Jeffrey Shaerschmidt

“To allow Stringer’s Ridge to be developed would be the same as bulldozing Central Park in New York.”

—Jeffrey Shaerschmidt, president of SORBA Chattanooga, in support of efforts to protect a 97-acre slope on the edge of downtown Chattanooga. If the Trust for Public Land can raise the remaining $400,000 of the $2.5 million asking price, SORBA plans to build seven miles of sustainable singletrack along the ridge.

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