{"id":160218,"date":"2026-04-08T07:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160218\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:09:10","slug":"bristol-tn-city-council-passes-rezoning-request-on-first-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160218\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol, TN City Council passes rezoning request on first reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol, Tennessee City Council passed an ordinance on first reading 4-0 to rezone property off of King College Road to a planned residential district. Councilman Matt Slagle did not attend the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Bristol, TN Mayor Vince Turner explains why he is in favor of the project, that could bring between 375-475 new homes to Bristol. &#8220;We need it in our area,&#8221; said Turner. &#8220;We need housing to bring in other industry when industries are looking at our area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Three people attended the city council meeting to speak out against the proposed project.<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, city council must pass the ordinance on second reading with a public hearing on May 5 before the project can move to the next phase. &#8220;There are still so many pieces and parts of this puzzle to go through,&#8221; said Turner. &#8220;From the plats that will be presented to the planning commission and infrastructure, you\u2019re talking about a six-year period. So, there\u2019s a lot of time to make sure we get everything right.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol, Tennessee City Council passed an ordinance on first reading 4-0 to rezone property off of King College&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-160218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}