City planners said the hill at the former Kerbela Shriners site fails the same seven South Waterfront Form-Based Code requirements a neighborhood group cites against the proposed apartments.
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Market Square pigeons found to be same 40 birds since 1987
A Knoxville naturalist’s 39-year photographic record shows Market Square’s pigeon population has been the same 40 individual birds since 1987. “They don’t hatch and they don’t die. They just attend.”
Fraternity Park fence wasn’t rated for enthusiasm, UT confirms
UT says its police force can secure a sitting president more reliably than a free DJ show, after Saturday’s screened Neyland operation succeeded four days after a rented Fraternity Park fence gave way under about 10,000 people.
Man invents key that fixes plastic toothpaste tubes, resents every one he makes
Gene Wallace’s machined key rolls and locks plastic toothpaste tubes, recovering the stranded paste. He considers the invention a defeat and sells it at cost.
Knox County drapes privacy cloth over cameras it doesn’t own
Twenty-seven of the roughly 143 Flock cameras Knox County is cloth-shielding pending an Oct. 7 removal deadline turn out to have been installed by Knoxville’s own police department. The county’s Vendor Displeasure Matrix gains a seventh tier to cope.
City asks a razed neighborhood to pick from seven pre-priced futures
A city task force asks a neighborhood it razed for 1960s urban renewal to choose from seven pre-priced redevelopment options for the site. Putting back what was there isn’t one of them.
AgriCentre East signs its first document that isn’t a rendering
Knox County Commission approved a $150,000-a-year ground lease for 120 acres of AgriCentre East — the site’s first real document, after $140,000 spent just branding it.
Commission orders 140 Flock cameras removed; KCSO applies for 270 more
Knox County ordered its Flock cameras removed within 30 days. Three days earlier, the sheriff’s office asked the state for money for 270 more.
Monkey now counts as a dog, city confirms
City Council votes 7-1 to regulate monkeys with an ordinance written for dogs. “We have one number. The number is four.”
Brewery census again fails to produce a number
The Greater Knoxville brewery census has again certified a final count of “between 24 and 38, inclusive.” Two breweries have opened since the census ended.
Last known White Stores cart pulled from Third Creek
The last known White Stores shopping cart, recovered from Third Creek after roughly forty years, is headed to a museum. “I knew by the handle. You don’t forget the handle.”
City can afford one firework, Boomsday study finds
A $180,000 feasibility study on reviving Boomsday concludes the city can afford one firework — an eight-inch chrysanthemum, $340 through state contract. “Nobody specified the quantity. It’s the same sky.”
Hawk founds Little Venezuela on East Knoxville brownfield
Two weeks after losing the county mayor’s race, Beau Hawk has broken ground on Little Venezuela, raising a flag he describes as legally distinct from any national banner. “I’m older, and the optics are on purpose.”
Tennessee Valley Fair unveils AgriCentre East, currently a pasture
The fair is “thrilled to explore the next chapter of the fair experience” at AgriCentre East, a branded destination campus that is currently 120 acres of cattle pasture on Rutledge Pike.
TDOT commends drag racers’ traffic control plan
Five men charged with drag racing on I-140 executed what TDOT is calling “the smoothest lane closure Pellissippi has seen in a decade” — at midnight, with three sedans and zero barrels.