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Residents urge action on missing street signs and an invasive kudzu takeover
Summary
A public commenter asked the commission to replace missing or misaligned street signs and to declare kudzu a nuisance, requesting city funding for removal on public property and assistance for private property owners.
During the public-comment period a resident who signed up (recorded as Johnny Miller) asked the commission to address missing and misaligned street-name and dead-end signs in neighborhoods off Turkey Knob Road and urged the city to act on a large kudzu infestation.
The commenter said vehicles regularly reach dead ends with no warning signs and that many street signs were missing or misaligned after recent wildfires. On kudzu, the speaker described it as "an elephant in the woods" and "aggressively overgrowing acres and acres of city landscape," asking the commission to "officially declare Kudzu a nuisance," adopt a removal plan, fund mitigation on city property and provide financial assistance for private-property removal.
Commissioners asked staff to revisit prior signage studies begun after the wildfires and said staff had reached out to the University of Tennessee about possible herbicide or mitigation approaches. Staff noted pilot efforts with goats had not removed roots and that plants can have roots down to about 10 feet, indicating removal is difficult and potentially costly.
