Since 2024, there has been a Resolution for a new zone, C-3 Wholesale and Warehouse Commercial District, presented by Commissioner Austin Brooks. It is intended to provide a zone that could be used by small businesses that do not fit in the other commercial zones. Currently, those small businesses are forced to rezone into I-1 Industrial or scrap plans to expand or expand in their current zone (usually A-1) hoping to not be caught.
It has been amended and edited so many times that no one seems confident that they know the current form of the resolution. It may be re-introduced at the May 27th Regional Planning meeting or the June 26th County Commission meeting, so keep checking the agenda available online (in the Public Notice section of the Standard Banner or on the County calendar at https://jeffersoncountytn.gov/public-notice/)
Mr. Brooks has also proposed to move RV Parks out of A-1 and into C-2 since they are commercial businesses.
And Kathryn Baldwin, the county’s planning consultant has several changes to Subdivision Regulations. She is also interested in looking at A-1, and the residential zones.
And finally, there is a resolution being actively reviewed (probably with a County Commission vote) to establish an application process and requirements for short-term rentals.
A resolution to tax minerals extracted in the county failed to pass, but may return in the future.