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TN Code § 13-4-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 4 - Municipal Planning|Part 2 - Municipal Plan|§ 13-4-201. General Plan for Physical Development

 It is the function and duty of the commission to make and adopt an official general plan for the physical development of the municipality, including any area outside of its boundaries which, in the commission's judgment, bears relation to the planning of the municipality. The plan, with the accompanying maps, plats, charts, and descriptive and explanatory matter, shall show the commission's recommendations for the physical development of the area of the municipal planning jurisdiction and identify areas where there are inadequate or nonexistent publicly or privately owned and maintained services and facilities when the planning commission has determined the services are necessary in order for development to occur, and may include, among other things, the general location, character and extent of streets, bridges, viaducts, parks, parkways, waterways, waterfronts, playgrounds, airports and other public ways, grounds, places and spaces, the general location of public buildings and other public property, the general location and extent of public utilities and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned, for water, light, power, sanitation, transportation, communication and other purposes; also the removal, relocation, widening, extension, narrowing, vacating, abandonment, change of use or extension of any of the foregoing public ways, grounds, places, spaces, buildings, properties or utilities; also a zoning plan for the regulation of the height, area, bulk, location and use of private and public structures and premises and of population density; also the general location, character, layout and extent of community centers and neighborhood units; also the general location, character, extent and layout of the replanning of blighted districts and slum areas. The commission may from time to time amend, extend or add to the plan or carry any part of subject matter into greater detail.
TN Code § 13-4-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 4 - Municipal Planning|Part 2 - Municipal Plan|§ 13-4-203. General Purposes of the Plan — Surveys and Studies

 In the preparation of the plan, the commission shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of the existing conditions and future growth of the municipality and its environs. The plan shall be made with the general purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted and harmonious development of the municipality which will, in accordance with existing and future needs, best promote public health, safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity and the general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development, and identify areas where there are inadequate or nonexistent publicly or privately owned and maintained services and facilities when the planning commission has determined the services are necessary in order for development to occur.
TN Code § 13-4-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 4 - Municipal Planning|Part 3 - Municipal Planning Regulations|§ 13-4-301. Part Definitions

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Chief legislative body” means the chief legislative body of the municipality, whether designated board of aldermen, board of commissioners or by other title;   “Plat” includes plat, plan, plot or replot;   “Street” or “streets” means and includes streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, lanes, alleys and other ways; and    “Subdivision” means, in any county having a population of not less than thirty-two thousand seven hundred (32,700) nor more than thirty-two thousand seven hundred sixty (32,760), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, the division of a tract or parcel of land into two (2) or more lots, sites or other division of less than five (5) acres for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development, and includes resubdivision and, when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land or area subdivided;     “Subdivision” means, in all counties except those in subdivision (4)(A), the division of a tract or parcel of land into two (2) or more lots, sites, or other divisions requiring new street or utility construction, or any division of less than five (5) acres, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development, and includes resubdivision and when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of resubdividing or to the land or area subdivided;   As used in subdivision (4)(B)(i), “utility construction” does not include the mere extension of individual service pipes or lines for the purpose of directly connecting a single lot, site or other division to existing utility mains.
TN Code § 13-4-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 4 - Municipal Planning|Part 3 - Municipal Planning Regulations|§ 13-4-302. Submission of Subdivision Plats to Commission for Approval — Filing and Recording

