Knox County Tennesee

This page is intended to provide up-to-the-minute information regarding progress of Knox County's Site Planning Roundtable and the final development of the Stormwater Management Ordinance. For comments, information, requests, or anything else you may need regarding the SPR or ordinance development process, please contact me at chris.granju@knoxcounty.org or call 215-5840.

Chris Granju

We have uploaded an overview of the Site Planning Roundtable process (which, you should know, was started in 2002). Along with a summary of the recommendations is a brief explanation of the process by which these recommendations are anticipated to be implemented. Note that full implementation of the Roundtable recommendations will ultimately require coordination with other agencies such as MPC, a process anticipated to follow closely to implementation of the Ordinance in early 2006.

The Site Planning Roundtable, based on a Center for Watershed Protection process for evaluating local design codes and their relationship to water quality, began in the Fall of 2002. Since that time, the member list for meetings has grown, perhaps doubling in size. Below is a link to the current list of members attending meetings and receiving regular correspondence with the Site Planning Roundtable.

Below is a link to a paper written to encapsulate the discussions surrounding the engineering design approach to be used in the Stormwater Management Ordinance. This paper is not policy per se, but rather offers some background information and explanation to aid in understanding the approach Knox County is proposing to incorporate the Site Planning Roundtable recommendations and tenets of

Below is a link to a paper written to during the discussions surrounding the development of a crediting system to encourage the use of

There has been a good bit of discussion of the comparison between the design approach being proposed in the Knox County stormwater regulations as compared to those currently used in both the City of Knoxville and Knox County.

The 2007 Stormwater Management Ordinance to be considered on first reading in December by County Commission is complete. This reflects the final agreement with City of Knoxville regarding pipe specifications with respect to the 2001 Growth Plan Agreement.

If you have any questions about the ordinance, its application, or policies, please contact Chris Granju at chris.granju@knoxcounty.org