01BL2026-1311
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This was the one bill in the block that pulled someone to the microphone, a member of the public signed up to speak on it when it came up as agenda item 13. Kimbrough carried it.
Metropolitan Council on 2026-04-07 6:30 PM · Tuesday, April 7, 2026 · 3h 57m
The one where the council member who has never approved an apartment sponsored 120 of them in an old Days Inn
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Joy Kimbrough spent her political capital on a hotel. The 117-room former Days Inn at I-24 and Joelton becomes 120 one-year-lease workforce apartments, pitched by attorney Sean Henry for the Better Housing Group and approved unanimously by the Planning Commission. Four Joelton neighbors said their rural community's infrastructure cannot carry it, roads, schools, first responders, and no Metro agency ever answered them on the record. It passed second reading 29-2-3. Hours later the East Bank downtown-code package, which Sean Parker called maybe the biggest rezoning in East Nashville's entire hi
From the room
“And the substitute allows a nominee to actually change the entire schedule of how this council goes through”
— Welsch
“And then we gave them, you know, the typical, like, we saw this evening, a month, month and a half notice”
— Kupin
“The third session will be Saturday, April 18 from one to five. That's on public safety spaces and resources.”
— Porterfield
“about ways to kinda bring our amendments together at a couple late file that, will be timely filed for next time.”
— Kupin
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The decisions
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Conditions
- Certain construction materials are restricted for buildings at 1027 Wade Avenue (companion ordinance BL2026-1306 to rezoning BL2026-1305).
- A recording of the required community meeting must be made and made publicly available
Questions & answers
Vice Mayor: Confirming that Christopher Grimes (Board of Equalization) was withdrawn, that Mira Esteban (property standards) is deferred one meeting to April 21, and that Cesar Castro and Caroline Everett (Sustainability Advisory) are deferred one meeting to April 21
Vice Mayor: Confirming the honoree's age — is he 105 today?
Philip Pillay: Who is the appropriate person to look into whether the Kelly Day provision conflicts with the Fair Labor Standards Act?
Zulfat Suara: Does the substitute rule require the nominee (or nominator) to share the reason the person cannot appear on the scheduled date?
Zulfat Suara: Must the reason for the nominee's unavailability be disclosed?
+23 more exchanges
Citations & precedent
Chapter 68, Tennessee Private Acts of 2024 · Vice Mayor
Fair Labor Standards Act (federal) · Philip Pillay
Article 25, Metro / Local 140 Memorandum of Understanding · Philip Pillay
Fair Labor Standards Act (federal) · Philip Pillay
Title 17, Metropolitan Code of Laws (the Zoning Ordinance of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County) · Vice Mayor
Metro Council Rule 12.3 · Vice Mayor
Metro Code of Laws Chapter 13.08 · Vice Mayor
Metro Code of Laws § 2.24.230 · Vice Mayor
Procedure
- Presiding officer closes the announcement portion and recognizes CM Zulfat Suara to deliver her proclamation — Porterfield
- Vice Mayor detects a quorum and calls the regular meeting to order — Vice Mayor (presiding officer)
- All members and the public asked to rise for the invocation and remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance — Vice Mayor (presiding officer)
- Lord Mayor Tracy Keller of Belfast delivers the invocation — interfaith framing ('whether we know you through faith, through shared humanity, or through our values'), asking for clarity, honesty, humility and common ground in the evening's deliberations — Tracy Keller
+30 more procedural steps
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The people
Public testimony: 1 in favor
Practitioners & applicants
Leslie Benmark · Lorenda McLaughlin · Delishia Porterfield · Principal, John Early Museum Magnet Middle School (name not stated) · Principal, John Early Museum Magnet Middle School (unnamed in transcript; diarized SPEAKER_02) · Erin Evans · Burkley Allen · Angie Henderson · Tracy Kelly · Zulfat Suara · +6 more
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The intelligence
Every parcel, owner, and applicant in this meeting, cross-referenced against Zonable’s NYC ownership, enforcement & legislative graph — the record behind the record.
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Owner portfolios, open OATH/ECB violations, 311 & DOB permits across every parcel discussed, developer track records, and an “ask this meeting” chat.
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