East TN Conservative

Get in your car this week drive to Lynn Garden. Take a gander at what the city does for its roads, how it helps small business. The city destroyed this once great community. Local small businesses are closing shop, crime rate up. This is annexation a community closest to the center of Kingsport has been long forgotten. Now MeadowView is the center of Kingsport. It's where all tax money flows after all. Drive across the Lynn Garden Stone drive bridge. Drive in the center or the roads will shred your tires. I know most go through here on the way to VA to buy food so the next time open your eyes a bit and look around. Drive through the neighborhoods

Wondering

Jun 12, 2008

"Just when will the promised sidewalks show up in Lynn Garden? It has been 20 years since annexation, they are long past due. This is the way that Kingsport and any other city that forces annexation works. They make all kinds of promises that they have no intention of keeping just to get more tax money!"

We have lost a School, post office, hardware store, and Grocery store. Most importantly we lose the community.

Dale St. John

"I lived in Lynn Garden when the annexation took place there. All it does is divide a community, hurt the schools and cause bad feelings from which it never fully recovers. The thing that makes me boil is that one of the leading proponents of the drive to annex did not live in Lynn Garden. This person managed a business there. He is long gone,not living in Kingsport or dealing with any of this.He was a good man, but either did not understand the consequences or did not care. Oh, at first you did not have to tap on to the sewer, but when they dynamited to install the lines, it messed the septic systems up and you then had to get the city sewer any way or shell out to fix your the damage it caused your own. What has happened to Lynn Garden since? Just look at some the stories of businesses that have closed. Annexation like this causes bad feelings among people who were neighbors for years, which leads to loss of community. It lost its identity and the residents have never felt they are a part of Kingsport and probably never will. This is what annexation caused and has never found a cure for, which is evidenced by closing of schools, low enrollment for existing schools and in many cases the loss of local businesses."

I will be interviewing local businesses soon about this. Get their take on what the city means to them and how it has works for the Lynn Garden community.

Also a report on how the City swayed someone not to move to Lynn Garden.