Getting down to business — addressing areas of improvement in Farragut
from the Town
Last spring, Town of Farragut residents participated in Polco’s National Community Survey, a benchmark survey that has been administered in towns and cities across the United States. The results of the survey were overwhelmingly positive:
• 97% rank Farragut as an excellent or good place to live;
• 95% rate their neighborhood as excellent or good as a place to live;
• 94% rate the quality of K-12 education as excellent or good;
• 93% rate the overall quality of Parks & Rec opportunities as excellent or good.
While it would be easy to rest on our laurels, the survey also indicated the areas where residents would like to see improvement:
• Community Design: 61% rate the overall design or layout of Farragut's residential and commercial areas as excellent or good;
• Mobility: 50% rate the overall quality of the transportation system as excellent or good.
We want residents to know that we listened to this feedback. Here are two projects that are under way in 2026 to address these challenges.
Farragut’s Community Development Department will update the Town’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan this year. The plan was last updated in 2012 and was intended to serve the community through 2025, said Community Development Director Mark Shipley. He will soon start the process of hiring a consultant to evaluate existing conditions and engage the public on future land use-related priorities.
In addition to considering how available land should be developed, the updated plan will address the Town’s existing transportation infrastructure — both roads and shared-use paths — and determine if there are opportunities to enhance efficiency and promote different transportation options.
“We want to put together recommendations for the coming years in a comprehensive way instead of just adding more lanes.”
There’s no denying increased traffic is an issue in Farragut, along with the rest of Knox County. A recent University of Tennessee study reports Knox County had a net population growth of nearly 30,000 people from 2020 through 2024, and this data doesn’t include growth in Loudon County, which further impacts Farragut roads.
The Town’s Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS), which was completed in spring of 2025, has improved drive times along the Kingston Pike corridor. But the Town of Farragut will take advantage of additional technological advances this year to make our intersections even more efficient. An adaptive signalization pilot project will include the four Kingston Pike intersections between Campbell Station Road and West End Boulevard. This pilot project will enable Farragut’s connected traffic signal system to better respond to unpredictable variations in traffic, assistant Town engineer Eric Schindler said.
While the ATMS utilizes signal timing patterns that were determined to be the most efficient for different times of day, assuming typical traffic flows, the adaptive technology can make changes in real time to those timing patterns when backups occur.
“It’s not magic. Kingston Pike is a heavily-traveled corridor,” Schindler said. “But we’re constantly striving to improve traffic flow in the Town of Farragut, and this is an additional upgrade.”
The Town plans to offer the National Community Survey again next year. We hope to improve our marks in community design and mobility in 2027.
