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• I don’t understand why the Town of Farragut is pursuing spending millions of dollars on property for a park that is 10 years away versus spending that money to fix our current traffic problems — mainly the additional turn-lanes (needed) at Kingston Pike and Campbell Station (Road). … How big do we consider that? Fix our current problems versus investing in something that is 10 years away that may or may not come to fruition.
• There were some clearly inaccurate statements in Presstalk (recently). One, that the Town of Farragut is stonewalling Hy-Vee. The truth is, the Town of Farragut has been listening to the residents’ concerns and concluded (they) did not want a major grocery store that Hy-Vee wanted to build in the middle of a residential area that would add to traffic and safety issues, and also de-value property values to all the neighborhoods that are nearby.
No. 2, Panera Bread already was (near) Farragut in the Turkey Creek area, and they closed their store.
And No. 3, that we will soon have a Town (property) tax. That is simply not true because (Town leaders) will not even consider doing any kind of property or homeowners tax unless the residents of Farragut want it — and it would have to be researched and workshopped and voted on.
• Thank you for the Presstalk opportunity. So many people are concerned today about this tremendous growth of all these apartments being built in what you might say is downtown Farragut. Across from Kroger, what in the world is going on?
I remember when (Interstate) 40/75 in Knoxville was called Malfunction Junction. Well, Farragut, get ready for Malfunction Junction No. 2. It’s like people see a green area and they build something on it. Farragut is not what it used to be. I only wish the people who are building these apartments would get the opportunity to just live there and experience the confusion that’s going to occur.
The infrastructure of Farragut is not built to hold all of this. Somebody has got to stop this sometime. I know the Town is not going to do anything about it, but it certainly should because the citizens of Farragut are going to be suffering because of the amount of traffic.
• Unlike the naysayers, I fully support the (Town) purchase of land on McFee Road for a new Town park. I (applaud Town leaders) for not being swayed by a vocal minority.
• I just wanted to thank the Town of Farragut’s Public Works Department for their great job in responding to the recent storms we had on a Sunday afternoon — in particular in Fort West subdivision. We had several trees down blocking some of our roads, and the Town’s Public Works Department did a great job of getting out there on that Sunday afternoon and evening cleaning up the mess.
• I do not understand why a (Town decision) could have been (made) on such an item as the $5.5 million acreage on McFee Road with (absent decision-makers).
This should not have been approved without the other two.
• I wanted to express my wholehearted agreement with the caller (recently) talking about the addition of a Hy-Vee store in Farragut. There are just so many people buying groceries, so if you divide that up for another store how can you increase sales tax revenue?
You don’t. Do we expect people to come flogging in here from Maryville and Alcoa and Oak Ridge and Knoxville just to go to the Hy-Vee store? I think not. I believe that we do not need another large grocery store in Farragut.
