Legal Opinion
BMC ENTERPRISES, INC. v. City of Mt. Juliet
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided March 27, 2008No. M2007-00795-COA-R3-CVPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
OPINION
2Opinion of the Court · SwineyD. Michael Swiney, J.
in which HERSCHEL P. FRANKS, P.J., and ANDY D. BENNETT, J., joined.
Plaintiff has operated a funeral home on its property since 1997. In this zoning dispute, the City of Mt. Juliet Board of Zoning Appeals (“the Board”) refused to allow plaintiff to establish a crematory as an expansion of plaintiffs funeral home services. The funeral home had been a legal nonconforming use of plaintiffs property since the City’s zoning ordinance was amended in 1998. The Board refused to allow plaintiff to operate a crematory on the same property because crematories are not permitted in the zoning…
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