Rezoning for a development in the Lupton City neighborhood was approved by the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission despite community concerns about the project’s density.
Collier Construction won approval to rezone property at 1300 and 1335 Mercer St., part of a former mill town with portions zoned for heavy industrial and neighborhood residential uses.
Ethan Collier, owner of the construction company, is chair of the Planning Commission.
The board approved the change to another residential neighborhood zone designation with a minimum lot size of 3,000 square feet, which is half the minimum lot size for the property’s current residential zoning designation.
The developer plans to put 36 detached, single-family homes on the vacant 3-acre property, or about 11.5 units per acre, Bryan Shults, director of development services for the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Agency, told commissioners.