Chattanooga Pulse

Here is one of the more interesting agenda items set to be discussed at the November 17 meeting of the Chattanooga City Council.

VI. Ordinances – First Reading:

c) An ordinance to amend Chattanooga City Code, Part II, Chapter 5, Section 5-75(b), relative to sale of beer in the UGC Urban General Commercial Zone.

This ordinance was deferred for several weeks so that council members could take a longer look at how the newly designed Urban General Commercial Zone was going to work in regards to merging all the disparate elements that make up a traditional urban downtown.

The desire to mix office space, residential areas, commercial business, restaurants, bars, schools and churches together into a homogenized whole requires some delicate touches.

At issue is making sure that beer-selling businesses in the new UGC would fall under the “distance exclusion” zoning rules currently preventing such places from being too close to a church or school.

The Chattanooga City Council meets each Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the City Council Building at 1000 Lindsay St. For more information on the agendas, visit www.Chattanooga.gov/City_Council/110_Agenda.asp