Gallatin council approves amended Foxland Harbor Marina plan with traffic and signage conditions

Gallatin — The Gallatin City Council on Oct. 7 approved second reading of an amended preliminary master development plan for the Foxland Harbor Marina, a development tied to about 7.38 acres south of Nashville Pike and east of Douglas Bend Road. The ordinance passed after reconsideration and amendment, with a final recorded outcome of the measure passing 4-2.

The decision follows more than three hours of public comment in which residents, civic groups and legal counsel debated traffic effects, short-term rentals, shoreline impacts and what the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) can and cannot regulate. The city attached six formal conditions to the approval, including a sitewide prohibition on outdoor storage, specific timing for a required roundabout, restrictions on signage, modified boat-ramp access, and relocation of dumpster areas.

The council’s action matters because the project sits where privately held land abuts federally owned lake property overseen under a Corps lease; the council vote authorizes revisions to the city zoning and the preliminary master development plan while staff and the developer must follow federal lease requirements before making changes to the federal property. During the meeting, city planning staff read a clarifying letter from the USACE noting that the Corps’ lease governs construction on federal property only and that deviations from the development plan require prior coordination with…