County Zoning session to see a lot of Benjamin Mullins
By Mike Steely
Senior Writer
steelym@knoxfocus.com
When the Knox County Commission meets in its monthly zoning session Tuesday evening, attorney Benjamin C. Mullins will be there representing clients in at least five requests for zoning changes.
Mullins will request the commission to rezone the property at 8801 Grospoint Drive to a business park designation, a change from the current suburban residential zoning. In a different request for the same address, he will ask for a rezoning from a planned residential zoning for four dwelling units.
Another Mullins request is to allow 24 dwellings along Beaver Creek Drive with a rezoning from agricultural to planned residential The planning commission is recommending 12 units.
Mullins then has a request for 2713 Byington Beaver Ridge Road to receive planned residential zoning and up to 4.3 residential dwellings per acre. The planners agree but with a 15-foot landscape buffer on the west side.
Developers represented by Mullins want to change property at 8920 Karns Valley Drive from agricultural to planned residential with six units per acre.
In other zoning requests, Jeff Young seeks a change from agricultural to planned residential for up to three units per acre at 11434 Snyder Road. Oleg Zayets is asking for an increase from 4.1 units per acre to 4.4 for planned residential properties along Campbell Station Road and Campbell Park Lane.
Bhavinkumar Patel is asking for a change from agricultural to office/medical for 8535 Asheville Highway. Mesana Investments is before the commission with a request to change 6120 Babely Road from agricultural to planned residential with five dwelling units per acre.
Ryan S. Lynch wants three Beaver Creek Drive properties to change from agricultural to planned residential with up to five units per acre.
Engineering and Public Works Director Jim Snowden is asking to change the street name of two sections of Andes Road to Hitching Post Drive and Ball Road.
Avera Lynn McDonald is asking to change 7509 Nichols Road from agricultural to low-density residential. William Dale Rhoton wants 611 West Governor John Sevier from agricultural to general residential.
Mahamoud Shorman wants 10641 High Meadow Drive to change from planned residential to office/medical. Taylor D. Forrester wants to remove the non-disturbance condition placed on the planned residential zoning at 7816 Ball Camp Pike.
Natalie Nordstrom wants the zoning changed from low density to planned residential for six dwelling units per acre for four lots on Thurman Lane. Matthew Regas is asking that 224 E. Hendron Chapel Road be changed from Agricultural to Planned Residential for up to 4 dwelling units per acre.
