East Nashville Urban Design
@urbaneastnash.bsky.social
Primarily; Discussion of the urban fabric of East Nashville. Also; Housing, Safe streets, Urban Planning, Economics, Walking & Biking, History, & general observations of the built environment. Proud 'Density Bro' To support: https://www.patreon.com/DJS3
Rose (dark) spinning the tire so her & her brother Buddy (orange) can watch the reflector go round & round.
Spring Hill, TN I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how many new exurban neighborhoods have 20mph speed limits.
Doug Gordon@brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 4d ago20 mph speed limits are one those things where if a courageous mayor just did it—ahem, @mayor.nyc.gov—there would be a month of screaming before implementation and then it wouldn't take long before people forgot it was ever any different. (See also: congestion pricing, smoking bans, etc.)
⬇️ if your city is trying to build ‘artist housing’ it’s already lost the plot. Build housing of all shapes and sizes & let people live where they want. As well as subsidizing housing for those who can’t afford market prices.
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 5d agoThe peak of San Francisco's artistic/literary ferment occurred at a time when anyone could move to the city and find relatively cheap lodging. You can't get back there, or even close, by building some designated housing for artists and then subjecting applicants to some sort of art contest.
Hey East Nashville, our fur baby prudence got outside on Sunday night and has been missing since then. She is very shy and skittish. We live in the little Hollywood section of Lockeland Springs, off the fairway of hole 12 on the Shelby golf course. If you see her, please DM me! 🦞
Housing Choices workshop tonight. Come learn about the two new zoning categories. RN & RL.
Look. Not every city can be Rochester, NY & proactively remove highways. Some cities are a little behind the curve.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last wk.We're done kicking the can down the road. Here's how we're fixing the city-owned section of the BQE.
9 & 10 year old learn to ride class THIS Saturday - need 4 more students - info nashvillebikefun.org/event/9-10-y... cc @kemcdonell.bsky.social @walkbikenashville.bsky.social @cycling.city @pete-nash.bsky.social @urbaneastnash.bsky.social - please share!
Bike Fun@bikefun.bsky.social · last wk.We need FOUR more students to run this class! Registration will be extended to Friday 5PM!
If anyone has an exrra ticket to Emily Wilson at the Parthenon on September 1st (a Parnassus event), I'm interested.
Fox 17 just used a @themanaen.bsky.social public comment clip in an ad during the #TitanUp game. ‘We don’t just have a housing crisis, we have an affordability crisis’
This is getting into the realm of ‘Fantasy street planner’. But I think this intersection at Gallatin & Douglas could take a few feet from the West side to either add a 4’ bike lane on each side or just make the sidewalks 8-10’ on both sides. Or 6-8’ sidewalks with trees 🌳 in the buffers.
Good interview with @freddieoconnell.bsky.social , @betsyphillips.bsky.social & @bradengall.bsky.social I like that the Mayor pushed back on ‘we shouldn’t escalate things with the state’ & correctly says the state are the ones doing all the escalating.
Article was generous to NDOT / Metro. Who are being gigantic babies about regular people putting out seating for bus riders. While they themselves remove seating at the behest of downtown business interests who don’t want unhoused people to sit down anywhere in public view.
Spencer Sharpe@jspencersharpe.bsky.social · last wk.A blog from New York wrote about the benches
Big ridership increases for Nashville transit. Driven by the revenue from @freddieoconnell.bsky.social’s #CHYM referendum. #Nashville #Transit #ChooseHowYouMove
Neil Kornutick@neilkornutick.bsky.social · 2w agoBus numbers to the moon 🚀
A Planning Commission meeting when a large multifamily project in an affluent neighborhood is on the agenda.
hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · 2w agomilton keynes
What’s your Mayoral Proclamation request?
Nashville would be a better city & Tennessee a better state if the inner loop highways were removed. -Valuable land freed up to become productive (More sales tax for state, more property tax for the city) -Street connectivity restored. Good for all modes of traffic -Thru traffic uses outer loops
Chris Bowe@cbowe34.bsky.social · 2w agoWe should be planning Inner Loop highway removal, not adding the most cost intensive, least productive highway imaginable!
Highway expansion is almost universally bad for the environment and quality of life for local folks. It especially bad when it occupies incredibly valuable urban land, where the negative externalities of the adjacent highway impact a much higher concentration of people.
They call em highways cuz you gotta be high to think they’re the way
Did Joy Styles just vote against a random up-zoning in someone else’s district out of spite / to make a statement for her Mayoral campaign?
Had a burger 🍔 in Nashville’s best neighborhood because @jkupin4d19.bsky.social made hotdog 🌭 vending illegal. #WarOnHotDogs #TheGulchNashville
BPAC tonight, 5pm at Howard with subcommittee starting at 4pm. Both meetings are open to the public. See y'all there!
Anyone catch the Historic Preservation reference on The Simpsons last night?
Just filled out a @hubnashville.bsky.social request for a bush blocking a stop sign. Took me 30 seconds. I would go cut it myself but it's 100 degrees so I will use my local government for this one.
