And I would like to welcome everyone to the Metropolitan Council.

Happy New Year to you all, and I want to open this meeting by acknowledging that this meeting is being held on the unceded stolen land of the Cherokee Shiny and Yuchi people, and remind you that no one is illegal on stolen land that was built by stolen labor.

Before we start our announcement period presentations for today, uh, I do want to acknowledge that we do have the ladies of Delta Sigma Theta with us today for their third Delta Day at the Metropolitan City Council.

These are the members of the Nashville Alumni Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sority Incorporated and its Social Action Committee.

Thank you all for joining us today, and thank you all for your service.

Thank you so very much.

And our first uh resolution we have today is a resolution recognizing human trafficking awareness month by Council Member Gadd.

This is a rec resolution recognized in January 2026 as Human Trafficking Awareness Month in Nashville and Davidson County.

Councilmember Gay, you are recognized.

Whereas human trafficking is a high heinous act that involves the exploitation of adults and children for sex or labor and harms public safety and health.

And whereas the treatment court was formed in January 2016 as cherished hearts at the suggestion of assistant district attorneys Tammy Meade and Deb Smith, who returned to Nashville after a conference with the idea of starting a treatment court for justice involved survivors of human trafficking and whereas the program's strategic approach allows victims of sexual trauma to reduce the psychological harm of traditional court processes, connects participants with services and provides an opportunity for victims of sexual trauma to leave their exploiter and whereas Athena's Court, now presided over by Judge Anna L.

Escobar will celebrate his 10th anniversary on February 2026.

And it's fitting and proper for the Metropolitan Council to recognize the treatment court for its decade of conscientious service to Nashville and David County.

And oh well that much happened.

Thank you.

Whereas Human Trafficking Awareness Month provides an opportunity to recognize the critical partnership, state and local governments, victim service providers, law enforcement agencies, and other organizations, along with the role of all Nashville and Davison County residents to prevent and respond to these crimes and to serve victims and survivors.

Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Council of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County that the Metropolitan Council hereby goes on record.

It's recognizing January 2026 as Human Trafficking Awareness Month in Nashville and Davidson County and recognizing the 10th anniversary of Athena's Court and the Davidson Davidson County General Sessions Court.

This resolution shall take effect from and after its adoption.

The welfare of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County requiring it.

Well done, welcome.

Speaker Pro Tem, I would like to invite uh just for a moment, uh Judge Escobar and Amala Amanda Clellan from Thistle Farms to share just a brief word and then we'll gather for a photo and we'll appreciate our colleague for taking that photo.

So thank you so much to the Metro Council and especially for uh council lady uh Brenda Gadd and all of you for supporting us.

Um we are deeply grateful for your continued support of our treatment court and for taking the issue of human trafficking seriously.

Your commitment sends a powerful message that survivors matter and they deserve a real pathway to safety and independence.

I also want to thank my incredible staff and team that are all here.

Um they work around the clock 24-7 to ensure our participants feel supported, seen, and never alone.

Their dedication is the heart of Athena's court.

I especially want to thank Grace Gera, who applied for our current grant.

Because of her work, we've been able to hire this outstanding staff and team and provide our participants with the critical benefits that helps them take their first step forward into independent living.

And finally, I want to thank all our community partners for the last 10 years.

Your daily collaboration helps us maintain safety and support for our participants as they work towards stability and independence.

We could not do this work without you.

So thank you again for believing in this mission and the people we serve.

On behalf of Thistle Farms, we are grateful to the Metro Council for once again recognizing human trafficking awareness month.

It is an issue that is so often misunderstood, dramatized, and stigmatized, and can be perceived as a moral failing or a choice.

But as Thistle Farms founder Becca Stevens puts it, if you think prostitution was a choice, what do you think were the options?

That's because people are often trafficked by intimate partners and by their own family members.

They can be exploited by a trafficker taking advantage of someone who is vulnerable after experiencing a trauma.

And people can be trafficked as a result of food and housing insecurity and by the failure of the very systems that were meant to provide support and options in the first place.

Human trafficking is a community issue that demands a community response.

The Nashville I know and love is known for coming together during moments of crisis and disaster, so I know we can rise to the occasion and look out for one another in this too.

Thank you again.

Again, thank you so much.

And um, for anyone like to take a photo, we'll take a photo now, and I will also grab your proclamation copies.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Gayett.

We'll do a real quick photo.

We do have another resolution um uh immediately after do it like this, and then if you guys so much.

Thank you so much.

And next we have a resolution honoring the Nashville Conflict Resolution Center.

Uh, Council members Sorora and Alan, and this is a resolution recognizing the Nashville Conflict Resolution Center for its 25th anniversary.

Expired.

And council members, you are recognized.

Waiting for my honorees to come forward.

Here we go.

Well, I invite other council members to join us.

Whereas the conflict resolution center, NCRC, was founded as a volunteer organization by members of the Nashville Bar Association in 2000 to provide people with efficient, cheap, and stress-free access to justice and whereas since its founding, the NCRC has provided access to free and low-cost mediation for low-income residents, nonprofits, and small business owners of Nashville and Davidson County.

Through mediation, NCRC has helped their participants to retain control of their cases outcomes by creating realistic and sustainable solutions quickly and cost-effectively and whereas in its 25th year, NCRC continues to achieve results for their participants.

NCRC has managed a 73% agreement rate, serving 2,067 individuals through 1,134 hours of mediation.

The organization's dedication to the people of Nashville and Davidson County has resulted in 349 completed parenting cases, 229 completed civil cases, and 35 completed victim offender cases in 2025.

And whereas NCRC has expanded their services across Middle Tennessee through remote mediation referrals and partnerships with courts and surrounding counties.

Okay.

Whereas it is fitting and proper for the Metropolitan Council to recognize NCRC for its quarter century of service to those in need of Nashville and Davidson County.

Now therefore, be resolved by the Council of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County that the Metropolitan Council hereby goes on record as recognizing the Nashville Conflict Resolution Center for its 25th anniversary.

This resolution shall take effect, and after its adoption, the will feel of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County requiring it.

Thank you so much for having us.

A quick word.

Thank you so much.

My name is Shannon Wagner, and I have the honor of serving as the executive director of Nashville Conflict Resolution Center.

And on behalf of our board, staff, volunteers, and the thousands of Nashvilleans we that have walked through our doors over the past 25 years.

Thank you for this resolution and for recognizing the enduring value of community mediation in our city.

NCRC was found formed with a powerful belief that conflict, when handled with care, skill, and dignity can be an opportunity rather than an endpoint.

And this resolution matters because it affirms something we see every day that justice does not happen through rulings and orders, but through conversation, accountability, and the willingness to listen.

Community mediation is not a shortcut around the legal system.

It is a vital complement to it.

It creates space for people to be heard, to repair harm, and to move forward with greater understanding and stability.

And for 25 years, NCRC has worked in close partnership with Metro courts, law enforcement, schools, housing providers, and community organizations.

Together, we have helped parents work, create workable parenting plans, neighborhoods resolve long-standing disputes, tenants avoid eviction, while keeping landlord solvent and individuals find a path forward without future entanglements in the system that's already stretched thin.

But what I am most proud of is not the number of cases served.

It is the culture of being built around conflict resolution in the city.

Nashville has chosen again and again to invest in approaches that are humane, trauma-informed, and grounded in the belief that people are capable of change.

Mediation not only saves money in the long run, it treats people with dignity and respect.

So thank you to Metro Council for recognizing this milestone and for affirming that community-based solutions belong at the heart of public safety, justice, and well-being.

We are deeply grateful of your partnership and your leadership and honored to serve the city for 25 years.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

This is interesting.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Just taking the picture.

Thank you so much.

All right.

Thank you so very much.

And we will now go to the announcements.

If there are any council members that would like to be recognized, uh please raise your hand to get in the queue.

Uh up first, I see Councilmember Toombs.

Council Member, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Pro Tim.

Um, just a reminder for District 2 residents that we have our monthly community meeting on Monday uh January 26th at 6 30 at the North Precinct in the community room.

Again, monthly District 2 community meeting on Monday, January 26th at the North Precinct in the community room.

There is a um zoom link, so feel free to reach out to me or look at my Facebook page or my uh website to get that link.

Thank you.

Thank you so very much, Councilmember Toombs.

Uh, next we have Councilmember Welsh.

You're recognized.

Thank you, Pro Tim.

Uh the Nashville Symphony is going to be doing quite a few events in my district, and I would love for all of you to come.

The first is a free community concert.

It is on Wednesday, January 28th at 7:30 at the Nashville School of the Arts on Foster Avenue.

Um, then on Thursday, January 29th at 4, they are having an instrument petting zoo, and you will be very surprised at how furry and wild the instruments actually are.

So please come by to Coleman and Petifie um instruments.

And finally, there is a story time ensemble on Saturday, February 7th at 3 o'clock at the Thompson Lane branch of the library.

So I invite you all to come out and um meet some of your symphony um musicians and listen to a wonderful concert.

Thank you so very much, Councilmember Welsh.

Next we have Councilmember Kimbrough, you're recognized.

Thank you.

District one will have a community meeting regarding rezonings the day after tomorrow, this Thursday, at the Bordeaux Library.

It will begin at 5 45.

And for those coming straight from work, uh, food will be served.

Thank you.

Food is always a big plus, Councilmember Kimbrough.

Councilmember Ewing, you are recognized.

Thank you.

Um, so on this Saturday, um, I was planning, still am, if there's not inclement weather, on a greenway walk as part of the Greenways Challenge.

It will be at Richland Creek Greenway at England Park, um, where West Precinct is located on Charlotte Avenue.

Um, the walk is two miles total.

We will be joined by the commander um of the West Precinct, and the trailhead is just to the side of the parking lot in West Precinct.

If there is a giant snowstorm, like is being predicted, we will reschedule the walk.

Thank you, Councilmember Ewing.

Next we have Councilmember Harrillo.

You're recognized.

Thank you, Proto.

District 8 will be having our monthly community meeting on Monday, the 26th at 6 p.m.

at Hamilton United Methodist Church, uh, United Family Fellowship.

On Hamilton Church 3501, Hamilton Church.

Oh, again at 6 p.m.

Uh, we'll be having our district community meeting.

Thank you, Councilmember Hario.

Councilmember Styles, you're recognized.

Thank you.

Next Thursday, the 29th, we will be meeting for District 32's first meeting of the year at Pop Stroke at 6 p.m.

Thank you so very much, uh, Councilmember Styles.

Are there any other council members?

Councilmember Vaux, you're recognized.

Thank you so much, Pro Tim.

I just wanted to um invite everyone in our community to participate in the 2026 Greenways Challenge.

Um, it is a pledge to get outside and stay healthy this year and enjoy all the Greenway segments that we um have with over a hundred miles throughout our city and county.

So you can just go to Greenways for National dot org and sign up very easy, and hopefully you'll see all us on the Greenway throughout this year.

Um, I also want to invite everyone in District uh 17 to my quarterly town hall.

It will be on Saturday, February 21st at the Adventure Science Center.

Uh, we'll be focusing on family activities.

Doors will open at nine thirty.

The program is going to start at 10 a.m.

sharp.

And for any family who would like to explore, explore and experience the Adventure Science Center, you are able to do that after the meeting.

So please come.

I would love for you all to um join us.

And then just a quick reminder, two things.

Um, the immigrant caucus will be meeting on Monday, January 27th.

Uh, sorry, January 26th at 7 p.m.

Um, at Ichido Raman and Izakaya.

And then the fair board, they had a change in their meeting.

So I just want to be clear, it was canceled today.

And the Fair World meeting will be next Tuesday, January 27th at 10 a.m.

at the fairgrounds.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Councilmember Vaux.

Are there any other colleagues that would like to be recognized?

Going once.

Going twice.

Councilmember Evan Siegel, would you like to be recognized?

I mean, Madam Pro Tem, if you're gonna give me the opportunity.

Um, I think everybody should know this by now, but I want to remind everybody that if the city picks up your trash and recycling, your trash day may be changing come February one.

That felt like a very long time ago.

Last time we talked about it.

And if you've been in my committee, we've been a bit of a broken record, but um, inevitably, a lot of people will not have gotten the news.

Um, we've tried very hard to get it out to them.

And I also wanted everybody in the body to know that the Boring Company has agreed to be um before the Transportation Infrastructure Committee on February nineteenth at 4 30 p.m.

And I would welcome everybody, um, even those who are not on the committee to please come and participate in that democratic process.

Thank you, Councilmember Evan Siegel.

Are there any other colleagues who would like to be recognized for the announcement period?

All right, seeing none, uh, before I close out the announcement period, I would like to close it with a very, very brief poem.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame with conquering limbs astride from land to land.

Here at our seawash, Sunset Gates shall stand a mighty woman with a torch whose flame is the imprisoned lightning in her name, Mother of Exiles from her beacon hand glows worldwide welcome.

Her mild eyes command the airbridged harbor that twin cities frame.

Keep ancient lands, your storied pump, cries she with silent lips.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

The wretched refuse your teeming shore.

Send these the homeless Tempest to me.

All right, I detect a quorum.

Well, the meeting, please come to order.

Today is Tuesday, January twentieth, twenty twenty-six.

This is the first meeting of twenty twenty-six and the fifty-third regular meeting at the current term of the Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County.

Please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Close our eyes, whichever one you would like to do.

Heavenly Father, we come before you with gratitude for this gathering of the Metro Council and all who are present.

Bless every attendee here tonight with peace, understanding, and a spirit of cooperation.

Guide those who present items to the council.

Grant us discernment to make decisions wisely with understanding, always mindful of those who will be affected by our actions.

We pray for protection over the people of Nashville and the surrounding areas.

May unity, safety, and hope fill our communities.

In Jesus' name, I pray, amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you, Pastor Smith.

Welcome, Council members, and welcome, members of the community.

We appreciate you joining us this evening.

Council members, it was good to be with you yesterday at Nashville's 41st commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.

Day, marching up Historic Jefferson Street to TSU's Gentry Hall for the annual convocation.

It is always an inspiring event, and the calls to action from a variety of elected officials and faith leaders were poignant, given the current state of our nation, with civil rights very obviously being rolled back and racism and racial profiling on very clear display in the actions of massed federal agents.

Our own chair, uh Quante Tombs met the moment in her greetings from the council and the minority caucus.

So a special thank you to her.

Council members may have heard me off the top of the meeting.

Share that we have been in this chamber uh for a main meeting now 53 times, and that we have uh only 37 more to go this term.

A new year and the first meeting of that year are always an opportunity for renewal of common purpose and peaceful and productive practices.

There is a very steep learning curve for all council members.

And now that you know what you know, I hope you will focus on the policy goals that inspired you to run for office.

Public service is particularly challenging in this authoritarian era, but in this nonpartisan body, we all have common cause in making Nashville as healthy, safe, and prosperous as it can be for all Nashville's.

The oath that we all took at our inauguration requires us to support the constitutions of the United States, the state of Tennessee, and our local charter.

And it concludes I will faithfully impartially and with fidelity discharge the duties of the Metropolitan County Council without fear or favor and for the public welfare.

One of the biggest pieces of our work as the council is the annual operating budget, and for that, at our next council meeting on February 3rd, we will have a pre-budget public comment period for two hours.

Council has been doing that since 19 uh 20, or rather 1922.

Not that long, since 2022, fairly recently.

Um so uh we look forward to hearing from the community before the mayor files his budget.

Colleagues, you have received a memo from me this morning about a single vacancy on the Transportation Licensing Commission.

You will be called upon to make nominations at the February 3rd meeting.

The terms are two years, and the commission has nine members.

The TLC has exclusive jurisdiction of the licensing and regulation of all vehicles for hire, including but not limited to taxi cabs, wreckers, sedans, limousines, horse-drawn carriages, and persons or businesses engaged in the practice of booting vehicles.

Uh so please be thinking of well-qualified nominees and members of the public.

If you are interested, please contact your council member.

Members have also received an informational email and a handout this evening uh from uh Metro Auditor uh Riley with a call for ideas for the annual audit plan.

Uh the vice mayor serves on the audit committee along with two elected council members, and for the remainder of the term, those members will be councilwoman at large and former budget chair, Delisha Porterfield, and budget and finance committee vice chair Jason Spain.

And I want to thank also Councilwoman Courtney Johnston and Councilwoman Berkeley Allen for their service uh to the council and the audit committee for the first half of this term.

This is important work, uh so please do be engaged and informed about it.

Uh, under the leadership of Director Riley, the audit function is much more robust than in my first term of council service.

Her team is very important to the integrity and good functioning of Metro Government, so I do want to extend my thanks to them.

All right.

With that, without objection, we will suspend the calling of the roll and ask the clerk to please record the names of the members present throughout the meeting.

Okay.

There is a motion properly seconded without objection.

And seeing no one seeking to be recognized for a change to the minutes.

The minutes of the meeting of December 16th are approved.

Mr.

Clerk, are there any messages from the mayor?

There are no messages from the mayor.

All right.

Thank you, Mr.

Clerk.

All right.

So we are now getting right into our agenda.

Section E, appointees and nominees.

This portion of the agenda shares all persons who are scheduled to appear before the rules, confirmations, and public elections committee for an interview this evening.

Referrals back to the committee will be by rule as part of the council's two meeting process for elections and confirmations.

No votes will be taken by the body in this section of the agenda, other than for deferrals.

Chair Cash, your brief report, please.

No vote totals necessary or term distances and times, simply the name of those who are interviewed and for which seats, please, sir.

Go ahead, Chair.

For the Civil Service Commission, Quan Pool.

For the Greenway and Open Space Commission, Maury Hill, and for the Transportation Licensing Commission and Butterworth.

