What a select-service hotel site plan has to fit
A select-service hotel site plan fits a short list of parts onto a small parcel: the building footprint, the drop-off and entry canopy, the parking field, the outdoor amenities (pool and patio), the service side (deliveries, refuse, utility equipment), the stormwater area and the fire apparatus lane. The model program on this page is 90 to 130 keys in 4 stories on 2 to 3 acres, tested against the code of Murfreesboro, Tennessee in a select-service hotel model project. Murfreesboro numbers are local. International Fire Code numbers are model-code text that binds wherever a jurisdiction adopts it. Prototype numbers come from brand documents and project records.
Murfreesboro's recent approvals give the local scale:
| Project | Program | Site | Zoning | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairfield by Marriott, Robert Rose Drive | 65,000 ft2, 4 stories | 2.69 acres | MU and GDO-1 | Initial design review approved 5-0, Dec 18, 2024 [1] |
| Same hotel, exterior architecture modification | 65,000 ft2, 4 stories | 2.68 acres | MU and GDO-1 | Approved 6-0, Oct. 15, 2025, "subject to all staff comments" [6] |
| North Church Lot 21, Silohill Lane | 124 rooms, 5 stories | Not stated | CH and GDO-1 | Initial design review approved 6-0, July 15, 2026 [7] |
| Hyatt House, Gateway Phoenix Parcel Q | 92,277 ft2 hotel | 3 acres | MU and GDO-3 | Approved in 2019 after EIFS was reduced to 15 percent or less [8] |
The two recent records bracket the model program: a 65,000 ft2, 4-story Fairfield on 2.69 acres and a 124-room, 5-story hotel in the CH district [1, 7]. Both hotel items of 2024 and 2026 were approved "subject to all staff comments," and no public opposition is recorded [1, 7].
The preliminary site plan carries the site data table the city asks for: keys, stories, floor area, acreage, zoning district and overlay, the required setbacks from Chart 2 with its footnotes, parking required against provided, EV-capable, EV-ready and installed spaces, open space, and for overlay sites the masonry share of each face [9].
Public prototype and project data
A brand prototype brings its own footprint, key count and parking to the site. Brand documents and project records published for recent select-service and extended-stay hotels give these datapoints:
| Prototype or project | Keys | Stories | Site | Parking | Building | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairfield by Marriott, 79-room tertiary prototype | 79 | Not stated | 1.61 acres | 79 spaces (1.0 per key) | 177 ft long by 62 ft deep | Marriott brochure [3] |
| Homewood Suites (Hilton), Prototype 10.0 | 131 | Not stated | 2.36 acres (down from 2.49) | Not stated | Building area cut by more than 3,350 SF from the prior prototype | Hilton release [4] |
| StudioRes (Marriott), Davenport, FL | 124 | 4 | 2.24 acres | 128 spaces (about 1.03 per key) | 55,224 SF | Listing, secondary [10] |
| StudioRes, Jacksonville, FL | 124 | 4 | 2.01 acres | Not stated | 53,711 to 55,082 SF | Jax Daily Record [11, 12] |
| Fairfield Inn and Suites, DC Ranch, Scottsdale, AZ | 126 | 4 | 1.70 acres | 146, 1.16 per key | 76,622 SF | Construction Journal [13] |
| Fairfield by Marriott, St. Johns County, FL | 103 | 4 | 5-acre parcel | Not stated | 61,117 SF | Jax Daily Record [14] |
| Home2 Suites (Hilton), Somers Point, NJ | 114 | 5 | Not stated | 125 spaces (about 1.10 per key) | Indoor pool | Appraisal, secondary [15] |
| Home2 Suites (Hilton), urban example | 206 | 17 | 0.28 acres | None on site | 118,882 SF plus 5,000 SF of ground-floor retail | Builder's project page [16] |
Marriott's StudioRes prototype is 54,000 SF, and the Jacksonville permit was valued at $9.9 million, about $79,800 per key as construction permit value only [11, 17]. StudioRes lists coffee service, fitness, laundry, vending, a communal table and a covered patio, with no pool, while the Somers Point Home2 appraisal lists an indoor pool [18, 15]. The urban Home2 shows the same brand going vertical on a downtown lot with no on-site parking [16]. The hotel site size by prototype guide sets these against each other.
