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. Soon it may be re-introduced at a Regional Planning 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/)