Historic Zoning legislation on Metro Council agenda

[Jenny Alexander]

LEGISLATIVE ALERT

Metro Council (BL2025-742)

Historic Edgefield Neighbors (HEN) seeks to alert our neighbors to important legislation before Metro Council.

BL2025-742 seeks to consolidate the staff of the Metropolitan Historical Commission and the Historic Zoning Commission under the authority of the Metropolitan Department of Planning.

READ THE PROPOSED LEGISLATION

https://nashville.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7135746&GUID=922C91A1-634F-484B-8DBF-4C96669557A7&Options=&Search=

FIRST READING

This ordinance will be presented on first reading at tonight’s Metro Council Meeting. There will be no public comment during this meeting.

PUBLIC HEARING

If approved during the first reading, Members of the public may address the entire Council body at its next meeting on Tuesday, March 4th at the Metro Historic Courthouse. The meeting will begin at 6:30 pm.

NEWS ARTICLES RELATED TO THIS LEGISLATION UPDATE

Axios:

https://www.axios.com/.../historic-zoning-proposal-move...

Nashville Scene:

https://www.nashvillescene.com/.../article_3004f1fe-ec9d...

LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD (FOR OR AGAINST)

Please email the members of the metro council at:
Council...@nashville.gov with the subject line "Re: BL2025-742"

You may also want to contact the mayor: ma...@nashville.gov to express your concerns.

[Thomas J Brown]

In addition, what about a petition?  Including a next door petition?

Thom Brown

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[Jenny Alexander]

Sharing a message from Carol Williams --

Edgefield neighbors;

The new bill before Metro Council tonight is huge for future preservation of Historic Edgefield and all other Historic Zoning overlays.  Metro Historic has been a vital force . Without this independent voice, Edgefield would have been demolished by planning decades ago.

It is short sighted to ignore taking a stand on this bill.  Nashville is not known to prioritize any preservation over developers/investors.  

Metro Historic worked with neighbors for decades to save what little we have left.  Hundreds of homes were destroyed by Urban Renewal before Metro Historic and our zoning overlays.

Let’s not overlook that in Nashville, we cannot take for granted any  help/interests

in saving our history without an independent Metro Historic Department 

and Historic Commission.  Yes, we have exterior regulations but without Metro Historic, we would have been overtaken with new developments with no regard for 

for our historic district.

Activists neighbors embraced Metro Historic involvement and saved Historic Edgefield.  Many neighborhoods since have also benefited from the support of Metro Historic.  Meshing this department with planning gives Nashville’s history no voice.

Carol Williams