Lawsuit seeks to declare City Council’s Greensward … The lawsuit urged the court to find the City Council in violation of the Tennessee Open Meetings Act
Council gives Memphis Zoo control of Greensward for … The Zoo can use the Greensward, but mediation will continue between the Zoo and Overton Park
Police respond to protestors trying to stop zoo parking … It’s not clear if the protestors will be forced to move from the area under control by the zoo
Overton Park Conservancy holds second public meeting There’s a lot of controversy over who controls the Greensward; Overton Park or the Memphis Zoo?
City adds bike lanes, parking space on North Parkway The plan has been in the works awhile but, nonetheless, caught some folks by surprise.
Amid parking, bike lane changes are new sidewalks … The city recently added on-street parking space and bike lanes on North Parkway from the Vollintine Evergreen Greenline at Watkins to near University Street
Controversy over Greensward area in Overton Park What do the Informed Sources think is a likely solution to this situation?
Mayor meets with Zoo, Overton Park Conservancy officials … They met to discuss zoo parking in light of the zoo’s controversial removal of 27 trees from the Greensward area of Overton Park
More controversy surrounding Memphis Zoo and Overton … “We utilize that area only 60 days a year out of the calendar year and majority of the guests who park there are here on free Tennessee Tuesdays and field trip school groups. By denying access to that area, we do limit the guests who do come to the zoo,”
Mayor allows limited “greensward” parking at Memphis … MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Mayor AC Wharton gave the zoo permission to let overflow zoo traffic park on the “greensward” again, but only till the end of 2014. The city and the zoo are trying to work out parking issues after the mayor told the zoo to stop using a section of Overton Park called […]
Zoo Says Parking Controversy Could Affect 80,000 … While visitors can still enter the zoo, zoo officials said there may be nowhere to park and 80,000 people may give up and leave
