Save Wears Valley

A panoramic view of beautiful Wears Valley

What you can do to save these mountains!

1. Show your support. Place a yard sign in your yard. Put a bumper sticker on your vehicle. Wear a T- Shirt.

2. Write your elected officials. Tell them that you support regulations to protect mountains and hillsides. Tell them that unregulated urban sprawl must be stopped. Call your elected officials after you have written them. Tell them that you want them to support regulations and that you will not support them if they don’t support protecting our mountains.

3. Write your local media organizations. Tell them that you are going to demand that your local officials protect our natural resources.

4. Tell your friends to save these mountains. They live in the mountains, too. They don’t want to see them destroyed, either.

5. Organize your neighbors, friends and business associates. Plan meetings to get them involved.

6. Support The Friends of Wears Valley by offering your services, your time or your money.

7. Attend every commission meeting and every planning commission meeting if you’re able.

if you have any ideas or can offer support.

We need any assistance you can provide to keep our issue – Protecting the beauty of our mountain environment in the forefront.

When you meet candidates for office ask their position on protecting the mountains. Ask them if current levels of development are acceptable. Get them to commit to their decision. There are only 2 choices: protect the mountains or not.

If you are concerned about protecting the beauty of the mountains, please contact the following individuals and tell them to enact guidelines to protect the mountains.

For valuable information on saving these mountains, please read the current issue of the Friends of Wears Valley Newsletter:FOWV Newsletter

Here is a letter from John Meyers to Mayor Waters on an importsnt issue.

Mayor Waters,

Here is a link to a program that could be of great benefit to Sevier County. I understand that Sevier County participated in the pilot evaluation but pulled out after the initial assessment score was under 10 on a scale of 1 to 100. Why did Sevier County elect not to participate in this program?
Southeast Water Forum

I spoke with Jane Fowler (a trainer with the TGRP) a while back and she expressed a great deal of interest in working with Sevier County. Greene County and several of their municipalities are participating in the project at this time.

I would hope that you would be excited to participate in such a project. It appears that these fine folks can help us address our growth issues. If nothing else, they can provide another perspective to shape our discussion.

Perhaps they could save our taxpayers $60,000 in funds which have been earmarked to go to a consulting firm in NY? I understand that the cost of the TGRP is free.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to take the lead on this and create a program that can serve a a benchmark for other communities to emulate?

I would appreciate your thoughts on this program.

Sincerely,

John Meyers

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