This blog will be devoted to watching for and discussing new legal developments in the field of codes enforcement, primarily here in Tennessee but we will certainly include developments elsewhere as well.
Vested Rights
Tennessee follows the majority rule concerning the vested rights doctrine: the developer must have a building permit and performed substantial construction to vest any rights in a particular project. If you've pulled a building permit but haven't begun construction, the city can change the rules and you can't do anything about it. It is odd that there are very few cases where the developer wins in these cases. Usually there is just not any construction that comes even close to substantial.
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