The first phase of private development next to Erlanger Park, the new home of the Chattanooga Lookouts under construction on the Southside, will include a pedestrian plaza open to the public.
Developers came before the city’s downtown zoning committee Thursday to request permission for the primary entrance of a roughly 300-unit apartment building to face the pedestrian plaza rather than West 26th Street.
Downtown code requires primary entrances to face primary streets, but developers argued it would make more sense for the lobby of the residential building to face a new public walkway.
The zoning committee unanimously granted the modification, so long as the residential building’s primary address and signage are connected to West 26th Street.
The committee OK’d a plan last year for the stadium itself to use the pedestrian Riverwalk as its main entrance rather than a primary street.