City Council - Regular Meeting

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Okay. It's 05:55 time for tonight's public hearing. There are four items on this public hearing, and I'll read those. When the items come up that you want to speak on, please step to the podium and state your name and address, and you'll have three minutes to speak. There is a a system on the podium there of lights that gives you a a countdown of your time, So please keep an eye on that.

Also know that tonight, there are some people out in the lobby. We have a TV out there for people to watch, and they they won't speak as well. So they'll get the chance to speak speak also. So I just want everybody to know that. So the the first three items are all on the same projects.

I'll read each one of those. Number one request by summit development for plan of services approval for about 246 acres of undressed properties on Maple Hill Road and Carver Lane. Plan Commission recommend approval by vote of seven one at the November 17 meeting. This reference is resolution number twenty six twenty eight ten. Request by summit development for annexation approval for about 246 acres of undressed properties on Maple Road and Carver Lane to be added to Ward 1.

Plan Commission recommend approval by vote of seven zero at the November 17 meeting. This reference is resolution number twenty six twenty eight eleven. Summit development for zoning approval for about 246 acres of undressed properties on Maple Road and Carver Lane to Cyrille hybrid specific plan in Ward 1. Plan Commission recommended approval by a vote of seven one at the November 17 meeting. It's reference order number 267340. So if anyone wants to speak on these items, now is the time. And, again, step the podium and state your name and address, and you have three minutes.

Wayne Miller. +1 45 I'm with Summit Development. You know, this this process has been very unique for us as a local developer and especially at planning commission a month and a half ago where we had a room very similar to this to where you had opposition. Sure. But we had an overwhelming sense of support from not only our residents in the community, but also our local builders, businesses, and trades because that's what we're here is intentionality on how Lebanon grows.

And you're gonna see that here tonight too. There's real support here from our local builders, businesses, and community because this matters. What I do wanted to be clear on is this development is for 311 homes. There's been a lot of misinformation, but that is the fact. These are single family residential detached homes.

Again, it's intentional for us to build communities that speak to the needs of where we're at in Lebanon, and I wanna hit on some facts with that. Trailing twelve months, and this was ending 12/30/2025. I want everyone to know that. There were 928 homes that were sold in Lebanon. Of those, a 125 of those transactions were 700,000 to a million dollars plus.

19 above a million, a 106 in the 700 to $999,000 range. Of those, 31 of those homes were from new construction. So think about that. Only 31 hit the price points that we desperately need here in Lebanon. And of those, those came from Reserve At Horn Springs. It's a county development. It's gated off of Horn Springs Road. Local builders, and it also included a regional and Shell Brothers. Del Webb. Couple million dollar transactions in Del Webb.

That's kinda wild, but that's true. Forest Of Lebanon, again, local builders. Farmington Woods, local builders. Brookside, local builders. Where are the other developments that speak to the demand that we don't have?

We or the demand that we have, but we don't have the communities that can actually perform that. That's the intentionality that drove us to actually say that we want to develop this. We don't wanna go after the future land use of 738 homes on these these two developments because that doesn't represent what is needed in Lebanon. For us to grow the right way and bring forward development that changes the landscape of Lebanon as we move forward as a community, this is why we are here, and this is why we're okay to have open and honest conversations. This is why we provided pattern booklets to opposition people to say, we're okay that you don't understand or support what we're trying to do, but we want you to know exactly what we're trying to do.

There's no smoke and mirrors. It's all out there. That's why they all have pattern booklets, and they have everything else that represents our community. And, again, that's why you see the local builders, the community, and businesses here tonight. Happy to answer any questions you all have should it come up, and we thank you again for your time.

Thank you.

Philip Donald, 914 Maple Hill Road. I believe all of you have the packet with resolution twenty six dash twenty eight eleven that has the map that the city put out. If you kind of follow along with that, you'll you'll see and connect the dots with what we're presenting. This is kind of emotional for me because it's my the 150 acres is my aunt and uncle's property in the other part of our farm. So I'm gonna try to read through this and not break it up and tear up over it, so bear with me.

I'll try to keep it together and keep it simple. This was originally presented as two different tracks. The specific plan committee gave it a negative recommendation to move it forward. City planning gave it a negative recommendation stating that it gave no significant benefit to the city and added a liability of five more miles of road that the city would have to maintain. On December 15, this was presented as one single project to the Lebanon City Planning Commission.

And I'm not really sure of the shenanigans that took place because it went really fast, and I couldn't really wrap my head around. There was a motion the second it got voted on. Chris was there. He abstained, and he could probably explain it better than I can. But sorry.

The it was a majority to move it forward with with that committee or commission. This proposed development has been making its way through the city planning process since July. Myself and members of the community have attended several meetings in in this very room, and there are a few things that we that still concern us. The Summit team has presented to us that all materials, builders, and resources are to be local ones. But when we have searched online about Summit, the results come back with ties to signature homes and financing in Alabama.

Number two, the minimum requested lot sizes was 8,500 square feet, but since then updated to 10,000 square feet, which when we do the math, puts four houses per acre. If left in the county, the 150 acre tract would have a 122 houses. The nine acre tract would have 78 houses as explained to me by Christopher Lawless of County Planning. Besides these two tracks, point number three, besides these two tracks of a hundred and fifty and ninety six acres, there is roughly 500 more acres that could be totaled up to approximately 700 acres that could be developed. And if the 10,000 square foot minimum is passed, these numbers would would moving forward would devastate the community.

So I respectfully asked Joey Carmack to make the motion to vote this as two separate entities, to have two votes for this to keep it separate. My mother has turned down $13,000,000 for our half of the farm. If it goes to 10,000 square feet, developers are gonna come out her her with more money.

Mister Rado, your time is up.

And I can't blame her if

she takes it. Thank

Thank you.

Hi. I'm doctor Casili, pediatrician here in Lebanon. I live at 648 Maple Hill Road. I'm probably not gonna say anything different than what anybody else is saying as far as our community does not support this, housing community at this time. Our roads, our schools, our sewer, we're just not there yet.

I am not opposed to anybody selling their land for development and selling it to do the the stipulations that are for the county is doable for our community and the road and the location. Just changing it and exiting it to the city and being able to put four houses per acre is is overdoing it. And I you know, I don't wanna stand up here and squash anybody's hopes and dreams, but I'm telling you, the people that get up here and who are for it, it's all about money. It's, you know, how much I can make by building the house or how much I can make by selling the land. I'm here practicing pediatrics and giving to my community twenty four seven.

I answer my phone all the time. I have people coming to my house when my clinic's closed. I give to my community, and I ask that y'all take care of your community on your vote today.

Thank you.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Rusty Keith, District 17 county commissioner. I've been asked to come here tonight on behalf of the people of District 17 to voice our opinion that nobody's in favor of the developments. But having said that, a man does have a right to make money off his property, so I would request that y'all honor the 40,000 square foot minimum that the county has on

a building

lot. And having said that, I would like to also, mister Carmack, see the two lots divided so that these are two separate building projects. It's my understanding that judge Tatum may need a variance of two or three acres to make this happen, but it's nice homes. And, also, having said that, the people in my area are not against nice homes. They don't want the apartment complexes, the condos, and all that. So if we could keep this respectable, the type of houses that they have in Farmington Woods, I think I would be okay with it.

Thank you.

Charles Smith, 433 Leelan Lane. We exactly zero new developments. What we need drastically is infrastructure to properly support the people we have here now. You know, I get the occasional power blank because we built a ton of houses close to where I live, but no supporting substation. My water pressure's gone in the ditch.

Again, more houses, no actual infrastructure. We've spliced in off of what we already had. It was designed for what we already had. The reason the street drop off into a lot of driveways and often to streets from, like, say, two thirty one or 70 or so stock sheet steep rather. There we go. It's because instead of actually grinding down all the way to the bottom surface, we just stacked on top of it. I took a picture, and I can show it to anybody who wants to see it. It stacked about that deep instead of actually grinding down properly. That's why you get these drop offs, like, behind AutoZone and all that stuff. It's the same thing all the way around.

