Welcome to the Memphis Regional Design Center
The Midtown Plan
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The Memphis Regional Design Center in conjunction with the Memphis & Shelby County Division of Planning and Development, the Midtown Memphis Development Corporation and the Cooper Young Development Corporation is pleased to announce the launch of efforts to develop a plan for the future of Midtown Memphis. The Midtown Plan will include an overlay district that will cover areas of Midtown that are not currently covered by the Medical District Overlay or the various Historic District overlays indicated on the map above. The yellow areas with a red boarder indicate areas of Midtown that will be studied in the coming months to develop guidelines that will help direct redevelopment in the area. While providing specific design requirements that will ensure that proper development is occuring in Midtown, the plan will also give developers some predictability, increasing the vitality and economic stability of the area.
Please be sure to sign up for the MRDC mailing list by clicking on the Constant Contact icon on the left so you can be notified of additional public meetings where various parts of the plan will be discussed.
The Midtown Overlay will be similar in nature to the Medical District Overlay and the University District Overlay. The study will include a review of the Heart of the Arts Redevelopment Study done in 2005. Click below for downloads of these documents:
Unified Development Code (up for adoption Spring 2010)
Medical District Overlay (adopted 2/15/07)
University District Overlay (adopted 7/7/09)
For more information, please email Chooch Pickard
cpickard@mrdcinfo.org