Whenever the planning commission of the municipality makes and certifies to the chief legislative body a zoning plan, including both the full text of a zoning ordinance and the maps, representing the recommendations of the planning commission for the regulation by districts or zones of the location, height, bulk, number of stories and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of the lot which may be occupied, the size of yards, courts and other open spaces, the density of population, and the uses of buildings, structures and land for trade, industry, residence, recreation, public activities and other purposes, and identify areas where there are inadequate or nonexistent publicly or privately owned and maintained services and facilities when the planning commission has determined the services are necessary in order for development to occur, then the chief legislative body may exercise the powers granted and for the purposes mentioned in § 13-7-201, and may divide the municipality into districts or zones of such number, shape and areas it may determine, and, for such purposes, may regulate the erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration and uses of buildings and structures and the uses of land.
Acts 1935, ch. 44, § 2; C. Supp. 1950, § 3407.2; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-702; Acts 2008, ch. 1150, § 15.
Notes of Decisions
Cherokee Country Club, Inc. v. City of Knoxville, 152 S.W.3d 466 (Tenn. 2004).
· cites it 3× “Tenn.Code Ann. § 13-7-202. The zoning plan must include “the full text of a zoning ordinance and the maps, representing the recommendations of the planning commission.”
SNPCO, INC. v. City of Jefferson City, 363 S.W.3d 467 (Tenn. 2012).
· cites it 2× “§ 13 — 7—208(b)(1), but rather the statutory requirements for adopting a zoning ordinance in Tenn.Code Ann. §§ 13-7-202 to -204. The Cherokee Country Club owned property on which a vacant old house was located.”
SNPCO Inc., d/b/a Salvage Unlimited v. City of Jefferson City (Tenn. Ct. App. 2010).
· cites it 4× “Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-7-202 (Supp. 2010). It is also consistent with this Court’s prior definition of zoning: Zoning is “the division of a municipality or other local community into districts and the regulation of buildings and structures according to their construction and the…”
Conoly Brown v. Metro. Gov't of Nashville & Davidson Cnty., Tennessee (Tenn. Ct. App. 2013).
· cites it 2× “§ 13-7-104 ; Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-7-202 (“Whenever the planning commission of the municipality makes and certifies to the chief legislative body a zoning plan, including both the full text of a zoning ordinance and the maps, representing .”
Town of Greenback, Tennessee v. M&m Stone Farms, LLC (Tenn. Ct. App. 2025).
“Tennessee Code Annotated § 13-7-202 provides: Whenever the planning commission of the municipality makes and certifies to the chief legislative body a zoning plan, including both the full text of a zoning ordinance and the maps, representing the recommendations of the planning…”
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