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Mt. Juliet’s new senior center includes a kitchen, meeting room, large activity space, art room, game room and an exercise room.

Mt. Juliet’s police department currently owns the site, but plans on relocating after their new headquarters is complete.

City officials said that MJPD could potentially move to their new facility late this summer.

However, Mt. Juliet Mayor James Maness said officers should stay in their old building for some time, even if their new one gets built.

“It’s potential that the police may have to stay in the building a little longer than anticipated,” said Maness.

The Mt. Juliet Senior Activity Center is currently located at the Mt. Juliet Church of Christ.

Gaye Lynn Wilson, Executive Director of Wilson Rides, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to providing safe transportation for older adults, said a new senior center will bring more excitement for the city’s senior citizens.

“This senior center is more than just bricks and mortar,” said Wilson. “It’s a symbol of connection, vitality and dignity.”

Wilson, who is a board member of the Mt. Juliet Senior Activity Center, said the new center will lead to expanded programs for seniors.

“My mother Gloria has rooted for this project from the beginning, and I hope she lives long enough to see the grand opening,” said Wilson.

The city commission will vote June 28 on the new facility for its second and final approval.

In other business, the city commission approved several changes to their subdivision regulations.

Developers are not allowed to build private streets within a subdivision, and they are required to build sidewalks in all future subdivisions.

City officials said all proposed alleys shall be private, and that the cross section of all alleys need to be provided.

Developers are required to have a traffic study for every subdivision.

City officials said traffic impact studies can be waived for subdivisions generating fewer than 50 peak hour trips.

Developers are allowed to lay out residential access lanes to discourage through traffic, but cannot let the lanes intersect with multiple collectors and stub them with the intention of extending to adjacent parcels.

They are also prohibited from using community collector streets as access to individual residential lots.

The city commission also changed their anticipated traffic volume of collector streets.

They estimated that the volume for these streets is between 6,000 and 15,000 trips per day.

The commission also prohibits a public way’s terminus from going more than 150 feet from the boundary of a subdivision, while limiting dead-ends to 700 feet from the nearest intersection to the center of the cul-de-sac.

However, they also allow dead-ends to terminate in a cul-de-sac that matches the city’s new design standards.