2025 5 12 Work Session Packet 1

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Would you like the Advisory Committee members to go to different groups/non-profit 
meetings and distribute the questionaries?  Attend the School system meetings and make 
sure that all families know how they can answer these questions.  Have Bi-lingual 
options. 
• We thought the survey was too long.  What if the first 15 questions have the most 
important information for the City Council, then on the screen ask, “can you answer 
15 more questions?” 
• We all felt that we want to get all the information needed for 1 to3 to 5-year plans. 
 
Special points: 
•  Only City of Athens residents answer the questions. 
 
• All of the Parks should be updated— have specific questions for each park and a plan for 
each park. 
Cook Park                                   Market Park 
Eco Park Prof Powers/ aka Knox Park 
Eureka Trail Regional Park                            
Fisher Field Veteran’s Park                          
Heritage Park                             
Ingleside Park                            
                                
• Several committee members made the statement that we currently have a great EDA 
team that focuses on industry.  We need to have more housing options, middle 
management jobs, restaurants— not more “fast food”.   Athens needs to have a 5-year 
plan, how do you want the neighborhoods to grow--- what about zoning—we do  not 
want to end up looking like other cities that have grown without a plan.    
 
• We need a plan that brings people to Athens that want to live here, not just work here—
yet feel they need to live in Cleveland, Lenoir City or Loudon. 
 
This committee is 100% for this project.  We want to help with questions and distribution of 
this questionnaire. 
 
We will wait to see how much this will cost and how we can help. 
 
Thank you for this opportunity! 
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