The aerial fire lane sets the footprint
On a 4-story hotel the fire code usually decides the plan before the parking count does. Where a jurisdiction adopts International Fire Code Appendix D, an approved aerial fire apparatus access road is required once the highest roof surface is more than 30 feet above the grade plane (D105.1). The road is at least 26 feet wide, exclusive of shoulders (D105.2); at least one such route runs 15 to 30 feet from the building, parallel to one entire side, as approved by the fire code official (D105.3); and no overhead utility or power line may cross it or run between it and the building (D105.4) [2]. In the 2018 edition the requirement sits in Appendix D; in the 2024 edition it sits in Section 503.1.4, with the same 30 ft, 26 ft and 15 to 30 ft values [19]. A 4-story hotel roof normally exceeds 30 ft [20].
| Fire access rule | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Aerial access trigger | Highest roof surface more than 30 ft above grade plane | IFC D105.1; IFC 2024 Sec. 503.1.4 [2, 19] |
| Aerial access width | 26 ft minimum, exclusive of shoulders | IFC D105.2 [2] |
| Aerial access position | 15 ft min, 30 ft max from the building; parallel to one entire side | IFC D105.3 [2] |
| Overhead lines | None over the aerial road or between it and the building | IFC D105.4 [2] |
| Base access road | 20 ft unobstructed width, 13 ft 6 in vertical clearance | IFC 503.2.1 [21] |
| Access road at a hydrant | 26 ft minimum width, where Appendix D is locally adopted | IFC D103.1 [22] |
| Fire access reach | Within 150 ft of all portions of first-story exterior walls | IFC 2021 Sec. 503.1.1 [23] |
| Hydrant distance | On-site hydrants where any portion is more than 400 ft from a hydrant; 600 ft if fully sprinklered | IFC 2021 Sec. 507.5.1 [23] |
| Hydrant to fire department connection | Within 100 ft, where standpipes are provided | IFC 2021 Sec. 507.5.1.1 [23] |
The 2021 IFC text on hydrants, from the ICC's own site: "Where a portion of the facility or building hereafter constructed or moved into or within the jurisdiction is more than 400 feet (122 m) from a hydrant on a fire apparatus access road, as measured by an approved route around the exterior of the facility or building, on-site fire hydrants and mains shall be provided where required by the fire code official" [23].
Local codes amend the model text, so the adopted version is read for each site. San Antonio's 2021 fire code exempts Group R-only buildings of 4 stories or fewer from the aerial road where conditions are met, including roof access by stair and 25 ft lanes throughout [24]. Seattle's 2018 fire code requires two separate approved access roads for residential projects over 30 dwelling units [25]. In Tennessee the State Fire Marshal has adopted the 2021 edition of most International Codes, with the 2018 IRC, under Rule 0780-02-02 [26]; the city fire marshal confirms which edition and which amendments govern the site.
The practical result is that one full long face of the building is spoken for by the aerial lane, and overhead service lines stay off that side. Where the drop-off, the entry canopy, the parking aisle and the landscape islands go is decided after the lane is drawn.
Parking ratios by city
The prototype documents show 79 spaces for 79 rooms in the Fairfield prototype, and the built Fairfield at DC Ranch runs 1.16 spaces per key [3, 13]. Local minimums vary, and published hotel rows show the range:
| City | Hotel minimum | Source |
|---|---|---|
| San Diego, CA | 1 per guest room (visitor accommodations), plus 10.0 per 1,000 SF of conference area | Municipal Code Ch. 14, Art. 2, Div. 5, 3-2026 edition [27] |
| Los Angeles, CA | AB 2097 transit-area relief does not include hotels, motels, B and B inns or other transient lodging | LA City Planning [28] |
| San Juan Capistrano, CA | AB 2097 relief excludes hotels, motels and lodging | City FAQ [29] |
| Keystone, CO | Hotel, motel or lodge: 1.0 per room plus other uses; lodge room 0.5 | Fig. 3.7 [30] |
| River Heights, UT | 1 per guest room plus associated uses | Title 10, Ch. 14 [31] |
| Murfreesboro, TN | Parking and loading per Section 26 of Appendix A, shown under checklist item C(10) | Site plan checklist [9] |
California bars minimum parking within one-half mile of a major transit stop (Gov. Code 65863.2, effective January 1, 2023), but Los Angeles' implementation excludes hotels [28].
