Franklin Development Report
Every rezoning, development plan, plat, annexation and construction guarantee the City of Franklin's Planning Commission and Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted on, each quarter, from the minutes: what the plans show, where each one stands, and how every member voted.
01The editions
- What Franklin approved from July to September 2026Third quarter, July 1 to Sept. 30, 202692 land-use actions512 homes in approved plans98 house lots platted
02What an edition holds
Franklin decides what gets built in two rooms. The Planning Commission approves plats, site plans and the bonds that guarantee a developer's streets and drainage, and recommends on everything else. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen decides rezonings in three readings, annexations, development plans and the agreements that come with them. Each edition reads every one of those votes in a quarter from the two bodies' minutes and puts them in one place.
It opens with the quarter against the year's others, then the projects whose zoning or plan moved, with the homes and square feet each plan shows and where it stood when the edition went out; the plats, with the lots they create; the construction guarantees, development by development; the extensions and agreements; every vote that drew a no, with the names; and what is on the calendar next. Every project links to its page on our development tracker, and every member to their vote record.
An edition is counted, not estimated. The tables are computed from the same meeting records behind the people pages, and a test holds every figure in the words to them.
03The spreadsheet
Behind each edition is a spreadsheet with one row for every action: 92 in Q3 2026. It is for brokerages, builders, title companies, lenders and anyone else who has to know what was approved and when, and it comes with the edition as a PDF. Write to hello@franklinfrontline.com for it. Its columns:
date- The meeting's date.
body- The Planning Commission or the Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
item- The item's number on that meeting's agenda.
kind- Rezoning, annexation, plan of services, development plan, final or preliminary plat, site plan, surety, vested rights, developer agreement, zoning ordinance text or development policy.
project- The development, as the agenda names it.
tracker_page- The project's page on our development tracker, with every board's history.
measure- The ordinance, resolution or contract number.
agenda_title- The item's whole title on the agenda: acres, districts, location, lots.
consent_agenda- Whether it passed in one vote with the rest of the consent agenda.
reading- First, second or third reading, for an ordinance or annexation.
outcome- What the body did: recommended, approved, passed a reading, adopted, deferred, denied.
final- Whether this was the last vote it needs.
vote- The deciding motion's count, ayes first.
ayes- Who voted yes, by name.
noes- Who voted no.
recused- Who stepped aside.
abstained- Who abstained.
motion- The motion as the minutes word it.
modifications_voted- How many modifications of development standards were voted separately.
split_motions- How many of the item's motions drew a no.
acres- The acreage in the title.
pd_district- The planned district a rezoning asks for.
homes_per_acre- The district's homes to the acre.
nonresidential_sqft_allowed- The district's nonresidential square feet.
residential_lots- House lots a plat creates.
commercial_lots- Commercial lots a plat creates.
open_space_lots- Open space lots a plat creates.
sureties_extended- Performance or maintenance agreements extended: work not yet finished.
sureties_released- Agreements released after the city accepted the work.
maintenance_established- One-year maintenance agreements that follow a release.
minutes_status- Signed, approved draft or draft minutes.
meeting_page- The meeting on the city's portal, with its video.
minutes_file- The minutes we read (for a draft, the agenda packet that prints them).
04How it is made
The commission's minutes list who was present and give each vote as a count, naming only who voted no, abstained or stepped aside, so a commission vote's yes column is everyone present who is not named otherwise. The board's names come from its minutes and the city's own roll-call record. Acres, districts and lots are read from the agenda titles, which print them; homes and square feet come from the minutes or the staff report for the plan the board approved, and each project's sources are listed with it. The method is the same as on the people pages, and so are the records.
A meeting is added from its signed minutes or, until they are posted, from the typed draft the city prints in the next meeting's agenda packet; an edition says which of its meetings rest on a draft. The report does not cover the Board of Zoning Appeals, the Historic Zoning Commission or building permits.