Driveway permits across Tennessee
Where each city draws the line on driveway work. Sort any column — useful if you build across several towns and need to know where the rules change.
The statewide starting point is International Residential Code, принятый Теннесси, 2018. Cities that changed the rule are the interesting rows below.
| Where the line falls | Fee | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville | 704,963 | Unconfirmed | — | — |
| Memphis | 610,919 | Depends | The slab sitting on your own lot is exempt: sidewalks and… | The work permit costs $0.24 per square foot of sidewalk and… |
| Knoxville | 198,722 | Unconfirmed | — | — |
| Chattanooga | 191,496 | Unconfirmed | — | — |
| Clarksville | 185,690 | Unconfirmed | — | — |
| Murfreesboro | 168,387 | Unconfirmed | — | Not applicable for a building permit. |
| Franklin | 89,142 | Yes | A driveway entirely on private property is exempt from a … | — |
| Johnson City | 73,635 | No | Driveways are on the state list of work that needs no bui… | — |
| Jackson | 69,303 | Depends | driveway slab itself is exempt; a curb cut or driveway ap… | — |
| Hendersonville | 63,947 | Depends | required for a driveway curb cut across a curb or sidewal… | — |
| Smyrna | 60,302 | Depends | The driveway slab itself is exempt, but cutting the curb … | — |
| Kingsport | 57,109 | Unconfirmed | — | — |
| Gallatin | 52,489 | Depends | The driveway slab itself is exempt as a driveway; a permi… | — |
| Brentwood | 45,525 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | — |
| Mount Juliet | 44,066 | Unconfirmed | — | — |
| La Vergne | 41,430 | Unconfirmed | — | Set by the fee schedule adopted with the annual budget. |
| Germantown | 40,128 | Unconfirmed | — | — |
| Morristown | 32,994 | Unconfirmed | — | — |
| Bristol | 27,867 | Depends | permit required to cut or build a driveway across a curb … | — |
| Farragut | 25,242 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | — |
| Springfield | 19,842 | Yes | driveway/curb-cut work in or adjoining a public right-of-… | — |
| Goodlettsville | 17,433 | Depends | if the driveway joins or cuts a public right-of-way (curb… | $100.00 per application for work within the right-of-way (S… |
| Nolensville | 15,809 | Unconfirmed | — | — |
“Unconfirmed” means the city's code doesn't state the rule plainly enough to publish. Those city pages link straight to the ordinance section instead.
Why neighboring cities disagree
Every city starts from a model code and then edits it. One town raises the shed cutoff, the next lowers the fence height, a third exempts the structure where its neighbor only exempts repairs to it. None of that is visible from a national article — you have to read each ordinance, which is what these pages do.