Residents opposed to a gondola Rock City wants to build are planning to ask questions at upcoming public meetings hosted by the tourist attraction.
There’s a lot they want to know.
They want to know exactly how loud the gondola would be, in decibels, for a person standing at a nearby residential property line and the “exact capitalization structure” for the project, according to a list of 14 questions posted at nogondolalookout.com. The website encourages people to “flood City Hall inboxes today.”
The questions contain assumptions about the negative side effects of an aerial lift from the Chattanooga Valley up the side of Lookout Mountain. One question asks who holds the legal liability during construction “when multi-ton vehicles damage historic residential roads and stone retaining walls.” Another asks how homeowners will be compensated for “degraded property values.”
One question asserts the gondola would fly over private backyards, a claim Rock City says is false.