As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: “Calendar quarter” means any one (1) of the following time periods during a given year: January 1 through March 31, April 1 through June 30, July 1 through September 30, or October 1 through December 31; “Committee” means the local government planning advisory committee established […]
With this chapter, the general assembly intends to establish a comprehensive growth policy for this state that: Eliminates annexation or incorporation out of fear; Establishes incentives to annex or incorporate where appropriate; More closely matches the timing of development and the provision of public services; Stabilizes each county’s education funding base and establishes an incentive […]
This chapter does not apply to any county having a metropolitan form of government; provided, that each such county shall receive full benefit of all incentives available pursuant to § 6-58-109, and each such county shall escape the sanctions imposed by § 6-58-110; and provided further, that any municipality that lies within a county having […]
Except as otherwise provided pursuant to subdivision (a)(9), effective September 1, 1998, there is created within each county a coordinating committee, which shall be composed of the following members: The county mayor or the county mayor’s designee, to be confirmed by the county legislative body; provided, that a member of the county legislative body may […]
The affected county, an affected municipality, a resident of such county or an owner of real property located within such county is entitled to judicial review under this section, which shall be the exclusive method for judicial review of the growth plan and its urban growth boundaries, planned growth areas and rural areas. Proceedings for […]
The urban growth boundaries of a municipality shall: Identify territory that is reasonably compact yet sufficiently large to accommodate residential and nonresidential growth projected to occur during the next twenty (20) years; Identify territory that is contiguous to the existing boundaries of the municipality; Identify territory that a reasonable and prudent person would project as […]
Not later than July 1, 2001, a growth plan for each county shall be submitted to and approved by the local government planning advisory committee in accordance with § 6-58-104. After a growth plan is so approved, all land use decisions made by the legislative body and the municipality’s or county’s planning commission shall be […]
Upon approval of the growth plan by the local government planning advisory committee but beginning no earlier than July 1, 2000, each municipality within the county and the county shall receive an additional five (5) points on a scale of one hundred (100) points or a comparable percentage increase as determined by the commissioner of […]
Effective July 1, 2001, the following loan and grant programs shall be unavailable in those counties and municipalities that do not have growth plans approved by the local government planning advisory committee, and shall remain unavailable until growth plans have been approved: Tennessee housing development agency grant programs; Community development block grants; Tennessee industrial infrastructure […]
A municipality possesses exclusive authority to annex territory located within its approved urban growth boundaries; therefore, no municipality may annex by ordinance or by referendum any territory located within another municipality’s approved urban growth boundaries. Within a municipality’s approved urban growth boundaries, a municipality may use any of the methods in chapter 51 of this […]
After January 1, 1999, a new municipality may only be created in territory approved as a planned growth area in conformity with § 6-58-104; A county may provide or contract for the provision of services within a planned growth area and set a separate tax rate specifically for the services provided within a planned growth […]
The Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) shall monitor implementation of this chapter and shall periodically report its findings and recommendations to the general assembly. Each agency of the executive branch, each municipal and county official, each local government organization, including any planning commission and development district, shall cooperate with the commission and provide […]
It is the intent of the general assembly that local governments engage in long-term planning, and that such planning be accomplished through regular communication and cooperation among local governments, the agencies attached to them, and the agencies that serve them. It is also the intent of the general assembly that the growth plans required result […]
This chapter shall not apply to any annexation ordinance that was pending, but not yet effective, on November 25, 1997.
Notwithstanding §§ 6-58-106, former 6-58-108 [repealed] and 6-58-111, the property of an airport with regularly scheduled commercial passenger service that is located in a county other than the county where the creating municipality is located, except upon approval by resolution of the legislative body of the creating municipality, shall be and remain in an annexation-free […]
In cooperation with the department of economic and community development, all counties and municipalities in this state that have an effective flood insurance rate map or flood hazard boundary map published by the federal emergency management agency that identifies a special flood hazard area within the political boundaries of the county or municipality shall meet […]
A municipality may expand its urban growth boundaries to annex a tract of land without reconvening the coordinating committee or approval from the county or any other municipality if: The tract is contiguous to a tract of land that has the same owner and has already been annexed by the municipality; The tract is being […]
