I applaud CAPPE's efforts.

I am understand not wanting "Pellissippi" completed through all of the beautiful farm land. I am curious though as to what alternatives CAPPE is putting forth to either 1) stop the growth in the areas to be made safely accessible by "Pellissippi" or 2) to provide input for better accessibility on current roads to the growth areas.

Managed growth is critical. Blount County growth is barely being managed and something needs to be done before it is too late.

Thanks for spreading the word about these events. We'll be circulating more details about CAPPE's 6th Annual Rural Preservation Party & Auction in a month or so.
In response to bizgrrl's question, CAPPE has developed a series of concrete proposals for addressing transportation challenges in Blount County. We contracted with a transportation engineer from a national firm to help us look at Blount County's road system, traffic, growth patterns, and plans from the TPO and TDOT. We presented our proposals in July 2006 to TDOT for consideration in both the EIS currently underway on the Pellissippi Parkway Extension and for incorporation into TDOT's annual and long-range planning. We've also displayed these proposals at CAPPE meetings over the past year. CAPPE has not yet put these proposals into a format that can be easily distributed, but we are planning to do so.
As for what CAPPE proposes regarding growth -- the managed growth issue, which is of course relevant to transportation planning, is outside CAPPE's mission. What this means is that we do not make formal proposals about growth management. It's important to acknowledge that the PPE has never been proposed as a way to handle growth in the northeastern part of the County -- the original rationale was to improve access to the GSMNP -- but there is no doubt among either advocates or opponents that the PPE would make rapid growth there more likely. And the PPE would do nothing to relieve the road and traffic issues already identified by our Highway Department and the TPO. This is why CAPPE committed the resources donated by our members to retain expert counsel and develop alternatives.
Nina Gregg for CAPPE

Yes, it would be entered as two separate events. An accompanying blog post like this with more background/detail is fine, too.

When you post an event, the event details and description are posted on the front page similar to a blog entry. I can make it not do that if you prefer, but then people might not notice it.

I went ahead and created events for the calendar. For those in the know, it would be helpful for others to:

know the location of the Kelmont Farm Barnyard, and

have links to CAPPE or other organizations related to this cause.

I didn't see that calendar option. Here's a link to the CAPPE webpage: (link...)

And the address of the event: Kelmont Barnyard, 1565 East Brown School Road.