Meetings

The one where 520,000 petition signers turned a routine Metro Council night into a referendum on AI data centers next to

The one where Metro handed a school building to a nonprofit for $350K a year, called it 'well below market rate' out lou

The one where a member pulled a TIF item off consent purely to make MDHA say, on the record, that grocery stores and chi

The one where a routine consent agenda got hijacked by residents demanding a ban on 'cancer' data centers

The one where a Buddhist monastery's Sunday-only parking lot got sent back for drawings, and the board wrestled with whe

The one where the neighbors who WROTE the historic overlays showed up to enforce them against the additions their own ru

The one where Nashville passed O'Connell's budget on a 150%-Barnes bet while grocery-tax and tax-levy dissenters lost ev

The one where a 14-lot subdivision quietly evicted 50 households while the room spent the night fighting data centers at

The one where Nashville learned its zoning code has no word for 'data center', and voted 26-1 to freeze the permits befo

The one where a church's LED sign and a hilltop water tower reset the rules on how close a billboard can sit to homes

The one where an organized coalition turned budget night into a wall of demands, $10M for social housing, a fully funded

The one where the East Bank's own councilman asked the Planning Commission NOT to give the East Bank its own design-revi

The one where a short-handed zoning board decided cases by YouTube replay, and a member admitted he hadn't watched the v

The one where a Black church asked to be landmarked, and the commission spent the rest of the morning deciding whose pre

The one where the council deferred its no-confidence vote against the power board, then rebuked the utility over trees i

The one where neighbors swore they never got notice, and the commission approved MI Homes' cemetery-site project anyway

The one where Metro Housing pitched a $45.7M budget and floated a first-of-its-kind subordinate debt fund, and Metro Fin

The one where Nashville's mayor asks for $69M to fix housing affordability, and the council approves a night of rezoning

The one where three votes to deny weren't enough, and a hillside house beat 41 signatures two weeks later

The one where everybody, including the district councilman, begged for a two-meeting deferral on Vanderbilt's 43-acre in

The one where a street-safety amendment named for two dead Nashvillians got a unanimous 10-0 committee recommendation, a

The one where a seven-seat zoning board showed up with four members, so every 'yes' had to be unanimous, and the neighbo

The one where the preservationist moved approval 'for legal reasons' on 2nd Avenue, and a cabana survived by shrinking 1

The one where Southern Land came back for 50,000 more square feet, and a Belmont professor told the commission nobody ha