MORE HOME DEVELOPMENTS ON THE WAY...WHEN IS ENOUGH...ENOUGH?
THERE IS SEEMINGLY NO END TO NEW PUD'S AND SUBDIVISIONS ALL OVER GREATER NOLENSVILLE AREA.
Local citizens need a score card to follow what's already been approved and what is in the process of being approved. Betcha can't tell from the following list of housing developments?
1. Nolen Park Subdivision.
2. Ballenger Farms Development.
3. Bennington Development.
4. Bent Creek Development.
5. Bent Creek Reserve.
6. Winterset Woods.
7. Silver Stream Development.
8. York Road Standard Development (1/2 acre lots).
9. Townhome Developments.
10.Britain Place.
11. Dugger Downs.(just kidding!) (sorta sounds like a race track)
12. Knapper Knolls.(it's got a nice sound..just kidding!)
We have missed some and others we don't know about, yet? We will update this list in near future. Nolensville's new Land Use Policy Plan just arrived for last planning meeting 11/10/05 so it may very well be true that many of the above projects got OK'd prior to the new land use blueprint. The Town Attorney, Bob Notestine, reminded planning commissioners that they wouldn't be making a blanket ruling on exactly what could be put on the land. Only the Board of Mayor and Aldermen can grant a rezoning request. So planning commissioners OK'd Option 1 of the Land Use Plan that allows the most density--300% more by some estimates. PAUSE! Where are we now?
...Here's where you need to connect the dots............................Ouch!
The Mayor appoints the Planning Commission members...right? The Mayor rules the board with an almost absolute majority vote in every issue that comes up before the board.. How SO? Well the Mayor votes and then two more board members vote with him--like robots everytime.The two remaining board members are always outvoted.
Now if the Planning Commission appointed by the Mayor of which he is a member and has voting rights recomends a Land Use Policy Plan with high density it goes to the Board which in turn approves it by a wide majority. Done deal..ain't it. Smooth, too! No fuss, no muss! That is, until one or both of those remaining board members starts asking questions?
Dang, it! Then in an open public meeting things can get heated! Why can't people just accept the fact that the "majority rules?" Well,when the people don't really know what's going on they tend to get a little testy!
Most local residents and even our good old country folk are not stuck on stupid. Why not invite local residents back to the meetings...prepare the future meeting agendas 7 days before the meeting...(put in online). Then after the meetings approve the minutes ASAP and make them available 7 days after the meeting (online). Email the final minutes'draft to the members get their approval via email and publish it on time (online) in 7 days. Stop playing "hide-in-seek" with the minutes for 75 days or more.
People have a right to know what took place in city meetings...ASAP!
Send in your comments and also to the Town Hall.
Local citizens need a score card to follow what's already been approved and what is in the process of being approved. Betcha can't tell from the following list of housing developments?
1. Nolen Park Subdivision.
2. Ballenger Farms Development.
3. Bennington Development.
4. Bent Creek Development.
5. Bent Creek Reserve.
6. Winterset Woods.
7. Silver Stream Development.
8. York Road Standard Development (1/2 acre lots).
9. Townhome Developments.
10.Britain Place.
11. Dugger Downs.(just kidding!) (sorta sounds like a race track)
12. Knapper Knolls.(it's got a nice sound..just kidding!)
We have missed some and others we don't know about, yet? We will update this list in near future. Nolensville's new Land Use Policy Plan just arrived for last planning meeting 11/10/05 so it may very well be true that many of the above projects got OK'd prior to the new land use blueprint. The Town Attorney, Bob Notestine, reminded planning commissioners that they wouldn't be making a blanket ruling on exactly what could be put on the land. Only the Board of Mayor and Aldermen can grant a rezoning request. So planning commissioners OK'd Option 1 of the Land Use Plan that allows the most density--300% more by some estimates. PAUSE! Where are we now?
...Here's where you need to connect the dots............................Ouch!
The Mayor appoints the Planning Commission members...right? The Mayor rules the board with an almost absolute majority vote in every issue that comes up before the board.. How SO? Well the Mayor votes and then two more board members vote with him--like robots everytime.The two remaining board members are always outvoted.
Now if the Planning Commission appointed by the Mayor of which he is a member and has voting rights recomends a Land Use Policy Plan with high density it goes to the Board which in turn approves it by a wide majority. Done deal..ain't it. Smooth, too! No fuss, no muss! That is, until one or both of those remaining board members starts asking questions?
Dang, it! Then in an open public meeting things can get heated! Why can't people just accept the fact that the "majority rules?" Well,when the people don't really know what's going on they tend to get a little testy!
Most local residents and even our good old country folk are not stuck on stupid. Why not invite local residents back to the meetings...prepare the future meeting agendas 7 days before the meeting...(put in online). Then after the meetings approve the minutes ASAP and make them available 7 days after the meeting (online). Email the final minutes'draft to the members get their approval via email and publish it on time (online) in 7 days. Stop playing "hide-in-seek" with the minutes for 75 days or more.
People have a right to know what took place in city meetings...ASAP!
Send in your comments and also to the Town Hall.
posted by Guest Writer at 8:38 PM
2 Comments:
Our family has lived in Nolensville for many, many years. Everyone in our family knows the way home. But things are changing and the old way home looks different. New neighbors and new friends are fine, but how many more can be squeezed into such small spaces? Nolensvile needs a "time-out" so our city leaders can tell us where we are headed?
Their are many orginal residents of Nolensville. My, the changes that we have seen. I am often amazed by the thinking process of the folks that have moved into Nolensville in the past 20 years, are you using your brains? What do you think was on the property you home is on before you moved to Nolensville? Lets see, was it open space, maybe a large farm? Yet, you want to stand up and scream about the growth in Nolensville, about the open space disappearing. If you were able look back like us, we remember before their was traffic, Sonic, a strip mall. Hell, the kids in our area were even sent all the way to Page High for school. So as you stand up a fuss about the Mayor, the aldermen and building, take a walk in the shoes of the folks that were here before you.
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