Nolensville Passes Impact Fees on New Developments about 7 Years Too Late! Millions of $$$$'s LOST!

Buy this house now in Nolensville
and save over $25,000! 90-days from
now the price goes up on all new
development homes by $25,000 or
more!

Nolensville will now charge $2,912.
per single home, which is higher
than both the U.S. and state average!
The town's road impact fees are more
than fees charged by both Franklin
and Smyrna.

"On a 3,000-square foot house, the
builder, or the buyer of the house or
the house builder himself will have
approximately $25,000 in impact fees,
adequate facilities tax, the sprinkler
system, the sewer and water taps,"
said vice-mayor Tommy Dugger.
Don't forget this vice-mayor served
for many years on the town board
and refused to charge impact fees
Which cost the town millions of $$'s!

Finally, the board realized just how
much money they have lost and voted
in impact fees. This may result in
many developers going elsewhere.
And the town would not be able to
collect these new fees that are sorely
needed in our town's budget.

Or developers may just include
the new impact fees in their prices
and keep on building--time will tell?

Developers and homebuyers in
Nolensville now face the highest of
any fees in Williamson County.
In Cheatham county they charge over
$7,000 per new home...and many,
many developers went elsewhere!

CLICK HERE for Tennesseean article.

NOLENSVILLE MAYOR URGES CAUTION AS SHE BLOWS-UP $8 to $10,000 PLUS FIREWORKS AS DIRECTED BY DUGGER FORMER MAYOR DESPITE NO RAIN!

When Dugger says, "Do It", our Mayor
hops to it...no questions asked. Just
do it! When is the last time you wrote
an $8,500 or more check of the town's
funds and then promptly BLEW IT UP?

Damn the drought! Full speed ahead!
Fire off the bottle rockets and let the
sparks fall where they will? Tough
luck if your house and lawn suddenly
explode into a red-hot inferno?

Don't worry the Mayor's company of
professionals are covered with FOUR
MILLION dollars of liability insurance!
But first you'll have to prove that your
house fire was their fault? And is your
house covered for fireworks mistakes?
Since when can the Mayor guarantee
that no sparks will float over to your
house and start a barbecue?

It is no secret the town budget reveals
the town is seriously short of funds.
So What? Let's just show everybody
how "grown up" we are and hire a
professional fireworks company to
take almost ten thousand dollars of
town's money and BLOW IT AWAY!

Sorry folks, but the adults are just
not in charge in our town hall. Can
you believe it? The puppetmeister
and his "puppet-mayor" are still
hard at work burning up what's left
of the town's funds right in the
middle of one of the worst droughts!

What a terrific example for young
people. Town doesn't have the
money to spare to buy fireworks.
But let's do it anyway! To blazes
with the budget just blow it away?

PS: Ask our Volunteer Fire Chief
to cancel any fireworks displays
in the park due to extremely high
fire potential! He will do the right
thing even if the Mayor and Vice-
Mayor won't! BREAKING NEWS!
SHELLBYVILLE HAS CANCELLED
THEIR FIREWORKS DUE TO THE
DROUGHT DANGER FOR FIRE!

CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE IN THE
TENNESSEAN.

IMPACT FEES MEETING THURS. 6/7 ON NEW & ALREADY APPROVED DEVELOPMENTS

New impact fees on New housing
developments and SURPRISE also
on already approved developments!

That's right! In 6/7/07 board meeting
Henry Laird of planning commission
stated--"that housing developments
already approved would be charged
(new impact fees). They would be
charged, although they may obtain a
reduction that is dependent upon
what the developer has previously
committed." Truth is few if any
approved developments have paid
in any fees whatsoever.

You decide? How many developers
who have already been approved to
build in Nolensville and have hundreds
of homes built and sold will meekly
pay for NEW IMPACT FEES on their
already APPROVED DEVELOPMENT?

You already know what's next a flood
of law suits against the town with legal
fees going out the window! Two large
developers responded to this by say-
ing.."Don't even think about it! We will
take this to state and federal levels to
make it null and void."

Once again our Planning Commission
members reveal that they either are in
the Land of Oz or Disneyland?

Mr. Mullen, a consultant with the firm
Nolensville hired to study impact fees
said, "If the town had already required
developers to pay impact fees, that
money would have funded that project."
Meaning the Rocky fork realignment....
and many more urgent projects.