  From and after the time when the planning commission of any municipality shall have adopted a master plan which includes at least a major street plan, or shall have progressed in its master planning to the stage of the making and adoption of a major street plan, and shall have filed a certified copy of such major street plan in the office of the county register of the county in which the municipality is located, no plat of a subdivision of land lying within the municipality shall be filed or recorded until it shall have been submitted to and approved by the planning commission and such approval entered in writing on the plat by the secretary of the commission or by another designee of the planning commission; provided, that if the plat of subdivision divides the tract into no more than two (2) lots, then the approval may be endorsed in writing on the plat by the secretary of the commission or by another designee of the planning commission without the approval of the municipal planning commission, upon certification by the planning staff of the municipal planning commission that the subdivision complies with such regulations governing a subdivision of land as have been adopted by the municipal planning commission pursuant to § 13-4-303; and provided further, that no request for variance from such regulations has been requested.   No plat shall be submitted to or approved by the planning commission unless it is submitted by the owner of the property to be subdivided by the plat, or a governmental entity. “Owner,” for purposes of this section, means the legal or beneficial owner or owners of all the land proposed to be included in the proposed subdivision or the holder of a written option or contract to purchase the land, or the attorney or authorized representative of any of the aforementioned.   No county register shall file or record a plat of a subdivision of land, or an amendment, modification, or correction to a recorded plat of a subdivision, within the municipality without the approval of the planning commission as required by this part. Notwithstanding  this subsection (c), an easement or survey attached to an easement granted to the state, a county, municipality, metropolitan government, or entity of the state, county, municipality or metropolitan government, shall not constitute an amendment, modification, or correction or a recorded plat of a subdivision.
TN Code § 13-4-303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 4 - Municipal Planning|Part 3 - Municipal Planning Regulations|§ 13-4-303. Subdivision Regulations — Adoption

  In exercising the powers granted to it by this part, the planning commission shall adopt regulations governing the subdivision of land within the municipality. Such regulations may provide for the harmonious development of the municipality and its environs, for the coordination of streets within subdivisions with other existing or planned streets or with the plan of the municipality or of the region in which the municipality is located, for adequate open spaces for traffic, recreation, light and air, and for a distribution of population and traffic which will tend to create conditions favorable to health, safety, convenience and prosperity, and identify areas where there are inadequate or nonexistent publicly or privately owned and maintained services and facilities when the planning commission has determined the services are necessary in order for development to occur.    As a condition precedent to the final approval of the plat, the regulations may include infrastructure improvement requirements as to the extent to which and the manner in which:  Roads are constructed and improved;   Water, sewer, and other utility mains, piping, and connections are constructed or installed; or   Other infrastructure and facilities are constructed or installed.     The regulations of the planning commission may provide for the preliminary approval of the plat before the infrastructure improvements, but any preliminary approval shall not be entered on the plat.   In lieu of the completion of the infrastructure improvements before the final approval of a subdivision plat, the planning commission may grant final plat approval subject to the submittal and acceptance of a bond, letter of credit, or other method of assurance, in form, in amount, and with conditions and surety satisfactory to the planning commission. The bond, letter of credit, or other method of assurance shall provide for and secure to the public and the local government the actual construction and installation of the infrastructure improvements within a period specified by the municipal planning commission and expressed in the bond, letter of credit, or other method of assurance.   The attorney for the municipality shall enforce any bond, letter of credit, or other method of assurance by all appropriate legal and equitable remedies, and moneys collected on the bond, letter of credit, or other method of assurance shall be paid into the municipality's treasury. Upon the order of the planning commission, the moneys shall be applied to the construction and installation of the infrastructure improvements.     Before adoption of its subdivision regulations or any amendment thereof, a public hearing thereon shall be held by the commission.
TN Code § 13-4-304 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 4 - Municipal Planning|Part 3 - Municipal Planning Regulations|§ 13-4-304. Procedure on Submission of Plats — Approval or Disapproval — Contents — Hearings — Procedure in Certain Counties

