Farragut planning commission forwards six-year capital investment plan with major transportation projects

The Farragut Planning Commission reviewed and forwarded the town's six-year Capital Investment Plan (CIP), with emphasis on FY2027 projects and multi-year transportation investments.

Town administrator David Smoak summarized categories (general government, parks and recreation, and transportation/infrastructure) and said the FY2027 program includes pavement and signal projects, park maintenance, and design work for the McPhee Road property. He described an adaptive-traffic-signal pilot that adds AI learning to the town's advanced traffic management system, battery backups for intersections, mid-block pedestrian crossings near a new elementary school and an Everett Road greenway extension.

Smoak said the Campbell Station interchange is a large TDOT-led project (about $130 million total) that will require town contributions phased over several years while TDOT will manage construction. He summarized the CIP as a multi-year plan with roughly $47 million in projects listed for planning and future years and said FY2027 contains the first budgeted projects.

Commissioners and residents discussed right-of-way versus land acquisition for several road projects, and staff agreed to refine CIP text to clarify the town's intent to stay within existing rights-of-way "to the greatest extent possible." The commission approved a motion to recommend the CIP for adoption by the board of mayor and aldermen.

Next steps: the planning commission's recommendation will be considered by the board as part of the fiscal-year budget adoption process.