We are asking each of you to send an email to the Metro Planning Commission TODAY opposing two items sponsored by CM Rollin Horton in District 20, West Nashville. 

Both items involve a sweeping, blanket up-zone of 329.32 acres involving over 2,600 properties with the majority currently zoned R and RS.

Many of these property owners have only recently learned their property is to be rezoned to

RM-40-A-NS, which allows 40 units per acre.

On this Thursday's Metro Planning Commission agenda:

Item 28a – 2025Z-047PR-001 - A request to rezone from RS3.75, RS3.75-A, R6, R6-A, RM9, RM20, RM20-A, RM40, MUN, MUN-A, OR20, CN, CL, CS, CS-A and IR zonings to RM40-A-NS, MUN-A, MUL-A and OR40-A zoning for various properties located on the east and west sides of 51st Avenue North, north of I-40 and south of Centennial Boulevard, between 63rd Avenue North and 43rd Avenue North, and north of Centennial Boulevard east and west of 61st Avenue North and Linder Industrial Drive and on the northeast side of 51st Avenue North and Louisiana Avenue, (329.32 acres), requested by Councilmember Rollin Horton and various property owners.

Item 28b – 2025UD-002-001 - A request to apply an Urban Design Overlay District for various properties located on the east and west sides of 51st Avenue North, north of I-440, between 63rd Avenue North and 43rd Avenue North, on the north and south side of Centennial Boulevard, and between Delaware Avenue and Louisiana Avenue to 56th Avenue North south of Centennial Boulevard, and between Couch Drive and Linder Industrial Drive to 61st Avenue North on the west side of 51st Avenue North, zoned RS3.75, R6, R6-A, RM9, RM20, RM20-A, RM40, OR20, R6, MUN, MUN-A, CN, CL, CS, and IR (395.59 acres), requested by Councilmember Rollin Horton and various property owners.

The staff recommendation for both items is to disapprove as submitted, but approve a substitute. However, the substitute still involves blanket up-zoning of over 2,600 properties.

Our concerns include:

• Many property owners take issue with a blanket up-zone without their input.
• Property owners have concerns about pedestrian safety, parking, and noise
• There are currently two 400-unit apartment complexes being built, adding potentially over 1,000 cars to existing streets
• Have the majority of current residents asked for increased density next door or even on their street? Probably not.

Please ask the members of the MPC to disapprove both items 28a and 28b and the substitute.

Charlotte Cooper

Green Hills

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