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DPD proposes formal process to replace entire zoning map; committee approves notice requirements
Summary
DPD presented a zoning text amendment (ZTA2026‑002) that would set a required public‑notice process for replacing the entire zoning map for Memphis and unincorporated Shelby County, including mailed notice to every property owner; commissioners discussed remanding a rezoning to the Land Use Control Board and timing for an August/September docket.
Department of Planning and Development staff presented a zoning text amendment that would establish rules and public‑notice steps for replacing the entire zoning map for Memphis and unincorporated Shelby County.
"This is simply a zoning text amendment to set the process for the replacement of the zoning map," said Brett Ragstale of DPD. He told the committee the amendment would require staff to publish a recommended map and mail notices to every property owner within Memphis and unincorporated Shelby County that identify the current zoning and the proposed zoning. "That notice would tell you you are currently zone X, staff is recommending you be zone Y," DPD said during the presentation.
Commissioners pressed staff about timing, the scale of mailed notice and how the process differs from an ordinary rezoning; Ragstale and DPD staff said a planned development can add enforceable conditions that a straight rezoning lacks. Committee members agreed to remand a pending rezoning back to the Land Use Control Board to be heard as a planned development; DPD indicated remanded items will return to the commission after LUCB action in August or September. The amendment passed the committee with a favorable recommendation for the full commission review.
