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Zoning in Carter County

Agriculture

  • A-1 Agriculture and agriculturally oriented uses and structures
  • A-1A Same as A-1 district except that rural mobile home parks are allowed
  • A-1B Same intent and standards of the A-1A district except that no setbacks are required for homes and mobile homes on individual lots

Residential

  • R-1 (Low density) This is the most restricted residential district, intended for low density single-family use
  • R-2 (Medium density) medium density residential development including single-family residential development and density multiple family apartment uses
  • R-3 (High density) areas of high density residential development including any R-@ use, boarding and rooming houses, mobile home parks (with regulations)

Business

  • B-1 permits anything allowed in R-3, grocery stores, drug stores, barber shops, laundry and dry cleaning, pickup stations, laundromats, shoe repair shops, hardware stores, commercial nurseries, gasoline service stations and similar uses
  • B-2 permits any use from B-1, wholesale business, warehouses, storage yards and storage buildings, automobile service and repair establishments, bottling operations, bakeries, stockyards, and flea markets
  • B-3 permits any use from B-1, hotels, motels, automobile sales and service, mobile home sales, personal, business, professional offices, restaurants, funeral homes, and places of amusement and assembly

Industrial

  • M-1 permits any use from B-2 or B-3 except alcoholic beverages, any industry which does not cause injurious or obnoxious noise, vibrations, smoke, gas, fumes, odors, dust, fire hazard, or other objectionable conditions in the planning commission's opinion, trucking terminals, railroad yards, wholesale business, warehouses, storage yards and buildings, bottling and packaging operations, and bakeries
  • M-2 permits any use from M-1, lots or yards for scrap or salvage operations, meat product manufacturing, dying and finishing of textiles, paper and allied products manufacturing, chemical manufacturing, rubber and misc. products manufacturing, and non-hazardous solid waste manufacturing with provision

 


Carter County Courthouse
423-542-1801
801 East Elk Avenue
Elizabethton, TN 37643


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