Sort of just filling in for
your pro tem council member
Porterfield, um, just a
reminder, we are sitting on
Cherokee, Chickasaw and Shawne
Land, a reminder that no one is
illegal on stolen land built by
stolen labor. All right, we do
have two presentations tonight,
um, and the first one will be
presented by
Council member Yuying, uh,
proclamation recognizing the
life of Eleanor Willis, a
notable civic leader and
lifelong Nashvillean
Councilmember Ying, are you
ready?
Try it.
Are you, yes, I am. All right,
I think we
ok, thank you
Yeah
ok.
Ok, ready? Are we all ready?
Whereas notable civic leader
and lifelong Nashvillian
Eleanor Lawson Willis passed
away on FEBRUARY 13, 2026,
leaving a legacy of community
service and leadership, and
whereas MISS. Willis was born
on SEPTEMBER 15, 1936 to the
late Helen and Harry Alfred
Lawson Junior, and was preceded
in death by her brother, Harry
House Lawson and
whereas Eleanor Willis, a
distinguished graduate of
Vanderbilt University, lived a
life defined by service,
compassion, and a steadfast
commitment to strengthening her
community and
whereas she dedicated her
career to expanding
opportunities and care for
others, founding the Heads Up
Child Development Center to
serve low-income families and
children with development and
disabilities, as well as
co-founding the Rochelle Center
to support adults with
disabilities, reflecting a
lifelong devotion to dignity
across all stages of life and
whereas her leadership in civic
and environmental stewardship,
most notably through the
Friends of Warner Parks, the
Nashville Tree Foundation and
Cumberland region tomorrow,
help to preserve Nashville
s
nature with thoughtful growth
to guide future generations and
whereas MISS Willie served as
director of Friends of Warner
Park from 1994 to 2013, shaping
the organization into the
strong partner East today. In
our time as director, MS.
Willis helped to develop the
full moon picking Party
fundraiser, a continues
annually to this day. MS.
Willis oversaw the expansion of
the park through the
construction of the Suzanne
Warner Bass Learning Center
integration of heart and
acquisition of 500 additional
acres, including ill forests, a
state natural area, and
whereas Eleanor Willis endured
legacy is one of transformative
impact reflected in the its
administration that is shaped
that lives, is uplifted and
communities she helped to
sustained and
Thank you. Whereas she is
survived by her three sons,
Alfred Russell and his wife
Debbie, William Reese, and his
wife Casey and Brent Lawson and
his wife Kathy Willis, 10
grandchildren, Clayborne Klein,
Merritt Woods, Sydney Reed,
Elizabeth Drake, Kendall Reese,
John Lawson, William Graham,
William Morgan, Caroline Cardon,
and Gauge Lawson Willis and two
great-grandchildren, Bradley
Stewart and Vivian Anderson
Matthews.
Now, therefore, I, Sandy Ewing,
District 34 council member of
the Metropolitan Government of
Nashville and Davidson County,
along with the vice mayor and
undersigned council members do
hereby recognized Eleanor
Willanus Willis, excuse me,
Eleanor Willis in remembrance
of her lasting contributions to
Nashville. She led by example
as a model of service,
leadership, and care for
community. Signed on this 21st
day of APRIL 2026.
Do you
ok.
Ever happened to you.
To
Would anyone from uh MISS.
Willis
s family like to say a
couple of words or ok. Well,
next we have a presentation by
councilmember Gad, a resolution
recognizing APRIL 19th to APRIL
25th.
2026 as National Library Week
and recognizing APRIL 21st,
2026 as national library
Workers
Day, Councilmember Gad,
are you ready?
Wonderful.
Right here, right there
Oh, you ready? Oh, thank, well,
thank you so much, uh, MADAM
Speaker Pro Tem, um, Sepulveda.
Um, so today, um, we have an
opportunity to, um, share out
loud our incredible gratitude
to the National Public Library
Workers and to our libraries
across the, the county. Um, we
did our gratitude as well on
the council floor with the
passing of this resolution. So
I
m, I
m really grateful to my
colleagues who are standing up
here, um, but I would did want
to take just a moment before we
read through the words that we
ve approved, uh, and just
you know, state that the
Nashville Public Library does
something that this council
talks about constantly. It
creates community. Every day
across Davidson County, and
that
s free for all and that
that interim. The programs are
extraordinary. Reading
readiness for our youngest
children, digital access for
neighbors left behind. Health
literacy, literacy, spaces
where every person can walk in
and belong. But here
s what I
want us to name clearly. Public
libraries
are not just a community
service, they are a cornerstone
of democracy, free access to
information, to the freedom to
read and think for yourself,
and that is not a small thing
right now. That is everything
and none of this happens
without the people we
re
honoring today. The staff of
the Nashville Public Library
show up as guides, educators,
and connectors. And I have to
do a special plug out to, uh,
my home branch at Richland Park,
but this resolution is our way
of saying we see you.
and we are grateful for you.
With that, um, I
ll open up the,
the resolution and um ask my
colleagues to read a little bit
as well. So resolution number
rs 2025, um, 0, well, I don
t
know what the whole number is.
But anyways, a
resolutionrecognizing APRIL
19th to APRIL 25th that
s Nash
National Library Week and
recognizing today APRIL 21st,
um, as National Library
Workers
Day, whereas
I
m gonna ask, I guess you want
to do 110 time? Ok.
Whereas Nashville Public
Library or npl serves as a
cornerstone of knowledge and
opportunity, providing
essential resources, services
and programs that empower
individuals and
whereas National Library Week
observe annually in APRIL is
the time to celebrate the power
and promise of libraries here
in Nashville and across the
nation to recognize the
contributions of library staff
and to promote library use and
support, and
whereas the theme for National
Library Week this year is Find
Your Joy and whereas the 21
branches of the Nashville
Public Library sparked
creativity, fuel imagination,
and inspire lifelong learning,
offering a space where
individuals of all ages can
find joy through exploration
and discovery and
and whereas in 2025 npl served
nearly 3 million visitors and
28 different languages. However,
the impact and reach of
Nashville Public Library
workers extend beyond the
library branches to provide
access to collections,
professional development,
enriching programs, and vital
resources through meaningful
community partnerships with
over 140 childcare centers, all
metro Nashville public schools
over 30 youth development
organization
s dozens of senior citizen
centers and hundreds of
community centers and events
across Nashville and Davison
County and
whereas through programs such
as uh Nashville Afterzone
Alliance, the Library of Things.
Be well. Begin bright, and the
digital inclusion initiative,
the library reaches all ages to
provide a variety of learning
opportunities and
whereas the success of the
National Library would not be
possible without its staff and
volunteers who help people of
all ages and backgrounds,
access and interpret the
information they need to live,
learn, and work in the 21st
century and
whereas over the last year,
especially with the closure of
the main library, library
workers have worked tirelessly
to maintain programs and bring
the library to the public by
holding events at alternate
sites and working at various
other library branches to
ensure continued services and
whereas recognizing the
invaluable contributions of
library workers is essential to
appreciating the role they play
in strengthening communities,
advancing education, and
ensuring free and open access
to information and
whereas libraries, library
workers, and library advocates
across the nation are joining
together to celebrate National
Library Workers
Day, an
initiative of the American
Library Association Allied
Professional Association on
Sunday, APRIL 19, 2026 to
highlight the dedication and
contributions of library
professionals.
Now therefore, be it resolved
by the Council of the
Metropolitan Government of
Nashville and Davison County.
Section one, I
ll get 23. The
Metropolitan Council hereby
goes on record to recognize
Sunday, APRIL 19th, 2026, as
National Library Workers
Day
in Nashville and Davison County
and express its appreciation
for the dedication of the
Nashville Public Library staff
and volunteers who work
tirelessly to serve the
community and promote literacy,
lifelong learning, and
community connection.
Wonderful. Uh, thank you so
much and, um, oh, so that the
Metropolitan Council further
goes on record as recognizing
the 19th through 25th as
National Library Week in
Nashville and Davidson County,
and this resolution shall take
effect
uh, from and after its adoption
adoption, the welfare of
metropolitan government
requiring it. Thank you so much
and Director Lou
we have a couple of copies of
this. We wanted to turn over
just in case there
s something
you
d like to, to share as well.
Thank you.
So thank you to Councilmember
Gad, um, to all of the
co-sponsors of this resolution
and the council member Vo as
the chair of the council
s arts,
parks, libraries, and
entertainment committee and to
everyone on this council for
being such faithful friends of
National Public Library. It
means a lot to me that you
would take the time to
recognize the outstanding work
of the Nashville Public Library
staff.
I
m so grateful for their
contributions every day. I know
this year we talked a lot about
the work that the staff across
the system put into keeping
customer services going during
the temporary closure of the
main library.
But to be honest, this is just
one example of our staff
s
passion for public service. We
which we see across Nashville
every day. The entire npl team
cares deeply about the library
and about this community and
I
m proud to not only lead the
staff but to work alongside of
them every day.
Please know that we value your
support, your friendship, and
of course we love that you all
are library customers too. So
npl would not be the great
institution that it is without
all of our staff, supporters,
and customers, including you.
So thank you very much.
Ok.
Do you want to all right, well,
that concludes our presentation.
Again, once again, uh happy
National Library Week and happy
national uh library worker Day.
I hope you all will, uh, take
this opportunity to visit, uh,
your local, uh, public library.
Uh, we know that, uh, public
libraries are one of the places
that are currently being
attacked by not only the
federal government
but by our own state of
Tennessee. So, uh, take a
moment, think, uh, your local
library, uh, worker, uh, go
visit a public library. There
is a hunger to learn and to
read, and I have witnessed it
myself at a bus stop when there
was a constituent of mine that
asked if I had more books in
Spanish, so, um, people, people
want um
more books and people are
looking for outlets. So, uh, go
ahead and take advantage of
that, um, books are free.
All right, council members, are
you ready to practice your
Duolingo, since I am up here,
that is what we
re going to do.
So if you have announcements,
go ahead and get in the queue,
um, and we will go ahead and
get started.
Conseh Bradford arnocio Guten
Aben Fraulein Guten Aben
Fraulein Guten Aben Fraulein
Guten Aben Fraulein, uh,
residents of District 13, I
have a community meeting this
Saturday, the 25th from 11:30
to 1 at the Southeast Community
Center in Antioch to begin
discussions of how we want the
Couchful Pike area to develop
over the next several decades,
Planning apartment has been uh
really helpful in coming up
with some potential strategies
such as inviting constituents
to come out, it
s an
interactive forum, provide your
feedback. Hopefully we
ll have
a one or two more of these
meetings over the next several
months so that we can get this
right and uh set the course of
development in this area for
the next 2 to 3 decades. Thank
you. Gracias Conseal Bradford
Consehal Nash reocio.
Gracias, MADAM CHAIRMAN, uh, I
would like my colleagues to
mark their calendars and, and
also the, the public, uh, on
MAY 7th, the fop will be
holding its annual police
memorial service to honor those
officers from Nashville and
from Metropolitan Nashville
after the consolidation who
have lost their lives, given
their lives for this community.
It will be taking place at the
First Baptist Church at 108 7th
Avenue South Nashville,
Tennessee, uh, downtown
Nashville at 11 o
clock on MAY
7th.
Thank you. Gracias Conal Nash
con sealvo que conocia. Thank
you so much, um, acting pro tem.
Um, there
s a lot going on in
District 17 as always. I just
wanted to invite everyone this
Thursday, APRIL 23rd at 40 P.M.
We are having a community
meeting at the Tennessee
Justice Center regarding um
Lafayette Street, uh, recently
I had two community members die
crossing the street there and
we are gonna um
honor them um as well as
discussing with t Dot and Ndot
um what we are, um, what
efforts have been made and
we
ll continue to continue to
be made so everyone is invited
to that please come out. That
s
um Thursday at 40 P.M., um, and
then just so y
all know this
weekend is the rock and roll
marathon, so there
s a lot of
road closures in District 17. I
will be sharing those out this
weekend, um, and then I wanna
make sure um that my
constituents in
the 12 South area, we are gonna
have a meeting on Monday, MAY
11th regarding um a stormwater
project, uh, constituents have
been asking for years. We
ve
been able to finally do the
survey, so that will be on
Monday, MAY 11th at 6:30 P.M.
At the severe Park Community
Center, um, please, everyone is
welcome to that as well. Um,
and I, of course, I know we
just announced it, but I wanna
of course honor um all the
library workers. Uh, today is
their day, and a special shout
out to my two branches, um, the
Pruitt Library and Edgehill
Library, they are so amazing
and do such they
re so
instrumental to our community,
um, and I do wanna do a
personal point of privilege, um,
my nephew Augie um is turning
one, on APRIL 26th, so I want
to wish Aggie a happy birthday
and uh Aunt tt will come see
you this summer. Thanks.
Gracias Consealvo and I say, uh,
Lafayette, but whatever
Uh, all right, uh, conceal
gembo queda reconnocia.
Gracias, yes, I want to
announce that there will be a
community health and resource
fair this Saturday, APRIL 25th
at the Parkwood Community
Center from 11:00 A.M. To 2
P.M. Everyone is invited to
attend. It
s a free event. Uh,
there will be wonderful
organizations providing
resources. There will be a
prescription, uh, take back,
drug takeback box so people can
come and drop off unused,
expired uh medications and get
rid of them in a safe way.
There
ll be free food and and
bounce house for the kids, so
it
s a family affair. We invite
people to come out to that
again. It is this Saturday,
APRIL 25th, between, so if
you
re not running in the
marathon, come to the this
community health resource fair
from 11:00 A.M. To 2 P.M. At
Parkwood Community Center.
Thank you. Gracias Conceal
Gamble. That
s right. If you
re
not running and have drugs you
want to get rid of.
Councilmember Gambo has a place
for you. All right, are
there any other announcements
from council members. Any other
announcements. All right, I
also want to congratulate the
Nashville soccer team who just
won, uh, the first mls team
that won uh at uh the stadium
Azteca in Mexico. So that
s big
news. Um, so they
are going to the, what is it,
semi-finals, semifinals, so
they will be facing off group
tires. So wish them luck. I
m
sure they will do well. Uh,
that concludes announcements.
We
ll see you at 6:30. Uh,
that concludes announcements.
We
ll
Order
We have a quorum and today is
Tuesday, APRIL 21st, 2026. This
is the seventh meeting of 2026
and the fifty-ninth regular
meeting of the current term of
the Metropolitan Council of
Nashville and Davidson County.
While all members of the
council, as well as the public,
please rise for the invocation
and remain standing for the
Pledge of allegiance. The
invocation is being offered
this evening by MR. Hg Stovill,
who is a deacon at Connection
United Methodist Church, and
the executive director of
Nashville Launchpad. He is the
guest of District 14 council
member Jordan Huffman. Welcome,
MR. Stowe. You are recognized.
Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank
you, counsel.
One of the things we do before
we start services each week at
my faith community, uh,
Connection United Methodist
Church of Donaldson as we take
a deep breath together
Let
s do that
We do this to ground ourselves
in our, in our time together.
Let us pray
GOD of wisdom, compassion, and
justice, we gather today in
this brightly appointed room.
One of decorum, process, and
order.
Under a roof of stability, and
I
m called by you, Creator, to
speak for those whose ceiling
is frequently the sky that you
created, GOD.
As Nashville
s elected
officials deliberate on budget
numbers, fiscal notes, zoning,
the future of the East Bank,
and the machinery of the city
this evening, grant us the
clarity to see the faces behind
the statistics.
I
ll lift up tonight the youth
and young adults of Launchpad
and of our streets.
Those sojourners who were not
lost but left behind.
Overlooked
forgotten
Help us remember that youth
homelessness is not a political
talking point
but moreover, it is a child
without a bedtime story.
A teenager studying by the
light of a bus stop, perhaps
without a bench to sit on.
And even a young soul left
wandering our city. No, no,
their city, wondering where
help can be found and who can
be trusted to assist.
So tonight and each night going
forward, please show not just
the selected body, but the
entirety of our city it
represents how to see every
human in our midst as their
neighbor.
Not only the neighbors that we
enjoy
not those we see daily or from
whom we borrow a cup of sugar
or flour, not only those we
agree with, but all people
because we know that y
all
truly means all.
Creator grant this council the
courage of conviction to look
beyond the all too easy
convenience of the status quo.
And to see the urgency of a
lonely night, whether it
s warm
or freezing
Grant this body the integration
of justice and mercy.
To recognize that while justice
demands we dismantle the
systemic barriers that create
and perpetuate poverty, poverty,
mercy requires us to provide
the soft bed and the safe
harbor right now.
MAY we never provide the policy
without the heart, nor of a
charity without the change.
Grant this assembly the wisdom
of stewardship
to recognize that investing in
our young people not only with
a journey pass to ride the bus,
but investing in a bed now.
Is cheaper and infinitely more
human than managing a health
housing, hygiene.
Or hunger crisis later.
Grant these leaders, Lord, the
heart of a parent to view every
young person sleeping in a
doorway or a sliver of the
woods, not as a nuisance or a
problem to be solved, but as
our own kindred flesh and blood,
deserving of safety, dignity
and a fair start to life.
Made the decisions made tonight
and into the future be more
than ink on paper.
