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  1. Nashvillain
    I believe that I was wrong
  2. Nashvillain
    The Oracle is already taken by the Golden State Warriors' arena, I believe
  3. Nashvillain
    I may not know accounting, but I know how to read: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/sports-jobs-taxes-are-new-stadiums-worth-the-cost/ https://www.investigativepost.org/2021/12/13/little-economic-benefit-from-new-stadium/ https://econreview.berkeley.edu/the-economics-of-sports-stadiums-does-public-financing-of-sports-stadiums-create-local-economic-growth-or-just-help-billionaires-improve-their-profit-margin/
  4. Nashvillain
    It's not a done deal. Reasonable objections cannot be reduced to naysaying and negativity. The mayor's and the Titans' are not the only voices that matter. Your contention that a new stadium "will most certainly bring in more revenue" is not backed up by any data.
  5. Nashvillain
    The point isn't that a great Nashville neighborhood will or won't' be built, it's to refute the mayor's claim that tourists will pay for the stadium. If the sales tax capture zone includes the new East Bank neighborhood (some or all of it), then Nashvillian's tax money will go to fund the stadium.
  6. Nashvillain
    Counterpoint to the breathless "reporting" from The Tennessean https://defector.com/you-can-still-get-a-stadium-deal-by-making-crap-up/ And some context for the numbers--private vs. public (from the Sycamore Institute)
  7. Nashvillain
    Still more than a billion off. I'm not advocating one way or the other, just relaying what I've read from some councilmembers' tweets in reaction to the announcement.
  8. Nashvillain
    My understanding is this needs council approval. The full report on the condition of the stadium and costs of upgrades from Venue Solutions Group will be made available to Metro Council on November 1. In 2017, Venue Solutions Group produced a report indicating that it would cost less than $300 million to complete necessary upgrades, while in the updated report, they say it will cost between 1.75 and 1.95 billion dollars. Expect members of the council to have questions about this discrepancy.
  9. Nashvillain
    Random pic while biking on the Greenway today:
  10. Nashvillain
    I don't know what I now know about anything having to do with Nashville now where I live or where the airport is
  11. Nashvillain
    While we're charging for taking up the public right of way, let's get rid of all free on-street parking. Free storage of private property on public space...?
  12. Nashvillain
    Not doubting the veracity of this claim, but I'd be curious to see a list of these developments
  13. Nashvillain
    Most of them have been converted to STRs
  14. Nashvillain
    Is it currently a time of suburban flight and "'vacuum'"? Hard to see how we're entering a period just like the 70s...
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    Putting this in the Coffee House in an extant thread where no one will ever see it... Your City's Wealth Isn't Where You Think (strongtowns.org)
  17. Nashvillain
    And no offense to you Smeagolsfree, but your decision not to drive into town to catch a show at the venue without parking is exactly the kind of change in decision making and behavior that minimum or maximum parking policies are meant to induce.
  18. Nashvillain
    Your example of Germantown is revealing because every new project there has parking, and yet the streets, sidewalks, bike lanes, greenways, and every available nook and cranny is jammed with parked cars during peak hours. This should tell us something (a couple things it tells us is that people don't like parking in garages. Don't like walking more than a block to their destination. There's a glut of underutilized garage parking. Traffic in urban neighborhoods is people driving around looking for a space close to their destination). There needs to be a shift in how we build our cities to shift people into alternative modes of getting around. Doing the same thing we've been doing for the past 70 years will result in the same outcome. Mass transit won't be viable if there's no reason to take it because your car is parked in the garage attached to your building (or the garage attached to your house in the burbs) and your destination has easy parking in the lot or garage attached to it. Furthermore, it's hard to get the densities where mass transit becomes truly viable and sustaining when so much land use is given over to car storage. Show me an example of effective mass transit in an American city where parking is abundant.
  19. Nashvillain
    Constantly complaining about how bad WeGo is... on the other hand, advocating for MORE PARKING!
  20. Nashvillain
    Mr. Biden, Tear Down This Highway from the NYTimes
  21. Nashvillain
    I'm guessing the top is Vancouver and I have no idea about the bottom one. Phoenix? (Just kidding)
  22. Nashvillain
    Lol, they'd have to be pretty dense to buy that when it would obviously be just as much a tax on suburban/exurban commuters. But, hey, could be worth a try!
  23. Nashvillain
    You're right about congestion pricing being a non-starter with state government and, as far as I'm aware, it's not even on anyone's radar in Metro (kind of like purchasing the tracks through the Gulch before CSX removed them went over everyone's head except Rookzie's). I'm just trying to project optimism and thinking that things (local and state politics) can change faster than we anticipate
  24. Nashvillain
    But shouldn't people have the choice? Let developers figure out how much parking is needed. Let people buy a unit without parking if they want. Sounds rational. As opposed to the current system where we have an absolute glut of parking and owners and renters pay for a spot--or multiple spots--whether they use them or not. At some point, Nashville will put pressure on driving. Congestion pricing. No free on-street parking. Removing lanes. These changes are coming (slowly because 'Murca), but the status quo is untenable.
  25. Nashvillain
    If downtown (which hasn't had parking mins since 2010 I believe) is anything to go by, they won't be very generous
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