Please forward emails to planningintake@franklintn.gov and request the planning commissioners to support their staff's recommendation to deny this project by Wed 2-23 at noon.

If at all possible, please show up and fill the room at Franklin City Hall, Thursday Feb 24, 2022 at 7:00 PM.  Come early to sign up to speak against this plan.  Also, please continue to forward this to as many local citizens as possible for signatures and post on your social media pages.

Latest update info:

The requested re-zoning and high-density residential development plan for Brownland Farm is not the appropriate zoning or development plan for this piece of property due to all its constraints.  It is surrounded by the Harpeth River and much of it is in the floodplain. It is zoned AG now appropriately and should remain AG until something more suitable can be determined where there are not hundreds of people in harm's way in the event of flooding.  Here are some of the main issues:

1.Manipulating 80% of the floodplain where 70% of the lots will be in this flood plain.  This is not limited disruption as defined in Envision Franklin
2. It violates the Envision Franklin Conservation Design Concept 
3. The reduction of units from previous denied plan does not change the footprint of the development
4. The emergency evacuation access road is to be used for first responders, not residents
5. Critical Service Road, Hillsboro Rd, has more than 3 inches of water on it. Against stormwater regulations.  See map of flood water depths of 1.2 to 2.4 FEET on Hillsboro Road from city outside consultant that was provided to BOMA in September last year during the previous votes on this proposal. (See Map).

The vote was 4 to 3 last time, but what those that voted for it do not understand is that if The City goes forward with this project, they must sign off and state it meets all their stormwater/flooding regulations before FEMA will investigate and permit the alterations to the floodplain.  Here are the regulations of which (iii and iv) are not met: 

(e) Stormwater design requirements. New development shall meet a stormwater quantity level of service defined by:
     (i) Designing road catch basins and connecting culverts to convey the ten-year design-storm runoff. 
     (ii) Designing bridges, culverts, channels, and cross drains to pass the 50-year design-storm runoff. 
     (iii) Providing emergency bypass of the 100-year flood event.
     (iv) New roadway, existing roadways, and critical service roads are not inundated by more than three inches of water over one-half the roadway width under a 100-year flood event.  (See map)

Please support your community by sending emails again and showing up physically to give the commissioners the visual of unhappy citizens.

Thank you for your continued support.

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