MAY they be the blueprints for
a city where housing is a right,
not a luxury.
And no young person has to
trade their future in an
attempt to survive only the
night.
Let us work this evening, not
just for the city we have, but
for the city that future
generations deserve.
MAY it be so. Amen.
I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and Republic for which it
stands one nation under GOD,
indivisible with liberty and
justice for all.
MAY be seated. Thank you very
much, MR. Stoville.
Welcome, counsel and community
members, Transit Month in
Nashville continues, and it was
my pleasure to take the trustee
3b bus downtown to committee
meetings yesterday and to ride
it back home and chat along the
way with council member Allen.
Thanks to our city
s successful
dedicated funding referendum,
the number 3, and many other
bus lines are running more
frequently and have become an
even better option for more
Nashvillians. I invite all
Nashvillians to try transit and
replace at least one car trip
this month.
This is National Library Week,
and today is National Library
Workers
Day, and we, we
re so
pleased to have the Nashville
Public Library Foundation with
us on our 2nd floor mezzanine.
Prior to our 1st APRIL meeting
for a thankathon, uh, where
members of the public, council
members, and I could write
thank you notes to express our
appreciation. Thank you to MS.
Vo for helping coordinate that.
A great city has a great
library, and we certainly do. I
often say that you
re from
Nashville Public Library card
is truly a magic passport. We
encourage all Nashvillians to
get your free library card, go
online or to your local branch
and see all the amazing free
resources to which your card
entitles you, as the library
itself says it
s not just books.
Councilmember Gad welcomed
library employees back to the
council chamber as our guest
just shortly ago to present a
resolution honoring library
workers. So thank you very much
to everyone who supports and
works to make Nashville
s
library system so amazing.
Our library is also home to our,
uh, Metro, uh, historic
archives, where our friends at
Nashville sites and Metro
Historic Research and find
images used in the new historic
courthouse in City Hall,
digital audio tour. Members of
the community visiting City
Hall can now find signage for
tour stops. It looks like this
to everybody who
s here and
watching online in in color
though, um, uh
can find those tour stops on
the ground floor and out on the
2nd floor mezzanine with qr
codes to jump into the details
of the art and architecture of
our beautiful 1937 historic
building and learn more about
our three branches of local
government. You can also find
the tour spots out front on
Dian Nash Plaza, or simply go
to Nashville sites, sites.Org
at any time and take the audio
tour from home or wherever you
MAY
be. Uh, thank you to everyone
who came out on Sunday
afternoon for the community
celebration to launch the new
tour. It was a beautiful day
with trustee Gilmore
s 4th
annual Diane Nash Walk and
Davidson County historian DR.
Lee Williams sharing about
council members e. Alexander
Lubi, and the mayor proclaiming
APRIL 19th as the Alexander
Luby Day. So many Nashville
histories have and do continue
to converge on the public
square.
All right. Without objection,
we will suspend the calling of
the roll and ask the clerk to
please record the names of the
members present throughout the
meeting.
Is there a motion for approval
of the minutes of the meeting
of APRIL 7th, 2026. All right,
there is a motion properly
seconded. And so without
objection,
and seeing no one seeking to be
recognized for a change to the
minutes.
The minutes of the meeting of
APRIL 7th are approved. MR.
Clerk, are there any messages
from the mayor? There are no
messages from the mayor. Thank
you, MR. Clark.
All right, we will roll right
into our agenda. Uh, first is
section e, uh, appointees and
nominees. This portion of the
agenda shares all persons, the
many, many persons who were
scheduled to appear before the
rules, confirmations, and
public elections Committee for
an interview this evening.
Referrals uh back to the
committee will be by rule as
part of the council
s two
meeting process for elections
and confirmations. No votes
will be taken by the body in
the sec
this section of the agenda. Uh,
Chair Cash, um, as brief, a
report as possible, please, sir.
No vote totals necessary.
Simply the name of those
interviews and for which board
commission, committee, or
entity, they were interviewed,
kind of in the aggregate. And
then, uh, if a person in the
appointment and confirmation
process was unable to attend
your committee this evening at
what meeting they will next
appear, please, sir. Go ahead.
All right, uh, we, uh, uh, for
action commission, John Michael
for Health and Educational
Facilities
Board, um, Nick, uh, Nicholas
Cavin, uh, we deferred for the
historic zoning Commission,
Elizabeth Mayhall.
Um, Parks and Recreation for at
what will MISS MAY Hall appear
one meeting. Ok, ok, at the
meeting of MARCH, or rather MAY
7, uh, for Parks and Recreation
Board, we interviewed Michelle,
Doctor Michelle Steele, um, the
uh, Mirza Esteban has been
withdrawn.
For Property Sanders and
Appeals Board. The short-term
renal Appeals Board, uh, David
Klinefelter for sustainability
advisory, uh, Cesar Castro and
Laura Donoghue. We deferred the
interview, one meeting for
Caroline Everett for
sustainability Advisory, and
then in the midtown Central
Business Improvement District.
We interviewed a bunch of, uh,
nominee board for board of
directors.
Those are Michael Bab, Walt
Burton, Lisa Haller, Andre
Laoire, Julia Baker, Bob
Franklin, Ali Hall Eagles,
Emily Schneller, Donovan
Sheffield. We deferred Andrew
Cook one meeting.
Um, and then we also
interviewed Charlie Kucture,
Chris Gayla, uh, uh, Malik, Gay
and Keith Sebernaylor. I hope I
got that one right, right.
All right, ok, that concludes
our section e, appointees and
nominees. Next is uh Section f
for confirmations. So Chair
Cash, you will be recognized
again for your committee report
on the appointees in the 2nd
step of your committee
s two
meeting process, this time with
vote totals and a consolidated
motion for the confirmation of
those persons, or first for a
deferral motion if there are
any. Go ahead, sir.
Ok.
Uh, so the bicycle and
pedestrian advisory commission
reappointment of Catherine
McDonald, uh, these are all 7
to 0 to 0. Um, for a board of
equalization, appoint me
appointment of Whitney Ellis,
Board of Equalization,
appointment of Michelle Trueba,
Board of Equalization
appointment of Scott Tyrone as
an alternate.
Um, Fair commissioners board
appointment of Brittany Tabor.
Farmers
Market Board
reappointment of Scott
Moskovitz, uh, housing Trust
Fund commission appointment of
Lizzie Goddard, Sports
Authority reappointment of
Daniel Russ Pulley.
Um, the sustainability advisory
Committee, uh, appointment of
Jeffrey Ezel Ace,
sustainability advisory
Committee, reappointment of
council member Sandy Ewing, the
sustainability advisory
Committee reappointment of
Matthew k. Taylor.
Uh, sustainability Advisory
Committee reappointment of
Linda Brein, sustainability
Advisory Committee
reappointment of Jennifer Wang,
sustainability Advisory
Committee reappointment of
Erica Weeks.
Um, traffic and parking
commission, appointment of
Lauren Gaines, Sony Appeals
Board appointment of Michael
Gerrigan, Zoning Appeals Board
appointment of Anna Yoder.
And, uh, that
s it. All 7 to 0
to 0. All right, um, hearing no,
uh, deferrals. Um, could you
please make, uh, a consolidated
motion, please. I
d like to
move all nominees. Oh, ok. Um,
uh, for confirmation, I hear it
is seconded. Does anyone wish
to remove an item from this
consolidated motion for
purposes of an individual
abstention or a no vote.
Ok? Seeing none, all in favor
of the remaining confirmations,
please say aye. All right, um,
uh, so, uh,
everyone is now confirmed and
to our confirmed appointees if
you chose to return to the
council chamber this evening,
which is not required, do
please stand as I call your
name, uh, for collective
applause at the end. All right,
council has confirmed.
The uh reappointment of
Catherine McDonald, the bicycle
and pedestrian advisory
commission to the Board of
Equalization, council has
confirmed the appointments of
Whitney Ellis, Michelle Cueva
and Scott Tyrone to the Fair
commissioner
s Board. Counsel
has confirmed the appointment
of Brittany Tabor, and to the
Farmers
Market Board, Council
has confirmed the reappointment
of Scott Moskovit
z to the housing Trust Fund
Commission. Council has
confirmed the appointment of
Lizzie Goddard.
To the sports Authority Council
has confirmed the reappointment
of the Honorable Daniel Ruspoli,
former council member, and to
the sustainability Advisory
Committee, counsel has re or
rather confirmed the
reappointment of Jeffrey Easel
Ace, council member Sandy Ewing,
Matthew k. Taylor, Linda Bregan,
Jennifer Wang, uh, and Erica
Weeks, and then to the traffic
and parking commission
counsel has confirmed the
appointment of Lauren Gaines,
uh, to the Zoning Appeals Board,
counsel has confirmed the
appointment of Michael Gerrigan
and Anna Yoder. All right,
thank you all so much. Um,
congratulations to you.
Whether you are here in the
chamber or watching from home,
we appreciate your willingness
to serve our city. Thank you.
All right, as we transition
into our nomination section of
the agenda. I want to bring
members and the communities
s
attention to 2, vacancies on
the transportation licensing,
uh, commission, uh.
Council members will have
received a memo from me
yesterday and it is on your
desks this evening. The
transportation licensing
commission, also known as the
tlc has the exclusive
jurisdiction of the licensing
and regulation of all vehicles
for hire, including but not
limited to taxicabs, wreckers,
sedans, limousines, horse-drawn
carriages, and persons or
businesses engaged in the
practice of booting vehicles.
All right, per this memo, I
will take nominations from
council members for
the tlc, the two vacancies at
the meeting of MAY 7th at the
MAY 7th council meeting. All
right. It is now time to take
nominations, uh, for board and
commission and vacancies that
were announced and explained at
the last meeting, and in agenda
order, those are, uh
agenda item g.
1, East Bank Development
Authority. These will be
nominations to fill one vacancy
on the authority with a term
expiring JUNE 30th of 2030, uh,
with the election to be held,
are conducted on MAY 19th, uh,
at that council meeting. All
right, um, the nominations for
East Bank Development Authority
are open, um, if members wish
to make a nomination, they can
enter the
queue. MS. Webb, a council
member, you
re recognized.
Thank you. I, uh, I nominate
Bob Braswell. Ok, um,
councilmember Webb has
nominated Bob Braswell.
Um, councilmember Tombs, you
are recognized.
Thank you, MADAM Vice Mayor. I
nominate, uh, Nathaniel Carter,
ok, uh, Councilmember Tombs has
nominated Nathaniel Carter. Do
any other members, uh, seek to
be recognized to make a
nomination to the East Bank
Development Authority.
Seeing none, those nominations
are now closed. Next, uh,
agenda item g2, nominations to
the property standards and
Appeals Board. Nominations to
fill one vacancy on the board
with the term expiring APRIL
7th of 2030, with an election
to be conducted at the MAY 19,
2026 council meeting. Um, those
nominations are now open. I see
members in the queue, council
member Coupin, you
re
recognized.
Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Uh,
I
d like to nominate Grafton
Brittle, please. All right,
Council member Coupin has
nominated Grafton Brittle. Is
that correct? Brittle with a b,
ok.
All right. Uh, councilmember
Evans, you are recognized.
Thank you, Vice Mayor. I
d like
to nominate Roger Farmer, ok,
Council member Evans has
nominated Roger Farmer.
Do any other members seek to be
recognized for a nomination to
the property Standards and
Appeals Board.
Seeing none, I declare those
nominations closed. Next is
agenda item g3 for the
short-term rentals Appeals
Board. Nominations to fill one
vacancy on the board with the
term expiring AUGUST 31st of
2027, with an election to be
conducted again at the MAY 19th,
uh, council meeting. Uh, I see
that members have entered the
queue, those nominations are
open. Councilmember Coupin.
Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Uh,
I
d like to nominate Kevin
Griffith, please. Ok
Council member Coupin has
nominated Kevin Griffith.
Or, uh, consideration on the
short-term rentals appeal
Appeals Board. Um, uh,
Councilmember Tombs, you
re
recognized
Thank you, MADAM Vice Mayor. I,
uh, nominate Diamondail. Ok, uh,
Councilmember Tombs has
nominated Diamond Bell.
Ok, um
no, uh, seeing no other members
seeking to make a nomination?
All right, those nominations
are closed. All right, council
members, uh, the clerk, uh, MAY
be in touch with you, um, to
get contact information for
your nominees, so please be on
the lookout. Um, again, uh,
those folks, uh, will have
their interview, um, at our MAY
7th meeting, um, the election
will be conducted at the
meeting of MAY 19th.
All right
Next is agenda section h,
Public comment. Members of the
public who are Tennessee
residents wishing to speak at
public comment MAY sign up at
the table outside the council
chamber from 5 to 6 P.M. On the
day of a council meeting.
Public comment is limited to 20
minutes total at council
meetings, and each speaker is
allowed up to 2 minutes to
speak. Persons speaking on
agenda items must be
prioritized to comply with
state law. All right.
Um, I will, uh, go ahead and
announce a few of the folks, uh,
after the first person, so that
you can go ahead and uh
make your way and come forward.
Uh, the first person, uh, for
public comment is Cynthia
Clinton speaking on agenda item
56. Um, this is Ordinance bl
20261273, uh, East Bend Zoning
speaking in support after
Cynthia Clinton will be James
Hubler and then Jennifer Turner.
Go ahead, uh, MS. Clinton, you
are recognized. Ok, my name is
Cindy Clinton, and I stand
before you today, not just as a
nonprofit leader, but as an
educator who spent 23 years in
the classroom here in Tennessee.
The idea for the Music City
Children
s Museum didn
t come
from a boardroom. It came from
me visiting children
s museums
with my grandchildren. And in
every children
s museum, I
would say, why not Nashville?
So in 2014, I retired and I
decided to ask quit asking that
question and answer it by
trying to build a children
s
museum in Nashville, a
world-class one. For more than
a decade, we
ve moved forward
step by step
The challenge we faced in the
last few years has been finding
the right home and the right
partner. Today, after years of
evaluating a location, we
re
closer than ever with the East
Bend because East Bend is more
than a location.
It is a vision for a
family-focused district where
children can learn and families
can connect.
The legislation before you as
written by planning creates
conditions that make a project
like ours possible. It allows
for the kind of thoughtful
community-centered development
that can bring a children
s
museum to life.
We can move from vision to
reality. Tonight, it
s more
than just zoning. We can be a
city that invests in families.
We can be a city that creates
spaces for children and a city
that thinks about the next
generation. I
ve spent years of
my life working toward this
moment, and I truly believe
East Bend gives Nashville the
opportunity to finally make
this dream a reality. I
respectfully ask for your
support. Thank you
Thank you. Next will be, uh,
James Hubler also speaking on
East Bend zoning, followed by
Jennifer Turner and then David
Byerly. Uh, MR. Hubler, you
re
recognized. Thank you. Good
evening. I
m Jim Hubler and I
live at 607 Fatherland Street,
uh, in the first zone, historic
district in Davidson County.
I
ve lived in the area since
1986 and have seen amazing
improvements in the
neighborhood in that time
period.
Tonight, your votes on the East
Bank development will be a
defining moment in the history
of our city. We all want to get
it right. Density works in an
urban environment, but only
when done properly. The
amendments to plan seemed
well-meaning and well thought
out, but please make this a
neighborhood, not a new
downtown.
Be careful with what you impose
on the future.
Do we really need 1240-story
buildings, 150-story building
and multiple 20-story buildings.
Years ago in 1958, we were
given an opportunity to
reimagine the East Bank.
At that time, Interstate
highways were new and everybody
wanted one, so we got an, an,
an East Bank Interstate highway.
We also removed a slum area and
built the Ellington Parkway.
But we also wiped out a large
Victorian residential
neighborhood and some of the
businesses in that area. So
please remember what you
re
doing is going to have an
impact on the future and let
s
do it right. Thank you for your
service. Thank you.
All right, uh, next is Jennifer
Turner, also pretty much
everybody is going to be
speaking on agenda item 56, um,
a 1273 East Bend zoning, uh,
following Jennifer will be
David Vierley and then Brian
Hubbard. Go ahead, MS. Turner,
you
re reckon asked. Good
evening council members. It
s
so nice to see you all again.
My name is Jennifer Turner. I
m
the PRESIDENT And ceo of
Tennessee Performing Arts
Center. I reside on South 13th
Street, zip code
37206 in Davidson County. I
appreciate the opportunity to
speak in support of the East
Bend zoning and broader East
Bank vision. Like many of you,
we see this as a
transformational opportunity
for our community. We have the
ability to replace underused
industrial land with a vibrant,
inclusive neighborhood that
belongs to all Nashvillians. We
strongly support the goals
embedded in the plan,
walkability, great design,
multi
mo d al access and a public
realm that prioritizes people
over pavement.
I support this personally as a
resident of East Nashville and
in my role representing tpac in
our own development.
I particularly appreciate the
short term flexibility on
parking regulations. We fully
support planning for a transit
forward future. But before that
is realized, we do not want to
limit access to the arts and
tpac.
Flexibility today allows us to
succeed while the district
matures.
The East Bend and ah East Bend
Development Team have been
partners and supporters of tpac
as we planned our own
relocation to the East Bank.
