April 14, 2022
Planning Commission meeting

Public Comments

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Judy
37721
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Judy (37721), April 4, 2022 at 9:37 AM
Please consider the traffic load that is very heavy already in this area. Our roads are too narrow .
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Barbara
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Barbara (37721), April 6, 2022 at 1:20 PM
My family has lived in the Gibbs community for over five generations. Needless to say many things have changed. The area is growing faster than it can handle. Most of our grandparents would be rollover in their graves if they could see what the area had become. It seems that for every place there was a cow, there's a house. Our roads aren't able to handle the current amount of traffic. The powers that be said that they were going to widen Tazewell pk over a decade ago. And it took years just to get a traffic light at the crossroads. Our schools and children's education are already suffering. The hundreds of families that would be coming in will only put more stress on the schools. There will be a need for public transit, since many low income families don't have transportation. Sidewalks will be needed to the main roads as a matter of safety. Flooding may also be a big problem. Who are they going turn all of the runoff on. The creeks can't take a hard rain now. My point is just this. Why not hold off on this subdivision for now. Nothing has been done on this land yet. Why not wait to see how the community absorbs the works already started. It is better to not cause a problem, than to pay for it later.
April 6, 2022
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Julie
37721
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Julie (37721), April 6, 2022 at 4:10 PM
Please see attached PDF
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https://agenda.knoxplanning.org/attachments/20220406161059.pdf
April 6, 2022
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Nadine
37721
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Nadine (37721), April 8, 2022 at 9:39 AM
Please see attached
April 8, 2022
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Heather
37721
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Heather (37721), April 8, 2022 at 11:34 AM
See Attached- to long to type
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https://agenda.knoxplanning.org/attachments/20220408113444.pdf
April 8, 2022
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Teresa
37721
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Teresa (37721), April 8, 2022 at 3:08 PM
I am against rezoning the area on Thompson School Road to allow development on that land. We need to preserve our farmlands! I’ve also heard the developer does not have a good reputation. Please save our land!
April 8, 2022
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Nadine
37721
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Nadine (37721), April 8, 2022 at 5:49 PM
See attached
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https://agenda.knoxplanning.org/attachments/20220408174945.pdf
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Ronald
37721
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Ronald (37721), April 11, 2022 at 9:46 AM
Thanks to the both of you for fighting for us: Read through the information you gave us. First: they are already working on that big subdivision on the old Davis place and that will increase the traffic on the lower end of Thompson School Rd. Also: Looked on the kgis and property maps and according to those maps the property does not go to Coppock Road and certainly not to Majors Road. Ted and Donna Dyer (Ovella babysat for and I mowed their lawn years ago) own about an acre lot that joins the creek between Coppock Road and the farm, which borders the Wheat Meadows subdivision and the old Davis place. The Bill Keaton Dr. mentioned in the information is the back street in the Wheat Meadows subdivision that leads into the other two driveways that are so congested with parked automobiles I cannot hardly get a truck and twelve foot trailer through at mid-day, and the mail-buggy has to wind through like a puzzle every day – those people living over there should be very concerned. We must stop the Re-zone. This farm needs to stay Agricultural!
April 11, 2022
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Penny, Kenny
37721
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Penny, Kenny (37721), April 11, 2022 at 11:42 AM
When making your decision, please consider preserving this farmland and keeping it Agricultural. We already have over 5+ subdivisions very close to this farm. It is one of the largest farms still left on this road and in the Community. Please see attached PDF for additional comments.
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April 11, 2022
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Angela
37721
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Angela (37721), April 11, 2022 at 12:18 PM
We need to preserve the farmland we still have left. This is one of the largest farms still left in this area. It is a great source for hay for the community. Due to other developments, right now we do not know the full impact of more traffic. The roads are already crowded in the area. Please stop this Rezone!
April 11, 2022
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Rebecca
37721
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Rebecca (37721), April 11, 2022 at 12:41 PM
Please consider keeping this land as farmland. I have lived in this area all of my life. The rural area is quickly leaving us. The traffic on our road increases every year. I cant even go to my mailbox without the fear of getting hit by a vehicle. This land can better benefit the community by keeping it farmland or use it for possibly a Hospice or Senior Living area that includes walking trails, etc. Our seniors in the community would have a beautiful place to call home in their Senior life. The tranquil peaceful beauty of this farm would be preserved and provide a great place for the elderly community and also bring jobs.
April 11, 2022
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Jordan
37721
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Jordan (37721), April 11, 2022 at 1:41 PM
Please consider keeping this property Agriculture. It could be used for continued farmland including cattle, horses, hay for feed, crops etc. for the community. We also need to preserve the land and the wildlife. This would be a great Boy Scout camp area for the Community and surrounding area. Adding more subdivisions will only increase the traffic, and the numbers in the school. This farm should be used for the community to show Preservation and Awareness in the area. We also do not want to pollute the creeks..The creek runs throughout this property. We can hear the machinery daily from other surrounding subdivisions in development. The developer for this land has no intentions to preserve any part of this land. He has shown this in the Dry Hollow Development. We need this Rezone stopped before it turns into what has happend in South Knoxville.
