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Murfreesboro planning commission approves multiple site plans, sets hearings for larger projects
Summary
The commission on Feb. 18 approved several site plans — including Perkins Motorplex, 7 Brew Coffee, Chipotle, Flat Rock townhomes and a mixed commercial/self-storage PCD — and scheduled March 11 public hearings for a Kroger rezoning and a zoning ordinance amendment on rear-yard setbacks.
The Murfreesboro Planning Commission on Feb. 18 approved a string of site plans and design reviews, clearing several commercial and residential developments to proceed to permitting while attaching standard staff conditions.
Staff introduced the Perkins Motorplex site plan — a proposed 3,230-square-foot motor vehicle sales dealership on 1.82 acres along Bezey Road across from Costco — and recommended approval "subject to staff comments," noting required on-site loading zones. After questions about the Bezey–Warrior intersection and a planned roundabout, commissioners approved the plan.
In rapid succession the commission also approved an 817-square-foot 7 Brew Coffee kiosk on Memorial Boulevard and a 2,383-square-foot Chipotle with drive-through on Veterans Parkway; staff told commissioners each plan was "generally in good order" and asked that approvals be conditioned on resolving staff comments.
The commission approved a 22-unit attached-dwelling project on Flat Rock Road (RM-16). Staff (Ms. Smith) said the project provides 73 parking spaces — 64 are required for the mix of eight two-bedroom and 14 three-bedroom units — and described landscape buffers, garage dimensions that meet city standards and a two-phase construction plan. Commissioners highlighted parking adjacency and required consistency between elevation and civil plans before moving to approve the site plan subject to staff conference.
A larger Planned Commercial District application at Fortress Boulevard and Blaze Drive — proposing roughly 31,574 square feet of retail/restaurant buildings and about 72,300 square feet of self-storage on roughly 11.32 acres near Puckett Creek — also received approval with staff conditions. Staff emphasized floodplain/floodway constraints, tree-preservation areas along Puckett Creek and that primary building materials be brick or stone; staff recommended updating architecture and civil plans so they match and preserving water-quality protection zones.
Votes at a glance (as recorded in the meeting transcript): - Perkins Motorplex site plan — approved (motion, second); ayes recorded across presiding members; outcome: approved subject to staff comments (transcript SEG 055–140). - 7 Brew Coffee kiosk — approved (motion, second); outcome: approved subject to staff comments (SEG 141–182). - Chipotle (Westlawn) — approved (motion, second); outcome: approved subject to staff comments (SEG 183–224). - Flat Rock townhomes (22 units) — approved (motion, second); outcome: approved subject to staff conference (SEG 225–476). - Fortress/Blaze PCD (retail + self-storage) — approved (motion, second); outcome: approved with conditions to align architecture/civil plans and preserve tree and floodplain protections (SEG 478–859).
What it means: approvals clear the projects to advance toward final permits and construction, subject to the staff conditions noted on each plan. The commission’s actions prioritize matching civil and architectural documents and protecting environmental constraints around Puckett Creek.
The meeting moved on to new-business items and to scheduling public hearings for larger land-use questions that drew community interest.
