Farragut City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 1
- AUTHORITY AND GENERAL PURPOSE
Whereas, the Board of Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of Farragut desire to adopt this text and maps relating thereto as the zoning ordinance for the Town of Farragut; and
Whereas, in connection therewith the board desires to provide for the establishment of districts within the corporate limits of the Town of Farragut, Tennessee; to regulate within such districts the location, height, bulk, number of stories, and types of buildings and structures, the percent of lot occupancy, the required open space, the density of population, and the uses of land, buildings and structures; to provide for amendments, exceptions and variances; to provide methods of administration; and to prescribe penalties for violation thereof;
Now, therefore, be it ordained by the Farragut Board of Mayor and Aldermen that:
Sec. I. - Authority.
A.
The following text and maps relating thereto shall be and become the zoning ordinance, constituting the zoning element of the zoning plan, for the Town of Farragut, Tennessee, which text and maps were prepared by the Farragut Municipal Planning Commission and certified to this Board of Mayor and Aldermen, which text and maps this Board of Mayor and Aldermen does hereby adopt as the zoning ordinance for the Town of Farragut.
B.
Any equally or less stringent provision of any previously adopted ordinance which provisions are the same as or are in conflict or at variance with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby amended by deleting the same, rendering the same of no further force and effect and Ordinances 80-10 and 80-10A are hereby repealed in their entirety.
C.
Pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated 13-4-201, 13-7-201, and 13-7-202 [T.C.A. § 13-4-201, 13-7-201 and 13-7-202], this ordinance shall be an element of the Farragut Zoning Plan, which plan shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, the Farragut Zoning Ordinance and the Farragut Municipal Code.
(Ord. No. 86-16, 4-1986; Ord. of 2-2006)
Sec. II. - General purpose.
The zoning regulations and districts as herein set forth have been made in accordance with a comprehensive plan for the purposes of promoting the public health, prosperity, safety and general welfare of the community. They have been designed to lessen congestion in the streets, to secure safety from fires, floods, panic and other dangers, to provide adequate light and air, to prevent the overcrowding of land, to avoid undue concentration of population, to discourage the premature and unnecessary conversion of open-space land to urban uses, to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks and other public requirements. They have been made with reasonable consideration among other things as to the character of each district and its uses, and with a view toward conserving open space and the value of buildings, and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the town.
(Ord. No. 86-16, 4-1986; Ord. of 2-2006)
Sec. III. - Illustrations.
(Ord. No. 86-16, ch. 1, 4-1986; Ord. of 2-2006)