Signal Mountain residents are concerned area infrastructure is insufficient and schools lack the capacity to handle an increase in population that would result from several recently approved developments near the top of Roberts Mill Road.
A group of residents started a “Save Signal Mountain” Facebook page and website, savesignalmountain.com, to take action “to ensure that all development on Signal Mountain is responsible and matches the ‘countryside residential’ environment of the area,” the page states.
The group also organized a Q&A with county officials scheduled for 6 p.m. June 17 in the Walden’s Ridge Emergency Services Community Room at 2100 Taft Highway.
“The county needs to delay the approval of high-density subdivisions until there are real plans — and real funding — for road improvements, emergency access and school capacity,” Kurt Wells, who lives near a proposed development off Sawyer Pike, said in an email. “Growth is inevitable. But unchecked development without the infrastructure to support it isn’t just irresponsible, it’s dangerous.”
A development of 197 homes on 200 acres at the former Spangler Farm site received a preliminary OK in December 2024 by the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission.