Amending the Plan – Kingston Pike subarea including the Boring Road Corridor

The Comprehensive Land Use Plan (the Plan) steering committee is continuing their work to update the Plan and future land use map (the Map) in the Plan. This work started in 2017.  With things settling down and finding a new “normal” with COVID, the steering committee and Town staff were able to find a new path forward to host public workshops and continue gathering public input. 

The steering committee has chosen the Kingston Pike subarea which includes the Boring Road corridor to be updated next due to the activity in that area in recent years. Specifically, the approval and construction of the senior living community by the new Ingles, the rehabilitation of the old Ingles building, the subdivision of property along Boring Road into estate sized lots and two rezoning requests from single family residential to multifamily behind the old Ingles which were met with overwhelming community opposition.

 WORKSHOP PURPOSE

The purpose of this workshop is for the residents of Farragut and particularly the residents who live in this area to review this subarea and provide their input about what they would like to see here if the property owners decide to develop their land. With one caveat, all the property in the study area is privately owned and the property owners have constitutionally protected private property rights to develop their property as it is currently zoned.

The public workshop is on Monday November 15th at Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive in the community room, if you enter from the front doors, the community room is on your right through the double doors (the room where voting happens). This workshop is offered in a drop in format, show up anytime between 4pm and 8 pm. 

BACKGROUND

An aerial view of the Kingston Pike subarea including the Boring Road corridor is shown below.  As you can see from this view, there is an extensive area of undeveloped property throughout this area which is the primary focus of this update.



The zoning map for the Kingston Pike subarea is shown below.  



You’ll note that some of the undeveloped land is zoned for general commercial use (C-1).  Most of the undeveloped land is zoned for a variety of residential uses with the exception of property that is zoned Buffer (B-1).  Land zoned B-1 provides a natural area of plants and trees which serve as a buffer between lower and higher intensity uses.  The table below briefly outlines the various residential zoning districts that exist in this subarea.

 

Zoning District

Permitted Residential Use

Minimum lot size/density

R-1 – Rural Single Family

Single Family Detached

Minimum lot size 20,000 sq. ft.

R-2 – General Single Family

Single Family Detached

Minimum lot size 15,000 sq. ft.

R-3 – Small Lot Single Family

Single Family Detached

Minimum lot size 8,500 sq. ft.

R-4 – Attached Single Family

Single Family Attached

Up to 6 units/acre

For reference, Weatherly Hills and portions of Fox Run are zoned R-1; Village Green, Country Manor, Country Way and Fox Den are zoned R-2; Baldwin Park is zoned R-3; and Waverly Court is zoned R-4.

WORKSHOP SPECIFICS

Because the Kingston Pike subarea is so large with very different types of development around the undeveloped parcels, it will be divided up into 4 sections with a station for each section.  Each station will include visual preference boards to assist residents in visualizing and providing input on their preferences regarding transitional areas, building scale, building type and building placement.

Station A will focus on the area around NHC on Kingston Pike and the undeveloped land between Kingston Pike and South Fox Den Drive.


Station B will focus on the area behind the Ingles property and east of Village Commons Boulevard.



Station C will focus on the land between Baldwin Park and Waverly Court and the land across the Boring Road which is between Boring Road and East Fox Den Drive.



Station D will focus on the large parcels of land surrounded by Village Green, Country Manor and Country Way.






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