mjb1959.bsky.social
Tutor, writer, crank--prefers pressing clothes to pressing issues.
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No, that they bring people together. Gallatin Road/Pike has a myriad restaurants, from those serving small elegant meals, to those run by working-class folks, for working-class folks. It has ethnic markets and supermarkets, along with pawn shops and jewelers. (I could go on, but no characters left.)
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Which community meetings are those?
As for Bordeaux, did you attend the H&I meeting at the Bordeaux library? Many people there warned Planning not to force Bordeaux to "solve" this "90,000 units" problem. They wanted to protect their neighborhoods.
Fake to you, maybe. Real to them and to me.
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Ah, yes, the new families looking eagerly for $700,000 "units"!
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Yes, people must live where they can afford, and Metro needs to build housing for the unhoused & the working-class--or provide incentives for developers to do so (although the state hampers our ability to do this).
Bulldozing Bordeaux and cramming it with hexplexes won't solve these problems.
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Perhaps calling egalitarian, diverse, historic roads such as our pikes (Gallatin, Dickerson, Nolensville, Murfreesboro, Jefferson, etc.) sewers (and what are those who live there? shit?) is a sign of bigotry--and White-skin privilege.
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...clearing out regulations to make capitalism stronger is not a way to solve the problems that capitalism has created.
What we agree on is that no one should be unhoused and that we need more housing for the working class. Bulldozing houses in Black neighborhoods isn't the way to make that happen.
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"Forced to live"? Who has said that? People will live where they can afford to live. They will buy the food that they can afford to buy: beans & rice for some; Turnip Truck for others. That's capitalism. I don't like it, and, thus,...
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No, I live on Golf. Many years ago, though, I lived on Dickerson. In other cities, I lived on pikes, in low-income housing, in my car, in warehouses, etc.
Your turn.
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My wife and I ran through JFK in November 2023, arrived at our gate, no one left there, door locked, but walkway still attached to plane. I opened the emergency door; alarms went off, and, with many apologies and much insistence, we got to take our seats.
I can't advise this method, though.
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No, when you insist on the "missing middle" over the unhoused & the working-class, then you are saying "My needs are more important than those of poor people, Black people, and Latin-American people."
The bigots are those who could live on Gallatin Pike but insist on ending R zoning on Shelton Ave.
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Is that the quiet part? After all, if you can't afford a BMW, then you buy a used Toyota, right? Now if people can't afford any housing at all, then it is incumbent on our part to ensure that they are housed, but are we talking about the unhoused or just those who can't get what they want?
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My wife and I take a cab to & from the airport: no waiting. The bus is tempting (for arrival; on departure, we're usually leaving very early), but that would mean almost two hours, rather than twenty minutes.
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Also, we need facts concerning our housing issues: Does the BEBE (Build Everything Build Everywhere) movement have facts to support its claim that eradicating zoning and cramming density into all neighborhoods actually create "affordable housing"?
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Yes, we need facts like these here in Nashville, concerning the efficacy of speed bumps, lower speed limits, traffic calming, etc.
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My sympathies. I'm impressed at how little attention the frat boy club receives on the society pages.
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The authoritarian threat was also ignored by the so-called leftists who sat out the election or voted for Jill Stein, because of Gaza and Democrats "pandering to the donor class."
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If we hadn't killed him, there would be no pope.
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The same interests who propped up Emily Benedict et al. to weaken the Historic Zoning Commission & its staff, thus endangering neighborhoods, especially historically Black neighborhoods.
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Sue. Immediately.
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I see your point, and applaud your resourcefulness. My car, though, is thirty years old and, while I've owned her, has never seen the inside of a dealership. My mechanic is within walking distance of a Waffle House, and I have spend many wonderful, scattered, & smothered hours there.
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I stand corrected. I'm always working on Steeplechase, so I've never attended, and the folks I know are the large hat-wearing folks, who return to their verandas (or to the Club) for martinis.
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From the Steeplechase, there will be plenty of designated drivers and limousines, taking the participants the long distance to Belle Meade, Forest Hills, & Green Hills.
The Steeplechase IS the downtown for these folks.
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The Steeplechase is not near the downtown area.
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Appropriately, the Fisk Jubilee Singers' first concert outside of Nashville was in Cincinnati, the welcome destination of so many escaping enslaved people in the 19th century and now, the home of the Underground Railroad Museum (officially the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center).
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Good point. Sticking to the rulesâand the pain they cause:
RAISE:
1. May 21st
2. May 22nd
MAINTAIN:
1. May 14th
2. May 15th
CUT:
1. May 13th
2. May 12th
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Detaching the choices from their arbitrary groupings:
RAISE:
1. Library, Homeless Services, Arts
2. Education, Codes, Social Services
MAINTAIN:
1. Parks, Planning, MTA
2. NDOT, Police, Fire
CUT:
1. Health, Sheriff, Water
2. Mayor, Hospital, Human Relations
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Nashville Next was created w/ a great deal of public input. The Housing & infrastructure study is trying to do the same. Overlays, which don't change the base zoning, but do protect neighborhoods always come from the neighbors. The DADU bills were also generated by the residents of the districts.
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Yes, he said that the project was "incremental," while C.M. Welsch decried incrementalism.
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Nothing about this massive rezoning assured housing affordability.
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Of course, one of the twenty was coerced, and only half of them lived in the district. You spoke well, though.
What a shame that C.M. Welsch did such a poor, top-down job on this project, which was questionable from the start, cramming dozens of "units" on narrow, sidewalk-less residential streets.
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Process is important when the neighbors and residents are left out.
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It was a hissy-fit of a speech: laughable. C.M. Welsch worked top-down, when rezones work better bottom-up.
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If there's a housing crisis, then it should be simple to hold meetings, invite Planning, and present the necessity to the residents.
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Actually, the deliberation made sense: Planning had never presented or discussed the plan with the community, which wasn't notified about this huge change until about a week before the Commission hearing. The number of residents opposed was impressive.
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One side is reactionary, and the other side is libertarian. A pox on both your houses I would say.
Let's find a progressive solution, if we need one. After all, there is plenty of county in which to build; Nashville's population is shrinking, and rents are falling.
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No district is an island. After all, at the Planning Commission, half of the supporters of Ginny Welsch's bill didn't live in District 16
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True, look at the discourtesy concerning BL2025-742: the sponsoring councilmember lied to her fellow c.m.s, and colleagues gave no deference to the c.m.s who actually had overlays in their districts.
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We are already doing so. Rents in Nashville are decreasing and incentives to rent are increasing.
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Nashville's population is seeing negative "growth": worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/te....
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At one time, it must've been an American tradition as well, because one must walk through our house to reach a bathroom. đ
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Yes, years ago, we, as a society, placed limits on building capacity because unregulated capitalism is harmful.
Apartment buildings as well have limits, but a full apartment building is not ârefusing new neighbors,â and neither necessarily is a neighborhood of houses, duplexes, and quadplexes
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By what right was ICE doing allegedly *random* traffic stops?
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As do waistlines, especially if you keep eating after you're full.
In addition, when we find that roads are full, instead of offering better alternatives, we much too often, simply widen (grow) the roads, which just leads to further "fullness."
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...much like many in these housing discussions have built walls against anyone who disagrees with them, fearing that othersâ opinions might be as reasonable as theirs.
Thus, they mock and labelâmuch as does our current presidentâanyone with different ideas.
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