A dispute over Wilson County's 20-year urban growth plan has evolved into a challenge of a municipality's right to plan outside its city limits.
Cities now have the right to create a planning region up to one mile outside of their limits.
Reed said he will introduce a resolution at the County Commission meeting Monday night to request a state attorney general's opinion on the legality of regional planning. This disagreement has its roots in Mt. Juliet's efforts to maintain its regional planning boundaries as its proposed urban growth boundaries. The area of dispute is south of Interstate 40 and along U.S. 70 between Mt. Juliet and the Davidson County line. Reed and some other west Wilson County commissioners complain that some county residents do not want to be in that urban growth area, nor included in Mt. Juliet's vision of the future. Mt. Juliet Mayor David Waynick said Reed does not know what he is talking about.