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x.comAlex Armlovich (@aarmlovi) on XCharlotte's "NoDa" transit-oriented upzoning on the Blue Line is an incredible Sunbelt case study for YIMBYism The brand new market-rate "luxury" midrises, paying full property taxes, with zero subsi...

From the everything site, transit-related upzoning in the sunbelt results in the same level of affordability as LIHTC housing. x.com/aarmlovi/sta... Need this progressive council of ours to pursue upzoning like this around Nashville's CHYM all-access corridors sooner than later.

Especially if we're sacrificing downtown bus lanes to the business lobby.

nytimes.comOpinion | The Housing Crisis Is Also a Retirement Crisis (Gift Article)A home has stopped being just a place to live — it has also become an asset.

14 July

My 65 year old dad and his wife are empty nesters with a 5100 sq ft, 5 bedroom house. My twin sister (3 kids) and I (3 kids by end of year) each have sub-3,000 sq ft houses. Increasing property taxes for seniors will more efficiently distribute housing in this country.

kyla scanlon@kyla.bsky.social

THE CRISIS BEHIND THE HOUSING CRISIS In today's NYT piece, I wrote about how the housing fight is both about housing *and* retirement. We made the house do two jobs at once, and it's pitting the old against the young. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...

8 July

After 4 days out of town for the holiday, we came home to the following harvest. #tomatoflation

Andy@wildman.bsky.social

Hedging against tomatoflation by planting 15 tomato plants in the garden this year.

8 July

dang my mustache is looking good

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24 June

This man on the bus has the nicer version of my bag. I need to step up my game.

@neilkornutick.bsky.social

19 June

Highly recommend taking the bus to the local microbrewery to watch the World Cup

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Neil Kornutick

18 June

Traffic calming seems pretty good. We should do more of it. Maybe stop relying on consultants and do it all internally.

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17 June

Another 4 years worth of wrangling with NDOT, the Titans, and other car-first stakeholders about the built environment of the East Bank! First public meeting about the East Bank was 2021, same year my first kid was born; she'll be in middle school by the time any of the East Bank boulevard is open.

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4 June

Man this game's too easy. 79-3 on the first try?? (praise the RNG for 40 PPG Wilt lol) www.82-0.com/share?id=zWv...

nashvillescene.comFive Points Sees Changing of the GuardAs Margot says goodbye, Party Fowl moves in — and the neighborhood’s high rent prevents small business entry

3 June

High commercial rents in Nashville's hot neighborhoods are a conscious choice made by Nashville's Council and Planning to restrict the number of these neighborhood commercial corners. Local businesses get squeezed out of the neighborhoods that love them; chains & tourist-oriented businesses move in.

Nashville Scene@nashvillescene.com

As Margot says goodbye to East Nashville’s Five Points, Party Fowl moves in — and the neighborhood’s high rent prevents small business entry.

3 June

While both Planning and Council drag their feet on recommending places to upzone for more housing per the Housing & Infrastructure study, local businesses continue to get squeezed with zero indication that Planning or Council intend to add capacity for more local businesses.

27 May

Hedging against tomatoflation by planting 15 tomato plants in the garden this year.

28 May

Tomatoes for dayssssssss

29 Apr

They showed us specific plans for bus lanes and told us they’d be done in 2026. Now they’re showing us some repainting and telling us bus lane construction will start in 2030. Of course we are disappointed - we believed Freddie when he said we have enough plans and we just need to implement them..

jeremiah@jerewoo.bsky.social

yup, and it wasn’t even just pretty schematics it was very detailed plans! rip the “taking plans to action” mayor that never was just throwing tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars of designs and timelines in the trash

26 Apr

Renewed my vehicle registration in less than 60 seconds

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Mayor Freddie O’Connell

@mayor.nashville.gov

2 Apr

Mayor O’Connell stamps it. ✅ Edge O Lake Drive has a new sidewalk. And 86 miles are still to come with Choose How You Move.

I mean…

Andy@wildman.bsky.social

Watching a rocket launch with a toddler is a peak life experience. Highly recommend.

Watching a rocket launch with a toddler is a peak life experience. Highly recommend.

We gotta stop the depopulation of East Nashville.

Hey Nashville Bluesky I shouldn’t have to learn that Edessa opened a burger and pizza joint from “the everything site”

11 Mar

Congratulations Matthew Bond, your opposition to townhomes saved our neighborhood and we got this instead.

10 Mar

Nashville is lucky that the state preempted inclusional zoning. No way that there would’ve been the same apartment housing boom.

