Nashville council tables Project Sprout rezoning after residents raise traffic, noise and biosecurity concerns

The Town of Nashville Council on Feb. 4, 2025 voted to table a conditional rezoning request for a proposed agrifood campus known as Project Sprout, citing outstanding concerns raised by neighbors about noise, traffic, wetlands and biosecurity.

Planning Director Sean Lucas told the council the rezoning request (a conditional zoning nonresidential, or CZNR, for about 38.37 acres on the north side of Cook Road) would add a mix of uses to land currently zoned I-1 industrial. Lucas said the package of permitted uses under the proposed development conditions ranges from indoor/outdoor storage and processing to short-term lodging, a community/education center and an outdoor amphitheater; he also noted the conditional map amendment would not be valid until the applicant accepts the development conditions in writing.

The matter drew more than a dozen…