Whether it's on 231 or College Street, it doesn't matter. It seems to be kind of an endemic like that. Epidemic like that. So it'd be all for a moratorium on any more building for a good ten years, and that's just to get the infrastructure caught up. Your infrastructure, what needs to happen there, and I'll give you some solid numbers here, is you need to be at 25% during nice times. Sound like right now, 60 to 80 degree weather? You need to be at 25% of potential output. No more. Period. That allows you 50% when we get into the really cold, really hot, and it still gives you some extra breathing room for the what the heck happened.

Right? You know, equipment failure, whatever. On top of that, how quick can we even think about giving up building permits when we got a water, you know, cleaning plant that hadn't passed in, what, two years? Makes no sense to me. If you wanna poison people, just say, hey. We wanna poison you. Thanks.

Thank you.

Hello. My name is Christie Chastain. I reside at 4464 Coles Ferry Pike. I am basically, my property is three lots down from where Trice Road comes out onto Coles Ferry Road. So you might as well say Maple Hill is feeding into me. There's been at least three occasions in the past three months I could not get out of my driveway because of major crashes at the end of Trice Road in Coles Ferry. This is an occurrence all the time. I went to Lebanon PD to try to get the numbers on Maple Hill and Main Street. They didn't have them. We've seen at least numerous accidents there.

The road cannot handle any more traffic than it already has. As far as developments and the lack of nice homes, I went by planning today. There is currently five developments that have not broken ground that are located between Hartman Drive, Coles Ferry, Main Street, and Hornstrings Road. These total a 34 homes that's sitting there hadn't even broken ground on that has been approved inside the city limits. I went to the water department.

The infrastructure on Maple Hill basically is horrible. Since August 2023, they have had two major water break mains. Since September 2023 to current, they have gone out on 11 service repairs from the main two people's water meters. On January 7 and March 6, two fire hydrants on Maple Hill were took out. Now these are by drivers that you're fixing to put, what, 700 more cars on this road.

There are no shoulders. There's blind curves. I personally have swapped mirrors with a truck on this road. And if you've never done that, that's scary. Have your mirror come in on you because somebody comes over on you around the curve.

As recent as the last two weeks, talking about water main and construction companies, there's a particular construction company that twice has busted the water main on Maple Hill Road from the water department themselves. There's no sidewalks on Maple Hill until you get about a half mile to Main Street. I talked to the city of Lebanon today. The railroad dividers on Maple Hill, they go out every single Monday and replace those dividers. Every Monday. And they're already down now. Half of them's already gone down. It's just Tuesday. They can't handle anymore. And I'm not opposed people making money for their property.

Keep it in the county. Keep it to large lots. Keep the density down. That's all we're asking. I personally said on a piece of property that's commercial property on Coles Ferry that I've been offered as a gas station. I'm not selling my people out. Thanks for letting me speak my piece, and I hope that he will maybe split it and do two different things, make a motion for that, vote on it as two separate pieces, and see how it goes from there. Thank you. Thank you.

Good evening. Yeah. My name is David Shump, and I live at 1502 Sweet Cherry Lane. I'm in a new construction development at Hawks Landing. There's an annexation project that's in planning for the community center between North Maple and Carver Lane, which is going to, I believe, directly impact our community.

And my lot specifically, which I'd like to speak to, The city in its infinite wisdom decided to they're that they plan to connect the road, Sweet Cherry Lane, which is the entrance to our development, with Ponderosa Trail. And this project is just to the northeast of that. There's gonna be increased traffic, I believe, obviously, with this commute planned community center. And most people will figure out the shortest way through North Maple to Carver from that. I don't know where the entrance and exit of that project is, but now we're gonna have traffic going through that road, which will connect with Sweet Cherry Lane.

I have a beautiful corner lot. It has a beautiful old barn that I love, and now I've gotta deal with potentially more traffic with vehicles that are gonna be doing this construction. All the children love you know, they do their thing. They play. They ride their bikes. They roller skate. Analysis is one more thing that they're gonna have to be worried about. Our community mailboxes right there, it just doesn't make any good sense. So this is a one way in, one way out development. It's beautiful.

We've moved there for that very reason. It's doesn't connect with anywhere else. So that's a major concern of mine. I would love to see somebody come in there and evaluate this due to that project that's planned in there. It will butt up against a nice cow farm there, which I don't know how happy they're gonna be with this. But I do appreciate the time to speak to this, and I appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you.

I'm Cynthia Lynn, and I live at 833 Maple Hill Road. And I appreciate y'all allowing me to speak today. And this obligatory fourth for this, I'll come to the second meeting. I missed the third meeting because the information didn't get out to me from the city of Lebanon. And then the second committee meeting, I have spoke with some of the people in the community and, spoke that mister Rick Bell, mayor Rick Bell, has, already approved this even before they got to votes that he wanted this done.

So I'm very disappointed in that. But my issue with this is new people coming into my neighborhood, and I have lived there twenty years. And as the young lady in the gray, the brown shirt said, our infrastructure is horrible. I have had more water outages than you have fingers and toes on everybody on this committee on my property. And then we get somebody that wants to come in and build a new subdivision and promise a new pumping station.

And I may get a new, water line out my way, so I won't have, water outages anymore. And I think that is a shame that, the county or city hasn't taken care of them, people out in, my area before now. But I also wanna say one more thing. I've talked to mister Miller several times through email, and we have been led astray on what the traffic is and the study for the traffic flow from our area. The traffic flow was measured at the end of Maple Hill and Highway 70 and at the end of Carver Lane and Highway 70.

There's plenty of areas, plenty of secondary roads, side roads where traffic goes, where they don't have to go all the way out to the end of the road. So that's very, it's not a proper, amount. It's not a proper amount, that's shown what our traffic is. In the other meeting that we were in, there was lady, lady that said that she spent, one hour, counting the number of cars that went by her house, and it was almost 300 in an hour. And for Maple Hill and Carver Lane to have that much traffic, it's it's unattainable for us to have that much more traffic coming into our area where there's no sidewalks, there's no banks or anything to be get off the road.

You can't get out. And I also wanna say one more thing. If we're doing this much building, I don't understand why we don't have more things for our kids to do if the money goes back into the community. Because if you look at the top 10 things to do in Lebanon, eight of them are in Nashville.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hello. My name is Mary Tom Donald Hahn. My address is 872 Nacke Pike, Cecilia, Kentucky. The land that's being concerned about is my hive of my family's farm that I inherited. And my mother even talked about how nice it would be to have nice homes on it. It can be developed. It's a beautiful piece of property, lovely trees on it. I don't know about all this other stuff that's been going on with it or the traffic. I'm old. I remember when it was a rock road, and I rode my horse on it.

But this is this is not my Lebanon that I grew up in. I left here when I married, but I would like to see I'm I'm impressed with the city development and the people that are going to build these houses. And I don't think it'll be ugly, and they may there are things that have to rework out. I understand that. But I I would say that I am for this development, and I hope that it will go through. Thank you.

Thank you.

My name is Roland Hahn. I'm from fifty eight Manning Circle, Cecilia, Kentucky. I'm the oldest grandson of Philip and Annette Donnell and oldest son of my parents. And I really hadn't this is the first time I've ever been to any city planning thing and, hopefully, my last. But I appreciate each and everything that y'all do for this city. I I was I lived here till I was three. But I've heard through my ears a few things about money, and let me let everybody know for sure my parents don't need any money. I can tell you that. Okay? They don't live high in the hog, but we've always lived where we can eat, have roof over our heads.

It's not about the money. If it'd been about the money, they would have sold it already. Okay? But, anyhow, the folks here I guess the legacy is and our trust in the developers is that it's being done here in Lebanon by Lebanon folks for Lebanon folks. And that's why my parents signed a contract with them and why they've stuck by for so long. And for those that thought it was about the money, I just wanted to let you know it's not about the money for my parents. Thank you.

Thank you.

Hello. I'm Anita Tate. I'm with REMAX West Main Realty, and I do represent the homes. But I want you to think about who's in this room. These are our local builders, roofers, developers, the handyman. They're local. That's what Summit is doing for us. And as a realtor, I really see the need for this. I can't tell you how many people, yes, they're moving in from everywhere. But I'd say in this room, not very many are local.

But what we do respect is the fact that they want to live in Lebanon, and there's many reasons people want to relocate to Lebanon. They love our schools. They love our community. They love the close proximity to the airport. There's so many reasons, but they love it here, and I love it here. My grandparents came from here. I live in Five Oaks. That was a 655 acre farm. Does everybody know what Five Oaks is now? We're a golf course and 400 and something homes.

