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Kathy Clough's avatar

I just sit here stuttering, and re-reading, and yes, this makes absolutely no sense with the TDOT response from the last meeting. You can’t have this on your radar and not have all parties on board, i.e. TDOT. Sumner has its own problems within the county road portions which if you think about it is pretty substantial because they all tie in. Roads are falling apart. I’m not knowledgeable enough to know where that money comes from, (except the state budget), how on earth are they going to widen our entire system from Springfield to Hendersonville, and deal with road repairs at the same time. 25 to 76 to Tyree, New Hope, Old Shackle, New Shackle, to Stop 30. All of these are a direct passage south to 386 and are in need of repair and widening and some are beginning to see the back ups like there are on 76 when an issue occurs. Are they just sticking their heads in the sand? It makes my head spin.

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Say no to free new schools's avatar

According to what I was told at the ROBCO Republican meeting. None of those new homes will be entry level or starter homes. It was claimed that the price of those new homes many residents will have the means to send their children to private schools. So the backside of that comment is Robertson County schools are under preforming.

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Nikki's avatar

There's no way. They discussed at the planning that many would be entry level homes, ie in the $200k. I don't believe that either. Calista Farms sign says starting in the $300's. The first home listed is $418k. There are homes for $379k listed. Those are not private school home prices at this point. The same thing will happen in Springfield. And the kids in the apartments, those are included in Vesper Villiage, will more than likely be public schools. The formula used for children is .79/unit. That's 2661 children. If even 10% choose private or home school, that's still over 2k children. That's a large high school.

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