The Bend’s long-running defense and celebration: the “Dump the Dumps” campaign, 350+ acres under Land Trust for Tennessee easements, the annual Ring the Bell Dinner, and the “Friend of the Bend” newsletter.
Sulphur Creek Farm (Bells Bend Neighborhood Farms)
Old School Farm
Lewis Country Store
Bells Bend Conservation Corridor
Bells Bend large-parcel holdings
Why we watch Bells Bend has beaten outsized projects before — the Spicewood landfill proposal, Bells Landing (2006), May Town Center (2009). The district’s “no” was always selective: residents co-wrote a Detailed Design Plan with Metro Planning in 2007–08 that says what yes should look like. When the county’s largest supply of big parcels meets […]
12,000+ years ago — People choose this land. Bells Bend holds 60+ re
People choose this land. Bells Bend holds 60+ recorded archaeological sites — the county’s richest archaeological landscape.
1990s — Bells Bend residents defeat the Spicewood landfi
Bells Bend residents defeat the Spicewood landfill proposal — the “garbage pyramid” fight, with its tractor parade and roughly 30 arrests — ending in a TDEC unsuitability ruling. Metro later purchases the land; it opens as Bells Bend Park in 2007.
2006–2009 — Bells Landing (835 acres) is defeated in 2006; r
Bells Landing (835 acres) is defeated in 2006; residents co-write the Detailed Design Plan with Metro Planning in 2007–08; the 4,000-acre May Town Center proposal is defeated in 2009. Saying no to the wrong thing is how you save room for the right one.