5135 Harding Pl Nashville, TN 37211-4100

Agricultural Districts. The AG and AR2a districts are intended to implement the natural conservation or interim nonurban land use policies of the general plan. Natural conservation policy is applied to those areas of the county which are unsuitable for urban scale development due to severe environmental constraints. Interim non-urban policy is applied to those areas that are not intended to urbanize within the planning period of the general plan. Furthermore, some areas of very steep topography, potentially unstable soils or a propensity to flood are intolerant of development of significant intensity and are appropriate for agricultural zoning. The AG and AR2a districts are designed for uses that generally occur in rural rather than urban areas. These districts permit very low density residential development generally on unsubdivided tracts of land where public sanitary sewer service and public water supply are least practical. Because of their rural character, these districts will better accommodate some of the more impactive special exception uses that must be located within the county. By application of effective locational and operational standards, it is the intent of this title to minimize the impacts of such uses on residential home sites scattered throughout these districts. B. Residential Districts. The residential districts allow a range of densities from very low (less than one unit per acre) to as high as sixty units per acre. These districts offer a diversity of housing types (including single-family, two-family and multifamily developments) throughout all density ranges established by the general plan. Residential districts are to be applied in a manner consistent with the general plan. Residential districts should be applied according to the compatibility of the associated density with the topographic and soil conditions that prevail in the area, or when so recommended by the general plan, the prevailing development pattern of the area. Residential districts also permit a limited range of compatible and supportive community-related uses that typically desire to locate within a residential setting. As a general rule, progressively higher density districts within each residential policy category of the general plan should be located along higher classifications of street and in closer proximity to mass transit corridors, retail services or employment opportunities.