Westland West Community Ass'n v. Knox County

OPINION

HOLDER, Judge.

We granted this appeal to determine whether Tenn.Code Ann. § 13-7-105(a) mandates submission of a newly proposed zoning classification amendment to the regional planning commission following the commission’s rejection of a similar but different proposed classification. The Court of Appeals held that the statute does not require futile resubmissions of revised proposals. We, however, find that the proposal in question was not merely a revised prior proposal but was a new and previously unsubmitted proposal. The statute clearly mandates submission of new proposals to the…