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More businesses may be coming to Port Royal Road including a Bojangles’ chicken fast food restaurant, the Twice Daily convenience store and gas station, as well as other new retail.

Bonjangles’ may come to Spring Hill

Planning Commission (PC) members discussed a sketch plan for a Bojan-gles’ fast food restaurant on a lot at the corner of Port Royal Road and Re-serve Boulevard.

City Planner Dara Sand-ers reported that all of the surrounding lots are zoned commercial. She added that city staff would “evaluate the construction needs for all the applicant’s proposed internal drive-ways based on the needs of this particular develop-ment. The majority of these internal drives have not been constructed, and the final plat application has not been submitted for the property.”

Leon Stanford, who submitted the plans, said his intention is to submit a

New businesses submit plans for Port Royal Road

A Bojangles’ restaurant could come to Port Royal Road.

Now that crops are com-ing into season, area farm-ers markets are opening and seeing brisk business. The two local markets, at Homestead Manor in Thompson’s Station and at the other the Tennessee Children’s Home in Spring Hill, are each open once a week for local residents to get fresh vegetables, meats, canned goods, plants and more.

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The Thompson’s Station Farmers Market will be located in the new barn built on the grounds of the historic Homestead Man-or. While the delay of the barn’s completion caused

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Genevieve Torri and son Bryant pick out the best strawberries while Ashlynn McNeal from Lester Farms in Lebanon helps them.

Discussion over four plots of land on Tollgate Bou-levard in Tollgate Village prompted Thompson’s Station Planning Commis-sion (PC) members to defer plans to add townhomes to the area around Ameri-cus Drive and Tollgate Boulevard. The deferral, which took place last week, was approved 5-1, with Ben Dilks voting ‘no.’

The developers of the land, MBSC/Tennessee Home Builders, wanted to build the “live, work” units in the area, but PC chairman Jack Elder believed the plan was “giving away too much commercial land.” The live, work units could have office or retail space below living quarters, and allow residents to live and work in the same location.

Elder also added he “hates to give up single family space for some-thing other than single family units. Brian Rowe, (representing the develop-ers of the land), said at a previous meeting that the front part could be sold as residential and it would sell better than commer-cial. That’s not how the land was marketed. The land was marketed with residential-friendly busi-nesses at the front of Toll-gate. The space is as good as any other commercial land in Thompson’s Sta-tion. I just hate to see it given away so quickly.”

The plan brought what developers called town-home/commercial lots. The community is already designated as high-intensity, according to the planning code. That means there are ap-proximately three homes

per acre throughout the subdivision.

“We’re not asking for any-thing different than was approved in 2011,” Rowe said. “This live, work product gives a commer-cial component. I drove through Berry Farms today and they have the live, work product. It’s a beautiful place and fits well in the community.”

Town Planner Wendy Deats said before the final plat is approved, the developers need to plat the remaining open space in the entire subdivision. Brett Smith, with engi-neering firm Ragan Smith of Nashville, said because the concept plan shows potential homes in a new section of the property,

Thompson’s Station planners defer Tollgate plans

Engineer Brett Smith with Ragan Smith of Nashville, explains the Tollgate Village request to members of the Thompson’s Station Planning Commission last week.

A group of people repre-senting Spring Hill and Maury County recently attended the International Council of Shopping Cen-ters (ICSC) convention in Las Vegas, which toook place May 16 through 20. The main reason for attending such a confer-ence is to entice developers, retail outlets and others to Spring Hill. The Las Vegas convention is the largest held in the United States for the ICSC, and encompasses thousands of retailers, development com-panies, real estate compa-nies, and others in the retail market.

“The networking opportu-nities we were able to seize at the ICSC conference were truly remarkable and well worth the trip to the largest retail shopping conference of its kind,” said Spring Hill Mayor Rick Graham.

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“We met with a number of strategically targeted businesses that we would love to see locate in Spring Hill and that, of course, was the intent of the trip.”

The intent was to intro-duce “Spring Hill and its potential to a wide range of people and firms, and we were met with a great deal of serious interest in Spring Hill,” Graham said. “It was exhausting, high-pace work that our five Spring Hill, representatives believe was well worth our time and investment to plant some seeds that will grow into economic growth in our future.”

The six people who at-tended were Graham, Vice Mayor Bruce Hull, City Administrator Victor Lay, Alderman Kayce Williams, Spring Hill Chamber Chairman and Economic Development Committee (EDC) mem-ber Will Tenpenny, and Maury Alliance Chair-man Will Evans. In addi-tion, Spring Hill had their own booth that was very popular among retailers who had heard about the city. Williams said her responsibility was getting the booth delivered and set up, working the floor and the city’s booth.

“Whether or not a booth had a retailer or a real estate company in it, we wanted to get our name out there and spent a lot of the time walking around, pass-ing out our marketing materials. If there was a business who had not yet located in Tennessee,

we still left information for them, in case they changed their mind. We were very pleased with the responses we got. Everyone who you can think of, from design and architectural firms to real estate management firms, retailers and revitalization companies were there,” Williams also noted, add-ing the convention center in Las Vegas consists of more than one million square feet of space.

