April 9, 2026
Planning Commission meeting

Public Comments

7 Comments for

4-B-26-RZ
Ann (37914), March 23, 2026 at 3:53 PM

I live, worship, & have grandchildren in the schools. Our roads & schools can't support all these new developments that have already been approved much less more. Please stop this development from coming.

March 23, 2026
at 3:53 PM

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Jennifer
37914

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Jennifer (37914), March 26, 2026 at 7:47 AM

Please stop building residential areas in East Knox County! We do not have the infrastructure for this! Our roads are not wide enough, there is too much traffic and we do not have enough grocery stores! Food City is NOT enough for the influx of people. Our wild life is suffering as well as they are losing their homes. Once they are gone, we will never get them back. Please!

March 26, 2026
at 7:47 AM

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Sarah
37914

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Sarah (37914), March 26, 2026 at 11:22 PM

I wholly disagree with the planning commission rezoning this land for more housing development. We love our small town feel and do not have currently, nor have the capacity to accommodate more people and the infrastructure that is required. Please do not rezoning this property

March 26, 2026
at 11:22 PM

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Jan
37914

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Jan (37914), March 31, 2026 at 11:11 AM

Please don't put apartments in that location. Single family houses might be OK, but the roads would still have to be improved. And not like the "improvements" made on Brakebill, which consisted of a turning lane at the development entrance. That narrow, crumbling road is not safe when meeting dualies, vehicles pulling lawn mower trailers, dump trucks, delivery trucks and other box trucks that travel across it throughout the day. We were misled by the developers. The infrastructure in our area can’t handle the developments being imposed on us.

March 31, 2026
at 11:11 AM

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Ashton
37914

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Ashton (37914), March 31, 2026 at 2:01 PM

As a life long resident of the Carter community and as a parent of two kids that attend Carter and plan to stay in the area after they graduate. Four Way is a community center, but I think that our community center definition and the current administration definition are not the same.
Community to us does not come from the outside but from within. We already have a community adding a "multi family unit" to an area that has no infrastructure to support it, does not benefit our community, it hinders it.

The Carter area has at least 7 new or ongoing projects that I know about. Three of those being "multi family units" and the others being single family homes in tightly compressed subdivisions. We don't know what effect these new developments will have yet. But all these developments feed into the Carter schools. Schools that are already struggling to keep up with demand. As a parent I want to know that my taxes are going to benefit my children and all the children that come through after them.

For these reasons please vote NO on rezoning this property.

March 31, 2026
at 2:01 PM

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Randy
37914

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Randy (37914), March 31, 2026 at 3:18 PM

I live and work here in Knoxville and I have seen how important this facility is to the city. All of our restaurants, schools, hospitals, and nursing homes depend on having a place to take grease so it does not end up in the sewer lines. When grease is not handled the right way, it causes backups and overflows that can reach our streams and creeks, and that is a much bigger problem for the community than anything happening at this site. The people who actually go to this facility on a regular basis know that it is kept clean, the doors stay closed, and the staff works hard to control odor, which has been confirmed in public letters from haulers who are there every day. The rezoning does not change the amount of work being done or bring in anything new. It simply lets the facility keep doing what it already does to protect Knoxville's infrastructure. If this place cannot operate the way it needs to, then the real question becomes simple. Where is all of Knoxville's grease supposed to go.

March 31, 2026
at 3:18 PM

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Daniel
37914

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Daniel (37914), April 1, 2026 at 4:30 PM

I oppose this rezoning of this property. High density housing does not belong at this location. This isn't an urban environment nor should be. I'm not confident that there is an adequate plan for the impact on the schools in the Carter community, and I am definitely not confident that increased traffic has been adequately considered from this property all the way to the interstate. I am certain the the sum of population being added in east knoxville is not adequately studied/surveyed. While individual traffic studies are happening, where is the cumulative report on all the residential developments happening off Asheville Highway, John Sevier, and Strawberry Plains Pike?

April 1, 2026
at 4:30 PM