by Rebecca Bynum
President Trump warned about the democratic plan to destroy our suburbs before the last Presidential election. The plan for Nashville is called NEST – Nashville’s Essential Structures for Togetherness. This proposal is comprised of NINE bills which will change the city forever. It will remove single family zoning for the entire county. and allow more “infill” housing which is already destroying my neighborhood of Green Hills and would allow what are now single-family homes to be divided into four-plexes to house as many as 20 people. The rationale for this insanity is that there is supposedly not enough middle-class housing (property values have gone up – big shock), but why they think the market can’t supply this supposed urgent need was not explained. That problem is solved now by people living outside the city where housing prices are lower and driving in. This has caused traffic problems, but instead of addressing those, the liberals in charge have put bike lanes all over the place (that no one uses), making traffic that much worse, and are proposing more busses that no one rides now.
Nevertheless, I attended what was supposed to be a community meeting on the NEST proposal yesterday. I have never seen anything like it. There was no actual meeting. Instead, we were forced to sit and listen to Councilwoman-at-large Quinn Evans Segall give her power point presentation pitching the proposal on how we have to remove single family zoning or else our teachers and firemen won’t have a place to live. There were terms in the power point board like – I kid you not – “bathroom equity.” Furthermore, they are going to remove safety regulations to make these four-plexes as cheap as possible and I suspect to enable what are now single-family homes to be chopped up into four units so that 20 people can live where there was once a single family.
Everybody suspects this is to house the illegal immigrants who have been pouring into our state since Biden took power.
The meeting had an overflow crowd – many, many people were not allowed into the room – they were kept out and the door shut. Eight-hundred people had previously signed up for a zoom meeting and they had to close that because they said there were too many people. So instead, they rented a small classroom at Belmont which held maybe 100 people and turned everyone else away.
After her interminable power point presentation, Quinn Evans Segall refused to answer direct questions from the audience. No one but she was allowed to speak. She did allow us to write our questions on cards to be screened by her assistant. When a couple of people objected and yelled, “We want to speak!” she shut down the meeting entirely – one half hour early – and apparently had called the police! Four policemen showed up in addition to the security guard.
In other words, there was no community meeting – they don’t want our feedback. They want to shove this proposal down our throats and too bad if we don’t like it.
Nashville is still a nice place to live, but it won’t be for much longer.
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9 Responses
Who overtly and/or covertly will profit from the NEST of vipers zoning and destructive construction proposals?
What’s the procedure for recall or override of a Council act?
Laughing out loud at your astute comments about the empty bike lanes! And it was absolutely crazy that she would not allow people to talk. You haven’t been on my radar until now…..thanks for attending the meeting.
This meeting you describe is the epitome of the “democracy” we have nowadays — “democracy” by, of, and for the elites, not “we the people”…
Makes me angry clear from here.
We need to have a recall election on Quin Evans Segall NOW. How do we start?
Good question.
Well you voted Democrat get what you sow. Till you decide to change Nashville political structure enjoy the destruction.
I live in Tullahoma, my daughters live in Nashville. We narrowly averted this disaster with the “2040 Plan” which would have re-zoned the entire city and paved the way for high density low income housing and “in-fill”. Joe Biden’s housing director specifically stated that the Biden plan did not go far enough to eliminate single family housing. They now call single family zoning “restrictive” zoning and are attacking it all across the country. This fight will not end soon unless we give up they destroy our neighborhoods.
Ask Quinn when is she going to divide her house so more people can live there! Nashville has a big problem, it is controlled by democrats. They must be voted out or they will destroy Nashville. They destroy everything they touch. I also live in Tullahoma and we have put conservatives on our board of aldermen but their is a local PAC wanting to change everyone on the board to liberals. Can you imagine a political action committee in a small town of 20,000?