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East Tennessee North Rural Planning Organization Study Area East Tennessee North Rural Planning Organization Study Area Description Prepared by: East Tennessee Development District April 12, 2017 1 East Tennessee North Rural Planning Organization Study Area Description Prepared by: East Tennessee Development District April 12, 2017 2 Table of Contents I. Purpose A. Tennessee’s Rural Planning Organizations B. Purpose of the ETNRPO Study Area Description II. General Study Area Description A. Location B. Topographic features C. Land use D. Major municipalities E. Recreational facilities and tourism F. Socioeconomic conditions III. Population A. Populations Projections for the ETNRPO IV. Employment A. Employment Projections for the ETNRPO V. Major Traffic Generators A. Major Traffic Generators in the ETNRPO VI. Commuting Patterns A. Commuting Patterns in the ETNRPO VII. Existing Transportation System A. Mayor roadway system B. Freight C. Railroads D. Airports E. Waterways F. Transit G. Bicycle and pedestrian facilities Appendix 1. ETNRPO Major Environmental Features 2. County Functional Classification Maps 3. County Growth Plans 3 I. Purpose A. Tennessee’s Rural Planning Organizations In November of 2005, the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) established twelve Rural Planning Organizations (RPOs) across the state. The purpose of the RPOs is to engage local officials in multimodal transportation planning through a structured process with a goal of ensuring quality, competence, and fairness in the transportation decision making process. RPOs review long-term transportation needs as well as short-term funding priorities and make recommendations to TDOT. These needs, funding priorities, and recommendations are included in TDOT’s statewide long-range transportation plan development process to ensure both urban and rural perspectives are reflected in the resultant plan. The RPOs will consider multimodal transportation needs on a local and regional basis, review long-term needs as well as short-term funding priorities, and make recommendations to TDOT. The figure entitled “Tennessee MPO / TPO / RPO Planning Areas” on the next page shows the twelve rural planning areas and eleven metropolitan planning areas across the state. 4 Tennessee MPO / TPO / RPO Planning Areas Bristol Kingsport MTPO an Montgomery Clay Pickett Hancock liv Robertson Macon MTPO ul Johnson Stewart Clarksville East Tennessee North Hawkins S Lake Sumner Dale Hollow RPO Claiborne Scott RPO First Obion MPO Tro us dale Fentress Johnson City Henry Cheatham Jackson Overton Campbell MPO Weakley Houston Union Te n n e s s e e Grainger Carter Middle Smith Hamblen Washington Lakeway RPO Northwest RPO Davidson Wilson oi Anderson Greene nic Dyer Benton Te n n e s s e e Putnam Morgan MTPO U Dickson Knox Gibson RPO Nashville MPO Jefferson Carroll Humphreys DeKalb White Cumberland Knoxville Cocke Williamson Center Hill RPO TPO Crockett Rutherford Roane Sevier West LauderdaleTennessee RPO Hickman Cannon Loudon Madison Van Buren Henderson Perry Warren Blount MPO/ TPO/ MTPO Haywood Jackson Maury Bledsoe Rhea Lewis Tipton MPO Decatur Monroe Bedford Coffee Southeast RPO Region 1 Chester Marshall McMinn South Central South Central Grundy Meigs East Tennessee South RPO Region 2 Southwest RPO Sequatchie Shelby West RPO Moore East RPO Hamilton Bradley Memphis Hardeman McNairy Hardin Region 3 Fayette Wayne Lawrence Giles Lincoln Franklin Cleveland MPO Marion Chattanooga MPO Polk TPO Region 4 Office of Community Transportation Staff RPO Coordinators MPO, MTPO, and TPO Coordinators Region 1 Center Hill RPO Northwest RPO Bristol MPO Kingsport MTPO Michelle Bradburn Virginia Solimine Ben Bradberry Rex Montgomery Troy Ebbert Trey Joiner Dale Hollow RPO South Central East RPO Chattanooga TPO Knoxville TPO Region 2 Stacy Morrison Mark Dudney Lisa Cross Karen Rennich Jeff Welch Sara Elmore East Tennessee North RPO South Central West RPO Clarksville MPO Lakeway MTPO Region 3 Don Brown Lisa Cross Stan Williams Rich DesGroseilliers Kwabena Aboagye East Tennessee South RPO Southeast RPO Cleveland MPO Memphis MPO Jonathan Russell Don Brown Chad Reese Greg Thomas Pragati Srivastava Joren Dunnavant First Tennessee RPO Southwest RPO Jackson MPO Nashville MPO Region 4 Chris Craig Shelton Merrell James Matthews Michelle Lacewell Calvin Abram Carlos McCloud Middle Tennessee RPO West Tennessee RPO Johnson City MTPO Nicole Seymour Dianna Tomlin Mike Landrum Glenn Berry MPO - Metropolitan Planning Organization Prepared by: MTPO - Metropolitan Transportation Planning Organization Tennessee Department of Transportation TPO - Transportation Planning Organization Long Range Planning Division Data Visualization Office RPO - Rural Planning Organization B. Purpose of the ETNRPO Study Area Description The purpose of the East Tennessee North Rural Planning Organization Study Area Description is to provide land use, population, employment, commuting patterns and other information relevant to existing and future transportation needs in the region. This information can be used as input into future transportation planning studies for the region. II. General Study Area Description A. Location The East Tennessee North Rural Planning Organization, ETNRPO, is comprised of seven counties located generally north of Knoxville, Tennessee as shown on the following map. The counties are Anderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, Morgan, Scott and Union. The southern portion of Anderson County is not in the ETNRPO but is in the Knoxville Transportation Planning Organization. 6 B. Topographic Features Most of the seven counties of the ETNRPO are within the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, usually called the "Great Appalachian Valley" or "Tennessee Valley". The Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians consists of a series of alternating elongated ridges and broad river valleys roughly oriented northeast-to-southwest. This section's most notable feature, the Tennessee River, forms at the confluence of the Holston and French Broad rivers in Knoxville, and flows southwestward to Chattanooga. Other notable rivers in the upper Tennessee watershed include the Clinch, Nolichucky, Watauga, and Emory rivers. Notable "ridges" in the Ridge-and-Valley range include Clinch Mountain, Bays Mountain, and Powell Mountain. The Cumberland Mountains extend into all of or a portion of Scott, Morgan, Campbell, Claiborne and Anderson Counties. The highest point on the portion of the Cumberland Mountains in these counties is Cross Mountain (3534 feet/1077 m) located in Anderson and Campbell Counties. The Cumberland Gap is a narrow pass through the long ridge of the Cumberland Mountains, within the Appalachian Mountains, near the junction of the states of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee. Famous in American colonial history for its role as a key passageway through the lower central Appalachians, it was an important part of the Wilderness Road and is now part of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The Cumberland Gap is located in the Town of Cumberland Gap, Claiborne County. The topography in the study area generally ranges from rolling to mountainous. The mountainous terrain causes major roadway construction to be difficult and costly. Rivers in the ETNRPO include Clinch, Powell, Emory, Obed and New Rivers. Norris Lake is a major reservoir that is located in Anderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, and Union counties in Tennessee. The lake covers nearly 35,000 acres and includes over 800 miles of shore lines. 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