Two Chattanooga City Council members say the heart of a recent controversy over a now-defunct Hunter Road apartments project has nothing to do with the city’s zoning laws.
The problem, they say, is that Hamilton County has done nothing to improve the winding two-lane road.
“I would’ve hoped the county would’ve had the foresight to develop Hunter Road,” Councilman Andraé McGary said before voting in an Aug. 17 council meeting to support the project. The vote failed, 5-4.
County officials dismissed that criticism and said the city caused the controversy by annexing the property intended for the apartments.
County Mayor Claude Ramsey, speaking about McGary’s comments on Wednesday, said McGary should worry about his own district.