Red Bank City Zoning Code

Pursuant to the provisions of T.C.A. § 13-4-101 et seq., there is hereby created and established a municipal planning commission hereinafter referred to as the "City of Red Bank Planning Commission" or as "planning commission." The purposes and duties of the Red Bank Municipal Planning Commission are to carry out the functions of municipal planning as otherwise described in Tennessee Code Annotated title 13, chapter 4, sections 101 et seq., as amended by ordinances of the City of Red Bank now existing or hereafter enacted.

(Ord. No. 25-1285, § 2, 9-2-2025)

The planning commission shall have such organization, rules, staff, powers, functions, duties, and responsibilities as are prescribed in the general law relating to municipal planning commissions in T.C.A. tit. 13, except as amended by ordinance of the City of Red Bank, Tennessee.

(Ord. No. 25-1285, § 2, 9-2-2025)

Any ordinances, rules, regulations, plans, requirements, codes and standards in effect with respect to the City of Red Bank enacted, propagated, and/or adopted heretofore by the Chattanooga, Hamilton County, planning commission as of and prior to April 3, 2001, and except to the extent hereafter and hereto for or hereafter, modified by ordinances of the City of Red Bank, shall likewise be the ordinances, plans, rules, regulations, requirements, codes and standards of the City of Red Bank Planning Commission, unless and until change comes or is rescinded or modified by the City of Red Bank.

(Ord. No. 25-1285, § 2, 9-2-2025)

(a)

The Red Bank Municipal Planning Commission shall consist of five members.

(b)

Each of the five commissioners shall appoint one member of the Red Bank Municipal Planning Commission, and any one or more of the commissioners shall be entitled, but shall not be required, to appoint himself or herself as a member of the Red Bank Municipal Planning Commission. The terms of the members of the Red Bank Municipal Planning Commission shall be consistent with the terms of office of the commissioner who has appointed each such member.

(c)

The mayor shall not be required to be a member of the Red Bank Municipal Planning Commission, and neither shall there be a requirement that any other commissioners shall be a member of the Red Bank Municipal Planning Commission.

(d)

To be eligible to serve as a member of the Red Bank Planning Commission, a person shall meet all of the following qualifications:

(1)

Be a resident of the City of Red Bank.

(2)

Be at least 18 years of age.

(e)

A member of the Red Bank Municipal Planning Commission, once duly appointed, may be replaced at any time that a majority of the city commissioners shall determine that such member(s) is/are (a) unable to fulfill the duties of office (b) neglect their duties of office without good cause shown; good cause to be determined by a majority of the commissioners. The replacement for any such member of the Red Bank Municipal Planning Commission so removed shall be by appointment of the entitled-assigned commissioner who originally made the appointment and but only for the remainder of the unexpired term of the person removed and/or the remainder of the term of office of the appointing commissioner, whichever time period is shorter.

(f)

No commissioner who shall have appointed herself or herself as a member of the Red Bank Municipal Planning Commission shall continue to serve beyond the expiration of his or her elected term as commissioner of the City of Red Bank unless the succeeding commissioner entitled to appoint to that position shall make the appointment to the Red Bank Municipal Planning Commission.

(g)

Regular appointments to fill terms expiring in conjunction with the appointment schedule above should be, but shall not be required to be, made within 90 days next following the coincident regular election of the city commissioner entitled to make such appointment(s) and as otherwise provided herein.

(h)

As provided in Ordinance 21-1201, each member of the Red Bank Planning Commission is to be paid an annual stipend in the amount of $300.00, the same to be paid in a lump sum or in convenient periodic installments as determined by the director of the finance department.

(Ord. No. 25-1285, § 2, 9-2-2025)