Subject: 19624/Stop issuance of some building permits
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 09:23:00 -0500


                                RESOLUTION NO. 19624
                  
                  
                  
                   A RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF
                   BUILDING OFFICIAL NOT TO ISSUE CERTAIN
                   BUILDING PERMITS FOR PROPERTIES WHICH FRONT ON
                   HIXSON PIKE FROM THE CITY LIMITS SOUTH TO THE
                   RAILROAD OVERPASS SOUTH OF ADAMS ROAD AND
                   WHICH ARE VACANT, UNDEVELOPED PROPERTIES ZONED
                   FOR OFFICE OR COMMERCIAL USES PENDING RECEIPT
                   OF THE HIXSON PIKE GROWTH CORRIDOR DEVELOPMENT
                   STUDY FROM THE CHATTANOOGA-HAMILTON COUNTY
                   REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION AND ACTION
                   THEREON BY THE CITY COUNCIL.
                  
                  
                  
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              WHEREAS, The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning 

         Commission is conducting the Hixson Pike Growth Corridor
         Development Study at the request of the City Council in order 
to
         provide for orderly development of properties fronting on 
Hixson
         Pike from the city limits south to the railroad overpass south 
of
         Adams Road; and
              WHEREAS, pending receipt of said study and action thereon 
by
         the City Council there should be a moratorium upon the issuance 
of
         building permits on vacant, undeveloped properties zoned for
         office or commercial uses within said study area;
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                                  NOW, THEREFORE,
              BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
         CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, that the Office of the Chief Building
         Official is hereby directed not to issue any new building 
permits
         for properties which front on Hixson Pike from the city limits
         south to the railroad overpass south of Adams Road and which 
are
         vacant, undeveloped properties zoned for office or commercial 
uses
         pending the receipt of the Hixson Pike Growth Corridor 
Development
         Study and action thereon by the Chattanooga City Council.
              BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that said moratorium set forth in
         this resolution shall be effective only during the pendency of
         said study and the effective date of any ordinance relative to
         said study, but it shall in no event exceed a period of one
         hundred twenty (120) days.
              BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that any person who has applied 
for a
         building permit on property affected by this moratorium and who 

         agrees in writing to comply with the policies and requirements 
set
         forth in any ordinance enacted as a result of said Study shall 
be
         entitled to the issuance of a building permit subject to the
         approval of the Chief Building Official.
        
         ADOPTED:  October 13, 1992
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