Memphis 3.0
nounced last month plans to launch a Community Catalyst Fund, a dedicated, renewing source of money that will be used to make infrastructure improvements to the anchors outlined in Memphis 3.0.
The anchors are characterized in the plan by their abilities to sustain, accelerate and nurture growth and change around them. The Cooperyoung neighborhood is, for instance, identified as a “sustain” anchor in the plan.
A public comment period on the plan ran from when it was publicly released Dec. 18, through last week.
“What we’re bringing here today is shaped and shifted by those comments,” said John Zeanah, director for the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development.
“I think 3.0 gives our neighborhoods more safeguards,” said Evergreen Historic District Association president Sam Goff. “I am drinking the Kool-aid on this.”
During the planning process for projects, staff would analyze whether projects align with the priorities for specific neighborhoods, as set out in Memphis 3.0. But first, the plan needs approval from the Memphis City Council.
As it continues through that process, Atwater who attended Thursday’s meeting with a group of concerned citizens who urged a vote against Memphis 3.0, said her group’s fight is just beginning.
Jamie Munkscan be reached at jamie.munks@commercialappeal.com. Follow her on Twitter @journo_jamie_.