Perhaps you are underestimating the effort that went into growing those. 

Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.

What is your neighborhood problem that Pinkston is helping you with but not fixing? Noise?

Noise is the biggest problem our heighborhood is having w/ Court South, but I don't see it is Pinkston's job to fix.  The noise statutes are weak and the enforcement mechanisms have "issues" beyond the jurisdiction of county commission.  One is that the previous owner of CS had a customized state law snuck in by our state legislators to give only his swimming pool the right to generate more noise than any home or other business!

It was for a while frustrating to me too that our commissioners can't fire silver bullets to fix these things, but it's a long legacy that our region is very business friendly and low on regulation.  These characteristics, especially the latter, appeal to many residents (the GOP small governance BS), until they're in the position you and I are in.

Perhaps this system of governance is largely a product of a lot of "nice" GOBs like Pinkston and the state legislators who did the dirty work of CS's previous owner, but on some larger level they were only put there by the sheeple of East Tenn.  I would argue that politicians like Jimmy Duncan are every bit as responsible for the sorry governance that we have, just at the federal level.  He's very "nice" too, but why has he ignored so many problems like our sorry "edjucashun" system, TVA's pollution, and the Smoky Mountains funding backlogs for so many years?

In our case, I'd love to detail our neighborhood's frustrations w/ Court South (it would be a LONG post), but it's still an unresolved issue that we're going to have to deal with again before next pool season, so I don't want to jeopardize our negotiating position.  But we had to oppose Court South throughout much of this summer in front of two commission boards.  Pinkston sided with our neighborhood, had the support of most of the commission with him/us, and he tried to force Court South to negotiate with us to our satisfaction right in the midst of one of the board meetings.  But CS chose to punt by withdrawing their request, which was for a beer permit at their pool.  So our problem was just Court South.  They weren't willing to compromise in any way.

If Pinkston went out on a limb for this contract, his credibility should be on the line and that ought to be his incentive to help you.  We found he is accessible and if you state your concerns, maybe he would tell you something that you could hold him to, or he should refer to you to someone who will address the contract.  There are other county offices you could call and raise some cane (cordially, of course).  It seems like you might just have to go down the list and find whose feet need to be held to the fire.  Have you tried Office of Parks and Recreation, Office of Neighborhoods, or the Law Director?