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Please click here to read the official report presented to the Appalachian Regional Commission by students from the UT Planning Program:

Hartford 2020: Envisioning a Sustainable Future for Hartford and Grassy Fork

Thanks to everyone who helped kick off Phase II of Hartford 2020 at Thursday's meeting at the Grassy Fork Volunteer Fire Department. If you'd like to see what you and your neighbors identified as your values and visions for the community during Phase I, click here. We've also posted the scenarios describing what Hartford/Grassy Fork might look like in the future.

Hartford 2020 is a partnership between the people of Cocke County, the University of Tennessee Community Partnership Center (CPC) and the UT Master of Science in Planning Program. The program is funded by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) as part of the Appalachian Teaching Project (ATP). This is the third time that UT students have worked in Cocke County during the 5 years of the ATP. To read the final reports from these projects, please click here for the 2001 and 2002 Cocke County project reports.

Beginning in September 2005, students in a graduate level Economic Analysis and Development course at UT facilitated a series of three workshops in Hartford, TN. These worskshops were designed to assist residents in identifying opportunities to build a strong and sustainable economy for the future. Hartford 2020 is not a traditional "top down" process in which experts come into a community and simply tell the people what to do. Instead, the workshops shifted the focus to residents, who examined the issues, evaluated the alternatives, and developed their own ideas for local growth. In November, students traveled to Washington, DC, to present a report on the project to the ARC.

For more details about Hartford 2020 and how you can help plan a sustainable future for Hartford and Grassy Fork, please contact Eric Ogle of the UT Community Partnership Center at 865-974-4562 or email him at eogle@utk.edu.