Details & background information from Scottsboro/Bells Bend community meetings
Scottsboro/Bells Bend Detailed Design Plan
The Scottsboro/Bells Bend Detailed Design Plan (DDP) illustrates a vision of preservation and development of the area. The DDP will guide, on a parcel-by-parcel basis, the appropriate land use and preservation/development character based on goals established in the plan. Like Community Plans, DDPs are developed through a participatory process that involves a myriad of stakeholders – residents, property owners, business owners, developers, institutional representatives, and elected officials. Given the diversity of stakeholders, there were multiple visions for future preservation and growth. While a majority of stakeholders envisioned preserving the natural and rural character of the area, stakeholders representing one sizable property envisioned the creation of a regional center and corporate campuses – a much more urban setting in the rural area, with a defined edge to delineate the urban from surrounding rural areas and to preserve a considerable amount of the property in a natural/rural state. To say that there were only two visions for the future of Scottsboro/Bells Bend oversimplifies reality, however, since there are numerous smaller property owners that wish to pursue various levels of development.
It is important to remember that any development proposed in the Alternate Development Area must comply with the policy conditions set forth in the DDP and must submit a rezoning application. A rezoning of this scale is a separate public process, with its own community meetings and its own public hearings before the Planning Commission and Metro Council. While no rezoning application for the Alternate Development Area has been submitted to the Planning Department at this time, numerous questions have been asked about the specific plans for this area.
Scottsboro/Bells Bend Detailed Design Plan, adopted August 14, 2008
- read the draft plan
July 24 public hearing before the Planning Commission
- Public hearing notice mailed to residents and other stakeholders
Details of May/June Meetings
Details of the April 29 Land Use Policy Meeting
- Agenda of the April 29 public meeting
- Staff presentation
Details of March 25 Detailed Land Use Plan Meeting
- Agenda
- Staff presentation
- Draft vision statement
- Draft goals & objectives
- Detailed Land Use Policy Map
- Draft Detailed Land Use Policies
Details of the February 19 concept plan meeting
Details of the February 11 concept plan meeting
- Agenda
- Staff presentation
- Draft Concept Plan
- Questions on index cards
- Summary of Comment Sheets - Feb. 11 meeting
Details of the January 2008 Visioning workshop
- Agenda
- Summary of comments from all discussion tables
- Summary of comments from discussion table 1 - facilitator, Bob Eadler
- There was no table 2.
- Summary of comments from discussion table 3 - facilitator, Brenda Bernards
- Summary of comments from discussion table 4 - facilitator, Tifinie Adams
- Summary of comments from discussion table 5 - facilitator, Jennifer Carlat
- Summary of comments from discussion table 6 - facilitator, Greg Johnson
- Summary of comments from discussion table 7 - facilitator, Hilary Kahnle
- Summary of comments from discussion table 8 - facilitator, Toks Omishakin
- Summary of comments from discussion table 9 - facilitator, Cindy Wood
- Summary of comments from discussion table 10 - facilitator, Scott Adams