This type of collaboration is
crucial to the success of arts
organizations like ours. The
arts are not an accessory to
this development. They are in
anchor. Tpac brings students,
families, seniors, tourists,
and working artists into the
heart of our city.
That only works if audiences
can get there safely and
reliably, especially during the
transition period.
I encourage the council to
approve the ESBend zoning while
preserving flexibility. Thank
you.
Thank you. Uh, next will be
David Berley, uh, speaking
again on East Bend zoning, uh,
in support, followed by Brian
Hubbard and Samuel Lingo. Uh,
go ahead, MR. Beerley, you
re
recognized. Thank you so much,
each and every one of you. And
thank you for still being a
council that allows a session
to start with prayer. I
personally wouldn
t be here
without it. Uh, so many
investors primarily from
Nashville and Middle Tennessee
have come together to create
something truly special, a
place
you know, built and designed
from scratch for families, uh,
a place for people to live and
visit.
Where children will learn and
be entertained while families
uh, will have a place that is
generally designed for them.
And this is our singular
message. We have one story.
It
s easy to remember, and I
would just encourage us to
really begin to work together
as so many have I
ve seen in
the last two weeks, most
everyone on this floor
genuinely just lock arms and
try, uh, to get, to get started,
right? Let
s, it
s time to work
now. We, we have a license to
work. I, I genuinely hope after
tonight, you know, I imagine
East Bank, we have read it
from cover to cover many times,
and I would just say to you,
thanks to your hard work, I
really hope we don
t have to
imagine any more after this
evening.
Thank you
All right, uh, next is, uh,
Brian Hubbard, uh, MR. Hubbard
will be followed by Samuel
Lingo and Matthew Payne. Those
folks can go ahead and come
forward. Uh, MR. Hubbard is
also speaking on East Bend
zoning in support. Go ahead,
sir. Good evening, council
members. My name
s Brian
Hubbard. I
m an architect and
design principal at Kinsler,
located at 161 Rosa Parks
Boulevard. I
ve had the
privilege of working as part of
the East Bend team helping
shape the vision you see before
you today.
I want to speak specifically
about the process.
This plan didn
t happen in
isolation. As a result of
thousands of hours of
collaboration with Metro
planning, uh, department
alongside engineers, landscape
architects, visionaries,
transportation experts,
community stakeholders, and
other state and local officials.
From the beginning, the goal
was to align with the city
s
long-term vision.
And imagine East Bank plan to
create a district that works
not just on paper but in
practice.
We approached this through
thought or with thought,
through the framework of the
downtown code, which
prioritizes form, public space,
and the experience of street
level.
Every element you see from the
pedestrian connections to the
greenway to the open space
networks.
Has been shaped through the
ongoing dialogue with the
planning department to ensure
it delivers a broad on the
broader goals of connectivity,
accessibility, and livability.
What
s important to understand
is that this is not a one-off
design.
Uh, it
s coordinated and
intentional framework that
ensures the district evolves in
a way that is cohesive, human
scaled, and responsive to
Nashville
s needs. Metro
planning with their
knowledgeable and talented
staff have been deeply engaged
at every step, helping to find,
refine the vision, challenge
assumptions, and ensure
outcomes that reflect the
values outlined in the Imagine
East Bank plan.
The legislation before you is a
product of that work. It
provides a structure and
clarity needed to deliver a
well-designed and thoughtfully
executable urban neighborhood.
Legis uh on behalf of our team,
I want to thank the planning,
uh, for their partnership and
we look forward to more work
and coordinated coordination
with the city to come. Thank
you.
Thank you. Uh, next, uh, will
be Samuel Lingo, also speaking
on agenda item 56 East Bend
zoning and Sport, uh, following,
uh, Samuel Lingo will be
Matthew Payne and then Macy
Fluherty. Go ahead, uh, you
re
recognized.
Good evening. Thank you for the
opportunity. My name is Sam
Lingo. I live at 1212 McGrace
Lane here in Nashville. I
m a
Nashville native and raising
two boys with my wife.
Uh, I grew up in watching the
scrap yard from the Cumberland
River, uh, watch it again from
the trolley barns when we moved
the entrepreneur center there
and now I
m part of the team
working to transform it.
The time has come to change
that river front, and tonight I
need your help.
In OCTOBER of 2022 when Imagine
East Bank plan was released, we
were already pursuing that site.
Even at this early stage, we
ve
made 3 choices that go that go
beyond what was required of us.
First, with metro planning.
We
ve pursued the downtown code,
a form-based code that sets the
framework without locking every
detail, so the community can
keep shaping the project as it
evolves.
Our project also catalyzed
planning
s new river gateway
site, language, and the
community plan written for one
riverfront site within our
assemblage.
Second, we wrote Greenways and
open space into the zoning
itself across the entire
district.
The gulch tried to get open
space through incentives, but
incentives only work if
developers take them.
And many didn
t
We didn
t want that. It
s
required, not optional.
Third.
Metro pioneered to process on
their 30 acres to design the
public realm with intention.
We
ve put that principle into
practice, sharing our draft
streets, rights of way, and
public spaces with the
community before we were
required to do so.
So that people could respond
while we could adapt.
And we have
The work in front of you
tonight reflects nearly 3 years
of public process. It didn
t
arrive last week.
This council has received more
than 100 letters of support
from community leaders,
business owners, and
Nashvilleans who live near this
site.
We
ve already made the
commitment to public
infrastructure and amenities
through this plan.
We stand ready to make the
investment required.
And the work that begins the
day after your approval will
last for years.
47 acres that have been closed
to the public for nearly a
century open.
Thank you for your support.
Thank you.
Next, uh, will be Matthew Payne,
uh, speaking on gen item 56,
East Bend zoning, followed by
Macy Fluherty and then Mannon
Hall. Uh, go ahead, uh, MR.
Payne, you
re recognized. Yeah,
good evening, council members.
My name is Matthew Payne. I
live, um,
at 4414 Leland Lane, um, but
I
m also the owner of, um,
Longevity Fitness in East
Asheville.
And I work every day with the
people who live.
Work and raise their families
in each Nashville neighborhoods.
I also operate a small business.
It depends on steady,
sustainable foot traffic to
survive. So when I look at a
project like East spin, I
m not
looking at it in theory. I
m
looking at it through the lens
of what actually works for a
city and for a small business
like my own.
Small businesses in East
Nashville have felt the
pressure of growth for years.
We
ve seen increased density
pushed into established
neighborhoods that create
strain on residents, on traffic,
and on the very character that
makes East Nashville special.
East Bend offers a different
approach
It concentrates density where
it makes sense in a
purpose-built urban district
designed to handle it. It
creates a place where people
can live, work, and spend time
without putting additional
pressure on surrounding
neighborhoods that weren
t
designed for that level of
intensity.
And from a small business
perspective that matters.
Density when done right, is
what keeps local businesses
alive. It brings customers, it
creates energy, it builds
ecosystem where independent
operators can succeed, but it
has to be in the right place
with the right infrastructure
and with intentional planning
behind it, and that
s exactly
why this legislation
allows for
It directs grow to a location
that can support it while
helping relieve some of the
ongoing pressures we
ve all
felt in East Nashville. It
creates new opportunities for
small businesses, not just
within East Bend, but across
the broader area by expanding
the customer base and
strengthening the local economy.
As a small business owner, I
strongly encourage you to pass
this legislation. It represents
a thoughtful strategic approach
to growth that benefits both
our neighborhoods and
businesses that serve them.
Thank you.
Thank you
Next, uh, will be Macy, uh,
Fluharty, um, followed by
Mannon Hall and Joseph Lee, um,
MS. Fluharti is speaking on
agenda item 56, East Spain
zoning. Go ahead, ma
am.
Thank you. My name is Macy Flu
Hardy. I live in District 12 on
u Chee, Shawnee, and Cherokee
land. My city councilperson is
Aaron Evans. When I first moved
to Tennessee, I rented a room
in East Nashville. Since then,
I have moved around the city,
depending on work, but I
ve
always thought I would move
back to East one day soon. I
have friends that live out
there, businesses I enjoy
spending my money at and a
vibrant community that is truly
its own. I
ve learned much in
that area, both in skills and
life lessons. I spent a lot of
my volunteer time in East
Nashville, and when friends
come to visit, we always go to
East. A large chunk of this
part of our city is up for
rezoning. East Nashua has a lot
of potential and residents have
made it clear what they want
and need. Housing, cultural
enrichment and green spaces.
Votes that jeopardize these
necessities in our growing city
will show us how committed this
body is to their constituents
versus developers and potential
tourists. We should all want
people to be able to build
lives and continue to enrich
our East Nashville. We hear all
the time how we want to solve
the affordable housing crisis
in our city that we want to
ensure our unhealth neighbors
can be as safe as possible.
This is a chance to make sure
we can make those steps towards
progress and safety to make
sure East Nashville stays East
Nashville and doesn
t risk
becoming another Broadway or
tonight could push the idea of
homes, green spaces, and local
community further onto a back
burner. I hope this council
votes on this bill and its
upcoming amendments
with great intention because
that is how it will be seen by
us. Thank you.
Thank you. Uh, next is Man and
Hall, followed by Joseph Lee,
uh, and then lastly, Tatterie
Marion. Go ahead, MR. Hall,
you
re recognized. Hi, my name
is Mannon Hall. I live at 912
Strauss Ave, 37206. This is one
of the most desirable
properties in the entire
country, and we
re giving all
these new entitlements with no
tangible knowledge to the
future cost to Nashvillians.
How much are Nashvilleans going
to be on the hook for these
developers
future.
I take great offense when folks,
uh, speak about Nashville
s
future in regards to transit.
Our transit system now is
incredible. The frequency
improvements have made my life
and the 30,000 Nashvillians
lives better.
The East Bank will be will have
a transit center and will be
become an incredible hub for
transit use and to, you know,
to push off, you know, we need
more parking is, is offensive
to me personally because 30,000
Nashvillians use it.
A day, um, and that brings me
to why I am in strong support
of late filed Amendment 3. Curb
cuts are one of the many
reasons, one of the actually
the maybe one of the most major
reasons that our pikes are so
deadly for pedestrians and
cyclists.
By eliminate by
keeping the limit
to those three locations. This
will ensure that that street
stays safe. I
m gonna read off
um the names of the 27 people
that were cyclists and
pedestrians that were killed
last year on Nashville streets.
James Burns, Mac Tyrone Cosby,
Jerry Crutcher. Dobbins, James
d. Galloway JR. Cariona Harding,
Larissa Houston, Robert l.
Jones, Nicholas Leonhart,
Lorenz
o Mendoza, Rustinneader,
Patricia Owens, Kira Phillips,
Robert Powell, Melina Sanderson,
Jose Salomena, Julie Savoy,
Blaise Schaffer, and Law Toon,
and 8 more unnamed pedestrians.
Please make this road a street
where no one dies.
Thank you. Uh, next is Joseph
Lee, also speaking on gender
item 56 East or East Bend
zoning, and then, uh, again,
lastly, Tacheri Marion. Go
ahead, MR. Lee. Hi, my name is
Joe Lee, and my address is
1-800 Bland Food Drive,
Franklin, Tennessee.
I
ve come to you to speak
regard of the esa rezoning
bills. I
ve read all 28
amendments and 4 layfo
amendments. And let me tell you,
none of these address, address
the issues that we face as
Williamson County residents, ok.
Davidson County has existed to
serve us, Williamson Knights.
Ever since our brave dei
General John Bellhood made the
first commute from Nashville to
to from Franklin to Nashville
in the winter of 1864. I
thought we had a good
understanding that uh you guys
provide all the jobs and
opportunities and we extract
them and pay our property tax
back home so they can make make
our school white.
I
m concerned about the
infrastructure of the espn.
They are way too many parks and
active spaces, ok? Uh, what we,
we have certain nights need is
a 100 lane wide superhighway,
and all the free parking as
wide as your eyes can see. So I
can park my g-wagon at the
gates of the stadium where you
are also paying for. What we
re
gonna do, lock. This is a once
in a generation opportunity. So
please don
t waste it on your
own residence and continue to
serve
as Williamson County kates
All I
m asking for you is to
just do what you did when you
remove your 9f bike lanes. It
s
a win-win situation. You just
have to listen to all the rich
property owners and you can you
can legally ignore all the 48%
of the renters in your own
county. Think about that. Thank
you.
Thank you. Next, uh, is
tatterie Marion, um, uh, MISS
Marian is speaking on, um,
regarding the small business
administration loans. Uh, go
ahead, ma
am. You
re recognized.
Good evening, Vice Mayor and
council members. My name is
Totori Marion and I serve as a
public affairs specialist with
the United States Small
Business Administration. My
role is to connect communities
like yours with critical
resources, especially during
times of
disaster and economic hardship.
Right now I
m here to to make
sure your residents, business
owners, and nonprofit
organizations are aware of our
low interest disaster loans
available through the sba.
These are federal loans
designed to help people recover
and rebuild after a declared
disaster, and when I say
recover, I mean everything from
repairing homes and replacing
personal property to helping
small business
es cover operating expenses and
get back on their feet. For
homeowners and renters, sba
loans can help repair and
replace damaged property things
like roofs, hvac systems,
furniture, and even vehicles
for small businesses and
nonprofits, we offer what is
called economic injury disaster
loans, these working capital
loans help cover everyday
expenses like payroll, rent,
and utilities when reve
n ue has been impacted. What
s
important to understand is that
these loans are long term low
interest and designed to be
affordable in many cases, they
offer more flexibility than
traditional lending options,
especially for those who MAY
not qualify.
The key or deadlines, the
deadline is JUNE 22nd. I
m
asking for your support in
helping us spread the word,
whether it
s sharing
information through the city
channels, allowing us a few
minutes at future agendas or
connecting us with local
organizations and stakeholders.
Your voice helps us reach more
people at the end of the day,
our goal is simple, to make
sure no one in your community
is left behind. Thank you.
Thank you, MS. Marion.
All right, uh, that concludes
our public comment period.
Next is agenda item I uh I won
a rule of procedure, um, this
is a proposed amendment, uh, to
rule of procedure 46, um, uh,
her, um, are procedure, um, um,
MR. Prep t, I, I can recognize
you, sir, but we do defer one
meeting by rule. Um, I would
invite members, you have an
explanation on your desk, um,
and, uh, you can, uh, look at
that. It
s regarding um a
council meetings, and when they
might be held or not be held,
um, per, uh, MR. Prepti
s, uh,
proposal. So by rule, um, this
is
deferred one meeting, um, to,
uh, the meeting of MAY 7th.
All right
Next, uh, agenda section j,
resolutions on public hearing.
Spanish interpretation services
are provided for all Metro
council public hearings,
counsel office team member
Karina Valdez is here as the
interpreter, uh, MS. Valdez,
will you please share how you
can help? Loss espanol ladencia
publica gracias graci. We
appreciate you, uh, for those
wishing to speak this evening
as part of public hearings.
Please do state your name, um,
but it is not required for you
to provide your exact address
if you do not wish to do so,
you MAY want to tell us in what
neighborhood or area
you live your connection to the
agenda item or project or who
you
re a council member is. All
right, um
the first resolution on public
hearing is agenda item one,
resolution 2026-1898 sponsors
Coupin and Bradford. This is a
resolution exempting Monell
s
dining and catering, locating,
located at 1235 6th Avenue
North, from the minimum
distance requirements for
obtaining a beer permit.
Councilmember Coupin, you are
recognized, sir. Thank you,
MADAM PRESIDENT. Open the
public hearing, please. If we
can, let
s go ahead and just
get
your committee report first, ok?
Um, go ahead, uh, chair Hill
for the report of the
government operations. I thank
you MADAM Vice Mayor, we
recommended approval 5 in favor,
0 against, 0, not voting. All
right, thank you, ma
am. Back
to you. Thank you, MADAM
PRESIDENT. Open the the public
hearing, please. Ok, I declare
the public hearing open. Would
all members of the public here
in support of this resolution,
please raise your hand.
Thank you. Would all members of
the public here in opposition
to this resolution, please
raise your hand.
Seeing no one here in
opposition to the persons here
in support wish to speak?
You would like to, sir. Go
ahead, please come forward.
Good to see you all, Michael
King, owner of Monell
s. I just
wanted to, um, since the
closure of the manor, we had to
move our catering license that
we do off property and also
Octoberfest from we needed a,
uh address, so that was the
whole purpose. I am not a beer.
The only time I do beer and I
don
t even drink it is
Octoberfest. That
s enough for
me. We
re not turning it into
beer or selling beer. We just
needed the address so that we
can continue doing our events
off of catering with alcohol.
So I appreciate your time.
All right, thank you. Anyone
else seeking to be recognized?
Seeing none, I will declare the
public hearing closed and it
s
back to you, uh, MR. Coopin for
a motion. Thank you, MADAM
PRESIDENT. Move approval with a
brief comment, please, right?
Properly seconded. Go ahead,
sir. Thank you. Appreciate the
uh the support on this, um, the
Germantown Neighborhoods
Association is very supportive.
