Chattanooga City HallOTHER ZONING• City also denied a request to rezone property on Montview Drive for housing units.MAYOR APPOINTEES• Board of the Office of Multicultural Affairs — Gladys Pineda-Loher, Nicholas Siler, Nandini Makrandi, Jocelyn Loza, Rebecca Clay-Flores and Teletha McJunkin.• Chattanooga Housing Authority Board — Jim Levine• Air Pollution Control Board — Anj McClain• Beer and Wrecker Board — Joe Ramsey
Chattanooga officials denied a developer’s plan to build a 260-apartment complex in East Brainerd and took steps to eliminate the project altogether.
An out-of-town developer already had approval from City Council in 2009 to build a 10-acre complex with 184 apartments, but when Continental Properties Co. came before the City Council on Tuesday to approve additional zoning for 76 more units, officials rejected the request.
After a 7-2 vote, the Council squeaked out another vote to send the project back to the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Agency and requested the agency rezone the property, making the project void.
The vote came after multiple residents came forward complaining of traffic congestion on Gunbarrel Road and concerns about water drainage. One resident said his garage flooded from water runoff at another nearby apartment development.