All right.

Again, those are referred back to committee by rule.

Our next section is uh uh section F of our agenda confirmations.

Chair Cash, you are recognized again for your committee report on the appointees in the second step of your committee's two meeting process with vote totals this time and um a consolidated motion uh for the confirmation of those persons uh or first for a deferral or a different motion if there are any.

Uh go ahead, sir.

Yep, uh for the arts commission, the reappointment of Campbell West for term expiring February 24th, 2030.

Six in favor, zero against zero not voting.

For the arts commission, reappointment of May Ray U for a term expiring uh February 24th, 2030, six in favor, zero against zero not voting.

For the auditorium commission, the appointment of Mia Vickers for term expiring June 30th, 2027, six in favor, zero against zero not voting.

For the bicycle and pedestrian advisory commission, appointment of Matthew Cushing for a term expiring February 16th, 2028.

Six in favor, zero against zero not voting.

And the for the Davidson County historian, the appointment of Dr.

Leo Rotha Williams Jr.

for a term expiring December 16th, 2020 30.

Also six in favor, zero against zero not voting.

And I uh move the confirmations.

Okay.

Um there is a motion um for uh a consolidated uh slate of approval of all those folks.

Is there a second for that motion?

Okay.

Does anyone?

Um, I apologize.

Uh thank you, uh, interim special counsel Wilson.

Thank you.

Welcome to him as well.

Um uh Chair Cash, I do uh need a report also next page of your agenda.

Oh, I am so sorry.

Procurement standards board, appointment of Raheem Buford uh for a term expiring October 4th, 2028.

Six in favor, zero against zero not voting.

Okay, and could you restate your motion, please, sir?

I move approval of the um nominees.

Okay, of all um uh candidates.

Um okay.

Uh um Ms.

Evans, um, this is the point at which I would ask, does anyone wish to remove an item from this consolidated motion for purposes of an individual abstention or a no vote?

Is that why you seek to be recognized?

Go ahead.

Yes, ma'am.

I would like to remove Campbell West.

Okay.

Um is there uh a second?

Okay.

Um all right.

So um uh Ms.

West Um will be removed from that.

Uh so item F1 um will be removed uh from the consolidated motion.

Um so at present um we are voting uh for items F two through F six.

Uh there is a motion to approve uh properly seconded.

All in favor, please say aye.

Okay.

Um any voting no or abstaining.

All right.

Um now we will move uh then to item uh F one uh for purposes of that vote.

Um let's see.

Pardon.

Okay, right.

Um thank you.

Um uh okay, so uh we have a motion um to approve.

Uh all in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Um any voting no?

Okay, if you would please raise your hand.

Okay.

Um, Mr.

Clerk, uh, would you please record those two no's uh any abstaining?

Okay.

All right.

Um Ms.

Evans is an abstention, Ms.

Kimbrough and Ms.

Gamble and Ms.

Welsh.

Uh even so with two no's and I believe four abstentions.

Um uh the ayes do have it.

And so um uh we have then now uh I'm going to uh read and share the folks uh that council has now confirmed um in their appointments or reappointments and if those folks are uh with us this evening if they would please uh stand and remain standing and be recognized.

Um uh to the arts uh commission.

Council has confirmed the reappointment of uh Ms.

Campbell West and uh to uh the arts commission as well.

Uh council has confirmed the reappointment of Myra U.

Okay.

Um if everyone would please just remain standing, thank you uh to the auditorium commission.

Council has uh confirmed the appointment of Maya Vickers to the bicycle and pedestrian advert advisory commission.

Um council has confirmed the appointment of Matthew Cushing, and uh council has um uh confirmed the appointment of uh Dr.

Larotha Williams Jr.

to serve as the next uh Davidson County uh historian.

Um so we want to thank uh there's Dr.

Williams and Ms.

West uh for their willingness to serve uh the city of Nashville.

Madam President, you skip one person.

Oh, I I'm terribly terribly sorry.

Um thank you, Ms.

Ellis.

Um uh council has confirmed the appointment uh to the procurement standards board of Raheem Buford.

Thank you very much, Mr.

Buford.

I do apologize for the oversight.

Thank you to all three of you uh who returned uh with us uh this evening.

Um and to those folks uh who may be watching from home or on the replay.

We are very uh grateful uh for either your continued service or you're willing to begin um in service on a board and commission.

Um so thank you and congratulations to everyone.

All right.

All right, um, next is Section G on our agenda, the public comment period.

Members of the public who are Tennessee residents wishing to speak may sign up at a table outside of the council chamber from 5 to 6 p.m.

on the day of a council meeting.

Okay, that's how we sign up for public comment.

Public comment is limited to 20 minutes total at council meetings, and each speaker is allowed up to two minutes to speak.

Uh persons speaking on agenda items must be prioritized to comply with state law.

Um I will uh read uh the first uh couple of folks.

Um so if uh one or two folks could go ahead and come forward in preparation of speaking.

Um first will be Carline Dowell on the topic of the Barnes Fund.

Uh after uh Ms.

Dow will be Paul Cleman uh regarding the rezoning proposal at zero West Campbell Road.

Um if you would both come forward and uh Ms.

Dow, you are recognized.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

I'm from District 31, John Rutherford's district.

And uh I serve on the Affordable Housing Task Force and the Executive Committee of NOAA, Nashville Organized for Action and Hope.

My fan club.

Uh I also will have worked for a couple of decades with Habitat for Humanity and have raised money at my church to participate in the unity build every fall.

And uh this next one is gonna be in my own community of uh excuse me, of Antioch.

And I'm excited to welcome these deserving homeowners into my community.

I want I come tonight to ask you to help me raise money for habitat for humanity.

Uh the Barnes Fund uh often grants uh the habitat for humanity of Nashville uh money for building homes, affordable homes.

And uh I would like to ask you to give more money to the Barnes Fund in the upcoming agenda or the upcoming uh budget year.

This year, um the unified housing uh strategy recommended 30 million dollars for the Barnes Fund, and it was allotted 16 million.

The next year, the uh unified housing strategy is recommending 55 million for the Barnes Fund.

So there's a very big problem uh with this.

And I'd like you to uh start now before the budget season and try to find ways uh for providing more money for this deserving way of addressing affordable housing.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh next is uh Paul Pleeman.

Uh subsequent to Paul Plyman uh will be a man uh menad.

Um Mr.

Pleeman is speaking in opposition to a rezoning proposal at Zero West Campbell Road.

Go ahead, sir.

Hi, Council.

My name is Paul Plyman.

Thank you for taking the time, or thank you for the time you give to this city and for the responsibility you carry.

I don't take that lightly.

My engagement in this process is not meant to be confrontational, it is not personal.

I'm a husband, a father, and a neighbor trying to participate in decisions that affect my family and community.

Tonight I'm speaking about the proposed rezoning on zero West Campbell Road.

Two minutes is not enough time to walk through the policy conflicts residents have identified with this proposal.

That is why we submitted detailed written objectives grounded in adopted plans and policies.

Those emails were intended to raise substantive concerns tied directly to this site.

What has been difficult is that not a single council member has confirmed receipt of those submissions, even when we specifically requested acknowledgement.

That creates the impression that decisions may be forming before all information is weighed.

This rezoning is not about growth versus no growth.

It is about whether adopted policy means what it says, whether T3 neighborhood maintenance still protects neighborhoods, whether infill still requires real transition, whether corridor intensity stays on corridors.

If any council member needs additional support beyond what was submitted, including citations, page numbers, or source documents, I am more than willing to provide you that information and respond directly.

That is what meaningful engagement looks like.

And I want to acknowledge that communities across Nashville, including North Nashville, are facing difficult decisions of their own.

So I ask you to consider this honestly.

Have both sides been weighed with equal care?

And does your vote reflect the people who live with the consequences?

I ask that you review our position and vote no.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh next is Amon Minad uh speaking on agenda item 42.

This is resolution 1659.

Speaking in opposition, uh afterward will be Terry Ann O'Neill and then Ashley uh Crownover.

Uh go ahead, Ms.

Manad.

Uh, my name is Iman Mened, and I'm an employee of Metro Nashville and a member of NOAA.

The circumstances surrounding the origin of this MOU do not make me or anyone else in my community that I've spoken to about it feel safe.

The urgency of the attempt to immediately spend the money from this grant on high-tech surveillance and military equipment for MNPD is actually quite alarming in light of the very real potential for its use in collaboration with federal immigration enforcement, which has been acting in increasingly unhinged manners.

Despite those who insist this man matter is irrelevant, it is clear based on a nationwide pattern with these types of public-private partnerships, and in light of recent comments from state legislators who are in direct collaboration with Stephen Miller, the current leader of the Department of Homeland Security, that the state of Tennessee is aiming to make our home a model for the rest of the nation in regards to its procedures for immigration enforcement.

This is the same immigration enforcement that has been rounding up grandpaws, pulling people out of work to beat them up, sexually assaulting women, shooting people in the face, and committing countless other criminal offenses.

Crime in Nashville has been statistically going down for in all categories for the past two years.

If these items are really necessary for M NPD's operation, I doubt it.

Let's promote a preventative and humane vision of safety for the city.

We can use the money from this grant instead for strategic infrastructure improvements, better parking and transit, lighting, bathrooms, mental health services, youth programming, homeless services, increased library hours, and more.

Let's brainstorm, let's think a little harder, and let's come up with a vision for Nashville that serves us all, makes everyone feel safe, and holds up to public scrutiny.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, next is uh Terry Ann O'Neill speaking on agenda item 58.

This is resolution 1734 in opposition.

Uh go ahead.

Uh Ms.

O'Neill.

Thank you.

Um, I also am uh active with Nashville Organized for Action and Hope.

Um, and uh and I just want uh everyone to know public safety is not an abstract concept.

Public safety is what we feel when we walk to work, when we wait for a bus, when we return home at night, when we seek help in a moment of crisis.

In Nashville, safety is built not only through emergency response, but through the everyday conditions that allow people to live with dignity, stability, and belonging.

When those conditions are neglected, no amount of enforcement or equipment can compensate for what is missing.

As Metro Council considers this package of proposals implementing a $15 million downtown public safety grant, proposals that include expanded, uh the originally included expanded cameras, but also an armored vehicle, command, and tactical posts.

Members, you all should consider who will live with the consequences.

The skewed priorities in the current proposal are glaring.

The bulk of the money, nearly 60%, goes to surveillance technology and militarized equipment desired by the M NPD, which could easily use its enormous annual budget for those things.

A paltry 23% of the grant is currently allocated to unspecified outreach to people who are unhoused and people who are in crisis.

How much is allocated to after school programs?

Zero.

How about trauma-informed care for people experiencing mental health issues?

Zero.

Community centers, zero.

Why are these proven strategies so often sidelined in favor of surveillance and militarization?

For many Nashvilleans, particularly those who live, work, and survive downtown.

These armored vehicles and the surveillance, that does not feel new or protective.

Downtown Nashville.

Thank you, Ms.

O'Neill.

Your time has concluded.

Thank you.

All right.

Next, um next will be uh Ashley Crownover, uh followed by Lydia Yusuf.

Uh Ms.

Crownover is speaking on agenda item 58 as well.

Uh resolution 1734 in opposition.

Go ahead.

Hello, uh, my name is Ashley Crownover.

I'm a sixth-generation Nashville and a U.S.

Army veteran, and I'm here tonight to ask you not to supplement the police who already have their own funded budget with grant money that could otherwise be used for public safety initiatives.

My dad used to say, when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

But Nashvilleans are not nails, and we do not deserve to be hammered by this disproportionate focus on physical force in the name of public safety.

Not in Antioch where I've lived, not in Donaldson, where I have lived, not in Neely's Bend or East Nashville, where my ancestors lived, not on the South Side where I have family or Bordeaux where I have family, not on the west side where I could live now, not on Church Street, and not on Buchanan Street.

We're not nails, we're neighbors.

We all know there's plenty of federal and state level trouble coming our way.

In fact, it's here.

So unless we're planning on using this equipment against ICE, it's hard to understand why you would spend millions of dollars to fight Nashville's when you could use that money to support them.

I urge you not to be a hammer to the folks you were elected to represent.

Lastly, as I said, I'm a U.S.

Army veteran, and with that as context, you can say we're not militarizing the police till the cows come home, but that does not change the fact that armored vehicles and spyware are for making war.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh next is Lydia uh Yusuf.

Uh uh following Lydia will be Macy Fluharti and then Michelle Flynn.

Lydia is speaking on agenda items uh 58 and our former agenda item F1.

Um, these are resolutions uh 17 uh 34 in opposition.

Uh go ahead, you're recognized.

Last week, a community member complained to me that she called M NPD three times on a male family member who is schizophrenic and stopped taking his meds.

And while this had happened in the past and he had become violent towards the women in the household, MPD refused to assist.

This community member had to call other community members to safely de-escalate and take him to the hospital safely.

On Saturday, I was distributing diapers in South Nashville, and an MNPD officer thought it appropriate to linger and surveil women of color getting diapers with their babies for almost an hour.

Community members were disturbed, and many did not want to leave their cars, knowing that 90% of those in concentration camps right now are without criminal record.

A pregnant Coptic woman documented is now separated from her children, is gone from the city and is in a concentration camp right now.

On Saturday, also an Egyptian security guard who works downtown stopped after his night shift to pick up diapers.

I spoke to him about these resolutions, and he said, but we have cameras.

And I said, Yep, and they were there during the 2020 Christmas bombing.

And I don't know how you say it in Arabic, but there's an expression in English that goes if you do the same thing over and over again, expecting different results, that's insanity.

Safety isn't about more cameras, more surveillance, more policing.

Safety is about home.

Does Nashville feel like home?

Do you want us to stay?

Earlier today, Arts Equity Nashville got an email from a black artist leaving the city of Nashville.

She was defunded from Thrive this year.

She wanted to share her testimony today against the defunder, uh Campbell West, but couldn't find child care.

I want to share two sentences from her letter.

Not only will I not be able to follow through with a community project that supports building literacy and writing skills amongst Nashville's youth, I am likely unable to continue my own art.

I am just one person, and having so many unfunded artists in this city is a tremendous loss.

It's a shame that instead of discussing how to fund arts properly, how to have democratic commissions, how to fund our schools, how to have language access in downtown spaces.

Instead, we are told Ms.

Houston, we are facing expired misleading and lies.

You cannot censor the people.

Next is Macy Fluharti uh speaking on agenda item 42.

Uh, this is resolution 1659 and opposition, and after uh Macy will be uh Michelle Flynn and then uh Loriani Rodriguez.

Uh go ahead, uh Macy.

Thank you.

My name is Macy Flew Hardy with Black Lions for Peace Solidarity Network.

I live in District 12 on UC Shawnee and Cherokee Land.

I am here regarding the MOU listed as RS 2025-1659 and its five other police militarization bills.

Today you're going to hear a lot of Nashvilleans that are very concerned about bills targeting one specific area.

I'm here because of two reasons.

First, I care about downtown Nashville and the people that walk it, and I know police militarization equipment, like mentioned in this MOU is a danger to them.

You've heard time and time again of the misconduct that M NPD has participated in over the years.

And the more we see the be the abuse out of other cities, the harder it is for us to trust our law enforcement, especially law enforcement that relies on technologies that can be used against the people.

We've seen the wars in places like LA and Minneapolis, etc.

To think we will not be subject to an attempt of the same type of takeover is naive.

Second, I like many Nashvilleans outside of downtown, love my district too.

And our representatives are considering letting go of an opportunity to better each pocket of our city in order to largely supply a nonprofit with police militarization equipment, with some going towards community support.

Money going to a nonprofit that has failed to turn in their annual report for over two decades and uses a shadow police force with a bad legal past to remove unhoused people off the streets to get things like mass surveillance and armored vehicles that may be used by MNPD.

Nashville deserves better, all of Nashville.

Please vote no and use this money on things to help our city as a whole.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next, Michelle Flynn is speaking on agenda item 58, uh resolution 1734, uh in opposition.

Go ahead, Miss Flynn.

Thank you.

Um, people here in Nashville for longer than some of you have been serving on this council, have come here and told you repeatedly.

The people in this city do not want surveillance.

Things have only gotten worse since then in relationship to the overmilitarization of our community.

MNPD has repeatedly, year after year gotten more money from you all, and we do not feel safer as a result of it.

I want to point out to you something you're gonna hear incredible testimony.

You've heard it for four years now.

People have done all this research, they're so eloquent.

I'm constantly moved by our community and what they are trying to do to preserve true safety, true support for people in our community.

But I um just spent a lot of time at the Tennessee legislature.

There is a bill that many of you should know, and I'm gonna remind you for those of you who haven't noticed it.

I'm just gonna remind you for those of you have noticed it.

This is a really big issue.

They are trying to take control over our police department, right?

That is what's going on right now at the Tennessee legislature.

If they succeed in this, which given their body, it's hard to imagine them not, then all of this militarization that you are doing are going to be used by MNPD in partnership with ICE and Homeland Security to more not only terrorize our neighbors, our friends, our our families, but it protesters, the people who are trying to verify, the people who are trying to provide safety and support to people in this community are going to be targeted.

It is happening in other cities.

Don't think it's not gonna come here.

So if you go ahead and pass this, it may be symbolic to some of you to stand up and say no to this.

It is not symbolic to us.

It is actually a statement, or we don't feel like the mayor is standing up.

We know the legislature's not standing up.

We are absolutely leaning into you all to stand up for us.

Thank you.

Next is uh Loriani Rodriguez, uh speaking on agenda item 42.

Uh, this is resolution 1659, uh, speaking in opposition.

