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Council adopts 2025 one-year plan but delays removal of duplex location standards until conversion design rules are adopted
Summary
Knoxville City Council approved the 2025 one-year plan but amended the ordinance to keep existing duplex location standards in effect until design standards for converting single-family homes to duplexes are adopted following Planning Commission review.
Knoxville City Council on first and final reading approved the city's 2025 one-year plan but attached a time-limited hold on removing location standards for duplexes, after hours of public comment and a lengthy council debate.
The council voted 8-1 to adopt the plan while inserting language that keeps the current location standards on pages 29—6 of the 2024 adopted one-year plan operative until 120 days after the Planning Commission holds a public hearing on design standards for conversions of single-family homes to duplexes; after that period the location standards will expire.
The amendment was proposed by Councilmember Roberto and discussed at length by council members who said they wanted design standards for conversions to match standards for new duplex construction. Director Brooks (planning staff) told the…
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