Pigeon Forge Takes Up C-PACER Tonight, Plus a Mill Creek Grant

Pigeon Forge City Commission meets tonight, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, at 5:30 p.m. in the City Hall Council Room at 3225 Rena Street. Item 5 on the published CivicClerk agenda is Resolution No. 2026-978, a resolution declaring the board's intent to consider adopting a commercial property assessed clean energy and resiliency (C-PACER) program. City Attorney Nathan Rowell is listed as the presenter. The same topic is on the noon work session at the Special Events Building, 3107 Parkway, as item C: discussion of participation in the C-PACER program as an economic development tool.

That is an intent resolution, not a loan and not a tax increase. Tennessee's C-PACER statute, Tenn. Code Ann. section 68-205-101 et seq., is a local-option law. A city that adopts a program can let owners of commercial, industrial, agricultural, and multifamily property finance qualifying energy, water, and resiliency work with private capital and repay it through a voluntary special assessment recorded as a lien. Pigeon Forge has not adopted that program. Tonight's packet asks the board to say it is willing to consider it.

What is actually on tonight's Pigeon Forge agenda?

CivicClerk posted the Aug. 24 City Commission agenda Friday, Aug. 21, at 3:11 p.m. Old business is empty. New business starts at item 5. Besides C-PACER, the unused housing and infrastructure lines a seller should keep in the file are:

• Item 11 — approval to pursue potential TDOT grant funding for the Mill Creek West Connector, the section that connects Pigeon Forge City Park to Pigeon Forge High School and the Waldens Creek Trailhead. Tom Garner is listed.
• Item 13 — Amendment 1 on the TDOT TAP grant for the Waldens Creek Greenway connecting Wear Farm City Park to Tiger Drive. The amendment transfers $22,030 from the State Small Cities Grant to the current TAP grant to cover additional NEPA costs. Jacob Cave is listed.
• Item 16 — approval to use direct appropriation funds for a Jake Thomas Road mid-block crossing. Dennis Clabo is listed.
• Item 6 — Guaranteed Maximum Price for Phase II (GMP#2) on the new City Hall building from Horner Building Company. The city-hall site plan is already on this desk. Do not treat GMP#2 as a new location story.

Also on the docket: a $92,795.43 2027 F-550 dump truck for the Street Department from Ford of Murfreesboro under SWC 209; a one-year renewal of bear-resistant trash carts from Northland Products at $345.57 per cart including freight, Aug. 25, 2026, to Aug. 25, 2027; a Johnson Controls planned-service revision that staff says corrects omitted boilers, cooling tower, and annual sensor calibration; a Kelsan maintenance agreement on 10 pieces of automated cleaning equipment; Zoom phone-license infrastructure from Communications Resources Integrators under an OMNIA contract; a Safe Haven Baby Box grant application for Station 1; and a Fire Due software renewal. Those are operations. They do not reprice a Wears Valley cabin.

What happens at Planning Commission on Tuesday?

The Regional Planning Commission meets Tuesday, Aug. 25, at 3 p.m. in the same City Hall council room. CivicClerk posted that agenda Friday at 11:16 a.m. The unused housing line is a site plan for Meadowbrook Park Retail and Apartments at Parkway and Appalachia Drive, filed by Jeremy Puckett of Ascent Engineering and Surveying, LLC. Also on that docket: a final PUD for Jellystone Resort at 3404 Whaley Drive (Vince Marshall, Marshall Design and Construction Corp.); a Blake Jones Fun Center site plan at 2891 Parkway (Joshua McFadden, Backroads and Barrels, LLC); a Dollywood 5K and half marathon special event for April 23-25, 2027; and a staff-proposed zoning-ordinance amendment to Article VII, Section 707, permitted uses in the M-1 Industrial District. A site plan on Tuesday is not a building permit and is not tonight's C-PACER vote.

Does a C-PACER intent vote change my cabin price?

