The attached resolution requests approval of minor modifications to the OSRD Development Plan for the Traditions Subdivision. The revisions involve the installation of US Post Office-approved Cluster Box Units (CBU) at the existing amenity center, located at 9033 Carnival Drive.
On September 3, 2019, the Planning Commission voted unanimously (10-0) to approve a revised preliminary plan for the Traditions Subdivision and forward a recommendation of approval of the corresponding changes to the OSRD Development Plan for the project to the Board of Commissioners.
In June 2019, the U.S. Post Office notified City staff that a new policy had been developed intended to establish the most efficient mode of mail delivery in new residential developments. The policy affects all new and under-development subdivisions in the Middle Tennessee delivery district. It is the responsibility of the customer (developers and builders) to provide the necessary mail receptacle equipment.
The CBUs are intended to facilitate centralized mail delivery and are freestanding, pedestal-mounted mailbox units containing varying numbers of individual mailboxes and parcel compartments.
Usually, the freestanding mailbox at the end of each residential driveway includes the address numbers for the house. Because freestanding mailboxes will no longer be present, it is a condition of approval to install an address post at the end of each driveway to facilitate emergency response. The address post must be in place before a certificate of occupancy will be issued for the structure.
Because the proposed changes affects the improvements within the permanent open space, approval of the corresponding changes to the OSRD Development Plan by the Board of Commissioners is required.
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At its May 29, 2018 regular meeting the Board of Commissioners approved Resolution 2018-40 which proposed minor revisions to the OSRD Development Plan for the Traditions subdivision. The approved plan proposed the addition of a fireplace and two pergolas at the amenity area for the subdivision. The amenity area is located in Open Space Area "B" in the southwest quadrant of the intersection of Parade and Carnival Drives. The outdoor fireplace will be approximately 12’ 2” tall and 16' wide. The proposed pergolas are 24' long and will flank the fireplace. The plan also slightly adjusted the boundaries lots 16, 17, 94, and 95 and the internal street right-of-way area to match the approved construction plans. This proposal also corrects the area of Open Space H.
At its January 22, 2018 meeting the Board of Commissioners voted to approve Resolution 2018-06, which authorized changes to the OSRD Development Plan for the Traditions Subdivision. Specifically, the changes relate to the design of the amenity area located in Open Space Area "B" of the project.
At its October 26, 2017 meeting, the Board of Commissioners approved Resolution 2017-60 which increased the total number of lots within the project from 126 to 127. Lot 127 has been added within Phase One, in Open Space “C”, adjacent to the arterial road buffer for the future right-of-way of McEwen Drive. The lot includes an area of 24,546 square feet or 0.56 acres. The addition of Lot 127 also decreases the amount of excess open space for the subdivision from 7.55 acres to 6.56 acres. The total area of the project remains unchanged at 149.82 acres.
At the August 28, 2017 meeting ot the Board of Commissioners, a revised OSRD Development Plan was deferred from the agenda.
At its July 24, 2017 meeting, the Board of Commissioners voted to approve a revised OSRD Development Plan for the Traditions Subdivision that reconfigured the boundaries of Lots One and Ten, increasing their area and decreasing the amount of excess open space from 7.56 acres to 7.55 acres. Additionally the plan proposed entrance features to include a signage and landscaping, which will be located at the intersection of Carnival Drive and Wilson Pike in the permanent open space for the project.
On November 28, 2016, the Board of Commissioners voted to pass Ordinance 2016-10 on second and final reading.
On November 14, 2016, the Board of Commissioners conducted the required public hearing for Ordinance 2016-10. No one spoke either for or against the proposal. A previous public hearing was held on October 10, 2016, but it was determined that public notice of the hearing had not been published.
On September 12, 2016, the Board of Commissioners voted unanimously six for and zero against (6-0) to approve Ordinance 2016-10 on first reading. The ordinance establishes the OSRD zoning classification for the 3.092 acre remnant tract created by shifting the McEwen Drive right-of-way, slightly to the south.
On March 28, 2016, the Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to approve Resolution 2016-15, which authorized minor revisions tot he OSRD Development Plan for the Traditions subdivision. The revisions included the relocation of a segment of the previously approved approved walking trail that connects Grey Point Drive in Inglehame Farms to Pageantry Circle in The Traditions.
At the Board of Commissioners meeting on January 25, 2016, the developer requested withdrawal of consideration of Resolution 2015-78 from the agenda. The action was requested to allow the applicant to explore other alignments for the proposed walking trail connecting Grey Pointe Drive in Inglehame Farms to Pageantry Circle in the Traditions Subdivision.
At its regular meeting of November 23, 2015, the Board of Commissioners moved to defer Resolution 2015-78 - A Resolution Authorizing an Alteration to the OSRD Development Plan for the Traditions Subdivision, to the January 25, 2016 meeting for consideration.
At its September 10, 2007 meeting, the Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to approve Ordinance 2007-23 on first reading. The OSRD plan included street connections at Sydney, Grey Pointe and Charity.
At its October 1, 2007 meeting, the Planning Commission voted to recommend approval of Ordinance 2007-23 to the Board of Commissioners. The recommendation included a statement that Charity Drive, a “collector road,” be extended, while consideration be given to not extending Sidney Lane and Grey Point Drive into the Traditions development.
At its October 22, 2007 meeting, the Board of Commissioners voted four to two “to reflect that:
- Charity Drive will be connected into the Traditions subdivision from the Inglehame subdivision;
- Sidney Lane and Grey Pointe Drive will be closed to vehicular traffic but with connection to Inglehame for pedestrian and bicycle use, with bollards separating the sections between the two subdivisions; and
- The stone walls associated with the historic “Hillsboro Hounds Lane” will be protected by a historic preservation easement.” Because a portion of land actually in Franklin needed to be excluded from the zoning proposal, the matter was deferred and sent back to the Planning Commission.
At its November 12, 2007 meeting, the Board of Commissioners voted four to three to approve an amendment to “replace Attachment B plan with the revised plan dated October 30, 2007, to Ordinance 2007-23 and to add the following notes to the plan:
- Charity Drive between Inglehame and Traditions to be a through street provided that 1) the road connection between the two subdivisions will not be opened for vehicle traffic until McEwen Drive is extended from Wilson Pike to the Traditions entrance or until January 1, 2013, whichever occurs sooner; and
- Appropriate traffic calming features will be included along Charity Drive within the transition areas between Inglehame Farms and Traditions subdivisions.” The revised OSRD plan (Attachment B) substituted as part of this amendment did show the bike/pedestrian connections at Sydney and Grey Pointe.
Following approval of the amendment noted in #5, the amended version of Ordinance 2007-23 passed 4-3 on second and final reading. |