HAPPY NEW YEAR NOLENSVILLE!!!!!!!

GOODBYE 2005...HELLO 2006!!
SAY HELLO TO ALMOST 5,000
NEW NEIGHBORS TO COME.....
IN APPROVED AND PROPOSED
HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS
INSIDE AND OUTSIDE CITY
LIMITS. HOW CAN A CITIZEN
KEEP UP WITH THIS GROWTH?
NEXT THURS. 1/5/06 @ 7 P.M.
ATTEND THE TOWN HALL
MEETING. COME READY TO
SPEAK OUT ABOUT URGENT
CITY NEEDS: HEAVY TRAFFIC,
NO TRAFFIC LIGHTS, SKINNY
SUBDIVISON STREETS, CITY
STREET DAMAGES, AND ANY
THING THAT IS BUGGING YOU!

Newest Clovercroft/Cemetery Road OK! Passes New Inspection! Merry Christmas!

Open for only 3 months Nolensville's
newest Clovercroft road around the
town's cemetery passes new (second)
inspection. New samples show an
average of 8.38" of crushed stone base.
8" required. One sample showed 9.5"
of base.

Steve Cates of C & K Development
(Bent Creek) said he couldn't believe
the first test numbers were right.
"I was on the site with town personnel
when gravel was put down. There was
no way a person seeing the road during
construction could believe it," he said.
Cates said he knew the work load for
the city was heavy, but this should
have been addressed in the plan of
service.

How right, Mr. Cates is...city cannot
go on growing at current rate without
additional personnel, a full time City
Manager and better planning for
needed services.

Photo above shows a sign warning
No Construction Traffic. There is
no sign like it on new road. So it is
a matter of time how well the new
road with hold up after heavy
construction traffic? Older city
streets are falling apart due to
construction traffic. Who will pay
for the needed repairs and how
soon?

For more info...go to Tennessean.
com for Bonnie Burch's article
12/22/05 in county news. Send
us your comments and emails.

Girls & Boys Can Track Santa Sat. Nite Christmas Eve!

Ask Norad where Santa is this Christmas Eve.
Norad tracks Santa (a joint military effort be-
tween Canada and America) to protect Santa
on his flight delivering toys to all of the good
little boys and girls.

NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense
Command) is responsible for air and space
tracking, originally designed as a sophisticated
detection system for inbound Soviet ICBMs
and nuclear-armed bombers.

Every Christmas Eve volunteers spend Christ-
mas at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs,
CO answering phone calls from kids all over the
globe, while Air Force personnel from Canada
and the United States track Santa using four
high-tech systems: radar, satellites, Santa Cams
and jet fighter aircraft.

According to the Track Santa website, Santa gets
a fighter-jet escort upon entering North American
airspace.

On Saturday, your kids can call 1-888-HI-NORAD,
email NORAD at tracking@noradsanta.org, or email
SANTA AT northpole@officialsantamail.com.

Have your kids join in the fun folks, this is a very
cool program..NORAD TRACKS SANTA ALL THE
WAY DOWN TO NOLENSVILLE, TN.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!!!!!!

YES! Mr. Tom Moon,Divine Academician & Close Associate of Mr. Claus (Santa,that is!).

Way to go Mr. Moon! Nolensville
thanks you big time for donating
deed to playground to our local
United Methodist Church! Hello!
Mayor, Aldermen and Planning
Commission we can work with
Tom and Katherine Moon to make
Silver Stream Homes spectacular!
Mr. Moon, a former Vanderbilt
Divinity school scholar, is uniquely
qualified to appreciate exceptional
land use planning. Together the
city and Silver Stream can produce
a community park and home plan
for the Rocky Fork/Nolensville
corridor that others will envy!
Mr. Moon has agreed to relocating
Rocky Fork around the back of the
Methodist church including a bridge
over Mill Creek. PAUSE! Divine Idea
Moment! Why not a "pocket park" in
this area with a covered bridge and
old time bandstand, picnic tables,
shade trees, flag poles and sidewalks?
As Mr.Moon said deeding over this
acre for playground to the church was
the "right thing to do!" Now let's do
continue doing the right thing and
plan this area to show off Nolensville!
Thank you, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Moon for
your gift and starting us down the right
road to a better Nolensville community.
If you are reading this send us your
opinions, ideas and creative wish lists.

Newest Clovercroft/Cemetery Road Fails Inspection--In Bad Shape!

Open for only three months Nolensville's
newest Clovercroft road around the town's
cemetery fails road inspection. Judged to
be "not installed to specifications" by town
engineer Mr. Woodruff. A private firm
found only 1 to 2 inches of crushed stone
base instead of 8 inches as required.

How do you add 6 inches of gravel base
underneath the asphalt top surface???

Bent Creek home developers agreed to
build the road to get approval of their
800-home subdivision along Clover-
croft road. Bent Creek purchased the
land from a member of the town plan-
ning committee for $168,000. The new
road is estimated to cost $200,000 to
$350,000. Preliminary costs to fix the
road start at $138,000 and going up?
Suddenly $506 to $656,000 or more
becomes really big money????

Bent Creek developers said they cannot
control who uses the roads like very
heavy construction traffic. Ready-Mix
trucks, earth movers, bulldozers and
more have damaged many city streets.
Clovercroft, King and Sam Donald
streets have very deep potholes,crushed
shoulders and depressions.

This heavy construction traffic is head-
ed to Bent Creek and other subdivisions
ignoring the "No Construction Traffic"
signs. Can the city expect the Bent Creek
developers to pay for all of this city street
damage? How about broken water lines,
too?

