What Overton and Shelby Farms Parks tell us about Tom Lee Park project
Tom Jones is principal at Smart City Consulting in Memphis. Disagreements about parks and local highways form two important and heroic chapters in the history of Memphis, but that’s because the right decisions were made – in favor of parks. One involved Overton Park and it produced a landmark Supreme Court ruling that protected the historic park from the devastating impact of a six-lane expressway. Another related to Shelby Farms Park and it was the Kirby/Whitten Parkway project originally planned as a six-lane highway. Memphis now faces a decision on another that can devastate the pot...
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