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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT NASHVILLE
Assigned on Briefs April 18, 2011 TOWN OF SMYRNA, TENNESSEE v. PERRY BELL
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Rutherford County No. 59935 J. Mark Rogers, Judge

No. M2010-01519-COA-R3-CV - Filed October 31, 2011

The Town of Smyrna annexed land in 1991 that included a retail furniture store. The owner of that business kept a number of tractor-trailers parked on his property to store some of his inventory. Several years after the annexation, the town cited the owner in an attempt to enforce a municipal ordinance regulating the parking of tractor-trailers on commercially zoned property. The municipal court ruled against the owner. He appealed to the Circuit Court, which held that the ordinance in question was a zoning regulation and that the owner's use of the tractor- trailers was protected by the grandfathering provisions of Tenn. Code Ann.

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