The forest, it was a 100 acre farm. Mister Maxion did. It is now the forest, and it's part of Oaks Point. These builders back here are the ones that built it, and they're here to support us. And what I wanna leave with you and everyone else, we need to have faith in our leaders, which is all of you, and the hope that we can build a great community and the love for our city of Lebanon.

Thank you.

Hi. My name is Allison D'Andrea. I live at 519 Maple Hill Road. Anita actually sold us our home. I love her very much.

And when we moved to our property, we have 11 and a half acres, it was my husband and I's dream. We had always lived well, I had always lived in neighborhoods, and I was like, oh, yes. I can have a farm, and it's pretty close to town. And recently, we needed to get approval for putting a building on our property so that we have more room for our horse farm behind us. And we had to change our property over from being a multiuse property where we could have put townhomes, anything we wanted to put on it, which would have made us money.

But we had to change that over to an agricultural lot so that we could build the building on our property. So I'm wondering why are we gonna have hundreds and hundreds of homes come on our street, and I can't even build a building because I mean, you tell me. I mean, I don't understand. I am living in on this property for the beautiful views. I've got three children.

I taught in this in this city for several years, and now I run a farm camp. And it's lovely. It's not loud. We can see the stars at night. And if I had known they were putting hundreds and hundreds of homes literally next door, they're gonna take the forest between my home away where all my cows, my horses, my chickens, all of my animals look out at this forest right now, and then they're gonna be looking in people's backyards.

Am I gonna be able to have chickens at that point? I mean, I I just can't tell you how disappointing it is for me and the other people that I'm friends with on Maple Hill Road who have land, who have acreage, who we just wanna do things that are good for our community. And just really please take into consideration the pediatricians, the teachers, the people who live on this road because it's part of our heart. You know? Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

We gotta race.

Ladies, don't baby. He looks faster, buddy.

I'm not faster than anybody, but I should've worn my white hat. Let's see. I'm Barry Tatum. 114 Castle Heights Avenue in Lebanon. And as miss Holmes spoke here a minute ago, they have the tract of land that's to the west of Maple Hill Road.

Our family has the tract of land that lies to the east of Maple Hill Road. Tonight, I'm joined by my first cousin, Alan, my brother and sister, and my late cousin's widow, Sherry, who's joined us over here from Sumner County. We have another cousin watching on TV. Our grandparents, purchased this farm in 1955. And if you think about annexation, in 1955, where we are today was not in the city limits of Lebanon.

It's been annexed. You cannot stop annexation. You cannot stop growth. But what y'all do have the authority to do is do something that's responsible and proactive for our community. Growth is gonna come.

If it's not annexed in the city, it's not developed, if I were able to come back in fifty years, I dare say it will be. No telling what would be there. But I would like to ask the contractors and the materialman and the tradesman, anybody who's in the construction business that has an interest in seeing us go forward to stand up. These folks are like y'all. They are invested in this community. They grew up here. They have y'all can sit down. Thank you. They have families here. Their kids go to school here.

And if this is allowed to go through, this is a new concept where we don't have these bear army barracks type subdivisions that we've seen proliferate all over Lebanon in the last ten or fifteen years. This goes back to the, fairways and goes back to the South Forks and goes back to how 5 Oaks was intended to be as approval for this. Thank you.

That might be a tough act to follow.

My name is

Perry Neal. I live at 1000 Murphy Lane. I do not live in the Maple Hill community. I live on the East end of the county. Lifelong resident of Wilson County, born and raised here. I'll try to keep this very brief. Appreciate you guys letting us come up and speak. According to Google, I think it was last year I googled this up out in the parking lot. Approximately 51,000 people live in the city limits of Lebanon. I think that's about a year old, maybe, give or take.

Go back ten years ago, approximately 30,000 people lived within the city limits of Lebanon. Question would be how many people will live in the city limits of Lebanon ten years from today? That is what's in front of you, is it not? At what point do we say, I I I agree with judge Tatum. We need responsible growth. I I preach responsible growth everywhere I can go. You know? But responsible growth might be a lower density growth. I I just I really feel very strongly

that

the 50,000 people that you guys represent, I'm sure all 50,000 of them didn't vote. And if they did vote, I'm sure they didn't all vote for each and every one of you guys. But you represent each and every one of those people. You are the voice of the 50,000 people, not just the developers and builders in this room, not just the neighborhood. You represent each and every one of those 50,000 people. What do they want? They want more growth. They want more traffic. They want more school issues. Do they want more sewer issues?

I think we all know that the answer to that is a general rule. People of Ladman, you know, they they wanna slow they wanna slow growth down. And I'll I'll try to go ahead and finish this with one one really quick. We're gonna go back to junior high history here. I wasn't much of a student in school, but American history, if I had a favorite topic other than recess and PE, it it would have been American history.

So but, anyway, you've all heard this. And the government of the people by the people shall not perish from the earth. Obviously, that statement wasn't written and made about county, city, government, But this is where it starts at. This is where it applies right here in this room. You are the you are the voice of the paper for the paper. And I would I would ask that you, you know, let let this property be developed under the current R 1 county standards. Thank you very much for your time.

Thank you.

Good evening. My name is Leanne Blevins, and I live at 204 Peyton Farms Road in Lebanon. I'm not a part of the neighborhoods that will be directly affected, but I live out past Coles Ferry Elementary or Coles Ferry Elementary. Listen. Friendship. I live across from Friendship. I live in Nashville. It takes me longer to get to the interstate now, and I chose to be further out. But it takes me longer now to get to the interstate than it does for me to get to Metro Center to work in the mornings, unless I just go extremely, extremely early. If I'm leaving at 05:30 or six, then I can I can beat that kind of traffic?

I can't imagine Maple Hill being busier than what it is. There are already a lot of problems with Hartman Drive where they've extended the road through, from Coles Ferry out to, I can't even think of the name of the road right now. Rick may need help me, but the infrastructure stinks. You know? Everybody's already said that. You've heard that. But I just wanna give you a little bit different aspect of it that it takes me longer, and it didn't do that. It wasn't like that five years ago, but it is now. It takes me longer to get from Friendship School, basically, to the interstate. And I go Coles Ferry to Hartland, and that's the quickest route.

It takes me longer to get there than it does for me to get to Metro Center. So I hope y'all will rethink this. Thanks.

Thank you.

Gentlemen. My name is Tim Shaver. I live 100 lives away. I do live in the Maple Hill area. I travel Maple Hill and Carver Lane every day. My concern is them roads are dangerous as they are right now today. They're so narrow. You know, my neighborhood people walk all the time. What happens when all these cars come into my neighborhood? Where are they gonna walk? That's just my concern. That's all I have to say. Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Hello. Thank you for having us and letting us speak on this matter. My name is Kevin Pusis. I reside at 85 Trice Road. I just moved there with my fiance earlier this year. Beautiful property. We love it. I'm gonna hit on the same thing a lot of people have, the road. I take Maple Hill. I leave for work at 05:30 in the morning. I have been past you know, it's thirty thirty five miles an hour. They they changed it a couple times. I can't remember. Right? So I've been past doing 30 miles an hour at 05:30 in the morning on Maple Hill.

I mean, it's dangerous just to drive it anyway. You you just got washout, I mean, dangerous curves. You've got deer moving. I personally had to stop. Middle in the road, a deer nursing. I've got it on video. Deer just nursing in the middle of the road, 05:30. I mean, Maple Hill, you never know what you're gonna see. And, I mean, I love being able to see a lot of the kids, you know, that live in the apartments of Publix. You know? They're always out there playing. I see people riding their bikes and stuff, and I I enjoy that. You know? I was living in apartments for a while, and, man, it felt great to to buy a house. You know?

Think might be the youngest one in here. And I I share a lot of concerns with the community, and I haven't been here long, but I've seen enough. And I just respectfully would like the people take into consideration the infrastructure is not there. Thank you.

Thank you.

Derek Doss in 106 Chapman Drive. I just got in from the penguin races in the next state of Greenland. So I I realize y'all may think that I've tried to draw a turtle here, but I also realize y'all may be thinking that I tried to draw if councilor Morehead and councilor Brown had a baby, the gender sign of of that baby. What this what this actually is is a depiction of the diabolical scheme to have y'all all ran out of town. For you, councilor Crowell, that would mean back to bedward Bedford Falls under the under the thumb of mister Potter.

