AG & D Millican asks FMPC for annex
AG & D Millican Properties, LLC., the property owned by the Millikan family, will be asking Farragut Municipal Planning Commission and, ultimately Farragut Board of Mayor and Aldermen, to annex a parcel of their Knox County property at 424 N. Watt Road into the Town.
Then, the owners will be seeking a rezoning from Agriculture to Attached Single-Family Residential (R-4) so they can build townhomes.
Attorney Ben Mullins, who represents the Millikan family, presented the request during an FMPC Town Staff/Planner meeting Tuesday, Sept. 2.
“(The Town has) to adopt a plan of services first, then go through the formal annexation process,” Town Community Development director Mark Shipley said.
“Just the annexation (process) could take a couple to three months,” Planning Commissioner Jon Greene said.
“I think it will be February, March before we’re finished with the whole thing if everything goes according to (plans),” Shipley added. “This will be advertised as a public hearing (for FMPC’s Sept. 18 meeting), but you all are actually going to take formal action, most likely, on this in October.”
“It’s kind of like the Land Use Plan,” Planning Commissioner Louise Povlin said. “You have a public hearing but you’re not making a decision (until later).”
The property owners’ plan of service request would include: police and fire; water and sewer; electric; solid waste; road maintenance and stormwater; recreational facilities and programming; street lighting; and planning, zoning and codes service.
The Planning Commission is to study the Plan of Service and compile a written report within 90 days of submission, according to Shipley.
FMPC will make the decision on recommending approval of the Plan of Service and then the annexation. Then, the plan and annexation will go before the Board of Mayor and Alderman.
Shipley noted of the 29.58 acres are already in the Town, so the property owners are requesting the remaining 18.8 acres be annexed.
If the property owners are granted the annexation,
they will be requesting the rezoning so they can build townhomes.
Along with the rezoning, they also will need to request the Town’s Future Land Use map be changed from Open Space Cluster Residential to Low Density Residential, which would require three to six dwelling units per acre.
Shipley noted he expects the density would be closer to three or four units per acre with that property. He also pointed out that zoning would require a 25-foot buffer.
