The owner of a Walden tract appears to be moving past a controversial proposal for a grocery store project on the Lines Orchids site in the town, an official said Friday.
Town attorney Sam Elliott said it’s his understanding that the owner is going to abandon the proposal that called for the supermarket and small shop space on the parcel at Taft Highway and Timesville Road.
The move comes after a Bradley County Circuit Court judge last summer ruled against the landowner, LOP LLC, saying that an ordinance passed earlier by the town to permit the grocery store project on the 15-acre tract was illegal.
Elliott said there was an appeal of the ruling. But Chattanooga attorney John Anderson, who was a major stakeholder in the property, died in November and the appeal was dropped, he said.
“The [Circuit Court judge’s] order is final,” Elliott said Friday about the proposed project in a telephone interview. “The rezoning was invalid.”