A new study that examines city regulations and policies statewide has ranked Cookeville as the sixth most “free” city in which to live.
The Beacon Center for Tennessee Freedom Index ranks the 30 most populous cities by freedom. The research looked at free enterprise, private property, individual liberty and cost of government. Director of Policy and Research Ron Shultis said Cookeville has chosen to give its citizens the ability to make decisions.
“Cookeville chose in a lot of opportunities to not regulate, and that is a great thing,” Shultis said. “Cookeville should be commended for doing so, where a lot of cities choose to stick its nose in every part of people’s lives, and Cookeville, in many cases, did not.”
This is the first year for the Freedom Index. The Beacon Center is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that provides public policy research to help solve issues statewide. Shultis said that goal led the center to examine how local governments govern.
“One of the things we started to think about was there is no tool or resource available in Tennessee for people to know what are the regulations, rules, taxes and permits at the local level
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