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Anybody here a TISA expert? Seems like the formula is terrible for Nashville - state funding for MNPS has barely increased in a decade, so down materially in real terms. Is that fair b/c Nashville is affluent and can support itself? Unfair b/c we don't get enough credit for higher cost of living?

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Someday millennials will have the same political clout that boomers do today as a demographic matter. What will our blind spots be that will hurt/irritate young folks the way nimbyism hurts our generation? Worth remembering what it feels like to be on this side, so we don’t do it to our kids

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

So excited about @rollinhorton.bsky.social’s UDO in The Nations. He’s done a ton of work in the neighborhood to make this a true community plan. It’s going to provide a bunch of new housing in a great neighborhood. Let’s all help him get it passed!

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

2.814% rate down from 3.254% offset by 45% assessment growth. By my math that nets to a ~25% increase which is pretty much spot on what inflation + population growth has been over that time in Nashville. I don’t love paying more tax but that seems highly reasonable.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Made a (highly subjective) map of the areas I bike in regularly with info about safety, avoidable hills, places to cross pikes, etc. Interested in 1) is this useful, 2) what would make it more useful and 3) would anyone be willing to fill in their neighborhood to make it more comprehensive.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Research (from Nashville!) shows that teachers with shorter commutes stay in their positions longer and perform better. Housing policy is education policy.

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

Feel like Nashville would get a lot of bang for its biking infrastructure buck by putting up bike wayfinding signs that point to relatively quiet and flat through routes to other neighborhoods as well as good places to cross the pikes.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

The argument that we can’t build housing until we have infrastructure is a frustrating framing. If we have neighborhoods and CMs willing to support more housing, the city should prioritize bringing sidewalks and infrastructure to those neighborhoods faster than those that don’t add housing.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 71 days ago • 5 comments