What this is is Maple Hill Road. So Maple Hill Road already has this half of a Nazi sign right here. Then the developer wants to add this roundabout increasing the obstacle. That happens. People driving Maple Hill Road, such as the folks taking their kid to Friendship School on this main thoroughfare between Coles Ferry Pike and, and West Main Highway 70, they'll would be cussing y'all each and every day the whole time for creating this obstacle course additional obstacles obstacle course for them. I'm done. Y'all are responsible for the zoning template of

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entire area of 700 plus acres on Maple Hill Road, not just this 246 plus this 46 246 acres plus factoring in that Maple Hill Road is a critical link between the Colesbury Pike Corridor and West Main Highway 70. This decision is about maximizing or minimizing the future traffic both on Maple Hill Road and at the intersection of Highway 70, West Main. If the 246 acres stays in the county stays in the county zoning, then y'all have served the long term well-being of this area. Today's January 6, fifth anniversary of the date that the president led a violent insurrection against police officers at the capital seeking to overturn an election.

Thank you.

Thank you for having us. My name is David Pierce. 1031 Maple Hill Road. I've been a resident of Maple Hill Road for the past thirty years going from Summerfield, moving on out the road a little bit, and built a property there. My builder's sitting back here at the back of the room. You know? And I support those guys too. My mother was a developer in this city and county for for many, many years. I know growth is not gonna be something that we cannot do. I mean, that that's gonna happen over time.

The thing is, you know, I sit there, and I'm in my if anybody ever drives down Maple Hill Road, I'm out there at the end of road. I'm working, you know, in my property, and there's a lot of traffic that flows through there. Of course, we all know that. Just recently, we added on the addition of the cut through from Farmington. You know?

And, you know, what what we've already seen there is the additional traffic that's coming through there that people are cutting through the properties, to be able to get out there to Maple Hill Road. You know? There's several times I've called Lee personally, you know, that we've got, you know, holes in the road out there. We need payment. Like they've talked about several times, the water, you know, especially myself and the signs, we're the last two pieces of property right there before it ends for the city water.

There's many, many times that we don't have any water because we right up the road there, right at at Carver Lane, it shut down because we're doing the repairs of every time they do the you know, something goes on there. So, you know, then you've also got the additional, you know, traffic that's coming in off of Coast Ferry. I don't know if you've ever tried to turn, off of off of Trash off of Trash Road on the Coast Ferry, either coming in or going out at nighttime. You can't see there. It's very dangerous when you try to come off.

It's a curve right there off the side of the road. You know? So you start to look at things, and I I think that's what we're really looking at here is that, you know, I know you you know, these these folks here wanna sell the property. Got no problem with that. I think we do have to look at the square footage, making sure because we're gonna set a precedent today if you decide to go this because there's additional property down that road. There's a couple of 100 acre farms that's that's right there at the curve, right across from the Crockett property as well. What's that set the precedent going forward that, you know, five, ten years from and that folks decide to do do something there as well. We're looking at additional traffic there too. So my ask of of of the city is to look at the infrastructure, really. I mean, let's let's go from one end to the other.

And, you know, we have to address those things. We have to address the water lines. We have to address the roads. You know? And we really I mean, as far as this committee goes tonight, again, you're setting a precedent moving forward with this piece of property with that amount of acreage. So I just ask that you really consider that before moving forward. Thank you.

Thank you.

My name is Chris Jackson. I'm at 416 West Main Street. And I'm just gonna say real quick, appreciate y'all letting us come out and speak tonight. I am for this. I work with a local builder, and, I think, this is a great opportunity for us. You know, looking at the numbers at at some things, I just wanna mention that 79% of every dollar we spend stays within Wilson County vendors and subcontractors. That's a lot of money. So I think it's a great opportunity to keep this going. Growth is gonna happen regardless. So why not keep it here and do it appropriately? Thank you.

Thank you.

Good evening. Kelly Stauder. 109 Springfield Drive, Lebanon, Tennessee. I moved here twelve years ago from Franklin. This sounds very familiar to me. I have been in front of this council before fighting for what I believed was the best thing for this area and for where I live. And I thank you all because I think you've made responsible decisions in the past, and I believe that you'll make those tonight. Traffic is always a concern, and I hear all these people from Maple Hill. For the last three weeks, I've done my own sort of traffic study just for fun. Last night at 05:30, came back from Publix.

I make a point of going Maple Hill all the time now. Last night at 05:30, from Publix to Farmington Woods on Maple Hill, one car. So every day, I drive Maple Hill now. I work from home, and I've been pretty much home the last few weeks. Every time on Maple Hill, I've not counted more than four or five cars.

I'm sure there are times that it's much higher. I knew I'd get laughter. I'm sure that there are times that it's much higher, but I've driven intermittently throughout the day, in the evenings, in the mornings. The most the most cars I've ever counted is about five or six that I pass in that short two miles. So I know that traffic is always a concern.

Secondly, in reference to whoever talked about, people passing, even in Farmington Woods when I try and turn right into my driveway, people will pass me on the left. So people drive crazy, and I don't think that that needs to be sort of part of the conversation. The things that I see, that haven't been talked about tonight are the park, the walking trails, the beautiful development that is gonna be accessible to children, to families, a safe place for people to walk, and an extension of their homes and where they live to be proud of. Growth is inevitable. We're not going to stop it.

You tonight have the ability to make some really important decisions about how we proceed forward with this, and I trust that you will do the right things. The money that I hear all the time, and I've said it myself, we need better restaurants. Thank you, Opry's, for coming here. We need more sit down restaurants. We need more places to shop locally. Stop spending money in Mount Juliet. Keep it here. The only way that we get those restaurants is with people, with new homes, and with people who can afford those restaurants. And that means the kind of housing developments that Summit is talking about putting in. That brings restaurants.

That brings people. No more, you know, drive throughs and, Target's coming now. Sam's is here, but we need sit down restaurants, and the money that these homes will bring in will bring the right kind of businesses to this area. Thank you for your time tonight.

I'm Wayne Powell with Larry Powell Builders, third generation Wilson County builder. I live at 1413 Sugar Flat Road. Actually, share a property line with mister Neil. We're a local builder. All of our subcontractors for the majority are right here in Lebanon or Mount Juliet, Wilson County. Our vendors are here. We buy from Fakes and Hooker, Lebanon Distributors, so on and so forth. Burdon Supply, they're all local companies. All of our people reside here. We wanna keep our business here.

We don't wanna go elsewhere to build. Why build elsewhere? We can build five minutes away from our office. My office is right here on Lebanon Road. I'm not gonna beat the bet dead horse with a bunch of statistics and everything. It's just keep something local for us. We're not national builders. We're just trying to put food on our table like everybody else is. So thank you.

Thank you.

Ryan Stevens. 535 Oaks Boulevard here in Lebanon Lebanon resident. These are two other builders here with me. I've I've been a builder in this community for twenty years, and I think something that has changed in our dynamics of building that's worth talking about is when I first started building years ago, you had an opportunity to go and pursue lots in independent developments, whether it was 5 Oaks, Plantation South, Gears Place, Shenandoah. You guys have seen that. And it's safe to say that in my twenty years of building, in my forty five years of living here, this community is not what it used to be. It's not. And I think in the voices that you've heard tonight,

you know,

everybody has an interest that they stand on, that they've seen where this community has changed, and it's not what it used to be. It doesn't mean that it's changed for the worse, but in the process of changing, we have to kind of move and adapt with that. Well, now in that at that in that adaptation as a builder, we don't have independent developments anymore. Those developers don't exist. And so the only development that you've seen going on is the track builders. So that's affecting us and our ability to pursue and get lots. That's also affecting the local consumer who doesn't wanna track build home. They don't. And they say, well, all this development's going on over here. Maybe we can go get a lot in there.

Absolutely not. Those proprietary developments are not allowing those local consumers the ability to build a custom home, to pick a floor plan on a specific lot that they want. It it's not available. And then, you know, some of what we've heard here tonight talks about the density, and they say, well, let's leave it in the county. Okay.

