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Whites Creek

Middle Tennessee’s largest forest is part of Nashville. Citizens want protection.

Caroline Eggers

June 14, 2023

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.

Filed Under: Environment, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: beaman park, geology, highland rim, Radnor Lake State Park, trees, Warner Parks, Whites Creek

Some North Nashville residents can vote on which project should get $2M, but the rules are limiting some ideas

Ambriehl Crutchfield

December 15, 2021

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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.

Filed Under: Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Fabian Bedne, North Nashville, participatory budgeting, Sekou Franklin, Whites Creek

Long-Contested Whites Creek Development Proposal Defeated

Caroline Eggers

September 10, 2021

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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.

Filed Under: Environment, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: development, Metro Planning Commission, Whites Creek

In Narrow Vote, Fontanel Allowed To Expand In Whites Creek

Tony Gonzalez

August 3, 2016

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 […]

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Jim Shulman, Whites Creek

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