Records not linked to a specific agenda item
Opposition & support
0 opposed
Conditions
- A full traffic study will be required through the normal permitting process if the variances are approved; only preliminary traffic/line-of-sight work has been done so far.
- Valet parking shall be a requirement (valet operation is the parking use for the hotel, which provides 90 spaces against 135 required)
- The valet parking plan must be submitted to NDOT (Nashville Department of Transportation)
- A photometric (lighting) study must be part of the building permit application
- An official parking analysis and an MMTA study must be completed and go through NDOT; the study must specify valet as the parking use and provide a layout of how the parking arrangement would take place
- If approved, all drawings must go to Metro Stormwater, which would work with the applicant to design mitigation for stormwater impacts on other properties
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Questions & answers
Joey Hargis (Metro Zoning Administrator): Confirms which case the council member is present to address
Joey Hargis (Metro Zoning Administrator): Are you agreeable to postpone for a meeting or two to discuss with MDOT [NDOT] their site-visibility concern at that corner?
Joey Hargis (Zoning Administrator): Whether the applicant wants to proceed today or postpone given the DOT site-visibility concerns
Unidentified BZA board member: There was a comment about working with NDOT on visibility from the alley — did you have the opportunity to talk with the NDOT person?
Unidentified BZA board member: Sight-distance / safety at the alley intersection
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Citations & precedent
Metro Zoning Code — fence height standard (solid/opaque fences within 10 ft of a street right-of-way) · Joey Hargis
Metro Zoning Code — fence setback standard · Joey Hargis
Metro Zoning Code — fences · Joey Hargis
Metro Code of Laws — DADU section and accessory structure section (recently amended by Metro Council) · Joey Hargis
Metro Code variance section + Tennessee state law (Tenn. Code Ann. 13-7-207, cited by staff at the meeting's opening) — variances may be granted under 'exceptional circumstances' · Josh Lee
Specific Plan (SP) zoning district — variance hardship standard · Board legal counsel (SPEAKER_02)
Metro Council DADU ordinance (bill not named on the record) that reset allowable DADU square footage and setback standards · Mina Johnson
RS40 zone district — street setback requirements (Metro Nashville zoning code) · Joey Hargis
Procedure
- Board will proceed through the agenda as printed; paper copies available on the tables — Joey Hargis
- Several cases will NOT be heard today for various reasons (postponement, deferral, withdrawal); staff will call each one before the regular agenda — Joey Hargis
- Staff presents the request, site plans, the zoning-code requirement, and the deviation sought, on screen, before the applicant speaks — Joey Hargis
- For each case called, staff asks for a show of hands from any parties present in opposition — this determines whether the 5-minute or the 10-minute-per-side format applies — Joey Hargis
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