Board approves outside‑city sewer service to serve single house amid Mazda site redevelopment

The Murfreesboro Water Resources Board on Tuesday approved a request to allow outside‑city sewer service to an existing single‑family house located south of a barn proposed for annexation and redevelopment.

Matthew Blomley, assistant planning director for the city planning department, told the board the city’s “new ordinance” allows the board to approve outside‑the‑city sewer service “if it is for, a single existing structure.” He said the annexation and zoning applications before the planning commission would include the barn and area north of it but not the existing house, which would remain in…