July 9, 2026
Planning Commission meeting

Public Comments

7 Comments for

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Kevin (37871), June 17, 2026 at 2:53 PM

We don't need more homes. We need more restaurants and grocery stores here as it is. The schools are going to be overcrowded. We don't have to make room for everyone wanting to leave their state.

June 17, 2026
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Stephanie
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Stephanie (37871), June 19, 2026 at 12:22 PM

We do not need anymore housing in this area. One reson is the roads can't handle anymore traffic, as well as the Carter community Schools are already overcrowded. We have one good store and that's food city that barely enough to handle the people we have, then there is Priceless which is a extremely small store that doesnt have half of what the food city does. We don't have many pharmacies and the few we have are already fairly loaded with patients. We just don't have it for all these new homes. Theres already so many more going in. What will the builders and developers, and government officials rather us never have any farm lands or beautiful green pastures. Many of the farm lands are still working farms, and yet new developments keep trying to push them out. We just don't have the room for anymore housing complexes no matter the size or style. Quit trying to take all the fresh air we have and polite it with all the new traffic.. Plus you are also running all the dears out of their home and they have no where else to go to. Just someone grow a pair and stop all this nonsense please.

June 19, 2026
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Kelly
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Kelly (37871), June 19, 2026 at 6:02 PM

To whom it concerns. I am writing to you on behalf of my family and myself. McCubbins Cemetery has been my family's personal cemetery since dating back to the 1800s. I would like to personally invite you to come see our cemetery on the hill. I believe you would find after looking at the property line and the fact some graves only have a piece of slate rock for a headstone that this new construction is not a proper fit. Knox Co is not responsible for any thing to do with the cemetery it is all taken care of by family. The property line is about 15 feet from the last row of graves. Putting homes close is a problem waiting to happen. There will be adults and children that will have no respect for my loved ones final resting place. Once some of the slate rocks are removed or broken we will have no way of knowing who or where it goes. I do hope you will consider this historic family graveyard in making your vote. Strawberry Plains Pike is a 2 lane road. You already have Carter Elementary basically across the street and traffic is horrible every morning getting through that add more cars and it will be a disaster. We would like to see East Knox County grow some but not at the expense of our community. We have 1 red light 1 grocery store 1 drugstore and a hardware store a lot of 1 lane hills and curves roads. I would like to thank you considering a NO vote in our future. Kelly

June 19, 2026
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Danielle
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Danielle (37871), June 20, 2026 at 9:29 AM

Please stop with the developments in our area. Our community can not handle the amount of people this would bring. Things have already gotten worse rom the development that already has occurred. Traffic is horrible, more wrecks than ever, and food city is the only major grocery store we have to accommodate everyone..Carter elementary was rebuilt to because the old school couldn't handle the amount of kids we have now. I foresee portable classrooms again if this continues. Please stop development.

June 20, 2026
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Kelly
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Kelly (37871), June 21, 2026 at 2:47 PM

To whom it may concern, I am writing this on behalf of the rezoning on StrawPlains Pike. My family has a family cemetery McCubbins with graves dating back to the 1880s to present. A lot of the headstones are just slabs of slate rock. The cemetery is no financial burden to Knox County it is maintained by family. If this rezoning is passed a part of the property line will be about 20 feet from the last row of graves. I invite all of you to come see our cemetery and how close to the property line it will be. With the building of 68 or more houses comes adults and children that will show no respect for our loved ones final resting place. There is no ledger of information on each person. The family just knows who is where by the slate rock. The final resting place for my loved ones is on the hill and is quiet and very peaceful. I am asking you to let it stay that way. Please place one family's history before one mans greed. Just vote NO

June 21, 2026
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Harold
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Harold (37871), June 22, 2026 at 2:28 PM

We literally just voiced our concerns about a different area being rezoned, and thank God we stopped it. We don't want our community to become overcrowded with houses and/or apartments. We don't want or need our schools to be overcrowded either.
We don't want any more growth than what has already happened. We don't want our beautiful country community ruined like we've watched happen in Sevier County because of all the development.

June 22, 2026
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Sandra
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Sandra (37871), June 26, 2026 at 10:42 AM

Please stop changing our agricultural land and trying to convert it to being city, we do not need more housing in the strawberry plains area, the traffic is horrible and our schools are over crowded.

June 26, 2026
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