No impact fees to date in place is the
fault of our town board that refused
to charge new developments impact
fees for YEARS! Good luck to our
new Mayor in charging approved
developments impact fees?

Fox guarding the hen house! You
know the story...how about the new
Mayor asked the old interim Mayor
Dugger now Vice-Mayor and local
real estate agent to go talk to Mr.
Moon, Silver Stream developer,
attorney and former County Comm-
issioner to help town pay for the
Rocky Fork realignment. This is
the Land of Oz to the extreme.
You decide who is wheeling and
who is dealing? If Mr. Moon's York
Rd. development suddenly gets a
new water permit in exchange for
a token donation to the Rocky
Fork realignment guess whose
"paw prints" will be all over that
back room deal?

CLICK HERE for article in Tennessean.

QUESTION? WHO DOES CODES' PARTIME INSPECTORS REPORT TO? THE MAYOR OR NOBODY?

URGENT MESSAGE TO THE MAYOR
MAYOR LOTHERS OF NOLENSVILLE!

"MIKE" YOUR "RUNAWAY" CODES GUY
TELLS A BALLENGER FARMS RESIDENT
THAT HE HAS "NO SUPERIOR!" IN OTHER
WORDS HE AND HE ALONE IS THE CODES
"LAWMAN" SO STAY OUTTA MY WAY!


MAYOR LOTHERS BETWEEN YOUR TWO
HIRED GUNS IN CODES "MIKE" AND DON
SWARTZ YOU GOT A PUBLIC RELATIONS
PROBLEM THAT HAS BEEN FESTERING
FOR MONTHS. No for YEARS!

LISTEN TO A RESIDENT OF BALLENGER
FARMS TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED TO
HER COURTESY OF YOUR "MIKE" IN
CODES:

"We are in Ballenger Farms-- And yes-- it
was a guy named Mike, and he told my
contractor he has no superior. (Really?)
He showed up at my front door, no identifi-
cation, in an unmarked truck and told my
husband to tell the workers to stop work
on covering my deck. My husband told
him it was not his job to stop them, and
shut the door on him. He proceeded to
the back of the house and got into it with
my contractor.

We talked to our builder before starting
this project and they told us we did not
need a permit. 4-5 others in construction
said the same thing. Yes, we should have
checked with city hall before we started
work, but took the professionals word
that we did not need one.

He got rather hostile with us that day and
told my contractor to clear the job site in
an hour and he was coming back with the
cops.

Well, I went down and got a permit and he
said he would talk to my contractor and
tell him what had to be done.

Over the phone he told him the size the
footers needed to be, etc... We were in
those regulations. Then, when he came
to do the offfical inspection, he said the
footers needed to be 8 inches larger
(length and width) than what they pre-
sently were-- he needed to replace the
posts in the deck, among other things.

Then, he told me over the phone there
was no written down 1,2,3, way to build
a deck, this is just what he thought
should be done.

We feel we are stuck and have to comply
with him, but may take legal action once
the job is completed-- then my contractor
is going to file formal complaint as well.

I am having a baby in 4 days and just want
this finished!!!! So far this is costing us
about $500 extra on this project and we
are not done yet with all his "inspections."

I have also recently learned that a couple
down the street is adding a sunroom to
their house-- This Mike guy has cost them
about $6000 in extra costs because he
keeps changing what has to be done--
after he approved all the orginal plans
from their contractor-- this is ridiculous.

We also had a run in with this Swartz guy!
Beazer, our Builder, recently placed a
stone (no higher than maybe 18 inches
and 2 feet long) on the corner of our lot
[We have a corner lot and construction
trucks cut the corner and they have had
to replace our grass 4 times in 6 months]--
anyway, this Swartz guy saw my husband
in the driveway yesterday and told him
we had to move it. Corey told him Beazer
placed it there not us--He told my husband
that it is the city's property and it cannot be
there-- So, if they move it-- I will start send-
ing them the bill for new sod.

There are people in my subdivision that
have not cut grass in months-- it is at least
over your knees, but they are picking on us.
Plus, I have realized that I think they only
drive around looking for crap on Wednes-
days-- each of our run ins with them have
been on a Wednesday!!

Thanks for getting back to me-- I enjoy
reading your blog and hope we can stir
up some unrest and get these people
out of here that just like to personally
make people miserable.

