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Cookeville will consider rezoning a seventeen-acre piece of land on Lee Seminary Road from residential to commercial-industrial mixed-use.
Community Development Director Jon Ward told city council during a Monday work session that the land is connected to the Highlands Business Park. Ward said rezoning would allow the property to be consistent with the park so the land can possibly be developed.
“We had held on rezoning this ’cause there were some questions on what we were going to do with the house, if that was going to be possibly surplussed or something,” Ward said. “But we’ve recently had some interest in the tract, so we’ve went ahead and moved a rezoning through to rezone this from RS-20 to CI.”
Ward said the land was jointly acquired by the city and Putnam County in August, 2022. City council will hold a public hearing and consider the rezoning during its Thursday meeting.
“The Vernon Wilson Tract is what the property was known as when acquired,” Ward said. “It’s adjacent to properties in the Highlands Industrial Park.”
Ward said the city is free to go back and change the zoning again if something changes with the house on the property in the future.
