Legal Documents of Sweetwater

This district is established to provide for commercial activities along the major collector and arterial highways in the city. Regulations are designed to preserve the traffic-carrying capacity of the streets by restricting access and providing for off-street parking and loading. It is not the intent of this district to encourage extensive strip commercial development, but rather to provide concentrations of general commercial activities. Within the C-3 General commercial 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. Retail sales.
   2. Vehicle, including recreational vehicles and boats, sales and services, excluding tractor trailers.
   3. Mobile home sales, provided display units meet all minimum yard setback requirements.
   4. Eating and drinking establishments.
   5. Hotels, motels, and other overnight lodging establishments.
   6. Business services, provided all activities are conducted within a completely enclosed building.
   7. Personal services.
   8. General offices.
   9. Financial institutions.
   10. Day care centers, provided the conditions in § 14-414 are met.
   11. Gasoline service stations, provided the conditions in § 14-408 are met.
   12. Self-service storage facilities (mini-warehouses), provided the conditions in § 14-416 are met.
   13. Nurseries and greenhouses.
   14. Office warehouses.
   15. Wholesale and distributing centers not involving more than five thousand (5,000) square feet for storage of wares to be wholesaled or distributed.
   16. Parking lots and parking garages.
   17. Cultural facilities.
   18. Indoor recreation facilities.
   19. Churches and other places of worship.
   20. Civic clubs.
   21. Group homes, residential treatment facilities, and mental health related facilities.
   22. Nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
   23. Public utilities and associated offices, but not including other buildings, storage areas, and warehousing facilities.
   24. Pain management and methadone clinics, provided the following conditions are met:
       1. Clinics shall not be located within a shopping center;
       2. Clinics shall be located in a freestanding, permanent building;
       3. Buildings shall be located a minimum of five hundred feet (500') from any parks, nursing homes, churches and other places of worship, day care centers, or schools offering general education; and
       4. Clinics shall comply with Title 14, Chapter 11. Pain Management and Methadone Clinics, of the Sweetwater Municipal Code.
   25. Accessory uses, provided the conditions in § 14-402 are met.
2. Area regulations. Buildings and other structures, except fences and signs, shall be located so as to comply with the following requirements.
   
   1. Land area. Minimum lot area: twenty-two thousand five hundred (22,500) square feet.
   2. Front yard. The minimum depth of the front yard shall be thirty-five feet (35').
   3. Side yard. The minimum depth of the side yard shall be fifteen feet (15').
   4. Rear yard. The minimum depth of the rear yard shall be twenty feet (20').
   5. Buffer strips. Buffer strips shall be provided per the landscape ordinance.
   6. Common lot line. Buildings may be built on a common lot line, provided that there is a mutual written consent of the property owners of the buildings directly involved and that the adjacent walls of the buildings meet the minimum fire separation as required per the adopted building codes.
   7. General lot restrictions. More than one (1) principal building may be permitted on a single lot provided that all applicable building setbacks and parking requirements are met.
3. Height regulations. No building shall exceed three (3) stories and/or thirty-five feet (35') in height, except as provided for in § 14-505.
4. Off-street parking. As regulated in §§ 14-404, 14-405, and the landscape ordinance. (1982 Code, § 11-311, as amended by Ord. #547, May 1983, Ord. #568, April 1985, modified, and Ord. #840, Sept. 2009, and replaced by Ord. #984, Dec. 2020 Ch7_02-07-22)