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Metro Sets Oct. 20 Third Reading on 68-Unit Cane Ridge Road SP

Metro Nashville Council will take a third reading on Oct. 20, 2026, of BL2026-1400, which would rezone 5683 Cane Ridge Road from AR2a to Specific Plan zoning for up to 68 multifamily units on 6.64 acres.

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Johnson City Planners Hear Watauga Avenue Church Rezoning to MS-1

Johnson City’s Planning Commission heard a request on Oct. 13 to rezone 0.42 acres at 201 E. Watauga Avenue from RO-1 to MS-1 so Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church can add onto its building. Staff recommended approval; the recorded outcome is pending.

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Knoxville Council Sets Nov. 10 Hearing on Rudy Street C-G-1 Rezoning

Knoxville City Council will consider a rezoning at 0 Rudy Street from I-MU to C-G-1 on Nov. 10, 2026. Planning staff called it a minor extension on a 5,000-square-foot piece west of Rudy Street and north of Heiskell Avenue.

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Sevier County Moves to Take Full Planning Control Outside City Limits Oct. 19

Sevier County commissioners will take public comment Monday, Oct. 19, 2026, on a resolution to eliminate planning regions for Pigeon Forge and Sevierville outside city limits. The same agenda includes a zoning enforcement vote tied to a Pine Mountain Road event venue.

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Hamilton Planners Back 118 Homes on Dallas Lake Road and a Bank at the Old Buck’s BBQ Site

The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission on Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, recommended approval of a 118-lot single-family plan at a borrow pit site at 1815 Dallas Lake Road and a rezoning for a new bank at the former Buck’s Pit Barbecue site on South Broad. On Oct. 13, City Council deni

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Metro Council Sets Oct. 20 Final Vote on 16-Story, 311-Unit Plan at 300 McCann Street

Metro Council has BL2026-1553 on its Oct. 20, 2026, agenda for third reading. The bill would rezone 0.69 acres at 300 McCann Street from Core Frame to Specific Plan for up to 311 multifamily units in a planned 16-story building near Wedgewood-Houston. A separate Barnes Road SP was deferred to Nov. 5

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Johnson City Takes Up $1.1 Million Optimist Park Lot Sale for a Culver’s on Thursday

The Johnson City Board of Commissioners on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026, takes up first reading of Ordinance 4953-26, which would convey about 1.88 acres of the former Optimist Park to 4My Flowers Real Estate, LLC, a Culver’s franchisee, for $1.1 million. The same morning, the JCDA TIF advisory board rev

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Knoxville City Council Overturns Kerbela 55+ Plan 5-4 in First Level III Appeal

Knoxville City Council voted 5-4 on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, to uphold an appeal and overturn Planning Commission approval of CR Endeavors’ 55-and-older community on the former Kerbela Shriners property in South Knoxville, the first Level III appeal ever to reach council.

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Pigeon Forge Gives Final Approval to Limit Data Centers and Vape-Hemp Shops to the M-1 District

Pigeon Forge City Commission on Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, approved on final reading a zoning change that allows data centers and recreational substance sales only in the M-1 district, the city’s small industrial area on Ridge Road near the county landfill, with a 55-decibel sound limit at data-center p

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Chattanooga Planners Back Open Space Zoning for Ross’s Landing Eateries and Lift a Mill Town Condition

The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission on Oct. 12, 2026, recommended Open Space zoning for a 100-block Riverfront Parkway site where River City Company plans a restaurant and cafe, and unanimously approved Ethan Collier’s request to lift a condition limiting several Mill Town p

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Metro Council Sets Nov. 5 Hearings on Three County Hospital Road and Hydes Ferry Rezonings

Metro Council will hold public hearings Nov. 5, 2026, on three rezonings near County Hospital Road and Hydes Ferry Road: a six-unit SP at 1701 County Hospital Road, an RS10-to-R10 change at 1814 County Hospital Road, and an RS7.5-to-R8 request for three vacant Hydes Ferry lots.

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Johnson City Planning Commission Weighs Keebler Meadows Phase 2 and 48-Lot Saxon Heights Tonight

The Johnson City Regional Planning Commission meets Oct. 13, 2026, on a Keebler Meadows Phase 2 preliminary plat along Suncrest Drive and a 48-lot Saxon Heights plat off Antioch and Woodhill roads. Staff recommends approval of both. Sewer capacity limits Keebler to 65 homes until downstream work is

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Maryville Zoning Board to Weigh 16 Attached Homes on Robert C. Jackson Drive Oct. 20

Maryville’s Board of Zoning Appeals meets Oct. 20, 2026, on a special exception for 16 attached residential units, or eight duplexes, on vacant Business & Transportation land on Robert C. Jackson Drive across from Worthington Boulevard. A separate East Maryville Baptist Church annexation starts at t

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Alcoa Takes Up Car-Wash and Self-Storage Rules Tonight as Springbrook Farm Home Plan Grows to 147

Alcoa’s Board of Commissioners holds public hearings Oct. 13, 2026, on new E-1 rules for motor vehicle businesses and self-storage, plus a commercial rezoning off Old Knoxville Highway. Two days later, the planning commission reviews a Springbrook Farm plan that grows from 130 to 147 homes.

