News Coverage from The Chattanooga Times Free Press
By Pam Sohn
Richard Hall remembers when his family's farm was considered in the country, not surrounded by the highest-growth area in Hamilton County.
"It was real rural in the '50s and '60s," said Mr. Hall, 62, who inherited his 18 acres from his father who, in turn, inherited a larger tract from his father.
Now all that's left of the three-generation farm is Mr. Hall's home and a getaway woodland tract amid the sprawling development of Ooltewah, Collegedale and Enterprise South industrial park, where the new Volkswagen plant is being built.
"I'm not surprised (by the growth)," Mr. Hall said Thursday. "I rather expected it. But I want this part to stay as it is."
Mr. Hall, manager of East Ridge Auto Alignment, has donated a property easement for his 18 acres to the Land Trust of Tennessee, putting the property in preservation for perpetuity. He still owns the property, but the easement means that, if it is sold in the future or passes through his estate to another owner, it cannot be developed beyond what is on it right now. Read the entire article here.
