Farragut planners discuss context-sensitive street standards for collectors and arterials; no vote taken

The Farragut Planning Commission on the agenda discussed a resolution to amend the town's major road plan to adopt context-sensitive cross sections for several collector and arterial streets, including Alan Kirby Road, Evans Road, Boring Road, Boyd Station Road, Heron Road, North Campbell Station Road and Red Mill Lane. The commission heard staff presentations and public comment but did not vote; the item was for discussion only.

Staff said the resolution would provide developers and the town a new set of typical street cross sections to guide future preliminary plans and capital projects, and that, if adopted, the diagrams would replace the more prescriptive standards currently in the subdivision regulations. Town staff described the approach as a hybrid: narrower travel lanes (for example, proposals include 10- or 11-foot travel lanes instead of the 12-foot lanes currently required), retaining open-ditch drainage…