Next Stop: Thompson's Station is the tag line for the Town's vision for future development and our new Land Development Ordinance that was officially approved by the Mayor and Town Aldermen in September 2015.  With the region's population expected to nearly double in the next few decades (Vital Signs 2014), an overhaul of the zoning ordinance was key to Thompson's Station's future. Town elected officials and staff partnered with Placemakers, LLC to help the Town through the public input, writing, and adoption process.  The kickoff began with a Charrette designed to obtain a large amount of input from town residents through a week-long dialogue where citizens were asked to join in the conversation with officials and professionals on what the future of our Town would be.  

[Wikipedia: A charrette (pronounced [shuh-ret]) . . . is an intense period of design or planning activity.]

Placemakers, professionals in architecture, storytelling, city planning, and economic development led by Susan Henderson, helped show the ways in which the Town could be developed in a sustainable way based on citizen input. The week long process was chronicled online with daily posts about the progress with comments from citizens. After the week was finished, Susan and her team collected all the data and began working on the new Land Development Ordinance.