RE: Rezoning: Cedar Hill Vice Mayor: Don’t Simply Hear; Pay attention To Our Considerations
CEDAR HILL TENNESSEE: (Smokey Barn Information) – Cedar Hill’s Metropolis Commissioner/ Vice Mayor John Edwards is as soon as once more expressing his issues over the proposed rezoning of a piece of agricultural farmland in Robertson County.
In accordance with Edwards, the reasoning of the proposed website will push the house density too excessive for the group, see map under. In a letter to Smokey Barn Information, Edwards addresses his issues for the housing challenge.
“During the last month, the small group of Cedar Hill has spoken clearly and loudly, asking the builders of 100+ acre property not merely to listen to us however to hearken to the issues of the group. These issues are proven by the group’s outpouring of opposition to the event and by the overwhelming variety of indicators across the space and down predominant roads as an example the truth that this isn’t the kind of progress our group needs or wants.
“During the last a number of years we’ve seen unimaginable progress and growth all throughout our county. I view progress as a optimistic to our county and I’m excited to see additional accountable progress all through our county. Cedar Hill just isn’t immune from this progress and we’re real looking about that truth. The problem may be very easy and isn’t sophisticated. We’re for accountable progress and the form of progress that doesn’t burden our group with a inhabitants increase, visitors delays, and stressing of infrastructure.
“169 houses has the potential so as to add over 5 hundred further vehicles to our group and our metropolis. This single growth may result in a greater than 140% enhance within the inhabitants in comparison with the present inhabitants within the metropolis of Cedar Hill. Much more regarding is the truth that the current visitors research depicts the entrances/exits on Sory Road, which is 1.5 lane avenue with pace bumps, and Buzzard Creek Highway, which has an intersection that may be relatively harmful; particularly with the very fact there’s curve approaching it and the solar usually makes it extraordinarily troublesome to see at numerous instances of the day. The visitors research decided that there was no want for turning lanes or visitors lights to assist handle the circulate of visitors and enhance total public security alongside the street community and streets. All of this visitors can be flowing round into a light-weight residential avenue and proper subsequent to a busy daycare that’s proper on the nook of 41 North and Buzzard Creek Highway.
“A number of years in the past our county carried out a research that may “present a basis for the long run orderly progress and growth of Robertson County”. That research was the 2040 Development Plan. The county then took that very plan and adopted it to assist chart the long run for our county. I’ve heard from quite a few of us that the 2040 Development Plan is only a research that our county spent a big sum of cash on and that it doesn’t actually matter within the grand scheme of issues. In the event you dig deeper and take a look at the Robertson County Planning and Zoning Ordinances, you discover that the expansion plan was interjected and wound across the very ordinances that dictate and govern the planning and zoning of our county.
“Particularly, within the ordinances, it states “The purpose of this decision is to make sure that all growth inside the County’s jurisdiction is per, and conforms to the imaginative and prescient, targets, and goals of the Robertson County 2040 Complete Development and Improvement Plan.” Arguing that the plan and the event ideas acknowledged inside it are invalid is saying that the Planning and Zoning Ordinances are invalid. In the event you toss the 2040 Development Plan, you toss our adopted county ordinances with it. A portion of the realm close to the event and components of the event are listed as Sub-City, which is acceptable for R-20 & R-40 developments. The design ideas are constructed round increased density/ depth housing to be nearer to your city middle and to then cut back the density and depth as you transition to rural areas. The proposed growth can be reverse and place high-density housing alongside the border of rural areas. Low-Density housing (R-40) is the suitable transition between a small metropolis and group like Cedar Hill to our rural areas. Merely put, R-40 is the appropriate progress density and our group understands that and will assist it, R-20 just isn’t that and it’ll face staunch opposition from the group and people inside our metropolis, whom I used to be elected to characterize.
“Cedar Hill has been very real looking and has referred to as on accountable progress and that’s R-40. Our group and I as a Commissioner and Vice Mayor for Cedar Hill will proceed to ask that the builders hearken to our group and produce forth a growth that our group can assist and that permits them to pursue their growth ambitions. I additionally ask that everybody that’s involved with this growth and its affect on our group and metropolis to return and voice your issues and present those that will determine the destiny of the event as is that we’re overwhelmingly against the present proposed growth and rezoning request. It’ll be showing earlier than the Planning Fee on June third, 2021 at 7pm on the County Workplace Constructing. If handed, it’ll transfer earlier than the County Fee at their June 21, 2021 assembly at 7pm and can be carried out on the Judicial Advanced on the 2nd ground of the Robertson County Workplace Constructing. Within the meantime, attain out to your native Planning and Zoning officers and county commissioners and respectfully voice our issues with them and ask them assist our group’s issues and deny the present rezoning request in hopes {that a} extra affordable and accountable growth will be introduced ahead for consideration.”
Respectfully,
John Edwards
Metropolis Commissioner/ Vice Mayor
Metropolis of Cedar Hill
Authentic report, revealed February 26, 2021: Cedar Hill Vice Mayor/Residents Petition 103 Acre Buzzard Creek Housing Improvement