They sent a letter in. They
expressed their deep
appreciation for MR. King and
Monells. Um, I did want to
acknowledge there were 33
neighbors that could not be
here tonight that had some
concerns and opposition that
they had raised
spoke to them earlier, wanted,
told them I would, uh, note
their concerns for the record,
um, but again, overwhelmingly
the neighborhood association
s
been incredibly supportive of
this. We
ve gotten a letter of
support. It was talked about
multiple neighborhood
association meetings, um, and
so, and again, as you heard MR.
King say, he
s not looking to
open any sort of beer
establishment, but rather keep
his catering license open, um,
so I asked my colleagues to
support this and appreciate it
very much.
All right, there is a motion to
approve a properly seconded. Is
there any discussion on this
resolution?
All right, seeing none, all in
favor, please say aye. Any
voting no or abstaining. All
right, uh, council has adopted
this resolution. Next is agenda
item 2, resolution 2026-1899
sponsored tombs. This is a
resolution exempting 201 Lucy
Lane, from the minimum distance
requirements for obtaining a
short-term rental property, not
owner-occupied permit pursuant
to the Metro Code of Laws
Section 6.28.030b2d.
All right. Uh, Councilmember
Tombs, you are recognized.
Thank you, MADAM Vice Mayor
requests to open a public
hearing. Thank you, ma
am. I
m
gonna do that committee report
first. We MAY just wind up
flipping that back the next
time we do this, but if we
re
going to go ahead and do the
committee report, um, go ahead,
MS. Hill. Yeah, we recommend
approval, 5 in favor, 0 against,
0, not voting. Ok, thank you
for that committee report. And
with that, now, MS. Timbs, I
will declare the public hearing
open, um, would all members of
the public here in support of
this, uh,
Ms. Tombs
s resolution, uh,
please raise your hand.
All right, would all members of
the public here in opposition
to this resolution, please
raise your hand.
Ok, see no one here in
opposition, um, I will, or, uh,
in support, I will declare the
public hearing closed and it
s
back to you, uh, for a motion
on your bill. Move for approval
with a brief comment. All right,
Is there a second? Go ahead,
ma
am.
Thank you, MADAM Vice Mayor. I
just want to say this is a row
of town homes that are across
from Haynes Middle School.
They
re on the opposite side of
the street, every single, uh,
town home except one is uh
outside of the, the 100 ft, so
I don
t normally do, uh, not on
an occupied short term rental,
so I just want to give that
explanation. It
s just one town
home, all the rest are, are
qualified, so I was fine with
this one.
All right, I appreciate the
explanation. There is a, uh,
motion, uh, to approve this
resolution. It
s properly
seconded. Is there any
discussion on this resolution?
Seeing none, all in favor,
please say aye. Any voting no?
Any abstentions?
Um, Ms Soira, you will be
recorded as an abstention, MR.
Clark. Um, all right, uh,
council has adopted this
resolution.
All right, uh, next
is agenda section k, um, our
consolidated consent agenda.
All resolutions in 2nd and 3rd
reading ordinances on this
agenda are included on the
consent agenda if recommended
for approval, unanimously by
all committees to which the
item was referred. Items on the
consent agenda will be voted on
at a single time. The item
number, along with the
resolution and ordinance number
of the items on the consent
agenda will be read by me and
then members of the council MAY
remove any item
from the consent agenda by
request before the consent
agenda vote is taken. All right.
The first item, uh, proposed
for the consolidated consent
agenda is agenda item 3,
resolution 2026-1900.
Agenda item 4, resolution
2026-1901.
Agenda item 5, resolution
2026-1902.
Agenda item 6, resolution
2026-1903.
Agenda item 7, resolution
2026-1904.
Agenda item 8, resolution
2026-1905.
Agenda item 9, resolution
2026-1906.
Agenda item 10, resolution
2026-1907.
Agenda item 11, resolution
2026-1908. Agenda item 12,
resolution 2026-1909.
Agenda item 13 resolution
2026-1910. Agenda item 14,
resolution 2026-1911.
Agenda item 15, resolution
2026-1912.
Agenda item 16 resolution
2026-1913.
Agenda item 17, resolution
2026-1914.
Agenda item 18, resolution
2026-1915.
Agenda item 19 resolution
2026-1916.
Agenda item 20 resolution.
2026-1917.
Agenda item 21, resolution
2026-1918.
Agenda item 22, resolution
2026-1919.
Agenda item 23, resolution
2026-1920. Agenda item 24,
resolution 2026-1921.
Agenda item 25, resolution
2026-1922.
Agenda item 26, resolution
2026-1923.
Agenda item 27, resolution
2026-1924.
Includes our resolutions and
next on a 2nd reading.
The first, uh, item proposed
for the consent agenda is
agenda item 43 ordinance bl
2026-1327.
Agenda item 44, ordinance bl
2026-1328.
Agenda item 45, ordinances bl
2026-1329.
Agenda item 46, ordinance bl
2026-1330 Agenda item 47
ordinance bl 2026-1331.
Agenda item 48, ordinance bl
2026-1332.
Agenda item 49, ordinance bl
2026-1333.
Agenda item 51. Ordinance bl
2026-1335.
Agenda item 52, ordinance bl
2026-1336.
Now moving into Bill
s on 3rd
reading proposed for the
consent agenda first among
those is agenda item 54,
ordinance bl 2026-1257.
Agenda item 55, ordinance bl
2026-1266.
Next is agenda item 58,
ordinance bl 2026-1295. Agenda
item 59, ordinance bl 2026-1303.
Agenda item 60 ordinance bl
2026-1304.
Agenda item 61, ordinance bl
2026-1305.
Agenda item 62 ordinance bl
2026-1306.
Agenda item 63, ordinance bl
2026-1307.
Agenda item 64 ordinance bl
2026-1308.
Agenda item 65, ordinance bl
2026-1309.
Agenda item 66 ordinance bl
2026-1310.
Agenda item 67, ordinance bl
2026-1311.
Agenda item 68, ordinance bl
2026-1312.
Agenda item 69 ordinances bl
2026-1313.
Agenda item 70 ordinance bl
2026-1315. Agenda item 71,
ordinance bl 2026-1316. Agenda
item 72 ordinances bl 2026-1319.
Agenda item 73, ordinance bl
2026-1320?
Agenda item 74, ordinance bl
2026-1321.
Agenda item 75, ordinance bl
2026-1322. Agenda item 76
ordinance bl 2026-1323.
Agenda item 77, ordinance bl
2026-1324. And then lastly,
proposed for the consolidated
consent agenda is agenda item
78 ordinance bl 2026-1325.
Do any items need to be removed
from the consent agenda? If so,
if members will please join the
queue to request that.
Council member Benton, you
re
recognized, sir.
Thank you, Vice Mayor. I
d like
to remove 2026, 1311, number 67.
Ok, uh, councilmember Benton
has requested that agenda item
67.
Is that correct, MR. Benton, 67.
Ordinance bl 2026-1311, uh, be
removed, uh, from consent. It
has been, uh, removed.
Um, councilmember Hancock,
you
re recognized.
I
d like to request the removal
of rs 2026, 1907. Ok, um, uh,
what agenda is that? Number 10,
ok, um, uh
councilmember Hancock has
requested, uh, removal of
agenda item 10, which is a
resolution 2026, uh, 1907. Uh,
that will be, uh, removed from
consent.
Do any other members, uh, seek
to be recognized, uh, to remove
an item, uh, from the consent
agenda.
All right. Um,
seeing none, uh, MR. Clark are
all committee reports in for
the items, uh, on the consent
agenda.
Yes, all committee reports are
in. Thank you, MR. Clark.
Members, is there a motion for
approval of the consent agenda?
Ok? Um, uh, there
s a motion
properly seconded. All in favor,
please say aye.
Council has passed all items on
the consent agenda.
All right. Um, now we will, uh,
go back in agenda order uh for
those items, uh, that were not
on consent. Uh, first being, uh,
agenda section l for our
resolutions.
The first item among those that
was not on consent is agenda
item 10, resolution 2026-1907,
sponsors Tombs Huffman Coopin,
We, Alan Gad, Ewing Lee,
Porterfield Beau, Harrell,
Gamble, Ellis, Prep, Tira,
Taylor, and Stiles. This is a
resolution appropriating a
total of 375,000 from a certain
account of the community safety
fund for a grant to Gideon
s
army
grassroots Army for Children,
to implement a trauma informed
youth-led workforce and
leadership program for youth to
reduce and mitigate violence as
part of the community safety
initiative, sponsor Tombs, um,
MADAM Chair, you are recognized.
Thank you, MADAM Vice Mayor
Committee report, budget and
Finance voted to recommend
approval 9 in favor, 0 against,
0, not voting. All right. And
for the report of the Public
Health and Safety Committee,
Vice Chair Prepte, your
re recognized. Thank you,
MADAM Vice Mayor. In committee,
we had a pretty robust
discussion on this particular
agenda item, um, some items
that I wanna share with full
body on our discussion is that
this grant is a fully
reimbursable grant, um, that
has specific deliverables that
Gideon
s army is required to
meet. Um, likewise, if those
deliverables are not met, there
is a clawback provision in, in,
uh, this particular grant that
would allow Metro to be able to,
to um cancel the grant and be
able to be reimbursed for that,
that fun
d disbursement. And with that
being said, after consideration
of rs 2026, 1907, the committee
voted nine in favor, 0 against
0, not voting to approve.
All right, um, with both those
committee reports in, it
s back
to you, MS. Tombs, uh, for a
motion.
Move for approval. All right.
Um, there is a motion to
approve properly seconded and
we
re on to discussion. Uh,
first in the queue, uh, council
member Soira, do you seek to be
recognized for discussion on
this item? Go ahead, ma
am.
I think Vimeo, I, uh, thank you,
Council member Preti for
referencing the discussion in
Health and Safety in our uh
urge everyone to please go back
and watch it. Uh, but one of
the things that I wanted to
uplift also is that when you
look at the model of work that
Gideon Ami does, this violent
interruption program, the old
program premises or is based on
using people that have actual
experiences in the area. People
that have been shot, people
that are in gang, that
s how
the program works so that they
can relate to the kids so they
can offer them
something different and so when
we look at things like that,
yes, we are stories in the news
about one or two individuals
that did something. I do not
want us to penalize this
organization that is doing
great work because of those two
incidences or because they
re
using gang members. That
s how
it works. That
s what the kids
relate to. So I encourage
everyone to watch the
discussion in committee where
they actually stated a lot of
things that would be done else
department talks about the
oversight and the deliverables
and everything that goes with
it. And there was a robust
conversation
of the work that they
re doing
in the community. So I know we
see things in the news, but I
do not want that, uh, uh, to
affect out this organization is
viewed because they
ve been
doing this work for a long time
and they
ve been very
successful and with that ask
all of the approval. Thank you.
Thank you. Next for discussion
is Council member Gamble.
You
re recognized.
Thank you, Vice Mayor. I would
also like to rise in support of
this grant opportunity. Uh, we
have been discussing this for
several years now, even when I
was on the Public Safety
Committee. I
ve also attended
some of the events and programs
that Gideon
s army has held for
the uh students that
participate. I mean, these are
students that have experienced
a lot of trauma, um, not to
their own making, but just
because of the environment that
they
re in and the programs
that
uh Gideon
s army provides
provides a safe place for these
students to um understand
better some of the trauma that
they
re going to and to to
learn about ways to um to
prevent or, or to uh deal with
that trauma in a constructive
manner. So I really do support
this grant. I hope that uh many
of you will take uh Rashida up
on her offer when she sends out
the invitation to come and
really look at
and view some of the programs
that she does with these
students and uh this funding
will help continue that work
and expand that work. So I
encourage all of you to support
it. Thank you. Thank you. Next,
uh, for discussion is Council
member Tombs. Go ahead, Tombs,
um, thank you, MADAM Vice Mayor.
Obviously I stand in support of
the legislation. This is
something that I have
championed and have been
working on for years, um, I
don
t wanna repeat what others
have said, but I will add that
uh Gideon
s arm
y as an organization has jumped
through all of the
administrative hoops, their
finances have been audited,
they
ve submitted a boatload of
documentation, they
ve met all
the standards that the Metro
Health Department has for their
grantees, uh, Doctor An who is
oversees all of the uh
community violence and violence
intervention and interruption
programs at the health
department oversees because we
know that gun violence is a
public health crisis, so the
health department oversees all
of these programs and tracks
the data and all the metrics
and
keeps up with all the groups
and Doctor n is uh very much uh
an expert uh in this area and
would not be a part of it if it
was not legitimate, if it
wasn
t a good program. I
wouldn
t put my name on it if
it wasn
t a good program, uh,
so I encourage all my
colleagues to support it.
Thank you. Next is uh
Councilmember Coopin, you
re
recognized, sir. Thank you,
MADAM PRESIDENT. I
ll be brief.
Also rising in support and just
appreciate the the young man
s
comments earlier about um the
program and the impact and the
work it has I
ve seen firsthand
how important the Gideon
s army
work is, um, and so just really
supportive of this and urge my
colleagues to do the same.
Thank you, MR. Coopin. Uh, next,
Councilmember Bradford, you
re
recognized.
Oh, no, sir. Ok. Um, is anyone
else seeking to be recognized,
uh, for discussion on this
resolution.
All right, um, uh, Xing Nan, uh,
we will move to the vote. Um,
all in favor, please say aye.
Any voting no?
Ok. Hearing a no, with this
being a resolution that only
has one vote, um, we will have
to go on the boards, uh, MR.
Clerk, uh, please open the vote.
With all votes in, uh, MR.
Clerk, uh, please show the vote.
All right. Uh, this resolution,
uh, has been adopted, uh, with
33 votes in favor, 1 vote no,
and 2 abstentions.
Right. Next
on our agenda
uh among our resolutions is
agenda item 28, resolution
2026-1925 sponsors coupon,
Rutherford, Huffman, Johnston
Stiles.
Nash Gad, Gamble, Wiener Spain,
Bradford Lee Webb, Taylor, Sira,
and Ellis. This is a resolution
recognizing the contributions
of linemen, uh, and line
workers and recognizing APRIL
18th, 2026 as National Lineman
Appreciation Day in Nashville
and Davidson County.
Councilmember Coupin, you
re
recognized. Thank you, MADAM
PRESIDENT. Committee reports,
please, for the report of the
rules, confirmations, and
public elections, Chair Cash,
um, this is, uh, regarding MR.
Co
up in
s uh, line workers, uh,
resolution. Yep, we voted to
approve 4 in favor, 0 against,
0, not voting. All right, um
back to you, MR. Coopin. Thank
you. Move approval with a brief
comment. All right. Is there a
second?
It, we, we got it. Yep, um, go
ahead, MR. Coupin.
And I know there
s a, a late, a
late foul that we
ll, we wanna
add on here, um, but, um,
appreciate appreciate
everyone
s support here, um,
behind every light switch,
hospital and functioning city
are the line workers putting
themselves at risk to keep the
power on. Um, it
s one of the
most dangerous jobs in the
country and especially
highlighted with our recent uh
experience with, with Ice Storm
Fern, um, they work in extreme
heights and temperatures near
lethal voltage, long hours, I
think back to when I got to
visit with some of the line
workers during the storm, and
they showed me a photograph of
a kind of wooded area and a
hill that they had to climb up
and can haul heavy gear and and
put power back on, and then
they shared with me that on
their way back down, they
re,
they
re access, her exit was
blocked because some trees had
fallen behind them and they had
to get that cleared out. So
these, these are really the
people doing phenomenal work to
keep our city going. Um, I
think it is every year is
fitting to recognize them, but
especially with what
s been
going on recently, um, I can
t
thank them enough for all the,
all the time away from their
family. Many of them lost power
like we did
um, but they were still out
there, um, long shifts, again,
cold weather, hard work, and so
um really appreciate that, um,
and so would like to also amend
my motion to include 12.3 um
for this bill. Thank you. Ok,
um, so there is a motion to
approve with Rule 12.3 applied
such that all members voting in
the affirmative will be listed
as co-sponsors. Um, ok, we are
on to discussion. Um, MS. Sira,
I saw that you
wanted, uh, to be recognized,
um, uh, go ahead, ma
am.
Uh, thank you, Vice Mayor. I
d
like to suspend the rules to
present the late file amendment.
Ok, uh, there is, um, a motion,
uh, to suspend the rules, um,
what, for what I see to be a
housekeeping amendment. Um, is
there any objection to
suspension of the rules so that
uh MS. Suarez, uh, late filed,
uh, housekeeping amendment can
be taken up.
Seeing, uh, well, MR. Um, uh, I
apologize. MR. Cash, chair, did
this come to your committee on
its late fiul nature? Yes, it
did, and we voted to support
the plate foul nature 6 in
favor of 0 against, 0, no
voting. All right, so again
with that report, I will ask if
there
s any objection. Seeing
none, the rules are suspended,
and we, um, uh, if you, uh,
uh, make a motion, we can take
this up now. All right, I
ll
move for approval. All right,
go ahead, ma
am. There
s a
motion to amend. It
s a motion
to amend. It
s a very short
housekeeping rules, but the
whole idea is that I would love
for it to say line workers
instead of linemen. This day
and age we have women walking
as well and so if we
re going
to recognize the troop, we want
to make sure we recognize all
of them in that rather than
using linemen, which is the
original word, uh, we wanna
make sure we recognize all the
people that are doing the job
and so this amendment just
change
linemen to line workers. All
right, um, you
ve heard an
explanation of the amendment,
um, uh, from sponsor Sira. Is
there any, uh, discussion on
this motion to amend?
