Farragut planners to review residential growth projects
Homestead Land Holdings presented its final plat of Phase 2 for the Grove at Boyd Station to the Town staff during a Staff/Planner meeting Tuesday, June 2. At the same meeting, Urban Engineering Inc. presented a preliminary plat for Phase 2 of Grigsby Park.
At the Grove, Town Community Development director Mark Shipley said the developers are going to the northeast in the second phase at Boyd Station Road.
“This one has 32 lots,” he said. “It’s a little over 15 acres.”
The last phase, which included the roundabout is located to the southeast of the development, Shipley said. “This [phase] is pretty much due north of that. It’s up along the Cottages at Pryse Farms.
“It’s pretty straight-forward,” he added. “The only [staff] comments are there’ll be some letters of credit for this.
Do you know if the surface course [is down]…”
“It’s not down yet,” said Thomas Krajewski, vice president of land development for Anderson Baker, development manager for Homestead. “We’ve got it queued, but we have two other projects queued as well.
“I think we’re going to get the Stonemeade [subdivision] surface course done first. We’re fully prepared to do a letter of credit in the event that it’s not ready.
Also, Shipley said Homestead needs to reseed grass in some areas.
“Yeah, we hydro-seeded the entire site before the rains,” Krajewski said. “The rain kind of moved the hydro-seed out. [The rains] got the grass to grow. Grass is growing everywhere, but there’s patches here and there.
“We were talking to our erosion guys,” he said. “I’ve asked the erosion guys to do a little bit more work.”
For the next phase coming, “we’re going to continue utility work this summer,” Krajewski said. “The construction entrances, for the future work, is down at Boyd Station Road, so I’m going to try to keep those closed.”
At Grigsby Park, along Grigsby Chapel Road, Shipley said the second phase is being done by a second group of developers who took over the project.
“The first buildings are mostly built over here on the west side,” he said. “This is a different developer.
“I assume you are going to build out the rest of phase 1 and this [phase], too,” he said to Bradley Sharp, civil engineer with Urban Engineering. “They’ve got some field stuff to fix in this [Phase 1] that they’re aware of, and that will hold up this [second phase] until they get that corrected.”
The field items to which Shipley referred was the front of the units are all paved and there is no landscaping.
The preliminary plat for Phase 2 shows the public improvements needed to service the new portion.
“There will be a crossing [bridge] of this stream,” he said. “It’s an aquatic buffer
30 feet from the center line of the top of the bank on each side.
“That was another crossing, the bridge, to make sure we are compliant with [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] requirements there,” Shipley said. “Then,
as you go across the bridge and the walking trail, there’s the Grigsby Chapel Greenway.”
He pointed out the developers will need to add another access or the units will have to have sprinklers in the homes, a fire marshal requirement.