Uh after Loriani will be uh Lisa LeClaire.

Go ahead.

Good evening.

My name is Judith Rodriguez, district number 27 from St.

Augustine's Episcopal Church in NOAA.

Council members, at the heart of this resolution lies a very dangerous narrative that surveillance will make Nashville's feel safe.

When in reality, and it's my experience that surveillance actually undermines our sense of safety, and it undermines our freedom, starting with our freedom of speech.

The lie of militarized surveillance is that people will behave better because they're being watched.

But who is they?

And who are those holding the camera?

And who is watching those holding the camera?

Council members, I am here to tell you we need to reclaim our moral imagination and start standing up against these tactics of fear.

The moment we allow fear to open the doors, then what we're gonna see coming through is a new wave of racism and classism and economic exploitation and nothing about care for the most vulnerable in Nashville.

The agenda of safety cannot be rooted in fear.

It cannot be rooted in fear of he, she or they who looks different than us.

We cannot allow fear to be the one opening those doors for us.

Any agenda to secure the safety of Nashville's need to be rooted in love.

Love that is committed to the values of justice and equity and care of the most vulnerable, love for our neighbor, love for our immigrant neighbors and those who really need you to show up the most vulnerable in Nashville.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh next is uh Lisa LeClair speaking on agenda items uh 58, 59, and 60, resolution 1734, 35, and 36 in support.

Uh Miss LeClaire, you're recognized.

Thank you.

Um, I appreciate you.

I didn't realize you had said my name.

There is a loud um response here.

Uh city council members, I am clearly and um sincerely appreciative of your time and your commitment to our city.

This this is a big job, and all of you um uh work really hard at it, and I'm I'm most appreciative.

I'm also pleased that we live in a city where we have the opportunity to share our differing opinions.

Uh my name is Lisa LeClair, and I'm here today as a Davidson County resident.

Um, and as a representative of the Greater Nashville Hospitality Association.

I'm here to speak in favor of the acceptance of the grant monies awarded by the state of Tennessee.

We have a thriving, vibrant city where I believe it is very safe to attend music, arts, sporting events, and other uh experiences in every part of our city.

I want us to continue to feel safe in our city, and I have faith and trust in this body and our local police force to support all of the efforts towards safety and expect all of this to happen in a very just and lawful manner.

The state grant is specific to safety and downtown downtown areas of four cities in the state and cannot be used for other items like school programs or other needs of this and other cities.

I appreciate that we have other needs as a city, but that is not what this grant is for.

The majority of the 100 million dollars for the from the state was awarded um to our the city of Memphis.

I am truly thankful for this investment in our safety, and very happy that we do not have the serious crime concerns that Memphis has.

Therefore, they received 75 million dollars.

And I um appreciate the fact that it impacts their residents, their visitors, and um perhaps the taxes that help offset the expenses I encourage you to accept.

Thank you.

Time is concluded.

All right.

Uh this will conclude our public comment um with less than a minute of uh residual uh time remaining um from folks who spoke under two minutes.

There is insufficient time for our one uh person on the wait list.

So our public comment has uh concluded.

And uh next, uh we will move uh into section H of our agenda, uh rules of procedure.

Uh we take these items up like we do uh legislation.

Um there is a proposal to amend uh rule 9.3 regarding the introduction of legislation um on uh first reading.

Uh this amendment is proposed by council member uh Evans Siegel, Ms.

Evans Siegel.

Uh you are recognized.

Um thank you, Madam Vice President.

I would move the amendment.

Um if you could ask for your committee reporting um for the report of rules, confirmations and public elections.

Chair Cash.

We voted in favor of rule not the rule change to rule 9.37 in favor, zero against zero not voting.

Okay.

Um right.

Uh and so with that, uh, you can now move approval.

Uh now move approval.

Thank you.

Okay.

Um is there a second?

All right.

And so we're on to discussion.

Would you like to explain just briefly what this rule does and what uh yes?

This rule is designed to allow members to um pull something from first reading for the purpose of abstaining.

When we updated the rules to make it where multiple uh members had to agree to pull um matters on first reading, it left members with a choice of either abstaining from everything or having to find a member to agree to pull it with them so that they could abstain.

But this way a member can say that they would like to pull it from First Amendment for the purpose of abstaining, and that way when a member has a conflict of interest that prevents them from voting on it, they're not forced to abstain from everything on first reading, they can just abstain from that um matter from which they have a conflict.

Okay.

Uh thank you, Miss Evan Siegel.

Um, there's a motion to approve this rule uh of change to uh the rule of procedure, an amendment um to rule 9.3.

Uh, you've heard an explanation uh from the sponsor.

Is there any further discussion on this uh proposed uh amendment to the rules of procedure?

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any voting no?

Any abstaining.

All right.

Um uh this rule of procedure has passed.

Um, our rules require uh that uh these are not uh implemented or applied until 30 days, uh special counsel.

Um and so this would be then applicable uh at the I believe first meeting in March.

Okay, so this rule new rule would be in effect at the first meeting in March.

All right.

Uh next um uh we are moving into uh our resolutions and uh bills on public hearing uh sections.

I and um uh J.

Um so uh first I'm just gonna give you some information about uh public hearing um and then uh I'm gonna uh propose just a logistical matter uh to colleagues about uh pulling some items uh potentially forward for purposes of deferral only.

Um so uh uh for our public hearings.

Uh Spanish interpretation services are provided for all Metro Council public hearings.

Council office team member Karina Valdez is here as the interpreter.

Ms.

Valdez, will you please share how you can help?

Losaruising the pretación in Espanoles are disponibles in laudiencia publica.

Gracias.

Thank you.

Gracias.

We appreciate you.

Um for those wishing to speak this evening as part of it our public hearings, please do state your name, but it is not required for you to provide your exact address if you do not wish to do so.

You may want to tell us in what neighborhood or area you live, your connection to an agenda item or project, or uh who your council member is.

All right.

Um uh I think what we'll do is we will take up um agenda item one, uh, colleagues, and then I'm gonna make a proposal to you about um uh pulling a few of our uh J section bills on public hearing uh forward for purposes of deferral.

Um but first um let's take up uh agenda item one, resolution 2026-1719 sponsor tailor.

Uh this is a resolution exempting 1824 kitchen plus cocktails located at 1824 Jefferson Street from the minimum distance requirements for obtaining a beer permit.

Uh Councilmember Taylor, uh, you are recognized, sir.

Thank you.

Committee reports, please.

Uh uh Chair of Government uh operations and regulations, Chair Hill, you're recognized.

Thank you, Minute, Vice Mayor.

Uh 234 We recommended approval.

Five in favor, zero against zero not voting.

Okay, thank you, Chair Hill.

All right, it's back to you, uh, Councilmember Taylor.

Thank you, madam chair.

I'll move to open the public hearing, please.

All right.

Um I declare the public hearing open uh for council member Taylor's uh resolution 1719.

Uh would all members of the public here in support of this resolution please raise your hand.

Okay, thank you.

Would all members of the public here in opposition to this resolution please raise your hand?

Seeing no one here in opposition, do the persons here in Oh, okay.

Um uh that is fine.

Um so um given uh that there is uh mayor.

Yes, sir.

I think you may want to uh I have I have something that I think is uh garnered some attention that's not this.

So I think you may want to clearly explain that before you move forward as a public.

Okay, so just to um clarify um to the person expressing opposition, this is uh specific to um an address on Jefferson Street.

Um this is a singular exemption for a business called Kitchen and Cocktails at 1824 Jefferson.

Um uh it uh is related to the distance requirements for a beer permit.

Does the person here in opposition um still uh seek to be recognized uh to speak in opposition to this?

Okay, I appreciate the clarification.

Thank you.

Um all right.

Well, um, knowing that there is uh one person here uh expressing their opposition.

Do the persons uh in support uh seek to be recognized or to speak.

You're welcome to come forward.

Go ahead, you're recognized.

Um, pardon me, go ahead.

Sorry.

Yes, my name is Brittany Finn.

I am one of the owners of 1824 Kitchen and Cocktails, and I also have my business partner here.

My name is Mario McCutcheon, and I am head-hone as well.

Um, so we know there's a lot going on between Jefferson Street and Buchanan and the ordinance and as far as the the time frame for noise, and we are here as a partner.

We really want to partner with the community.

Um, we're not here.

We respect any opposition.

We only respect all of our neighbors.

We've actually reached out to many of the neighbors already, um, just to kind of ask what their concerns are.

We've even adjusted our um closing times and business times just based on some of those oppositions.

Um, we're not here to be a nightclub at all, just a place for professionals, college students.

Uh, recently on Monday, we had a community service event uh where we fed over 100 unhoused um homeless um in our neighborhood, along with giving care bags also.

Um, so we're not here just to make money.

We want to actually make money and give back to where our business is grounded.

Um, so we're definitely asking for support to pass this.

All right.

Um sir, do you wish to speak uh separately?

Well, no, I can use this time.

I don't have a lot to say, but what I will say is that we have our liquor license already.

Asking for this burn beer permit just allows us to give the same amount of amenities that you can get at a bar on Broadway.

So this permit is just about beer today.

So our hours are going to meet the ordinances that's there.

We have no outside seating.

We've gone over the previous concerns brought before this council.

And we're again, we're just looking for a beer permit today.

That's it.

All right.

Um, is anyone else uh seeking to be recognized to speak in uh support?

All right.

Um and go ahead.

Hey, um, my birthday was this weekend.

I went to 1824 Kitchen Cocktails.

I had an amazing time, and it was probably the safest time I've had on Jefferson Street, and I lived there for many years.

Um, it was it wasn't like a crazy nightclub, it was chill, like everyone there was just chilling, having a good time.

Um, no one was like overly drunk, and also in front of the space, there's like a gate, I think it's a gate, um, where you there's like space from the street.

So I had a good time, but not just that, it was like not unsafe and away from the street.

I was supported.

All right.

Um, uh, all right.

Is anyone else seeking to be uh recognized uh to speak in uh support?

Right, go ahead, come forward.

You're recognized.

Good evening, counsel.

I'm a little out of birth.

I had to run to my car.

Sorry.

Um in support of this uh resolution for a beal of what we doing.

I'm taking a beer premiere.

It's a beer distance waiver.

So good friends of Brittany Finn and Mario, they uh we grew up together.

Great business owners, great people, just looking to provide great atmosphere for the community.

Now no foolishness, so I support it.

Hopefully, I'll do too.

Councilman Taylor, help them.

All right.

Um is anyone else seeking to be recognized uh in uh support of this resolution?

And just in an abundance of caution, as we did have an expression of opposition, I did just want to um ask um ma'am, do you wish to speak at this time?

Just okay, I appreciate that.

Um so with that, um uh seeing no one else seeking to be recognized in support or in opposition, I will declare the public hearing closed.

And it's back to you uh for a motion on your resolution, Mr.

Taylor.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

I'd like to move with a brief comment.

Okay, is there a second on the motion to approve?

Okay, go ahead, sir.

Thank you.

So, Mr.

Chambers and Ms.

Finn have had numbers of conversations with them about uh their plan for 1824 kitchen, uh, as well as uh number of conversations with community members that have reached out to me, uh asking me questions about this resolution.

Um I've introduced them uh to the owners.

Uh they've had some great candor back and forth conversation, and I think that uh we're at a good space.

I do want to meet with the resident that's here that does have questions.

Um, because I I may have missed the V mail or not received it, but I do want to introduce them to the owners and have some some dialogue there.

Uh, but I renew my motion to move forward.

All right.

Um there's a motion to approve.

It's properly seconded, and we're on to discussion.

Miss Porterfield, uh Pro Tim, you're recognized.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

I will be uh very brief.

I have had the opportunity to speak with uh lots of business owners over um the course of our city, and you know, people always have questions about like the permanent process and various processes.

I have never met business owners who were so meticulous about wanting to follow all of the rules as these two business owners have been.

Um I also had the opportunity to uh visit their establishment.

Beautiful, clean establishment.

Um the music was not uh overly loud, everything was contained inside.

I mean, I I see this as a positive for the community.

Again, they are very committed uh to making sure that they are following um all types of rules and regulations.

I actually learned about some rules and regulations that I myself did not know about um just from having a conversation with them, and I definitely appreciate the fact that they are not trying to be extractive from the community, they are actually trying to give back to the community that will be providing uh providing them business.

And and you don't see um uh I wish more business owners had the model of wanting to give back to their community, and even though they are just now uh opening up, they they launched that with such a big event.

I was also able to come out to that event and see them feed in people in the community and to see the joy on the faces of people in the community, and I think that that uh is a testament of the fact that they want to do right by the community.

So I wholeheartedly support this and ask my colleagues to do the same.

All right.

Um discussion continues.

Is there anyone else seeking to be recognized uh uh on this resolution?

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any voting no or abstaining.

All right.

Uh you have adopted this resolution.

All right.

Um, before um we move into our uh uh second uh item uh resolution on public hearing.

Um with respect to the public and regarding agenda items that will not have a public hearing this evening, uh, due to the sponsor uh deferring the bill without objection and at the request of those sponsors.

I'm going to pull uh four items forward.

Um I do see Mr.

Prep T and Mr.

Taylor getting ready.

I will take them in agenda order.

Let me just share what I would propose to do, colleagues, and then I'll ask you if there's any objection.

Um so that would mean um because uh there is just a high level of community interest in these uh companion bills, um, uh, and we anticipate a uh longer uh hearing on this next item.

Um, just with respect to anyone who may be here or watching at home, um, knowing that we're going to have um a deferral by the sponsor, um, I am proposing that we pull uh four items forward, agenda items 21 and 22 regarding overlays on Buchanan Street, sponsored by Councilman Taylor, and items 28 and 29 regarding a proposed neighborhood conservation overlay district in Green Hills, north of Shackelford and west of Beltmont Boulevard by Councilman Prep T.

Again, only for the purpose of deferral of the public hearing.

Is there any objection to that?

All right, seeing none, we'll just go in agenda order, Mr.

Prep T.

And so uh, Mr.

Taylor, you are uh recognized on agenda items uh 21 and 22, uh, which were uh scheduled for public hearing.

Um I do need to to be in order, um, read those into the record, sir.

Okay.

Agenda item 21 is ordinance BL 2025-1168.

This is an ordinance to mend Title 17 of the Metro Code of Laws, the zoning ordinance of the Metro Government by applying a commercial compatibility overlay district to various properties located on Buchanan Street between 21st Avenue North and Interstate 65.

This is 15.78 acres.

And for purposes of deferral, Mr.

Taylor, because they are um about the same matter.

Um we can take these up together for the deferral.

The second is agenda item 22, also sponsored Taylor Ordinance BL 2025-1169, uh, an ordinance to amend Title 17, the Metro Code of Laws, the zoning ordinance of the Metro Government by applying a commercial compatibility overlay district to various properties located on Buchanan Street between 24th Avenue North and 21st Avenue North.

This is 5.61 acres.

Uh Councilman Taylor, you're recognized, sir.

Thank you.

I would like to move to defer uh the public hearing uh till the March 3rd meeting uh with a comment.

Okay.

Um and that is uh, sir, for both these bills, 1168 and levy 69.

Is that correct?

That's correct.

Okay.

Is there a second?

All right, go ahead, sir.

Thank you.

Um, we had a planning commission meeting and uh heard loud and clear from the community to have more dialogue.

We'll be having a community meeting soon.

Um I don't have that date yet finalized, but I will uh as soon as I have it, I will send that out uh via my newsletter.

Um if you're not signed up for my newsletter.

Um you can you can go to vote brandon tailor.com and subscribe to that newsletter.

Um, you know, uh this overlay has garnered uh uh a lot of attention, uh some unexpected attention from from folks all over the county for this little 10 blocks in North Nashville.

Um but as this conversation has grown, it's more important to be clear about what this actually is and who it's for.

The commercial compatibility overlay along Buchanan Corridor is a direct response to a long-standing concerns raised by the people who actually live there.

For years, residents have asked the city to help address these impacts of certain commercial uses operating immediately next to homes.

This isn't about one type of business or one activity, it's about compatibility, about how different uses function when they back directly up to residential neighborhoods.

Residents have raised these concerns about late-night activity, yes, but also about heavy auto-oriented usages, beer and cigarette markets, vape shops, liquor stores, lighting noise traffic, and the constant churn that comes when commercial intensity isn't scaled to its surroundings.

These concerns are about day-to-day livability.

It's also important to cor uh to correct the misconception that is taken hold.

This overlay does not shut down existing businesses.

It does not take anything away from anyone currently operating legally.

Every existing business, whether black owned, legacy owned, or newly open, can continue to operate exactly as it does today.

It does not impose a curfew along the corridor.

Restaurants are not impacted.

Existing retail is not impacted.

This ordinance only applies to future uses and expansions.

There's also been an argument made that this overlay will kill black business.

But it simply doesn't align with the facts of this ordinance.

What truly threatens long-term black owned and legacy business is instability, speculation, and comp and incompatible development that drives residents out and undermines the very community those businesses rely on.

This overlay is about protecting neighborhoods ecosystem that allows local businesses to succeed and stay.

In fact, I've heard directly from current business owners and prospective entrepreneurs who believe this will help create a healthier, more sustainable commercial corridor.

This is not anti-business.

This bill reflects intentionality, collaboration with planning department to avoid blanket bans.

It proves clarity.

At the end of the day, this overlay is about balance, compatibility, and respect.

It allows Buchanan Street to grow, but to grow in a way that works with the community and not against it.

All right.

Thank you for the explanation.

Uh, Mr.

Taylor.

I renew my motion to move to thank you.

There is a motion to defer second reading and public hearing uh for agenda items 21 and 22, 1168, 1169, both regarding Buchanan Street, to the public hearing uh meeting of March the third.