Fine in theory, but what that means is we're now no longer utilizing the sewer system for those developments. I don't know if you've picked up the paper here recently and read the news, but Adena's is not exactly doing a killer job with their wastewater on-site disposal systems. So if we think that that alternative solution is fixing the city's problem, it's not. It's compounding it. We're gonna be sitting in here a couple years from now talking about all the wastewater contamination that we have in our streams because the alternative measure that exists in the county doesn't facilitate work.

And then I think in closing, you know, much of what, you know, these guys are doing within their development is they are increasing the infrastructure needs that we have. Part of the infrastructure problems that you have with growth gets fixed with more growth. Right? Most everybody that's sitting in here is not wanting a property tax increase, are we? No. Because if we said we're gonna have a property tax increase, the number of people that would be in here would be a lot greater in opposition to that. So the growth that this facilitates helps to pay the bill for what we see in our needs for infrastructure. Thank you. Thank you.

My name is Bobby Eastland. 661 Brown Road. I live in the county, local builder. Second, what Ron just said, a lot of the same information, so there's no need for me to rehash that. I will tell you, miss Stater, I built their home twelve years ago. I think you said you've been here twelve years and lives in Farmington Woods. We build in Farmington. We build in Forest. We built in, numerous subdivisions in the city. There was one person here that made a comment earlier.

I'm not, for sure who did, but they they talked about the builders and the simple interest that it all boiled down to the money. Well, the the fact of the matter is that we've been in business for thirty one years. Thirty one years, we built in this community along with the county. We do build in other surrounding communities such as Sumner County. We're building in Hartsville today.

But it it is, like Ryan said, it's hard harder to find lots. There are no more George Thomases and Emery Mays that are gonna invite us and and sell lots to us. You know, we're competing with the national builders on a daily basis, and we're getting squeezed. You know, if I were in a position today starting out all over again, there's no way that I could do what I did thirty years ago. There's no way.

I've got a son that's in this room today that's, newly into this business by two years. He graduated from, Middle Tennessee State. Proud of him. Very proud of him. But if he had to walk the same path that I did thirty years ago, there's no way that he could do it because the national builders are squeezing it.

There's no opportunity for us to get lots until we find a small foothold in somebody like Wayne Miller with Summit Development Group that is offering us a chance to come in here and build in in a local environment. It is about money, not so much for me. You know, I'm I'm actually you know, I'm looking at the days of, you know, carrying on where I can go swim at any time of the day I want, you know, Phil. But the new the new generation of your local homebuilders, they're still out there, and they've gotta make and sow their own own oats. We have 23 full time employees.

Those are those are people that are living in our community that depend on salaries, that are spending money at retail establishments, that are going to shop at Publix, etcetera. No. That twenty three twenty three employees is a drop in the bucket as compared to the countless number of subcontractors that we we hire. They're not employed, but they're hired, and they work for us on a regular basis. Mister Stater, he's one of them. Your

time's up.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good evening, Jordan. Fleming Fleming Homes, 110 South Cumberland. And I'm just gonna echo on the heels on behalf of the the local builders. It's getting harder and harder. And collectively, when Wayne and Summit came together, the only way that we can keep it local is if we collaborate and get a group of of local builders to be able to do the horsepower to work this project.

The the national builders boxing us out, or we're scratching and clawing. The product that's been presented by by Summit is a good reflection of the people that are in here. You know, the the all brick, the higher end is something that you can be proud about. And, you know, going again with what Bobby says, man, we're this year hasn't been the best year, but we're trying to do everything we can to keep our people busy, create and and get innovative, to make sure that all of our our employees and all of our subcontractors, our local banks, you know, continue to move and keep everything going. I think what what product they wanna be putting out there is one that we'd love to participate in, and he's up here saying it's gonna be a collective local resources.

So the ask is that you guys consider that and and help keep us going. We're trying to plant seeds, not like we're gonna start building in 2026. We're we're here trying to present for for the next generation like Bobby's son. You know, we're talking about, you know, two years from now, and that's what we're here as a vested group doing is trying to secure some lot position because it's gotten harder and harder and tried to command, you know, scratch and claw for a couple of lots. So, you know, I feel like the the project that Summit's put together, is a benefit and a value add, and, I feel the people that are here are the ones that should benefit, and and get the opportunity to work in it. So, thank you for your time. Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Good evening. I'm Bart Netherland with Summit Development. 8650 Coals Ferry Pike, Lebanon, Tennessee. We knew early on that the first thing that we were gonna overcome would be infrastructure and traffic. We we want to do the right thing. We want to put these lots on the ground. One of the things that's required in CDs is that you do a traffic study. We've already done a traffic study. The city won't review it because we're not to the point that it will be reviewed in that process, but we wanted to get ahead of it. And we wanted to look at what the data is, what the real numbers are.

So I've hit on this once before, but we did study many different intersections around town. Obviously, out of our study, the worst intersection is at Maple Hill in '70. Right now, in the background of our study, we look at other developments that are coming in. There's three other developments that were considered. One of them is called the Hudson.

It is right before the railroad tracks on the left on Maple Hill. They're required to make improvements at that intersection and on Maple Hill. They haven't done it because they're they're about to expire on all of their entitlements. Their developer that they got entitlements, they didn't put the lots on the ground. They did it, and we don't really know what's going on there.

It's kinda the same thing on Carver. Developer, you know, secured the property. They went in, did some work, but, they didn't actually put the lots on the ground and, secure them. So right now, you know, it does show that there's traffic there, and it's not the greatest at West Main and Maple. We're open to working with the city on solving some issues there at that intersection.

And we would be open to working with you at the time of construction to look into that. Another thing is, you know, we we've talked about infrastructure, water, different things. I can tell you right now, the the PVC that we're putting in the ground, it has a 100 120 life expectancy. You will see some leaks starting at 70 years. That's a long time compared to the aging infrastructure around town.

Sewer is heavy wall SDR 26 pipe. It's hundred year minimum on that. When it does fail, we can go in and slip line that pipe. You don't have to dig it up like the age aging clay pipe around town. RCP drainage pipes, that's a class three concrete pipe, hundred and fifty year life expectancy, a lot longer than your metal culverts that are deteriorating around town. You know, we're committed to making pump station improvements, other major, very significant utility improvements around town. So we're we're excited. We're looking forward to it. We're hoping we can set a new precedent and have some very nice lots and a very nice community. So thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Well, first, I want to say thanks to everyone on the here tonight to allow us to come up here and express our views and our thoughts about this projected or proposed program, by Summit. I live on Maple Hill Road, 814 Maple Hill Road. Excuse me. I purchased 25 acres there forty one years ago, and I bought there because I wanted a rural environment. I didn't wanna be stuck 10 feet from another house or 12 feet like it's going on today in most of our construction.

I enjoy it there. I like the peace. I like the quiet. I don't like the traffic. The buzz today in Lebanon seems to be the aggravation and the frustration that people have about traffic in Lebanon in general, not just Maple Hill Road. The lady over here said she counted four or five cars on Mike Wheel Road in the rush hour time. No. I didn't say rush hour. You said five five

Sir, this sir, this is your time to speak, not to Alright. No. I

travel the road every day. I live there. And me and my wife, in a forty five minute span time at 02:00 in the afternoon, counted almost 200 cars. My house is almost strictly across from where Carver Lane comes to intersect Maple Hill Road. At that point, almost 200 cars.

Seldom can go to Maple Hill to Main Street or Highway 70 and traffic not be backed up to the railroad track. And I've seen it further than that. That intersection, I'll agree with the gentleman earlier, is probably one of the most busiest, and it's probably one of the most dangerous too because you got traffic coming out of Publix. You got it coming out of Snow White. You got it coming out of the car wash on Maple Hill Road, and it's very dangerous.

People get frustrated. I see them running lights every day because they're frustrated with the traffic, putting people's lives in danger. That what that's what should be important to y'all, the safety of the citizens. So this 311 homes, I think, was said, I think it would have a severe, long lasting impact on our community. I know there's a lot of builders here, and I know some of them.

Some of them are my friends, and I'm not for putting anybody out of business. But you can't put a burden on another group of people to to support someone else. Majority of the people are this. This this is massive

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your time's up.

About three minutes? Mhmm. I'm sorry. I had a lot more to say. I hope that you'll listen to the people, the citizens here today, and what their concerns are.

