Can I open a restaurant in Lebanon TN?
Food and beverage service is a permitted use in the CS, CI, CXU, DXU, COM, TOD, and UC district tables; CS and CI also permit drive-in/drive-thru/take-out food service as a separate use. Parking (Chapter 5), signs (Chapter 6), and facade and frontage standards still apply, and downtown DXU parcels have their own placement rules. Verify the exact use row and site standards for your parcel with Planning staff.
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Full text: Lebanon ordinance on City-hosted Title 14 Zoning Code chapter PDFs (lebanontn.org). Verified current against the posted chapter documents 2026-07-03; the code dates lots of record to June 6, 2023, the effective date of the rewritten ordinance.. Applies to districts: CS, CI, CXU, DXU, COM, TOD, UC.
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