  The commission shall approve or disapprove a plat within sixty (60) days after the initial consideration of the plat by the commission meeting in a regularly scheduled session, unless at the end of the sixty-day period there is a holiday or an unexpected interceding event that would close municipal or county offices and thus affect the normal computation of the sixty-day period, in which case the plat shall be approved or disapproved after the interrupted sixty-day period at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the commission; otherwise, the plat shall be deemed approved and a certificate to that effect shall be issued by the commission on demand. The applicant for the commission's approval may waive the time requirement set in this subsection (a) and consent to an extension or extensions of the applicable time period. When a plat has been filed with the appropriate officials of the planning commission, the plat shall be placed on the agenda of the planning commission within thirty (30) days of the filing or the next regularly scheduled planning commission meeting after the thirty-day period. The applicant may waive the time frame requirement for the appearance of the plat on the agenda.   The ground of disapproval of any plat shall be stated upon the records of the commission.   Any plat submitted to the commission shall contain the name and address of a person to whom notice of hearing shall be sent; and no plat shall be acted upon by the commission without affording a hearing thereon, notice of the time and place of which shall be sent by mail to such address not less than five (5) days before the date fixed for such hearing.   In counties having populations not less than three hundred twenty-five thousand (325,000) nor more than four hundred thousand (400,000), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census, in the event the municipal planning commission approves or disapproves a plat after a hearing thereon, the applicant submitting the plat or any person who was a party for or against the plat request at the planning commission hearing shall have the right within thirty (30) days after such approval or disapproval to have the action of the municipal planning commission reviewed by the chief legislative body of the municipality having jurisdiction over zoning matters, who shall by majority vote approve or disapprove the plat. If the plat is approved, the secretary of the regional planning commission shall endorse the plat for recording as prescribed in § 13-3-402. No such plat shall be recorded until after the county court or other legislative body has acted on a request for a review of the action of the planning commission if there is a request within thirty (30) days.
TN Code § 13-4-305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 4 - Municipal Planning|Part 3 - Municipal Planning Regulations|§ 13-4-305. Dedications — Effect of Plat Approval on Status

 The approval of a plat shall not be deemed to constitute or effect an acceptance by the municipality, county or public of the dedication of any street or other ground shown upon the plat.
TN Code § 13-4-306 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 4 - Municipal Planning|Part 3 - Municipal Planning Regulations|§ 13-4-306. Transactions Prohibited Prior to Obtaining Approval of Final Subdivision Plat — False Representations as to Construction of Roads — Remedies — Requirements for Final Plat Approval

   The owner or the agent of the owner of any land shall not:  Transfer, sell, agree to sell, or negotiate to sell the land by reference to, exhibition of, or by other use of a subdivision plat without first submitting a final subdivision plat to the municipal planning commission and receiving the commission's approval and before the final plat is recorded in the appropriate register's office; or   Falsely represent to a prospective purchaser of the land that roads or streets will be constructed by the municipality or other political subdivision.     The description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the sale or transfer does not exempt the transaction from a violation of this subsection (a). The municipality, through the municipal attorney or other official designated by the chief legislative body, may pursue an injunction or other appropriate remedy for a violation of this subsection (a).     The owner or agent of the owner of any land may sell, transfer, or agree to sell any lot or lots shown on a plat only after that plat has been given final plat approval by the planning commission, and after having been granted this final plat approval, the final plat is recorded in the office of the county register. The planning commission may grant final plat approval where the infrastructure improvements such as roads, water, sewer, utilities, other infrastructures, and facilities are not completed and accepted by the appropriate entities. For the planning commission to grant final approval, the owner or agent of the owner of the land to be granted final approval shall post a bond, letter of credit, or other method of assurance in form, in amount, and with conditions and surety satisfactory to the planning commission. The bond, letter of credit, or other method of assurance shall provide for and secure to the public and the municipality the actual construction and installation of the infrastructure improvements within a period specified by the planning commission.   The remedies and penalties provided by this chapter are to be applied exclusively to the owner or agent of the owner. Title to any tract conveyed without compliance with this chapter is not affected by this chapter unless the sale or transfer has been enjoined by a court of competent jurisdiction before the conveyance is recorded in the office of the appropriate county register. While the title to the tract is not affected by this chapter, the tract remains otherwise subject to this chapter.
TN Code § 13-4-307 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 4 - Municipal Planning|Part 3 - Municipal Planning Regulations|§ 13-4-307. Acceptance of and Improvements of Unapproved Streets