April 11, 2022
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Jolene
37721
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Jolene (37721), April 11, 2022 at 4:06 PM
I am 6 year resident of the Corryton/Gibbs area and I am so sad to see all this beautiful land being built on. My husband and I moved out here because of the open feeling and sense of the country life. We currently live in a subdivision where they are planning to build 80 more homes behind us. Traffic on Thompson School is already horrendous and our schools are at capacity. I understand growth and the need for housing but I do not believe that every piece of farm land needs to be sold to the highest bidder and converted into mediocre super subdivisions. What about our wildlife, vegetation and history?? Everything so easily wiped away to whomever has theist money for cookie cutter homes. Please help us keep our community and way of life rural.
April 11, 2022
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David
37721
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David (37721), April 11, 2022 at 4:06 PM
Please see attached
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https://agenda.knoxplanning.org/attachments/20220411160605.pdf
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Shannon
37721
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Shannon (37721), April 11, 2022 at 5:29 PM
Please don’t allow the rezoning of this farm land. Our community is a rural area and needs to stay that way. We don’t want or need an over crowded community. We moved here to get away from all of that. STOP TURNING OUR FARMS INTO CROWDED SUBDIVISIONS.
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Jeffrey
37721
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Jeffrey (37721), April 11, 2022 at 5:48 PM
I'm concerned about the number of proposed homes and relating it to the increase in vehicles on the surrounding roads. Another concern is the overcrowding of our 3 schools as related to the number of children each home will have. If the area was prepared for this it would be a different matter. It would take tens of years for the area to catch up with the demand of these new homes.
April 11, 2022
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Susan
37721
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Susan (37721), April 11, 2022 at 6:20 PM
As a property owner in this community, I do not want rezoning to take place that changes agricultural land to residential. I do not want more subdivisions.
April 11, 2022
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Candace
37721
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Candace (37721), April 11, 2022 at 8:41 PM
Please consider our narrow roads. Also please remember there is a lot of wildlife in our area. Why are we trying to pack corryton with cookie cutter homes. So many new subdivisions being built. It's like playing chicken on these narrow roads. I moved here to live the country life! Please keep our farms , farms!!!!!!
April 11, 2022
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Tabatha
37721
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Tabatha (37721), April 11, 2022 at 9:52 PM
Please do not approve 5 units per acre. Our infrastructure cannot support this in addition to all the other already approved developments. I would like to see this remain agricultural at best, or no more than one house per acre at worst. The other side would still make a hefty profit off that. Surely there are some people left who value yards bigger than reaching out the window and touching your neighbor.
April 11, 2022
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Anna
37721
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Anna (37721), April 11, 2022 at 10:03 PM
We live between this planned subdivision and Emory Rd, I do not know, no I KNOW Thompson School Rd CAN NOT handle this traffic, please DO NOT BUILD!!!!!
April 11, 2022
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Gabriela
37721
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Gabriela (37721), April 11, 2022 at 11:29 PM
Please keep this agricultural. Thompson school road can handle the amount of traffic a development will bring in! If this gets made into a development you are changing the lives of the people who live here! They want peace and quiet with beautiful views. You will be taking that away from them! You will be taking the beautiful farm lands from the community that has fought to keep it this way! Please don’t let this go through!
April 11, 2022
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Beverly
37721
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Beverly (37721), April 12, 2022 at 5:11 AM
See attachment
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https://agenda.knoxplanning.org/attachments/20220412051128.pdf
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Illabelle
37721
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Illabelle (37721), April 12, 2022 at 6:53 AM
I understand that people have a right to sell their land, but as a community we have a right to say how we want to develop. Many of us are alarmed at the permanent loss of farmland and woodland. There are lots of areas within the city of Knoxville that could be re-developed, areas that already have sidewalks, sewer, etc. But it will take action from the County Commission or MPC to restrict greenfield development and encourage or even require brownfield development. When I moved to Corryton, I accepted the longer commute to jobs, shopping, etc, specifically because I DO NOT WANT Corryton to be like West Knoxville. Preserve our rural places and communities!
April 12, 2022
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Matthew
37721
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Matthew (37721), April 12, 2022 at 8:15 AM
We do not want the property rezoned. This would drastically change the wear on the infrastructure in our neighborhood. The reason we moved to the area is to not live in a densely populated area.
