City Council Meeting Agenda

The East Ridge City Council will meet tonight with a number of measures that have drawn citizens’ interest.

A recent East Ridge Planning Commission meeting drew opposition from neighbors regarding a proposed rezoning of property on Boyd Street. The planning commission voted to rezone 1420 and 1422 from residential (R-1) to residential townhouses district (RT-1).

Developers Bobby Hudgens and James Adams want the property rezoned to build two, two-unit townhouses on the property.

More than half a dozen neighbors, both residential and business owners, spoke out in opposition to the rezoning. The primary concern voiced by neighbors was a lack of parking for the proposed townhouses and persistent drainage issues on the street.

During the planning commission meeting, the developers had no artist’s rendering of the project, which prompted planning commission member Casey Tuggle to vote no on the proposed rezoning. Chairman Mike Chauncey reminded those affected by the rezoning and citizens in general that the issue would come before the East Ridge City Council during a public meeting. That meeting is tonight at 6:30 p.m.

Here is the full agenda for tonight’s East Ridge City Council meeting.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.