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What is Advance Knox?
Advance Knox is a new initiative to modify Knox county planning directives.
Knoxville News Sentinel
Zoning can be one of the most emotional problems of local politics, and a meeting this week will lay the foundations for the next debate.
The developer Scott Davis wants to build a new subdivision in the county of East Knox Near Majors Road and Coppock Road. The land is zoned for agriculture, but Davis asks for permission to build five housing units per acre, totaling 148 houses.
The problem, according to residents, is that there is not enough infrastructure to support so many new neighbors. It is a common fear for long -standing residents as the county of Knox is growing. About 79,000 new residents are expected to move here by 2040.
If the Knoxville-Knox county planning commission gives Davis the OK, the Knox county commission could give its final approval later this month. Their decisions were examined by the mayor Glenn Jacobs, who issued a warning that the commissioners Do not get to the plan they have approved to guide growth over the next 20 years.
What planning staff recommends: County planning staff have used guidelines and want the members of the planning board to approve the request for Davis, but to four units per acre (up to 118 houses) instead of five. They suggest that the planning commission requires that Davis improve access from Majors Road.
What the neighbors say: Twelve people submitted comments on the proposed development. The general consensus is that the area is subject to floods, and Emory Road is already so congestioned. The neighbors have expressed their opposition because they say that schools are overcrowded and there are few jobs and grocery stores in the community.
Context of the past: Jacobs directed Advance Knox, a planning project that has taken years and millions of dollars to be completed. Farragut, the county of Knox and Knoxville all approved it.
Look to the future: If Advance Knox is a roadmap, a group of policies called the unified development order is the guide. The order includes zoning codes, street standards and subdivision regulations. Without that, the Knox advance has no teeth. Jacobs threatened to stop the work on the UDO a few weeks before the Commission approached a contract of $ 500,000 with a company to create all the rules.
Do you want to study? You can read on the proposal of Davis to Knoxplanning.org. Click on May 6 on the right side of the screen, click on “More information” and search for the agenda. This article is number 35.
How to attend: The planning commission will meet twice, at 1:30 p.m. on May 6 to examine the agenda and at 1:30 p.m. on May 8 to vote. The two meetings are in the main assembly room of the city-comedé building, 400 Main St.
Budget of the mayor of the county of Knox Glenn Jacobs
Jacobs will describe its budget proposed on May 5, will launch the process where public members can examine it before the county commissioners vote on it. The Commission must adopt the budget before June 30 and the financial year begins on July 1.
Jacobs throughout his government career in Knox County has promised that he will not increase taxes. But the county debt increases and the two republican candidates to replace it have different views of how to manage it.
The County Commissioner of Knox At-Large Larsen Jay was Ring the alarm About the debt for over a year, saying that taxes will have to increase “one day”, even if it is not in power. His main opponent, the president of the County School Board of Knox, Betsy Henderson, feels differently. She told Knox News in a text that the budget was more than enough to provide major features and that if it is elected, it will oppose any tax increase.
We do not know what the Jacobs will offer, but Jacobs in its budgets in 2023 and 2024 succeeded Sheriff office employees And teachersrespectively.
Do you want to study? You can familiarize yourself with the previous budgetary proposals in Knoxcounty.org/finance. Click on the current reports tab and choose “budgetary reports adopted”.
Stay listening: We will have a story describing Jacobs’ proposal!
Trump’s orders hit home
Federal funding cuts are hit at home.
NPR
President Donald Trump May 1, May 1 signed an executive decree which aims to reduce the funding of the NPR and PBS media, said the White House, marking Trump’s last attempt to use federal taxes as leverage against the institutions that it does not consider favorably.
The ordinance institutes the public distribution company, which distributes financing to the PBS and NPR stations, to “stop direct funding”, according to the Text published by the White House. He labeled the media as supporters and biased.
The 246 NPR member institutions, including Wuot de Knoxville, receive on average 8% to 10% of their funds from the public distribution company, According to NPR.
“Wuot received $ 177,000 from the public broadcasting company this year, which represents around 9% of its total annual budget of $ 2 million,” Kerry Gardner, Wuot spokesperson, Knox News in an email. “We work to determine the full impact of the cuts. Wuot undertakes to serve the East of Tennessee and this mission will continue.”
American
At the end of last month, CAC American was forced to dismiss 52 full -time workers after the federal government has eliminated funding from Vista American. The Ministry of Government Effectiveness, Directed by billionaire Elon Musk, canceled around $ 400 million in the federal agency, which represents 41% of the CAC American national budget.
More than half of the 52 dismissed workers came from Tennessee, and the others came from outside the state. Forty were involved in the conservation environmental body, and 12 worked for the affordable development of housing and the affordable poverty of Western Heights.
“Last Friday, on Friday, on the 25th, the Knoxville-Knox Community Action Committee, which is CAC, received an opinion from the American Agency, interrupting the financing of our American Vista program. It was noted essentially that the reason for the judgment was that the subsidy was no longer aligning with the priorities of the” “” ” Jason Scott, the local director of Americans, told Knox News.
“A little later during the day, we received a similar opinion which essentially said the same for our national / national program.
The workers have made community assessments, collected funds, written grants and guaranteed donations. Licensed workers will receive financial support until June to pay the accommodation and invoices.
Do you know the federal financing cuts? If you are touched by one of the changes made by the Trump administration, I want to hear about it. Take me an email!
Allie Feinberg Knox News policy reports. Send him an email: allie.feinberg@knoxnews.com And follow it on X, formerly known as Twitter, @Alliefeinberg.