Seeing none, all in favor of
the amendment, please say aye.
Any voting no? Any abstaining?
All right, um, do you want to
renew your motion, MR. Coupin?
Yes, please. Move as amended.
All right. Do I hear a second?
Thank you. Is there any
discussion on, uh, this
resolution as amended.
Seeing none, all in favor,
please say aye. Any voting no
or abstaining
All right, you have adopted, uh,
this resolution as amended, uh,
honoring, uh, our, uh, line
workers, uh, with Rule 12.3
applied.
Ok
Next
our, uh, section m builds on
introduction and first reading.
By rule, all items on first
reading shall be voted on at
the same time unless requested
other buys by a primary sponsor
or by two other members. Do any
items need to be removed from
the collective vote, council
member Stiles, you
re
recognized.
Thank you, Vice Mayor of 1360
have to move a substitute
because of the planning numbers,
no, we
re just removing them
from first reading consent vote,
uh, agenda item 34 MISS Stiles
committee reports that, no,
we
re just removing them from
the first consent vote. Is it
your wish to remove agenda item
34, ok? Um, MS. Benedict,
you
re recognized. Thank you,
MADAM Vice Mayor. Number 35,
1361 agenda item 35
um, by MS. Benedict, an agenda
items, uh, and agenda item 34,
um, will be, uh, removed, uh,
34 is, uh, uh, ordinance, uh,
1360, um, and then, um, agenda
item 35 is, uh, 1361. Ok. Uh,
is there a motion for approval
of all the items remaining on
first consideration, ok?
Properly seconded without
objection.
You have approved all items, uh,
remaining on first reading. Now,
we
ll go back to the items that
were pulled from first in order.
Uh, now, uh, MS. Stiles, agenda
item 34, ordinance bl 2026-1360,
uh, is an ordinance amending
chapter 3 or 17.28% of the
Metro code of laws to amend
regulations on underground
utilities, uh, nostalgia
recognized.
Ok, thank you. Um, so there
s
the, the current bill is
missing the planning numbers,
so there is a substitute that i
would like to move and then if
you would please make a motion
first to approve to get the
bill before us. I
d like to
move for approval. Ok, now you
can make your motion to
substitute. Yes, I
d like to
move the uh substitute, please.
Ok, um, and I think I heard you,
uh, saying that that was a
housekeeping, like enumeration
issue there, ok? Anything else
you wish to say? Nope, that
s
it. All righty.
Um, is there any discussion on,
uh, the motion to substitute.
Seeing none, all in favor of
the substitute, please say aye.
Any voting no or abstaining.
All right, if you would please
renew your motion to approve on
first reading is substituted.
Yes, I would like to move this
bill as substitute, please. Ok,
and it
s properly seconded. Is
there any discussion on that?
Um, approval on first as
substituted. Seeing none, all
in favor, please say aye. Any
voting no or abstaining. Ok,
this has passed, uh, it
s first
of 3 readings. I
m glad to have
my voice back, ok
Yes, still a little raspy
though. Ok, it
s pretty good if
I have to raise my voice. I,
I
ll take your word for it. Uh,
35, agenda item 35, uh,
ordinance bl 2026-1361 sponsors
Benedict Cap and Coupin. This
is an ordinance to amend
chapter 17.37 of the Metro code
of laws to establish an East
Bank design Review Committee
within the downtown code, uh,
also known as the dtc, um, and
MS. Benedict, you are
recognized.
Thank you, MADAM Vice Mayor.
Move approval. Is there a
second? Ok, it
s before us. Go
ahead. Thank you, Vice Mayor.
Move the substitute. All right.
Would you like to describe the
substitute? Absolutely. So the
substitute as the proposal
number from planning because
that was not on the original
bill. All right, so this is
housekeeping, adding a proposal
number, um, uh, is there any
further discussion on the
motion to substitute.
Seeing none all in favor,
please say aye. Any voting no
or abstaining. All right, the
substitute is on. I
d like to
move as substituted, please.
All right, is there a second?
All right. Is there any
discussion?
Seeing none, um, there
s a
motion to approve as
substituted on the first of 3
readings, all in favor, please
say aye. Any voting no? Any
abstaining. All right, this has
passed first reading.
As substituted. All right, next,
um, we are moving into, uh,
section n of our agenda, Bills
on second reading.
That were not on the consent
agenda, first among them is
agenda item 42, ordinance bl
2026-1254, sponsors Cortez,
Horrell, Bradford, Gad,
Sepulveda, Ellis Vaux, and Sira.
This is an ordinance to amend
Title 6 of the Metro Code of
Laws regarding the disclosure
of personalized algorithmic and
dynamic pricing, uh, sponsor
Cortez, you are recognized, sir.
Yes, Community reports, please.
All right, for the report of
the government operations and
Regulations Committee Chair
Hill. MADAM Vice Mayor, we
recommend a deferral to the 2nd
meeting of JULY, which is JULY
201. Ok, um, there is a mosh,
or rather a recommendation um
of deferral to, I apologize, if
you would restate that, the
first meeting, the 2nd meeting
of JULY, 2nd meeting in JULY,
which is JULY 21st, and that
was 5 in favor, 00 not voting.
Ok, thank you so much. Back to
you, MR. Cortez. Thank you,
Vice Mayor. Yes, I would
like to move to defer to the
2nd meeting in JULY.
With a brief comment. Yes, go
ahead, sir, of course, yes, so
per metro Legal
s
recommendation. I reached out
to ag Scarmetti
s office at the
state and, um, we believe that
MAY be a path for enforcement.
So they
re reviewing that
request now, and we believe by
the 2nd meeting in JULY we will
have an answer if that is
something that they can enforce
for us or not. So we
ll have
more information then. All
right, there is a motion to
defer to the 2nd meeting in
JULY. Um, you
ve heard
an explanation of the deferral,
uh, by the sponsor. Is there
any discussion on the motion to
defer?
Seeing none, all in favor,
please say aye. Any voting no
or abstaining. All right. Um,
this, uh, will be taken up
again at the 2nd meeting in
JULY on its 2nd of 3 readings.
All right. Um
also on, uh, second reading is
agenda item 50. Uh, this is
Ordinance bl 2026-1334,
Sponsors Bradford, Horton, and
Evan Siegel. This is an
ordinance authorizing the metro
government to abandon existing
reservoir drain line and to
accept new public sanitary
sewer main sanitary sewer
manholes, and easements for
property located at 1431 Volte
Boulevard, also known as
Jetway Logistics. Uh,
Councilmember Bradford, you
re
recognized, sir.
Thank you. Committee reports,
uh, for the report of the
planning or, uh, the, the
planning and zoning Committee
Chair Horton, sorry, we had the
up and down there. Go ahead,
sir. Oh, go ahead. Thank you,
Vice Mayor. Uh, planning and
zoning recommended approval. Uh,
8 in favor, 0 against, and with
1 abstention. Ok, and one
abstention. And for the report
of the transportation
infrastructure Committee chair,
uh Evan Siegel. So rare that
these are off consent. Um, the
transportation infrastructure
committee recommended approval
5 in
favors you
re against and 1
abstention. All right, and I
m
guessing the reason it was not
on consent is going to be for
purposes of abstention, but, um,
we
ve heard the committee
reports and so it
s back to you,
MR. Bradford for a motion to
get it before us. Move approval.
Properly moved and seconded. Is
there any discussion, um, on
this ordinance on its 2nd of 3
readings.
Ok, Council member Allen,
you
re recognized. Thank you,
MADAM Chair. I am that
abstention. I just need to be
recorded as sustaining. Julie
noted, um, any further
discussion?
All right, all in favor, please
say aye. Any voting no? Any
additional abstentions?
Ok, there
s one abstention by
MISS Allen, uh, MR. Clerk, uh,
if you would please record it,
um, this ordinance has passed.
It
s 2nd of 3 readings.
Uh, with one abstention
All right
Next, uh, section o of the
agenda. Bills on 3rd reading.
First is agenda item 53
ordinance bl 2026-1255.
Sponsors Huffman, Horton, and
Coopin. This is an ordinance
amending chapter 13.08 of the
Metro Code of Laws related to
sandwich board signs in the
public right of way, uh,
sponsor, co-sponsor Horton, you
are recognized, um, go ahead,
sir. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I
d
like to move for a one meeting
deferral, please. Um, let
s see,
do we have any committee
reports at this juncture, sir?
i do not believe so. Ok, do we
have the report of the traffic
and parking commission prior?
Ok. Um, MR. Parker, do you have
the report of the traffic and
parking commission. Um
I don
t have it handy, but I
can research it ahead of the
next meeting, put it to special
counsel.
Ok, go ahead, special counsel,
if you would please, uh, share
that.
Oh, I
m sorry, sir, go ahead.
I
m sorry.
Uh, the traffic and parking
commission disapproved uh bl
2026 1255 by boat of 3 to 2.
All right, um, ok, so with that,
uh, report and now it is back
to you, uh, MR. Horton,
co-sponsor for, um, the
deferral motion. Thank you. I
d
like to move for a one meeting
deferral, please. Ok. Is there
a second? Ok, it
s properly, uh,
moved and seconded a one
meeting deferral. Um, is there,
uh, any, uh, discussion, um,
on this bill.
Or the deferral motion rather
ok, seeing none, all in favor
of, uh, the deferral of one
meeting on 3rd reading, please
say aye. Any voting no or
abstaining. Ok. Um, this, uh,
ordinance will be taken up
again, um, on its 3rd and final
reading at the meeting of MAY
7th.
All right
And now the moment you
ve all
been waiting for, agenda item
56, ordinance bl 2026-1273.
Sponsors Couping and styles.
This is an ordinance to amend
Title 17 of the Metro code of
laws, the zoning ordinance of
the metro government, uh, to
make various changes to the
downtown code, all of which is
described here in, um, this is,
uh, in reference to the East
Bend area. Ok. Um
let
s see
MR. Coupin, I
m gonna recognize
you first, sir, um, uh, for
your committee reports. Thank
you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Committee
reports, please. All right, for
the report of the Planning and
zoning Committee, um, uh, MR.
Horton, um, I know for purposes
of committee discussion you had
organized by topic, but if you
would for purposes here, um,
please move through in a
numeric order, um, uh, MR.
Bradford and MS. Ellis,
if you might, um, please folks,
um, we
ve got a committee
report right behind you. Um, if,
yep, thank you so much. Go
ahead, MR. Horton. I have them
grouped by vote. Is that ok?
Rather than numerical order.
Some were approved, that many
were withdrawn. I grouped them
together for purposes of
Oh ok numerically, uh ok
numerically, if you would do
that, sir, I would be grateful,
yep, um, for amendment 1 by
Councilmember Coopin, um, it
was not moved, uh, for approval,
and so we did not issue a
committee recommendation for
Amendment 2 by Coopin, we voted
in favor, uh 10 in favor, 0
against, 0, not voting for
Amendment 3 by Coopin, we voted
10 in favor, 0 against, 0, not
voting for Amendment 4, also by
Coopin, we voted 9 in favor, 1
against, 0, not
voting. Amendment 5 by Coupin,
10 in favor, 0 against, 0 not
voting for Amendment 6 by
Coopin, 9 in favor, 0 against,
0, not voting for Amendment 7,
it was not moved for approval,
so it was not considered given
a recommendation by the
committee for Amendment 8. It
was not moved for approval, so
we did not issue a
recommendation for Amendment 9.
It was also not moved for
approval, so not given a
recommendation for Amendment 10
by Councilmember Coupin. We
recommended approval, 10 in
favor, 0 against, 0 not
voting for Amendment 11, by
myself, we recommended approval,
10 in favor, 0 against, 0, not
voting for Amendment 12 by
Council member Benedict. We
recommended approval of 10 in
favor, 0 against, 0, not voting
for Amendment 13 by
Councilmember Benedict, the
sponsor indicated an intent to
withdraw, so we did not issue a
committee recommendation.
For Amendment 14, also by
Councilmember Benedict. It was
not moved for approval, so we
did not issue a committee
recommendation for Amendment 15
by Council member Parker. We
recommended approval, 10 in
favor, 0 against, 0, not voting
for Amendment 16 by
Councilmember Vau, we
recommended approval, 10 in
favor, 0 against, 0, not voting
for Amendment 17, by
councilmember Vogue, the
sponsor indicated intent to
withdraw, so it was not given a
committee recommendation from
Amendment 18 by Council member
Evans. We also did not consider
it
and it was not given a
committee recommendation for
Amendment 19 by Councilor
Marbert Evans, the sponsor
indicated intent to withdraw,
so it was not considered issued
to committee recommendation,
Amendment 20 by Council member
Cabb, we recommended approval
10 in favor, 0 against, 0, not
voting for amendment 21, the
sponsor indicated an intent to
withdraw, so it was not
considered issued a committee
recommendation for Amendment 22.
We recommended by Councilor
Marc Calf, we recommended
approval 10 in favor, 0 against,
0, not voting for Amendment 23
by Council member Ca who
recommended approval, 10 in f
favor, 0 against, 0, not voting.
Amendment 24 by Council member
Cap, who recommended approval
of 10 in favor, 0 against, 0,
not voting for Amendment 25 by
memberca we recommended
approval 10 in favor 0 against
0, not voting for Amendment 26.
Uh by Councilmember Capp, uh,
the sponsor indicated intent to
withdraw, so it
s not issued a
committee recommendation for
Amendment 27 by Councilmember
cap, we recommended approval 10
in favor, 0 against, 0, not
voting for amendment 28 by
Councilmember Capp, uh, the
sponsor indicated tend to
withdraw, so it
s not
considered to give a committee
recommendation for late filed
Amendment 1 by Council member
Capp, who recommended approval
10 in favor, 0 against, 0, not
voting for late filed Amendment
2 by Council member Park or cap,
excuse me, we recommended
approval 10
in favor 0 against 0, not
voting for late filed Amendment
3 by Council member Benedict,
who recommended approval 10 in
favor, 0 against, 0, not voting,
and there was an additional
late filed amendment which was
not considered by the committee
as we did not receive it in
time. And then finally, we
recommended approval of the
bill overall as amended by the
amendments with a favorable
recommendation, 10 in favor, 0
against, 0 not voting. All
right, thank you for that very
extensive, uh, and clear
committee report. Um, now it is
uh, back to you, uh, MR. Coupin,
uh, for a motion to get the
bill before us, uh, without
objection, colleagues, just so
we can move efficiently. Um,
Council member Coupin, the
primary sponsor, has quite a
few uh amendments. As you know,
amendments are offered in, in
your discussion time. I would
like for us to be able to
proceed through all of MR.
Coupin
s amendments, that MAY
mean, um, that he would have
more than 3 minutes, um, so
that we can
proceed through all of those,
um, you know, we can defer and
give time to other folks and
that can take some extra time,
um, so if there
s no objection,
um, we
ll just uh proceed in
that manner. We might then
subsequently MR. Capp proceed
in a similar manner when you
are recognized to offer your
amendments because those are
fairly extensive as as well,
you might also likewise need
more than 3 minutes, ok?
Everyone clear, no objection.
Ok, MR. Coopin, uh, go ahead,
sir. MADAM PRESIDENT, move
approval with a comment
please. All right, there
s a
motion to approve and it
s
properly seconded. Go ahead,
sir. Thank you. Well, this is
the moment we
ve all been
waiting for, as you said, and I
left, I left yesterday
s
planning and zoning committee
with a big smile. I think it
was really, really just
exciting to meet as a Nashville
and as someone who loves the
city, um, to see, you know,
months and months and years and
generations of work coming
together to see council members
with differing viewpoints and
differing amendments kind of
landing on similar pages and
working together to make this a
project that
s not just for one
district but for the whole city,
um, so it was really
cool to see and I hope we, we
continue that this evening. Um,
we
ve heard about, um,
congestion, the need for
housing, um, family orientation,
green space, multimodal, and so
much more, and I think these
are covered in these amendments
as as we
ve talked about many
times before. It
s a
foreign-based zoning, it
s not
an sp and so it will live and
breathe and be changed over the
years. This is a multi-decades,
um, process and and sight, um,
but just a huge thank you to
everyone who worked on it,
especially, um, Lisa and Lucy
and Brett and Ma
t t and Eric and everyone on
the planning department who
worked nights and weekends and
mornings and hours I didn
t
know existed um on this project
so huge thanks to them and just
everyone who worked on this,
this is a generational once in
a lifetime opportunity, and I
think we
re really delivering
uh for our community.
Um, so skipping Amendment One,
I would like to then move
Amendment 2, please. Is there a
second? Ok, go ahead, sir.
There
s a motion to amend with
Amendment 2, which, uh,
precludes beer and cigarette
market uses. Anything
additionally you wish to say
just that this was part of the
feedback that we received from
a lot of emails and um this
would prohibit that use. Ok, is
there any discussion on this
amendment?
Seeing none, all in favor,
please say aye. Any voting no
or abstaining. Ok? Um, uh, this
amendment, uh, can be added to
the bill. MR. Coopin, as we
move through these, I
m just
gonna go back to you basically
for a nod to renew your motion
as amended, I will state it.
