Cornelia Fort Airpark · Nashville, Tennessee
This independent community initiative offers a starting vision for the Airpark—and invites the people who use it to improve and prioritize that vision.
Preliminary and community-led—not an adopted master plan.
Why plan now?
Cornelia Fort Airpark has become an important and heavily used public landscape. Its amenities have grown incrementally—without the benefit of a comprehensive community planning process.
Create a long-term vision while identifying improvements that can begin sooner.
Existing conditions
Understanding what is already here—and what is already underway—is the starting point.
This planned project is context—not an item respondents are being asked to prioritize.
Six starting ideas
Concrete enough to react to, open enough to improve. Each is exploratory and none has been approved.
A substantially expanded place for younger and older children, designed for longer, more comfortable visits.
Comfortable places for everyday connection, family gatherings and birthday parties.
A safer, more coherent arrival without prescribing a single parking solution too early.
Flexible ways to make visits more welcoming while respecting floodplain constraints.
More active recreation for teens and adults, building from the fitness area already here.
Protect the Airpark’s ecological character while helping people experience and understand it.
Preliminary spatial framework
One promising principle is to concentrate most new physical infrastructure near the already developed roadside area while preserving the larger natural landscape.
These are broad planning zones only. Exact locations, footprints and boundaries have not been proposed.
Your experience matters
Help turn a starting vision into useful evidence about what Airpark users value most.
Your individual answers, name and email will not be published. Read the privacy notice.
From input to action
A community vision becomes useful through review, refinement and partnership.
This describes a proposed process. It does not imply current sponsorship or approval by Friends of Shelby or Metro Parks.
Field notes
Short updates will document what the community is hearing and what changes next.
The first feedback round is ready to collect priorities, current uses and ideas to preserve.