Hamilton County Commission Citizens Engagement

05/26/2026

🤓Read the Hamilton county commission meeting agenda for Wednesday, May 27th here! Budget season is in full swing, see how commissioners plan to spend their discretionary funds, what the sheriff is asking for in budget increases and more.

❓Do any resolutions stand out to you? Do you have questions about this meeting agenda? Let us know in the comments!

👀Watch the live stream for the 4pm meeting here: https://youtube.com/?

05/26/2026

05/26/2026

Last month, I attended an interesting county commission meeting here in East TN about a proposed Oracle data center slated for downtown Chattanooga. I think we may be seeing more of this type of development deal in the future (link in comments)

05/21/2026

Our parks are more than open space. They are the trails we hike, the quiet forests and fields where kids learn to love nature and observe wildlife, and the shared places where neighbors meet and breathe fresh air. That’s why what happens next matters for every resident who values public land.

The Hamilton County Commission is preparing to vote on a new Parks & Recreation (P-R) Zoning District resolution on May 27th.

As it’s currently written, this proposal could open public parkland in Hamilton County to commercial development. Here’s what that means:

• The new P-R zoning could allow restaurants, retail stores, country clubs, amusement parks, hotels, resorts, conference centers, and even communication towers on public parkland.

• Parks over 50 acres could see up to 30% of their land used for commercial development.

• This vote comes before Hamilton County adopts its comprehensive land use plan, meaning that rules could be locked in without a community-wide vision in place.

• If adopted, this could set a precedent that influences future decisions in other other municipal areas of our community.

Save Enterprise South Nature Park supports thoughtful park enhancements, but not blanket zoning that allows commercial interests to claim land that was meant to remain public, accessible, and for everyone’s enjoyment. We find it concerning that significant portions of our public recreation and green spaces could become exclusionary based on cost. Times are tough, daily essentials are more expensive, families are squeezed. Our taxpaying community members deserve accessible, safe, well-cared-for public spaces that enhance our quality of life. It has been and will always be our mission to keep public lands in public hands.

WHAT YOU CAN DO BEFORE MAY 27:

• Contact your Hamilton County Commissioner and the Hamilton County Mayor’s Office and make your voice heard.

• Attend the May 27th meeting, public comment matters.

• Share this information with friends, family, and neighbors who care about green space.

Click the link below for details on how to contact officials (including a boilerplate!) and join the effort.

https://www.saveesnp.org/parksandrecdistrict

Keep parks public, accessible, and for the people!

05/20/2026

Did you watch the state of the county tonight?

What do YOU think about the state of Hamilton county? Let us know in the comments!

05/15/2026

Hamilton County students are afraid to go to school.

Loved ones are stuck in dangerous conditions in detainment hours away from Chattanooga after routine traffic stops or being taken by immigration officials at their place of work.

Local businesses are shuttering.

The impact of the tax payer funded mass deportation pipeline is deeply disruptive to our local communities, our local schools and our local economy.

All elected officials and decision makers need to be asked the question right now:
Whose side are you on? The side of mass deportations? Or the side of our community where every child deserves a future without limits?

If our local elected officials want Hamilton county to be a welcoming place to ALL that means ALL of local elected’s need to be VISIBLY using their voice and platforms to advocate for our interest at the state and federal level.

Email Hamilton County elected officials today, at the link in the comments, to ask them: what are YOU are doing in this moment to ensure that all are welcome in Hamilton County? regardless of where we were born.

Local elected officials will tell us their hands are tied but where there is a will, there is a way. We cannot accept and normal what the mass deportation drag net is doing to Hamilton County.

05/13/2026

A Chattanooga non-profit has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Tennessee's new congressional redistricting plan, alleging it unlawfully dilutes the voting pow

04/27/2026

🚨call to action: the county commission will vote May 6th on a resolution that will allow Mayor Wamp to sell the Business Development Center. This building houses the Chattanooga small business INCubator, a launchpad the over 600 local small businesses have benefited from. This building was originally gifted to the county and not meant to ever be sold for profit.

👀Tennessee is 2nd in the nation for small business closures within the first year.

Support local small businesses and email county commissioners at the link in the comments to urge them to VOTE NO on May 6th to sell the BDC.