Planning commission defers Lewis Head Commercial Plaza site plan after neighbors and commissioners press traffic, drainage and buffer concerns

The Sumner County Regional Planning Commission on Feb. 18 deferred for 30 days a by-right Site Plan for the Lewis Head Commercial Plaza, a proposed 10,000-square-foot commercial building on W. Roberts Road, after commissioners and a nearby resident raised concerns about stormwater, traffic study currency, septic and water permits and the adequacy of landscape buffers.

Josh Suddath, Sumner County director of planning and engineering, told commissioners the property was rezoned as a Planned Unit Development (PUD) on March 22, 2021, and the current Site Plan is a by-right exercise of that earlier approval. Suddath said the submitted grading, drainage calculations and detention-pond design “appear to meet” the County’s Stormwater Management Resolution and that the applicant provided a septic soils map and a septic permit application filed with the Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation (TDEC). He added the building would use public water from White House Utility District…