In addition to the city working the booths, Retail Strategies, the com-pany the city hired last year to do the marketing study and work for the city, also represented Spring Hill in meetings with retailers.

“We had more success than we anticipated,” Williams said. “Espe-cially since so many of the retailers who didn’t have booths came to us to inquire. They had heard about us and wanted to get more information. We were very successful in so-lidifying a presence there. We worked from sun up to sun down in the conven-tion hall. Since there were six of us, we broke it down into teams of three.”

Williams added every time all six would meet

back at the booth, they would all talk about the great leads and conversa-tions they had.

The members who went plan to host an open meeting with members of the EDC on June 3 at 4 p.m. at city hall to discuss leads and more.

“At the end of the day, we feel like we had great feedback and an impres-sive presence there,” Williams said. “I am very proud of our team, and I believe we made an impact. This was a great move for us.”

Cost for the trip is still being calculated, but Spring Hill Finance Di-rector Jim Smith said the city budgeted $8,000 for the trip. The money was coming out of the EDC’s budget, which was set at $15,500 for the 2014-2015 budget.

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“There is no other spa business in Spring Hill that offers the same thing that we do; everything is medical grade,’’ said Destinee Wagner, manager of the clinic. “This is such a growing area, and we thought it was the perfect location for this type of business.

“It’s All About Attitude’’ is the slogan of the spa; the goal of the staff is to make clients of all ages to feel effervescent. The staff employs hormone therapy, lasers, classic and medical-grade facials and other techniques to help clients feel younger both inside and out.

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ized to the client and includes a facial, according to Wagner. Her husband, Dr. Jayme Wagner founded the clinic.

Open in Spring Hill for two months, Mrs. Wag-ner said they opened the Spring Hill location because she wanted to come home. She grew up in Hendersonville, Ten-nessee. The clinic started in Huntsville, Alabama in 2010 and started with Bo-tox and fillers, the business has grown over the years. Dr. Melissa Gray is the on staff medical doctor.

Other services offered at the Wall Street location are laser treatments for hair removal and spider veins and Botox is administered, most often for wrinkles in the forehead and crow’s feet. Fillers are used to plumb lips and add defini-tion to the cheek bones. Micro-Needling is a new treatment for scarring including acne marks, and fine lines; wrinkles and stretch marks.

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final plat with the site plan. There are issues with right-of-way dedication requirements, however, which would require taking at least 17.5 feet and make it difficult, if possible, to build.

“There’s some really serious issues regarding the right of way,” Stanford said. “On the preliminary plat, it showed dedications of a five-foot additional right-of-way that matched with the First Farmers and Mer-chants Bank …. If we take 17 feet out of there, there’s no way to construct this building on this property.” The circulation of traffic for the drive-thru was the main cause of the issues, he added, since it would require different needs than the other establishments on the property.

Twice Daily traffic discussed

The PC approved the sketch plan for the Twice Daily in May. The building is to be located at the cor-ner of Port Royal Road and Reserve Boulevard. Again, as on May 12, Sanders said she had concerns about the site.

Sanders said while Perry Engineering submitted new drawings, the plan’s safety was still an issue. The plan as submitted showed the addition of a right turn lane onto the property, as well as a right turn lane off Reserve Boulevard and onto Port Royal Road.

Concerns over the turn lanes, as well as the fact the fact that the larger fuel trucks could not make the turn without driving over the west curb of Port Royal Road, were expressed dur-ing the May 12 meeting. The applicant’s new plan showed the use of a smaller fuel truck, but the truck would still have to drive over the curb, Sanders said. Also, they would have to turn from the left lane on Reserve onto Port Royal to make the turn.

Randy Harper, who represented Perry Engineer-ing, denied that the trucks would encroach the left turn lane, and they would not hit the curb on Port Royal.

Despite issues regarding the site’s design for large truck traffic from Port Royal Road, the Twice Daily

sketch plan was approved at the previous PC meet-ing on May 11. Endorsing improvements to Reserve Boulevard to include a des-ignated right-turn lane onto the property, and another onto Port Royal Road, were conditions of its approval, City Planner Dara Sanders said.

“Those endorsements were based on the plans submitted by the applicant showing that large trucks would use the left-turn lane to turn right onto Port Royal Road, due to exist-ing conditions of Reserve Boulevard,” Sanders said. “The revised drawing does show that the smaller fuel truck is unable to maneuver the right turn onto Reserve Boulevard without driving over the west curb of Port Royal Road.”

Harper said although it ap-pears that way in the layout, only the truck’s overhang would begin to encroach onto the curb, not the wheel-track.

“That is an overhang, the outside overhangs of the trailer,” Harper said. “The true wheel path actually does not encroach, and the overhang only encroaches a few inches in the gutter. So, it does not actually run over the curb on Reserve at that intersection,” he said.

Another option requested during the staff review meeting was to consider re-striping the lanes. After reviewing what that might involve, such as traffic light re-signalization, it would only worsen the traffic issues at that intersection, Harper said.

