Three rezoning requests from the real-estate development firm Tetra to facilitate the 268-acre Town Creek development along Highway 321 were approved at Monday night's Lenoir City Council meeting.
Discussions have already taken place by both the Lenoir City Regional Planning Commission and council in past meetings.  Each of the rezoning requests were approved. 

The first rezoning was of 189.51 acres R-3 and C-1 (high density residential and neighborhood business) to the C-3 highway commercial district.  Secondly, 32.78 acres was rezoned from C-1 and O-1 (office professional) to the R-3 district to provide Tetra with an adequate plat to potentially construct medical offices — a complex of sorts — near and around planned apartments, which is the basis of the R-3 zoning request.  Another 45.44 acres was rezoned from C-1 to O-1 in order to further plan the aforementioned medical complex.

In past meetings, Shawn VanDyke, a representative of Tetra, spoke to both groups.  He presented each with a color-coded overview of what the Town Creek development was purported to look like, with green as buffers, red for business, blue for medical, tan as residential and brown for those who are reportedly going to stay in either the planned senior center or senior assisted-living center on the property. 

Each of these rezoning requests were approved on second and final readings.