Before Nashville finalizes its annual budget this month, citizens are demanding one new line item: funding for Middle Tennessee’s largest contiguous forest, which is in the Highland Rim.
Some North Nashville residents can vote on which project should get $2M, but the rules are limiting some ideas
The city is trying to empower residents to create the rules and process for funding community projects in an area the city has historically neglected.
Long-Contested Whites Creek Development Proposal Defeated
A controversial proposal to build a 170-lot subdivision in a hilly, farm-adjacent area of Whites Creek was struck down by the Metro Planning Commission on Thursday — moving some residents, who have been fighting this development for years, to tears.
In Narrow Vote, Fontanel Allowed To Expand In Whites Creek
A bill that allows the Fontanel inn and amphitheatre to add a 136-room hotel to the wooded site passed by the slimmest of margins in the Metro Council on Tuesday night. And the vote was seen as a test of whether city leaders will abide by newly adopted guidelines that call for preserving Davidson County’s most rural […]