Nashville Cliff

New draft TACIR report on affordable housing being presented on January 26, 2024. Draft here: Tab 9 Housing Draft Report (tn.gov)

Thanks, Ron!

Does anybody know what is going in the building at Gallatin & Seymour that is being remodeled? The former pawn shop next to the Nashville Biscuit House.

Ha! I thought that might be me at the picnic table (I was there on Monday), but it isn't.

Agreed, quite the spot. Love to walk down to that corner.

That makes sense. Thanks. I should have caught the side street reference. Not enough coffee, yet.

Are you sure about the address? That would be right across from the old auto diesel school. Doesn't look right.

Excellent. Thanks.

If they don't have the wherewithal to build, I wish they wouldn't have cut down all of those mature trees.

Interesting. Are there rumors as to what might be built there? What is the max allowed height by right?

Something all the "throw out zoning" urbanists should keep in mind.

That's kind of you to say. Thank you.

Mostly accurate synopsis. The one application submitted in Tennessee was by Chattanooga, endorsed by the state and by the cities of Memphis, Nashville, and Atlanta; it was for a route from Memphis to Nashville and then on to Chattanooga and Atlanta. So, the tier 1 route we identified in our study and one of the tier 2 routes.

The deadline was not missed because of the timing of the report. And, fwiw, the feds say there will be another wave of route ID applications. And it's not entirely clear that the routes that the group of cities submitted missed the deadline or not. Amtrak testimony to congress suggests that they consider that application to have met the deadline.

Ron, thanks. Problem with Nashville to Knoxville is that there isn't an existing, live freight line, which means the state would have to lay a lot of new track over very difficult terrain.