Former Rutherford County Mayor Ernest Burgess recently won preliminary plan approval to build 606 homes in Rockvale school zones .
The Burgess Farms subdivision, under the legal owner name of Burgess Property LLC, will be built on 713 acres in the rural Midland Road area on the south side of Rutherford. Burgess served as mayor from September 2006 to August 2018.
This development follows the former mayor selling 576 acres of another farm on Franklin Road (state route 96) on Rutherford’s west side for the county-government approved Del Webb Southern Harmony development in 2020 to build 1,150 homes for owners aged 55 and up…