Brentwood will pay $1.1 million for 3.68 acres on Moore's Lane, moving Fire Station 3 closer to its calls and cutting about 1.5 minutes from most Ladder 53 runs.

Brentwood will buy 3.68 acres on Moore’s Lane for a new Fire Station 3, moving the station off the edge of the city and onto the road most of its calls use.

The Brentwood City Commission approved Ordinance 2026-11 on second and final reading Monday, Oct. 12, the meeting agenda shows. The ordinance authorizes an agreement with the Mooreland Estates Homeowners Association to buy part of the subdivision’s open space. The price is $1,104,000.

Why the station is moving

Fire Station 3 opened in March 1992 inside the Brentwood Service Center at 1750 General George Patton Drive. The building also houses the city’s water, parks and public works operations.

City staff described that spot as “far from ideal” in the staff memo to the commission. It sits on the edge of the city limits, at the end of a peninsula, six-tenths of a mile south of Moore’s Lane.

The memo gives these figures:

  • 94.8% of Ladder 53’s responses have to get from the station to Moore’s Lane first.
  • That 0.6-mile drive adds roughly 1.5 minutes to each of those responses.
  • That would have been more than 600 responses in fiscal year 2025-26.

The relocation was first listed as a long-term goal in the Fire and Rescue Department’s 2015 staffing and deployment analysis, along with building Station 5.

The land and the price

The site is open space in Mooreland Estates, north of Moore’s Lane and west of the CSX rail line. The memo gives this history:

  • City staff began talks with the homeowners association in 2023 and again in 2025.
  • An appraisal the city ordered in August 2025 valued the land at $300,000 an acre. The appraiser took into account that its zoning effectively blocks a sale on the open market.
  • The association’s members had to approve the sale by a 75% supermajority. That vote passed May 19, 2026.
  • The commission passed the ordinance unanimously on first reading Sept. 28.

City code allows open space in a subdivision like this to be dedicated to a public agency for a stated public purpose. Staff called the price “the most affordable option” among sites that would give a similar improvement in response times. The land is not in a flood zone, the memo says.

What else the move does

According to the memo, the move would also:

  • free space at the Service Center for Public Works and Water Services, which need room to expand
  • replace a station that does not meet the standard for 24-hour or co-ed occupancy
  • let the city run a 24-hour ambulance from the new station, improving EMS transport in the area

What happens next

Staff planned to schedule the closing for late October or November if the commission approved the purchase. The city will also seek to rezone the parcel from its open-space zoning (OSRD) to SI-3, the service-institutional district that allows a fire station.

The memo does not give a construction cost, a design or an opening date for the new station.

What it means for you

Nothing changes yet for 911 calls. Fire Station 3 keeps working from General George Patton Drive until a new station is designed, funded and built. Once it moves, the city expects most Ladder 53 calls to start about 1.5 minutes sooner, because the truck will already be on Moore’s Lane.

The rezoning will need public hearings before the Planning Commission and the City Commission. We will report the dates when the city publishes them. Commission agendas are posted on the city’s meeting calendar, and meetings stream on the city’s video page.

Also at Monday’s meeting

The same agenda records these items as approved:

  • first reading of Ordinance 2026-09, which would zone about 18.01 acres south of Old Hickory Boulevard as SI-3. The land is the site of the city’s sewer pump station and equalization tank, and the city is annexing it. A required community meeting is set for Thursday, Oct. 29, in the Annex Room, with a commission public hearing Monday, Nov. 9, and a final vote Monday, Nov. 23.
  • an agreement with Mid South Restorations for cistern restoration at Ravenswood Mansion
  • an agreement with SouthPro Solutions for streetlight electrical repairs
  • the purchase of two Amkus combi rescue tools for Engine 52 and Tower 51
  • an amended pay plan for fiscal year 2027 and revised personnel rules

Three new firefighters took the oath of office, and the commission marked Friends of the Library Week with a proclamation. For the city’s other services, see who to call at City Hall and our road construction and closures page.