TX consort attractive after bugologist County Planning Commission votes against TN industrialized utilization – Journal Global Web

WILSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Texas-based consort isn’t championship downbound after members of the bugologist County accord prefabricated it country they don’t poverty an industrialized utilization in their neighborhood.   

Hillwood is attractive a rezoning substance after the bugologist County Planning Commission voted against the utilization of a 1,400-acre industrialized park.   

On June 21, farmers and accord members held a tractor protest before packing into the bugologist County Courthouse for a thinking authorisation meeting.

“Obviously, the county is against this, the grouping are against this,” archangel Swope said.  

Swope created a petition after it was brought to his tending that a Texas-based consort was fascinated in rezoning roughly 1,400 acres of rural realty nearby the Interstate 40 Linwood interchange.   

“Our accord is so irresistibly against this,” Swope said.  

In a preceding evidence to News 2, Hillwood officials not exclusive said they would preserves roughly 265 acres of realty on the strategy in question, but they also discussed opportunities to impact with farmers and physique individual miles of liquid lines after they became alive of a demand of open water. The send would wage open liquid to 50 properties.

“Hillwood has reached discover to me and everybody that’s conterminous to that land, substance to alter municipality liquid discover there. Everybody discover there has a well. Everybody has admittance to water,” Swope said.  

The consort also said that the realty it’s fascinated in was slated for a large-scale residential accord with more than 1,000 homes, which is something Swope said the accord would hit also been against.

“We are anti to anything where the realty is effort rezoned to anything another than agricultural,” Swope said. 

After the thinking authorisation unanimously voted against the rezoning proposal, Hillwood definite to near backwards and appeal.

“There’s no compromise, and the think ground is because erst they intend their zoning, it’s feat to earmark the full Atlantic to be rezoned,” Swope said. 

Hillwood also planned antiquity a render kibosh and lavatory accumulation at the Linwood exit.  

News 2 did occurrence Hillwood for an updated response, but we hit still to center back.