canopy, the azaleas--these help define our neighborhood's character. The recent infill efforts destroy the very reasons we love living here. Why can't the Office of Planning and Development understand: we don't want any zoning changes!

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Elizabeth Boyd
8 years ago

Beginning of the end of our neighborhood as we know it....

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Paige Arnold
8 years ago

I will never understand anyone who wants to plow down perfectly fine homes, trees and landscape to build multiple properties in the place of where one stood (in the blazing sun)...the reason I don't understand it is b/c the people who DO want to do it, are all about lining their pockets....GREED is a shameful thing.

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Debbie Sowell
8 years ago

No thought on the developers part as to what they leave behind for the existing neighbors

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joan foley
8 years ago

No more!!

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Judi shellabarger
8 years ago

Time to vote out some of our city council members that don't listen to the voters of Memphis. No matter how much money these developers contribute to your campaigns, we are the voters.

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Eve Settles
8 years ago Featured

Few neighborhoods have the distinctive charm of the area where this development is proposed. Infill may be desirable in some neighborhoods, but not in Yorkshire! Preserving the beauty and character of Yorkshire would benefit many far East Memphis neighborhoods, including Balmoral, where I live.

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Dan Spector
8 years ago

No less than Cooper-Young, nice neighborhoods must be saved if we want a stable city.

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William Hanley
8 years ago Featured

Stop tearing down beautiful trees and nice looking homes. Redevelop older buildings in downtown and create more urban villages like Crosstown has done for midtown.

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Barry McCockiner
8 years ago

This ain’t Collarville. I say we knock down all the houses that ain’t Mid center modern and plant trees instead of people like The Founding Fathers intended.

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Carol Oswald
8 years ago

Memphis needs to create planning and development requirements for ALL neighborhoods in Memphis. We want our city to grow, but we want the end result to be something desirable to the city's residents - not just profitable for the city's investors. Say NO.

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Neighbor
8 years ago Featured

This issue affects ALL the Yorkshire neighborhood, not just Hayne, Edenshire Cove and Dee Cove. We're all in this together to protect our neighborhood. I strongly oppose this infill development at 1119 Hayne.

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Jeanne williams
8 years ago

Just say no