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... describe and we neighbors requested built by right. Thus we would have had many affordable units. The lack of an overlay and the incompetence and mendacity of this developer led to the McMansions. I hope that you feel very proud of yourself.

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So, we agree that the overlay protects affordable houses. Thanks. Now, if the overlay had included those three houses (and a fourth that could be built), then a developer would’ve seen the profit to be made in Riverside Village for studios as you…

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...then there would still be three modest, affordable houses on those lots, instead of the grotesque mcmansions built by ZMX, after the developer, incapable of building almost anything, had to hand over those parcels in a quitclaim to cover his mounting debts. Thanks.

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Your example undermines your assertion. When Inglewood Place earned a Conservation Overlay, the councilmember, presumably in cahoots with an incompetent developer, left those three parcels out of the overlay. If they had been included,…

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Post-Reagan capitalism incentivizes larger homes over smaller ones even more than Zoning does (because zoning actually doesn't). I appreciate this conversation, but I don't like to converse with pseudonyms. Ben Vaught & I, for all our faults, take ownership of our tweets

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Unfortunately, the story on WKRN just referred to "zoning rules," making it sound like a local ordinance.

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Thank you for your collaborative (and corrective) spirit, Nicole. Do you know how to find that law?

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You have more faith in capitalism than do I. There's no causal relationship between conservation overlays and housing prices or accessibility. As for failed policies, clearing the path for rapacious developers has not led to housing for the unhoused, though it's made for more million-dollar houses.

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Thanks. It appears that the building of the Rokeby began before there were any regulations on height on that part of West End Avenue.

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I reject most of them. "The market" solves very few of our societal problems--housing among them. Our only real housing crisis is our increasing numbers of the unhoused, and that will only be solved by Metro, not by avaricious developers (if that's not redundant). How are you with those tenets?

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"These findings point to local benefits from market-rate development, but they should not be interpreted as an endorsement of market-rate development regardless of the project or neighborhood context."

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You wave flags for the plutocrats while disdaining the "landed gentry." You must be shaped like a corkscrew. I agree with you that money talks at the Planning Department. Your councilmember is one of the worst examples.

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There is no evidence that a higher, grosser building will create any affordable housing. What is wrong with three stories on the corner of Leonard and West End?

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Currently, The Lloyd (a relatively new building of eight condos) is on this property. It appears that the plutocrats of 3717 West End LLC simply hunger for more money.

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A city creates zoning out of necessity, much having to do with safety and quality of life. It is a fully democratic process that creates a contract between residents and the city, and changes to such a contract, naturally, shouldn't be made lightly.

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There are also a few other homes near 95 Leonard Avenue valued lower than yours.

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Address? It may be the cause of the current zoning regulation.

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Yes, I read that. The Attorney General is also trying to kill Christa Pike--again. He's also defending the evisceration of our public schools. Why should anyone respect his advice? No matter:tThat this regulation is still on the books means that Nashvillians can expect that it will be enforced.

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All zoning is exclusionary. No one wants to live next to a glue factory. In addition, zoning codes are created by democratic representatives, not just "people not excluded."

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That's all right. Your home is catching up quickly.

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Lots of people have too much money. Many of them are avaricious developers such as Jerome Tannenbaum and his nameless and liability-free partners in this enterprise.

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Finally, the tables are irrelevant to my question.

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These tables are over four years old, and, even then, didn't include all neighborhoods with historic overlays. Now, they're more out of date. There are also plenty of neighborhoods without overlays that are wealthy & White. Your own home is $815K, an almost 50% increase in ten years.

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That's a pretty--and pretty meaningless--picture, which doesn't answer my question. Thanks.

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"Historic" does not mean "rich." Recent neighborhoods with conservation overlays include Haynes and Madison--hardly the haven of the rich. Thirty-five feet is the ordinance. What is the problem?

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Matthew Bond @mjb1959.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Most of us voted for Hillary Clinton.

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I'm rooting for the Brewers. They are the Sounds' major league team.

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Matthew Bond @mjb1959.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think that the library has Frist passes.

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Any college that doesn't reform its fraternities--banning, requiring them to become open to all sexes, hiring security (female) for gatherings, limiting alcohol & hallucinogens--should lose its accreditation

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Men who hear others (not always men) say this know that nothing is more dangerous to women than men are. Jane Doe (and her millions of sisters) are not to blame, of course, and women should be around men only as necessary and always be on guard. Drive defensively, live defensively.

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I don't know when Nashville peaked, but it began a serious decline when Karl Dean sold out and bulldozed much of downtown for the convention center and when the Metro Council opened wide the gates for short-term rentals and for development without any mandate for low-income housing. My age: 50ish.

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