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Commission backs developer appeal to allow eight-unit 'missing middle' project, citing design and precedent
Summary
The Planning Commission approved an appeal permitting an eight-unit missing-middle building on a 75-foot lot after extended debate about scale, floor-area metrics and saving mature pecan trees. The applicant argued code ambiguity and cited an earlier approved nearby appeal; commissioners split over whether form or scale was the dispositive issue before approving the appeal.
The Knoxville Knox County Planning Commission on Feb. 12 approved an appeal under the city’s missing-middle housing standards that will allow an eight-unit structure on a 75-foot-wide lot in Mechanicsville.
Applicant Arbantley Marlow said the submission meets the middle-housing dimensional standards and that the proposed design—aimed at saving two mature pecan trees—would increase housing gently on an oversized lot. “I’m…
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