Parking, setbacks and the design overlay (Murfreesboro)
These are Murfreesboro rules and records. Other cities set their own numbers.
| Standard | Value | Code or record |
|---|---|---|
| Site plan trigger | One or more acres, or 5,000 ft2 floor area, in a nonresidential district | Appendix A, Section 7 [32] |
| Parking row | No more than 20 spaces in a row without a landscape island | Ord. 99-O-66 (1999 text) [33] |
| Parking sub-lot | No more than 36 spaces along either side of an aisle | Ord. 99-O-66 [33] |
| Parking screening | Parking, loading and maneuvering areas screened per Section 27 | Ord. 99-O-66 [33] |
| EV parking | Location and dimensions of EV Capable, EV Ready and installed spaces shown | Checklist C(16) [9] |
| CH front yard | 42 ft (Chart 2, 2017 edition; also cited by the BZA in 2020) | [34, 35] |
| CH side and rear yards | Side yard 10 ft only if adjacent to residential; rear yard 20 ft (Chart 2, 2017 edition) | [34] |
| MU front yard | 15 ft; 50 ft on arterial/collector (Chart 2, 2017 edition; first set by the 2013 MU ordinance) | [34, 36] |
| MU lot width | 100 ft; 200 ft on arterial/collector (Chart 2, 2017 edition) | [34] |
| MU side and rear yards | 10 ft side, 20 ft rear; next to single-family, 20 ft + 10 ft per story over two (Chart 2, 2017 edition) | [34] |
| Height | 75 ft in CH; 150 ft for commercial uses in MU (Chart 2, 2017 edition); no structure may exceed the Airport Overlay limits | [34, 37] |
| GDO masonry | 50 percent fronts, 35 percent sides and rear | As applied, Jan 14, 2020 minutes [38] |
| GDO EIFS | Reduced to 15 percent or less | As applied, Sept 18, 2019 minutes [8] |
| GDO glass at grade | 24-inch base below glass curtain walls, except at the canopy entry | As applied, July 21, 2021 minutes [39] |
| Open space | 20 percent under the Design Guidelines | As cited, July 21, 2021 minutes [39] |
For a 4-story hotel next to single-family land, the 2017 MU rule is a 40 ft rear yard [34]. Against CH's 42 ft, MU's 15 ft front yard frees roughly 27 ft of depth unless the site fronts an arterial, on the 2017 chart [34]. The code also moves: Chart 2 and its endnotes were amended by Ord. 26-O-13 (passed May 21, 2026), and Ord. 25-O-20 updated Chart 1 and rewrote Chart 2 Endnote 16, so the dimensional standards are rechecked at due diligence [40, 41].
Two recorded practices shape the parking field. In September 2024 the commission required "the construction of all parking areas depicted on the site plan with the initial development" on a commercial item, so the plan shows only parking that will be built [42]. And on an MU parcel that fronts an arterial or collector, the 2013 MU ordinance's minimum front yard of 50 feet pushes the building back and leaves the frontage to parking and landscape [36].
Design review and permit patterns elsewhere
Published records from other markets show the same pressure points, and four permit patterns:
| Pattern | Example | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| Board design review with a deviation | Home2 Suites, Jacksonville | The Downtown Development Review Board approved it on 1.2 acres with surface parking, though staff objected that the Downtown Zoning Overlay requires structured parking; the applicant argued a garage was not "feasible or financially viable" [43] |
| Special permit plus site plan | Fairfield, Lee, MA | The proposal went from 4 stories (50 ft) to 3 stories (about 40 ft), and parking rose from 80 to 104 spaces (about 1.2 per room), as reported by The Berkshire Edge [44] |
| Layered state and local permits | Fairfield, St. Johns County, FL | 103 rooms, 4 stories, 61,117 SF on a 5-acre parcel; needs a St. Johns River Water Management District permit, county design approval, a shell building permit and a separate interior build-out permit [14] |
| Civil and water management permit, then building permit | StudioRes, Jacksonville | Water management district modification and civil plan submission on April 3, 2024; building permit issued January 6, 2025, roughly nine months from civil submittal to permit [17, 12] |
In Murfreesboro, by contrast, a hotel in a district marked "X" needs no rezoning, and the public steps are design review and site plan review.
