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Reclaim Brookmeade Park is a non-profit, non-partisan organization created to urge the Mayor and Parks to rectify the takeover of Brookemeade Park so taxpayers can enjoy this beautiful space & the individuals living there can be appropriately addressed. https://www.facebook.com/groups/300962785115685
The homeless camp continues to grow in the Walmart/Lowes area next to the Cumberland River making
it so the taxpayers from Davidson County do not feel safe to use and enjoy this beautiful space in their Nashville community. Mayor Cooper and the Continuum of Care Homelessness Planning Council should be cleaning up this area and compassionately housing and caring for the people in this camp. For the last decade, Nashville's Brookmeade Greenway along with neighboring land are being used as a homeless camp. Their numbers have been consistently and quickly growing in recent years and spilling over into surrounding areas including the Charlotte Pike exit 201 ramp, Cabot Road, River Road, Gower Road, Old Charlotte Pike and West Meade private property. While there are some people living in the camp who are not a danger to the community, this park and the area surrounding has become a hazardous and unlawful place with open fires routinely burning unattended, dead rats, dogs tied to trees, discarded needles, trash and human waste accumulating and flowing into the Cumberland River, open drug use and drug dealing and public intoxication & loitering inside and around local restaurants. It has also become a landing pad for traveling homeless as it is situated right off I-40. We, the community of West Nashville, have been repeatedly communicating our concerns with our local area Council Representatives Druffel, Rosenburg & Hausser for many, many years. We insist the city of Nashville now communicate with us and the people living in this camp their plan of caring, efficient and swift action to house and help the homeless there and return to the Davidson County citizens our beautiful park and greenway.