You can just nod. I will
acknowledge that so we can just
kind of proceed through. Uh, so
MR. Coupin, uh, do you wish to,
uh, renew your motion to
approve, uh, as amended with
Amendment 2. Ok.
All right, we, on we go. Thank
you. Uh, move approval of
Amendment 3, please. Sir second?
Ok. Um, this, uh, adds some, uh,
recitals, pretty simple.
Anything else you want to say,
sir? Just that this addresses a
couple of things. It talks
about a connect um East Bank
action plans, MotorConnect
Downtown Action plan to address
the congestion concerns, um,
talks about the voluntary
attainable housing program
being expanded over here, um,
Green Space, riverfront access,
all important things that we
ve
heard from our constituents.
All right, um, uh, you
ve heard
an explanation
of the amendment. Uh, is there
any discussion to amend with
Amendment 3. Sign9 all in favor,
please say aye.
Any voting no or abstaining. Uh,
MR. Coopin, uh, uh, we
re gonna
renew that motion to approve,
um, as amended with amendments
2 and 3. Is that correct? He
s
nodding his head yes. Continue,
sir. Thank you. I
d like to
move Amendment 4. Ok. Um, is
there a second?
Ok, um, this is regarding a
stepbacks. Is that correct, sir?
Anything else you want to say
about that? Yes, so I wanted to
toss this over to the planning
table, um, we
ve had some great
discussions since planning
committee yesterday, um, some
concerns were raised about
unintended consequences of what
the step Xs are and how it
s
already baked in in other ways
in the legislation, so would
love planning to uh to explain
that if you could. All right,
um, uh, MS. Milligan for the
planning department. You
re
recognized regarding MR.
Coopin
s Amendment 4, related
to stepbacks. Go ahead.
Sure. So as the planning
department staff was riding the,
um, text that creates the
subdistrict. We did consider
adding requirements for
building stepbacks, which at a
certain level, which what the,
what that means is that it
pushes the building back away
from either the street or open
space or however you MAY define
it. Um, we did think about that
and consider it, but we
actually decided to go with
different ways to think about
light and air. And that
s the
reason that you would want to
step back is to create the
ability for light and air to
get to the street level. So
what we did instead was we um
created a uh scheme that
includes uh maximum floor
plates, um, maximum, um, tower
length, uh, tower separation
and so all of those things and
concert together create that
opportunity for light and air,
um, that just sometimes is not
achieved as well as
um, or as is achieved better
than stepbacks would create it.
Thank you. Just one quick
follow-up question. Um, if the,
if this came to the downtown
drc or potentially the East
Bank drc, which I
m very
excited about and look forward
to talking about our next
meeting with that, um, with
that group have the ability to
impose stepbacks for things to
adjust the the light and air
flow.
Yes, certainly, and, and we, um,
having a standard that doesn
t
require a step back, doesn
t
mean that there couldn
t be a
step back if an architect is
creating a building and they
find that having a step back on
a part of a building creates a
better design, more interesting
architecture they could
certainly have one, but this
just wouldn
t require it as a
minimum standard. All right,
thank you. So I
m gonna, I
m
gonna, um, because of that and
again conversations I
ve had, I
think it
s important that we
have buildings that breathe and
have porosity and have air to
them, and we don
t have big
blocky walls, but I think from
what I understand this is
already kind of
incorporated, so I
m gonna
withdraw the motion on
Amendment 4. All right. Um, ok,
um, we continue with discussion.
You still have the floor, MR.
Coopin. Um, what is presently
before us is a motion to
approve, um, with, as amended,
with amendments 2 and 3 so far.
Go ahead, sir. Thank you. Move
Amendment 5. Is there a second?
Ok, go ahead, sir. Um, thank
you to not, not much to discuss
here, just, um, any sort of
digital exterior lighting,
large displays, things like
that, um, can
be concerning for neighborhoods,
um, and so this was something
that I wanted to make sure it
was not a permitted use, um,
and so if, if it were to ever
be requested as a permitted use,
um, it would have to come
before council for approval. Um,
alrighty, uh, you have heard an
explanation of, uh, Amendment 5,
the motion to amend, uh, was
properly seconded. Is there any
discussion on the motion to
amend with MR. Coopin
s
Amendment 5.
Singing none, all in favor,
please say aye. Any voting no
or abstaining.
Ok. Uh, MR. Coopin, uh, do you
wish to renew your motion to
approve as amended with
amendments 23, and 5. He is
nodding his head yes. Ok, you
still have the floor for, sir.
Go ahead. Thank you. Move
Amendment 6. All right,
properly moved and seconded, um,
Amendment 6 regarding reporting
related to the mcsp in the
public realm. Go ahead, sir.
Thank you. So this is something
that requests um planning to
bring a report on the mcsp and
public realm
which are big considerations,
um, by JULY 31st for an initial
draft and at the end of the
year, um, I know that
s been a
big consideration. Timeline
s a
big consideration. I, I wanna
keep this on, um, but I also
wanna be clear that I
ve spoken
to planning extensively. They
have committed to working very
hard on this in the coming
months and and it MAY warrant
extensions over time. We don
t
want to rush this. We want to
make sure there
s public
engagement and adequate, um,
adequate time to get it right,
so I wanna put this on, um,
currently, but also wanna make
sure on the record that
this is something that if it
needs more time to, to breathe
or to work that that we
re
supportive of that again, it
s
more important to get it right
than to get it fast. So, um,
would urge my colleagues to
support that. All right,
there
s a motion to amend, uh,
with Amendment 6 by, um,
sponsor Coupin. You
ve heard an
explanation of that amendment.
The motion was properly
seconded. Is there any
discussion on the motion to
amend with Amendment 6.
Seeing none, all in favor,
please say aye. Any voting no
or abstaining. All right, MR.
Coupin, where we are is a
motion to approve as amended
with amendments 235, and 6. Are
you renewing that motion? He is
nodding and he said, yes, ok,
um, you still have the floor,
sir. Go ahead. Thank you. Move
Amendment 10. All right, is
there a second? Um
pardon?
Ok, I
m getting a look from
special counsel. Am I? Are we
at special counsel? Do you need
to be recognized?
Yeah, go ahead, sir
Uh, COUNCILMAN, for this motion
deals with uh renaming the
entire document. Thank you for
that. So I
m gonna, sorry, I, I
saw actually hold on to that
one for now, um, Vice, uh,
MADAM PRESIDENT, do you want me
to then if I, if I
m moving
away from mine, this one would
have to come at the end based
on the nature of, of how it
s
structured. Um, do you want me
to continue moving other
amendments, or should I defer
that then to the council
members that sponsored them. Um,
you have, um, the floor, sir,
and so I don
t know
what, uh, conversations you
ve
had with other, um, members. Um,
I would suggest, um, that we
are on discussion now at this
juncture for a motion to
approve as amended with
amendments 235, and 6. Other
members, uh, MAY enter the
queue at this juncture, um, and,
uh, we can proceed in that
regard, unless you very
specifically want to make one
of them yourself as the primary
sponsor. Ok, um, so with that,
uh, next in the queue is
council member cap, uh,
councilmember Cap, you are
recognized.
Thank you, Vice Mayor. I have a,
a series to move, um, uh, uh,
MAY we use that same procedure.
Indeed we MAY. Go ahead, sir.
Thank you. I move Amendment 20.
Ok, there
s a motion to amend
with Amendment 20, uh, go ahead,
sir. Thank you, Vice Mayor.
This is an important one, we,
it
s urgently important that
when we build the East Bank we
build it as a neighborhood and
the, the bill as of a couple of
weeks ago allowed almost
unlimited hotel uses. This is a
limitation on hotel uses, um,
hotels can certainly be part of
thriving neighborhoods, but I
m
not aware of any neighborhoods
that are mostly hotels, and so
this is um
an important amendment to make
sure we
re building a
neighborhood for Nashvilleians
in this area. I understand, um,
it was, uh, deemed friendly
last night and so with that I
urge your support and thank you.
All right, there
s a motion to
amend, uh, with councilmember
Caps Amendment 20. Um, you
ve
heard an explanation. It was
properly seconded. Is there any
discussion on Amendment 20.
Ok, I see some folks in the
queue if there is discussion on
Amendment 20 in particular and
specifically. Would you raise
your hand, please? Ok, um, Ms.
Hancock, you are recognized
regarding the motion to amend
with Amendment 20. Thank you. I
just rise in support of this
amendment. I think that
allowing up to 12 different
uses is plenty in this area,
and I think it
s very generous.
Thank you. Ok, um, MR. Coupin,
go ahead, sir. Thank you, MADAM
PRESIDENT. I appreciate my
colleague bringing this very
supportive of this amendment,
took some work
to get there and really
appreciate everyone that worked
on it and uh very supportive.
All right, is there anyone else
seeking to be recognized
specifically on Amendment 20?
Ok, seeing none, uh, all in
favor, please say aye. Any
voting no or abstaining. Ok. Um,
Amendment, uh, 20 has passed.
MR. Coopin, um, is it your
intent to renew your motion to
approve as amended with
amendments 2356, and 20. He is
shaking his head yes, on we go,
MISTER Cap, go ahead. Oh, sorry,
sir, go ahead. Thank you, Vice
Mayor. Move Amendment 22. Ok,
Properly moved in 2 to go ahead.
Thank you, Vice Mayor. This has
been subject to
a lot of discussion in
committee. We
ve had several
committee meetings about this.
This relates to surface parking,
um, in the original proposal,
surface parking would have been
allowed by right in the whole
subdistrict, um
we have got to build the East
Bank in a way that is uh not
car centric. We, um, we
ll be
making a once in a century
mistake.
If we induce a century
s worth
of car traffic into this area
to come through East Nashville.
We all know that we can do
better to build it for walking,
active transportation, and
transit. This is an important
step in that direction. It
allows surface parking as a
temporary permitted use for 5
years, those permits lasting
for one year and renewable for
that time and it limits 20% of
the site um limits that use to
uh overall 20% of the site
to help us get to the place
where uh we
ve built out our
infrastructure and so I um ask
your support and, and thank you
uh for that. All right, um,
there is a motion to amend, uh,
with MR. Capp
s Amendment 22.
You
ve heard an explanation. It
was properly seconded. Is there
anyone seeking to be recognized
specifically on Amendment 22,
um, uh, councilmember Dreel, uh,
you are recognized, sir. Uh,
yeah, thanks, Sher. Do we have
an idea of how many total
parking spots the
entire development will
encompass. Um, do you want to
address that to MR. Capp? Yes,
ok, go ahead, sir. Sure, I
think the traffic engineer
estimate about 100 or 120
parking spots per acre of
surface parking, and so this is
a 47 acre site, roughly 20% of
it gets you to about 1000 cars.
All right, MR. Drrefel, does
that answer your question?
Thanks very much. Yes, ok, um,
MR. Coopin on Amendment 22,
thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. I
just want to say I
m very
supportive of this and
appreciate it being brought. Ok.
Anyone else seeking to be
recognized specifically on
Amendment 22.
Seeing none, all in favor,
please say aye. Any voting no,
any abstaining. All right, uh,
MR. Coopin, is it your intent
to renew your motion to approve
as amended with amendments 2356,
20, and 22, shaking his head
yes, um, on we go. Next, uh, MR.
Cap, you still have the floor,
sir. Go ahead. Thank you, Vice
Mayor. I move Amendment number
23 Properly moved and seconded,
um, an explanation, please.
Thank you, Vice Mayor. This
requires um a multimodal trans
port ation analysis to be done
by ido by the end of the next
fiscal year. So, you know, JUNE
2027, end of JUNE, um, for the
entire site, this is something
that we, um, this sort of a new
policy departure for us at
Metro, but it
s related to our
goals of building this um, you
know, 4 people, um, a
neighborhood that
s active and
walkable and so this directs
Indo to do those studies with
that in mind and it also
requires those to be renewed
every 5 years so that we can
keep our data up to date and
keep our
analysis rigorous as we are,
you know, sort of building out
this site over years and
decades, uh, so I
m excited, uh,
for the potential here and ask
your support.
All right, um, you have heard
an explanation of Amendment 23
by MR. Capp, um, his, uh,
motion to amend was properly
seconded. Is there anyone
seeking to be recognized for
discussion on the motion to
amend, uh, MR. Coopin, you
re
recognized. Thank you, MADAM
PRESIDENT. Friendly amendment.
Ok, thank you for sharing that.
Anyone else that can be
recognized on Amendment 23.
Seeing none, all in favor,
please say aye. Any voting no,
any abstaining. All right, um,
that Amendment 23 has passed.
Uh, MR.
Coin, um, uh, do you wish to
renew your motion to, uh,
approve as amended with
amendments 2356, 2022, and 23.
He does, um, uh, on we go, MR.
Capp, you still have the floor.
Thank you, Vice Mayor. Move
Amendment 24.
Properly moved and seconded,
would anything you want to
explain about Amendment 24. Yes,
Vice Mayor, thank you. Um,
there
s a, a sort of a, a
building on this site that
s
entitled to a bonus height, um,
if it achieves an exceptional
design, the definition of that
um was not particularly
exceptional in my view. And so
I think if we
re doing this we
should be requiring genuinely
uplifting, um, civically
meaningful architecture, um, to
be reviewed by whatever design
review committee
is in place. I hope it
s the
East Side Design Review
Committee as uh brought forth
by my colleague to the North,
um, but this just makes that
definition uh more stringent
and robust, and so I asked your
support and thank you. All
right, um, there is a motion to
amend, uh, with Amendment 24 by
MR. Cap, you
ve heard an
explanation of that amendment.
Um, we
re on to discussion of
the motion to amend, um, is
anyone seeking to be recognized
for purposes of discussion on
this amendment aside from the
primary sponsor who I believe
is going to express
it is a friendly amendment. Go
ahead, sir. Could you use I
could use a hand signal for
friendly amendment as well, but
yes, friendly amendment you can
just, I don
t, I don
t know
what we can do there. Um, ok,
uh, uh, you can like fist pump
like that
s, that
s the visual
cue that it
s, uh,
a friendly amendment maybe. Ok,
um, there is a motion to amend
with amendment 24. Um, anyone
else seeking to be recognized
um on that amendment.
Seeing none, all in favor,
please say aye. Any voting no
or abstaining. All right, um,
MR. Coupin, uh, do you wish to
renew your motion to amend, uh,
or rather to approve as amended
up to this point. We
ve added
24. Ok. Go on then. MR. Cap,
you still have, uh, the floor,
sir. Thank you, Vice Mayor.
Move Amendment 25. All right,
is there a second? Properly
moved and seconded. Um, go
ahead, sir. Thank you, Vice
Mayor. As you all know, the
downtown code has different use
areas. The
East use area has a stadium
arena use and the use table um
this amendment removes that
from the use table for this
subdistrict, and I ask your
support. All right, there
s a
motion to amend with MR. Capp
s
Amendment 25. It is properly
seconded, and you
ve heard an
explanation of that amendment.
We are on to discussion on that
motion to amend. Does anyone
seek to be recognized um on
Amendment 25. If you do, given
that
there are others in the queue
for, um, please raise your hand.
Ok? Um, MS. Hancock, you are
recognized.
I thank you for recognizing me.
So this is the only amendment
that the committee passed that
I am not in favor of, and I
know that I
m in the minority,
but I just want to speak my
piece about it. I believe that
if we did ever have a stadium
or arena, it would still be
below the 24 to 40 story Mac so
it wouldn
t impact the height,
and right now we have the
Titans Stadium, which they have
17 regular season games a year,
which half of those are at home,
so that
s 8 or 9 regular season
games
um, a total of a dozen games a
year. That
s one day, you know,
12 days out of the entire year,
I think that if we had another
stadium and a former council
member Van Reese just announced
professional women
s basketball
coming to Nashville, wouldn
t
that be really cool to have
that on the East Bank?
Or baseball, I know other
people have talked about that.
I
m not a big fan of either of
those sports, but I
m a big
sports proponent and I just
don
t like that restriction.
Thank you. All right, um, we
re
continuing discussion on the
motion to amend with Amendment
25, MR. Coopin, you
re
recognized. Thank you, MADAM
PRESIDENT. I, I echo both of
the sentiments that are shared.
I think that if we look at a
family friendly neighborhood,
um, a stadium if done correctly,
um, with women
s sports or
baseball or things like that
could become and and and is in
many other cities an anchor for
a phenomenal
family friendly neighborhood,
um, that being said, um, any
conversation around that,
there
s nothing on the table
and any conversation around
that would need robust
community engagement and and
conversations and things like
that, um, so I
m very
supportive. I signed on to this,
um, this use restriction, so
I
m supportive of this
amendment removing that use um
at this time.
All right, um, uh, discussion
continues on Amendment 25. Is
anyone else seeking to be
recognized on the motion to
amend with Amendment 25. If so,
would you please raise your
hand?
A, seeing none, um, all in
favor of Amendment 25, please
say aye.
Any voting no?
Ok. Uh, any abstaining?
