Cedar Hill Vice Mayor/Residents Petition 103 Acre Buzzard Creek Housing Improvement
ROBERTSON COUNTY TENNESSEE: (Smokey Barn Information) – A proposed rezoning of a bit of agricultural farmland in Robertson County has drawn criticism from Cedar Hill’s Vice Mayor and 855 space residents have signed a web based petition towards it.
Cedar Hill Metropolis Commissioner/ Vice Mayor John Edwards informed Smokey Barn Information he’s towards the venture.
“Just lately, it was dropped at my consideration that there was a proposed Rezoning of agricultural farmland to R20/R40 residential for 103.94 acres in Cedar Hill, between Buzzard Creek and Bartlett Highway,” Edwards mentioned in a letter to Smokey Barn Information on Friday. “Early discussions revealed that the tip sport was to develop the land and doubtlessly construct 175 homes on the 103.95 acres. As a Metropolis Commissioner and Vice Mayor for the town of Cedar Hill, I vehemently oppose the rezoning and improvement of this property. Close by property house owners, neighbors, and people in close by communities staunchly oppose this as effectively. I imagine that landowners which have bought property ought to have the flexibility to construct on mentioned property, but in addition really feel that; now greater than ever, that landowners have to respect the sacrifices and investments that others have made in surrounding properties and the neighborhood itself.
“Cedar Hill and its close by neighbors in Adams and Barren Plains take nice satisfaction of their rural heritage that has been carved out and cultivated via generations of farmers, cattlemen, and landowners. These fields don’t simply maintain crops, cattle, or openness, they maintain our id as a neighborhood and county. This land and our space are extremely wanted because of the lovely farmland and panorama that appears to roll via the horizon. We’re beginning to see a special horizon throughout our county although and the rolling acres are being changed by high-density housing, subdivisions, and expansive improvement. We’re promoting out our neighborhood’s soul for a greenback that’s disguised as improvement.
“These rural views that we’ve come to like and be acknowledged by might very effectively be gone by the point the subsequent technology enters into this world. Our neighborhood and county will appear like the encircling cities and counties that selected unchecked and irresponsible progress over our land and heritage if we proceed upon the trail we’ve mistakenly stumbled upon. It might be a real instance for amount over high quality and mega housing over heritage.
“This proposed rezoning and improvement would profit the few and damage the numerous. 175 homes would carry a mean of two vehicles per home, which might equate to over 350 extra autos on our native freeway and sharing our slim and winding nation roads with our many farmers and their tools. Roads must be widened which might additional lower into farmland and cut back yields for farms located on the widened roads. Moreover, pace limits would have to be diminished and a necessity for additional visitors controls equivalent to pink lights will surely be mandatory to assist with the movement of visitors in such a tightly located space.
“In relationship to what the event would usher in autos, it could be most felt by the inhabitants growth that might happen with simply that improvement. The common variety of residents per home in Tennessee involves a really conservative common of round 2.5. At a minimal, it could carry practically 438 new of us into our neighborhood of 350. I might guess that the common would exceed the two.5 determine and will triple the inhabitants with simply this proposed improvement. This inhabitants would carry extra households to our space, which would come with youngsters. That a lot of a rise would overwhelm our elementary and center/highschool and convey in regards to the want for portables and improve the general charges of scholars per instructor, which might cut back our instructor’s effectiveness in offering a high quality and healthful schooling to our youngsters on this neighborhood. Will we cope with these points sooner or later? As time goes by, nearly definitely. Nevertheless, such a improvement in our close to future would carry this eventual have to a virtually speedy disaster.
“The opposition to this improvement is mirrored by the present 855 signatures from residents in our close by communities that oppose this proposed rezoning and improvement and the numerous others. Residents in our cities, communities, and the county need to be heard and so they need to assist information the expansion of the areas we name house and the place our youngsters and our youngsters’s youngsters might name house. It’s with all of the elements talked about above and the belief that was bestowed into me by the residents that stay inside the metropolis limits of Cedar Hill that I ask for our Zoning and Planning, and our County Commissioners to characterize those that bestowed that very same belief in you to characterize them. We had been elected by the entire and never the few and I pray that we at all times preserve that in thoughts as characterize what’s greatest for the neighborhood and its future. All of these items are expressed respectfully and I hope that each one our residents who oppose this get the identical alternative to precise the identical frequent considerations that I’ve touched on above.”
Sincerely,
John Edwards
Metropolis Commissioner/ Vice Mayor
Metropolis of Cedar Hill
The rezoning proposal might be mentioned within the upcoming Robertson County Planning & Zoning assembly to be held on March 4, 2021, at 7 pm.
