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Brothers offer competing Lookout Mountain town center proposals

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photo This drawing shows the layout of the alternative Lookout Moutain, Ga. town center plan proposed by land owner Greg Voges and developer Jimmy Chapin.
photo Jimmy Chapin

Brothers Jimmy Chapin and Garnet Chapin submitted dueling proposals Monday to build a new town center on the Georgia side of Lookout Mountain.

The rival siblings’ proposals have one thing in common: They both create office space for Dr. Bill Moore Smith, a family practitioner who runs Lookout Mountain’s only physician’s office.

Smith is squeezed in the roughly 900-square-foot office he leases next to Fairyland Pharmacy.

“My primary intent is to assure a facility for a medical doctor that meets current federal guidelines and regulations,” Garnet Chapin wrote in his proposal.

He has revived the city’s initial concept for the site. It calls for two commercial buildings on Lula Lake Road with three municipal buildings — a fire station, police station and town hall — set back from the road.