Responsible Growth Committee

Purpose:

The NCNA Resonsible Growth Committee is dedicated to helping neighborhood residents understand and participate in community development projects affecting our area.

Current activities:

  • Continued work to understand zoning and how to engage developers and neighbors about development in our neighborhood

  • Support a Chattanooga Tree Ordinance and actions to protect our tree canopy

  • Support neighborhood businesses 

Recent posts:

News
Navigating Development in Our Neighborhood
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Navigating Development in Our Neighborhood
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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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Investing Locally This Giving Tuesday
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Investing Locally This Giving Tuesday
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PLAN Chattanooga: Opportunity to Review and Provide Feedback
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PLAN Chattanooga: Opportunity to Review and Provide Feedback
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Plan Chattanooga's Upcoming Informational Meetings

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Responsible Growth - Trees
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Responsible Growth - Trees
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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.

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Sylvan Park Revamp
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Sylvan Park Revamp
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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.

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Committee Chairs:

Alex Close and Diane O’Sullivan