MICHELLE WILLARD, Post Staff Writer
Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 3:13 pm

The next part of Veterans Parkway may be under construction soon as the Murfreesboro City Council reviews the latest bids for the roadway.

Murfreesboro’s Planning Department will present the lowest and best bid to construct Veterans Parkway from State Route 99 to Franklin Road. The new road will begin just east of Armstrong Valley Road in the south and connect with Beesley Road in the north.

Highways Inc. of Cookeville came in with the lowest bid of more than $7.2 million, which will be funded by a loan from the Tennessee Municipal Bond Fund.

Construction on the four-lane road should begin this summer.

The city plans to build Veterans Parkway in phases over a couple of years and eventually it will connect to the Beesley Road interchange at state route 840.

TDOT spent $20.9 million on the recently completed Beesley Road project.

Other city council business:
- Hear from City Manager Roger Haley the tentative city budget for fiscal year 2209-10.

- Hear a report from the City’s Personnel Director about the on-going search to replace the city manager after his scheduled retirement.

Public Hearings and annexations:
- Consider for passage on second reading ORDINANCE 09-OA-11 to annex an area located on the northwestern corner of Halls Hill Pike and Twin Oak Drive and to adopt for same a Plan of Services.

- Consider for passage on second reading ORDINANCE 09-OZ-12 to zone an area located on the northwestern corner of Halls Hill Pike and Twin Oak Drive as Commercial Fringe (CF) District, simultaneous with annexation.

- Conduct a public hearing and consider a request to rezone 17.81 acres west of Dill Lane from Single-Family Residential Ten (RS-10) District to Planned Residential Development (PRD) District; Eagle Summit Partners, applicant.

- Conduct a public hearing to consider amendments to Appendix A-Zoning, Sections 2, 4, 7, 9, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, Chart 1 and Chart 2, pertaining to definitions and charts, updating terms, reorganizing and renumbering existing text, and other amendments; Planning Staff, applicant

Michelle Willard can be contacted at 615-869-0816 or mwillard@murfreesboropost.com.