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Planning commission recommends PUD for Barrett Firearms site with limits on certain truck and automotive uses
Summary
The commission recommended approval of a planned-unit-development rezoning for a proposed Barrett Firearms manufacturing campus at Manchester Pike, approving phase 1 but removing truck-terminal and several automotive uses from the permitted-use list; the recommendation goes to the county commission May 15, 2025.
Rutherford County planning commissioners on April 2025 recommended approval of a planned-unit-development (PUD) rezoning to allow construction of a Barrett Firearms manufacturing and corporate campus on a roughly 171-acre tract along Manchester Pike, subject to staff comments and a narrow set of use exclusions agreed at the hearing.
The PUD application, filed by Hamilton Development and applicant Barrett Firearms, asks to rezone the property from residential medium-density (RM) to a PUD allowing an initial phase consisting of a light manufacturing/assembly building (about 273,240 square feet) with employee parking and a graded expansion pad for future growth. Applicant materials describe the project as primarily light industrial with restricted uses modeled on the county’s light industrial district; the pattern book makes future expansions subject to separate PUD amendments.
Company officials said the site would permit consolidation of Barrett operations…
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