Five things before the permit
Spring Hill’s Development Services department, on Station Hill Drive, takes the Application for Land Disturbance Permit. The application lists what has to be in hand first:
- Approved engineering plans
- A recorded long-term maintenance plan (LTMP) for stormwater
- An approved stormwater pollution prevention plan (SWPPP)
- The pre-construction form
- The contractor’s license and insurance
Ordinance 8-21-23 and the buffer policy
That list means the grading follows an engineered plan here. Recording the LTMP puts the upkeep of the stormwater features on file before the first machine arrives. The city’s Stormwater Management Ordinance, 8-21-23, and its Water Quality Buffer Zone Policy are what the plans are checked against, with the stormwater office at Public Works on Mahlon Moore Road. The buffer policy is the one that shapes a lot near a stream.
The application doesn’t state an acreage trigger, so the first question for any project is whether it needs the permit at all. We’ll work through that at the free estimate. On the license line: Tennessee requires one for prime contracts of $25,000 or more, and Spring Hill asks for it on the application itself.
A city that doubled in a decade
Spring Hill went from 29,036 people in 2010 to 50,005 in 2020 and an estimated 59,398 in 2024, and it has been named the fourth fastest-growing city in Tennessee. That is nearly 21,000 more residents in ten years. Its 29.14 square miles run across Maury and Williamson counties, so an address alone won’t tell you who reviews the plans; the city limits will. The Saturn plant ran from 1990 to 2007 before GM reopened it, and the city has planned since 2015 under “Spring Hill Rising: 2040.”
Growth like that is mostly new ground: clearing, a mass grade, then lots, streets and drainage built to the approved plan.