Approval path (Murfreesboro model)
In a district where Chart 1 marks Hotel "X," a hotel is permitted by right: the legend reads "X = Use permitted by right," and the endnotes add that such uses are permitted by right subject to site plan review and approval and the issuance of building permits [37]. No rezoning or special use permit is needed; the path runs through staff meetings and the Planning Commission.
| Approval, in order | Body | Published fee | Seal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zoning verification letter (optional) | Planning Department | $25 basic (5 to 7 business days); $50 expedited (3 business days) [45] | No |
| Due diligence meeting | Planning staff | Not published | None: a "dimensioned conceptual site plan" is required [46] |
| Pre-application meeting | Planning and engineering staff | Not published | Not stated; plans "90-95% complete" [46] |
| Rezoning, only if not by right | Planning Commission recommends; City Council decides [47] | $700; PUD $950 [48] | Not required by the readable text |
| Gateway Design Overlay initial design review | Planning Commission | Not stated | Architect presents |
| Site plan and final design review | Planning Commission, or administrative on specific criteria [49] | $600 for over 20,000 ft2 of building [48] | Drainage: "engineered stamped calculations" [9] |
| Plat, if lots or easements change | Planning Commission consent agenda [1] | Preliminary $400 + $85/lot; final $200 + $55/lot [48] | Registered land surveyor or engineer |
| Grading plan | City engineering | $400 [48] | Engineer |
| TDEC Construction General Permit NOI and SWPPP | TDEC Division of Water Resources | Not stated | SWPPP prepared per the permit [50] |
| Water and sewer availability | Murfreesboro Water Resources or Consolidated Utility District | Not stated | Engineer |
| Building permit | Building and Codes | Not stated | Architect or engineer [5] |
| Fire plan review | Fire Marshal | Not stated | Design professional |
| Pool and food service | Tennessee Department of Health | Not stated | Not stated |
| Certificate of occupancy | Building and Codes | Not stated | Engineer's stormwater certification first [9] |
The due diligence meeting is built for the preliminary plan. The city's text: "A dimensioned conceptual site plan is required depicting all proposed and existing structures, vehicle and pedestrian access, parking, landscaping, potential drainage area(s) and a site data table" [46]. The pre-application meeting is requested "at least 2 weeks prior to the initial submittal" [49]. The commission meets on the third Wednesday at 1:00 pm, with seven commissioners including two City Council members [47].
The state stormwater clock runs in parallel: the NOI goes in "at least 30 days prior to the commencement of land disturbing activities," and the 2026 Construction General Permit took effect October 1, 2026 and expires September 30, 2031 [51, 50]. Rutherford County's site plan fee ($750 + $0.10/ft2) applies to the unincorporated county, not inside the city [52].
Who seals what in Tennessee. As summarized by the University of Tennessee MTAS, T.C.A. 62-2-102(b) makes it unlawful for anyone other than a registered architect or engineer to prepare plans for a building outside the listed exceptions, which include buildings of less than three stories and less than 5,000 square feet; the section was amended effective July 1, 2022 [53, 5]. A 4-story hotel is above that line. The Board's seal rule, Rule 0120-02-.08(2)(a) (effective October 23, 2018), requires the registrant's seal on all original sheets of working drawings or plans, and Rule 0120-02-.08(9) requires working, partially completed or other non-construction drawings to carry a designation such as preliminary, not for construction, for review only or draft; the land surveyors' Rule 0820-04-.08(2) lets preliminary documents go without seal and signature when they carry a large bold statement to that effect [54, 55]. T.C.A. 62-2-306(b) requires the registrant to seal all original sheets of any bound set of plans and the first sheet of the specifications, and bars sealing a document not prepared by the registrant or under the registrant's responsibility [56]. Plats carry a registered land surveyor's or engineer's seal, and the register of deeds may not record one without it, under T.C.A. 66-24-116 [57]. The engineer and architect of record take the preliminary plan as the program and layout brief and draw the sealed set under their own responsible charge. For the general question, see do I need an architect for a site plan.
