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Johnson City advances Horizon 2045 comprehensive plan after public hearing on neighborhood impacts
Summary
Whitney Hodges, planning staff, presented the Horizon 2045 growth-management plan and stressed it serves as guidance, not zoning, before residents urged protecting neighborhoods near Claude Simmons Road and Knob Creek from higher-density development.
Whitney Hodges, planning staff, presented the Horizon 2045 Growth Management Plan and opened a public hearing the commission had scheduled to consider adoption. Hodges read the plan's guiding statement aloud: "By 2045, Johnson City continues to be a regional leader in Northeast Tennessee by being a vibrant, welcoming, and connected community," and described the plan's place types, future land-use map and implementation matrix as guidance for departments, the planning commission and developers.
Hodges repeatedly noted the plan does not change existing zoning or vested rights: "this plan just changes no one's zoning district," she said, and explained that any…
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