“We did, in our resubmittal letter, discuss the striping. Essentially, what we looked

at was when you recon-figure the lanes where you have three left (lanes) and three right (lanes),” he said. “When you reconfigure and do a thru-left and a dedicat-ed right turn lane, you have to change the operations of the traffic signal.”

PC member Matt Fitterer said he could not approve the plan as it stands at this point because of staff and planner’s concerns over entrance and exits. The planners will vote on the measure at their June 10 meeting.

Six-unit retail center planned

A sketch plan for a six-unit retail center at the sharp turn of Port Royal, north of Kroger, was presented by Joe Ahler of Ahler and Associates.

Because of the location of the site, which would essen-tially be at the intersection of Buckner Road and Port Royal Road, Sanders said she would like to see a traf-fic light at the entrance onto Port Royal Road. At this point, a dry-cleaner, owned by the property owners, would located in the center.

Fitterer was concerned about what the other ten-ants would build out in the other units. He said he was wondering if they would bring higher traffic to the area. Commissioner Pat Hairston requested that Ahler discover what other tenants would be located in the building.

Child care center sketch plan discussed

A property on O’Hallorn drive is the proposed loca-tion for a new child care center.

The 14,297-square-foot Ca-son Children’s Center will be located southwest of the intersection of O’Hallorn and Campbell Station Parkway and will be nestled within a medical facility, a fire station, a church and another child care facility, Sanders said.

The site’s sketch plan was being submitted. However, a public sidewalk to extend along the property’s front-

age will be requested at site plan, she said.

“It won’t be required with the sketch plan, but at the time of site plan, staff will most likely be recommending some street improvements,” Sanders said. “O’Hallorn drive is significantly deteriorating, and the amount of traffic a child care facility will bring to and from the site will ac-celerate that deterioration.”

Major thoroughfare plan, dental office approved

In a special-called meet-ing prior to the monthly work session, the commis-sion considered two items. PC members voted 5-0 to adopt Spring Hill’s new major thoroughfare plan.

Also, the PC unanimously approved the site plan for Heartland Dental, to be located in The Crossings.

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The Maury County Public Schools Board of Educa-tion will hold a meeting for public comment on rezoning elementary schools in north-ern Columbia and southern Spring Hill tomorrow night, June 4.

At meeting of the school board’s Zoning and Facili-ties Committee last week, the committee discussed a proposed redistricting that would affect Marvin Wright Elementary School and Randolph Howell Elemen-tary School.

According to documents included in each commit-tee member’s information packet, the projected growth in Spring Hill would over-populate Wright Elementary as it exists now. The original rezoning plan would trans-

fer some Wright students to Howell Elementary.

Those students would then attend Spring Hill Middle and Spring Hill High School, the document stated.

“My question is, what hap-pens next year?” committee member David Moore said. “If we rezone, we’re making a pretty big move that won’t solve long-term issues. It

may not even solve any short-term issues.”

About 70 students pre-registered for kindergarten at Wright for the 2014-2015 school year, and the number of actual kindergarten stu-dents who were enrolled on the first day of school dou-bled, according to school officials. Wright already has about 130 kindergarten stu-dents pre-registered for the 2015-2016 school year.

“If these trends continue, this will not just be a one-year thing,” board member David Bates said.

Committee member Wayne Lindsey said his email ac-count has been “blowing up in the past 24 hours” with questions and concerns from parents in the school district. He said many sug-gest portable classrooms be added to school property to

accommodate growth, but he added that he would not vote in favor of it because portable classrooms lack the security of a school building.

“I can only speak for myself, but the most terrible thing we can do for a school is to put a portable outside it,” Lindsey said. “We think it’s a terrible thing if we have to relocate a child from one school to the next, but be-lieve me, it would be much worse if something bad were to happen to one of these students.”

Several parents were in at-tendance at the committee meeting, but board mem-bers unanimously decided more should be present.

“I would like more com-munity input first (before a vote),” board member James Pennings said.

Pennings made a motion to have a special meeting for parental and community input on the rezoning issue at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 4 at Horace O. Porter School at College Hill in Colum-bia. Moore seconded the motion.

The June 4 meeting will open with public comment, followed by a proposal from school officials.

Spring Hill Alderman Susan Zemek, who is opposed to the rezoning, said she was pleased with the public meeting.

“I am happy to hear the board is really listening to the citizens, and I am thrilled about the town hall meeting,” she said. “Trans-parency-wise it didn’t look good. David Moore, our representative, has stepped up. He did a really good job

from everything I’ve heard. I’m hoping they can find a solution and not take the kids out of our community to go to a Columbia school. Some students might have a Columbia address but a lot are in Spring Hill.”

“You’re talking about a community,” Zemek added.

“We have parents and kids, and a long-term solution will be the key. That may be portables in the short-term, but we need to have a long-term plan as well. We have another special census in the budget, so we know our growth is not ending anytime soon.”

To stay on schedule for the 2015-2016 school year, the board will have to vote on the rezoning plan during their regular meeting at the Horace O. Porter School on June 11.

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