Green light for phase 3
West End Center owner Tommy Vann can move forward with Phase 3 of the development after the Farragut Municipal Planning Commission unanimously approved a site plan for a new 9,600-square-foot building Thursday, Jan. 15.
The building, at 171 West End Ave., will sit at the south intersection of West Point Drive and West End Avenue and tie into the existing
West End Center. The project also will require modifications to portions of the parking lot and an existing detention basin.
The item had been postponed in November while the applicant — The Architecture Collaborative on behalf of Vann — finalized a stormwater plan. With that now completed, Town Community Development director Mark Shipley said the project is ready, pending several conditions.
One condition still requires action from the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, which must approve a text amendment allowing the building’s façade to meet design requirements by averaging masonry percentages across elevations. Current rules require 75 percent face brick on each exterior wall, but existing West End
Center buildings predate the regulation and don’t meet that threshold.
Staff recommended approval subject to clarifying landscape and lighting plans, utility
locations, updated architectural notes, and submitting a $5,000 letter of credit for erosion and stabilization, among other items.
Commissioners briefly discussed relocating the dumpster, but engineers favored adding sidewalk access instead for aesthetics.
In other business, the commission declared the third Thursday of January as Betty Dick Day and approved Comcast fiber expansion along Kingston Pike.
