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Parking in Smyrna, TN

What the Smyrna zoning ordinance says about parking, district by district. Section numbers link to the official ordinance.

All districts

Off-street parking is required in all districts; each space is at least 9 ft by 19 ft (171 sq ft) with access to a street or alley, and right-of-way cannot count toward required spaces. Key standards: single-family, duplex, zero-lot-line, triplex, and quadruplex dwellings 4 spaces per unit; attached single-family and townhomes 4 per unit plus 0.5 guest spaces; multi-family apartments 2 per unit; mobile homes 2; boarding houses and bed and breakfasts 1.5; shopping centers up to 400,000 sq ft 5 spaces per 1,000 sq ft of gross leasable area; office complexes 4.5 per 1,000 sq ft; religious facilities 1 per 3 seats. Food and beverage rows run about 1 space per 100 sq ft for drive-through and alcohol service; the Section 4.010 tables are use-specific, so confirm the exact row for your use with Planning staff. Overlays, planned-development approvals, recorded conditions, and Article VI exceptions can change the parcel-specific result; confirm with Smyrna Planning and Zoning before relying on this answer. (Flag 2026-07-03: several commercial rows of the Section 4.010 table render misaligned in the PDF; only clearly aligned rows are quoted here.)

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