McFee Road Land Purchase - Public Input supports It!

 Purchasing the McFee Road property provides the Farragut community with an opportunity to fulfill several community goals as expressed through public input.

The Town of Farragut seeks public input when updating various plans.  Previous public input pertinent to the purchase of the McFee Road property include the Farragut Park & Recreation Master Plan 2022-2032 and the update to the McFee Road corridor on the Future Land Use Map in 2020.

 Farragut Parks & Recreation Master Plan 2022-2032 


In the spring of 2021, the Farragut Parks & Recreation department began the update of the Parks & Recreation Master Plan.  A link to that plan can be seen at the following link: 


Farragut Parks & Recreation Master Plan 2022 - 2023

 

According to the online citizen survey, which was completed by 816 households, among the most requested outdoor facilities were hiking/running trails, natural habitat/wetland park, and interior park trails. (Results of the citizen survey can be seen on the next page or at page 135 in the following link)  Also, there is concern that we may need additional multipurpose fields in the future and currently we have no capacity to provide for additional fields.


 Parks Master Plan Citizen Survey Results

 


This map shows approximately the combined purchased and donated tracts. As you can see, more than half of the 70 acres of the combined tracts is heavily wooded.  Purchasing this land would allow this community to preserve the heavily wooded land and fulfill the requests for hiking/running trails and a natural habitat park, the remaining exposed land can be used for additional fields or other amenities per community input.



 McFee Road Corridor – Future Land Use Map update

 

In January 2020, the planning commission updated the future land use map for the McFee Road corridor based on public input received during the October 2019 public input visioning workshop. Page 88 at the following link:

MPC Update of the future land use map for the McFee Road Corridor

 

The future land use map, when adopted in 2012, included a small neighborhood commercial hub at the McFee Park roundabout.  The McFee Road residents who participated in the public input in October 2019 did not want a commercial hub.  They wanted the corridor to be exclusively residential in character and to preserve as open space as much of the remaining undeveloped land as possible.  

 


 

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