The Chattanooga City Council Tuesday rejected plans to develop the former Quarry golf course into a 225-unit complex of apartments and single-family homes.
Despite the recommended approval last month by the city’s advisory planning staff and board, the council voted 7-0, with one abstention, to reject a planned unit development on the 50-acre site.
Developer James Pratt of Pratt Land & Development LCC had requested a 60-day extension of his PUD request to develop plans to make some of the 140 apartments he is proposing to build into more affordable units to help address the need for such housing in Chattanooga. But the council declined Pratt’s request and instead voted overwhelming to turn down Pratt’s PUD proposal with only City Council member Darrin Ledford abstaining from the negative vote.
In addition to the apartments, Pratt had proposed to build another 85 single-family townhomes and houses and agreed to set aside more than 20 acres of the property for parks, recreation and hiking trails, which earned the support of his project from the North Chickamauga Creek Conservancy.
“We need to be able to have some apartments on this site to make this project viable and provide all of the amenities we are planning,” Pratt told the council Tuesday night.