Lookout Mountain, Tenn., Commissioner Don Stinnett, left, and Town Consultant Dwight Montague hand out architectural renderings of Dr. Bill Moore Smith’s proposed new office Thursday night in the Lookout Mountain Elementary School Auditorium. Close to 150 people attended an informational meeting about the concept of selling the city’s Verlenden Park to Smith so he can build a new office there.
People want Dr. Bill Moore Smith to open a new office on Lookout Mountain – just not on the lovely greenspace known as Verlenden Park in Tennessee.
That was the overwhelming sentiment Thursday night among a crowd of about 150 people who came to Lookout Mountain Elementary School’s auditorium.
They gathered for an informational meeting about the idea of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., selling and rezoning the one-acre parklike parcel so Smith, who has Lookout Mountain’s only physician’s practice, could build a new office.
Nearby residents gathered more than 100 signatures on petitions opposing the rezoning.
“One of the best things about this mountain is it’s not developed,” said the petition’s author, landscaper Carter Parham.