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Bristol council approves first reading to expand industrial buffers after residents’ complaints
Summary
Council approved first reading of ordinance 25-27 to move heavier industrial uses into an M3 zone and increase the buffer between M2 industrial uses and residential zones from a 30-foot building setback to a 50-foot buffer that prohibits structures and storage; neighbors had urged stronger protections.
The Bristol, Tennessee City Council on Dec. 2 approved on first reading an amendment to the city zoning code that raises separation requirements for M2 industrial uses adjacent to residential property and shifts several heavier uses into the city’s M3 district. The ordinance (25-27) also deletes certain named uses from M1 and M2 and relocates them to M3, the most heavily industrial district.
City staffer Miss Young told the council the amendment changes the M2 development standard from a 30-foot building setback to a 50-foot buffer when manufacturing uses in M2 abut a residential zone. "There is gonna be 50 feet between a residential property line to basically anything that is a building, a structure, a…
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