No more housing developments in this area please. Too much traffic and infrastructure is not going to allow for these houses. Let us keep our area rural!!
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EMILY STANSBERRY
4 months ago
We are not equipped to this many people to be crammed into this small community. We have to think about our children and how this will affect their lives and education!
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Daniel Lipe
4 months ago
I'm against this development for a variety of reasons. School capacity. Traffic impact from Carter to the interstate. Not to mention the impact on the people who have invested in homes in this area.
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Francine Richards
4 months ago
That is too much residential on 16.2 acres. Too much traffic and the schools can’t handle that much influx.
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Connie Howard
4 months ago
We do not need any more apartments or housing in this area. We are saturated with all the development that is taking place. This area does not have the infrastructure for these many residences. That will be 400 more vehicles on Asheville Hwy at least twice a day. Look at the multiple houses on Brakebill Rd, not to mention all the housing that is being built on Asheville Hwy. It is a nightmare to get on the interstate now. Think of what it will be like after all this development.
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Ethan Anderson
4 months ago
Development like this ruins the make up of Knox county. We should be preserving our rural character and focusing on smarter/denser development in Knoxville.
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Marci Miller
4 months ago
Too many housing & apartment developments popping up in a short span of time.
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Janet Ellison
4 months ago
Please do not approve the building of any apartments in this area. The infrastructure cannot support it.
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Gena Rayho
4 months ago
We do not need this in our community.
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Marie C
4 months ago
Stop ruining Tennessee!
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Brittney Vandergriff
4 months ago
Please do not build this!
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Brenda TAYLOR
4 months ago
Gladly sign this petition
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Sydney Warwick
4 months ago
Vote to save east Knoxville.
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Madison Warwick
4 months ago
We are full.
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Ethan Chester
4 months ago
My name is Thomas Ethan Chester, and I live in the Strawberry Plains / Carter area. I’m here to speak on the proposed 194-unit development.
I want to speak not just about this project, but about what this area means—to me, and to a lot of families like mine.
East Knox County is one of the few places left where you can still feel what Tennessee used to be. Areas like Strawberry Plains weren’t just named for nothing—this was farmland, a place where people built homes, raised families, and lived off the land for generations. That identity still matters.
Not every part of our county needs to become dense and developed. There is real value in preserving rural communities—not just for appearance, but for culture, for history, and for the kind of life it offers.
Tennessee is already losing farmland every day. If we’re not careful, the next few generations won’t experience what many of us have been fortunate to grow up around—open land, working farms, and a connection to something real and lasting. Once that’s gone, we don’t get it back.
I’m not against growth. But I do believe growth should respect the character of the area it’s entering. A development of this density does not reflect the rural nature of this community or the direction many of us hope to see it go.
I would encourage the commission to think long-term—not just about what can be built here, but about what should be preserved.
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Michael Cole
4 months ago
No more subdivisions and apartments
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Anonymous
4 months ago
STOP THIS NONSENSE!!!
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Anonymous
4 months ago
Strawberry plains is not the area to expand shopping centers and force people out of their homes. If the people of the area expressed a need for more eatery places, start by rebuilding the condemned areas of Asheville highway such as Helmas and Cardins, instead of the already-in-use land which you’re discussing.
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Hunter Vineyard
4 months ago
Our infrastructure cannot handle the constant onslaught of new people moving here. The schools, utilities, roads and job market cannot sustain this. Also it is causing extreme loss of habitat to our wildlife which not only takes away their homes but forces them to move about more causing more accidents from the animals and just more people on the roads. For example Jefferson County having the water shortage was much more intense due to the over populating of the areas.
Don't need that problem
No more housing developments in this area please. Too much traffic and infrastructure is not going to allow for these houses. Let us keep our area rural!!
We are not equipped to this many people to be crammed into this small community. We have to think about our children and how this will affect their lives and education!
I'm against this development for a variety of reasons. School capacity. Traffic impact from Carter to the interstate. Not to mention the impact on the people who have invested in homes in this area.
That is too much residential on 16.2 acres. Too much traffic and the schools can’t handle that much influx.
We do not need any more apartments or housing in this area. We are saturated with all the development that is taking place. This area does not have the infrastructure for these many residences. That will be 400 more vehicles on Asheville Hwy at least twice a day. Look at the multiple houses on Brakebill Rd, not to mention all the housing that is being built on Asheville Hwy. It is a nightmare to get on the interstate now. Think of what it will be like after all this development.
Development like this ruins the make up of Knox county. We should be preserving our rural character and focusing on smarter/denser development in Knoxville.
Too many housing & apartment developments popping up in a short span of time.
Please do not approve the building of any apartments in this area. The infrastructure cannot support it.
We do not need this in our community.
Stop ruining Tennessee!
Please do not build this!
Gladly sign this petition
Vote to save east Knoxville.
We are full.
My name is Thomas Ethan Chester, and I live in the Strawberry Plains / Carter area. I’m here to speak on the proposed 194-unit development. I want to speak not just about this project, but about what this area means—to me, and to a lot of families like mine. East Knox County is one of the few places left where you can still feel what Tennessee used to be. Areas like Strawberry Plains weren’t just named for nothing—this was farmland, a place where people built homes, raised families, and lived off the land for generations. That identity still matters. Not every part of our county needs to become dense and developed. There is real value in preserving rural communities—not just for appearance, but for culture, for history, and for the kind of life it offers. Tennessee is already losing farmland every day. If we’re not careful, the next few generations won’t experience what many of us have been fortunate to grow up around—open land, working farms, and a connection to something real and lasting. Once that’s gone, we don’t get it back. I’m not against growth. But I do believe growth should respect the character of the area it’s entering. A development of this density does not reflect the rural nature of this community or the direction many of us hope to see it go. I would encourage the commission to think long-term—not just about what can be built here, but about what should be preserved.
No more subdivisions and apartments
STOP THIS NONSENSE!!!
Strawberry plains is not the area to expand shopping centers and force people out of their homes. If the people of the area expressed a need for more eatery places, start by rebuilding the condemned areas of Asheville highway such as Helmas and Cardins, instead of the already-in-use land which you’re discussing.
Our infrastructure cannot handle the constant onslaught of new people moving here. The schools, utilities, roads and job market cannot sustain this. Also it is causing extreme loss of habitat to our wildlife which not only takes away their homes but forces them to move about more causing more accidents from the animals and just more people on the roads. For example Jefferson County having the water shortage was much more intense due to the over populating of the areas.