All right. The ayes have it. Um,
Amendment 25, um, will be added,
uh, to
the bill, um, uh, MR. Coupin,
um, is it your intent to renew
your approval motion at this
juncture, 25 being added, he is
shaking his head yes. MISTER
Cap, you still have the floor.
Go ahead, sir. Thank you, Vice
Mayor. Move Amendment 27. Ok?
And there
s a motion to amend
with Amendment 27 by MR. Capp
properly seconded. We
re, um,
uh, if you want to give it, um,
explanation of that, and we
ll
be on to discussion. Yes, thank
you, Vice Mayor. This will
apply to a couple of future
amendments as well, but when it
comes to structured parking
um, in order to keep the street
fronts active in that parking
sort of invisible from the
public around their
requirements for active liners.
Uh, there
s one place in the
current form of the legislation
where those liners are not
required specified in this
amendment sort of at the
intersection of kvb and
Davidson. This amendment
requires active liners at that
location as well, and I ask for
your support. All right, um, uh,
there is a motion to amend with
Amendment 27.
Uh, properly seconded, uh, is
there any discussion
specifically on amendment 27,
um, uh, raise your hand if so,
uh, council member Nash, you
re
recognized, sir. Thank you,
MADAM.
CHAIRMAN, uh, I would just like
an explanation of what a liner
looks like is. Would you like
MR. Capp to address it? Whoever,
ok, go ahead, sir. Sure, thank
you for the question. It
s just,
um, you know, like a retail
frontage, you know, instead of
looking at a structured parking
garage you
re looking at
something, you know, retail or
some kind of active street
front use.
There
s parking behind it, but
if you
re looking at it from
the street, it just looks like
an active street front so it
s,
you know, it
s pro walkable,
it
s good for active
neighborhoods, and it
s um
you know, good to activate the
street front is what is what a
liner is.
MR. Nash, is that address
everything? Ok, great. Thank
you. All right, um, MR. Coopin,
go ahead, sir. Thank you, MADAM
PRESIDENT. A good example of
the liner is um in the gulch,
for example, there are parking
garages that then have
activated uses along the
sidewalk, um, that wrapped them
around and also very supportive
of this movement. All right, um,
uh, there is a motion to amend
with amendment 27. It
s
properly seconded, is anyone
else seeking to be recognized
on the motion to amend with
Amendment 27.
Seeing none, um, all in favor,
please say aye. Any voting no
or abstaining. All right. So
Amendment 27 has passed. Uh, MR.
Coopin, is it your intent to
renew your motion to approve as
amended, now adding Amendment
27. He is shaking his head. Yes,
on we go, MR. Cap, um, you are
recognized. Thank you, Vice
Mayor. I ask my colleagues to
allow a suspension of the rules
in order for us to consider
late filed amendment number 1.
Ok. Late filed Amendment 1,
which was taken up in a
committee. Is there any
objection to the suspension of
the rules to take up MR. Capp
s
late filed Amendment 1.
Ok, seeing none, um, the rules
are suspended. Uh, go ahead, MR.
Cat. I really appreciate that,
colleagues. Thank you. This is
an important amendment and it
s,
I can explain the late filed
nature. I had originally filed
for the last meeting and a
requirement that buildings that
were not housing had to have
their parking underground. That
is something that we
ve sort of
committed to in the East Bank
generally, and I wanted to
apply that standard here as
well, but through discussions
with planning and the water
department,
uh, some of this site is in the
100 year flood plain and so
it
s uh inadvisable for obvious
reasons to not go underground
with your parking in the 100
year flood plain. This new uh
version of the amendment makes
a requirement for underground
parking unless a majority of a
building is in the 100 year
floodplain, and that sort of,
you know, makes it uh
responsible as well, so I ask
your approval. Thank you.
Ok, there is a, uh, motion to
amend, uh, with late filed
amendment number one, by MR.
Cap. Uh, you
ve heard that
explained, um, uh, is there a
second? Ok, properly moved and
seconded, we are on to
discussion about late filed
Amendment 1. Is anyone seeking
to be recognized on that motion
to amend, if you would please
raise your hands. Anybody other
than primary sponsor Coupin. Go
ahead, sir. Friendly amendment.
All right, good to know.
Any further discussion
ok, seeing none, all in favor,
please say aye. Any voting no
or abstaining. Ok. Um, so, uh,
late filed Amendment 1 has
passed, um, MR. Coupin, is it
your intent to renew your
motion to approve, uh, as
amended now with late filed
Amendment 1 having been added,
he is shaking and said yes, and
so on we go, MR. Cap, um, you
are recognized again, sir.
Thank you, Vice Mayor and
friends. This is my last one
for the evening. I ask a
suspension of the rules for the
consideration of late filed
Amendment number 2. All right,
um, this amendment was taken up
in planning and zoning
committee, um, where it
received a recommendation. You
heard that from a sponsor,
Horton, uh, knowing that, is
there any objection, for
suspension of the rules.
Seeing none, the rules are
suspended. Go ahead, you MAY
offer this amendment. Thank you,
Vice Mayor. This is a slightly
modified version of an
amendment that was before us
last time and was recommended
in if you would, sir, please
move the amendment. Yes, Vice
Mayor, thank you. I move
approval of late Bob 2. It
s
properly seconded. Go ahead,
sir. Go ahead. Thank you. This
was something that we
considered, uh, for the last
meeting and it was recommended
by the committee, but through
discussion with planning, um
I have uh brought forward an
amended version and that
s the
reason for the late filed
nature of this. The version
that I had brought required the
liner depths to be 30 ft, uh,
all the way up. There was a
requirement that they be a
minimum of 15 ft in the version
that just helps um them be, you
know, better for local
businesses, folks who are
starting up or might need
storage on the site to be able
to operate in that space but
through discussion with
planning about some of the
technical components of this,
my primary, uh, interest
and concern had been at the
ground level wanting those
active street frontages on the
sidewalks, but higher than that,
there might be a need for
flexibility to get utilities,
stairwells, and so forth, like
the sort of the innards of the
building to work more
functionally and so this late
filed amendment requires at the
ground level a liner to be a
minimum of 25 ft deep, but only
15 ft above that and with that
I ask your approval and thank
you, colleagues. All right, um,
there is a motion to amend, uh,
with
late filed amendment number 2
by COUNCILMAN Capp, and you
have heard, uh, the explanation.
It was properly seconded. Is
there any discussion on this
amendment. Um, if so, please do
raise your hand.
Ok, MR. Coopin, thank you.
Friendly amendment. Ok, um, any
further discussion?
Ok, cnn all in favor, please
say aye.
Any voting no or abstaining.
All right. Um, uh, amendment,
late filed Amendment 2 has
passed, um, uh, MR. Coupin, is
it your intent to renew your
motion to approve as amended
now with late filed Amendment
number 2 having been added,
shaking his head yes. Ok, on we
go. Now we
re going to go back
over to the main queue. So at
this juncture where we are
colleagues, is there is a
motion to approve as am
end ed so far with amendments
2356, 2022, 23, 24, 25, 27, and
late filed amendments 1 and 2.
Next in the queue is council
member Parker. You
re
recognized, sir. Thank you,
Vice Mayor. I would like to
move Amendment 15. Ok. Is there
a second?
Ok, um, there
s a motion to
amend with Amendment 15. Go
ahead, sir.
Thank you. So, um, throughout
the course of discussion around
this project we
ve heard a lot
of discussion about how we
really need this street network
uh for this site to be as safe
and accessible as possible. Um,
we
ve never scratched built in
Nashville a um development this
dense, um, this large, um, that
has zero street network to
begin with, even on the metro
portion of the East Bank, there
is something of a street grid
to begin with, so we know that
the major and collector street
plan
um process is going to be
extremely important to get
right and what this amendment
does is gives us a couple of
other touch points that being
recommendations from the
bicycle and pedestrian Advisory
Committee and the Vision Zero
Advisory commission or
committee, forgive me if I
can
t remember which is which.
Um, it also includes a few, um,
sort of parameters just for um
uh like for example it does
include a shot clock, so
neither of those entities could
just like fail to make a
recommendation and then that
hold it up from being approved
by planning.
There
s language in there that
um
it could also be successor orgs
to bpac and va. It should that
structurally be modified, um,
and if there
s not a successor
org identified, it falls back
on the charter mandated traffic
and parking commissions, so
there
s kind of always going to
be an entity that can, can, can
look at this in addition to the
planning commission and make a
recommendation so, um, I, I, I
believe it
s supported by the
the lead sponsor as well, um,
based on committee discussions,
and I would ask for colleagues
support.
All right, um, uh, there is a
motion, uh, to amend with
Amendment 15, uh, by council
member Parker. Uh, it is
properly seconded and you have
heard a description of that
amendment. We are on to
discussion on Amendment 15 if
you seek to be recognized for
purposes that discussion,
please raise your hand.
Ok, Councilmember Hancock,
you
re recognized. Thank you,
Vice Mayor. I can think of no
one on the body more qualified
to recommend a bicycle advisory
then COUNCILMAN Parker and I
support this amendment.
Thank you, MS. Hancock and
Council member k Coopin, you
re
recognized. Thank you, MADAM
PRESIDENT. A huge thank you to
my colleague for bringing this.
Um, we heard, uh, Dot Dobbin
s
name invoked earlier as as well
as many others who have
perished on our roadways, and
it
s uh it
s something that
something weighs heavily on my
heart. I
ve talked to too many
families who have lost loved
ones, and so it
s incredibly
important to me that this
neighborhood, um, reaches
vision zero that we don
t have
pedestrian deaths on this, on
this site that we
re building,
um, so hugely supportive of
this very much appreciative of
multimodal, um, input, um, I
had, I had set up a meeting at
one point with um some of the
members of bpac and vsa with a
development team, um, to kind
of communicate the importance
of this, um, as they develop
their site and uh appreciate
that this will be codified as a
longer term process. So hugely
supportive and appreciative of
my colleague for bringing this.
All right, um, is there any
further discussion on the
motion to amend with Amendment
15.
Ok? If so, raise your hand
See none, all in favor of
Amendment 15, please say aye.
Any voting no? Any abstaining.
All right. Amendment 15 has
passed, um, MR. Coupin, is it,
uh, your intent to renew your
motion, uh, to approve as
amended, now having added
Amendment 15, he is shaking his
head yes. On we go. Um, we
re
on discussion now on the motion
to approve as amended. Uh, next
in the queue is council member
Benedict. You
re recognized.
I
m here for my, are we
uh, you, you MAY offer your
amendments. That
s a proper
motion in the midst of
discussion, the way that I
heard you say that just a
second ago. I was like, wait,
no, we
re on that, but ok, I
d
like to move Amendment 12. All
right, um, uh, there is a
motion to amend with Amendment
12 by Councilmember Benedict.
Is there a second?
Ok, it
s properly seconded. Go
ahead, ma
am. Thank you, MADAM
Vice Mayor. So colleagues, this
adds a recital. Uh, it
s
non-binding, but as a recital
that encourages a developer in
the future to provide an urban
fire station. Um, we
ve talked
about this many times that we
have big buildings being built
all over the city, especially
in the downtown and now in this
um East Bend area and so we
need fire coverage for those
and other big cities we see
fire halls on the bottom of
buildings, so this is
to encourage that type of
development in the future, and
i ask for your support. All
right, um, there
s a motion to
amend with Amendment 12. Um,
you
ve heard a description, uh,
by the sponsor. It was properly
seconded and we
re on to
discussion of that motion to
amend. If anyone seeks to be
recognized for purposes of that
discussion, please raise your
hand.
Councilmember Coupin, go ahead,
sir. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT.
Thank you to my colleague for
bringing this. Um, I think
first responders are incredibly
important on this site and love
the idea of having a fire
station over there, so
appreciate that and very
supportive. All right. Is there
any further discussion on the
motion to amend with Amendment
12.
See none. All in favor, please
say aye. Any voting no or
abstaining. All right.
Amendment 12 has passed. Uh,
Councilmember Coupin, is it
your intent to renew your
motion to approve as amended
now having added Amendment 12,
shaking his head yes, um, uh,
discussion continues, and I
m
not seeing our clock, but I
presume you have, um,
additional time MS. Benedict,
you
re recognized. Thank you,
MADAM Vice Mayor. I
d like to
suspend the rules to present
the Yoland
a Palming Cannon Oldham Street
Safety Amendment, uh, late
filed number 3. All right, um,
uh, MS. Benedict, um, has
requested a suspension of the
rules to take up late filed
amendment number 3, which, uh,
did receive a recommendation in
planning and zoning, uh,
committee, uh, 10 and 0. Is
there any objection to the
suspension of the rules to take
up this amendment. Ok, it just
requires, uh, 3 or 2, and so
there is more than that, um, so
the rules are not suspended and
we cannot take this up at this
time. Ok, um, alrighty. Um, ok,
um, next in the queue for
discussion, uh is council
member uh Horton, uh, planning
and zoning chair, you
re
recognized, sir. Thank you,
Mayer. I
d like to move for
approval of Amendment 11,
please. Ok, there
s a motion to
amend with Amendment 11
properly seconded. Go ahead,
sir. Thank you, Vice Mayor.
This amendment
seeks to, um, govern a street
design and infrastructure for
the East Bend. Um, it reaffirms
that the street design should
adhere to our multimodal
hierarchy to prioritize walking,
biking, and public transit over
single passenger vehicles, as
well as Vision Zero principles
that the only acceptable number
of traffic deaths is 0. It also
requires a written report to
the council on amendments to
the Major and collector Street
plan for the East Bend uh
Street Network as well as
requires great separation
between the pedestrian
promenade and
vehicular roadways. All right,
um, there is a motion to amend,
uh, with amendment 11 by
sponsor, uh, Horton. You have
is properly seconded and if
you
ve heard an explanation of
that amendment, um, so we are
on, uh, to discussion on the
motion to amend if anyone seeks
to be recognized, uh, for
purposes of the, uh, that
discussion. Please raise your
hand.
Ok, MR. Coopin, go ahead, sir.
Friendly amendment. All right,
um, anyone else seeking to be
recognized on the motion to
amend. Seeing none, all in
favor, please say aye. Any
voting no or abstaining. All
right. Amendment 11 has passed.
Um, MR. Coopin, is it your
intent to renew your motion to
approve as amended, um, now,
having added amendment 11.
Ok, he is shaking his head yes.
Uh, on we go. So we are at
present, colleagues on
discussion of the motion to
approve as amended presently
with amendments 2356, 1112,
1520, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, and
late filed amendments 1 and 2.
Discussion continues next in
the queue is MR. Coupin. Go
ahead, sir. Thank you, MADAM
PRESIDENT. I would like to move
to suspend the rules to take up
late filed for, please. Ok, um,
uh, there is a, uh, motion, um,
uh, to suspend the rules to
take up late filed Amendment 4.
At this time, they
re not being
a committee recommendation for
planning and zoning. I am going
to acknowledge, uh, uh
chair of rules, Confirmations
in public elections. MR. Cash
on the late foul nature of late
filed Amendment 4. We heard
late filed Amendment 4 and
voted in favor of 6 to 0 to 0
of the of the late filed nature.
Ok, having heard the report of
Rus chair Cash. Is there any
objection to the suspension of
the rules?
All right, I see no objections,
and with that, um, the rules
are suspended, um, and thus you
MAY now offer, um, Amendment 4.
Move approval. All right, um,
there is a motion to approve.
Is there a second?
Um, there
s a motion to, um, uh,
uh, amend, um, rather, uh, with
amendment late filed Amendment
4 by sponsor Vo. MR. Uh Coupin,
do you want to share about that
or MS. Vo, um, I recognize you,
um, for an explanation on that
amendment. Go ahead. Thank you
so much, Vice Mayor. Um, this
late file is um an an amendment
from the proposed Amendment 16
that was passed in committee
yesterday, 10 in favor, 0
against, 0, not voting. Um,
And after discussion with
planning, we just wanted to
make sure that the correct
metro departments. We
re gonna
be covering the environmental
studies, so the changes that
you see in the late file is
reflective, uh, from planning
to metro, um, water services
and the Metro Health department.
Um, everything else in the
amendment remained the same. Ok
All right, thank you for that
explanation. Um, there is a
motion to amend with late filed
Amendment 4, sponsored by MS.
Veaux. Uh, it was, uh, uh,
properly seconded. Um, you
ve
heard an explanation. Is there
any, uh, discussion on the
motion to amend with late filed
for, um, uh, go ahead, MR.
Coopin. Friendly amendment. All
right. Is there anyone else
seeking to be recognized on
late file 4. If so, please do
raise your hands.
See none, all in favor, please
say aye. Any voting no or
abstaining. All right, so a
late filed Amendment 4, has
passed. Uh, MR. Coupin, is it
your intent to renew your
motion to approve as amended
with late file Amendment 4 now
having been added. He is
striding, nodding his head yes
and so um we continue with
discussion on the motion to
approve as amended next in the
queue is you again, MR. Coupin.
Um, go ahead, sir.
Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT and
Special Counsel I believe I
ve
got it correct, that I can now
move Amendment 10, as this is
the last amendment that is
um, hopefully will be moved. So
I
d like to move Amendment 10,
please.
All right, and is special
counsel? Do you wanna?
Obviously, members can move
amendments through this process.
