‘Saddling up’ a Boring Road subdivision, 12.7 acres? Staff discusses
Saddlebrook Properties is looking to develope 12.76 acres along Boring Road for a subdivision.
Russ Rackley, engineer representing Saddlebrook Properties, presented a proposed preliminary plat for the development during the Town of Farragut’s Staff/Developer meeting Tuesday morning, Feb. 4.
The property lies between Waverly Court, located to the west of the property, Baldwin Court subdivision and the proposed elementary school to the east and Village Commons to the south. The developers are planning to create 32 residential lots.
“It was rezoned a few months ago,” Farragut Community Development director Mark Shipley said. “It was R-2 and R-1, and they rezoned it to R-3, which is the same zone as Baldwin Park: small lots, single-family detached.
“Village Commons stubbed in a public access easement here that (Saddlebrook is) tying into, so they meet the Town’s connectivity requirement of having more than one way in and out of the property,” he added.
“There is some wooded area on the plan. Most of it’s up here on the northern third of the property. The rest of this has been kind of cleared over time, and a lot of it’s kind of grown back in to scruff and Bradford pears and things.”
One plan discussed “is to tie in a sidewalk, bring it down all the way through and then there would be an internal sidewalk,” Shipley said. “A detention (pond) area is down here (indicating a southern area).
“This will not be on the (Farragut Municipal) Planning Commission agenda this month,” he added. “It will be, I’m sure, on for March.
“There are some things that are required, when you submit plans, that weren’t provided, like the tree plan, some of the utility information, streetscaping (plan). I think they’re well on their way to getting those things done.”
One point he made about R-3 District, “it is unlike the open space residential, buffer strips areas that are required. Like in R-3, you have a required buffer strip around the side and the rear and then the detention (pond) — those required spaces that can’t count toward a 10 percent open space.
“Whereas in (Open Space Residential), which Russ and his guys are more familiar with — and it’s an understandable oversight — you can count those, but it’s a 35 percent open space,” Shipley added.
The community development director also said “there are walking trails that tie into the property that need to be connected with the proposed development, as well as making sure the lots have the required amount of street frontage and the plat does not show the required open (common) space for residents.”
They also discussed the design of the road entering the proposed subdivision.
“It will discourage school traffic (from using the subdivision) from coming in that way,” said Brian Mohney, agent/Realtor with Saddlebrook Properties.
“I’m sure we’re going to have a lot of conversations with the (School Board) about things dealing with traffic,” Shipley added. He indicated the parents’ and staff’s cars will be entering the school from Village Commons.
“They’ve got about 5,000 feet of stacking (along Village Commons Boulevard,” he said, adding one of the Planning Commission’s conditions will be to ask the school system to pre-grade for a third stacking lane while they have the equipment on site.
“One of the considerations for doing this project with Saddlebrook was that through traffic would be a negative to residents,” Mohney said. “I’ve heard the residents of Baldwin Park and Boring Road are concerned about (the traffic).”
However, he added he is not worried about there being traffic (in the subdivision).
