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Fairview plans new training and fire facilities, $2.7 million street resurfacing and stormwater work
Summary
Fairview city officials outlined public safety projects, parks investments and infrastructure upgrades including a police training facility in site-closing stages, plans for a justice center and a new fire station near Highway 96, a roughly $2.7 million street resurfacing effort and American Rescue Plan-funded stormwater work.
Fairview city manager Tom Dockery told attendees at a Williamson Inc. event that public safety remains the city's top priority and laid out multiple capital projects the city is pursuing, including a police training facility, a prospective justice center, a planned fire station near Northwest Highway and Highway 96, and a major street resurfacing program.
The city manager said the long-term police training facility 'which will include a classroom and firing range'is in the property-closing stage and will move to bidding and construction, with a target of completion in the current fiscal year. Dockery added that the city will partner with an external owner of a firing range after residents objected to a local range location.
Those projects, Dockery said, accompany other public-safety planning: a justice center to consolidate police and court functions and a three-year plan to add a fire station near the Interstate 40/Highway 96 corridor intended to reduce response times "by about four or five minutes." He noted that new fire apparatus are expensive and have long lead times, saying fire engines now often "start at a million" and must be ordered years ahead.
The city's public-works director is overseeing what Dockery called probably the largest resurfacing initiative Fairview has undertaken, approximately $2,700,000 for street resurfacing. He also said the city is using American Rescue Plan funds for stormwater projects, including culvert work to improve drainage efficiency.
Dockery described other near-term items: court security upgrades that are nearly complete, the adoption process for a new Fairview development code, and an intersection project at Highway 96/Northwest Highway tied to the planned fire station that would add signalization and turning lanes.
Parks and recreation were also highlighted. Dockery said the city has invested in parks recovery since COVID, hiring staff and refurbishing historic buildings; he noted a recent $65,000 set of refurbishments at Triangle School and the post office and described plans for additional shade, a pavilion and picnic areas at playgrounds and Veterans Memorial Park. He identified Bowie Nature Park (about 700 acres), a Historical Village and Veterans Memorial Park as the city's main park assets and said planning is under way for a new park near the Belle Haven community on Elrod Road.
The city has purchased two properties in front of City Hall (listed as 2178 and 2188 Fairview Boulevard) for campus expansion and event staging. Dockery also described communications improvements, including video and drone use, and said the city is developing a comprehensive economic-development plan and pursuing lighting partnerships with the Tennessee Department of Transportation for the Interstate/96 interchange.
Dockery urged residents with questions to contact department heads or the city manager's office for more detail.
