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DOG PARK is sorely needed! bring it on! They should let people use the Greer Stadium field as an enormous dog park until it is time for demo. It would also be nice to step back a little bit and look at the relationship between Ft. Negley Park, the Cemetery, Rose Park and Reservoir Park. Would be great to link all of these green spaces together.

Not terrible, but would be vastly more enticing to the pedestrian with a second entrance or some type of activation along Southside instead of that blank wall

Navigating these areas on foot becomes increasingly frustrating every time a new project breaks ground. I'm bummed about those two buildings being lost, and I'll be even more upset if they condemn the sidewalk for the next few years while the hotel comes out of the ground. The latest one I have seen is the palm trees project at 19th and Church. I can't believe public works continues to issue sidewalk closure permits for this kind of crap against all engineering guidelines and ADA requirements. SIDEWALK CLOSED [1 FOOT] AHEAD <- DETOUR [DIRECTLY INTO TRAFFIC AND SAY A PRAYER]

Turning lane. MPW wants more lanes everywhere.

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I don't thing MPC would approve rezoning with those massings. If they are serious about this proposal they will need a better plan that is more urban and walkable to achieve rezoning.

I vote we close down hillsboro to automobile traffic between acklen and blakemore at all hours and turn the street into a ped mall. Maybe we could leave a through lane for buses and emergency vehicles and do a big roundabout at music row and wedgewood too, just to throw the luddites and their cars a bone.

The major project definitions should be expanded to include buildings that have been designated worthy of preservation.

This is an opportunity to reconfigure the street so that the bike lane doesn't turn into a taxi-stand/delivery vehicle parking zone all hours of the day. For many cyclists, its harrowing to have to merge into the traffic lane while going uphill at a slower than normal pace. Ideally this project will keep the active, ped-friendly streetscape and also add some amenities that turn the area into more of a 24 hour neighborhood. A grocery store and a pharmacy would be great as long as the building forms are appropriately urban and the parking is structured and lined with active uses. I'm glad that urban development is pushing towards West End, and I feel like the more these secondary blocks build out, the more out of place the WES hole and car lots will feel. Although I personally don't love any of the bars here now, they are an amenity to many residents and worthy of inclusion in future plans. I'd love to see somebody open a throwback to the old cheesy gift shops full of hank williams and loretta lynn merchandise as a nod to the area's past. I would also love to see TDOT make some capital improvements to the overpass over I-40. It needs a higher guard rail, pedestrian scale lighting, wider sidewalks, and perhaps the developers trying to push the demonbreun hill moniker could contribute some funds for distinctive gateway signage. I have a theory that one of the reasons Demonbreun is a hot corridor for developers now is partly because of the investments that the city has made to make it more of a complete street with landscaped medians, pedestrian refuges, and bike lanes. The scale of the street is more appropriate for mixed-use and walkable developments than other corridors where this amount of pedestrian activity would feel out of place if not straight up dangerous. I like to imagine the kind of density and activity that the church street corridor could achieve if it received a similar makeover. The one major component missing from both corridors is transit. Although it is not our most pressing transit need by any means, a streetcar loop formed by demonbreun and church would be such an awesome downtown amenity and a real catalyst for increased density and low-car lifestyles. Theoretically they could just move the green bus routes to this kind of loop, but knowing MTA the buses would probably be sent on random detours every other day. I imagine a transit system that makes use of the center flex lane space on the demonbreun and church street viaducts and uses mid-block boarding stations that also double as pedestrian refuges to make crossing easier. The surface street sections of Church and Demonbreun could easily be reconfigured from their current alignment to accept this kind of treatment. The reconfig might actually increase automobile throughput by eliminating awkward lane shifts at 21st+ church and 14th ave + church, for example. The limitation is that you would only be able to run in one direction, but the loop is small enough that it wouldn't be that much of a pain in the butt if the service was fairly frequent. Politically, it would probably be impossible to implement something like this now unless it was as a phase of a regional transit solution, but whatever, still nice to dream!

Its always shocking to me how haphazardly pedestrian traffic is managed around construction sites in Nashville. Just throw some cones all over the street, shut down every sidewalk (but NEVER a lane of traffic except in the rarest of cases) and hope to god nobody with a vision impairment tries to make safe passage around the site. Its really only a matter of time before somebody is injured or killed because of shoddy practices like this.

I think MPW is adding a turning lane here

There is a crew that is currently widening the northbound church street exit.

The stonehenge products are not affordable. 1100 dollars a month for a less than 500 sq ft studio in a building that is already deteriorating (note16) is a cash grab, not affordable housing. You're giving these guys too much credit.

Ha! It has been there for like 6 years now, so not without precedent for a manmade pond.

I think its owned by the kimbro oil company

Its a parking garage! Classic Nashville preservation priorities.

My guess is apartments or some concept nightlife thing like the kennedy school: http://www.mcmenamins.com/427-kennedy-school-home Personally I think its highest and best use would be as an actual middle school.

I wish they would reconnect 6th Ave to broadway when they redevelop the old convention center site.

It could be sent to the general fund and then used for police, fire, and other safety measures, while also contributing to the city's sidewalk program, which uses a Sidewalk Priority Index to determine where sidewalk maintenance and construction is most needed.

from their FB: Wednesday, October 8 at 7:45am - 9:00am Location: Ruby 2411 Blakemore Ave, Nashville, Tennessee 37212 Join Walk/Bike Nashville and the Sidewalk Foundation/Shade Parade for a coffee and panel discussion with the candidates for Nashville's next mayor. WPLN's Bobby Allyn will moderate a discussion with Mayoral Candidates on sidewalks and the future of our streets. Coffee and snacks will be provided. Doors open at 7:45am, panel discussion begins at 8:00am. Please submit questions for candidates to [email protected]. Parking will be available at Harris Hillman (1706 26th Ave S, Nashville, TN 37212) or you can walk or ride your bike!

Our next mayor will have a lot on the plate regarding walkability and pedestrian infrastructure. Walk/Bike Nashville is hosting a candidate forum where the mayoral frontrunners will get a chance to outline their strategy to turn the tide on Nashville's pitiful pedestrian record. I hope you all will come and bring this discussion about public/private financing, downtown v. neighborhood focus, and facility quality to the people who will be making these decisions in the next administration. Your enthusiasm and expertise would benefit the city. More details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/359966430823457/

The other big issue is bringing the buildings up to code during renovations. Its not so difficult to do that for the first story, but retrofitting the upper stories to allow for emergency ingress and egress that is up to today's codes while retaining enough floorspace for lofts or whatever is tough. Kress lofts was able to do it by combining multiple adjacent buildings that now share a fire escape.

Waverly-Belmont School with addition: And here is how it looks today, courtesy of google maps: http://goo.gl/maps/nzoQz

They should use the turn lanes on both viaducts as flex lanes like on hermitage avenue. The extra capacity would be useful during rush hours and special events. I'm glad we'll finally have some space for bikes here. I also hope that fewer lanes will slow down drivers coming off of the interstate into downtown. As currently configured, church is a speed funnel. The lack of transition from four lane highway to two lane street with lots of ped activity contributes to the high rate of pedestrian injuries and deaths around the 8th and Church intersection. I would love to see the city put together a church st./elliston place master plan and give the road a complete streets makeover from centennial park to the river. It could easily become the city's favorite street with a small amount of public investment. Throw in some bike lanes, improved sidewalks, public art, and plantings and people would flock to all of the cool old buildings along the corridor in greater numbers than they already do.