Central Ave Extension Project

Draft 4(f) Document Concerning Project Impacts to the Lincoln Park Property

The City of Chattanooga, in cooperation with the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) and with funding from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), proposes to extend Central Avenue from Blackford Street to Riverside Drive to improve the City’s transportation network. The area known as Lincoln Park, which is adjacent to the proposed roadway extension, is a historic resource eligible for inclusion on the National Register. The presence of this resource adjacent to the project requires that the City of Chattanooga complete the Section 4(f) process of the U.S. Department of Transportation Act of 1966.

The City of Chattanooga is committed to transparency and is voluntarily making the Draft 4(f) evaluation available for public review and comment. Accordingly, the City has completed the Draft Individual Section 4(f) Evaluation for the Central Avenue Extension Project. Comments submitted on Section 4(f) document will become part of the permanent public record for this project and will be taken into consideration as the project continues through the NEPA process.

The document can be viewed, and comments may be submitted using the links below. Additionally, comments may also be submitted by mail to the address below:

LINKS:
Comment Form
Draft Central Avenue Extension Individual 4f Evaluation_March 2023 (No Appendices)
Appendix A - Traffic Information Update
Appendix B - Part 1 - Correspondence since AOE
Appendix B - Part 2 - AOE Report - pgs 1-50
Appendix B - Part 2 - AOE Report - pgs 51-100
Appendix B - Part 2 - AOE Report - pgs 101-150
Appendix B - Part 2 - AOE Report - pgs 151-200
Appendix B - Part 2 - AOE Report - pgs 201-250
Appendix B - Part 2 - AOE Report - pgs 251-300
Appendix B - Part 2 - AOE Report - pgs 301-342
Appendix C - Memorandum of Agreement
Appendix D - Memorandum of Agreement Correspondence - pgs 1-65
Appendix D - Memorandum of Agreement Correspondence - pgs 66-130

COMMENT MAILING ADDRESS:
Chattanooga Division of Transportation
Department of Public Works
1250 Market Street, Suite 3030
Chattanooga, TN 37402
Attn: Central Ave Extension Project

The public comment period will close on 4/30/2023.

ADA Self-Evaluation and Transition Plan

The City of Chattanooga is undertaking the development of an ADA Self-Evaluation and Transition Plan to identify and work toward removing obstacles that limit access by people with disabilities. Please check here for updates.

City of Chattanooga ADA Self Evaluation and Transition Plan

The City of Chattanooga has announced Public Outreach Meetings to communicate the findings of the ADA Self-Evaluation conducted from 2019-2021, in compliance with Title II of the ADA, and to gather community input regarding accessibility barriers to services, programs, and activities provided by the City of Chattanooga.

TWO IN-PERSON PUBLIC OUTREACH
MEETINGS TO BE HELD:
October 19th, 1:00pm & 5:30pm
Development Resource Center
Room 1-A, 1250 Market Street
Chattanooga, TN 37402

For accessible accommodations to attend either meeting or to have
this information in an alternate format, please contact
Citywide ADA Coordinator: Toni Morgan at
(423) 643-8240 or amorgan@chattanooga.gov

Standards

The following standards guide and inform the design and construction of all transportation elements within Chattanooga:

• National Association of City Transportation Officials Urban Street Design Guide
• National Association of City Transportation Officials Urban Bikeway Design Guide
• Institute of Transportation EngineersDesigning Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Senstive Approach
• Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices

Other transportation related resources:

Transportation Planning Organization
Public transt: CARTA
TDOT
Chattanooga Airport
Public Bike Share: Chattanooga Bicycle Transit

Public Notice - City of Chattanooga Petition for Waiver - Patten Parkway Memorials

The City of Chattanooga hereby gives public notice of its intention to petition the Tennessee Historical Commission for a waiver that would allow it to relocate and rededicate three memorial features currently in Patten Parkway to one of two nearby locations. The memorials named as they currently exist in Patten Parkway east to west are one, American Legion Post 14 flag pole, two, World War II Monument, and, three, Marine Memorial. The City, after conducting two major public planning efforts, one, the Center City Plan 2014, and, two, the Innovation District Plan, 2018, as well as a series of steering committee and stakeholder meetings, has determined that Patten Parkway is due for a major renovation and rehabilitation. Further, the City has determined through recent stakeholder and steering committee design meetings that the space of Patten Parkway will be vastly improved by a new plaza design that will offer a more flexibility of use and that with the new design, the memorials can be relocated and rededicated in a way that brings renewed honor to those wars veterans so memorialized. The City has established two proposed new locations for the rededicated memorials, one, at the end of the axis of the new Patten Parkway on land historically controlled by the American Legion Post 14, designed as a plaza at the terminus of the new public space of Patten Parkway. Two, on city-controlled property of the current Phillips Park, two blocks away, appropriately located within view of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium and the historic Hamilton County Courthouse. The City has the support of the American Legion Post 14 for the first location, but does not yet control that property and is submitting the second location as another viable and appropriate location. A copy ofthe City’s Petition for Waiver and supporting documentation will be available at no cost upon written request to the Chattanooga Department of Transportation, 1250 Market Street, Suite 3030, Chattanooga, TN, 37402. These materials are also available at this link.