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Blount County planning panel rejects County Commission’s cluster-development percentage change
Summary
The Blount County Planning Commission voted down a motion to ‘vote as is’ on a proposed amendment to cluster-development open-space percentages forwarded by the County Commission, after debate about whether the numeric change (35% suburbanizing; 40% in R‑1/R‑2) warranted revision.
Daryl Tipton, chairman of the Blount County Planning Commission, opened continued discussion on proposed edits to section 7.2(o) governing cluster development. Commissioners debated whether to send a formal recommendation back to the County Commission on the draft amendment as written.
Commissioner Wells moved that the commission “vote on it as is” — a procedural motion intended to produce a favorable or unfavorable recommendation to the…
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