Questions and answers
The questions neighbors ask most about growth, traffic, public safety and this election, answered from the public record and official figures.
Wayne Hall is a Fairview city commissioner and a Middle Tennessee native who is running for reelection to the Fairview Board of Commissioners on November 3, 2026.
He has served Fairview since at least January 2003: as a commissioner from 2003 to 2008 and again since December 2022, as a member and chairman of the Planning Commission, as City Manager from 2013 to 2016, and on the Parks and Landscape Board since March 2023. More about Wayne.
Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Early voting runs from Wednesday, October 14 through Thursday, October 29, 2026.
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Fairview counted 5,800 residents in the 2000 Census, 7,014 in a special census in April 2006, 7,720 in 2010 and 9,357 in 2020. The Census Bureau’s July 2025 estimate is 10,877, which is 88 percent more than in 2000 and 16 percent more than in 2020.
No agency publishes an official forecast for the city out to 2050. The Fairview 2040 Comprehensive Plan mentions a very rough estimate of 20,000 by 2040, and the draft Williamson County Growth Plan projects about 16,200 within twenty years. At the 2020 to 2025 pace, Fairview would reach about 16,500 in 2040 and about 22,000 in 2050. See the chart.
Williamson County grew from 126,638 residents in the 2000 Census to 247,726 in 2020, and the Census Bureau estimates 272,061 for July 2025.
The Boyd Center at the University of Tennessee projects 304,573 county residents in 2030, 362,863 in 2040 and 420,662 in 2050. Fairview is about 4.0 percent of the county today.
It is the city’s long-range plan for land use, transportation and community facilities, adopted on May 2, 2019.
The plan reports that citizens overwhelmingly see traffic on Highway 100 as the city’s top concern and that nearly 95 percent of residents commute out of the city for work. It mentions a very rough estimate of 20,000 residents by 2040.
It depends on the road. State counts show Highway 96 north of Highway 100 carried 9,027 vehicles a day in 2025, up 34 percent from 2005. Highway 100 southwest of Highway 96 carried 16,010 a day, about the same as in 2005, and Highway 100 east of Highway 96 carried 11,835, down from 14,019.
All three counts have climbed 13 to 26 percent since 2013. Daily averages also hide rush hour, when most working residents leave town on the same few roads. See the traffic chart.
Wayne’s record on roads is specific. He made the motion for a three-way stop at Horn Tavern and Bahne in 2003 and for stop signs on Old Nashville Road at Jones Lane in 2025. In 2006 he seconded the rule that requires a traffic study for any subdivision of 50 lots or more, down from 100.
As City Manager he brought the Board the bids to repave King Road in 2013 and New Hope Road, New Hope Pass and part of Dice Lampley Road in 2015, and he presented the $939,000 TDOT sidewalk grant contract in 2016. In December 2024 he made the motion for sidewalks along Highway 100 to the Recreation Center. See the road and sidewalk entries.
Wayne has backed Fairview’s police and firefighters with his motions since 2005: a training officer and gear for volunteer firefighters in 2005, three grant applications for the Fire Department in 2007, another drug officer and four police vehicles in 2008, the design firm for Fire Station 32 in 2023, a county agreement that pays the city $250 per call in 2025, and financing for a new fire truck at 3.85 percent in 2026.
Fairview’s 2019 plan listed 21 full-time police officers and 18 full-time firefighters. The 2026 community data profile lists 32 and 27. See the public safety numbers.
Wayne’s record is the best guide. In 2006 he made the motion to require half-acre lots around the outside edge of RS-15 subdivisions and seconded a lower threshold for traffic studies. In 2013, on the Planning Commission, he made the motions that let the city call a large developer’s bonds if its letter of credit was not renewed in time.
He also made the 2004 motion to send the wastewater plant expansion out for bids and the 2008 motion that placed Bowie Nature Park under a conservation easement. In his words: “Growth is coming whether we’re ready or not, so we had better be ready.” Read more.
Sixteen of the fifty entries in his record are about parks and trees. Wayne made the motions that created a citizen Park Commission for Bowie Nature Park in 2005, placed the park under a conservation easement with The Land Trust for Tennessee in 2008, and approved the Storybook Trail in 2025.
He made the 2004 motion that named the redbud Fairview’s official tree, seconded the adoption of the Parks Master Plan in 2023, and has held the commissioner’s seat on the Parks and Landscape Board since March 2023. See the parks entries.
Both. In his words: “Every family deserves to be heard, whether you just moved in or never left.”
He recommended the words “Fairview Welcomes You” for the city’s welcome signs in 2006, and he has said that new neighbors and old friends want the same things: safe roads, good parks and a town that listens.
The Record lists all fifty decisions in date order, with the month and year, who made the motion and how the vote went.
The population, traffic and staffing figures on this site name their sources where they appear: the U.S. Census Bureau, the Boyd Center at the University of Tennessee, the Tennessee Department of Transportation, the Fairview 2040 Comprehensive Plan and the 2026 community data profile. See the full list.