No. A C-PACER program, if the city later adopts one, is a financing tool for qualifying commercial, industrial, agricultural, and multifamily work. It is not a new Parkway hotel, not a short-term-rental rule, and not a comparable sale. Tennessee's statute is voluntary. The owner asks. A private capital provider funds the qualified improvements. The local government records a special assessment and a C-PACER lien. Knox County already published a C-PACER guidebook under the same statute. Pigeon Forge has not. Tonight's resolution is the first published step, and the published text is intent to consider, not adoption of guidelines.

If you own a lodge, a Parkway retail box, or a multifamily building inside the city, a future program could change how a buyer underwrites an energy or resiliency upgrade. If you own a Wears Valley or Pittman Center cabin, it does not. Price off the Great Smoky Mountains MLS tape this desk already copied: 538 cabin closings, $601,250 median, 79 days on market, 91.67 percent of original list; 76 condo closings, $315,000 median, 106 days. Freddie Mac's Aug. 20 Primary Mortgage Market Survey still sits at 6.65 percent. A work-session discussion at noon does not move those numbers.

What does the Mill Creek West Connector grant request actually do?

Item 11 asks the commission for permission to pursue potential TDOT funding. The published sentence is specific: the section connects Pigeon Forge City Park to Pigeon Forge High School and the Waldens Creek Trailhead. That is not the Westside Connector from Wears Valley Road across the Parkway that this desk already covered. Do not collapse the two roads. A grant application is not a bid award and is not a construction start. The $22,030 TAP amendment on item 13 is a NEPA-cost transfer on the Waldens Creek Greenway from Wear Farm City Park to Tiger Drive. Keep those two greenway files separate from the $5.8 million Blalock and Sons Westside Connector contract already on the live desk.

Can I buy the next Smokies house before this one sells?

You can write the offer. Whether the next seller will wait is a different question. A contingent contract on a 79-day cabin clock tells that seller you still have a listing hanging over the deal. Our proven system puts a written sale date under this house so the next offer is a real buyer, not a maybe.* If you need a date certain and do not want a retail showing calendar through Labor Day traffic, ask about a cash offer the same week you pull a home evaluation.

What should Pigeon Forge and Sevier owners do this week?

1. If you own commercial or multifamily inside the city, print Resolution 2026-978 and the noon work-session memo. The file is intent. It is not a recorded C-PACER lien.
2. If you own near City Park, the high school, Wear Farm, or Jake Thomas Road, keep items 11, 13, and 16 in the listing folder. Buyers will ask which connector is which.
3. If you are watching apartments, the unused housing line is Tuesday's Meadowbrook Park Retail and Apartments site plan, not tonight's resolution.
4. Price the cabin or house you have to the July GSM MLS tape. Do not mark it up because the city is discussing a financing statute.

Call the Kings of Real Estate team at 865-365-2280. Offices: 121 Suburban Road, Suite 101, Knoxville, and 1001 Parkway, Sevierville. Licensed agents: $250/mo desk fee.

What's happening in the Smoky Mountains this week

• Pigeon Forge City Commission work session — Mon., Aug. 24, noon · Special Events Building, 3107 Parkway (C-PACER, employee health clinic, multi-use fields)
• Pigeon Forge City Commission — Mon., Aug. 24, 5:30 p.m. · City Hall Council Room, 3225 Rena Street
• Pigeon Forge Regional Planning Commission — Tue., Aug. 25, 3 p.m. · City Hall (Meadowbrook Park apartments site plan; Jellystone final PUD)
• Art Fair at The Pines Downtown — Sun., Aug. 30, 5-9 p.m. · The Pines, downtown Sevierville

Sources: Pigeon Forge CivicClerk City Commission agenda for Aug. 24, 2026 (posted Aug. 21, 3:11 p.m.); work-session memo, Aug. 24, noon; Planning Commission agenda for Aug. 25, 2026 (posted Aug. 21, 11:16 a.m.); Tenn. Code Ann. section 68-205-101 et seq.; Knox County C-PACER guidebook; Great Smoky Mountains MLS as cited on the live Kings of Real Estate Smokies desk; Freddie Mac PMMS, Aug. 20, 2026.

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