Some neighbors to a proposed 31-unit townhouse project in North Chattanooga are opposing the development, prompting the builder to seek more time to work on a plan for the vacant tract.
“This is just a terrible idea,” said Chris Lamirand, who lives near the 2.79-acre parcel located between North Market Street and Forest Avenue in the 700 and 800 blocks of Franklin Street.
Rocky Chambers, representing developer ALC Holdings LLC, on Monday asked the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission to defer for 60 days a request to rezone the land.
“You heard the neighbors,” he told the panel after Lamirand expressed a list of worries. “There’s certainly a lot of things we can’t do anything about. But they did bring up a number of things we can. That’s why we want to work with them a little bit longer.”
The panel agreed to defer until March the proposed rezoning of the site from R-1 residential to R-T/Z zone, which would enable the company to build the townhouses.