The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission is scheduled to vote May 8 on the rezoning of property on Walden’s Ridge, where a developer plans to put a boat and RV storage facility that has drawn opposition from neighbors.
The property at 2001 Hollister Road, which is owned by former Walden Mayor Peter Hetzler and located behind the Mapco at 3720 Taft Highway, is now zoned for rural residential and office use.
Planning staff recommended the planning board deny the request to rezone the entire 4.7-acre parcel as a commercial general business district for RV and boat storage and approve rezoning the office district portion of the property as a commercial general business district while leaving the remainder of the parcel zoned as a rural residential district.
The rural residential district portion of the property would serve as a buffer between the proposed RV storage facility and the property to the north of 2001 Hollister Road, which is a zoned residential district, Bryan Shults, the planning agency’s director of development services, told the Planning Commission at its April meeting.