Islamic Center withdraws rezoning request

The Islamic Center of Williamson County has withdrawn its application for the rezoning of property on Wilson Pike.

In an email to Brentwood Planning Director Jeff Dobson, center trustee Mohammad Fazilia stated the decision was made “with regret and a heavy heart.”

The rezoning was due to be on Monday night’s City Commission agenda for its second and final reading and vote.

“If you can convey to all that we just wanted something for ourselves where we could have gone with our families to worship,” Fazilia wrote, a place that would be “safe and secure for us.”

The Islamic Center of Williamson County is comprised of 40 families, most of whom reside in Brentwood. Members wanted to build a mosque where they could worship close to their homes, without having to travel to Nashville.

More than 10 acres of the 14-plus acre property the center wanted to buy if rezoned can’t be developed because it is identified as floodplain or floodway fringe. It is located just south of the Twin Springs subdivision near Crockett Park.

A majority of neighbors and other Brentwood residents overwhelming spoke out against the project in city meetings and a May 10 public hearing.

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