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None of these need your voice this month - that's what puts them here rather than in the main menu. Some are decided. Some are simply quiet, and could start moving again. If one does, it moves up front and we say so.
Reviewed September 2026
Looking for I-24 Southeast Choice Lanes?
It's still moving — it has its own page in the main menu.
RESOLVED - APPROVED FEBRUARY 2026, AND RESHAPED BY NEIGHBORS ALONG THE WAY
Glencliff Road Rezoning
A developer bought four properties at the northeast corner of Glencliff Road and Antioch Pike, planning to replace four houses with up to 180 units. The neighborhood chose engagement over opposition for its own sake: community meetings, the developers invited to the table, residents putting their concerns to them directly. The developers listened, and the project changed substantially as a result.
Growth may be inevitable, but when neighborhoods have a meaningful seat at the table, they can help shape
that growth into something that better serves the entire community.
Alexa Little — President, Glencliff Neighbors
Rather than pursuing broad density zoning, the developers ultimately sought a Specific Plan tailored to the site — 80 units instead of up to 180 — carrying a good deal of what neighbors had asked for: additional green space with a pocket park, a turning lane, and a buffer between the new development and the existing homes.
Oct 13, 2025
Community meeting at Glencliff High School. Residents raised compatibility with neighborhood character, traffic, infrastructure and property values directly with the applicant.
Nov 13, 2025
The Planning Commission approved the plan with conditions, 6–0, adding a 20-foot buffer around the perimeter with healthy existing vegetation to be kept where possible.
Feb 3, 2026
Metro Council passed the rezoning on third reading (BL2025-1161). 6.88 acres changed from RS7.5 to SP zoning, permitting 80 multi-family units.
Partway through, the request was refiled as a Specific Plan — which is why the original case number, 2025Z-076PR-001, no longer turns up anything. It became 2025SP-052-001.
STUDY COMPLETE - THE ZONING IT PRODUCED IS NOW LIVE
Housing & Infrastructure Study
Metro Council asked the Planning Department to study whether Nashville's zoning was itself standing in the way of housing. Findings came out in March 2025 and draft recommendations in June 2025. The study is finished — but what it produced is not sitting on a shelf.
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Dec 4, 2025
Council passed BL2025-1005, 26–10, creating two new zoning districts — Residential Neighborhood (RN) and Residential Limited (RL). They allow townhomes, courtyard housing, triplexes and quadplexes in places that previously permitted only single-family homes. The Mayor signed it four days later.
Dec 4, 2025
The same night, BL2025-1007 passed 29–8, widening where detached accessory dwellings — garage apartments and carriage houses — are allowed.
Why this one is still on our list. RN and RL do not apply anywhere on their own. A councilmember has to propose applying them, parcel by parcel, in their own district. That makes this the most likely route by which new density arrives in District 16.
Nothing has been proposed under RN or RL in District 16 so far. If that changes, you'll hear it here first — and there will be a public hearing before it goes anywhere.
RELEASED - REVISED FEBRUARY 2026
Unified Housing Strategy
Metro's ten-year housing roadmap, led by the Planning Department's Housing Division. It's the document that sets the scale everything else gets measured against.
90,000 new homes over ten years
The target — roughly 9,000 a year, for an expected 175,000 additional residents.
20,000 homes
Within that: affordable to households at or below 60% of area median income, with particular weight on those at 30% and below.
Feb 17, 2026
A revised executive summary was published, superseding the April 2025 release. Seven strategies, A through G: funding, new construction, homeownership, supportive housing, preservation, access, and coordination.
Metro sets annual policy priorities under the strategy each fiscal year. The FY27 set hasn't been published yet, so the FY26 priorities are still the current ones. We'll update this line when FY27 appears.