Thank you.

I live in 109 Springfield Drive in Farmington Woods. Talked to a lot of my neighbors in the last few weeks and overwhelmingly in Farmington Woods. We we have support for this build. I'm I'm a local contractor. I work with Bobby Eastland and Ryan Stevens, and this means a lot to my family. It means a lot to the people that work for me, which which live in this community, and their children go to school in this community. So it's very important that, I think we keep in mind that if you if you vote this down tonight within the year, someone else will be standing here proposing something else. And I can assure you it won't be near as good. That's all I got. Thanks.

Thank you.

How's it going? Christian Makari with Summit Development. Thanks for having me. Just wanted to make a few points. One, infrastructure.

Right? Everyone's complaining about infrastructure, and I just wanted to put it on the record that as a development professional who's worked in your community and across Middle Tennessee, I've had the privilege of working with an army of politicians, attorneys, engineers, land planners, city staff, including the ones that work here in Lebanon to solve infrastructure problems and plan for the future in that regard. And I think you guys do a great job. So just wanted to put that in the public record. Just wanted to highlight from our perspective what we believe is responsible growth and how we've written it into our zoning and into the SB.

Number one is density. Right? The future land use is medium residential, three units per acre. There's 246 acres, 311 homes that we're proposing. That is 1.4 units or 1.4 homes per acre on the Han property, and it is 1.05 homes per acre on the Tatum property for a total of 1.26.

If you look at your zoning code and really any other one across Middle Tennessee, that is considered low density. Another thing that we're doing is we're creating nine miles of sidewalk for families to enjoy for public safety. We're also creating two and a half miles of multimodal greenway trails. That's a 12 foot wide trail that you could ride a vehicle on if you want. You could take your Can Am down there if you want, or you could ride your bike or walk your dog or go for a run.

Public benefits from our perspective, we're creating a roundabout, and we're extending Carver Lane. That is a massive multimillion dollar investment that comes out of our pocket for public benefit. We're to sewer the property, we're gonna we will be required to put in a new regional pump station that's millions of dollars and take two aging pump stations offline. That's a public benefit in my opinion. You know, as far as neighbors and abutters, we're going to have landscape buffers, and we're gonna preserve tree canopy.

And, we're also gonna create new tree canopy because that's part of your new regulation, responsible growth that you're doing. On the Halston side, we're gonna do right away to right away grading. So the character of the land will be preserved. We are not going to mass grade and mass clear that land. So it's gonna be beautiful. We are going to deed restrict both properties to have a minimum of 2,300 square feet under roof. That eliminates a lot of the builders that these guys were complaining about. Right? Architectural restrictions. We're doing 75% brick four sided on the

homes. Your your time's up. Thank you. Anyone else?

Patrick Ritter. 1273 Trice Road, dead End Of Trice. Appreciate your time and being here tonight. I am against the annexation. I'm specifically not against the annexation, I should say, because I I agree our sewer systems are a mess. We have a school that can't even flush their toilets, but I'm there's, sewer pumped every day. So I'm not against the annexation. I should correct myself. Myself. I'm against the high density. I think some fact checking should go on. I do believe I just heard mister McCray say something about one house per acre, and I believe the, original proposal was 8,500 square foot lots. It's now been amended to 10,000

square foot lots.

The math doesn't add up for me, so I'd I'd ask somebody to check that math because I believe I heard one at house break or just moment ago. So I would be fine with the current 40,000 square foot per lot. I wouldn't implore anybody that's not in this for money to, give a large percentage, 50% or more to the local children that are in need. I know there's a lot of people said they're not in it for money. And if that's true, let's give it up to the kids.

Another thing I'd say, the contractors here, I respect y'all. I bought houses from several of these guys that built fine homes. I hope it's inviting on the percentage of contracting that will be done locally because sometimes in I'm nothing against Summit. I don't know them from other contractors, but I've seen plenty of this in my career that it all sounds good on the front end. We're all friends. But until the contracts are written, who knows who's getting the getting the work? So I will step down. Took half my time. I appreciate your time. Thank you.

Thank you.

We're fighting over who goes. Hello. I'm Deb Vorallo at 608 Ridgecrest Lane. I'm a new Wilson County resident of six months. Have really enjoyed it out here. Thank you very much. I think I bought the smallest house at 5 Oaks. So I don't have a lot of acreage, but I'm very happy to be there. First of all, I wanna say that I have a marketing and public relations firm. We work with a lot of different companies and developers, throughout Tennessee.

I only work with those that I know that are very responsible builders and developers. The reason I am working with Summit Development is because I respect what they are doing with this project. I'm very pleased how they have taken to to great consideration what they can do to do it. Because I deal with roundabouts. You can use those and make traffic flow a lot quicker and easier and safer. It's just people have wrecks when they don't understand it yet. That's what it is. Okay? I am glad that they're putting in the the walk the sidewalks. I didn't have that in my house in Old Hickory, Tennessee.

So I'm glad to see that. I see a lot of good responsibilities, and I've seen a lot of bad builders through the past. Summit is excellent. They're doing a real good job. They have communicated with the neighbors. They've sent out letters, emails. They've invited people to meetings. They've tried to meet with everyone they can. They've been very responsible, it's only 1.4 or 1.5 homes per acre is what I think Christian said. Was that correct? Christian. Okay. So I just think that I am for it. I think this is great. We have to have responsible builders, responsible growth, and it's gonna be local. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Hello. Wayne Oakley. 234 Cover Lane. I am going to ask that you guys separate these two developments, and there's a number of reasons why. The first is is you're talking about two totally different densities of development between the two.

I don't think they should be linked or lumped in together as one, especially when they are separated by what is be what is becoming a main road. That Maple Hill Road is becoming a main arterial road. Also, if the I love these builders back here. You know, I work with a lot of these guys. But if they are truly wanting to build the best houses, why not make both properties the same as the Tatum property?

I don't think there's anybody in this room who would be upset if the Han property was proposed to be developed same as, the Tatum property that would match Farmington Woods. Farmington Woods is wonderful, and I'm sure the I forget the the names of the two developments between the two properties. But the Tatum property, an extension of that would be great. Square foot one thing I have a problem with is the square footage that's listed. If you look at that, it says underroof.

That means garages, porches, any other type of roof element. So if you take a 2,200 square foot minimum under roof, what is the living square footage gonna be? 1,600 to 1,800. That's why they're asking for third acre lots, which I agree with Patrick. The math does not add up.

I guess it's common core math that I never understood and stayed in, mister Hutto's office for a whole third grade year over. Schools. One thing that's not been really talked about is schools. These two developments per Jeff Luttrell on how they say they determine if they need another school means a additional school just for these two developments. Now where is all the traffic gonna go to get to the schools?

Where are all our schools except for two located currently? Just a couple blocks from here. Have you been on Hartman Drive at 07:30, 07:00 to eight, 07:45 in the morning? Bless Kristen's life. She's trying to figure it out, but it is too much traffic. And this is going to do nothing but add to a lot more traffic in that area. So I just ask you separate the two, consider the Tatum property for the Han property, and let's get a true development that everybody can be proud of. Thank you.

Thank you. What else?

My name is Gail Montgomery. I live at 814 Maple Hill Road.

And I

just wanted to add something that I don't think has been considered or spoken about, just the water runoff. We bought our property. We've been out there forty years. We have 20 well, we have 19 acres now. And we knew that there was water, a water problem when we were building because we saw it and we took care of it. We never complained about it. We just took care of it. We have a call, a dry creek that runs down in front of our house that takes care of all the water. Under normal rainfall conditions sorry. I'm gonna have to read this.

Under normal rainfall conditions, we have upwards of 16 inches of water that comes across our yards. Most of this comes from the northwest side of the property on Carver Lane. Now we are seeing water pushing up from underground, likely from a natural spring. I doubt that any of this has even been considered. An extensive study needs to be done on this for a major project of this size is approved.

If this development moves forward, that water has to go somewhere, and it will be our homes and our land that are affected and who is gonna pay the price for that. Also, in a recent interview with Wilson County mayor highlighting twenty twenty five accomplishments, this statement was made and I quote, We continue to have conversations about preservation of farmland and our history of agriculture. We were also promised that growth would bring meaningful improvements to our community. Instead, we're getting car washes, liquor stores, and Dollar Generals while our roads and services fall farther behind. I urge you, the council, to protect the people who already live here.

