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Barry Schular addresses residents of Sevier County at the commission meeting. (The Herald/ Joe King)
Due to the fact that both the value of surrounding property and development interests are largely shaped by how county land is zoned, the Sevier County Commission had a serious decision on their hands July 10.
The rezoning issue centered on a piece of land located off of Knob Creek Rd. which is owned by Barry Schular and his request to have the property classified as R2M as opposed to R2.
A R2M zone is almost identical to a R2 zone with the exception that a R2 zone must have a city sewer system or use sand filtration whereas a R2M zoned parcel can use a septic system.
“Things have changed from five years ago,” Schular said at the meeting. “It’s not feasible to upgrade the sewer system for 25 acres.”
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First, this meeting was the Sevier County Planning Commission not the County Commission. Secondly, a planning commission should not make decsions based on septic or sewer. The R2m zone allows for a quadplex unit. In fact this is what the zone was created for in the first place. Quadplexes not apartments is what the proposed buyer has plans to build. The R2 zone does not make much since because the county has no public sewer systems. The state health department is the ruling authority as far as septic systems and how they function. I belive the neighborhood is simply NIMBY’s. Not in my back yard! The property could still be rezoned by appealing to the County Commission who is the final authority. If it is not rezoned R2M it will probably be R1 which allows for 75 to 85 units instead of the proposed 48.