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Category List: Opinion
Our Fragile Mountain
By Peggy Laney
Lookout Mountain Mirror: May 2009
Letters to the Editor
It is important for us all to realize, that though a mountain looks big and solid, in reality it is extremely fragile. No one is against future development on the Mountain, but we have the chance now to be so “future thinking” that we save the [...]
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When “Growth” Isn’t Smart
Chattanooga Times Free Press: February 12, 2009
Editorial
When it comes to development pressures and planning for the future, the town of Signal Mountain could serve as a useful example to the other smaller municipalities around the county of the potent and persistent conflict between lofty community goals on the one hand, and a grasping lust on [...]
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Chapelbrow specifics
By Gail Bryan
Lookout Mountain Mirror: November 2008
Letters to the Editor
Friends I grew up with on Lookout Mountain have been looking forward to Chapelbrow as a welcome assisted living facility, a place in which senior members of the community can live close to family and long time friends. I think the community is not aware of [...]
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Questions To Ask about Future Development: Statement by Cindy Whitaker, MPC Meeting, 12/09/08
by Cindy Whitaker
Statement to the Municipal Planning Commission: December 09, 2008
We’d like to thank you for giving us the opportunity to address the commission with regard to the proposed PUD ordinance and even more importantly, the remaining potential for development in the Town of Lookout Mountain, GA. We realize that the PUD ordinance is a [...]
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Lookout Mountain Under Threat
by Gail Bryan
Statement to the Lookout Mountain, Georgia, public hearing: March 16, 2009
I live in the house I grew up in. I came back home to the Mountain—after living all over the world and for a long time in Boston—because of the extraordinary beauty of the land here and the quality of community on Lookout [...]
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Please Don’t Pass This P.U.D.
Letter from Clare Kent
To the Mayor and Members of the City Council: 23 April, 2009
As time goes by and I learn more and more about the ramifications of, reasons for, and the circumstances surrounding the proposed PUD ordinance, the more I am convinced that any PUD ordinance, even one cleared through Mr. Walker, should be tabled.
In [...]
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Traffic Impact of Chapelbrow
by Lolly Jones
Mountain Mirror : December 2008
I have always felt blessed to be able to call Lookout Mountain my home. It is a very unique community and a magical place to raise a family.
With this in mind, I grow concerned over what Gail Bryan brought to our attention in her letter to the editor last month concerning the development of Chapelbrow. [...]
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Storm Water Runoff Chest-high in Basement
Letter from John Tessmann to the Mayor and the City Council: March 20, 2009
Beginning this winter, we have had a series of unparalleled, damaging floods in our basement.
In December, we had to have Henson Plumbing replace the elements in our water heater due to excessive water (about 30 inches) which had caused them to short [...]
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Sewer Odor Destroys Quality of Life, Property Values
by Barbara Howell
Statement to the Lookout Mountain, Georgia, Public Hearing: March 16, 2009
If Walker County is going to spend taxpayer money to build a sewer line up the Mountain to facilitate a new development, they need first to address the multiple and serious problems current residents have with the existing sewer.
I have odor problems at [...]
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On Storm Water Run-off, the Sewer, and Grading Standards