letter to the editor
Wanting attendance for FMPC ‘road’ item 6
If you live on the following roads in Farragut: Allen Kirby Road, Boring Road, Boyd Station Road, Evans Road, Herron Road, North Campbell Station Road (north of I-40/75) and Red Mill Lane, you should make plans to attend the Farragut Planning Commission meeting on April 17 to learn of Town plans for your road’s future. The meeting will be at the Farragut Community Center at 6 p.m. (Agenda item No. 6)
Our Town does not inform residents, other than public notices in the farragutpress in the back of the paper. You will not receive a letter from the Town warning you about these proposed road changes.
You may not want to have the traffic lanes of your road widened so much that speeding will increase on your road. You may object to an 8-foot minimum pedestrian/bicycle greenway in your front yard that may extend past the right-of-way requiring eminent domain purchase of your land. There is currently a lawsuit for the proposed greenway along Turkey Creek Road for these reasons.
The Farragut Planning Commission is on record explaining that wide roads mean more speeding. Some of the proposed road widening (to be) discussed on April 17 is excessive and unneeded.
In my opinion, this appears to be a way to install greenways as part of Multi-Modal Road projects, which some in the Town government believe is a way to get around a new state law forbidding eminent domain for park acquisitions. Greenways are linear parks. Widening of any road requires a great deal of time and inconvenience for construction. If you want your road left alone, please take the time to attend this meeting.
Mike Mitchell, Farragut
