Creative Development Choices

Foothills Land Conservancy sign.

A trio of nonprofits offered an array of options for land preservation and making developments more sustainable and ecologically friendly.

A New Way to Pay

Barak Saltzman photo

Commission OKs the county’s first residential infrastructure development district, with conditions.

Access Allowed

Topographic map of Ball Camp Pike property.

Planning commissioners vote to permit a road over a steeply sloped hill to open a landowner’s property to development.

Property Rights and Fights

County commissioners Andy Fox and Larsen Jay at Monday's meeting.

County Commissioner Andy Fox is pushing for something officials say they’ve never seen — downzoning properties against the owners’ wishes.

Westward Expansion

Bulldozers sit on a patch of open dirty at Prosperity Crossing

At the edge of Knox County, the massive Prosperity Crossing development promises sports fields, hotels and — maybe most significant to its neighbors — new infrastructure.

Positive Development

Livano Knoxville photo.

After a 16-year slump, a record year for residential building permits in 2023 restored housing starts to pre-Great Recession levels.