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The Hendersonville Greenways Committee is a continuation of work of The City of Hendersonville to bring to our community the wonderful benefits of Greenways. Initiated under Vision 2000 city visionaries created a Master Plan of Bike Trails and Pedestrian Walkways. With a combination of city planners, engineers, and volunteers, they carried on that work in the 2003 Bike and Pedestrian Review Committee.
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Envision the Future
It’s the year 2020, children
across
That vision is the statement of the Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation. It’s the theme of our sub-committee of the Hendersonville Tomorrow Committee.
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Invite you to join our work with your ideas, suggestions, or even more important participation.
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We maintain a Web Site (BikinHville.homestead.com) and this Mail List in order to keep our neighbors informed of Walking and Biking activities in our community and of our committee’s programs to promote greenways in Hendersonville.
The Mail List for this newsletter is by subscription only. Doug Depew is the moderator. You may contact him regarding your subscription or to subscribe interested friends. If you haven’t lost your password from your subscription notice, you can view others on the list and change how the Mail Manager handles your subscription. |
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Committee Updates 2000 Master Plan
The Committee is in the progress of relocating walking and bike trails, revising the 2000 Master Plan. Timothy Whitten says,
Remember, if an element is not shown on the Bicycle/Pedestrian Master Plan, your chances of getting the Planning Commission to go along in requiring the developer to install that element is greatly reduced.
Our
working map is on display at The
Biker’s Choice. David Hardin has taken the
lead to collect everyone’s input. Please take time to visit the bike
shop. We intend to move copies of this plan to public locations, such as the YMCA,
the
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Public Works Seeks Bids for Trails
Director Jerry Horton said in Star News Article that city is reviewing bids to install Phase II of City Walking Path Plan. In an article on the same front page
Historic home may be greenway visitor’s center
Indicates the level of greenway activity in
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DRAFT of Vision 2020 Plan Submitted
On behalf
of our sub-committee Tom Evans has circulated to committee and
advisors the first draft of our report to the Hender-sonville Tomorrow Committee. We have also posted a copy on
our Web Site. The final report is due on
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Bicycle Safety Manual in Preparation
The Greenways Committee has prepared a Bicycle Safety Man-ual. We have placed a copy on our Web Site. Feel free to down-load and use this copy.
We are now looking for funding for printing so we can distribute complementary copies to school children and to interest adults who are still school children at heart. |
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Planning Commission Working Sessions
In January our committee met at City Hall with Jerry Horton, Lisa Milligan, and Tim Whitten to review the Durham Farm Project. At the work session of the Hendersonville Planning Commission on the 3’rd Tuesday David Hardin presented our summary.
In
preparation for February meeting Tim Whitten has provided
copies of development plats for Saundersville
Station and
Frank Bowyer and David Hardin (our technical experts) will present their review in this working session, which are open to the public (hint).
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Essay Contest
May is
national bicycle month. Cathy Haley is planning an essay
contest for our school children to describe how greenways would benefit
She just started her process of formulating the contest rules, selec-ting judges, and contacting our education leaders. We will place the details of her contest on our Web Site. She would appreciate help. Please send your e-mail to help to bikinhville@evanscenter.com .
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Our main project, a combination of interconnecting greenways consisting of the Sumner Point Greenway, the Drake’s Creek Greenway, the Durham Farm Greenway, and the Indian Lake Village Greenway provides a fantastic complex of multi-use paths to all our major community centers. It connects to similar trail systems in the county and neighboring communities.
We have sketched it in our Vision 2020 report. Jerry Horton is seeking bids on the critical southern leg of the Drake’s Creek Greenway. Gary Sylvester is leading our effort to get a tunnel under New Shackle at the eastern end of Sumner Point Greenway and Tim Whitten added in the Durham Farm plans the connector to Long Hollow Pike.
Please visit of Web Site for updates.
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City Bike Routes and Rides
We have
placed copies of the bike routes on the city Master Plan and
have links to county routes. Almost every weekend a road ride approximately
30 miles in length leaves from
For the rest of us, we are planning “townie rides” in the Spring to introduce bikers to far less challenging city routes on the Master Plan. These casual rides are targeted for our young and our senior advocates who want to get some light and relaxing exercise. The length of the ride will depend on you. Our trail head will be at one of the City Parks.
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