Many of our city streets lead to the new
subdivisions and are the only routes the
construction traffic has to get to their
building site. Posting "No Construction
Traffic" signs by the city is not working.
So why not get the developers to fix our
city streets before they get any new build-
ing permits. Better yet hold up any future
approvals until developers agreed to fix
city streets they damage. For more info
click here for Bonnie Burch's article on
Wednesday 12/14/05. County News.
Send in your emails and comments!!!!

12/1/05 Oh Yeah! Ye Ole Town Meeting BOARD OF MAYOR & ALDERMEN

Meeting started promptly at 7 p.m. Mayor,
alderman and many in the audience had
just attended Christmas Tree Lighting at
public library. Merry Christmas to you,too!

Good citizen participation at beginning of
meeting covered various developments.
Comments included pros and cons of
Britian Downs and Silver Stream home
developments.

Mrs. Lillian Marusa, owner of 7149
Nolensville Road presented a brief state-
ment about an unauthorized attempt
by local realtor and prospective buyers to
rezone her property from Suburban
Residential to Commercial. She firmly
stated that at no time did she authorize
this attempted rezoning and that she
wanted the motion cancelled.

Her attorney had circulated a formal
letter to Mayor and Aldermen prior to
the meeting requesting that the rezon-
ing be immediately stopped. Mr. and
Mrs. Michael Taylor, prospective buyers
(represented by A & E Realtors) spoke
about a sales contract on Mrs. Marusa's
property that they were convinced was
valid.

Next to speak was Mr. Armatrudo of
A & E Realtors in Nolensville. He
strongly stated that he had an executable
sales contract by Taylor's to buy the
Marusa property and that he intended to
fulfill it.

Mrs. Marusa visably upset asked to speak
again. She firmly stated that there was no
valid sales contract and that she did not
sign any kind of extension to the original
sales contract.

At this point the town attorney said that the
city should not be involved in a dispute
between private parties over the potential
sale. Despite the fact that in a prior town
hall meeting in November '05 the board
passed (first reading) a rezoning motion
on this property Apparently without check-
ing on who the property owner was and who
requested and paid the fee for rezoning
motion. (Can you say "big gaping loophole
in town hall procedures?") Obviously, this
request should have been rejected and not
be processed by town hall personnel.

Thankfully, many different local citizen-
volunteers heard about it and got involved
(behind the scenes) to immediately take
steps to protect Mr.and Mrs. Marusa.

Nashville's largest legal firm, Bass, Berry &
Sims, prepared a formal letter to Mayor &
Aldermen requesting this rezoning action
be stopped or risk a serious lawsuit.

This citizen group of volunteers working to-
gether with an unbelievable quantity of
e-mails received via our Nolensville Blog
put a plan in place overnite to help the
Marusa's formally cancel any association
with A & E Realtors and then proceed to a
new legitimate sales contract for a future
sale.

Nolensville's citizens can be very proud and
assured that whatever the need there is a
group of very talented people that live here
ready to advise and protect it's citizens.
IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT??
AND A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE.....
NOLENSVILLE, TENNESSEE.

Mayor's report concentrated on a request by
Nolensville to TDOT for two traffic lights.
One at Clovercroft and another at Sunset.
Request was denied, but Mayor says he won't
give up on the request and is going back to
TDOT to convince them that there is far too
much traffic at both locations to continue
without traffic lights...just too dangerous.
Call or email the Mayor--tell him we need
both lights ASAP!

Public Hearing on Britain Downs develop-
ment by B & Y properties. Citizens spoke
pro and con about the PUD. There were
strong feelings on both sides. One alder-
man pleaded to get developers involved in
needs of town...like school support and new
equipment for fire department. Britain
Downs homes are in the $400,000 price up
...higher roofs and increase in sq. footage.
Potential looks good for Britain Downs to
donate to new school and fire department.

Next items were from parking on new streets
to width of street to allow for emergency
vehicles and yes...new home sprinklers
ordinance was amended to eliminate fee-
based option to opt out of sprinkler systems
for new homes.

New Silver Stream development on some 170
acres with 1/2 acre lots between Rocky Fork
and York Roads. The developer, Mr. Tom
Moon announced he had contracted for a
bridge builder and with road builder. This
would be for a new road off Rocky Fork
around Methodist Church to Nolensville
road. Mr. Moon asked the mayor if he
wanted him to share with everybody news
about county school board contacting
him to consider building new school and
recreation center down Rocky Fork road
east.

This came as a big new surprise to the
mayor, aldermen and everybody in the
meeting. Mayor told Mr. Moon this really
did change things and that the board
would have to consider all of this news
and how it would change plans for the
city.

Before the meeting was adjourned annouce-
ment was made about the Mayor celebrat-
ing his 39th birthday. Mayor responded
by thanking everyone, but said he had to
correct the record that he was closer to
54 years old. Mr. Tom Moon quickly
jumped up and wondered aloud if it would
help his cause if he had a birthday
yesterday.

Most everyone left the meeting in a positive
mood and especially thankful for their
fellow citizens immediately rising to the
need to help Mr. & Mrs. Marusa.
Merry Christmas to the Marusa's and
everybody in our special town. God Bless
America!

PS: URGENT NOTICE...DONATE TO
OUR NOLENSVILLE VOLUNTEER
FIRE DEPT. ANNUAL FUND DRIVE.
SEND YOUR DONATION TO: Nolensville
Fire Department Box 98 Nolensville, TN.
37135-0098

Send in your comments and emails to us.
Also send a Christmas card with note to
the Marusa Family, 7149 Nolensville Rd.
Nolensville, TN. 37135. Wish them well
and sorry to see them move. God's Best.