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Council tables proposed zoning-use amendments after legal concerns; approves state submission for separate zoning order and schedules public hearing
Summary
Loudon City Council voted to table a first-reading zoning amendment after members sought more detail on enforceable conditions and later approved an order to submit a separate zoning provision removal to the state, setting an April 28 public hearing.
The Loudon City Council on March 24 tabled a first-reading zoning amendment that would add definitions and a new use to the city's zoning code after Council member Cardwell said the draft lacked the specific, enforceable conditions required to withstand legal challenge.
"To be legally defensible, the precise conditions must be incorporated within the zoning text as special exceptions," Cardwell said, reading from planning guidance and citing a 1988 Tennessee Court of Appeals decision, Father Ryan High School v. City of Oak…
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