Cul-de-sacs won and Chattanooga traffic planners’ recommendations lost at Monday’s meeting of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission.
Twice, planning commissioners sided with developers and against the recommendations of the Chattanooga Department of Transportation (CDOT).
The first was Dreamtech Homes’ proposal for a 60-home, planned-unit development on 20 acres on Mackey Avenue off of a busy stretch of East Brainerd Road. Mackey Avenue is between Burger King and the Choo-Choo-Bar-B-Que.
The transportation department recommended that the development have a second right-of-way connection from Mackey Avenue to improve transportation connectivity and reduce the traffic burden through narrow neighborhood streets, including Dudley, Charlotte and Engel.
Chattanooga City Councilman Larry Grohn spoke to the commission and seconded that recommendation.