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In order to encourage more outdoor play and community connection, the North Chattanooga Neighborhood Association (NCNA) is excited to announce our Play Streets initiative. Play Streets are scheduled times when selected streets are closed to through traffic, creating safe spaces for children to play and neighbors to connect. This concept, already successful in other cities, represents a return to a time when streets weren’t just for cars – they were extensions of our front yards and gathering places for our communities.
Feeling like you want to make a difference but don’t know where to start? Look hyper local. Join us for NCNA Clean Up Day on April 5, 2025, starting at Frances B. Wyatt Community Center. This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with neighbors, beautify our streets, and celebrate our hard work with a neighborhood potluck!
Join us for the NCNA All Streets Walk Audit this Saturday, Feb 22nd at 9 am at the Wyatt Recreation Center on 406 Colville St.
Join us Friday, February 21st for the North Chatt Chow Down and Glow in the Dark Dodgeball, and then Saturday, February 22nd for a Pedestrian Infrastructure Walk Audit!
Here is what we have learned from a year of navigating and paying attention to development in our neighborhood! Hope it helps you all.
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Study has begun for a potential Normal Park high school
School Vouchers are back on the legislative agenda and likely to cost the state $400 million
We hope that you can join us for this meaningful time to connect, grieve, and build a stronger, resilient community moving forward a year after the tragedy on Frazier. Thank you to Mariah Friend, the NorthShore Merchants Collective and Lexi d'Ambrosio for helping to make this memorial a reality.
Please join us for two upcoming NCNA Road Safety meetings: October 3rd and October 11th.
Join us at Real Roots Cafe for a discussion of Jonathan Haidt's new book The Anxious Generation!
NCNA Movie and Social Night on August 24, 2024 at Wyatt Community Center was a great success!
Charlie Mix, Michael Strok, and Kurt Martig joined us on August 22nd to share about initiatives around Chattanooga related to protecting our urban forest (and why we would want to). We learned about the impact of the Take Root Chattanooga Project and the many future impacts of this Urban Forestry Grant, as well as how the NCNA can get involved.
We are underway with plans to revamp Sylvan Park. The Parks Department has brought sheep from Wild Violet Permaculture to work on getting the understory more manageable so that we can address future goals.