Farragut FYI

Future Land Use Map - 2023 Note: This article was originally posted in February 2022. It has been updated to reflect recent activity. The Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) was adopted in 2012 to update the previous land use plan.  The planning commission relies on this plan when making land use decisions.  The future land use map which was originally adopted by the FMPC in 2012 is below. In 2017, at my request, a steering committee was established to review the plan.  Several key corridors on the land use map (updated version is at the top of the post)  were chosen for review and a process was established to gather public input for map updates.    A few key amendments have  lowered the density and/or land use intensity on the map. Reduced the medium density designation from 6-12 units/acre to 6-8 units/acre which instantaneously eliminated higher density use in areas designated medium density  Established a high density designation. Since noth...

Ivey Farms is a partially completed master planned neighborhood with one main entrance. Knox County Schools considered the remaining open space in Ivey Farms neighborhood as a possible location for a new high student capacity school. A school built in the existing open space in Ivey Farms would be accessed through Ivey Farms Road, an internal neighborhood street which was not constructed to support a high student capacity school. Construction of a separate access road to the school that would be separate from Ivey Farms Road, if possible at all, would be destructive to the Ivey Farms neighborhood, not to mention extremely costly. A question to ponder: Is there anyone in this community who would want to share the access in and out of their own neighborhood with a high student capacity school? Ivey Farms neighborhood is NOT an appropriate location to construct a high student capacity school.