City Hall
What the city decided, who voted which way, and what is being built. The walkthroughs, the development map and its quarterly report, every vote by name, and the 2027 election, translated out of jargon and into plain English.
Latest · Walkthrough · October 28, 2026
The Heritage Foundation added a Sunday to thin out a crowd that hit 135,000 in a single day last year. It got 172,000 over two days instead, the most any of its festivals has ever drawn, and a street that was still less crowded by the hour.
Walkthroughs and reports
From January 1, Franklin has 60 business days to act on a development application, two chances to ask for changes, and a refund bill if it then says no. Miss the deadline and the project approves itself. What the law says, how fast the city actually moves, and the calendar problem between here and the new year.
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Franklin is spending north of $100 million to rebuild an entire block behind the Public Square. The steel topped out in June. What goes inside, what each piece costs, and when it opens.
RenderingFranklin annexed 311 acres and cleared a village of up to 242 homes, 5 to 3. What got approved, what neighbors won on traffic, and why the road fix they want most is still a 2032 project.
An interactive, side-by-side comparison of the proposed FY 2027 budget against FY 2026. Where the money comes from, where it goes, and what changed line by line.
Development
Every rezoning, plan and plat in the city's meeting system, with the vote at each step, and the state's road projects, read every morning.
Every rezoning, plan, plat, annexation and surety the Planning Commission and the board voted on from July to September: plans with 512 homes, 98 house lots platted, and the 15 votes that drew a no, by name.
Your officials
A page for each member of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen with their seat, their last election and how they voted on each of the year's split votes, from the minutes.
The commission that approves site plans and plats and hears every rezoning first: a page for each member with their term and how they voted on each of the commission's split votes, from its signed minutes.
The commission that adopts the county budget and sets the county's share of every property tax bill: a page for each commissioner with their district, their August election and how they voted on each of the year's split votes, from the county's minutes.
Election 2027
How it works
The 24 commissioners and their 12 districts, which two answer to your address, the $921.9 million budget and the tax rate they set in June, how a resolution passes with 13 votes, and how each of them voted in 2026.
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Who files, what the Planning Commission decides, the board's three readings and the one public hearing, the two rezonings with hearings on November 10, and what the state's review deadlines change from January 1.
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Who the mayor and eight aldermen are, which of them your ward elects, how an ordinance becomes law in two or three readings, and how often the board split in 2026.
Photo: Tingey Injury Law Firm on UnsplashOn the watchlist
Parcel-by-parcel zoning maps and what each change means for traffic, schools, and density along the McEwen and Carothers corridors.
Enrollment projections, building plans, and the funding gap, visualized.
A sankey-style breakdown from collection to spending. Sourced from FY 2027 line items.
A rolling, plain-English summary of decisions: what passed, what stalled, and who voted how.
Tell us what to watch
City Hall moves on a calendar most residents never see. If something on the agenda matters to you, or a decision already passed that didn't get explained, tell us. We'll dig in.
