Both the owner of the heavy haul trucking company who wanted to locate his business on Cheatham Springs Road and city officials have confirmed that the trucking operation will not be coming to Eagleville.

Bent Tree Transport owner Jim Peach said Thursday in a telephone interview that his company is locating elsewhere. Peach declined to say where his Brentwood-based business will be locating and made angry remarks about the city and the Eagleville Times.

Eagleville Mayor Nolan Barham announced after last month’s council meeting that the city’s zoning laws would not allow the company to locate on a proposed 3.6-acre site on Cheatham Springs Road west of Clark Street that is zoned general commercial or C-2.

Barham’s announcement came after the state planning office sent a memo outlining the planners’ reasoning for why the proposed trucking company use did not meet the rules for the C-2 area.

Peach, however, contended that two trucking companies are already operating within the city limits in C-2 zones and argued that the trucking company use would fit in a C-2 area.

The trucking company owner also charged that the city had first said the trucking company’s proposed operation met the criteria for a C-2 zone and said he then spent about $10,000 getting surveying and soil testing work done.

Peach said in an earlier interview that his attorney had sent a letter to the city’s contract planner and to the city attorney concerning the zoning issue.

City Planner Bo Logan, who works for the state planning office, said Peach’s attorney had notified him that he was going to send a letter but Logan said at Monday’s planning commission meeting that he had not received one.

Barham also said he has heard nothing about the city attorney receiving a letter.

Planning Commission Chairman Nick Duke said someone from Bent Tree called and said they did not want to be on the May planning commission agenda and that the company is no longer pursuing the issue.

The trucking company’s request to locate on Cheatham Springs Road drew strong opposition from residents who live on the road and from others.

The residents’ comments mostly concerned safety issues because of the 18-foot width of the road and the steep drop off on the north side of the roadway to Cheatham Branch. The residents said they were not opposed to the trucking company coming to Eagleville but were opposed to the proposed location.