Crieve Hall in the News

The Crieve Hall Neighborhood Association was formed in 2004. In June of that year the Metro council had purposed several road connectors into the Crieve Hall neighborhood as a way of directing thru traffic.

Many neighbors were opposed to the idea but were unaware of the meeting, which if conducted unopposed could have meant the plans could have been carried out.

Several volunteers distributed flyers on every mailbox in the neighborhood announcing the meeting time and date. The meeting attendance exceeded an estimated 1000 with the vast majority squarely opposed to the plan. On the heels of that meeting several neighbors met over the following months understanding that there was a need to have a representative body for our neighbrhood and formed the Crieve Hall Neighborhood Association. The CHNA had it's first official election and meeting October 14, 2004.

At that meeting the New Board defined the boundries and bylaws and discussed rezoning the neighborhood. The proposal was to restrict classification from R-20 and R-40 to RS( single Family) in order to keep developers from wholesale building and changing the character of the neighborhood. The Board met every two weeks for months after that discussing the issue and collecting petition signatures. The hard work paid off in June of 2005 when the council approved the proposal.

Crieve Hall originally set it's boundries so as not to interfere with other existing Neighborhood Associations around us. Many people who consider themselves living in the Crieve Hall area live outside the adopted boundries set forth in the CHNA by-laws and would identify themselves as living in Crieve Hall. There are 2000 homes included in the boundries for the CHNA which extends from Blackman Road to the North, Ellington Agricultural and Seven Mile Creek to the East, Broadwell and Baxter to the South and the Railroad to the West.

The following are additional accomplishments from the time of inception of the CHNA.

2008 CHNA Accomplishments

-February 7, New CHNA website launched

Joe Gamelspracher, Paul Martin, Ron Ream, CHNA Board

-CERT grant arrives 02-18-08

State Senator Jack Johnson

-CERT grant arrives 02-19-08

State Representative Janis Sontany

2007 CHNA Accomplishments

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-CERT Community Emergency Response Team Program started

Don Barker, Ron Ream, Scott Harris, CHNA Board

•-Mayors Neighborhood Competition 1st Place $7500

Pam Simmons, The Social Committee, CERT team

•-Completed Help Helen Project

Jack and Rose Willeford, CHNA Board tons of neighbors and volunteers

•-Neighborhood Clean-up-Major Success

Ron Pinkleton, CHNA Board, Social Committee

•-One year sponsor First Tennessee Bank

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Ron Pinkleton, Pam Simmons

-Crieve Hall Neighborhood sign-installed

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District Representative Greg Adkins

-Grant Application CERT Approved

State Representative Janis Sontany, State Senator Jack Johnson

- National Night Out Against Crime-record attendance at the neighborhood cookout 600

Ron Pinkleton, Rita Randolph, Betsy Fisher, Social Committee, CHNA Board,

Tommy's

Previous Years Accomplishments -CHNA Formed Oct 2004

October 14, 2004 CHNA Election

•-CHNA Website established Oct 2004

Andy Flatt, Paul Martin

-CHNA Re-zone neighborhood campaign started Oct 2004

CHNA Officers and Board and 1000 petition signatures from neighbors

•-Committees Formed May 2005

several committees formed

•-Neighborhood Rezone approved by Metro June 2005

Metro Council vote 29 to 1 to approve

•-Neighborhood Watch re-established 2005

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Don Barker

-National Night Out Against Crime first outing Aug 2005

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Rita Randolph, Patricia Cantrell, Ron Ream, THE Social Committee

-News Letter established 2006

Pam Simmons, Patricia Cantrell, Rita Randolph

Crieve Hall Neighborhood Association

Nashville, Tennessee