Hamilton County Commissioner Jeff Eversole, R-Ooltewah, has scrapped plans to split a regional zoning board between the city of Chattanooga and the county.
Instead, new legislation would allow Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp to sever the county’s contract with the Regional Planning Agency, a move that’s opposed by city government. If passed, Eversole says he’d like to see the saved tax dollars go to a county planning department to work for and make recommendations to the regional zoning board instead.
“When the Planning Commission and the RPA was created, it was created for the city of Chattanooga,” Eversole said in an interview. “My thought is, the county needs to look different than the city.”
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