Sullivan County works on South Holston River Watershed Community land use plan [Video]

BLUFF CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – Sullivan County’s Planning and Codes Department hosted a public engagement meeting to draft the South Holston River Watershed Community’s outdoor recreation and sustainable development land use plan.

Ambre Torbett, Sullivan County director of planning and community development and stormwater administrator, said they were seeing a lot of requests for development. Therefore, the county commission thought it would be good to study that area. This land use plan will segue into the full county-wide land use plan update.

The planning department held the engagement meeting to get the surrounding community’s ideas and thoughts.

“We talk about here how important that ecosystem is and how it’s kind of a rare place in the country for trout fishing and all of that,” Stephanie Odum, who lives in the South Holston River watershed community, said. “And the last thing we wanted to do is to turn it into like …