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East Ridge planning staff reports dozens of new homes and several commercial projects underway
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City planning staff described ongoing and proposed residential and commercial development across East Ridge, noting about 61 homes on Graston Avenue, a 15-unit cottage project on Fountain Avenue using a horizontal property regime, and larger townhome and subdivision projects under review.
Planning staff told the East Ridge board that single-family housing remains the dominant type of development in the city and several both small and large projects are active or in review.
“Single-family residential homes remains heavy. We have approximately 61 houses going up on Graston Avenue,” Michael, a city planning staff member, said. He described a mixed Graston Avenue project of townhomes and single-family dwellings and said approved plans exist for 15 cottage-style homes on Fountain Avenue next to Sweetbay Apartments.
Michael explained those 15 homes will use a horizontal property regime (HPR), drawing on the Tennessee Condominium Act, and said, “There’s no lot lines whatsoever. It's a condo.” He added that developments using HPR generally require a homeowners association to manage common landscaping and amenities because individual owners typically own only the area beneath the unit foundations and up to the sky.
Larger residential projects discussed include phase two of Hummingbird Village, where staff said about 84 houses remain to be built of a roughly 140-unit development; and a rezoned parcel known as Old Seahorse Farms on Frawley Road slated for about 116 two-story townhomes. A 10-acre parcel on Beulah Drive has seen rezoning requests but earlier high-density proposals and multiple apartment complexes were denied by planning and city council, staff said.
On the commercial side, staff reported active site work and tenant interest in several retail pads near City Hall and the former Food City site. Michael listed Panda Express as beginning work and said the former BB&T building planned for redevelopment would include a Smoothie King and a Jersey Mike’s. Staff also noted MPL Construction recently acquired roughly four acres near the old northbound cloverleaf entrance to I-75; the site will tie into Camp Jordan Parkway and is zoned for interstate-related commercial use.
The update mixed specific counts and approximate figures. Michael identified most project locations and approximate unit counts, while noting some proposals remain under review or unspecified.