Uh is there any further discussion on uh this motion to defer?

Okay, seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Aye any voting no.

Any abstaining?

All right.

Um uh agenda items 21 and 22 are deferred uh to uh the March 3rd council meeting.

All right.

Next in this vein um are agenda items 28 and 29.

Uh sponsor uh Prep T.

Again, Mr.

Prep T for the record, I've got to read them in.

Um agenda item 28 is ordinance BL 2025-1175.

This is an ordinance to mend Title 17, the Metro Code of Laws, the zoning ordinance of the Metro Government by applying a neighborhood conservation zoning overlay district to various properties located north of Shacklford Road, west of Belmont Boulevard, east of Oriol Place, and south of Glen Echo Road, zoned RS10 and R10.

This is 38 acres.

And then relatedly, um, and so we can uh take them up together um for purposes of deferral, Mr.

Prep T is agenda item 29, ordinance BL 2025-1176.

This is an ordinance to authorize building materials restrictions and requirements uh for uh those uh um parcels and so forth mentioned in uh ordinance one one seven five.

So this proposed ordinance requires certain materials to be restricted in the construction of buildings um at the same uh location.

All right, Mr.

Prep T, you're recognized, sir.

Oh, thank you, Madam Vice Mayor.

With regards to BL2025, 1175, and 1176.

I move to defer uh the second reading consideration and the public hearing to the public hearing in May.

Okay.

Um so that would be the first meeting in May.

Yes.

Uh and so uh is there a second for that motion?

All right, it's properly moved and seconded.

Go ahead, sir.

If there's any explanation you want to share.

Just providing more opportunity for community engagement.

Okay.

All right.

Um, there is a motion to defer uh Mr.

Prep T's uh ordinances um uh 1175 and uh its companion 1176 to defer the second reading and public hearing to the first meeting in May.

It is properly seconded.

Is there any further discussion on this motion to defer?

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any voting no?

Any abstaining?

All right.

Uh this uh these two ordinances are deferred uh to the first meeting in May.

All right.

Um I appreciate uh members um allowing uh that shift in our agenda um with respect to potential members of the public here regarding those items or watching at home.

And so with that, uh we will return to the regular order of our resolutions.

Um we have uh two resolutions um on public hearing and a whole host of uh bills or ordinances on public hearing.

Um next is agenda item two.

Uh this is resolution 2026 uh dash one seven three three sponsors tombs, huffman, and coupon.

This is a resolution accepting a monetary uh donation from uh uh um the Nashville Downtown Partnership Inc.

to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department to assist with the purchase of 15 video cameras.

Uh Ms.

Toombs, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Vice Mayor Committee Report.

Um for the report of the budget and finance committee.

Um if you want to go ahead and give that one, ma'am.

Budget and finance voted to recommend approval of the substitute, 11 in favor, zero against, zero, I mean one night voting.

And voted to recommend approval of the resolution and substitute it, nine in favor, one against, two not voting.

All right.

Um, and for the report of uh the public health and safety committee chair Huffman, you're recognized, sir.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Public Health and Safety recommended the substitute seven in favor, three against zero not voting.

Okay.

Um so that was the bill as substituted seven in favor, three zero seven three zero.

Okay, seven three and oh.

Um, all right.

Um with those committee reports in, um, I'll go back to you, uh, Ms.

Toomes.

Uh go ahead, ma'am.

Okay.

Um I declare the public hearing open um uh for uh the resolution 173.

All right.

Um so for uh this public hearing um uh we will uh have those uh I guess what we'll do first though is would all members of the public here in support of this resolution please raise your hand okay um would all members of the public here in opposition to this bill please raise your hand okay um uh so persons wishing to speak in support if you will uh please come forward to the podium uh supporting speakers will go first and then persons in opposition will speak after those speaking in support.

Um we ask that if you um are needing to line up um that we please have no more than uh five people lining up at a time.

All right, so we are on persons uh speaking in uh support at this time.

Go ahead and come forward.

You are recognized.

Good evening, council members.

My name is Trevor Atherson.

I work in downtown Nashville, supporting multiple hotel and valet parking operations.

I'm here in support of accepting these public safety grant items for 1733.

Downtown Nashville is a major economic engine for our city and for those of us operating on the ground every day.

Guess that employee safety is directly tied to business confidence in the visit or experience.

This is state grant funding, and it's limited to very specific uses, including replacing or upgrading existing equipment, supporting emergency response and helping our officers coordinate safely during large-scale events and incidents.

This is not a local taxpayer burden.

I appreciate the itemized and transparent approach being taken here, and I respectfully encourage you to vote yes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, we continue with persons in support.

Uh go ahead, you're recognized.

Good evening, council.

My name is Dylan Roberts.

I'm here as a downtown resident and general manager of a downtown hotel.

Um speaking on behalf of my company's three downtown properties representing 900 rooms in the downtown market.

The employees we work along with and the half a million guests annually, in which state are three properties.

We are in favor of distributing the state grant funds as proposed.

These dollars support capital investments in our capital in our police department to help ensure the safety of our workforce guests and residents in the downtown core.

These are not new investments, but upgrades and replacement of existing equipment.

We appreciate the work you do and your support to the safety and security of our great city and believe the investment here would contribute greatly to the experience of our guests and residents alike that are both critical to our city's continued success.

Thank you.

Um is there anyone else uh who expressed support uh seeking to be recognized to speak in support?

Okay.

Um seeing none, um, we will now uh move to those folks seeking to be recognized to speak in opposition.

Um again, if you could line up um at the most about five at a time.

What we're trying uh not to do is block the door for ingress and egress.

Um okay, uh go ahead, sir.

You're recognized.

Thank you, madam chair, and members of the council.

What it reads here is it's a donation from the National Downtown Partnership, but it's not, it's from the state.

And I just want to remind everyone here that we are in litigation with the state of Tennessee on the airport authority.

They don't respect home rule.

They don't really care about us.

So why are they giving us money and some other cities?

They probably have a little bit of a hidden agenda here.

And I just want you to know that I'm not comfortable with their hidden agenda.

I've been up on the hill.

I've heard them what they've said about Nashville.

And believe me, it's not complimentary.

And so you're gonna go out there and take money from people who are suing that are taking preempting everything you want to do.

We can't even have impact fees in this city.

You want to know why?

Because they only allow cities and county governments to do that, not a metropolitan government.

That's not an oversight.

That's a message to every one of you that they really don't care about us.

And I encourage each and every one of you to go to the hill and just talk to them, and you will find out that their animosity towards us is very, very strong.

So please.

I know we it's probably this probably going to pass tonight.

But keep in mind.

I hope you can hear the crowd behind me, because they are not happy with this, and neither am I.

But I think you should stand up for the people of this city and tell that the state, we don't need your money.

We can fund things up by ourselves.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Next.

Everybody will just move promptly to the podium.

That'd be great.

Thank you.

Go ahead.

Good evening, council.

My name is Sofia Stevis Barbella Vicenci.

I'm a first generation Brazilian American, a graduate of Vanderbilt Divinity School, and a member of NOAA.

I live in District 2.

I want to make it clear that surveillance does not equate safety nor care for the many communities of Nashville.

More cameras does not mean more safety for us.

It means more opportunities for people to be snatched, kidnapped, tortured, or killed by the violent criminals that go by the name immigration customs enforcement.

Human beings should not be watched without consent.

Human beings should not be hunted for sport.

Human beings should not be locked up in cages.

Human beings should not be put in concentration camps.

The powers that be would like to make an example of Nashville, like they're currently doing to our siblings in Minneapolis, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles.

I urge you to vote no on this issue.

We do not need more surveillance.

Please redirect these funds to what really keeps Nashville safe.

Giving kids the opportunity to attend after school programs, increase library hours for working families to go together after mom and dad have worked tirelessly to provide for their kids.

Or public restrooms for the countless of Nashvilleans who cannot afford to pay nine dollars for a coffee just because they gotta go.

Human beings deserve dignity, not violence, care, not surveillance.

Please vote no.

Thank you.

Go ahead and come on forward, please.

If you would please don't wait for the clapping, just kind of come on forward so we can proceed through.

Thank you.

You're recognized.

My name is Mayfield Hardy with Black Lions for Peace Solidarity Network.

I live in District 12 on UC, Shawnee, and Cherokee Land.

We've been here many times before under different bill numbers.

Nashville does not want mass surveillance.

Not only are the people still firmly saying no to this dangerous evolvement of policing, we've made it clear the risks of these technologies against your most marginalized constituents.

Unhoused people are criminalized here and nationwide.

The legislative attacks on abortion rights in Tennessee is still moving forward.

The legislative, psychological and physical attacks on immigrant communities and people of color as a whole are intensified in other cities like LA and Minneapolis.

These war tactics are inching their way towards Nashville.

It is absolutely dangerous to think that these mass surveillance and militarization technologies will not be used against them, me, and even some of you that are voting today.

Every time these police militarization bills come forward, we lose trust in our city council.

Every time our mayor pushes you all to vote against us and our safety, he loses a vote.

A few years ago, O'Connell was against mass surveillance.

He understood why it doesn't work and dangers that lie with it.

What happened in those few years?

The people can only guess, but given the track record of politicians in general, it's not looking great.

Is this the hypocrisy you want to stand behind?

We don't need mass surveillance.

It doesn't prevent crime, and in the end it's going to harm us.

This council has heard the evidence of this in the fusive fights again with this MOU.

I will not waste my time repeating this information.

You've heard it.

Do not hand over your constituents, especially not like this.

Vote no.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next, go ahead on come on forward, please.

Again, if everyone will please just move promptly.

If folks are clapping, I just need everybody to just keep moving forward.

Thank you so much.

Go ahead.

Hello, my name is Madeline Feige, and I live in District 28 in Antioch.

And I will keep this short and sweet to give my time to others, but I echo the words of Dr.

King at the March and Convocation I was at yesterday, where we need to focus on the intersection of poverty, racism, and militarization.

And I urge you and implore you to vote no.

The reasons speak for themselves.

Please reallocate these funds accordingly.

You've heard the strategies that work.

You've heard from everyone who has spoken before me, so I will see my time to others.

I ask that you vote no and reallocate the funds.

Thank you.

Go ahead, you're recognized.

Y'all got my emotions now.

My name is Deluvio Balazzolo de them of District 14.

I'm with the Black Alliance for Peace Solidarity Network and here in vehement opposition.

If it wasn't made abundantly clear in December, hopefully the callous creation of this and other resolutions further exemplifies to everyone that the mayor's office primarily does not care about us.

Their focuses are the bottom dollar and keeping their necks attached as the pillary locks around us.

Every day we see the acceleration of the continuous mass kidnappings and murders that have been forced upon Turtle Island for centuries by using the very things you're being told by the mayor's office to approve of tonight.

For over two years, we have been mocked and ignored by certain council members about our fears that surveillance and militarization is used to abuse, disappear, and murder anyone, not in lockstep with the system.

We were ridiculed for voicing how these tools have always been used and will continue to be used by oppression to remove all that oppose it.

Since then, this colony keeps proving us right.

The distrust of the system is boiled over to a distrust of you, to the point that people are answering and demanding in the MOU survey that Metro Council conduct full body meetings in every district for all resolutions and bills relating to Nashville safety so people can be heard.

The emphasis has been so hard and heavy on supporting oppression.

People are saying council and city government are intentionally gentrifying, dislocating, and destroying the real Nashville.

This is becoming your legacy.

Think of the death and destruction wrought by systems of surveillance power you've learned about in school, seen on the news, and maybe even someone you know or you yourself have experienced.

Voting yes for this and the other resolutions related is you voting for that to continue.

Voting no is about taking your legacy back to remind yourselves that you sit in those chairs because you represent our needs and you're gonna follow them.

We need to feel confident that we can walk outside and not be kidnapped or killed by the state.

When we have Stephen Miller saying he's making Tennessee into the model for a regime of mass trafficking and death, you should be terrified and do everything in your power to stop it, or we will stop you.

Thank you.

Next go ahead, please you recognize.

Hello, I'm Spencer Sharp and I live in District 5.

Uh, members of the council, I have some concerns about the private uh prioritization of the usage of these grant funds regarding surveillance cameras.

I'm concerned we're spending money on surveillance cameras at a time that violent crime is at its lowest in 12 years.

Instead, we should be prioritizing unhoused outreach that we're currently relying on volunteers and nonprofits to do, or improving downtown street lighting to make a safer environment for cyclists and pedestrians.

These things make a better national for Nashvilleans.

Cameras do not.

This money could go towards traffic calming measures that could prevent another tragic death like the one we saw on New Year's Eve.

That is public safety.

Cameras are not.

Additionally, the additional added language around the sharing of publicly available data is very concerning to me as an IT professional.

If this data is public, why is that language in the substitute?

Why, what purpose does that serve if that's already public?

It is vital that council has explicit knowledge of what these cameras are capable of, what systems they integrate with, and has complete understanding of this data sharing before approving of these funds.

We're seeing armed masked militia in the cities across this country.

I'm asking you to not intentionally or unintentionally aid in these efforts by not knowing exactly the specifications of what you're approving here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next, go ahead.

You're recognized.

My name is Ann Butterworth.

I am a resident of downtown, and I apologize.

Um, I got here a little bit late.

I agree with the people who've spoken before that Nashville does not support the mask ice efforts.

But as I understand what you are considering tonight is additional funding for safety.

Two of my close friends have been attacked recently downtown.

As a single woman, I am concerned by the increase in issues that we have downtown.

I agree that the surveillance video needs to be carefully taken care of, but I can also tell you that there have been times when incidents have happened, and if there's no one there to show what happened, we are left vulnerable.

I trust that you will look at all of the issues and balance out what is fair for our community.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next, go ahead and come forward, please.

You're recognized.

We want to hear those voices, but we want to make sure that everyone understands the context of how different the downtown safety environment is from other parts of the city.

Let me translate that.

As a former employee of this mayor's Office of Community Safety, who quit when I saw the writing on the wall, let me translate to everyone concerned, especially Noah and your 50,000 members.

What he's saying is shut up.

You don't know what you're talking about.

Mr.

Mayor, let's talk about what we do understand.

We understand what actually impacts the social determinants of violence.

Policing equipment empirically, regardless how it makes you feel, is not an effective investment to prevent and reduce crime.

Mr.

Mayor, you could have required NDP to fund approved activities.

They were actually approved for in this grant that actually prevent crime.

You chose not to.

We understand you claim to be committed to community safety, but your first meeting on community safety was five days ago, eight hundred and thirty-six days after your community safety plan on day one was due.

We understand surveillance.

We publish professionally fact-checked articles about what you are doing and the clear and present danger it presents.

We understand the moment.

When asked about Renee Good's death, you called it a complicated matter that you would not be the first to comment on.

A day after the chair of the immigrant caucus publicly called it what it was, a murder.

To our liberal council members who talk about their support of immigrants and their advocates, some of whom have done ice watch and are likely already on lists.

To our conservative members who critique liberal leaders who are lining the pockets of corporations with dead-end contracts, this is a line in the sand.

Thank you.

Next, you're recognized.

Eric Allen was an individual who was shot and by Mount Juliet police and killed.

Also, Daniel Hambrick, if you noted, cameras don't save us.

They only record the tragedy.

Yes.

That's all it does.

What saves us is us.

Yes.

We, the people who stand up for each other.

We know y'all share our same sentiments, and the ones who don't, please look.

We're not just talking.

This is our lives, your lives.

After they finish with the group of minorities, what's the next minority they're going to target?

It's the people who say Nashville, Cashville is already written in stone.

We're not sitting here just saying, hey, we need you to do this.

No, we're saying we're voting against this.

We have homeless people that these money can be allocated to.

I know Mr.

Bill Barnes.

I know Brenda Barnes.

The Edge Hill community, uh, Ron Miller.

These people are the pillars who start the neighborhoods and we build on what their legacy is and going into the communities and learning our history and how to build up our our communities, not break them down.

That's what we do is getting people like me who could have been out on the street in a knucklehead to convert and be a positive member of the community.

That's how we win.

Simply sitting here saying that okay, in case of something bad happened, we're gonna record it.

What happens to that information?

It disappears.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Go ahead and come forward.

Thank you.

You're recognized.

Go ahead.

Uh India Pong Archer District 21.

Uh, I'm here to ask you to vote no on this resolution.

And I want to start out with my reasoning with a short quote.

Um, strong communities are better than better for safety than a surveillance state.

Let's not let fear drive Nashville to follow New Orleans path.

We can build safer communities through smart strategic investments that don't involve spying on one another.

And that's a quote from Freddie O'Connell, October 22nd, 2021.

Uh, in that spirit, this could be a really exciting opportunity for Nashville.

We have funds, millions of dollars of funds from the state, and these funds, we could be using them in really creative ways that we know one achieve safety, and two that we're told year after year during budget season that we don't have enough money to fund these things.

Instead of cameras that, you know, like our mayor in the past has stated, um, encourage us to spy on each other, encourage us to uh catch a crime after it's already committed.

We could be using these funds to uh fund really creative, exciting things that could bring us together as a body out of the city.

You know, we have tons of folks that have nowhere else to exist besides at the bus stop now, especially when they're downtown and the library is no longer um open.

We could be using these funds to literally renovate how renovate buildings and provide housing so we don't have folks that are just at the bus stop.

Um, right now we're telling those folks that there is nowhere else for you to exist in Nashville, right?

There's no downtown library to be at during the day.

Um we don't have free buses completely rolled out for folks.

What it would it look like if we invested in these people and we said you're hanging out at the downtown bus stop all day.

