July neighborhood updates

[Rosebank Neighbors]

Hello neighbors, 

There will be no Rosebank Neighbors meeting during July. Our next meeting will be on Thursday, August 19th. We will most likely be meeting IN PERSON, so please put this date on your calendar! 

Here are a few neighborhood updates this month: 

• On July 14 and July 15, Nashvillians will have the opportunity to learn more about the Imagine East Bank Study and provide feedback on the project’s initial discoveries and future direction. Team members from Metro Planning and architecture firm Perkins Eastman will share opportunities and challenges presented by the East Bank, as well as some preliminary planning and design ideas.Each meeting with start with a brief introduction and be followed by a 90-minute feedback session, with participants invited to visit various interactive stations that will highlight specific issues related to the study area. A video summary will be posted to eastbankstudy.nashville.gov for those who cannot attend in-person, along with a link to a survey for additional feedback. The Imagine East Bank study will look at ways to integrate parks, greenways, and multimodal streets so that the area develops in a thoughtful and cohesive manner. Perkins Eastman, a firm with a history of planning waterfront projects, will work with residents, property owners, and the city, to develop a plan for 338 acres between the interstate and the river, up to Jefferson Street.

• Construction of a sanitary sewer rehabilitation project will start in July in portions of Shelby Park and along Cooper Creek. Much of this construction lies on the border between Shelby and Rosebank. The project is expected to last approximately 16 months. https://www.cleanwaternashville.org/shelby-park-rehabilitation-area-6-shelby-trunk
• The tiny house hotel project at Rosebank/Riverside is entering phase 2 to add more units in the rear, and the property owner has been working with Codes to appeal the required buffer zone requirements when commercial properties abut residentially zoned properties. For instance, the required buffer zone requirement includes a 6’ solid fence in addition to shrubbery. The adjacent market on Rosebank actually sits on residential zoning and it is a grandfathered legally nonconforming use and so the buffer zone applies because it has residential zoning even though it is a commercial use. The market owner objected to having a fence installed because it would block the view of the market, and so the tiny house hotel owner is working with Codes to appeal the fence requirement there at the request of the market owner.  Similarly, there is a lot line dispute with the house next door to the south on Riverside and that homeowner wanted to keep the existing fence rather than move/remove it and erect a new fence along the commercial property’s frontage, especially since the commercial lot line was surveyed and includes a few feet of what he had considered to be his yard. So that is being worked out with Codes as well as the project owner or contractor is working with the adjacent neighbors on either side on requesting modifications to the residential-commercial buffer zone requirements in the site plan.
• The Brittany/Barclay Contextual Overlay will have a Planning Commission public hearing on 08/26 and is presently scheduled to have a Metro Council public hearing on 09/07.  Email: barclaybrit...@gmail.com
• The Cornelia Fort Airpark playground sunshades are in the Capital Improvements Budget and are anticipated to cost $75,000. The Cornelia Fort Airpark playground is technically located in District 6, but former CM Anthony Davis (district 7)  initiated that request and CM Benedict has been following up on it. That money wasn't in the Capital Spending Plan, but she's hoping to find a way to get them funded in some other way over the new fiscal year.
• The operating budget passed on June 15, and the new property tax rate for all of Rosebank (and the city's urban services district) is now $3.288, which is the third lowest tax rate in the metro government's history.
•  Summer paving scheduled:

Cahal Ave from Gallatin to Riverside

Stratford from Porter to McGavock

McGavock from Gallatin to Riverwood

Marsden from Riverside to Stratford/Dead End

Pennington from Cahal to Litton

Scott from Otay to Cahal

Tanglewood from Haysboro to Brush Hill

• The traffic calming application period will open again from July 5 through July 30. If an application has been turned in before then it does not need to be resubmitted. We haven't funded this much in the past, and we are finally beginning to see some small progress being made around the county - there is A LOT of need. Details for the program, and the application, can be found here: https://www.nashville.gov/Public-Works/Traffic-and-Parking/Traffic-Calming.aspx
• The reduced speed limits on neighborhood streets are now being posted throughout the area. Earlier this year, the council passed a law changing the default speed limit on neighborhood streets from 30 mph down to 25 mph. The signs are being changed throughout the county, and we are seeing them in a lot of places in the district now.
• Next brush pick-up in Area 2 starts on August 26th. Review brush guidelines: https://www.nashville.gov/Public-Works/Brush-Yard-Waste-Collection.aspx
• Next pickin party at Cornelia is July 17th. Get tickets or sign up to volunteer here: https://www.corneliafortpickinparty.org/tickets

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Rosebank Neighbors

The Gateway to the Greenway

Organization for residents in the Rosebank area of East Nashville

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