Traffic travels along a busy stretch of Brainerd Road.If you didn’t have to pay strict attention to the traffic while you are driving on the narrow Brainerd Road lanes between Spring Creek Road and East Brainerd Road, you might notice the plethora of telephone poles, signs, buildings, light poles and parking lots.
It’s a hot mess.
City planners want to fix all that, and they hope their presentation of the Brainerd Road Overlay Zone to the Chattanooga/Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission Monday night was a beginning.
The primary objectives of “Brainerd … a Vision for Today,” the community’s master plan adopted by the City Council in 2011, are to improve the corridor’s looks, to address traffic congestion on Brainerd Road and to make the corridor more pedestrian, bike and transit friendly.
The zoning plan will be voted on by the Planning Commission on June 9, presented to the Chattanooga City Council in June and voted on by the City Council in July, according to Regional Planning Agency senior planner Sarah Weeks Robbins.