What if we had a job program so we could encourage people to see that they do belong here in Nashville and that they belong in their communities and they're invested in communities?

I love the idea of funding more outreach workers, but an outreach worker or caseworker is is only as good as the resources they have access to.

And right now, we don't have enough of those tangible resources to connect someone and a caseworker to in order to you know get them in a better position, um, because we know that the safest communities are the communities with the most resources.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Go ahead, you're recognized.

Hi, my name is Hayden Sears.

I'm a national native, uh, and I live in District 4.

Um, I come to you to ask to vote against this resolution, please.

Um, to my knowledge, we still do not to this point have a full accounting for the Nashville Downtown Partnership's role in the library fire that uh resulted in the library and library parking garage still being closed.

Um, I question why we're rewarding them with continued legitimacy and partnership when there are many questions that have still not been answered uh around that event.

Um, with everything happening with uh ice in cities like Minneapolis, uh Los Angeles, Chicago, that we can see day to day of ICE terrorizing uh their citizens and communities there.

Uh, do we want the same in Nashville?

Do we want to bring that here in the uh further militarizing our police because this is a step towards that?

And why would we want uh to pursue that goal when we can see what's happening to those citizens there?

Um, with this issue and like all issues, uh, I ask you to remember that uh the rich and powerful, their opinions are going to be amplified through uh money and through influence, but this is an opportunity to hear the many, many more voices of the community and people that will act actually be affected by this.

Uh, thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Go ahead, you're recognized.

Hi, my name is Trina Hewell.

Um, live in District 6.

Um the people of this city do not have representation in Congress thanks to the same body that wants us to have this money.

The same body that wants to further militarize our police.

More people in this city voted for oversight of police than voted for this mayor.

This police department colluded with the state of Tennessee to get rid of that oversight.

The state of Tennessee is working with Stephen Miller on legislation to take control of our police department.

Imagine what that means when this administration claims that murdered activists are domestic terrorists without any evidence or investigation.

Just recognize that you are the only defense left for people in the city that care enough to show up here.

Being here is activism.

And tonight, for the first time ever, I had to take my mask off to go through security.

And when I asked why, I was told it was for the cameras.

So the database is already being built.

Apparently, in this building.

Last year we came to warn you that surveillance would be used in terrible ways by the incoming administration.

If Freddie had had his way, ICE would have access to fuses today.

This year we come to you with no confidence in the O'Connell administration.

This administration deserves an ethics investigation.

How did two private vendors come to be named in the memorandum originally?

Why is he so focused on undermining your procurement oversight?

Do your job.

Please.

Our lives depend on it at this point.

Literally.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Go ahead, you're recognized.

How y'all doing?

Uh Shawnee Glappian District 8.

Uh, she, her pronouns.

Um, I'm here to tell you that we don't need any more surveillance.

Uh, we need housing solutions, traffic calming, homeless outreach, water stations.

I mean, I could go on.

Uh with ice operating like slave catches and a police support in their efforts.

We don't need to give them any more access to terrorized individuals in this city.

Uh, by voting for this resolution, you're making it dangerous for immigrants, black people, organizers, activists, and hell, even white women.

Uh, we we get no public records requests, no council oversight, no surveillance, ordinance compliance, no accountability to Nashville voters.

Tell me when something like this has ever not targeted marginalized marginalized individuals.

The harassment will be at your feet, the blood will be on your hands.

Volk for this resolution.

Thank you.

Go ahead and come on forward.

You're recognized.

Hi, my name is David Camp.

I live in District 23.

I just want to say I'm the son and brother of educators.

I have worked in elementary schools, I've worked in high schools, I've taught in college, I currently work at a college.

Uh, what I have learned during that time is what you need to give people to become productive members of society is not surveillance, is not militarized police.

It is food, water, shelter, education, and uh a meaningful job to be a part of their community.

These surveillance bills don't do that.

They just watch people, they just spy on people.

And to uh paraphrase a certain journalist that a few years ago put it like this if you guys are so cool with surveillance, give me all your usernames and passwords.

I don't want I don't I'm not gonna do anything bad with it, right?

Just give them to me.

Just just give me your personal phone number and turn your location services on.

I'm not gonna do anything bad with it, right?

I just want everybody to be safe.

Please vote against this.

Our city needs so much more than surveillance at this time.

We have so many other investments that we can make, and we need it desperately.

Like another person said, you guys are kind of the last bastion here.

So please do what's right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Go ahead, you're recognized.

Hi there.

Uh so my name is Gemini.

Uh I'm an EMT in the city of Nashville, and uh I also have a background as a scientist.

I just recently changed careers so that I could start work as an EMG.

Um, the reason that I changed careers was because I wanted to get my hands really in the work of caring for people and caring for my neighbors even better than you know, I'm already able to do.

Um, and I especially as a DMT, I've learned that the main thing that actually does anything uh for anybody, especially long term that makes their lives better is preventative health care.

And I'm here to tell you that cameras are not preventative health care.

They're as as people have said before me, they are watchful eyes as harm happens to you at best, right?

And maybe you guys maybe you get some follow-up on that, but then the harm's already been done.

The things that actually do anything for anybody that I'm I can see that I'm gonna continue to see, like as an EMT, our housing or better access to Narcan or even just any sort of like community health, um, any sort of community health programs that that people have been like begging for, like for this money to go to.

There's any number, there's so many people who have fantastic ideas about where this money could go in order to actually improve the community and build trust and like get to know your neighbor better.

And I I've never seen anywhere, even just in my neighborhood where somebody puts up a camera and I say, Oh, okay, that's like so that's somebody who like I trust, that's a neighbor who I trust.

So I'm I'm really I'm asking you to consider, especially like as somebody who, you know, a lot of people like to speak about like where they're on the front lines of of so on and so forth.

Like EMTs are on the front lines, they see everything that happens in the communities.

Um, they see all of these different failing points.

Um, and you had fixed so many of those failing points, you just gave that money to programs that are actually based around like building trust with people, building like building communities, and not just putting another eye up there to watch people die.

Thank you.

Go ahead, you're recognized.

Hello, my name is Marcy.

I am a grad student at Vanderbilt, and I am new to Nashville, I've only been here for about a year and a half, but I can tell you that I have come from a city where surveillance has been exceptionally large, and it does not do anything.

Pittsburgh is in the same feat as this.

It does not do anything to add more cameras, especially when those cameras are being watched by people who do not care and who want to hide the videos that are coming through.

I am a part of the generation of high school stud high school students and college students who have read stories like the 1984.

I have read The Handmaid's Tale.

I can tell you the story of these novels, these authors are trying to tell us is that an eye is going to watch you.

And I is going to watch all of the things that you do and tell people so that they can control what we do.

They are not going to help us.

More cameras do not do that.

Watching through things like that is only making it more dangerous for people that don't look like me to walk the streets, and that is not okay.

Thank you.

Go ahead and come on forward.

You're recognized.

Hello, my name is Donnie.

I'm a local Nashvillean.

And as someone that's worked with unhoused people for the last year, it's not cameras or any technological solution that is going to solve this issue of homelessness and crime.

It's going to be compassion.

It's going to be investing in the people doing the work and believing that we, the community, know our own needs, not taking it into your own hands, thinking that you can legislate us and control us with impunity.

No, we're going to hold you accountable to your actions, whether it's now, whether it's a month from now, whether it's a year from now.

Your actions here tonight and every night have consequences, whether you like to believe that or not.

It's not just a paycheck.

And I know you I know you know this.

Um really I just want to say invest in people and please stop believing that technology is a magic bullet.

And also the Nashville Downtown Partnership sucks.

They arrest unhoused people just for blocking the street, just because it's you know messing with the tourists and going to affect revenue.

Um, which was taken off of a statement by a state trooper that was contracted to work for Nashville Downtown Partnership, by the way.

So yeah.

If y'all care about corrupt money and whether it's going to be moving around in your government, then I'd say reject this funding by Nashville Downtown Partnership because they are corrupt.

A corrupt private entity that is not that is skirting by law and morality.

So that's all I have to say.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Go ahead, you're recognized.

Uh, good evening, everybody.

My name is Jamel Campbell Gooch.

I'm a district 20.

I live in District 21, born and raised.

Uh, this is an interesting conversation.

I was on the community oversight board uh when we first started this conversation, and it was very interesting that I think that that was one of the pivotal points when the state decided to take us away.

Um, I didn't plan to speak tonight, but it is very interesting that we seem to be stuck in this constant cycle of depending on surveillance to fix a problem of resource.

Um, and I want to present a proposal or a solution or an idea that if you do go ahead and pass this legislation that we treat this as an allocation to MMPD and take this money away during the local budget and use that pot of 15 million to fund other resources that our budget sometimes lacks.

I know uh through experience of working with you all that oftentimes when it comes to the budget, your constituents have wish that you put on your wish list.

So, what if you use this 15 million dollars when that point in time comes around to actually fund things that actually solve problems?

So I wanted to present that as a poll and get that on the record, and uh and also say to the community if we figure out what we do want, then we can actually prevent this body from doing something that we don't want.

Thank you.

Go ahead, you're recognized.

Hello, my name's Levi Schulden.

I'm a constituent of Tom Cash, and I'm here to ask you to vote no and vote against this resolution.

As many others have said, this money can be spent on many other great things to support our community rather than these cameras.

I've been a part of three events to build benches for bus stops along Korean vets and around the Nashville community for these bus stops that are so underfunded, right?

We made these benches for $35 a piece and for using our free labor.

These benches support the dignity of Nashville's, and what are these cameras doing, right?

We could we could seriously improve the lives of so many Nashvilleans with this money.

Please vote no.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Go ahead, you're recognized.

Man and Hall 912 stress Av.

Um please listen to council members.

Like Councilmember Suara.

I think she said incredible things in committee that were so moving to me personally and are so true and so of the moment.

I would really, really, really love this money to be spent on traffic calming infrastructure.

People are dying on our streets all the time.

And we can use this money to do that.

Um over 500 Nashville's completed a survey that that just launched about a week and a half ago.

And um, all the uses on that survey are eligible items from the grant application.

They were checked boxes, and Nashvilleans use their voice.

It was not for cameras, it certainly wasn't for the other items that we'll be to vote later tonight.

And so I asked for you guys to listen to their voices, right?

Those are eligible uses too.

Um I I would love for for you know this this these four million dollars when it's budget season to be used in a different manner, but I know how this city works.

Those that money will be allocated to MNPD.

And so for once in a while for once, we've got uh money in the cracks that we can allocate in ways that don't get funds a lot of the time that that fall through the cracks that can take care of Nashville and make us safer in ways that is um that is not uh a band-aid.

Um let's take care of each other.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Go ahead, you're reconstrating.

I'm Michelle.

I'm from District 5, and my sister Kitty is well known here, I believe.

Um it's my first council meeting, but I feel like I have a perspective I've haven't heard yet about an ol another vulnerable population with surveillance, and that's children.

Um, I have a two and a four-year-old, and I saw some really scary things about the cameras that are public and how they're being accessed for playgrounds that children are found at, parks, and we don't know who can access these, who's watching them.

We're already so careful about the online footprint we want to create.

If we want one for our children as parents, it's this whole other world when we're actively in our daily lives trying to keep them safe.

And then when you introduce cameras and this whole other world of technology where anyone can do anything and access it at any time, and there's no monitoring of that, that's terrifying.

The number one thing I say to my kids is that my job is to keep them safe.

And I can't keep them safe if the people here don't vote to also try and protect children and other vulnerable populations.

Um, secondly, my four-year-old watched me purchase the contributor last week, and she was asking why I gave him money.

And I explained to her that you know, some people don't have a house, and she was horrified, and she could not let it go.

We talked about for days.

We talked about the work that her aunt does for the homeless community here in Nashville, but I can't imagine how she can have that perspective that everyone has the right to basic human needs, and she's four, and we're sitting here arguing out about a budget that could make such a significant impact in these kind of communities.

So please vote no.

Thank you.

Go ahead, you reckon Show.

Hi, everyone.

Um, I'm Kelly.

Uh, two things I want to talk about.

One specifically is um a lot of you who I'm looking at who we don't necessarily agree um on a lot of things, but I think one thing we can agree on is we should be getting our money's worth when we spend our money, because this is not like magic money.

We all live in Tennessee.

This came from our taxes, we all pay federal taxes.

Like, this is not magic money that just popped out of the air.

Um, one of the items there is an allocation for two million dollars.

If you look it up on ATC and Ford's websites, one is a two 48-foot ATC trailers, one is two Ford F 550s.

The base price of those items added up together is $300,000, yet we're allocating two million dollars for that.

So um, some of you who have a vested interest in fiscal responsibility and oversight are not asking any of these questions because when it comes to MMPD, we just don't care.

We just throw millions of dollars at them.

But when someone wants a dollar, five dollars, thirty dollars, fifty thousand dollars for some sort of program that actually promotes safety in this city, we don't have the budget for it.

We don't have the budget for it.

We didn't have the budget to take $10,000 from MMPD last budget season because oh, that would cut into a personnel.

So when we are looking at these things, and we're talking about a two million dollar expenditure for something that a base model is $300,000.

What do you all think gets us from $300,000 to $2 million?

It's either going in someone's pocket, it's weaponry or it's surveillance technology.

Those are the only options.

So while you all are fine blindly giving away our money, we are not fine with it.

And just so you all know, the public perception is that anyone voting on this is complicit in the terror that is and will continue to be rained down on our citizens.

Do not think there is daylight between MMPD and ICE.

Soon MMPD will have no choice.

Thank you.

Is anyone else seeking to be recognized in opposition?

Okay, seeing no one else seeking to be recognized, I declare the public hearing closed.

Right.

And so now uh we will go back to the sponsor by virtue of her budget and finance committee chairmanship, Ms.

Tombs, you are recognized.

Thank you, uh Madam Vice Mayor.

Um move for approval.

Is there a second?

All right.

It's before us, and you have a substitute, I believe.

Move for approval of the substitute.

Okay, there's a motion to substitute.

It's properly seconded.

Anything you want to say about the substitute.

Okay, um, special counsel Wilson, you are recognized.

Uh this amendment uh changes uh the uh type of transaction that occurs here from a monetary donation to a grant from Nashville Downtown Partnership to the to MNPD.

Uh in this case, there would also be an addition of um uh a condition for a grant.

MPD would continue or would agree to provide publicly available information and crime stats uh related to these grants uh to Nashville Downtown Partnership.

This would allow uh downtown partnership to satisfy the uh grant requirements for the state tied to uh the downtown public safety grants.

All right, thank you, special counsel.

Um uh Miss Timbs, anything else you want to say about the substitute?

Um also in the substitute is that the cameras are replacing existing cameras, correct?

Is that correct?

Special counsel.

That's correct.

Okay.

Um go ahead, Miss Tombs.

Uh renew my motion for approval.

All right, so there is a um uh motion uh to substitute um with the substitute as uh explained.

So we are simply on the motion to substitute at this juncture, okay?

Um it is properly seconded.

Um are those folks in the queue seeking to be recognized on the motion to substitute in uh particular.

Is there anyone in the queue that seeks to be recognized specifically on the motion to substitute?

If you would raise your hand, because the queue is already full, and I just don't want to make sure I miss you.

All right.

Um, so with that, we will move to the vote simply on the motion to substitute.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Um, any voting no?

Any abstaining?

All right.

Um, the substitute is on the bill.

Miss Tombs, if you would renew your motion.

Move for approval is substituted.

Is there second?

All right.

Now we are on to the primary debate of the motion to approve as substituted.

Uh, first in the queue is council member uh Cortez, your recognizer.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Under normal circumstances with strong local oversight, the tools being discussed tonight makes sense.

I trust my colleagues in this room.

I trust our police, our community partners, and our neighbors.

But that trust depends on real local control, and that control is under unprecedented threat.

There are bills moving through the state legislature that could remove the oversight that local leaders are supposed to have.

Bills that make our police force comply with orders from a state and federal government, they do not report to.

Until we know how these state bills turn out, I believe we should invest in safety measures we know will remain under local oversight.

I believe a government's number one role is to protect its citizens' freedoms.

When checks and balances are absent, government overreach is inevitable.

And my skepticism of the state legislature actually protecting our rights and looking out for our needs is earned.

The state legislature and the governor executed a massive attack on Tennessee's First Amendment freedoms.

They voted to jail local officials for taking a vote on a subject they did not like.

Think about that.

The state government made it a felony to express an opinion they disagreed with.

They chose power over protecting their neighbors' freedoms.

When hurricanes ravaged East Tennessee, our legislature and governor did not act to help their neighbors.

Instead, they held up stormly funding for over five months.

Do you know why?

Reports say because they needed to use the stormerly funding as leverage to get their school voucher bill passed.

They literally use their neighbors' suffering as political leverage.

Think about that.

When they had a chance to remove the grocery tax to make life a little more affordable for ordinary Tennesseans, they chose to give a massive corporate tax refund instead.

They chose their donors' needs over their neighbors' needs.

And I give these examples to showcase my concern.

My concern that my neighbors' needs are not being addressed and their rights are not being protected.

I cannot support this until I fully understand how our ability to provide proper oversight and protect my neighbors' rights will be affected.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember.

Next in the queue is uh Councilmember Nash.

You're recognized, sir.

Folks, if you could please not clap so we can just proceed through the debate.

Mr.

Nash, you're recognized.

We can go um much more swiftly.

Thank you.

Go ahead, sir.

Thank you, madam chairman.

Um I am confused.

There's been so much conflation of different issues here.

Minneapolis keeps coming up, and I think we are all horrified by what we're seeing in Minneapolis and what happened to Miss Good.

