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This is NOT the will of STJOHNS Church. This comes...

2011-11-22T10:53:02.551-05:00

This is NOT the will of STJOHNS Church. This comes from a VERY dictatorial DEAN .STJOHNS parishioners are not allowed to vote on ANYTHING!! They are TOLD what has already happened!
I would say most Parishioners do not even know this is happening!
Please continue to oppose this
outrageous move!

i absolutely LOVE your blog! so great!

2011-10-27T17:14:05.933-04:00

i absolutely LOVE your blog! so great!

I'm an Episcopalian in maryville, so I don'...

2011-10-23T06:43:37.984-04:00

I'm an Episcopalian in maryville, so I don't attend St. Johns and was not familiar with the issue until I read this post.

I would question the leadership of St. John's as to their priorities are in improving it's community: serving it's beauty, heritage, and human-scale livability or meeting a complaint about parking inconvenience.

I've been all over Knox Heritage, don't wo...

2011-10-20T18:11:20.941-04:00

I've been all over Knox Heritage, don't worry about that. They are aware and on it as well.

I read that as well, would be interesting to know ...

2011-10-20T16:22:43.750-04:00

I read that as well, would be interesting to know if that's true...can't hurt to try I suppose.

Would Knox Heritage be another one worth contacting or are they more involved in single family housing type stuff?

I still don't understand the motivation behind all these demolitions. How does one profit off of such a thing?

Someone has posted on Flory's blog that the Ha...

2011-10-20T15:53:24.048-04:00

Someone has posted on Flory's blog that the Haslams belong to this church. I don't know if that is true. If someone could verify that, perhaps appealing to the Haslams would be in order.

I noticed Kim Henry's email was not working an...

2011-10-20T10:09:59.528-04:00

I noticed Kim Henry's email was not working and I looked for another, but couldn't find anything. It was actually very difficult to find any of the contact information for the board members. I did get an email back from John Sanders of Sanders Pace Architecture and he said "Thank you Andrea for this email. We take this very seriously and I agree with your points entirely." So that is promising.

I sent the design review board my best diatribe. O...

2011-10-20T10:07:20.754-04:00

I sent the design review board my best diatribe. One item of note, the email address for Kim Henry (chair person) seems to be out of service. Does anyone have an updated address?I will be posting this same message on Knox Heritage's Facebook page.

This must be stopped!

Wow. Thanks for bringing this up. It is the first ...

2011-10-20T09:35:16.480-04:00

Wow. Thanks for bringing this up. It is the first I have heard of it.

Hard to believe that this is even being considered in the year 2011. There's so little of our downtown left in tact that this would be a huge loss. Sending them an email right now.

thanks andrea, I updated that link.

2011-10-19T19:08:27.830-04:00

thanks andrea, I updated that link.

Also, that link to the Design Review Board doesn&#...

2011-10-19T18:55:57.738-04:00

Also, that link to the Design Review Board doesn't have contact information but this one does: http://www.knoxmpc.org/zoning/downtown_members.htm

Thanks for speaking out about this! I wrote to th...

2011-10-19T18:53:52.978-04:00

Thanks for speaking out about this! I wrote to the church and to the design review board earlier today. So furious that this church is considering this course of action! They need to be flooded with angry and irate emails.