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Resident urges 20-homes-per-acre cap for septic drip areas, citing failing step systems
Summary
At a Wilson County Planning & Zoning Committee meeting, resident Ken Young urged the committee to adopt a 20-homes-per-acre cap for septic (step) system drip areas to limit ponding, nutrient loading and repeated system failures; staff described regulatory limits and inspection processes but no formal action was taken.
Ken Young, a resident of 421 Shops Creek Road, told the Wilson County Planning & Zoning Committee on April 21, 2025, he recommends a legislative cap of 20 residential houses per acre of septic (step) system drip area to prevent recurring failures and downstream nutrient loading.
"When you have 100 homes on the step system, that's egregious," Ken Young said, describing examples of existing step-system densities he said are much higher than his recommended cap. He urged the committee to put a "guardrail" in place so future subdivisions do not repeat the same problems.
The committee was shown a list Young said came from an executive…
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