Expanded Historic Zoning Overlay Considered for Park City
The best-preserved portion of the early 20th-century municipality known as "Park City" is today recognized by the National Park Service as a historically significant neighborhood.
This east Knoxville neighborhood was developed as a streetcar suburb for the city's professional class in the 1890s, incorporated as the separate city of Park City in 1907, and annexed by Knoxville in 1917. Today, the neighborhood is commonly referred to as "Parkridge."
Some of the structures in this area are irreplaceable parts of Knoxville’s urban development history, but are not yet protected by a City historic overlay.
MPC staff is working to document areas of the district that have not yet been preserved by such regulations. Within the historic overlay, the activities of new construction, demolition, and changes to buildings would be reviewed by the Historic Zoning Commission to help ensure compatibility with the neighborhood's character. With this expansion, additional structures would be protected and more of the historic character of the overall neighborhood would be preserved​. ​
MPC's recommendations regarding the district expansion will be forwarded to the Historic Zoning Commission for its recommendation and then to the Metropolitan Planning Commission and City Council for final action.
If you would like more information about this project or have information to share about the history of your property, please contact Kaye Graybeal, MPC Historic Preservation Planner at 865-215-3795 or Kaye.Graybeal@knoxmpc.org.
