Chattanooga developer Ken DeFoor is seen in this file photo.A Chattanooga developer said Monday he’s looking at putting up a 15,000-square-foot office building next to his large Waterside mixed-use project in East Brainerd.
Developer Ken DeFoor said he has “no big tenant” yet for the 2-acre tract at McCutcheon and Gunbarrel roads. But he secured a zoning change from the Chattanooga-Hamilton Regional Planning Commission to allow for the commercial development.
The panel turned back the initial staff recommendation that the rezoning of the tract from residential to mixed-use be deferred. The planning agency staff had said there’s a lack of safe traffic infrastructure in the area, and DeFoor has other rezoning cases nearby on Gunbarrel Road.
“Staff recommends that the applicant combine his existing zoning cases into one overall development proposal,” its report said.
But Mike Price of MAP Engineers told the panel the staff met with him and DeFoor last week and came up with a proposal to allow the rezoning and avoid the safety issue.