Safety and traffic are top concerns among residents who live near a proposed 120-unit apartment complex off Browns Mill Road in Johnson City.
On July 13, the Johnson City Regional Planning Commission unanimously approved a request to rezone a roughly 10-acre parcel at 2803 Browns Mill Road from R-3 to R-4, which would allow the project as proposed to move forward. The development would be called âThe Pinnacle at Browns Millâ and consist of five apartment buildings and one clubhouse.
Rezoning the property allows the developer to increase the maximum unit density of the land. The proposal will now go to the City Commission for three readings.
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Elise Evans, a long-time volunteer and former board president of Food Forest Collective, the nonprofit that manages the Beacon Food Forest, shared that the forest has helped in many ways with food insecurity.
âWeâre not a food bank,â she clarified, âbut we do something unique where we empower people to show up. We accept all volunteers who are kind and want to have a sense of purpose in growing food together. Itâs sort of a large-scale demonstration site. Anyone can do this in their ecosystem and weâre showing them how that can be done.â
The Beacon Food Forest in Seattle is mostly an open harvest site. Except for areas designated as food bank plots and City of Seattle P-Patches, they allow free foraging on-site. Over the past eleven years, theyâve seen successful results and havenât observed anyone âwiping outâ a harvest. Evans said: âIn the golden hour of the evening, we see many people on site harvesting food for their d