Proposed Zoning Amendments (Click the Right Arrow for Notice of Public Hearing)

ADDITIONAL DETAILS AND INFORMATION REGARDING ZONING AMENDMENTS REQUESTED BY ROCK CITY ENTERPRISES

Rock City Enterprises has requested that two sections of the City of Lookout Mountain's Zoning Ordinance (Ordinance No. 292, as amended, Appendix A to the Lookout Mountain City Code) be amended: Section 10-5 (Uses Permitted in the Tourist-Oriented Commercial District) and Section 10-12 (Nonconforming Uses, last paragraph only).[1]  The portions of the Zoning Ordinance that Rock City has asked the City of Lookout Mountain to amend currently read:

Section 10-5.  Tourist-Oriented Commercial District.

(A)  Uses Permitted:

(1) Sightseeing.
(2) Scientific and Educational Exhibitions.
(3) Amusements and Displays.
(4) Refreshment Stands.
(5) Restaurants.
(6) Gift Shops.
(7) Parking Lots.
(8) Other comforts and conveniences for tourists, including the service station existing on the effective date of this chapter, but excluding motels and similar accommodations.
(9) Antique Shops.
(10) Subject to the provisions of Section 10-14(A), communications media facilities, including radio and television broadcasting.
(11) Retail Health Food Stores.
(12) Office, warehouse, utility and other accessory buildings, facilities and uses customarily, reasonably or necessarily incident to all or more of the foregoing uses.
(13) Farm Winery Tasting Rooms duly licensed and operating in accordance and conformity with Article IV [See now ch. 4, art. II, div. 6] of the City of Lookout Mountain, Georgia Controlled Beverages Ordinance (Ordinance Number 69, as amended).

Section 10-12.  Nonconforming uses (pertinent portion of last paragraph).

Any provision of the ordinances of the City of Lookout Mountain to the contrary notwithstanding, mobile homes, trailer courts, campgrounds, amusement rides (as that term is defined in Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 34-12-2(2) (1992)), carnival rides (as that term is defined in Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 34-13-2(3) (1992)), other mechanical rides, go-cart tracks, batting cages, chair lifts, sky lifts, water slides, wave pools, alpine slides, outdoor amphitheaters and other outdoor theaters, bungee jumping towers, observation towers, zoos and animal parks are specifically designated herein as being nonconforming uses within all district or zones of the City of Lookout Mountain and are specifically prohibited in all such districts or zones. . . .

Rock City Enterprises has proposed the following two amendments:

#1.  Amend Section 10-5 of the Zoning Ordinance by adding the following new Paragraph (14) to the uses permitted in the Tourist-Oriented Commercial District:

• (14) Aerial and non-aerial passenger conveyance systems, including gondolas, cable cars, and chair lifts.

# 2.  Amend Section 10-12 (previously Section 10-11) of the Zoning Ordinance (Nonconforming Uses) by deleting "other mechanical rides," "chair lifts," and "sky lifts" from the nonconforming and prohibited uses included in the last paragraph of that section.  

Posted to the City of Lookout Mountain website and available at City Hall for review beginning January 27, 2026.