City of Franklin - File #: 14-737

• File #: 14-737
• Version: 1
• Name: oRDINANCE 2014-47; rEZONE 4133 sOUTH cAROTHERS
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 12/5/2014
• In control: Board of Mayor & Aldermen
• On agenda: 2/24/2015
• Final action: 2/24/2015
• Title: Consideration of Ordinance 2014-47, To Be Entitled "An Ordinance to Rezone +/- 195.5 Acres from Specific Development - Residential District (SD-R 1.72) to Specific Development - Residential District (SD-R 1.91) for the Property Located at 4133 South Carothers Road (Waters Edge PUD Subdivision) by the City of Franklin, Tennessee." (12/18/14 FMPC 7-0; 02/10/15 BOMA 8-0) THIRD AND FINAL READING
• Sponsors: Ald. Ann Petersen

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/24/2015	1	Board of Mayor & Aldermen	approved on third and final reading	Pass
2/10/2015	1	Board of Mayor & Aldermen	approved on second of three readings	Pass
1/13/2015	1	Work Session	acknowledged
1/13/2015	1	Board of Mayor & Aldermen	referred as a Public Hearing Item	Pass
12/18/2014	1	Franklin Municipal Planning Commission	recommended favorably to the Board of Alderman and	Pass

DATE: 12/18/2014 (REVISED)

TO: Franklin Municipal Planning Commission

FROM: Andrew Orr, Principal Planner
Catherine Powers, Director of Planning and Sustainability

Subject
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Consideration of Ordinance 2014-47, To Be Entitled "An Ordinance to Rezone +/- 195.5 Acres from Specific Development - Residential District (SD-R 1.72) to Specific Development - Residential District (SD-R 1.91) for the Property Located at 4133 South Carothers Road (Waters Edge PUD Subdivision) by the City of Franklin, Tennessee." (12/18/14 FMPC 7-0; 02/10/15 BOMA 8-0) THIRD AND FINAL READING
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Purpose
The purpose of this memo is to provide information to the Franklin Municipal Planning Commission (FMPC) concerning a rezoning request for Water's Edge PUD Subdivision located off Carothers Parkway.

Project Information
COF Project Number: 4726
Applicant: Greg Gamble, Gamble Design Collaborative
Owner: Real Estate Solutions Group, LLC

Background/Staff Comments
This project was originally approved in 2013 for 336 homes on 195.5 acres. The applicant is proposing to build an additional 37 homes, raising the total to 373 residential units. The additional homes will be peppered into the development. The applicant proposed to decrease the existing lot sizes to accommodate 37 additional lots, except for Section 1, which has already been approved.

The overall gross density increase is marginal 1.72 to 1.91. There are other developments in the new Carothers Parkway Corridor that have higher approved gross densities:

Ladd Park: 2 units/acre
Echelon: 2.9 units/acre
Lockwood Glen: 2.82 units/acre
Simmons Ridge: 4.6 units/acre

Simmons Ridge and Lockwood Glen have higher gross densities but they also have significantly more attached housing and multi-family units proposed.

However, approximately half of the Water's Edge site is floodplain and undevelopable. Once the informal open space is removed (floodplain and floodway), the net densi...