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Residents urge coordination on annexation and road safety as commission moves to hire planner
Summary
Residents raised annexation and road-safety concerns during public comment, warning that city annexation could bypass county planning; commissioners said hiring a certified county planner is a top priority to guide future land-use and subdivision decisions.
At the Roane County Commission meeting, residents used the public-comment period to press elected officials for closer attention to annexation and road safety and to urge stronger county planning.
Karen Ryan, who identified herself as a resident "south of the river," told commissioners that prior annexations had proceeded without required community votes and warned that future annexations could similarly bypass residents' wishes. "We passed a law in 2016 that no area can be annexed into any city unless there's a vote from the people that are in that community," Ryan said, urging the commission to consider how annexation affects longtime households and community boundaries.
Casey Scho…
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