Tennessee and Nashville-area context
The state layer is the same for every Tennessee hotel; the Tennessee site plan page carries it in full, and hotel site plans in Tennessee covers the statewide hotel picture.
| Layer | Rule | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Building code | State Fire Marshal adopted the 2021 edition of most International Codes, with the 2018 IRC, under Rule 0780-02-02 | [26] |
| Construction stormwater | TDEC CGP TNR100000 for 1 acre of disturbance, or less within a common plan | [50] |
| Streams and wetlands | Any alteration needs an ARAP, which also serves as the Section 401 certification; stormwater coverage is not issued until that decision | [58, 59] |
| Karst | Murfreesboro's Stormwater Management Code (Chapter 27.5) defines karst, karst windows and closed depressions | [60] |
| Sinkhole flooding | USGS documented sinkhole flooding in Murfreesboro and Rutherford County, with three focus areas: Shiloh, Hooper Bottom, Manson Pike | [61] |
| Sewer capacity | A 2022 Murfreesboro approval barred building permits until sewer upgrades were complete | [62] |
Rutherford County added 6,266 residents in 2025, second in Tennessee after Davidson County (+9,821) [63]. The Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin metro reached 2,197,416 in 2025, per the Census Bureau series on FRED [64]. Recent Tennessee hotel openings include the 123-room Caption by Hyatt Chattanooga Downtown (end of March 2026) and the 184-room Embassy Suites in downtown Chattanooga ($54M, September 2025, Vision Hospitality Group) [65]. Vision Hospitality Group is also the developer of Murfreesboro's North Church Lot 21 [7].
Nashville runs a different system. Metro uses Specific Plan zoning, where the site plan is the zoning and preliminary SP conditions must be met before a building permit, and its ePlans portal has taken concurrent reviews since September 8, 2025 [66, 67]. Metro's drawing requirements state: "A licensed Tennessee land surveyor or engineer must seal all site plans" [68]. Its February 2025 file also requires building plans sealed by a Tennessee-licensed architect or engineer when the building is 3 stories or more in height [69]. There the preliminary plan is what the surveyor or engineer builds the sealed site plan on. See site plans in Nashville.
Motel site plans
A motel raises a classification question before a layout one. Murfreesboro's 2026 ordinance defines a hotel as "A building in which lodging or boarding and lodging are provided and offered to the public for compensation, and in which ingress and egress to and from all rooms are made through an inside lobby or office supervised by a person in charge at all hours" [40]. An interior-corridor select-service hotel fits that definition; an exterior-corridor product is a "Motel," a separately listed use [70]. Confirm which Chart 1 row the city will apply before drawing the site. The same ordinance names "Extended Stay Hotel/Motel," permitted in two district columns, which catches any motel offering extended stays in at least 5% of its rooms [40, 71].
The rest of the rule set reads the same way for a motel, with two thresholds that matter more at low height. The aerial fire road applies only where the highest roof surface is more than 30 feet above grade, so a one or two story motel is tested against that line rather than assumed in or out [2]. Tennessee's preparation threshold (less than three stories and less than 5,000 square feet) decides whether an architect or engineer must prepare the building plans [53]. The parking rules (20-space rows, Section 27 screening) and the TDEC permit for one acre or more apply as they do to a hotel [33, 50]. The studio's article on hotel and motel site plan requirements across 30 growth markets compares the city rules, and choosing between an RV park, glamping, motel or multifamily covers the land-use decision.
Conversions and the pipeline
Lodging Econometrics counted a record 1,567 conversion projects and 152,044 rooms in the U.S. pipeline in Q2 2026, up 15% in projects and 18% in rooms year over year; conversions plus renovations totaled 2,097 projects and 255,834 rooms [72]. LE's "conversion" count is mainly brand-to-brand hotel conversions, not office-to-hotel [72]. The total U.S. pipeline stood at 5,975 projects and 703,001 rooms, with 1,081 projects and 133,216 rooms under construction [73]. LE's forecast is 661 new hotels with 74,820 rooms opening in 2026 (1.3% growth), then 738 hotels and 78,909 rooms in 2027 and 832 hotels in 2028; these are forecasts, not outcomes [74]. Dallas led the pipeline with 183 projects and 22,840 rooms at Q2 2026, followed by Atlanta with 157 projects and 17,423 rooms [75].
A conversion changes the deliverable more than the site. Property improvement plan submissions include specifications and illustrations that are reviewed before procurement [76]. For conversion interiors and renders, see commercial interiors and conversions.
