Chattanooga residents get a chance to voice opinions on new form-based zoning code

Chattanooga, TN (WDEF) – Chattanooga residents got the chance to learn a little more about the city’s new form-based zoning code Thursday.
The new code affects the North Shore, Riverfront, City Center, M.L. King, and Southside neighborhoods.
Area residents were invited to have a say during an open house event.
Community Design Center director Karen Hundt says this change has been decdes in the making.
She said, “The zoning that we’re currently operating under really doesn’t work well in the downtown. Most of our zoning was written for suburban-style development where you have buildings set way back from the street, and parking in front, and that’s really not the character of the downtown, that’s not really what it looks like, and so we’re trying to create some new urban zones.”
The Regional Planning Agency project calls for a complete overhaul of the current city zoning code.