April 12, 2022
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Fred
37721
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Fred (37721), April 12, 2022 at 9:02 AM
Please see the attached
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https://agenda.knoxplanning.org/attachments/20220412090248.pdf
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Jessica
37721
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Jessica (37721), April 12, 2022 at 11:35 AM
I do not agree with the staff recommendation of 2 per acre on this property. We have had 4 developments approved within the last year (2 of which are on Thompson School Rd) that have not even began construction yet, which tallies to over 400 homes. The traffic study that accompanies this project also does not include those developments already approved around it that we’ve yet to see the ramifications of. In addition, traffic is already so bad, particularly in that area, that people started using Karns Dr. as a cut through to avoid the traffic at the new red lights. This st. Is now having have county resources pay to have one side of it closed to thru traffic. I am also not in favor of sector plan amendments. When sector plans were designed, they were designed with the communities…giving a plan to knox county on how we should develop certain areas. We specifically said that for the 8th district, we’d like to keep a good majority of it rural. Those lines keep getting crossed and blurred over. The red- do not cross lines were placed for a reason, and based on several community members and their visions for Corryton. If a line is there, as it is with sector plans, then the answer MPC gives a developer should co-align with the sector plan. In this case, the property is already zoned at 1 per acre, and I think it should remain at that level.
April 12, 2022
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Adam
37721
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Adam (37721), April 12, 2022 at 1:09 PM
I do not support the rezoning of this property, nor the sector plan amendment. The property is already zoned at 1 per acre, and I feel like that level of development offers the right amount of preservation to keep in line with the rural character the 8th district wants to keep. The county should be upholding and enforcing sector plans because they were made as plans by the community members, incorporating ideas and visions of how we desired Corryton to grow. Each time a line is bent, it just becomes easier to bend it for the next developer that comes through and strokes a check. At some point we have to draw a FIRM line and stop bending a knee. We already have over 400 homes between 4 developments that have been approved (only including those in Gibbs) where construction hasn’t even began. Therefore, those effects haven’t even being realized yet and here we are talking about adding more. We can’t keep putting the cart before the horse. It was important to the 8th district to preserve agriculture, and that’s exactly what we need to do. I oppose rezoning this property and support it at the zoning it is presently, 1 per acre.
April 12, 2022
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Jessica
37721
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Jessica (37721), April 12, 2022 at 1:54 PM
Also, everytime we come before MPC, a common argument that attorneys use against communities is “property rights”. I support property rights, and believe every individual should have the ability and right to sell their property in the zoning it was in when it wa s bought/handed down. I do not support this ideology that says property owners should have a right to increase their density when it affects everyone around them. If a property is purchased at a zoning, or even passed down at a certain zoning….there should be no expectation that it should change.
April 12, 2022
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John
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John (37721), April 12, 2022 at 5:51 PM
Please do not rezone. We all can admit that this mass rezoning in the Gibbs community is getting out of hand? Stop rezoning for developers. They don’t live in the area and do not care what they do to our landscape. It’s destroying the area with over crowding and putting strain on our community.
April 12, 2022
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Phillip
37721
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Phillip (37721), April 12, 2022 at 8:02 PM
Please do not approve this rezoning. Yes, there is a traffic study, but it does not take into account the totality of development and traffic effects with all the other approved subdivisions in the area. Please do not approve any more developments until the ones in-process are complete and we see what the real traffic effect is going to be. The back roads cannot support any more traffic. The speed, litter and general recklessness are bad enough as-is. Also, we would like to see our community's rural character maintained. If this development continues, this area will be unrecognizable from its former self. Thank you for your consideration.
April 12, 2022
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Josh
37721
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Josh (37721), April 12, 2022 at 8:19 PM
See attached pdf
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https://agenda.knoxplanning.org/attachments/20220412201930.pdf
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Brandi
37721
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Brandi (37721), April 12, 2022 at 8:28 PM
The infrastructure is not capable of supporting the number of homes desired in the rezoning plans. It might sound neat to rezone to get the property taxes to build new schools, shopping centers, and widen roads, but it doesn’t happen fast enough. Kids get stuck in trailers for classrooms for years, hundreds of residents lose their homes and property when you have to widen the roads and the overall quality of life is ruined by traffic. Please do the right thing and don’t rezone.
April 12, 2022
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Susan
37721
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Susan (37721), April 13, 2022 at 8:03 AM
I have lived less than 2 miles from this property for 48 years and my family has been here for over 60 years. I remember when most of the roads were gravel. The roads are NOT big enough to handle any additional traffic. There are numerous accidents that occur already due to speed and distracted driving in this area. Building additional homes as proposed will only bring more of these issues and with lots of children & elderly in the area it's going to be a devastating situation. I would strongly urge that you take a hard look at the area surrounding this property...it's a RURAL area and without these kind of areas, you are endangering wildlife & the ability to live...as we need trees and green space for our oxygen. The people wanting to develop here are from LaFollette, let them build this there...near their property and see if they enjoy the additional traffic and concerns that come with the development.
April 13, 2022
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