10 Mar

Now the state allows affordability bonuses and what’s our progressive council done with that capability? Nothing.

An S-tier Metro Nashville Government apparatus would have been prepared with counter-messaging for the Boring tunnel announcements. Could've been as simple as reminding Nashville of our government's success in the transit referendum, touting the improved ridership and frequency of Nashville's buses.

An S-tier Metro Nashville Government apparatus would have been prepared with counter-messaging for the Boring tunnel announcements. This should have included shovels in the ground on the already-designed Main Street bus lanes, instead we got another revision and further study and delays.

An S-tier Metro Nashville Government apparatus would have been prepared with counter-messaging for the Boring tunnel announcements. Minimum, you should've found voices willing to hit back against the state for forcing us to deprioritize the highest-ridership bus route's bus lanes (Murfreesboro Pike)

Spent fifteen minutes talking (ranting?) to coworkers yesterday about how good Nashville’s downtown housing boom has been for rental prices, even if some apartments are vacant, because it keeps rents from rising and downtown apartments mean less traffic than suburban apartments.

We collectively came to the conclusion that having so many apartment options in downtown Nashville and surrounding neighborhoods means that for young professionals without kids, buying a house isn’t a smart financial decision because rents are relatively low.

(I also came away further convinced that my city needs more family-sized for-purchase housing units.)

One said “But isn’t it bad if apartments are sitting empty?” And I asked “for you as a renter?” If not every Hermes bag sells, but having an abundance of luxury purses keeps Coach prices from rising, wouldn’t that be a good thing?

23 Feb

Big fan of these self-serve kiosks for vehicle registration renewal in Nashville. Very easy. Saved a bunch of time in line.

23 Feb

I love to see my government making things better for me.

10 Feb

Done. Now it’s your turn. 🫵

Just Jules@justjules.bsky.social

I dare you to replace one car trip with walking, rolling, biking, or public transit this week.

10 Feb

Riding the people’s limousine for less than the cost of the gasoline it would take to drive downtown. Saving dollars just makes sense.

9 Feb

Which one of you scooter riders or e bicyclists knocked this sign over?

@nashvillebanner.bsky.social

7 Feb

Nashville’s vibrant downtown. (it’s all car infrastructure)

Neil Kornutick@neilkornutick.bsky.social

The NDP adopting a street in part of the city that they are responsible for running the bid is incredibly funny and dumb. They get tax dollars to clean. This isn’t the same thing as an org volunteering to clean it a few times a year!

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Nashville Banner

6 Feb

EXCLUSIVE: Terez Metry was 13 when her family fled to Tennessee from Egypt in 2011. Then, they left her behind. She only recently discovered she had an order of removal from 2011. But she was following the legal path to citizenship. On Monday, at a routine DHS meeting, Metry was detained.

nashvillebanner.comImmigration process turns sour for an Antioch woman - Nashville BannerTerez Metry, a dental assistant in Middle Tennessee with no criminal history, was detained by ICE during an interview as she followed legal steps toward citizenship.

29 Jan

Guy Berger@econberger.bsky.social

New participation trophy just dropped

29 Jan

State of Tennessee out here with executive orders to us state resources to clear non-state roads with state resources but still haven’t cleared fallen trees off the state highway in front of the state capitol building.

My take: if Nashville Metro Council had passed NEST bills (legalizing 4-plexes in half the county, plus duplex zoning for the rest of the county), Tennessee would be adding an additional congressional district too.

Michael Li (李之樸)@mcpli.bsky.social

With new census population estimates out today, here’s what the 2030 reapportionment would look like using the 5-year trend line. Overall, remarkably stable with projections from last year. Big change is Florida gets only 3 rather than 4 seats.

Nashville has had an apartment-building boom that has yielded flat-to-declining rents for 1-br and 2-br for-rent apartments, especially in the city's downtown and core neighborhoods. This is good, but is not sufficient to guarantee the city's long-term viability.

Nashville cannot be the welcoming, diverse, friendly city it claims to be until we have policies that create more for-sale, family-sized housing to offer families more attainable options. That means our neighborhoods need more townhomes, more cottage courts, and - yes - more fourplexes.

Andy@wildman.bsky.social

Nashville residents who care about homes for more Nashvillians can contact councilmembers (shoutout @emilyfor7.bsky.social and @quinevanssegall.bsky.social) to ask council to adopt a zoning map that can produce over 100K new homes in the next decade leveraging new housing districts & study findings.