Algood will propose expanding its urban growth boundary, expanding mostly north and east.
The county’s Joint Economic Development Board will consider the plans. Algood City Administrator Keith Morrison said the city does not have plans to annex the additional areas anytime soon.
“Cookeville borders us on the South and the West, and so we are pretty much landlocked there,” Morrison said. “And all of those existing areas that we are growing into, we have existing waterlines. So we already service those areas with waterlines, so it just makes sense that they should be in the urban growth boundary.”
Morrison said the planning commission had requested to add the first parcel touching Buck Mountain Road and sections of Lane Road, Brotherton Drive, and Overlook Circle to the initial plan. Morrison clarified that being in the urban growth boundary does not mean the area will be annexed.
“It just adds it for future possibility to be annexed,” Morrison said. “If it is not in the UGB, you can not annex it. So we are kind of just marking territory that we think would be possible to grow into.”
The council also approved a resolution to appoint the Joint Economic Development Board to review the plans from all of the communities before submitting them to the state. Morrison said the state requires a growth planning coordinating committee to be voted on in each community.
“Putnam County, Baxter, and Monterey have already voted to recognize the Joint Economic Development Board as the county growth planning coordinating committee,” Morrison said. “The JECDB is what this is, and it has a representative from all communities on it as well as other entities, the school board, [and] things of that nature. So we each have a seat on that, everyone has a voice.”
During the meeting, the city held the second public hearing for the plan. No one spoke, and Morrison said no one spoke in opposition at the first public hearing either. Council unanimously approved the plan.
