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4 hours ago, PaulChinetti said:With the Koch brothers getting involved, what is their end goal? Just not mass transit for anyone? I'm confused as to what they hope to gain by getting involved in this, anyone have some insight?
Self-interest. The Koch Brothers are fossil fuel magnates. They fund groups across the county who oppose pretty much any form of mass transit in any city so as to keep people reliant on cars and gasoline. They also fund groups that deny climate change.
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1 hour ago, nashville_bound said:
Wow! I could care less about her having an affair. However, the fact that it was with a subordinate and she traveled with her paramour to the tune of 33K in taxpayer funds is problematic!
Her public statement claimed that all travel and overtime was business related and that the books corroborate that.
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3 minutes ago, e-dub said:
/r/nashville is the herpes of reddit, it's even worse than the east nashville group on facebook - and that place is bad.
Aw, I love my East Nashville Facebook page. I'm originally from New Jersey, though, and the toxicity of it just reminds me of home.
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2 hours ago, titanhog said:
Yeah...always has to be a "conservative", huh?
Fiscal conservative, yeah.
2 hours ago, PaulChinetti said:"sucked dry" that always gets me, not singling you out. When did it become such a burden for people to be part of this country and pay their way. If these people that have that feeling live in their houses and use no governments services sure, they can have that feeling but I doubt there are many hide-a-way hermits living in Davidson country haha.
Ugh, mini rant over
Paul, I agree (for the most part). I wasn't expressing my own viewpoint, just what I witness from the discussions on there. Henburg is right: That sub is filled with anti-growth rants, which is why I was surprised to see such a positive take on this. Anyway, I'm not going to pretend to know exactly what the announcement signifies, but that's the latest development in this Nashville-AirBnB war.
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Just now, CenterHill said:
Sorry, but no it won't. Homeowners whose residential zoned neighborhoods are being overrun by investor-owned STRs will not be appeased in the least by Airbnb's attempt to buy Metro council approval.
It won't affect the number of STR permits issued or create any leniencies in restrictions of current STRs if I understand correctly.
I came across the article on the Nashville Reddit thread and a lot of people seemed somewhat placated actually. I think a lot of the more conservative residents just feel sucked dry by all these new tax increases (whether they affect them or not) and being *given* tax money back by a company just feels like a small victory, even if mainly only an ideological one.
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"Tennessee to receive $13 million annually in AirBNB tax revenue agreement".
http://fox17.com/news/local/tennessee-to-receive-13-million-annually-in-airbnb-tax-revenue-agreement
Maybe this will help ease tensions a bit.
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I pass that property on my walks all the time and I've always thought it would be great for a development like this! Although they on't show up on that map, the property is flanked by two other large-scale developments of single family homes with a total of about 150 new residences. I like the direction that this neighborhood is going.
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Ground has broken on Elmington Capital's 210-unit apartment complex at 1205 Robinson Road in Old Hickory. The development will provide affordable housing to seniors 62+. They're preserving the large brick home on the property and building units both in front of and behind it.
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Here's some recent activity in Old Hickory Village. "The Residences At Old Hickory Lake" has been completed and several other three-story residential buildings are almost finished just down the street. A few blocks away, a development of what looks to be about 50 homes is underway.
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1 hour ago, FromParkAveToTN said:
Those people make me so angry because I have several friends fighting cancer right now and fighting for life and these idiots are taking life for granted.
I don't see the relation. I think, too, that an argument could be made that these people are trying to live life to the fullest.
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Just in case anyone hasn't seen this yet, I wanted to share a picture of THE skinniest tall-skinny I've ever seen. It has to be literally about 8' by 16'. I think they built it out from a shed foundation. On 2nd Ave South between the fairgrounds and downtown.
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http://mashable.com/2013/07/03/urban-gondolas/#IjeihkCXguqA
https://www.curbed.com/2017/9/21/16340394/urban-gondolas-cable-cars-cities
If we're thinking outside the box, I really would love to see some sort of gondola in Nashville. It's substantially less expensive, would be another branding element for the city, and it would generate huge amounts of tourist revenue. I know I'd ride it just for the views.
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4 hours ago, markhollin said:
Welcome to the forum, fishsticks176! Please keep us in the loop of new developments in/around Madison. You're also more than welcome to join us for our monthly Meet-Ups. Our next is tomorrow (Sat. Dec. 2), from 10 AM to noon at Luna Llena Taqueria (300 James Robertson Parkway downtown, at the NW corner of JRP and 3rd Ave. North). We're a real friendly bunch and always have lively discussion about all the developmental goings-on around Nashville.
Thanks, Mark! I've been a long-time lurker but have always gotten an error message when trying to create an account. I don't know what changed yesterday, but the site finally let me make one. I'm excited to be part of the conversation!
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Madison is definitely in the early stages of redevelopment. It still has a few years to go, though, I think, before it really gets on the radar. I've lived in Madison for just over five years and it was stagnate up until about eighteen months ago. The residents have finally started to change. My neighborhood is now almost half millennials who've been priced out of East Nash. There have been twenty eight new builds and/or total rehabs just within a two-block radius of my house (and a 100+ subdivision almost completed four blocks away), a new community center slated to open this spring, and Metro has been updating the infrastructure to accommodate an increase in population (new sewers, new roads, bike lanes, etc). Between the bowling alley, Nashville Memorial, the Neely's Bend development, the Skyline hotel, the light rail terminus, the smaller developments on Gallatin Pike (the new Aldi/Beverage Warehouse complex, etc) and now Madison Square, I'm thinking that we'll see a boom in the next few years.
I took a walk around the block the other day and snapped some pictures of the new builds. Thankfully we've avoided tall-skinnies for the most part. I'm so proud of my little neck of the woods.
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The Transportation and Mass Transit Megathread
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And the people who move in to replace this impending mass exodus of transients may in part be drawn in by a city that has real transit options.
The majority of funding will be shouldered by tourists, no? If I understood the proposal correctly, the half-cent bump in sales tax seems to be the only tax increase that will directly affect Davidson County residents. In exchange for a light rail system, that seems like a hell of a deal to me.
Don't get me wrong--I'm not dismissing anyone's viewpoints on the matter. With all of the woes over tax hikes as it relates to the transit referendum, I feel like maybe I'm missing something.