Kanku’s
Chattanooga planners Monday rejected a request by Kanku’s to rezone a lot at the corner of Shallowford Road and Tunnel Boulevard in order to sell beer.
Developers want a vacant piece of property at the intersection changed from its C-5 Neighborhood Commercial zoning, which explicitly prohibits the sale of alcoholic beverages.
Kanku’s could build in the C-5 Neighborhood Commercial zone and sell strictly grocery and drug items. The proposed Kanku’s owner does not plan to sell gas, but to sell beer, so the C-2 commercial zoning is required. The zone was laid down in 1991 in the midst of neighborhood trouble caused, in part, by the sale of liquor at a club called Jahara on Tunnel Boulevard.
Jahara has been closed for at least a decade, but community leaders and neighbors of the proposed Kanku’s store want the C-5 Neighborhood Commercial zoning upheld because they say alcohol-related problems continue to plague the neighborhood.
Robert Schreane, chairman of the North Brainerd Community Council, said community members recently met to discuss the new convenience store’s rezoning request