MTSU Community Invited To North Highland Study

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The MTSU community is invited to join downtown-area property owners, residents, interested stakeholders and the general public for a “visioning workshop” for the North Highland Avenue Planning Study,  Monday, July 11, at Patterson Park Community Center.

The workshop will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. in meeting rooms A and B at the community center, which is located at 521 Mercury Blvd.

According to a city news release, the workshop’s purpose is to hear what citizens and stakeholders want in the study area, which includes an area near downtown Murfreesboro that extends north of the Public Square from East Clark Boulevard and North Highland Avenue south to College Street, then east along Lytle Street from Northwest Broad Street to Middle Tennessee Boulevard at the MTSU campus.

Attendees will work together in small groups at tables with planning professionals to discuss ideas, wants and needs for the study area, the release states. City leaders will incorporate the workshop’s suggestions into the study’s results, which will include a future land-use plan, a development scenario, potential infrastructure improvements and market recommendations.

“Having a visioning work session like this helps stakeholders really dig into what can be possible in the study area, which includes two very important streets — Highland and Lytle — between downtown Murfreesboro and Middle Tennessee State University,” principal city planner Matthew Blomeley, who is serving as lead planner for this project, said in the release.

Paula Mansfield, the new director of strategic partnerships at MTSU, is strongly encouraging input from the campus community, which she said she believes “is vital to the planning process.”

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