Zoning Ordinance

CHILD-CARE CENTER: Any place or facility operated by any person or entity that provides child care for three (3) or more hours per day for at least thirteen (13) children who are not related to the primary caregiver. Tennessee Code Annotated § 71-3-501.

CLINIC: See medical facility.

COMMERCIAL FEED LOT: Any parcel of land on which 100 or more cattle, fowl, or hogs are being kept and fed for the purpose of slaughter and sale on the commercial food market.

CONCRETE BATCH PLANT: A facility where the ingredients for concrete are stored, but the concrete is mixed by truck en route to the particular job.

CONDOMINIUM: A residential or commercial structure that is stand alone or within a complex of units on the same parcel of land that is sold and not rented to individuals. The ownership of a condominium shall be from the interior walls inward and all of the individual owners have shared rights to most common areas such as open space, parking areas, driveways, elevators, hallways, pools, club houses, and etc.

CONTRACTORS YARD: A parcel of property that is being used for the storage of construction equipment or construction material for use by the contractor or to be sold to the public in limited quantities.

CONVENIENCE STORE: (see also gasoline station/mini-mart): A facility where flammable or combustible liquids, such as gasoline and other motor fluids, are stored or dispensed, by approved dispensing equipment by the customer on a self service basis or by employee on a full service basis. Services may include but are not limited to full service or coin operated car washing of only one (1) vehicle at a time, in addition to this service, the serving of food and beverage such as sandwiches, snacks, staple groceries, and other similar products or services, which are not defined or recognized by the zoning code as separate uses are permitted to be for sale on the premises for consumption off premise by the customer.

COVERAGE: The lot area covered by all buildings located therein including the area covered by all overhanging roofs.

COUNTRY CLUB: A chartered, membership club, with facilities catering primarily to its membership and providing one or more of the following recreational or social amenities: golf, riding, club house, pool, dining facilities, cocktail lounge, to include private club and both profit and non-profit.

DINING (Outdoor): An area outside any restaurant that has no exterior walls but is enclosed by landscape barriers and can be covered by roof line for the purpose of the consumption of food or beverage on the same property in which the restaurant is located.

DINING (Sidewalk): An area located on the sidewalk adjacent to a restaurant set up with tables and chairs for the purpose of consuming food or beverage. The area of sidewalk shall be no less

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