Franklin Zoning Ordinance 2023

23 392 Chapter Defined Terms DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS Franklin Zoning Ordinance Effective January 1, 2023 independent appraisal by a State of Tennessee licensed or certified real estate appraiser. In calculating the substantial improvement, construction improvement costs are tracked cumulatively over a five year period. The term does not, however, include either: (1) Any project for improvement of a structure to correct existing violations of State or local health, sanitary, or safety code specifications which have been pre-identified by the local code enforcement official and which are the minimum necessary to assure safe living conditions and not solely triggered by an improvement or repair project or; (2) Any alteration of a “historic structure”, provided that the alteration will not preclude the structure’s continued designation as a “historic structure” as approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals following a determination by the Historic Zoning Commission. Substantially Improved Existing Manufactured Home Parks or Subdivisions For the purposes of Section 17.6, Floodplain Regulations, where the repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of the streets, utilities and pads equals or exceeds fifty percent (50%) of the value of the streets, utilities and pads before the repair, reconstruction or improvement commenced. t Teardown The act or process of disassembling, demolishing, or destroying a building or structure. Telecommunication Towers and Antennas A free-standing structure or any structure to be attached to a building or other structure, that is used for telecommunications. Temporary Construction Site Sign A type of sign described as such in Section 15.17, Temporary Construction Site Sign. Temporary Field Office A temporary nonresidential use employed as a temporary working space while an existing principal use is rebuilt, altered, expanded, or renovated. Temporary Holiday Storage in a Shipping Container A shipping container used for holiday storage that serves an existing principal use. Temporary Housing A temporary residential use employed as a temporary living space while an existing dwelling is rebuilt, altered, expanded, or renovated on a site where a previous dwelling was destroyed or rendered uninhabitable. Temporary Place of Business An approved structure intended to provide a temporary place of business on a site where the previous place of business was destroyed or deemed unsafe for human occupancy by natural disaster or hazard. Temporary Sign A type of sign described as such in Section 15.18, Temporary Sign. Temporary Storage in a Shipping Container A storage shipping container that serves an existing principal use.

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