Commercial sites: a permit at any size
Hendersonville’s Public Works stormwater staff issue land disturbance permits through the city’s Citizen Self Service portal, for a $50 fee. The permit covers disturbance of an acre or more and smaller sites inside a larger common plan. The rule that sets the city apart is that every commercial and industrial site needs it, whatever its size.
A quarter-acre pad for a shop or an office counts. Even a small commercial job means a permit application and erosion controls on the ground. The stormwater staff who review it work out of Public Works on Maple Drive North, and they inspect the controls once work begins. For a commercial owner, the $50 fee is the small part; the controls are the real cost.
A house lot takes a lighter path
A single-family home that is not part of a larger plan does not need the full permit. It needs the city’s erosion prevention and sediment control form, filed with the building permit. For an owner building one house on one lot, that is the difference between a stormwater application and a single form. The form keeps a house lot moving, but the erosion controls it describes still have to be built and kept up.
Which of the two your job needs is something we can talk through on the free estimate visit.
A city that is one-sixth water
Old Hickory Lake, finished in 1954, shapes Hendersonville. Of the city’s 32.9 square miles, 16.93 percent is water, most of it the Cumberland River. Ground that drains to the lake is why the city watches silt, and why grading near the shoreline gets planned around where the runoff lands.
The city incorporated in 1969 with about 250 residents. By 2020 it had 61,753, the most of any city in Sumner County, with development such as the Streets of Indian Lake along Indian Lake Boulevard.