BRISTOL HERALD COURIER
BRISTOL, Tenn. – Bristol officials will hold a Thursday night meeting on the city’s efforts to begin planning the future for the Fairmount neighborhood, one of the oldest in Bristol.
The June 9 meeting, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Slater Center on McDowell Street, will be the third residential meeting held by Bristol to discuss future plans for the neighborhood, which includes city landmarks like King College, the Anderson Street Bridge, First Presbyterian Church and the Norfolk Southern Corporation rail line.
Bristol officials have said the meetings will give them valuable feedback from residents on ways to change and improve the Fairmount neighborhood, which was established in 1876. They hope to have an official Fairmount Neighborhood Plan ready for Bristol’s Planning Commission to review at its June 27 meeting.
In all, some 1,100 lots in the Fairmount neighborhood – spanning from King College and the Norfolk rail line to East State Street and Oakwood Avenue – are being examined for possible changes and improvements.
According to Bristol Community Development Director Shari Brown, 71 percent of the Fairmount neighborhood consists of single-family homes, with the remaining 29 percent split among duplexes, multi-family dwellings, churches, vacant land, manufacturing sites and business areas.
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