Aging in place in Farragut

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Permits, utilities and local rules for Aging in Place work in Farragut

Farragut is its own town, so a bathroom rebuild or a ramp here is permitted by the Town of Farragut's Planning and Codes department rather than by Knox County. Water and sewer come from the First Utility District of Knox County, a state-chartered utility district that has served West Knoxville since 1954 and draws its supply from Fort Loudoun Lake; natural gas comes from KUB and electricity from the Lenoir City Utilities Board, so a homeowner may deal with three utilities and one town office. That split shapes the paperwork on a project here - one town file for the construction, separate accounts for the services. The housing stock is the widest on this list, which is why Farragut cannot be quoted in one sentence. The older single-storey houses along Kingston Pike and on the Concord and Northshore side are 1960s to 1980s ranches with one small bath and a tub combination behind a narrow door. Around Turkey Creek, Campbell Station Road and Lovell Road the stock turns later and larger. And on the lakefront lots toward Concord and Northshore the houses sit on a grade that falls away to Fort Loudoun Lake, so the exterior entry is where the rise is.

Municipal reference: First Utility District of Knox County

Getting an accessibility contractor out to Farragut

Farragut is a short run west from Knoxville on Kingston Pike, US-11 and US-70, which runs straight through the town and is the spine of the whole Kingston Pike corridor. Campbell Station Road, Lovell Road and Parkside Drive carry the cross traffic toward the Turkey Creek commercial area and the interstate, and Concord Road and Northshore Drive run south and south-east toward the lake. Interstate 40 and Interstate 75 run concurrently along the northern and western edge of Farragut and split a short distance further west near Lenoir City, which is the junction that sends I-75 north toward Clinton and I-40 west. Once a crew is off Kingston Pike the subdivision streets are wide and laid out for cars, so parking and staging are rarely the constraint here - the constraint is the driveway grade on the lake side, where a walk or a ramp runs down to the door rather than up to it. Kingston Pike and the Turkey Creek corridor carry the heaviest traffic in West Knoxville, so a quote visit and a work day are both better scheduled around it.

What Farragut's housing stock means for aging in place

The accessibility picture in Farragut depends entirely on which decade the house comes from. The 1960s to 1980s ranches are the harder ones for the smallest sum of money: one hall bathroom at five by eight feet, a tub and shower curtain, a 28 to 30 inch door, and a single step down from the living area to a garage or a carport. In those plans the doorway usually has to be widened in the same project as the shower, because a curbless entry into a bathroom a walker cannot get into solves nothing. The 1990s and 2000s houses were built with wider doors, often 32 to 36 inches, a separate shower and a garden tub, and a bathroom that is genuinely bigger; there the money usually goes into the shower floor, the grab-bar blocking and slip resistance rather than into framing. On the lakefront lots the entry is the project: a walk that steps down a slope produces a rise at the door big enough to need a landing and a switchback rather than a straight ramp.

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