And I'm confident that if the same circumstance had happened here and it involved a Metro police officer, there would have been a full investigation done by the TH uh TBI, maybe federal government, and we'd have a decent conclusion like we had in the handbreak case.

Go ahead.

The uh you two should not be addressing each other.

Mr.

Nash is addressing the chair.

Okay, let's keep the debate in order, Miss Kimbrough.

Do not address Mr.

Nash.

And and first, this is not a new program.

There's nothing new about the downtown cameras.

They have been in place for years, and there's no examples of them being misused downtown.

Now, do they solve every crime?

No.

But they do provide an opportunity for those folks who are victims to get some justice.

And I think that's a right thing to do.

And I I, you know, it's you can't prove a negative, so it's very hard to say how many crimes have been prevented because people knew that there was surveillance going on, security cameras, and none of these cameras are secret.

They all got a little blue light on them.

They're overt cameras, they're overt cameras, so it's no secret.

I and this is money that obviously is coming from a grant.

It's not gonna be coming out of our budget, and it's just replacing cameras that are already there.

I've urge passage.

Thank you, Mr.

Nash.

Um, I will say to the gallery, please.

Hey, gallery, listen, with with respect, okay.

There are people that are listening online, there are people listening at home.

We want to be able to hear the order of the debate and the points that members are making.

If you hiss or say things over them or interject, okay, we're just trying to be able to hear a clear debate.

Thank you.

Ms.

Hill, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Vice Mayor.

Let's just start out by saying this.

Cameras are crime catchers, not crime stoppers.

If we want to reduce crime and we want things to do better, then we need to start doing efforts and other things downtown.

We need to invest in red frogs to keep our girls safe.

We need to put stuff into uh safe bar to make sure that we catch some of these people and reduce the things.

We also need to put maybe some plain clothes officers to catch all the people that are drugging.

I was drugged Labor Day weekend, and there were cameras, and the cameras didn't catch anybody doing it.

And when I showed up at the emergency room at Vanderbilt University, I was asked two questions.

Were you sexually assaulted or was it a hate crime?

I am the only trans person elected in this state, and I was on national TV the day before.

It's a hate crime.

I should have been tested.

I was sent home and told by the police officer to go have it tested myself.

It was Labor Day weekend, nobody was open.

I waited 30 days so I could go get a hair sample, and they told me that it would not show up because it was only one thing.

If you want to reduce crime, let's reduce crime, not just try to catch people.

Thank you.

Uh next, uh, Councilmember Sipulvadal, you're recognized.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

It's a hard night, so I'm I'm gonna try and get this out.

Um, and I'm gonna implore my colleagues to try and hear me.

Um, because I have been having as existential crisis uh this entire term, and it gets harder and harder to come to these meetings, and it becomes harder uh for me to implore um people in the community to continue to show up uh and speak out.

Um sometimes I don't feel like um they are entirely being heard.

Um so I I want you to picture um being me.

I'll I'll speak for myself.

Picture being me.

Uh brown woman from immigrant parents, and now you carry your passport everywhere.

Uh knowing that if you or your loved one goes missing, doesn't come home one day, even though you were born here, um, and your loved ones, because you you are privileged enough that uh some of your loved ones were born here or have citizenship or residency or a visa, that uh you have to go find them at an ICE facility regardless.

Because if I ever go missing, the people that I love know that that's one of the first places that they have to go check.

And even though cameras don't seem like uh a big deal to some, it they are.

That's step one, right?

Armored vehicles.

Where do I begin?

These are unprecedented times, and and I'll say to my colleague, um, you know, the federal government took over that investigation in Minneapolis.

We don't know what's happening right now, and and so I would implore you all to be brave, because nothing we do is going to stop the state.

If the state decides to take over our police force, they're going to take it over.

If the state decides to take over our city government, they're going to take it over.

Because nothing we could have done would have stopped the state because they've decided what they're going to do already.

They decided to, you know, pursue these immigration policies already with some of the most evil people in Washington, D.C.

So, no, I'm not going to support these individual grants, and I would implore you all to vote no.

Next is Councilmember.

Swara.

Miss Swara, you're recognized.

Thank you, Vice Mayor, and thanks to all of the folks that came to speak.

Uh, yesterday we celebrated MLK Day, and I know a lot of us like to quote Sam LK.

And so I find one that I thought is applicable to this that says we must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

I want to thank all of you.

I know that you are making the best decision that you can.

This is what we call a dilemma.

You want people to be safe, but then there's this issue of privacy and ice and all of that.

So I get that for some of you is a very hard choice.

But I want you to listen very carefully.

Think about times in history, even in US history, even in in Nashville, when government has made decisions that is supposed to help people, but turned the other way.

Let's not go for I-40 Jefferson.

Let's not go for the peace act that we all supported because we feel it will keep keep Nazi out of Nashville, and that don't be something that's gonna infringe your first amendment rights.

So when we make these decisions, there's the term that we all talk about, unintended consequences.

But this is not uh something that we're making up.

It's a reality.

It's happening.

One of the things that I shared in committee is that there are people in this room and all over the country that voted for this administration that believe that project 2025 is not real.

That believe that it's not gonna happen.

We got the constitution, we got the separation of government, and now regretting what we're facing.

A lot of people are saying I did not vote for this.

So if you did not vote for this, and this is what is happening.

Take a lesson from that.

Because you may be voting for just cameras, but I tell you this is more than that.

When I was reviewing these papers and I was looking at my analysis, the thing that jumped out at me was that this money was only given to the four large cities.

It is a it is a system to build infrastructure for what the state is purporting to do.

They've told us there's been meetings with ice, the building and ice detention center near us.

How much more should they tell us?

They told us all of this before the election in 2020, whatever we did 24.

Everybody ignored it.

Look where we are.

So I'm asking all of you.

You have a right to make a decision.

And when you're faced with two top decision, go with the one that scares you the most.

If we do not vote for this, what will happen?

M MPD will continue to use the tank that he has.

We'll continue to use the video that he has.

We continue to do what he could it has been doing to keep crimes to keep going down.

But if we do vote for this, think about what happened on the other side.

This is what we should be scared of.

We should not be a party to any decision that makes it easy for the state government that says they would or the federal government to now attack us.

That's what your voice is about.

That's what your vote is about.

I will hope you make the right choice.

Thank you, Miss Suare.

Next is Councilmember Benedict.

Do you recognize you're next in the queue?

Previous question.

All right.

Um Ms.

Benedict has called the previous question.

This requires a second.

Okay.

Um this is a non-debatable motion, and it requires uh two-thirds of those uh voting.

Uh if you want to support the previous question, you want to end debate and move to the vote.

Um if you vote against the previous question, that means you want debate to continue.

All right.

Um we can try it first by voice.

If it's not clear, um, then we will do it by roll call.

Okay.

All in favor of the previous question, and I will say to y'all, please, it's number, not volume, please help us kind of keep going.

Um, all in favor of the previous question, please say aye.

Aye.

Uh all uh against the previous question.

No.

Okay.

Um the ayes have it.

Um uh the previous question has been called.

Um, that means that we will uh move to the vote.

Um I would ask uh Mr.

Clerk uh that we and an abundance of caution that we do vote by machine, please, sir.

With all votes in, Mr.

Clerk, if you would please show the vote.

This motion fails with 15 in favor, 20 against, and three abstentions.

All right.

Let's keep moving ahead uh in our agenda.

Um uh council members, if you uh were in the queue for the last item.

Um, if you would uh please clear the queue.

Um we're on to agenda items three and four.

Uh they are companions to each other.

Uh agenda item three is ordinance BL 2025-703, sponsors Gad Horton and Allen.

Uh 703 is an ordinance to amend title 17, the Metro Code of Laws is zoning ordinance, the Metro Government of Nashville and Davidson County by applying a historic landmark overlay district for property located at 4301 Harding Pike, 296, uh 296 feet southwest of Woodlawn Drive, zone CS and located within the Harding White Bridge Urban Design Overlay.

This is 3.99 acres, and it's companion also sponsored GAD 704 that requires certain materials to be restricted in the construction of the buildings.

Uh Councilmember Gadd, you are recognized.

Uh thank you so much.

Madam Speaker, I would like to move both of these bills to the first meeting.

Um defer both of these bills to the first meeting of April.

Okay.

There is a motion to defer uh both these bills in their public hearing and second reading to the first meeting in April.

Is there a second?

All right.

If I may, special counsel, um, do we have an issue here uh with our multiple deferrals?

Or are we uh go ahead, sir.

Do you mind, Ms.

Gadd if I just make a double check?

I had a question here.

Uh no, Vice Mayor.

This is a Title 17 bill, and there are no.

Thank you so much.

Uh all righty.

Um there is a motion to defer uh both these bills to the first uh meeting in April.

It is properly uh seconded.

Is there any additional uh debate or discussion?

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Any voting no or abstaining?

All right.

Uh both these bills are deferred uh for public hearing to the first meeting in April.

All right, next uh is agenda item five, ordinance BL 2025-1072 sponsors Huffman Horton and Coopin.

This is an ordinance amending chapters 17.04 and 17.32 of the Metro Code of Laws to permit and regulate sandwich board signs.

Uh Mr.

Huffman, you're recognized, sir.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Uh I'd like to withdraw with a brief comment.

Um okay, sir.

Um go ahead.

Thank you very much.

Just a quick note on this.

We're gonna be withdrawing this bill to refile it under Title 13, which will I think make a little bit more sense in regards to the implementation of this law.

So uh we've just been working with End DOT on this, and that's the conclusion that we've come to.

Thank you.

Alrighty.

Um uh so that bill, uh Mr.

Huffman's 1072 is withdrawn um with an explanation that you have heard.

Um uh folks in the gallery, I would ask um if you want to continue uh to discuss.

Um if you could move out to the mezzanine or else just speak a little bit more quietly.

Thank you so much.

All right.

Um agenda item six is ordinance BL 2025-1100 sponsor Parker.

This is an ordinance to end title 17, the Metro Code of Laws of Zoning Orange the Metro Government by changing from RS5 to R6A zoning for property located at 1435 Meridian Street at the corner of Meridian Street and Gatewood Avenue, and located within a detached accessory dwelling unit overlay district.

This is 0.18 acres.

Uh Mr.

Parker, you're recognized.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

I would like to open the public hearing.

Okay.

I declare the public hearing open for Councilmember Parker's uh ordinance 1100.

Would all members of the public hear in support of councilman Parker's uh ordinance 1100?

Uh please raise your hand.

Okay.

Uh would all members of the public here.

Um I see you behind the column, sir.

Um, would all members of the public here in opposition uh to this ordinance uh please raise your hand?

Okay, seeing no one here in opposition, do the persons here in support seek to be recognized or to speak.

Is the person behind the column saying no?

Saying no.

Okay.

Um all right.

Uh seeing uh none, I will declare the public hearing closed and it's back to you for a motion on your bill.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

I'd like to move approval.

Okay, properly moved and seconded.

Is there any discussion on this ordinance on uh second reading?

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Any voting no or abstaining?

All right, this is passed its second of three readings.

Next is agenda item seven, ordinance BL 2025-1116 sponsors Allen and Hancock.

This is an ordinance amending title 17 of the Metro Code of Laws to add a new electric vehicle charging station use and related definitions and conditions to the zoning code.

Uh Councilmember Allen, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I'd like to open the public hearing, please.

I declare the public hearing open on council member Allen and Hancock's uh ordinance one one six.

Uh would all members of the public hear in uh support of this resolution, please raise your hands.

Okay.

Would all members of the public hear in opposition to this ordinance?

Uh please raise your hand.

Okay.

Seeing no one here on either side seeking to be recognized.

Um, I will declare the public hearing closed, and it's back to you uh for a motion to get this before us, Ms.

Allen.

Uh thank you, madam chair.

I'd like to move approval and then move the substitute.

All right, there's a motion to approve.

Um is there a second?

Okay, and um there's also a motion to substitute now.

Is there a second?

All right.

Um anything you want to say on the substitute, Ms.

Allen.

I think you know the substitute just adds a couple more uses where this would be appropriate.

The new R L and R N district.

All righty.

So approval.

Okay, there is a motion uh to substitute.

Um you've heard an explanation of the substitute from Ms.

Allen.

Is there any discussion on the motion to substitute?

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Okay.

Um the substitute, any voting no or abstaining on that substitute.

Nope.

Okay.

The substitute is on the bill.

If you would please renew your motion to approve is substituted.

I would like to move the bill as substituted.

All right.

Um, is there a second for that?

All right.

Is there any further discussion?

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Any voting no or abstaining?

All right.

This has passed its second of three readings as substituted.

Um, it will head to the planning and zoning committee next.

All right.

Next are agenda items eight and nine.

They are companions to each other.

Um sponsors Hancock and Webb.

The first is uh ordinance BL 2025-1132.

Uh this amends Title 17, the Metro Code of Laws, zoning ordinance of the Metro government by changing from RS5 to SP zoning for properties located at 400 and 408 Maple Street at the southeast corner of Maple Street and Fourth Avenue.

This is 0.5 acres to permit three residential units and its companion agenda item nine also sponsors Hancock and Webb that requires uh certain materials to be restricted in the construction of buildings.

This is uh ordinance one one three three, and they can be taken up together.

Uh Ms.

Hancock, you are recognized.

Um could I and for the public hearing, please?

Yes.

Um I declare the public hearing open on uh Ms.

Hancock and Webb's bills 1132 and 1133, um, again, which are companions to each other.

Would all folks here in support of these bills uh please raise your hands?

Um would any folks here in opposition to these bills please raise your hands.

Seeing no one here on either side, uh Ms.

Hancock, I will declare the public hearing closed and it's back to you.

At this juncture, you could make a consolidated motion on both these bills if you so wish.

I'd like to move for approval on both of these bills with no comment.

Okay.

Is there a second?

Okay, um uh there's a motion to approve uh ordinances 1132 and 1133 uh companions to each other on second of three readings.

Is there any discussion?

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any voting no?

Any abstaining?

All right, these have passed uh their second of three readings.

Next are agenda items 10 and 11.

These are also companions to each other.

Sponsor Coupen.

Agenda item 10 is ordinance BL 2025-1143.

This is an ordinance to amend title 17 of the Metro Code of Laws, the zoning ordinance of the Metro Government by amending the River North Urban Design Overlay District for various properties located on Cowan Street, Waterside Drive, Oldham Street, North First Street, River North Boulevard, Spring Street, and Cowan Court.

This is 165.21 acres to update the regulating plan and corresponding sub-district designations, all of which is described here in.

And then again, it's companion agenda item 11, ordinance 1144, also sponsor coupon, which requires certain materials to be restricted in the construction of buildings and all these locations in the aforementioned legislation.

Uh Mr.

Koopin, you are recognized, sir.

Oh, I'm sorry, sir.

Go ahead.

Thank you, Madam President.

Open the public hearing, please.

All right.

Um, I declare the public hearing open for Council Member Coopens uh ordinances 1143 and 1144 regarding uh the riven river north urban design overlay.

Uh would all members of the public hear in support of these two bills, please raise your hands.

Right.

Would all members of the public hear in opposition to these bills?

Please raise your hands.

Seeing no one here on either side, Mr.

Coupen, I will declare the public hearing closed, and it's back to you for um a motion on these bills.

Um go ahead, sir.

Thank you, Madam President.

Move approval.

All right, there is a motion to approve and a consolidated motion 1143 and its companion 1144.

It is properly seconded.

Is there any discussion?

Seeing none.

All in favor, please say aye.

Okay, any voting no or abstaining?

All right, these have passed their second of three readings.

Next, we are on to agenda item 12.

Um, this is ordinance BL 2025-1145.

Sponsor Kimbrough.

This is an ordinance to mend Title 17, the Metro Code of Laws, the zoning ordinance of the Metro Government.

Uh by changing from RS 15 to R15 zoning for property located at 4016 Meadow Road, approximately 385 feet uh south of Cedar Circle.

This is 0.33 acres.

Um Miss Kimbrough, I will recognize you seeing a note here that we may need to defer due to notice.

I'd like to withdraw.

Uh to withdraw.

Yes.

Okay.

Um this bill is uh withdrawn.

Okay.

Um Ms.

Kimbrough's bill 1145 um is withdrawn by the sponsor.

Okay.

Uh next is agenda item 13, ordinance BL 2025-1147 sponsors tombs, Horton, and Evan Siegel.

This is an ordinance amending certain access management sections of chapters 13.12 and 17.20 of the Metro Code of Laws to implement the access management manual, which complies compiles rather regulations and guidelines for access from private property to public rights away to modernize the development review process and make streets safer for all modes of transportation.

Uh council member tombs, you are recognized.

Request open a public hearing.

All right.

Um there is a uh I will declare the public hearing open on um council members tombs, Horton, and Evan Siegel's uh bill 1147 regarding the access management manual.

Um are uh there any members of the public here in support of this bill.

Are there any members of the public here in opposition to this bill?

Seeing none on either side, I will declare the public hearing closed, and it's back to you for a motion on this bill, Miss Tombs.

Move for approval.

All right, is there second?

Okay, there is a motion uh to approve on second reading.

Um it is properly seconded uh regarding 1147 uh the access management manual.

Is there any uh discussion?

All right, uh seeing none, um all in favor, please say aye.

Any voting all in favor, please say aye.

Okay, any voting no or abstaining.

All right, this has passed its second of three readings.

Next are agenda items 14 and 15.

They are companions to each other.

Sponsor Welsh.

Uh the first bill is ordinance BL 2025-1161, and uh its companion is 1162.

