11/16/2021
This is a long post but please take a moment to read and then email our officials to let them know your concerns or thoughts.
This is the time we need to be planning our community, getting involved in shaping what it will become and truly using our voices to create the community we want to see.
On Thursday, November 18 at 7:00 pm, the Dickson County Planning Commission is going to vote on a series of changes to the Zoning and Subdivision regulations intended to protect the rural character of Dickson County's agriculturally zoned land.
PLEASE CONTACT PLANNING COMMISSIONERS RE RURAL AG PROTECTION ASAP.
These provisions do not apply to areas within Burns, White Bluff, Charlotte, Dickson city/town boundaries and only apply to land zoned AG in Dickson County, but it is important that everyone in the County regardless of where you live speak up.
The changes are intended to prevent dividing up street frontage into 1 acre side-by-side lots and encouraging larger lot development on more than just the street frontage. It is as important to tell the Planning Commissioners what we want, not just what we don't want!
The local Real Estate developers are already organizing to stop this protection and keep the status quo of transforming our rural/agricultural land and county roads into residential suburbs for profit. Don't let real estate developers be the only voice our County officials hear.
* Changing the minimum lot size in the Agricultural A-1 Zone from 1 acre to 2.5 acres
* Changing the minimum lot width from 100 feet minimum width to 200 feet.
* Requiring wider lots by changing the lot width-to-depth ratio from 4:1 to 3:1.
* Real estate developers will have to request and obtain a zone change to R-Residential Higher for higher density residential development of A-Agricultural zoned areas, which gives the public greater opportunity to be heard and the County greater discretion to grant or deny.
* The real estate developers do not build rural or agricultural projects. They build as many little houses as they can fit on Ag land along existing county roads. Their product is residential, not agricultural and certainly not rural.
If you support these changes, please email the Planning Commissioners and let them know. If you need more information, some of the Planning Commissioners are willing to talk with whoever is interested. There will be no public testimony at the hearing, but showing up and demonstrating support is also very helpful.
Contact and meeting information are below.
The meeting will be where the Planning Commissioners hold regular meetings at Buford L. (B***y) Reed, Jr. County Commission Chamber at the Dickson County Administration Building, 4 Court Square, Charlotte.
*Mayor - Bob Rial - [email protected]
*Director P&Z - David Darnell - [email protected]
*Hired Planner - Bryan Collins - [email protected]
Planning Commissioners
* Todd Berry - [email protected]
* Robert Wetterau - [email protected]
* Shane Chandler - [email protected]
* Robert Qualls [email protected]
* David Brogdon - [email protected]
* Harold Williams - [email protected]
* Gary Peeler - [email protected]
* RJ Comer - [email protected]
* Kristie Sullivan - [email protected]
* Beth Garrett - [email protected]
Imagine if we planned like the landscaper cultivating this picture then place into practice the activity of sowing good seeds.
