Kingston Springs city planner departing

Kingston Springs City Planner Sharon Armstrong will retire at the end of this calendar year, City Manager John Lawless confirmed to the Gazette on April 1. 

Armstrong has been a planning consultant for the Town of Kingston Springs for the last decade, joining the job in March 2017. 

Before that, she served as Cheatham County’s planning director from 2006-2009. 

Armstrong also served as the Middle Tennessee Regional Representative for the Tennessee Association of Floodplain Management for three years before joining the Town of Kingston Springs. 

According to Lawless, Armstrong “had been talking about the possibility of retiring for some time and has decided she’ll be retiring at the end of this year.”

The Town of Kingston Springs Planning Commission Chair, former Mayor Tony Gross, will be in charge of interviewing and hiring a new city planner. Lawless said during the town’s March budget workshop that they would consider looking into Greater Nashville Regional Council (GNRC), the same advisory counsel that aids the planning commission members from Pegram and Cheatham County.