1161 is an ordinance to mend Title 17, the Metro Code of Laws is zoning ordinance of the Metro government by changing from RS 7.5 to SP zoning for properties located at 3208, 3210, 3212, and 3218 Glencliff Road at the northeast corner of Glencliffe Road and Antioch Pike.

This is 6.88 acres to permit 80 multifamily residential units.

And then uh for agenda item 15, uh ordinance 1162, its companion.

This proposed ordinance requires certain materials to be restricted in the construction of buildings at the location in the aforementioned bill.

Uh Ms.

Welsh, you are recognized.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

I'd like to open the public hearing.

Right.

I declare the public hearing open for Council Member Welsh's bills 1161 and 1162.

Would all members of the public hear in support of these bills pretty please raise your hands.

Thank you.

Would all members of the public hear in opposition to these bills?

Okay.

I'm seeing some folks here in opposition.

Um supporting speakers do go first.

And seeing that there are folks in opposition, does the gentleman in support seek to be recognized?

Okay, go ahead and come on forward.

Again, supporting speakers will go first, and then persons in opposition will be recognized to speak after if they wish to do so.

Go ahead, you're recognized.

Thank you so much for your time.

Um this SP represents many, many months of community involvement.

Um it is for up to 80 uh homes in the seven-acre or nearly seven acre parcel.

Um we listened to the community and heard what they were asking for and what they wanted to see.

And it was initially an RM request that moved to an SP to accommodate those needs because they were had troubles that promises made weren't gonna be promises kept.

So we've moved to an SP.

We're providing walking trails, we're providing a public access playground and as well as the walking trails.

Um these homes are going to be uh from a mix of single family uh and town homes.

Uh they're from two to four bedrooms, and they're from 1400 square feet to 2,000 square feet or just right thereabouts on the high end side.

It is exactly what Nashville keeps saying it needs.

It's on the corner of uh Glencliffe and Anne Yock Pike.

There's an apartment complex to the east.

There's a uh elementary school to the west.

Again, you'll have public access uh sidewalks uh going throughout the development.

Um we uh have board support that was uh submitted from uh from two different board members to the planning commission as well.

Um one important piece of this uh is that we have done as much as possible to accommodate uh the opposition.

The opposition is almost solely exclusively just to the north in the Twin Oak subdivision.

Um we've provided a 20-foot buffer off of that and put a road after that to give as much distance off of that property line as possible.

Um we also aren't gonna be facing homes.

There's no backyard that's gonna abut up to these properties.

Um development is difficult, development is hard.

But if we shut the door behind us, Nashville will not have the housing it needs.

The Twin Oaks uh subdivision, when it was done, one of the homeowners that is uh uh putting forward in this SP is the closest one to it.

He was in opposition.

Had he been successful in his opposition, none of the opposite opposition represented here today would have a home.

We can't close the door behind us.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Um is there anyone else here um in support um seeking to be recognized?

All right, seeing none, we'll move on to uh any persons in opposition that uh wish to speak.

Uh go ahead and come forward.

All right, you are recognized.

Thank you, uh chairperson and team uh for having us out tonight.

We really appreciate the support.

And uh no, you've been dealing with a lot of tough issues tonight, with so we appreciate your patience through everything through a long evening.

Uh my name is Sean Hubbard.

I live at Twin Oak Circle, and actually I disagree.

I I have a property that does directly back up to this property.

Um there's gonna be about 86 units we saw on paper that's gonna be developed on about three properties today.

I think it's a mass overindex on where the properties are gonna be located.

They're also on top of a hill, so there's some environmental concerns I have to this equation because it's called Glencliffe for a reason.

My wife and I spent a lot of time um leveling up our property, actually putting in fesky to prevent runoff and erosion issues.

Um, I think there's gonna be significant environmental issues presented by this project.

Also, I think the traffic concerns are real.

Um we have three young kids in the neighborhood, and we're actually getting them into Glencliffe Public Schools, which I think is a great way to represent the community.

We've been in the house for 20 years now.

So I think on the traffic end, it's interesting to think about.

We've got the choice lanes coming in, so one point of ingress to the neighborhood is gonna be choked off permanently, and now we have to go through a construction zone to potentially get to school and to work.

This project is directly across from the Glencliffe school, and I think there will be immense traffic implications that we can't even start to evaluate and study.

So I'd love to see more representation, you know, from our council persons.

I'd love to see more representation from the developer, because I don't believe they've been listening to us in how this can mean like the impacts for our community.

So thank you for listening.

I really hope you find in your hearts a reason to keep our communities alive.

Thank you.

Council members, let's please keep our volume down during public hearing.

Um, so we can be sure to hear folks.

Okay, go ahead, sir.

I'm speaking on behalf of my family and my community.

My property line backs up to this potential rezoning, and we directly oppose this.

We have invested 19 years into our community, and this ecosystem will be destroyed by this redevelopment.

These developers do not care about our community and our soulless.

Council person Welsh, did you receive any letters of support from any of the neighborhood associations?

Do we don't pose questions to council members in the house?

Council Portion Welsh was not at any of our community meetings, and as a citizen of this district, we have not been heard, and this should not be passed.

You do not represent us.

You do not resent represent the developer, you represent us.

As a member of this community, this is not going to benefit us, and the protections that were proposed by the side developer do not actually protect the current residents, and we're only surface level, like giving a park when there's ready a park across the street, or um things to that nature.

This is going to drastically decrease our quality of life.

Please, within your heart, oh no, this is not what Nashville needs.

This is not the direction that Nashville needs to go.

Thank you, guys.

Thank you.

Next, you recognize Hi, my name is Kristen Haney, and my property backs up directly to this um development.

Um they're planning to put a street 20 feet from my house.

Um, there's not gonna be a fence dividing the properties, but there's gonna be a landscape barrier that's gonna be taking time for privacy and noise reduction.

Um, right now they've done street calming on Antioch Pike, which is wonderful and I love it, but this is just going to be adding more cars onto that street.

And as of now, whenever you drive down Glencliffe Road, there are cars that speed by all the time.

Um there's so much congestion already.

And in fact, this development is going literally down the street from another development, Noble Place.

So we will be sandwiched in between two developments.

And in fact, Noble Place has had trouble selling their units that there are now signs for rent outside.

Um this is changing the character of our neighborhood.

And I feel like us regular homeowners are being pushed out because none of us want this.

In fact, I had another neighbor here tonight that had to leave because she had a phone call with her realtor at 8 30 this evening.

She has already been looking for other places.

Thank you.

Is anyone else seeking to be recognized in opposition?

All right.

With that, I will declare the public hearing uh closed.

Um Ms.

Lee and Mr.

Harrell, um, your sponsor I'm about to recognize is right behind you.

So um uh with that, um, Ms.

Welsh, you are recognized.

Uh thank you, Vice Mayor.

I'd like to move to approve with a brief comment.

All right.

Um, there is a motion to approve and a consolidated motion 1161 and 1162 on their second of three readings.

Go ahead, ma'am.

Uh, thank you, Vice Mayor.

Um, this um is a project that is going to bring some of the missing middle housing that we so desperately need here in Nashville.

Um, and the developer here has been meeting with uh the Glencliffe Neighborhood Association for uh quite a long time, and the neighborhood association um has come out in support of this.

Um, the president of the board and other board members sent letters of support.

Um they um, as was mentioned, um, for those who are close to development, there is going to be um a buffer zone off the property line.

Two separate entrances to the development were added.

Um they're putting in a park and a trail.

Um they'll be working with the Arboras to figure out how they can best do the trail they are on a hill.

They've been working with water.

Um it's a really good development, it's a good um location for this development.

Um, and I think it's gonna be um a real benefit to the neighborhood.

Um so I ask my colleagues to support and renew my motion to approve.

All right.

Uh there is a motion to approve on its second of three readings, 1161 and 1162.

Uh, you've heard an explanation from Ms.

Welsh.

Is there any further discussion?

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any voting no?

Uh Mr.

Eastlick, you'll be recorded as a no.

Uh any abstaining.

Um, Ms.

Weiner.

Um, hang on.

Hang on.

All right.

So I called the no's and I was moving into abstentions.

So just to clarify who is a no vote, please raise your hand.

Okay.

One, two's.

Um, who is an abstention?

Okay, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

Is that correct?

Okay.

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you.

Oh, thank you.

Um, I have a question about when it's a voice vote.

If the majority has it, then when people start raising their hands and with a pause, other people might start raising their hands.

If it's a voice vote and enough people are in the affirmative, is that not just um cause to move on?

Um, indeed.

Um special counsel, can you opine on this?

Um, to my ear, the eyes had it.

We thought we had one uh abstention, then I called, or rather uh vote against, then uh we called abstentions, and so we um have those uh visible to us.

Um it's it's a fair point of order and ask.

Um, it was a little unusual um in how that proceeded.

So I appreciate the question.

Um, special counsel.

Um at second of three readings.

Um, where are we on this bill?

Uh Vice Mayor, we are on second reading of this matter.

Uh Rule 38.2 states that when there are abstentions or negative votes on an ordinance on second reading, and the chair can determine the outcome of a voice vote.

The chair may either call for a roll call vote or direct the clerk to record the names of members who've stayed or cast a negative vote.

Okay.

I'm saying the ayes have it, and I am asking the clerk to record um the uh abstentions and uh the no's as we saw them.

Okay.

So these bills have passed their second of three readings.

All right.

Um next uh is agenda items uh 16 and um uh 17.

They are uh companions to each other, uh sponsors tombs.

Ordinance uh BL 2025-1163 and 1164.

Uh 1163 is an ordinance to amend title 17 of the Metro Code of Laws of Zoning Ordinance of the Metro Government of Nashville and Davidson County by changing from R8 to SP zoning for properties located at 2130, 2132A, uh 2138A.

Uh wow, this is a lot of numbers.

213 8B, 232 C, uh 2,140, and 2142, Buena Vista Pike, and 3,005 AB and 3,000 and 3,009 Cliff Drive.

At the southwest corner of Buena Vista Pike and Cliff Drive, this is 5.29 acres to permit a mixed use development.

And again, it's companion 1164, uh, which uh requires certain materials to be restricted in the construction of buildings at all of those addressed in the aforementioned bill.

Ms.

Tombs, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Vice Mayor.

Request to open a public hearing.

All right.

I declare the public hearing open on Ms.

Toombs' ordinances 1163 and 1164.

Would all members of the public hear in support of these bills?

Please raise your hands.

All right.

Would all members of the public here in opposition to these bills, please raise your hand?

Okay.

Um there is one person here in opposition.

Uh, do you seek to be recognized?

All right.

Um are there any persons here in uh support of this bill?

Supporting speakers do go first.

Um we do have someone in opposition seeking to be recognized.

So I just want to make sure anyone here in support seeking to be recognized.

All right.

Uh with that, uh, the gentleman in opposition, uh, you are recognized.

Oh, I'm sorry, sir.

Go ahead.

Uh Steve Rider.

I my opposition is really related to that there's existing structures there that are affordable for people.

That is my concern is that we're losing a lot of places that are affordable for people because they're being torn down.

And this is in the Bordeaux neighborhood.

There's a lot of development going on there, and a lot of developers are there because they buy low and they sell high.

And so my main opposition to this is not specifically for what's happening there, but I was over there, and I can tell you that those are affordable housing options for people, and we need more of those in town, not less.

So I just want to go out there and mention that to you, because some of those older homes, they're quality built.

You can walk on, walk in their floors, and there are no squeaks.

Some of the stuff that we're building today is really mediocre.

Really bad.

And so we have a lot of people are just building stuff, and they want to just flip it to somebody, and they go, Oh, you'll be okay.

There's just there's a one-year warranty on it.

But the stuff that is being built today is nowhere as good as it was built in the 50s and the 60s.

And I can tell you, I grew up in one of those homes.

And it was a beautiful home.

We only had one bathroom.

We had a very small closet.

I didn't have a lot of clothes away back then.

But I'll tell you something that was quality construction.

And I can go out there and open windows and shut doors and everything else and look at the HVAC systems today, and I go, This is really not good at all.

And so I just wanted, I'm just it's regrettable that we're gonna be tearing down some houses that actually should be remaining.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Is there anyone else seeking to be recognized in opposition?

Seeing none, I will declare the public hearing closed.

And it's back to you, uh, Ms.

Tombs, for a motion on these bills.

Thank you.

Um, Madam Vice Mayor, uh move for approval with a brief comment.

Right.

Um, there is a motion uh to approve uh 1163 and uh its companion 1164 on uh their second of three readings.

Is there a second?

Okay, um uh go ahead, Miss Timbs.

Uh yes, so there was a community meeting held as I do with all rezonas in my district where the development team came and presented uh what their proposal is.

Um many of these lots listed are actually empty.

Um and there actually aren't any affordable homes on these lots.

Um and part of one of the requirements because there is a there is a small bodega that is on one of the properties, and so one of the requirements is that if that should go away at some point in the future, which the owner doesn't tend to do any development in the near future that there would have to be a store there to replace what what is existing there.

So there was a community meeting.

Uh residents had an opportunity to ask questions.

Um this is just second reading, so there's still opportunity to ask questions.

Um, so with that, I renew my motion for approval.

All right.

Um there is a motion to approve properly seconded on 1163 and 1164, both on second reading.

Is there any further discussion on these bills?

Okay.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any voting no?

Any abstaining?

All right.

This has passed its second of three readings, or both of these have.

Okay.

Next is agenda item 18, ordinance BL 2025-1165 sponsor tailor.

Um, and hopefully another co-sponsor as well.

Um, Ms.

Tombs, you got it.

Okay, this is an ordinance to amend title 17, the Metro Code of Laws, the zoning ordinance of the Metro government.

Uh, by changing from RS5 to R6A zoning for property located at 708 26th Avenue North, approximately 205 feet north of Clifton Avenue.

This is 0.18 acres, and located within a detached accessory dwelling unit overlay district.

Ms.

Tombs, you are recognized.

Thank you, madam vice mayor.

Request to open a public hearing.

All right.

I declare the public hearing open uh for council member uh Taylor and now Tombs uh ordinance 1165.

Uh would all members of the public hear in support of uh this bill, please raise your hand.

Thank you.

Uh would all members of the public hear in opposition to this bill, please raise your hand.

Seeing no one here in opposition to the persons here in support seek to be recognized or speak.

All right, they are both shaking their heads no, and so with that, Ms.

Tombs, I will declare the public hearing closed.

It's back to you for a motion.

Move for approval.

All right, is there a second?

All right, is there any uh discussion?

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Any voting no or abstaining?

All right.

Um, this has passed uh its second of three readings.

Next is agenda item 19, ordinance BL 2025-1166 sponsor Welsh.

This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the Metro Code of Laws, the zoning ordinance of the Metro Government by changing from RS5 to R6A zoning for property located at 114 Rose Street.

This is approximately 160 feet east of Foster Avenue.

This is 0.34 acres.

Uh Ms.

Welsh, you are recognized.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

I'd like to open the public hearing.

Right.

I declare the public hearing open for Ms.

Welsh's ordinance 1166.

Would all members of the public hear in support of this ordinance?

Please raise your hand.

Would all members of the public hear in opposition to this ordinance, please raise your hand.

Seeing no one here on either side, I will declare the public hearing closed.

And it's back to you for a motion on this bill.

Move to approve.

Is there okay?

Properly moved and seconded.

Is there any discussion on 1166?

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Any voting no?

Any abstaining?

All right.

This has passed its second of three readings.

Next is agenda item 20, ordinance BL 2025-1167, sponsor tombs.

This is an ordinance to amend title 17 of the Metro Code of Laws, the zoning ordinance of the Metro Government by changing from IWD to MUGNS zoning for properties located at uh 220, 230, and 240 Great Circle Road.

This is located approximately 428 feet north of Vantage Way.

This is 15.07 acres.

Um Ms.

Tombs, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Vice Mayor.

Request open a public hearing.

All right.

I declare the public hearing open uh for council member tombs ordinance 1167.

Would all members of the public here in support of this ordinance, please raise your hands?

Thank you.

Uh would all members of the public here in opposition to this ordinance, please raise your hand.

Seeing no one here in opposition, does the gentleman here in support seek to be recognized?

He is shaking his head no, Miss Tombs.

And so with that, I will declare the public hearing closed.

It's back to you for a motion on your bill.

Move for approval.

Properly moved and seconded.

Is there any discussion?

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Any voting no?

Any abstaining?

All right.

This is passed its second of three readings.

Um now in our regular order, as you all know, we have already uh disposed of uh 21 and 22.

Uh they were deferred on public hearing to the first meeting in March.

Uh just for clarification of anybody following our agenda in that order.

Um, next then is agenda item 23 uh ordinance BL 2025-1170, sponsor Welsh.

This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the Metro Code of Laws, the zoning ordinance of the Metro government by changing from CS to R6A zoning for the property located at 322 Looty Street, approximately 235 feet east of Nolansville Pike.

This is 0.2 acres.

Ms.

Welsh, you are recognized.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

I'd like to open the public hearing.

All right.

I declare the public hearing open for Ms.

Welsh's ordinance 1170.

Would all members of the public hear in support of this ordinance?

Please raise your hands.

Okay.

Thank you.

Uh would all members of the public hear in opposition to this ordinance, please raise your hand.

All right.

Seeing no one here in opposition.

Do the persons here in support seek to be recognized or to speak.

Nope.

Okay.

I see them shaking their head no.

And so with that, I will declare the public hearing closed.

And it's back to you for a motion on your bill.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

I'd like to move to approve.

All right.

It's properly moved and seconded.

Is there any discussion?

Seeing none.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any voting no?

Any abstaining?

All right.

This has passed its second of three readings.

Um great.

Okay.

Um, all right.

Next is agenda item 24.

