Change is never easy.
Sometimes there is a really good reason: Because we are not prepared.
That would seem to be the case with the current consternation about Chattanooga’s new zoning proposals that pretty much ignore any need for developers to consider the impact of their development on downtown and North Shore parking.
To sum up the new zoning, developers in much of the “central city district” don’t have to worry anymore with including a parking plan for their new condos, apartments or commercial structures.
What’s going unsaid is that our city is building a field of dreams. City planners and developers are embracing the dream of city-dwelling, innovation-minded millennials who don’t want to own a car. So they are building condos by the score with no parking, and turning already-narrow roads into single-lane streets with bicycle lanes.