Vannice Hughley, president of the Lincoln Park Neighborhood Association, talks about Lincoln Park while leading a group through the neighborhood Saturday.Lincoln Park residents will document their vision for their community, and they have college students from three universities and members of Chattanooga Organized for Action helping them.
“Lincoln Park is a historical area for African-Americans, and we want to preserve as much of it as we can,” said Vannice W. Hughley, president of the Lincoln Park resident association.
Hughley and the 100-plus households that make up Lincoln Park will produce a resident-led community plan, one that includes a route for the city’s proposed Central Avenue extension, but without the effects on the neighborhood they say the city plan would cause.
City Councilman Moses Freeman, who represents Lincoln Park, said he believes Mayor Andy Berke’s administration “will give serious consideration to any of the ideas of the residents that’s in that neighborhood.”
The mayor’s spokeswoman, Lacie Stone, said he wants to work with the residents.