This annexation is not in the best interest of Maple Hill Road, Carver Lane, or the city of Lebanon in Wilson County. Please listen. Please listen to the concern of the citizens of Lebanon, not to the voices who of people who have no interest in this town. Thank you.

Thank you.

Hello. I'm Taylor Eastland. I live at 600 Ambers Way. I am Bobby's son, and, I understand that I have a great opportunity in this town. But for a lot of these guys, they don't, and we don't want to compete against each other. Just just like he was saying, Hartsville. Jordan Fleming and I went to the same auction. We didn't even know we were gonna be there. We don't wanna compete against each other, and this this development allows all of us to build together. It's the national builders that truly are against us.

Tim Tomlinson's wife, she was my fourth grade teacher at Friendship Christian Elementary School. So the fact that I can not only work in Lebanon but have the opportunity to to grow up and and build houses here as well, we don't wanna go to Hartsville. We don't wanna go to Murfreesboro. We wanna be here. And I've actually had the opportunity now since graduating to build two houses for people that their kids go to Friendship Christian as well. I didn't think that that was gonna matter to me, but it does. There's something about that family aspect of living here, growing up here, and then helping the next family grow up here that is actually special to me. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay. Seeing no else, I'm moving on to number four. This request by staff for zoning code amendment approval to have 14.1212 vested rights to specify the type of development plans that will cause property rights to vest. Planning commissioner approval by vote of nine zero through November 17 meeting. It's reference order number 267341. I'd like to speak on that. Seeing none, we'll move on to our city council meeting. And I will call the meeting to order, and I'll ask Lee Clark to lead their invocation.

Let's pray. Dear lord, just thank you for this day. Just thank you for these folks that have came out tonight. They're very passionate about our community. Just be with us. Be with this committee. Be with this, council as they conduct business tonight. Watch over it. Give us the best things that we can do for our city. In Jesus' name, I pray.

Amen. Amen. Let's face the flag.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Roll call, please.

Mac? Here.

Jerry Ashley? Here. Camille Burdon? Here. Chris Crowell?

Here.

Chick Bryant? Here. Phil Moorhead? Here. Mayor Bell, you have a quorum.

Thank you. We also have the minutes from December 16 meeting. From councilor Moorhead, second by councilor Crowell. Discussion of those minutes? All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Thank you. Okay. Now it's it is time for communication citizens. So if you would like to speak with us about anything that's on the agenda tonight, now it's time to do that. So as I said before, I can step the podium and state your name and address, and have three minutes to speak.

6 Chapman Drive. I would just like to simply state with regard to commentary that I've just now heard that you folks are not estate planners. You're not real estate agents on the city council. And, thankfully, we have good local builders, but, you're not here to serve their interest. You're here to serve the next thousand to a million years of how that area develops, which again is over 700 acres without even counting the thousands of acres in the Coles Ferry Pike corridor, which use Maple Hill Road as a critical link between Coles Ferry Pike and Highway 70. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else?

For allowing me to step back up and speak again. I do wanna add one more thing to what I spoke up about earlier. There are several projects in our area within a mile of this project that are still going on. I went around to them today. There is actually four ongoing projects on Carver Lane that will actually very much impact what goes on on our traffic and infrastructure in a if you add it to what they're planning on doing, that spot if all of these are still going on whenever they start building, there will be five projects within a mile in my area that are gonna be working.

And if y'all know how houses are built and the vehicles that come in to that building decks, building on the inside, putting windows in, putting shingles on. That's multiple vehicles per house. And once again, I'm asking I do believe everybody has the right to sell their property to sell their property for what that is worth. However, I've lived out on Maple Hill over twenty years, and I'm asking that if this goes through for y'all to make it where we don't have houses sitting on top of houses and, 500,000 more people in our neighborhood. Thank you.

Could you state your name and address again one

more time just for the record?

Sure. Cynthia Lynn. 833 Maple Hill Road. Mhmm.

Thank you.

L Montgomery. 814 Maple Hill Road. I would like to say also, I've mentioned the water problem. It is a problem, and I there's something underground. So I'd like for you to at least consider that, and I'd like to hear an explanation of how that's gonna be something's gonna be done about that because I know it's gonna happen.

Thank you. Okay. Seeing no one else, we'll move on to, to my comments. I do have, a couple announcements tonight. The first one is this.

There's a opening on the board of adjustments and appeals. And so tonight, I'm announcing Reed Hinesley. He's accepted a position on on that board. This board is has a requirement that you either, should be an engineer, an architect, or a or a contractor, to serve. And sir Reed has agreed to serve on that board, and so I appreciate his his, willingness to volunteer for that.

And then also, next announcement is some sad news. Randy Ryan, who has worked in the gas department for over twenty years, just a couple days ago, he he passed away. And so he was a longtime employee here at the city and and worked hard for us, and I just want everyone to remember him and his family as as as they go through this time. Everybody at the gas department loved Ryan and and Randy, and and I I please keep them in your prayers. That's all I have. Councilor Carmack.

I wanna thank everybody for coming out tonight. This is how we make decisions. And, you know, being an elected official, you make tough decisions. You have to make hard decisions. And listening to all of y'all, I'm glad y'all all came. You know, I've said time and time again from sitting up here, I'm tired of the national builders coming in the city and and to overrun them and then leaving and not caring what they left behind. I believe these local builders, I know them, went to school with them, will do the best thing for this project. We have been working on this project for over a year. There has been multiple changes, and there's even more that I'm proposing tonight that will go into the SP that is gonna be the developer's gonna have to do. So, I thank you all for coming out, and I will vote my appropriate vote and make my motion at the appropriate time. Thank you.

Thank you. Councilor Ashley.

I just,

wanted to say that I appreciated everyone coming out. I think that we always are always grateful to hear from the people in the community. I know that I've heard a lot from people in the community regarding this issue. And, you know, from my perspective, and I believe from the rest of the council perspective, this is not anything that any of us take lightly. There's a lot of work that goes into this.

There's a lot of plans and meetings with developers and our planning department and our engineering department and asking questions. So, again, it it's a big deal, but I I think that you know, I hope that people have the confidence that we put a lot of work into the decision making process and we don't take any of this lightly. Thank you.

Thank you. Council Burda?

Yeah. I just wanna repeat. Appreciate everybody coming out tonight. It does make it, make at least our job a little easier when we do see faces that we're looking at. You know, we do have to make hard decisions and not gonna please everybody all the time. But, again, I'll ditto what Jerry said is that this has been going on a long time. There are many meetings. It doesn't start here. It ends here. I know that this group has had a couple neighborhood meetings.

They have gone through the SP committee more than once, unfortunately, I'm sure, I think, and gone through planning. You know, we we don't just make a decision here. We we do do the research. So but we do really appreciate everyone coming out. Whether you live in the county or not, we do wanna hear what you have to say because growth unless we put a moratorium on growth, there's always gonna be growth in our community.

And I think we're doing the best we can with our traffic, with our infrastructure, and we are holding our developers accountable when it comes to doing the sidewalks, doing the the pump stations, doing new sewers. And that's the not very exciting things, but that makes the biggest difference to all of us as we've heard here tonight. So, again, thank you for coming out, and wish everybody a great New Year.

Thank you. Councilor Crow?

Thank you, mayor. I want to also thank the mayor and Lee and all those who came out to Stonebridge today. We had a little accident out there, and the city responded quickly. And it's always good to see folks responding to local issues in a in a quick manner and making sure that things are taken care of and and done the right way. So appreciate all those who who who worked on that.

Just wanna, I guess, make a couple of comments tonight. You know, it's this is how a lot of us get started in public services, speaking passionately about something that we believe in. That's how I got started. It was a meeting like this where I got up and spoke my mind at that podium right there. And, unfortunately, what I advocated for didn't prevail.

So I decided to to seek a position on the city council, and I've been blessed enough to for the people of Ward 4 to select me on a couple of occasions and and appreciate that and don't take that for granted at all. You know, just as I'm making notes, and I made a note about everybody that came up here tonight, and I counted 37 different ones. A couple people got up and and spoke twice, but 37 times. And that ended about seven fifteen, I think. So we can't say that we haven't heard from the public on this issue, and that and that's really what we want.

