Legal Documents of Sweetwater

This district is established to permit lands best suited for agricultural uses to be preserved for these purposes; and to prevent lands unsuitable for development of a non-rural nature due to location, steep slopes, impermeability or shallowness of soils, flooding, bad drainage, high water table, wetlands, sinkholes, or other features which render uneconomical the provision of urban capacity streets, sanitary sewers, water supply, and fire protection. It is intended that such areas permit small scale farms or estate-sized properties served with on-site sewage disposal and wells. It is further intended to exclude those uses of urban land use intensity in order to avoid the excessive costs for public services. Within the A-1, Agricultural District, as shown on the "Zoning Map Sweetwater, Tennessee," the following regulations and other applicable provisions of this zoning code shall apply:

1. Uses permitted.
   
   1. Agriculture uses.
   2. Detached single-family dwellings. A second single-family dwelling may be constructed on a parcel provided such parcel is larger than fifteen (15) acres, is an active farm, and is enrolled in the greenbelt program.
   3. Customary home occupations, provided the conditions in § 14-403 are met.
   4. Public utilities, but not including offices, other buildings, storage areas, or warehousing facilities.
   5. Roadside farm stands, provided it is for the sale of agricultural products produced on the premises and that it is set back a minimum of fifteen feet (15') from the roadway and located no closer than two hundred feet (200') to the nearest residence other than the farmstead with which it is associated.
   6. Churches and other places of worship, provided buildings are set back a minimum of fifty feet (50') from all property lines and parking lots are set back a minimum of ten feet (10') from all property lines.
   7. Cemeteries, provided the conditions in § 14-412 are met.
   8. Accessory uses, provided the conditions in § 14-402 are met.
2. Area regulations. Buildings and other structures, excluding fences and signs, shall be located so as to comply with the following requirements:
   
   1. Land area. No farm or other parcel of land shall be reduced in area to provide separate lots or building sites less than three (3) acres.
   2. Front yard. The minimum depth of the front yard shall be fifty feet (50').
   3. Side and rear yard. The minimum side and rear yard for principal buildings shall be thirty-five feet (35') and for accessory buildings, ten feet (10').
   4. Lot width. No lot shall be less than one hundred feet (100') wide at the building setback line.
   5. Maximum lot coverage. Principal farm and agricultural accessory buildings shall cover not more than five percent (5%) of the total lot area. Permitted non-agricultural principal and accessory buildings shall cover not more than twenty percent (20%) of the lot area.
3. Height regulations. No building shall exceed two and one-half (2-1/2) stories and/or thirty-five feet (35') in height, except as provided in § 14-505.
4. Off-street parking. As regulated in §§ 14-404,14-405, and the landscape ordinance. (1982 Code, § 11-305, as amended by Ord. #682, July 1996, modified, and replaced by Ord. #984, Dec. 2020 Ch7_02-07-22)