The governing body of any municipality has all the powers necessary or convenient to undertake and carry out any or all improvements adopted in the ordinance setting up such district, including, but not limited to:

(1) Closing existing streets or alleys or opening new streets and alleys or widening or narrowing existing streets and alleys in whole or in part;
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 7-84-301

  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • District: means the central business district created by ordinance or resolution by a municipality, or a corridor of central business districts created by joint agreement of two (2) or more municipalities. See Tennessee Code 7-84-103
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Governing body: means the council or commission or other municipal body exercising general legislative power in the municipality or any county legislative body. See Tennessee Code 7-84-103
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Municipality: means any incorporated city, town, metropolitan government, or county of this state exercising general governmental functions in the state. See Tennessee Code 7-84-103
  • plan of improvement: means the detailed design plan of all proposed improvements in the district, including all such engineering studies, blueprints, architects' renderings, photographs, diagrams, maps, schematics, specifications, and drawings as may be required or desired to fully effectuate the construction of improvements and the purchase of equipment or other items. See Tennessee Code 7-84-103
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(2) The power to condemn and take easements necessarily incidental to the plan of improvement adopted for such district. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the rules and procedures set forth in title 29, chapter 17, shall govern all condemnation proceedings;
(3) Acquire any and all other real or personal property by gift, purchase, or devise;
(4) Construct or install pedestrian or shopping malls, plazas, sidewalks or moving sidewalks, parks, parking lots and parking garages, bus stop shelters, decorative lighting, benches or other seating furniture, sculptures, telephone booths, traffic signs, fire hydrants, kiosks, trash receptacles, marquees, awnings, canopies, walls and barriers, paintings, murals, alleys, shelters, display cases, fountains, child care facilities, rest rooms, information booths, aquariums, aviaries, tunnels and ramps, pedestrian and vehicular overpasses and underpasses, and each and every other useful or necessary or desired improvement;
(5) Landscape and plant trees, bushes and shrubbery, flowers and each and every other kind of decorative planting;
(6) Install and operate, or lease, public music and news facilities;
(7) Purchase and operate buses, mini-buses, mobile benches, and other modes of transportation;
(8) Construct and operate child care facilities;
(9) Adopt such zoning regulations and building codes for such central business improvement districts as will best promote the overall improvement district plan;
(10) Lease space within the district for sidewalk cafe tables and chairs;
(11) Construct lakes, dams, and waterways of whatever size;
(12) Provide special police facilities and personnel for the protection and enjoyment of the property owners and the general public using the facilities of such central business improvement district;
(13) Maintain, as provided in this chapter, all government-owned streets, alleys, malls, bridges, ramps, tunnels, lawns, trees and decorative plantings of each and every nature, and every structure or object of any nature whatsoever constructed or operated by the municipality;
(14) Grant permits for newsstands, sidewalk cafes, and each and every other useful or necessary or desired private usage of public or private property;
(15) Prohibit or restrict vehicular traffic on such streets within the central business improvement district as the governing body may deem necessary and to provide the means for access by emergency vehicles to or in such areas;
(16) Acquire, construct, reconstruct, extend, maintain, or repair parking lots or parking garages, both above and below ground, or other facilities for the parking of vehicles, including the power to install such facilities in public areas, whether such areas are owned in fee or by easement;
(17) Remove any existing structures or signs of any description in the district not conforming to the plan of improvements;
(18) Require any or all utilities servicing the central business improvement district to lay such pipe, extend such wires, provide such facilities, or conform or modify existing facilities to effectuate the plan of improvement for the district; the governing body shall determine what portion of the cost is to be borne out of general revenues of the municipality, what portion is to be paid from the special assessments provided in this chapter, and what portion is to be paid individually by the property owners within the central business improvement district; and
(19) Do each and every and any thing necessary or desirable to effectuate the plan of improvement for the central business improvement district of the municipality.
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