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Smyrna council moves to require 20-foot landscape buffer where new PRDs abut single-family lots after residents press for protection
Summary
After months of disagreements between homeowners and a developer over buffer space at Hidden Springs, the council approved an amendment to the town’s Planned Residential District rules that requires a 20-foot landscape buffer where a PRD abuts R-1 or comparable county lots.
Smyrna Town Council on Tuesday approved an ordinance amendment requiring a 20-foot landscape buffer inside any Planned Residential District (PRD) that borders R-1 single-family zoning in town or comparable RM zoning in Rutherford County.
The change was prompted by repeated public comments from county property owners opposed to the way Weekly (Weekley) Homes had handled buffering at the Hidden Springs development on Lee Road. Several residents said the developer cleared much of the tree line shown on preliminary plats, and that protracted negotiations with the builder had not produced an agreed buffer.
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