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The developer proposing a new residential neighborhood in Cookeville’s Lovelady Road area will not pursue the Proposed Residential Development (PRD) option.
A Proposed Residential Development would allow the planning commission, the city, and developers to negotiate and come to a preliminary plat for development together. Planning Director Jon Ward shared the news with city council members Monday during a council work session.
“The council had asked us to look at options to provide transitions to minimize impacts on those existing residences and we’ve tried to provide those options as requested by the council,” Ward said. “So we will just see where they end up.”
Cookeville City Council deferred the Lovelady Road rezoning at the last city council meeting to allow the developer time to decide if he was willing to pursue that option. Ward said that the options include zoning as is, and adding buffer zones that decrease in density.
“The Planning Commission reviewed the entire parcel for rezoning and made the recommendation to rezone the entire parcel,” Ward said. “This option (96-acres) would provide an RS-20 transition zone around the western boundary, that would be around all existing residential. The next option has 87-acres for the rezoning and that would provide an RS-10 transition, that’s what we had talked about increasing density in the transition to a step-down density to provide a larger area. The 103-acres was prepared based on information provided to us that one tract was under contract that would be purchased by the developer.”
Ward said that the final option was prepared with the information that one tract of land had entered into a sale-purchase agreement with the developer.
Ward said that the deadline to submit for the next Planning Commission meeting was Monday, May 5th. He said that because the developer has submitted a preliminary plat for the planning commission to study.