What the preliminary plan carries, and what the engineer of record adds
| Murfreesboro checklist item | Preliminary site plan | Engineer or architect of record |
|---|---|---|
| Site plan name, lot number, owner and developer | Yes | Confirms |
| Name, address and telephone number of the person who prepared the site plan | Yes | Replaced at formal submittal |
| B(1) and B(2): present, proposed and adjoining zoning | Yes | |
| B(3): airport, flood, battlefield, GDO and historic overlays | Mapped from public GIS | Certified flood data |
| B(4): table of Chart 2 setbacks with footnotes | Yes, in the site data table | Verifies |
| C(10): parking and loading per Section 26 | Yield and parking table | Final striping |
| C(16): EV Capable, EV Ready and installed spaces | Count and location | Electrical design |
| Drainage: retention or detention with engineered stamped calculations (City Code Sec. 29.5) | Area reservation | Sealed calculations, inverts |
| Standard stormwater notes: fee credit application before the building permit; engineer's certification before the certificate of occupancy | Placeholder notes | Engineer of record |
| GDO project form and design review checklists | Elevations and materials percentage table | Architect of record finalizes |
| Building plans | No | Architect or engineer, sealed |
Sources for the table: [9, 46, 5]. The general split is set out in who prepares a site plan.
Elevations and renderings for design review
Gateway Design Overlay review is architectural. The commission has asked for board elevations addressing "the four-sided buildings" (Robert Rose Village, 2019), revisions "to comply with the fifty-percent fronts and thirty-five percent sides and rear" (2020), and a brand sculpture to "be brought back to Planning Commission for review" (October 18, 2023) [77, 38, 78]. In July 2021 it refused a ground-level glass curtain wall without a 24-inch base, noting that "glass walls without a base had not been allowed for other developments that had to follow the design guidelines," and in December 2025 it discussed changing a parapet color before final design on another overlay item [39, 79]. A facade change after approval returns to the commission: the Murfreesboro Fairfield went back for an exterior architecture modification review in October 2025 [6]. The checklist lets the commission request "any other information necessary" [9]. Those requests map onto a view set: four-sided elevations with a materials percentage for each face and the EIFS share, and brand features such as the canopy shown in context [77, 38, 8].
No source states that a brand requires renderings; the documented requirements are drawings, specifications and illustrations [76]. See hotel rendering for the view set.
Cost benchmarks (national)
HVS's 2026 survey puts the national select-service median total development cost at $200,730 per room (average $239,006), on 2025 budgets; the 2025 survey's national median was $223,378 (average $244,974) [80, 81]. HVS notes that the national select-service median includes land at $18,000 per room and building and site work at $126,900 per room [80]. HVS describes the national all-category median of $212,958 as "a slight decrease from last year's survey, influenced by the growing number of limited-service and extended-stay midscale projects" [80]. The national full-service median was $467,244 per room, and upscale extended-stay ran about $265,000 per room in both surveys [80, 81]. These are national figures; a Tennessee per-key figure was not published in the sources cited here. For trends and room-size effects on the footprint, see the studio's articles on hotel development trends and room sizes in newly built hotels.
Frequently asked questions
Is a hotel allowed by right in Murfreesboro?
Yes, where Chart 1 marks Hotel "X": the Chart 1 endnotes make an X use permitted by right subject to site plan review and building permits. The Hotel row carries six X entries and no S, and the 2024 and 2026 approvals prove the CH and MU districts; the other four districts are read from the current chart [37, 1, 7].
Is an extended-stay brand treated differently?
Can I take an unsealed concept plan to the city?
Yes. Murfreesboro's due diligence meeting requires a "dimensioned conceptual site plan" with a site data table [46], and Tennessee's board rule lets drawings that are not construction documents go unsealed when they are designated as preliminary [54]. At site plan, drainage calculations must be "engineered stamped" [9], and the building plans for a 4-story hotel are prepared and sealed by an architect or engineer [5].
Will a 4-story hotel trigger aerial fire apparatus access?
How much land does a select-service prototype need?
Do I need a state stormwater permit?
Can sewer capacity stop a hotel after site plan approval?
Yes. A 2022 Murfreesboro approval was conditioned so that no building permits would issue "until sanitary sewer upgrades were constructed and completed" in the area [62].
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