 From and after the time when the platting jurisdiction of any municipal planning commission has attached as provided in § 13-4-302, the municipality shall not, nor shall any public authority, accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave, or light any street, or lay or authorize water mains or sewers or connections to be laid in any street within the municipality, unless such street shall have been accepted or opened as or shall have otherwise received the legal status of a public street prior to the attachment of the commission's subdivision jurisdiction, or unless such street corresponds in its location and lines with a street shown on a subdivision plat approved by the planning commission or with a street plat made and adopted by the commission; provided, that the chief legislative body of the municipality may locate and construct or may accept any other street, provided the ordinance or other measure for such location and construction or for such acceptance is first submitted to the planning commission for its approval, and, if disapproved by the commission, be passed by a majority of the entire membership of the legislative body; and a street, approved by the planning commission upon such submission or constructed or accepted by such majority vote after disapproval by the commission, shall have the status of an approved street as fully as though it has been originally shown on a subdivision plat approved by the commission or on a plat made and adopted by the commission.
TN Code § 13-7-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 1 - County Zoning|§ 13-7-102. Regional Zoning Plans — Execution by County Legislative Body

 From and after the time when the regional planning commission of any planning region defined and created by the [former] state planning office makes and certifies to the legislative body of any county located in whole or part in such region a zoning plan, including both the text of a zoning ordinance and the zoning maps, representing the recommendations of such planning commission for the regulation by districts or zones of the location, height and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lots that may be occupied, the sizes of yards, courts and other open spaces, the density and distribution of population, the location and uses of buildings and structures for trade, industry, residence, recreation or other purposes and the use of land for trade, industry, residence, recreation, agriculture, forestry, soil conservation, water supply conservation or other purposes, and identify areas where there are inadequate or nonexistent publicly or privately owned and maintained services and facilities when the planning commission has determined the services are necessary in order for development to occur, then the county legislative body may, by ordinance, exercise the powers granted in § 13-7-101 and, for the purpose of such exercise, may divide the territory of the county which lies within the region but outside of municipal corporations into districts of such number, shape or area as it may determine and within such districts may regulate the erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration and uses of buildings and structures and the uses of land. All such regulations shall be uniform for each class or kind of buildings throughout any such district, but the regulations in one (1) district may differ from those in other districts. The regional planning commission may make and certify a single plan for all the territory of the county which lies within the region but outside of municipal corporations, or may make and certify separate and successive plans for parts of such territory which it deems to be suitable for urban or nonurban development or which for other reasons it deems to be an appropriate territorial unit for a zone plan; and correspondingly, any ordinance enacted by the county legislative body may cover and include the whole territory of the county which lies within the region but outside of municipal corporations covered and included in any such single plan or in any such separate and successive plans. No ordinance covering more or less than the entire area covered by any such certified plan shall be enacted or put into effect until or unless it is first submitted to the regional planning commission and is approved by the commission or, if disapproved, shall receive the favorable vote of not less than two-thirds (2/3) of the entire membership of the county legislative body.
TN Code § 13-7-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 1 - County Zoning|§ 13-7-103. Purposes of Zoning Regulations

 Such regulations shall be designed and enacted for the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals, convenience, order, prosperity and welfare of the present and future inhabitants of the state and of its counties, including, among other things, lessening congestion on the roads or reducing the wastes of excessive amount of roads; securing safety from fire and other dangers; promoting adequate light and air, including protecting and encouraging access to sunlight for solar energy systems; preventing, on the one hand, excessive concentrations of population and, on the other hand, excessive and wasteful scattering of population or settlement; promoting such distribution of population and such classification of land uses and distribution of land development and utilization as will tend to facilitate and conserve adequate provisions for transportation, water flowage, water supply, drainage, sanitation, educational opportunity, recreation, soil fertility, food supply and the protection of both urban and nonurban development, and identify areas where there are inadequate or nonexistent publicly or privately owned and maintained services and facilities when the planning commission has determined the services are necessary in order for development to occur.