CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — An enormous piece of land in Clarksville is inflicting even larger issues.
Earlier this 12 months, Information 2 informed you a few group of Clarksville residents combating a 900-home subdivision in an space they are saying can’t deal with the visitors.
On Tuesday, the Clarksville-Montgomery Regional Planning Fee permitted a variance and proposed subdivision that some say goes to congest the world.
“I’m not shocked,” mentioned former Montgomery County Commissioner Jason Knight. “We want homes. That’s what [the commission] is instantly targeted on, is guaranteeing we match that want.”
Pam Klomfas mentioned there are sufficient houses already with greater than 1,000 new houses being constructed and a couple of,500 extra new flats coming to the world off I-24’s Exit 8.
Now, a model new 900+ house subdivision is about to maneuver into the world west of Powell Street and south of the place Dunbar Cave Street and Moss Roads meet.
Klomfas is certainly one of greater than 1,000 residents within the Rossview Street neighborhood who signed a petition asking the planning fee to vote no on the mega-subdivision on Ross Farms, an almost 400-acre plot of land.
Petitioners say the present street infrastructure can not assist the extra growth with out vital enchancment.
Klomfas says the variance doesn’t meet subdivision laws, including a neighborhood this dimension requires greater than two shops.
“They simply disregarded all of us,” Klomfas mentioned. “As a lot as I like Clarksville, we’re changing into each little bit of an enormous metropolis with out the infrastructure to carry it.”
Throughout Tuesday’s assembly, the developer famous that he would join Powell Street to Dunbar Cave Street which is able to act as two viable shops for the venture and alleviate issues of Powell Street being a one-way out and in for residents.
“Proper now, I feel its a matter of catch up as a result of growth is going on so quick the rise in inhabitants is so quick now it’s only a matter of getting the infrastructure catch as much as that progress and that’s the place the issue is that’s the place we see the rising pains at,” Knight mentioned.
Part 1 and a couple of could also be constructed now, Part 3 can solely be constructed when a close-by intersection and street widening that the State and Metropolis are doing is full at Dunbar Cave Street and Rossview Street. Part 1 and a couple of equal 582 heaps.
