How To Use the Zoning Map

Go to this website and in the search icon on the upper right corner (magnifying glass), enter your address and hit return:

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The map zooms you into that address. Click on or near the small circle that appears to mark your address (it's small) and a larger tract of land will turn green and the information in the two boxes on the left side of the screen will change. The green indicates the zoning area in question, which should include the address you entered. 

The top box on the left tells you the new zoning with a description, and the middle box gives the old zoning and the new. Do not rely on the descriptions because they are very biased; you wouldn't know from reading their information that RN-1 allows more "by right" than the old R6, RN-2 allows more than RU-1 and RU-2 did, etc. These are much more than name changes. 

You can then give DPD your comments two ways, and we encourage you to do both—one by email and one on this map. So in the third box on the left, if you'd like to share some of our comments or make your own, select "I feel that a different zone is more appropriate." And then scroll further down to see a box where you can enter a message of up to 1000 characters. This paragraph is about 275 characters.

Pick from our recommendations the ones you'd like to share and that are appropriate to the address. Check the top box on the left, "recommended zoning" and if it's RN-1, for example, you can copy all of the RN-1 requests from our page (or copy all that you agree with). If it indicates RN-3, the first 4 points are the most important, and then pick from the ones that follow until you reach your 1000 character limit; that whole section is about 1300 words.

Please also help by sending an email to zoning@Memphistn.gov, and copy these two emails: president@midtownmemphis.org and philip.spinosa@memphistn.gov Please include your name and address, and any and all of our points from any zoning; feel free to copy the whole page.

Note our list of general questions and requests at the bottom of the list. Please include any of these among your comments too.

Thank you.