Good Evening Chairman and Commissioners, 

I am here representing Citizens for Old Natchez Trace. We will continue to appeal to our county officials to stop the planned turn lane from Sneed Road onto one of the most historic roads in the United States. 

The recently approved super-sized subdivision, Stephens Valley, will be generating overwhelming traffic, making travelling the scenic, historic roads in our community a bumper to bumper….or simply said….bummer experience. 

Citizens has recently posted old fashioned Burma Shave signs at the Sneed end of the ONT. One way the signs read: ROCHFORD’S TURN LANE / NOT THE RIGHT PLACE / ADDING TRAFFIC / TO OLD NATCHEZ TRACE. 

The other way the signs read: ROCHFORD PROFITS / AT ANY COST / TAXPAYERS PAY / HISTORIC LAND LOST.

Our county’s successful economic engine in predicated on our “Town and Country” lifestyle. Downtown Franklin provides fine dining and shopping and in a few miles and minutes you can be enjoying our scenic, historic and culturally significant rural roads. 

Our county’s rural landscape is extremely valuable to the continued success of our county’s economic future. However, if this economic engine is going to continue to be fueled by devouring and destroying our unique rural landscape….it will begin to choke. We are already choking on traffic, but when there is little or no “country” left in the county….business will look elsewhere and will we be left overwhelming debt.

This county debt is due to development interests not paying their fair share. Citizens for ONT strongly supports efforts to adopt an educational impact fee to help fund the future capital needs of the Williamson County School System.

The Super-sized growth generated by Stephens Valley and Two Farms reminds me of cancer cells….the code of a cancer cell is uncontrolled growth.