Sponsor Tombs ordinance BL 2025-1170.

This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the Metro Code of Laws, the zoning ordinance of the Metro government by changing from R 8 to IWD zoning for property located at Haney Avenue, unnumbered, approximately 369 feet west of Brick Church Pike.

This is 0.17 acres.

Um, Ms.

Tombs, you are recognized.

I think maybe a member of staff has said that we do, in fact, have appropriate notice on this.

Okay.

So you are uh you're recognized.

Thank you, madam vice mayor.

Request to open a public hearing.

All right.

I declare the public hearing open for Ms.

Toombs' ordinance 1171.

Would all members of the public hear in uh support of this ordinance?

Please raise your hand.

Would all members of the public hear in opposition to this ordinance, please raise your hand?

Seeing no one here on either side, I will declare the public hearing closed.

And it's back to you for a motion on your bill.

Move for approval.

There's a motion to approve.

It's properly seconded.

Is there any discussion?

Seeing none.

All in favor, please say aye.

Any voting no?

Any abstaining?

All right.

This has passed its second of three readings.

Next is agenda item 25, ordinance BL 2025-1172.

Uh sponsor Prep T.

Uh this is an ordinance to amend Title 17.

Uh, the Metro Code of Laws the zoning ordinance of the Metro government by changing from RS10 to R 10 zoning for property located at 3417 Springbrook Drive, approximately 392 feet north of Woodmont Boulevard.

This is 0.26 acres.

Councilmember T, you are recognized, sir.

Thank you, Madam Vice Mayor.

Um move to open the public hearing.

Yep.

Um I declare the public hearing open uh for council member prep T's uh bill one one seven two.

Uh would all members of the public hear in support of this bill, please raise your hand.

Thank you.

Would all members of the public hear in opposition to this bill, please raise your hand.

Seeing no one here in opposition, uh does the gentleman here in support seek to be recognized to speak?

He is shaking his head no, Mr.

Prep T.

And so with that, I will declare the public hearing closed.

It's back to you for a motion on this bill.

Thank you, Madam Vice Mayor, move approval.

All right.

Properly moved and seconded.

Is there any discussion?

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any voting no?

Any abstaining?

All right.

Um, this has passed its second of three readings.

Next is agenda item 26, ordinance BL 2025-1173, sponsor Welsh.

This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the Metro Code of Laws, the zoning ordinance of the Metro government by changing from RS5 to R6A zoning for property located at 308 Peachtree Street.

Located approximately 212 feet west of Burbank Avenue.

This is 0.26 acres.

Ms.

Welsh, you are recognized.

Thank you.

I'd like to open the public hearing.

All right.

I declare the public hearing open for Council Member Welsh's bill 1173.

Would all members of the public hear in support of this bill, please raise your hands?

Thank you.

Would all members of the public hear in opposition to this bill?

Please raise your hand.

Seeing no one here in opposition, does the person here in support seek to be recognized to speak?

He is shaking his head no.

And so with that, I will declare the public hearing closed.

And it's back to you, Ms.

Welsh for a motion on your bill.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

I'd like to move to approve.

Okay.

That has been properly moved.

Um and seconded.

Is there any further discussion?

No.

Seeing none.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any voting no or any abstaining?

All right.

This has passed its second of three readings.

Uh agenda item 27, sponsor tombs.

This is ordinance BL 2025-1174.

This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the Metro Code of Laws, the zoning ordinance of the Metro government by changing from R8 to RS10 zoning for various properties along Lathan Court, located south of Young Lane and north of the Cumberland River.

This is 3.7 acres.

And within the neighborhood conservation overlay district.

Thank you, Madam Vice Mayor.

Request to open a public hearing.

All right.

I declare the public hearing open for Council Member Toombs's bill 1174.

Would all members of the public hear in support of this bill, please raise your hand.

Thank you.

Would all members of the public hear in opposition to this bill?

Please raise your hand.

Seeing no one here in opposition to the persons here in support seek to be recognized or to speak.

Ms.

Tombs say are shaking their head no.

And so with that, I will declare the public hearing closed.

And it's back to you for a motion on your bill.

Move for approval.

Second.

There's a motion to approve.

It's properly seconded.

Is there any further discussion?

Seeing none.

All in favor, please say aye.

Any voting no?

Any abstaining?

All right.

This has passed its second of three readings.

All right.

Um I will just point out in the regular order of the agenda for anyone uh that might not have been following along earlier.

Agenda items 28 and 29 uh were previously heard um and disposed of.

They were uh both deferred uh by Mr.

Prep T to the first meeting in May.

Um, and uh unanimously approved.

So that means we are now then on agenda item 30.

Uh this is ordinance BL 2025-1177, sponsor Welsh.

This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the Metro Code of Laws of Zoning Ordinance of Metro Government by changing from R6 to RM9ANS zoning for property located at 308 Polk Avenue, located on the corner of Polk Avenue and Whitney Avenue.

This is 0.39 acres.

Ms.

Welsh, you are recognized.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

I'd like to open the public hearing.

All right.

I declare the public hearing open for Councilmember Welsh's bill 1177.

Would all members of the public hear in support of this bill, please raise your hand.

Thank you.

Uh would all members of the public hear in opposition to this bill, please raise your hand.

Seeing no one here in opposition to the persons here in support seek to be recognized.

They are shaking their head no.

And so with that, I will declare the public hearing closed and back to you for a motion on your bill.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

I'd like to move to approve.

Okay.

There is a motion to approve.

Is it properly seconded?

Okay.

Um is there any further discussion?

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Any voting, no or abstaining.

All right.

Um one seven seven has passed its second of three readings.

Uh next are agenda items 31 and 32.

They are companions to each other.

Uh sponsor Gamble.

Um, Ms.

Gamble, for purposes of the public hearing, we can take them together, but then we'll have to take them separately since one will have um potentially an amendment.

So um uh the first is agenda item 31.

It's ordinance BL 2025-1178.

This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the Metro Code of Laws is zoning ordinance of the Metro government by amending an SP and changing from AR2A to SB zoning for property located at 7435 Old Hickory Boulevard, located approximately 632 feet west of Blevins Road.

This is 34.74 acres to permit a mixed use development with 208,000 square feet of non-residential uses.

Um and its companion um agenda item 32, ordinance 1179, uh, which requires certain materials to be restricted in the construction of buildings in uh at the addresses in the aforementioned bill.

Uh Miss Gamble, you are recognized.

Thank you, Vice Mayor request to open the public hearing.

All right, I declare the public hearing open for Ms.

Gamble's bills 1178 and 1179.

Would all members of the public hear in support of these bills, please raise your hands?

Thank you.

Would all members of the public hear in opposition to these bills, please raise your hand.

Seeing no one here in opposition to the persons here in support seek to be recognized.

They are shaking their head no, Ms.

Gamble.

And so with that, I will declare the public hearing open.

Um and it is back to you for a motion um, please on your first bill 1178.

Yes, I would like to introduce uh or move a substitute to the to the bill.

Okay, um, so let's get it before us.

Um we've got to move approval on 1178.

Is there a uh no worries?

Is there a second for that?

Okay, all right.

And then you wanted to move uh here your amendment.

Okay, is there thank you?

A second on the motion to amend.

Okay, anything you want to say about the amendment, Ms.

Gamble.

The amendment just asks conditions that we discussed at several community meetings regarding the project.

Okay.

Um uh all right.

Uh so there is a motion to amend uh properly seconded.

Is there any discussion on the amendment itself?

The motion to amend.

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Any voting no or abstaining?

All right.

At this time, Ms.

Gamble, I would recommend um renewing the motion to approve as amended 1178 along with the approval of its companion 1179.

Is that so moved?

All right.

Um properly seconded.

Is there any discussion on that?

Seeing none.

All in favor, please say aye.

Any voting no or abstaining?

All right.

Um uh 1178 as amended, uh, has passed its second reading, as has the companion 1179.

All right.

Um, next are agenda items 33 and 34.

Again, they are companions to each other.

Sponsor Rutherford.

Agenda item 33 is ordinance BL 2025-1180.

This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the Metro Code of Laws.

The zoning ordinance of the Metro Government by changing from AR2A to SP zoning for property located at 14,768 Old Hickory Boulevard, approximately 3,275 feet south of Bell Road.

This is 20.24 acres to permit 135 multifamily residential units, and it's companion bill 1181, uh, which uh requires certain materials to be restricted in the construction of buildings in the aforementioned legislation.

Uh Mr.

Rutherford, you are recognized, sir.

Thank you, Madam President.

Uh open the public hearing, please.

All right.

I declare the public hearing open for Council Member Rutherford's companion bills 1180 and 1181.

Would all members of the public hear in support of these bills, please raise your hand.

All right.

Would all members of the public hear in opposition to these bills, please raise your hand.

Seeing no one here in opposition, do members of uh or persons here in support seek to be recognized or to speak.

They are all shaking their heads no, Mr.

Rutherford.

And so with that, I will declare the public hearing closed, and it's back to you uh for a motion on these bills.

Uh move approval, both uh both items, please.

All right.

Uh there's a motion to approve 1180 and his companion 1181 on second of three readings.

Any discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Any voting no?

Any abstaining?

All right, these have passed their second of three readings.

Next are agenda items 35 and 36.

They are companions to each other.

Sponsor Spain.

Agenda item 35 is ordinance BL 2025-1182.

This is an ordinance to amend title 17.

The Metro Code of Laws is zoning ordinance of the Metro Government by changing from CN M U L and AR2A to SP zoning for properties located at 9,320, 9323, 9315, Highway 100, Highway 100 unnumbered, and a portion of 8,540 Old Harding Pike located at the northwest and southwest intersection of Old Harding Pike and Highway 100.

This is 2.89 acres as well.

It's companion 1183, which requires certain materials to be restricted in the construction of buildings in the aforementioned bill.

Mr.

Spain, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam President.

Like to move uh open the public hearing.

Sure.

Um I declare the public hearing open for Mr.

Spain's bills 1182 and 1183.

Would all members of the public hear in support of these bills, please raise your hands.

All right.

Would all members of the public hear in opposition to these bills?

Please raise your hands.

Seeing no one here in opposition to the persons here in support seek to be recognized or to speak.

All right.

They are shaking their heads no, Mr.

Spain.

And so with that, I will declare the public hearing closed.

It's back to you for a motion on these bills.

Thank you, Madam President.

Uh move approval of both bills.

All right.

Properly moved and seconded.

Is there any discussion?

Seeing none.

All in favor, please say aye.

Any voting no?

Any abstaining?

All right.

1182 and 1183 have passed their second of three readings.

Uh last no, not lastly.

All right.

Also again on public hearing.

Moving on ahead, are agenda items 37 and 38.

They are companions to each other.

Sponsor Huffman.

Agenda item 37 is ordinance BL 2025-1184.

This is an ordinance to amend title 17.

Metro Code of Laws, the zoning ordinance of the Metro Government by changing from OR20 to M U L, or rather, and M U L to SP zoning for properties located at 3,055 Lebanon Pike and Lebanon Pike unnumbered, approximately 305 feet west of Jackson Downs Boulevard.

This is 21.73 acres to permit a mixed use development.

And as well, uh ordinance uh 1185, um, which requires certain materials to be restricted in the construction of buildings in the aforementioned ordinance.

Uh Mr.

Huffman, you are recognized, sir.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

I'd like to open the public hearing.

All right.

I declare the public hearing open on council member Huffman's bills 1184 and 1185.

Would all members of the public hear in support of these bills?

Please raise your hands.

Would all members of the public hear in opposition to these bills, please raise your hands.

All right, Mr.

Huffman, seeing none on either side, I will declare the public hearing closed.

And it's back to you for a motion on both these bills.

Move for approval.

All right.

Um there's a motion to approve 1184 and 1185 properly seconded.

Is there any discussion?

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Any voting no or abstaining?

All right, these have both passed their second of three readings.

Next is agenda item 39, uh, ordinance BL 2025-1186, sponsor cap.

This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the Metro Code of Laws, the zoning ordinance of the Metro government by changing from OR20 to SP zoning for property located at 919 C Gallatin Avenue, approximately 160 feet north of Petway Avenue.

This is 0.86 acres to permit a mixed use development.

Uh council member Cap, you are recognized, sir.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Request to open the public hearing.

All right, I declare the public hearing open for council member caps bill one one eight six.

Would all members of the public hear in support of this bill, please raise your hands.

Thank you.

Would all members of the public hear in opposition to this bill, please raise your hands.

Seeing no one here in opposition to the persons here in support seek to be recognized.

They are shaking their head no.

And so with that, I will declare the public hearing closed and it's back to you for a motion on your bill.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Move approval, please.

All right.

Properly moved and seconded.

Is there any discussion?

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any voting no?

Any abstaining?

All right.

Uh 1186 has passed its second of three readings.

Now, last on public hearing this evening is agenda item 40.

Uh, sponsor ewing.

This is ordinance BL 2025-1187.

This is an ordinance to amend title 17 of the Metro Code of Laws, the zoning ordinance of the Metro Government by changing from OR20 to M U L A N S zoning for property located at 3827 Clegghorn Avenue, located approximately 490 feet north of Abbott Martin Road.

This is 0.33 acres.

Councilmember Ewing, you are recognized.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

I'd like to open the public hearing.

All right.

I declare the public hearing open for Councilmember Ewing's bill 1187.

Would all members of the public hear in support of this bill, please raise your hand?

Thank you.

Would all members of the public hear in opposition to this bill?

Please raise your hand.

Seeing no one here in opposition, uh, does the gentleman here in support seek to be uh recognized?

That is a thumbs down negative.

Um and so with that, um, I will declare the public hearing closed, and it's back to you for a motion on this bill.

Thank you.

Move to approve.

All right.

Um there's a motion to approve properly seconded.

Is there any discussion?

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Any voting no or abstaining?

All right.

Um, this has passed its second of three readings.

That concludes our public hearing.

Thank you.

All right.

Um, we will just keep on rolling right into our consolidated consent agenda, um, agenda section K.

All resolutions and second and third reading ordinances on this agenda are included on the consent agenda if recommended for approval unanimously by all committees to which the item was referred.

Items on the consent agenda will be voted on at a single time.

The item number along with the resolution and ordinance number of the items on the consent agenda will be read by me and be displayed on uh your screens in the chamber and at home.

Members of the council may remove any item from the consent agenda by request before the consent agenda vote is taken.

All right.

Um we start with our resolutions.

The first item proposed for the consolidated consent agenda um is agenda item 43, uh resolution 2025-1689.

Agenda item 45, resolution 2026-1720.

Agenda item 46, resolution 2026-1721.

Agenda item 47, resolution 2026-1722.

Agenda item 48, resolution 2026-1723.

Agenda item 49, resolution 2026-1724.

Agenda item 50, resolution 2026-1725.

Agenda item 51, resolution 2026-1726.

Agenda item 48 resolution 2026 dash 1723 agenda item 49 resolution 2026-1724 agenda item 50 resolution 2026 dash one seven two five agenda item 51 resolution 2026 dash one seven two six agenda item 52 resolution 2026 1727 agenda item 53 resolution 2026-1728 agenda item 54 resolution 2026 dash one seven two nine agenda item sixty one resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven three seven agenda item sixty two resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven three eight agenda item sixty three resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven three nine agenda item sixty four resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven four zero agenda item sixty five resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven four one agenda item sixty six resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven four two agenda item sixty seven resolution twenty twenty six one seven four three agenda item sixty eight resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven four four agenda item sixty nine resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven four five agenda item seventy resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven four six agenda item seventy one resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven four seven agenda item seventy two resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven four eight agenda item seventy three resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven four nine agenda item seventy four resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven five zero agenda item seventy five resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven five one agenda item seventy six resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven five two agenda item seventy seven resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven five three agenda item seventy eight resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven five four agenda item seventy nine resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven five five agenda item eighty resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven five six agenda item eighty one resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven five seven agenda item eighty two resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven five eight agenda item eighty four resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven six zero agenda item eighty five resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven six one agenda item eighty six resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven six two agenda item eighty seven resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven three or rather one seven six three agenda item eighty eight resolution twenty twenty six dash one seven six four agenda item eighty nine resolution twenty twenty six one seven six five and now moving uh ahead to second reading items that are proposed for the consolidated consent agenda first among them is agenda item one hundred and forty eight ordinance BL 2025 dash one zero zero eight agenda item one hundred and fifty three ordinance BL 2025 dash one one eight nine agenda item one hundred and fifty four ordinance BL 2025 dash one one nine zero agenda item one hundred and fifty five ordinance BL 2025 dash one one nine one agenda item one hundred and fifty seven ordinance BL 2025 dash one one nine three agenda item one hundred and fifty eight ordinance BL 2025 dash one one nine four all right um now items on third reading proposed for the consolidated consent agenda first among those agenda item one hundred and sixty one ordinance BL 2025 dash one one five seven agenda item one hundred and sixty two ordinance BL 2025 dash one one five eight agenda item one hundred and sixty three ordinance BL 2025-1159 and lastly agenda item one hundred and sixty four ordinance BL 2025 dash one one six zero

First among those.

Agenda item 161, ordinance BL 2025-1157.

Agenda item 162, ordinance BL 2025-1158.

Agenda item 163, ordinance BL 2025-1159.

And lastly, agenda item 164, ordinance BL 2025-1160.

If so, if members would please join the queue and request that.

Thank you, Vice Marge.

148.

Okay.

Um Councilmember Benton has uh requested the removal of agenda item 148 from the consent agenda.

Um that is an item on second reading, sponsor Allen, and it will be removed from uh consent.

Next uh is Mr.

Koopin.