Rossview Road widening remains a Clarksville FY27 priority, but construction is not scheduled

Clarksville’s adopted Fiscal Year 2026-27 budget keeps Rossview Road widening on the city’s priority list, but the document does not put the entire corridor under construction or establish a start date.

The city posted the finalized budget document on July 31, 2026, after the City Council approved the budget on July 9. The budget lists Rossview Road widening among projects that are not funded and therefore cannot proceed on schedule. It identifies the section as extending from Warfield Boulevard to Keysburg Road and says residents have repeatedly requested the work because of increased traffic volume associated with Clarksville’s growth.

What the FY27 budget says

The adopted city budget includes $178,728,553 in General Fund expenditures for the fiscal year that began July 1. It also sets the city property-tax rate at $1.01 per $100 of assessed value.

Rossview Road widening appears in the budget’s list of projects that are not funded. The listing keeps the project identified as a city priority, but it is not a construction contract, a full construction appropriation or a guaranteed schedule.

For residents and commuters, the practical takeaway is that drivers should not assume the full Warfield Boulevard-to-Keysburg Road corridor will soon be under construction based solely on the budget document.

TDOT controls the state route

Rossview Road is State Route 237. The City of Clarksville’s transportation FAQ says most major state and federal routes in the city are owned, maintained or controlled by the Tennessee Department of Transportation.

That arrangement affects how a widening project is designed, contracted and funded. City and county governments can work with TDOT and state lawmakers to advance priorities and sometimes contribute to design or right-of-way work. The city’s FAQ says TDOT ultimately makes the decisions about project design and funding for state routes.

School-area work is a separate project

Some Rossview improvements are farther along, but they are not the same project described in the FY27 priority listing.

A joint city-TDOT project near the Rossview Schools campus was nearing completion in an April 28 city update. The approximately $11 million project includes a new traffic signal, the realignment of Rossview Road and Dunbar Cave Road, a three-lane widening near Keysburg Road and an earlier five-lane widening from Cardinal Lane to Powell Road.

The city says TDOT is covering 80% of the project’s construction cost, with Clarksville paying the remaining 20%. The work also eliminates the offset intersection between Cardinal Lane and Dunbar Cave Road. The former Dunbar Cave Road section is now a cul-de-sac called Cavern Court.

That nearly completed school-area phase should not be read as evidence that the broader Warfield Boulevard-to-Keysburg Road widening is funded or scheduled.

County-led widening still has steps ahead

A separate Montgomery County project covers about 3.12 miles from east of International Boulevard to east of Kirkwood Road, just past the entrance to the Kirkwood school campus.

County plans call for most of the road to become a five-lane curb-and-gutter section with 12-foot lanes, a 10-foot multi-use path on the south side and a 5-foot sidewalk on the north side.

In a February 10, 2026 report on county capital projects, Clarksville Now reported that right-of-way acquisition and utility-relocation design were still underway. The report said three right-of-way tracts remained to be negotiated, one tract was in condemnation proceedings and four additional condemnation packets had been sent to the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office. It also reported that 86% of right-of-way had been acquired, 96% had been negotiated and 30% of the utility phase had been completed.

The reported project figures included $3 million for environmental and design work, $12 million for right-of-way and an estimated $5.8 million for utilities. The report said TDOT construction funding was scheduled for fiscal year 2028. That reference is a funding step, not a guaranteed construction start for the full Rossview corridor.

The county’s project description provides the same 3.12-mile limits and proposed roadway design, but it contains an earlier construction estimate of early 2025 through late 2026 or early 2027. That older schedule should not be treated as current in light of the later FY2028 funding reference.

What to watch next

The milestones that would move the widening from a stated priority toward scheduled construction include completed right-of-way closings or condemnations, progress on utility relocations, final design, contractor selection and a confirmed TDOT construction schedule.

Until those steps are documented, Rossview widening remains an important Clarksville transportation priority rather than a fully funded project promising immediate traffic relief across the broader corridor.

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