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Chattanooga Council Takes Up 3935 Cromwell Road Rezoning Oct. 13: RN-1-6 to C-N, Planning and Staff Recommend Approval

Chattanooga City Council’s Oct. 13, 2026, agenda includes case 2026-0117: rezoning 3935 Cromwell Road from RN-1-6 Residential Zone to C-N Neighborhood Commercial Zone. The applicant is Rardin and Carroll Architects c/o David Decamp A.I.A. Planning Commission and Staff both recommend approval.

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Nashville Clifton Avenue SP for 12 Detached Units Passes First Reading, Public Hearing Set Nov. 5

Metro Council passed BL2026-1603 on first reading Oct. 6, 2026. The bill would change 3000, 3002, 3008, 3012, and 3016 Clifton Avenue — 0.73 acres at 32nd Avenue North — from RS5 to SP zoning for 12 detached multi-family units. A public hearing is set for Nov. 5 at 6:30 p.m.

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Washington County

Washington County Sets Oct. 26 Hearing on 628 Matson Road Rezoning: Staff Backs R-1 to A-1 on 19.2 Acres

Washington County commissioners will hold a public hearing Oct. 26, 2026, on rezoning 628 Matson Road in Jonesborough. Planning staff recommends approval of an R-1 to A-1 change on about 19.2 acres for Adam and Lisa Barrager. The same staff packet also prints a table that flips current and requested

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Blount County Weighs 12-Month Pause on 10-Lot Subdivisions and Apartments, Plus an AI Data-Center Moratorium

Blount County’s Board of Commissioners workshop on Oct. 13, 2026, takes up two 12-month moratorium resolutions: one pausing new applications for subdivisions of 10 or more lots and for apartment and multi-family projects, and another aimed at AI data centers while a county study runs. The monthly me

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Sevier County Zoning Rewrite Clears Planning: Hillside Overlay, Critical Slope Rules, and a Five-Foot Firewise Zone

Sevierville Regional Planning unanimously recommended a comprehensive rewrite of Sevier County zoning regulations. Staff said the largest changes are the critical-slope and hillside overlays, plus a new five-foot Firewise zone around building envelopes. The package now goes to County Commission.

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Three Knox County A-to-RA Rezonings Move Toward Nov. 9: Overton Lane and Morris Road Backed, Fox Road Flagged for Flooding

Three small Knox County rezoning requests from A (Agricultural) to RA (Low Density Residential) were heard Oct. 1. Staff backed 167 Overton Lane near Powell and 7851 Morris Road near Halls, and urged denial at 721 Fox Road, where floodplain and a TVA flowage easement limit what can be built.

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Walden Voters Decide Nov. 3 on Up to $1.4 Million in Debt for the 42-Acre Totten Tract

Walden’s Nov. 3 ballot asks whether the town should borrow up to $1.4 million to buy the 42-acre Totten Tract across from Town Hall. The vice mayor says private pledges have grown to $1.7 million. The mayor says the $2.1 million price is $250,000 above the appraisal and would take about $500,000 fro

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Metro Planning Overrules Staff 7-0 on Woodlawn & Saratoga Lot-Line Shift Near Bowling Avenue (2026S-151-001)

Metro Planning staff recommended disapproving a final plat that would move lot lines among three home sites on Woodlawn Drive and Saratoga Drive east of Bowling Avenue. On Sept. 24, the Planning Commission voted 7-0 to go against that recommendation and approve the plat with exceptions to the infill

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Johnson City Signal Project Rises $230,000: Six Intersections Get Mast Arms, Gray Gets a New Signal

Johnson City’s Oct. 1 consent agenda carried an amendment to a TDOT contract for a federally funded signal project. The estimate is up $230,000. Six intersections, four of them on South Roan Street, would move to mast-arm signals, and a new signal would go in at Gray Station Road and Shadden Road at

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Knox Planning Denies Nickle Road Hillside Request 10–3 and Woods-Smith Road Sinkhole Rezoning

On Oct. 1 the Knoxville-Knox County Planning Commission denied two Northwest Knoxville requests: extra hillside clearing on Nickle Road for an 18-lot plan (10–3, against staff’s recommendation) and an RN-2 rezoning on Woods-Smith Road over sinkhole risk.

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