They are making us go above and
beyond on a job that they cannot
provide us with any written documen-
tation that our deck needs to be done
their way. I think we will be forced to
comply or else they will FINE us!"

What about it Mayor? Ask anyone in
town--these (2) GOTTA GO BYE BYE!

If you have had a "run-in" with these
two twin terrorists from Codes send
in your comments or emails and we
will print every word.

This is a good example of what really
happens when the Mayor split the
engineering dept 3-ways. Hired
consultants for engineering, part-
timers for Codes and did nothing
for planning? Hence the "buck"
stops nowhere? Ala' Mike of
Codes "he has NO SUPERIOR?"

ROCKY FORK NOW COSTS 67% MORE OR $1,268,000! Next Year Cost Will Go Up to 1.7 or 2 Million!

This fall 2007 almost 900 students and their
families will attempt to squeeze thru the
intersection on the Rocky Fork Road and
Nolensville Road. This is in addition to the
thousands of cars now trying to get thru
this intersection without a traffic light.
(Town can't afford one?)

Due to lack of planning the town now
faces almost 70% increases in cost to
realign this intersection.

Even if the town board rushes headlong
ahead and signs a contract this week
construction will not begin until some-
time next year? Maybe? Question? Do
you know of one professional person
on our town board QUALIFIED to read
and sign a contract for Rocky Fork?

Contractor will no doubt run into un-
anticipated delays and cost over-runs
in the thousands. Can you say 3 Million
and counting?

In the meantime students attending this new
school along with their parents will be ex-
posed to the most congested and danger-
ous intersection in town. They can thank
our town board and planning commission
for this inexcusable lack of anticipation &
planning.

Want a sample of how the board works?
Alderman Alexander said "If we don't do the
road that is planned then Rocky Fork will
not have a correct access to Clovercroft."
(Truly, profound!)

Alderman Dugger said, "Maybe we should
hold off and look for alternatives...maybe
back up and look for alternatives" (The
meter is running up to 3 Million or More?)

Alderman Ken Thomas offered another
profound insight: "that kind of delay could
mean another large increase.!"

Nobody said a thing about unmanageable
traffic and the danger to new school
students and their families?

Just another example of "Irresponsible
government"- the Mayor said "was not
acceptable--and the answer is not that
the town cannot afford it."

Right on Mayor! Your problem is that
you don't have a board that plans
ahead much less a planning comm-
ission. Time is money and the town
is way behind the curve with no
ability to get ahead of rising costs?

Go ahead a build a new road on a
known "flood plain" ignore the en-
dangered crayfish and rising costs.
Truly a train wreck just waiting to
happen! This is a project that too
many contractors would "die-for"
multiple problems and no cap on
the overall contract!

CLICK HERE for article in Tennessean.

NOLENSVILLE (X- YRS. LATE!) CONSIDERS ROAD TAX ON NEW HOMES~$3,009 Per New Home*

*Plus $1/SQ. Ft.--- new tax per house from
County on 7/1/07! Total tax to date on a
new house would be over $4,000 ++.. the
highest in the midstate! One exception is
Cheatham county with over $7,000 per

new home as of 1999.

"Some fear new fees will force developers
to build elsewhere! " DUH! How bad would
that be? Add over 1,000 new families every
year for the next seven years or more!

Finally, after some 16 housing develop-
ments surrounding town of Nolensville that
weren't required to pay one penny for im-
pact fees the town board has realized how
many millions of dollars the town has lost!

The dirty big secret is that before approving
any development the town is required to file
a "plan of service" with state that guarantees
each development will receive adequate fire,
police and road maintenance.

Wonder where all 16 "plans of service" for
developments in and around Nolensville
are filed? Look for a round file.

The system is "broke" since 16 develop-

ments to date have been approved by
town board with NO MONEY FOR INFRA-
STRUCTURE? Suddenly we need very
large IMPACT FEES? Very poor plan!

In today's paper the Mayor says.."If folks
moved in (to developments) and we didn't
have impact fees they would say 'We can't
get around,' and we (town) said 'We can't
pay for that,' THAT'S IRRESPONSIBLE
GOVERNMENT! Well golly gee whiz?

Nolensville has an irresponsible town
board approving 16 or more sub-
divisions to date with NO MONEY TO

SERVICE THEM!

