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Prospective owner seeks to convert South College Street house into four-room bed-and-breakfast
Summary
A prospective buyer told the Franklin City Commission she plans to restore a historic South College Street house as a four-bedroom bed-and-breakfast, but must seek rezoning, meet historic-district requirements and secure four parking spaces.
Gail Wilkinson, a Portland, Tennessee resident, told the Franklin City Commission that she is negotiating to buy a South College Street house owned by Stephen Bowers and would like to restore it into a four-bedroom, four-bath bed-and-breakfast.
Wilkinson said the property is currently zoned commercial and would need to be rezoned into one of the city's residential zones (R-1 through R-4) before the operation could proceed. She told the commission she has spoken with the local historic-preservation contact, Lee Ross Dinwiddie, and that exterior maintenance work generally does not require committee approval…
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