Kingston Pike Village has a new site plan
With a new site plan showing the commercial aspect of Kingston Pike Village, located behind Little Joe’s Pizza along Kingston Pike, the Town is asking for a traffic study to determine the trips per day from the proposed development.
“Canon & Canon did the original traffic study” for the Planned Commercial District development, Farragut Community Development director Mark Shipley said as Daniel Smith, developer with Fourth Street Capital, presented site plans for the commercial segment, which fronts the apartments, during a Staff-Developer meeting Tuesday, Aug. 5.
“We’re open on tenants,” Smith said. “We’ve had a lot of interest for the retail spaces.”
The original plans called for a Food City store but changed through the years.
Smith said he is considering using Ajax to do the traffic study.
In the traffic study, “they really need to think about whether that’s going to end up, along with the Publix on the north side, requiring a traffic signal,” Shipley said. “It would benefit all of (the businesses) to have one. It’s just a matter of participation in paying for it.
Smith said, if the signal is warranted, he will ask the other businesses about a cost share, and Shipley said the Town probably could also be involved in that cost share.
“I don’t want to hold up the project, but you’re not obviously going to have a traffic study before (Farragut Municipal Planning Commission) meets (Thursday, Aug. 14),” he added.
“We usually have (a traffic study at the Commission meeting),” Planning Commissioner Jon Greene said.
Smith said he did not think one would be needed because it had been done several years ago, when the development was first initiated.
“But, I guess there’s not a grocery store …” he added.
“That, and I think the original traffic study (Town engineer) Darryl (Smith) looked at was for the Food City,” Shipley said.
“If anything, there will probably be less foot traffic,” the developer said.
The approval “could be contingent though (on the traffic study),” Greene said. “We don’t really approve; we recommend to the Board (of Mayor and Aldermen).”
“The overall layout wouldn’t really change much, other than that area up there at the access,” Shipley said.