This is the last amendment that
received a recommendation from
Planning and zoning Committee.
Perfect, thank you. All right,
um, it
s, it
s the last one
left on the very long list. Um,
ok, so, um, uh, MR. Uh Coupin,
uh
you have made the motion to
amend with Amendment 10 and i
believe I heard it seconded. Um,
is there anything you would
like to explain about Amendment
10, sir. Yes, thank you, MADAM
PRESIDENT, and this, uh, really
appreciate my colleague
bringing the idea of, of, um,
changing or changing the name
or or or adjusting the name of
the planning document, um, to
be clear, this is the planning
document itself. This is not
the project the project team
can do what they want,
obviously with their project,
but this is for our um downtown
code, um, to have it named
something and we
ve got
East Bank and East Point and
East Bend and there
s I
ve
members of the public, I
ve
watched get very confused, um,
with all of these different
terms, and I wanna make sure
that this has its own identity
and has its own um clear, clear
distinction, um, and I know I,
I went down this road and I
believe my colleague went down
this road as well, um, thinking
about what, what could we name
it, um, and I thought about
Guasoto Park, which is renamed
from Cumberland Park, Guota
being the Shawnee name meaning
meaning valley of the deer, uh,
regarding the Cumberland River
and so, um, given that that was
done and given that many folks
have now embraced that name,
and this is the bend of the
Cumberland River. Um, I felt it
fitting to rename the project,
um, rename the dtc at least uh
Wasoto Bend, um, so something
that I think is, is really
great. It
s a great way to
acknowledge the land that it
s
sitting on, um, and acknowledge,
um, again, this very distinct
effort of so many people have
taken so, so much time to make
this happen, and I think it
deserves its own identity. So I
ask my colleagues to support.
All right, um, so we are on to
discussion of the motion to
amend with Amendment 10, um,
offered by, uh, MR. Coupin,
primary sponsor, you
ve heard
an explanation of the amendment.
Is there any discussion, um, on
this amendment, um, uh
Ques changing a little bit.
Let
s keep with our pattern
here. If any discussion on the
motion to amend, please raise
your hand.
Ok, seeing none, um, all in
favor, uh, please say aye.
Any voting no, any pardon?
Ok. Um, uh, any abstaining?
Ok. The eyes have it, um, uh,
so Amendment 10 has passed, um,
at this juncture, MR. Coupin,
um, do you wish to renew, uh,
your motion to approve as
amended at this juncture with
amendments 2356, 1011, 1215,
2022, 23, 24, 25, 27, and late
filed amendment
s 12, and 4.
Um, if you would please state
that motion.
Do you want to restate all
those amendments or just I
would like to, I would like to
move the bill with all of the
amendments that you just read
off. Great. Is there a second?
Ok. Um, all right, so we are
now on to the primary, um,
discussion, all the amendments
having been offered, moved, or
otherwise, um, uh, we are on to
discussion, uh, to approve on,
um,
uh,
third and final reading as
amended, um, first in the queue
for that discussion is
Councilmember Benedict. Thank
you, MADAM Vice Mayor. So, um,
I prepared some words because
this is so important to me and
to the people of East Nashville
and of District 7, and I want
to start by saying thank you to
everybody who called and
emailed and showed up to make
their voices heard. Uh, at the
end of the day, I
m here for
the neighbors who trust me to
make the right decisions for
our day to day lives. Uh, you
spoke up and this bill is
better because of it.
Um, I also wanna thank my
colleagues in the departmental
staff, especially council
members Coupin and Cap. I don
t
think we
d ever have the
opportunity to redevelop this
area and on the site and it
takes a massive amount of work
to do it. So because of the
scale of this though, I believe
this deserved as much work as
we
ve all put into it
Many of the concerns I heard
boiled down to one issue, and
that is that what we are being
promised is not in the bill in
front of us. We all heard that
30% of the private land would
be open to the public, but the
bill doesn
t outline how that
will happen, who will pay for
it, and when it will be paid
for. The development will
require upgrades to
infrastructure including
streets, sewer, and stormwater,
but those costs aren
t outlined,
including if our taxpayers will
cover them or if developers
will.
We often hear that our tax
dollars go downtown and
Nashvilleians don
t get the
services that they need in
their neighborhoods, and I
can
t tell you tonight if
you
ll pay for it or not.
I
m also frustrated that we
have the opportunity to
celebrate our rich civil rights
history, um, but we chose other
priorities and we do that
frequently. A children
s museum
is great, but I
m left again
with the question, when will
somebody consider a civil
rights museum?
Even with those concerns though,
I now support the amended bill.
It
s not perfect, but it is
much better than it originally
was.
Most importantly, and I wanna
make sure that the people with
a capital p are the ones who
actually benefit from this
development. We
re on our way
and I believe with the future
East Bank Design Review
Committee, and I appreciate the
sponsor
s support of that. I
believe that with the future
design Review Committee, the
support of planning staff and
commitments from developers, I
think we can get there where
this is really going to benefit
the people. So colleagues, I
hope that you
ll join me in
voting yes on the amended bill.
Thank you. All right, um, next
in the queue for discussion is
Councilmember Cap. You
re
recognized. Thank you, Vice
Mayor. Um, this is a big deal
for the city and the region.
It
s also a really big deal for
the east side of town. Uh, my
colleagues and I on the east
side have worked a lot and
heard a lot from our
communities about this, and we
worked hard to move this bill
in the direction of being a
neighborhood for Nashvilleans
and something that we can be
proud of in terms of its
infrastructure.
Transportation network, amount
of housing, walkability, and I
am really grateful, uh, for
that input. This, there
s lots
of moments when I feel really
proud to represent District 6,
and this is really very close
to the top of that list. I just
want to thank the community
members and folks who had
questions, concerns, who
reached out and discussed this
over the last several weeks. It
was an extremely heartening
civic exercise for me and I
also want to thank my
colleagues to either side for
doing the same thing
i
d also like to thank the
sponsor of the bill for being
receptive to the East Side
voice in this matter and
deeming our amendments friendly.
That
s really significant, uh,
with the bill as amended, I am
also supportive and ask my
colleagues to do the same.
Thank you, MR. Capp. Uh, next
is Councilmember Soira, you
re
recognized.
Thank you Vice Mayor, a lot of
thank yous tonight, uh, from
the time that the, the, we
started getting uh emails. Uh
it was obvious that people
wanted a change to the area,
but they wanted it to happen in
a way that benefits the people.
And what I kept reading was we
wanted to be neighborly, we
want parking and all of those
things. And before one of us
could think the East side
council members jump on and
they did a phenomenal job, so I
wanted to thank them so much uh
for the work that they
ve done.
I too do believe that.
The bill as amended come close
to what the people want, and
this is how we should be when
we all walk together, when we
take all this consideration,
yes, it
s 28th Amendment, but
it was worth every single one
of it, so I wanted to thank all
of them. The last thing that I
wanted to mention is that there
was a concern that was still
lingering as of yesterday about
who pays for this, and from the
conversation from the committee,
we couldn
t, we cannot by law
mandates the developer to pay
for anything. They
ve agreed to
it, but it
s not in
the contract that we
re signing,
so my little contribution to
this was I asked them to send
us something in writing to
commit to something, even
though we cannot make them do
it, and they
re willing to do
it. Can they put that somewhere
that we can see and I want to
speak it into record so you
receive an email today from MR.
Sam Reed that talks about this
project and the amendments, and
there
s a statement in there
that says that this is not an
aspiration. It
s a commitment
100% to be paid by the
developer and so.
I hope that settle that
question, uh, uh, that is still
lingering and with that being
answered and that commitment
and all the amendments, I to
move uh.
For the support and ask
everyone uh to vote and thank
everyone that got us here.
Thank you. Thank you. Next in
the queue is council member
Parker. You recognize her.
Think of vice mayor, and I
m
going to be careful not to
repeat what my colleagues have
already said about this. I did
want to speak just a little bit
about the process, you know, I
know this was um a pretty heavy
lift for this body, um, for the
committees, um, really
appreciative of the planning
and zoning committee, um, Chair
Horton, uh, really appreciative
of the patience from the budget
committee folks at our
last meeting, um, you know,
it
s, it
s not an easy
situation when an area has
historically been in, you know,
two districts separated by a
very natural and obvious
boundary, um, from, from
downtown and that area is moved
into the downtown district and
so there
s these 3 folks that
sort of have.
An interest there
s obviously
you defer to the the district
council member, but there
s a
historical tie with the
communities in East Nashville
there and then there
s this
weird ripple of um open
meetings requirements in
Tennessee, um, so we really had
to lean on that committee
process, um, to get to where we
got here and I
m just I
m quite
proud of the body, quite proud
of the committee process, um,
for, for the work product here
and I just wanna.
Be sure to thank, uh, the lead
sponsor Council member Coupin
and um planning and zoning
chair, um, Ron Horton, so thank
you. Thank you, sir. Uh, next
in the queue is, uh, council
member Stiles, you
re
recognized man.
Thank you very much, Vice Mayor.
Um, I will be brief. I am
really excited to be a sponsor
on this bill. I think
this bill showed how we can all
work together to work for
constituents, also make great
decisions for the city and
this process I was sharing with
someone earlier that this was
so markedly different from last
term
s large planning process
for another large project that
I won
t name and that was a
veritable nightmare. This is
going so much smoother and I
m
grateful, um.
I, I feel like perhaps we
learned some lessons from last
term, um, but thank you for
everyone that came up with a
wonderful amendment, every
single council member and I
m
looking forward to seeing what
this manifests into over the
years to come. Thank you. Thank
you, MS. Stiles. Uh, next is,
uh, councilmember Evans, you
reckon that
s me. Thank you,
Vice Mayor. I
m really excited
that I, um, brought forward 3
amendments that went nowhere,
but I think
advanced at least some
conversations that I think are
important, in particular the
one about who
s paying for what,
um, because I think that was a
topic that was uh kind of
swirling around the edges and
hadn
t been very explicit and
so I appreciate the the
conversation around that and i
think it
s really important for
anybody in this room that
s
contemplating running for
another term, um, that you mark
this time in your memory, um,
because there will be future
opportunities where there will
probably be questions around
who
s paying for what, um, and
you
ll have an opportunity to
kind of weigh in on those uh
discussions in the future,
because ultimately, you know,
we did learn some things from
last term related to the
project that will not be named,
um, and one of it is the
material, um, outcomes that
probably we didn
t get deep
enough about really what um
these large projects look like
from an execution perspective
and how the what the impact
looks like in all of our
districts, um, so thanks again
for allowing
uh one of the, the suburban
areas to participate.
Thank you, MS. Evans. Um, all
right, last in the queue for
discussion, back to the primary
sponsor to bring it home. Go
ahead, sir. Thank you, MADAM
PRESIDENT, and I will try to
not to echo all the wonderful
things that were said, but a
deep appreciation to everyone I
forgot earlier to think, um,
Brian and Sammy and again Matt
for working tirelessly nights,
weekends, we were getting
emails all sorts of hours, so
thank you to everyone who put
in all this extra work to make
this happen, um, and thank you
to the development team, um
putting up a phenomenal amount
of money to make this project
go and we
ve been able to shape
it as a council and as a body,
um, but I think it it needs to
be said that they, they
re
putting up a big sacrifice to
take this from scrap yard to to
neighborhood, um, and then, and
then I just wanna end with
thanking the people um who
wrote, who called, who emailed,
um, this project is better
because of you, it
s better
because you contributed,
because you lifted up your
voice. Um, this is how we
should do bills, this is how we
should legislate, in my opinion.
I think this shows that we can
do that. We can land planes, um,
in, in this way collaboratively
with with
full buy in, um, so really
appreciative just to everyone
um who, who did it. I think we,
we are building a neighborhood
for Nashvillians, and so with
that I move approval as amended.
All right, um, uh,
we are on that motion already.
Um, uh, we have one more person
in the queue for discussion. Um,
uh, council member Ellis,
you
re recognized. Uh, thank
you, MADAM PRESIDENT. I just
wanted to take the time while
we have the spotlight and so
many of my colleagues worked,
uh, hours to get this right
that we also do the same with
the affordability challenges
that are facing African
Americans that was recently
reported on from Metro Social
Services
Thank you, MS. Ellis. Is there
any further, uh, discussion on
the motion to approve as
amended for ordinance bl
2026-1273 sponsor Coupon and
Stiles on its 3rd and final
reading.
Sing none, all in favor, please
say aye.
Any voting no? Any abstaining.
All right, this has passed its
3rd and final reading as
amended.
All right, hang, hang in there.
There is one more item, um, 2
more items, um, the first is,
uh, somewhat of a companion to
agenda item 56. It is agenda
item 57 ordinance bl 2026-1284,
sponsor Coupin. This is an
ordinance to amend Title 17,
the Metro Code of laws,
ordinance of the metro
government by changing from ig
to dtc zoning for various
properties located east
of Korean Veterans Boulevard
and south of Sylvan Street.
This is 40.96 acres, um,
council member Coupin, you are
recognized, sir. Thank you,
MADAM PRESIDENT. Committee
reports, please, right for the
report of the planning and
zoning, uh, Committee Chair
Horton, thank you, Vice Mayor.
Pnz recommended to approve 10
in favors, 0 against, 0, not
voting. Ok, it
s back to you,
MR. Coopin, for a motion to get
the bill before us. We move
approval. All right, there
s a
motion to approve. Is it
seconded? Ok. Um, uh, is there
any discussion
on, uh, this motion to approve?
Seeing none, all in favor,
please say aye.
Any voting no or abstaining.
All right, this too has passed,
uh, its 3rd and final reading.
And then we have one more item,
colleagues, it is agenda item
67. It is Ordinance bl
2026-1311 sponsor Kimbro. This
is an ordinance to mend Title
17, the Metro Code of Laws, the
zoning ordinances of the Metro
government by amending a
portion of a planned unit
development overlay district to
permit 120 multi-family
re s id ent ial units on
property located at 201 Gifford
Place, located at the corner of
Gifford Place in White
s Creek
Pike. This is 3.11 acres zoned
cs and within a planned unit
development overlay district.
Uh, council member Kimbro,
you
re recognized.
Thank you, Vice Mayor.
Committee report. Yes, ma
am.
Um, for the report of the
planning and zoning committee,
uh, Chair Horton, uh, for MS.
Kimbro
s 1311, please, sir.
Thank you, Vice Mayor. Pnz
recommended approval, 9 in
favor, 0 against, 0, not voting.
Ok, all right, it
s back to you
from, uh, a motion to get it
before us.
Move for approval. All right.
Is there a second? There is a
motion to approve properly
seconded on 3rd and final
reading, uh, MS. Kimbrough,
anything you wish to add?
Thank you for the support, and
I ask that you support it
tonight. This is 120
residential units, um, located
in the Joelton area. This was
previously, well, it
s
currently a day
s Inn hotel and
um the owners are gonna put $3
million into it to make these
120 units for people to have
options, um, living options.
Alrighty. Um, there is a motion,
uh, to
approve properly seconded, um,
of this ordinance on its third
and final reading. Um, you
ve
heard an explanation, uh, by
the sponsor, and we are on to
discussion first in the queue
is council member Stiles.
You
re recognized.
Thank you very much, Vice Mayor.
We have received a lot of
emails from constituents that
live close to this property.
They are not in support of this
project and as usual, I find it
very difficult to support
projects when people email,
show up to planning, show up to
the chamber, have concerns, I
think.
The people that elected us and
put us in office if they
complain, we need to take their
concerns into consideration,
and so I
m, I
m going to be an
abstention on this vote, but I
would encourage my colleagues
to please consider doing the
same. Everyone who buys
property, moves into a
neighborhood, it
s ok, wherever
they chose to live and the
reasons why they chose it, I
don
t think it is on us to say
we know better than you do.
Thank you. All right, um,
discussion continues. Council
member Benedict, you
re
recognized.
Previous question
All right, um, uh, MS. Benedict
has recalled, uh, the previous
question. It requires a second.
Ok? Uh, it, uh, is
non-debatable, as y
all know,
it requires 2/3 of those voting,
um, uh, if you want to end
discussion and move to the vote,
you would vote yes. If you want
to continue discussion, you
will vote no. Um, all in favor
of the previous question,
please say aye.
Uh, any voting no?
Ok. The ayes have it. The
question has been called, and
we move on, uh, to the vote. Um,
I think anticipating, um, MR.
Uh uh Benton having pulled it
off and you saying you
re going
to, um, is, is there anyone, MR.
Benton?
Is anyone requesting a roll
call?
Ok, we have 2 requests for roll
call. Um, so, uh, MR. Clark, if
you would please, uh, load the
vote, uh, for 1311 please sir,
which is on its 3rd and final
reading.
Understanding we MAY have a few
abstentions in those.
With all votes in, MR. Clerk,
please show the vote.
This ordinance has passed its
3rd and final reading with 29
votes in favor, 4 voting no,
and 3 abstentions. All right,
that is our last item on the
agenda. Um, our next council
meeting will be on Thursday,
MAY 7th with Monday committees
shifting to Wednesday. Uh, this
is due to the primary election
on MAY 5th. Early voting is
underway for that election.
Please vote early Nashville. Is
there a motion to adjourn?
We
re adjourned
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