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City law department proposes zoning edits to align vested-rights deadlines with new state law
Summary
City staff attorney presented proposed zoning-code amendments to implement recent Tennessee statutory changes to vesting of development regulations, including a 30-day administrative-appeal deadline and a revised definition of "submission" and "substantial compliance."
Christina McGraws Tillery, staff attorney with the City of Knoxville Law Department who handles land-use decisions, presented code amendments to align the city's vested-rights rules with recent changes in state law (Tennessee Code Annotated, section 13-4-310). "Having vested rights basically means that the development regulations are frozen in place for a certain amount of time for a project," Christina said, explaining that the state statute now ties vesting to the date a complete application is…
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