You know, I'll also say that I serve on the as the designate from the city council on the planning commission. So I also got to hear this there, and I also got to hear it a couple of times at the SPN annexation committee, and another council person referenced that that that had had taken place. And, you know, I'm glad for the process. And I also not only wanna thank everybody for coming out and participating tonight, but the ones who participated all along. I mean, I've seen some of these people, you know, I think five times now.

And I guess it's a credit to their integrity that the story was the same all five times. And and maybe to to mine a little bit too, and then I I took notes each time. I think that's that's part of what's supposed to happen here. You know, there's also a a 100% chance that that there are gonna be people who live here to or attend the meeting tonight who I will make mad. I'm gonna make somebody mad, right, if I make a decision, and I'm and I'm gonna make one.

I guess a couple of other comments here. I think the the proposal, and it's it's been mentioned a couple of times about two different pieces of property, one on one side of of the road and one on the other. That actually was something that came through the SPN annexation committee, and it was recommended they at one time, were two separate ones. It was recommended that they'd be combined so that they could be analyzed as one project. And so that was something that came through the process.

I also want to acknowledge so I appreciate Wayne and the owners and everybody endeavoring and and working the marathon, which is trying to get through this process. I think it's healthy. It's healthy for everybody to see it. It's healthy for everybody to participate in this. I I don't think I've ever seen this many local builders out for for to support a project.

And I really appreciate that as well because, you know, we wouldn't have good quality houses in our community if it weren't for the local builders. And so I think that's that's a critical piece of of what we're seeing tonight, and I would like to see more local homes built by local builders in our communities. No question about that. One of the things that that people who follow, you know, my tenure on the council will note is my concern about annexations. You know, our city is over 40 square miles, and it's one of the largest small towns, if you will, in the state of Tennessee.

We're almost twice the size of Mount Juliet, 22 square miles, something like that. And and one of the concerns that I hear from my constituents who I'm here to represent is about the the size of our city, a lot of the annexations that have occurred. Some of them were before I came on the council, some of them while I've been on the council. But it's it's become more and more of an issue from the folks that I represent. And so that's a that's a big concern for me is the fact that that this particular project does include a significant annexation.

And so that's gonna weigh on on my position on this issue. And as we've said here, all of us, and we'll continue to the last two fellow councilmen who who will vote, you know, we'll we'll vote in a moment, and there may be some more comments. But I just, again, wanna appreciate everyone who's participated in the process, who's come out not only tonight, but throughout the opportunities to comment. And this is what this is what a community looks like that's growing. And I guess we should you know, it's a healthy thing to grow. It's a tough thing to grow because we're not always gonna agree on how we grow, but it's important that we all participate. So I wanna thank everyone that came out tonight. Thank you, mayor.

Thank you. Councilor Brian?

Thank you, mayor. I wanna thank everybody that came out tonight also. You know, I've lived here all my life. How many have lived in Lebanon their entire existence? So you remember back in 1972 when there were 12,000 people in this town. I do. That's when I was 14 years old riding a motorcycle. Wouldn't I wouldn't recommend that now to anybody. I also want to wish my granddaughter a happy birthday. She's 16 years old today, and she got her driver's license earlier this afternoon.

So let's give her a big round of applause. Thank you, and that's all I have.

Thank you. Councilor Morehead. Thank you, mayor. This is a this is tough. You know, I know right now one of the ladies that got up and spoke, I actually think the number's a lot higher, but said there's over a thousand units yet to under construction that haven't even broke ground yet that have all been approved.

There are, I'm sure, many more thousand, that plans haven't even been submitted, but the zoning's already in place for properties that are within the city limits. I also do agree completely with mister Miller in that, the number of homes that are in the million dollar plus category is sorely lacking. Because as fast as they seem to be built, they're snatched up. So as far as the, east side of this project, man, I'm completely on board, and I suspect that would be the piece of the project that most of these local builders that are here today would be involved with. I am concerned strongly about the density on the west side of the road, and the impact that's gonna have on, Maple Road.

And by listening to all the residents that live there, I've only had the pleasure of calling Lebanon home for seven years. So, but these people that have been here many, many years, I do listen to what you say. I do take that to heart. So this this is a tough call, but, if if this project were to come through in two pieces, I would support the East Side Of Maple Ridge or Maple Road, but, I have a real issue right now supporting the West Side.

So that's all I have. Thank you. We have a consent agenda of four items. I'll read all of those. Order number 257324.

Second reading to approve grant contract with Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation for playground improvements at Don Fox Park to authorize engineering services and to approve their latest budget amendment by Christian Rice, executive director of engineering and planning, and William Porter, Parks and Recreation director. Or somewhere twenty five seventy three twenty six, second reading to approve a budget amendment for the street department to roll over funds for the purchase of a tilt front hitch by Lee Clark, public works director. Or twenty five seventy three twenty seven. Second reading, to authorize the issuance of a refund to Bridgetown Foods due to a gas overbilling and to approve the related budget amendment by Chad Chad Muller, gas department manager, or square twenty five seventy three twenty eight, second reading to approve the consent decree in Tennessee Riverkeeper Inc. Versus City of Levin, Tennessee, US District Court case number 323 c v 01369, and to approve the related budget amendment by Andy Wright, city attorney.

Motion to approve.

Yep.

Motion by councilor Morehead, second by councilor Carmack. Discussion? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Thank you. Now new business. Resolution number 262810. First, need to adopt a plan of sir adopting a plan of services for the annexation at undressed properties on Maple Hill Road and Carver Lane to bed toward one request by Summit Development.

Motion to approve. Second.

Motion by councilor Carmack, second with councilor Ashley. Discussion? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? No. Resolution for twenty six twenty eight eleven. First ring to annex in property, undressed properties on Maple Hill Road and Carver Lane to be added to Ward 1 request by Summit Development.

Motion to approve. Second.

Motion by councilor Carmack, second councilor Ashley. Discussion? All in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? No. 03/26/7340, first rate to amend the official zoning atlas of the city of Lebanon, Tennessee by requesting zoning approval for about 246 acres of undressed properties on Maple Road and Carver Lane. Just rail hybrid specific plan to be added in Ward 1. Request by summit development.

Motion to approve with amendment. And director Rice, will you read those into the record, please?

Councilor Carmack's amendments are as follows. Number one, require pedestrian connectivity to meet the code. Number two, require an additional connection to Carver Lane as required in the code. Number three, require a minimum building size of 2,300 square feet under roof to be added to the design standards.

Number four,

require off-site road improvements at West Main Street and Maple Hill Road Intersection. Number five, require a type a landscape buffer along the southern property line and the western property long line along the trail in the Arden Subdistrict, which is the West Side.

Motion?

Approve as amended with amendments.

Okay. So we need a second. Second. Have a motion by councilor Carmack to approve with those amendments that were read by Christian Rice. We have a second with councilor Ashley. Any discussion? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? No. March 7341. First written amendment title 14 chapter eight section 13 to add vestry rights to specify the type of development plans that will cause plans that will cause property rights to vest request by staff. Second. Motion by councilor Carmack. Second by councilor Ashley. Discussion. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Thank you.

First one twenty six seventy three forty five, first reading to approve a budget amendment for the police department local option fund for delayed vehicle orders by Mike Justice, police chief.

Motion to approve. Second.

Motion by councilor Carmack. Second by councilor Crowell. Discussion. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Thank you. Motion on 267346. First rating to authorize hiring legal counsel to represent the city regarding the gasification facility matter by Andy Wright, city attorney. Motion approved.

Second.

By councilor Morehead, second by councilor Crow. Discussion. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Thank you. Motion twenty six seventy three forty seven, first reading to approve budget amendments for the street department to promote light equipment operators by Lee Clark, public works director.

Motion to approve. Second.

Motion by councilor Carmack, second by councilor Crowell. Discussion. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Thank you. Motion by twenty six seventy three forty eight for a surrender crate budget for gas line relocation of Hartsville Pike t dot project by Chad Mueller, gas department manager.

Motion to approve. Yeah.

Councilor Carmack, second one, councilor Crowell. Discussion? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Thank you. Alright. Thank you, everyone. That is the end of tonight's meeting. We are adjourned.