Planning commission approves Bell Farms PUD with expanded buffer and deed restriction

The Collegedale City Planning Commission approved zoning case 2025‑03 (Bell Farms) to allow a planned unit development overlay on property along Lee Highway that would rezone the site to high‑density single‑family residential (R‑1H) and permit a 102‑lot single‑family subdivision and community lot, subject to updated conditions.

Staff told the commission the project is substantially the same as the version reviewed last month except for one material change: the applicant requested—and staff agreed to recommend—a wider landscape buffer along the northern property line adjacent to White Oak Valley Circle. The buffer was increased to 50 feet from the previously required 25 feet following neighborhood meetings. As part of that change, staff said the applicant must acquire and subdivide a small portion of a parcel at 6323 White Oak Valley Circle (identified in staff materials as Parcel 12F3083.11) so the triangular 4,100‑square‑foot piece lies south of White Oak Valley Circle and can be deeded as buffer land.

Jason Allen, staff planner, explained that the deed for the acquired triangle must restrict the parcel to a…