CHA & Mayor Littlefield Feud Over Proposed North Chattanooga Project

It's absurd to build 43 new apartments on a dead end one lane street. The Mayor was just pointing out how ignorant that policy is. It's like trying to pour water back up the faucet, it just won't work. Besides, if CHA is going to do anything they should build homes like in alton Park, or go to East Chattanooga and start revitalizing the area around the Woodlands, which has the city's highest crime rate, in fact that area has had the highest crime rate several times running. Wheter you like the mayor or not, ask yourself if the policy advocated by CHA, an organization that can't be regarded as being good stewards of the people's money, is the right policy.

I THINK WHAT CHA IS DOING IS A GOOD THING. A LOT OF PEOPLE MAY NOT KNOW THIS BUT CHA HAS MADE A LOT OF CHANGES AS FAR AS THE QUALIFICATIONS A PERSON NEED TO LIVE IN PUBLIC HOUSINGS. THEY MAIN GOAL IS TO MAKE THEM FOR WORKING PEOPLE. EVERYONE THAT LIVE IN CHA IS NOT BAD PEOPLES. I HOPE THAT THESE COMPLEXES WILL ALSO BE FOR WORKING CITIZENS. I FEEL AS FAR AS TRAFFIC GO THERE WONT BE NO MORE TRAFFIC THEN IT ALREADY IS IN THE NORTH CHATTANOOGA AREA WITH THE PARK AND THE REST OF THE THINGS GOING ON IN THE COMMUNITY. YOU ALL ARE WORRY ABOUT TRAFFIC BUT THERE ARE HOMELESS FAMILIES HERE. THERE ARE FAMILIES WHO HAS LOST GOOD JOBS AND THEIR HOMES WHO CAN'T AFFORD THE HOMES IN THE VILLAGES AT ALTON PARK. IT SOUND LIKE TO ME ITS NOT THE APARTMENTS THEY ARE WORRY ABOUT ITS A CERTAIN TYPE OF PEOPLES THEY DON'T WON'T IN THE COMMUNITY. IF THE MAYOR IS SO CONCERN ABOUT THE COMMUNITIES WHY WON'T HE VISIT THEM ALL AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT THEM. THEY TORN DOWN ALTON PARK,POSS HOMES AND NOW YOU WON'T FAIRMOUNT TORN DOWN WHY NOT DO THEM ALL TO REBUILD AND AND UPGRADE ALL THE COMMUNITIES. TO THE ONES WHO IS AGAINST THE FAIRMOUNT APARTMENTS YOU NEED TO PRAY TO GOD THAT YOUR SITUATION DON'T CHANGE TO WHEREAS YOU MIGHT HAVE TO MOVE IN ONE OF THOSE SAME APARTMENTS THAT YOU ARE NOW AGAINST.

This is just a scam by the mayor to try to deflect attention from the newly released fact that the VW plant will not have to pay the waste water runoff fee like every other business in the area. I hope all of the other businesses in town get together and sue for the city's unequal treatment.

I laughed (but should be crying) after reading Littlefield's rebuke of the CHA -- "They tend to get into things before there is adequate public discussion."

What a joke. Maybe Littlefield should apply that criticism to his handling of the annexation fiasco he and the city council are pursuing. Instead the council is following Littlefield's lead in ramming through a financially flawed annexation agenda, regardless of what the public has to say. Annexation as proposed by Littlefield is a financial timebomb for everyone--city and county alike. The voices of common sense and fiscal responsibility are being ignored by Littlefield in particular.