New impact fees do not necessarily mean
the developers will go away! Surprise.....
surprise...developers seeking approval
from the town will file law suits one after

another against the new fees!

Why? Because the 16 developers already
approved and now building DIDN'T HAVE
TO PAY IMPACT FEES!

Ever wonder where our town's so-called
planning commission has been? Absolute
miserable track record=toothless tiger!

How come they didn't demand impact fees?
Don't ask where prior two Mayor's were..
everybody knows! This new Mayor just
maybe can get some impact fees in place...
but it will be a very tough fight having
inherited a mess! Town will need a very
large "legal fees" budget for law suits.

BOTTOM LINE--Nolensville needs to take a
"time-out" and create a plan that will protect
our town and put it on a sound fiscal plan.
Hire a professional "outside AUDIT" of town

administration from top to bottom and then
just DO WHAT IT RECOMMENDS ASAP!

PS: tell town board to hire a 24/7 town mgr./
administrator--an experienced professional
like Franklin and Brentwood.

CLICK HERE FOR TENNESSEAN ARTICLE.

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Dennis Miller Slams Harry Reid

Nolensville (Board) Approves $3.6 Million Budget with Little or No Discussion or Fanfare!

No discussion...very little attendance
and no fanfare---you decide what this
report means?

Can you possibly accept the fact that
nobody really cares about the town's
budget details?

And the fact that the town's "guaran-
teed majority vote" on the board
approved this budget unaimously is
absolutely no surprise.

Here are a few details about this bud-
get that most don't even want to think
about--$1 Million to help COUNTY reno-
vate the 35-year old Nolensville Elemen-
tary school PROPOSAL. And then
"maybe" town would be allowed to
occupy a small amount of space for
town hall? Nobody said anything about
a new recreation center?

County would continue to own school.
Town would probably have to lease the
space for a town hall from the county.
Proposal--means it may or may not
ever happen?

$12,000 for a Codes department car--
& we don't have a Codes dept. Manager?
At least not yet?

$47,000 for a fire truck and $250,000
town's 50% share to match the county's
50% share to build a new addition to the
town fire hall. Good deal!

Don't forget the 4 to 6 cent tax increase
per $100 of accessed value. Still not
enough to support the town's obligations
and No Impact Fees in Sight? You decide
if we are on the right track?

Something to think about? Nashville
Metro controls the sewer fees! Private
Water Company controls the water fees!
County controls the schools! County
owns most of our fire hall!

What does our town board really control
after all? You decide?
CLICK HERE for article in Tennessean.

Draft Fred Thompson

Help Draft Fred Thompson

NOLENSVILLE SPLITS ENGINEERING DEPT. 3-WAYS: PLANNING,CODES & ENGINEERING! SO WHO IS IN CHARGE? BUCK STOPS WHERE?

Not One, but
three people
will report to
the Mayor?




You decide? Good or Bad? Or splinter?

Is this "divide & conquer?" or is it "divide
and splinter?" Out-sourcing is "in" so that
when things go wrong...nobody is in charge.
Nobody gets blamed and best of all the out
side engineering consultants still get PAID!

The "buck doesn't stop anywhere!"

You can predict the future senario...the out-
side engineering consultant recommends
another engineering firm to do the work.

Worst case senario it is the firm that he
works for or is some how tied into?
Follow the money is your very best
course of action.

What about codes and planning? They
both are in desperate need of STRONG
leadership.

Listen to what Greg Langeliers, town admin-
istrator of Thompson's Station said about
how they upgraded its engineer from part-
time to full time SO THAT DEVELOPERS
FOLLOW TOWN CODES & REGULATIONS.

Nolensville fired former engineer Rich
Woodruff who was paid some $70k plus
benefits. Paper says he "left?" This money
should be used to help hire a full time town
mgr./administrator/professional.

BTW how come Thompson's Station has a
full time town administrator and Nolensville
has NONE?

Bottom line? Nolensville has paid a very
high price because of non-uniform codes
administration and unqualified members
of the planning commission.

This 3-way split will result in spending
more that the original $150,000 budget
and you won't be able to find out who is
responsible for what? Splintering and
fragmentation is one of the oldest politi-
cal tricks in the playbook. Don't look at
me I didn't have anything to do with that
disaster.

Click Here for Tennessean articles 6/4/07.