Sustainable Chattanooga

An evolutionary initiative begun in the late 1960s helped guide Chattanooga from a city addressing specific problems to one with an infusive vision of sustainable development and growth. Responding to a U.S. Health, Education and Welfare designation as the worst polluted city in the country in 1969, Chattanooga made a commitment to transform the City's reputation by first confronting independent issues. In time, those issues became interdependent and subsequently evolved into a collection of community projects that improved Chattanooga's quality of life. Specific issues of address included industrial pollution, fair and better housing, downtown transportation enhancement, clean-up of the river, business developm