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Oak Ridge council adopts zoning text changes allowing zero-foot industrial setbacks and townhome-by-right rules
Summary
Council approved multiple zoning text amendments on second reading, including language that allows 0-foot side and rear setbacks for adjacent industrial parcels and a change to permit single-family attached dwellings (townhomes) by right in R-3 at up to 16 units per acre.
Oak Ridge City Council on second reading adopted a package of zoning text amendments that modifies setback and density rules across several districts.
One amendment revises industrial district standards to allow 0-foot side and rear lot-line setbacks between adjacent parcels that share the same industrial zoning. Staff said the change extends allowances that already exist in several commercial districts to industrial zones and…
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