NEW INTERVIEW: Regulating Data Centers in NASHVILLE — with councilman Rollin Horton “I looked into what regulations we had to govern these. The answer was none. This is an effort to give Nashvillians a say, so they aren’t snuck by in the dead of night.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DY7663p...

Zohran just cited Minneapolis, Austin, and Auckland as cities that lowered housing costs via upzoning certified ball knowledge, Auckland is a deep YIMBY cut

I introduced legislation to regulate data centers in Nashville today, which will be on first reading next Tuesday

Pedestrianized streets are safer for kids, quieter for residents, better for businesses, and happier places to be!

Lmao who else is supposed to own a rental building?? You’ve only got like three private ownership options – private equity, family offices, and institutional investors. I don’t believe anybody smashing the repost button on this one even knows what any of these words mean.

Separated bike lanes can make Nashville streets safer for all roads users - for people walking and biking as well as driving

Tour de Nash was so much fun yesterday. This may have been my favorite starting location yet - reclaiming Broadway and downtown was pure joy. @walkbikenashville.bsky.social

Put it on my tombstone www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

STUDY: Those microplastics from tires and such don’t just pollute the air and prematurely kill us. They’re also fuelling the climate crisis. #UrbanTruth www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Maybe we should stop our climate torching policies of forcing people to live 50+ miles from their job to afford a home

Demographic breakdown of metro full time employees

Posted this on the other socials today and curious what this crowd thinks, too. Basic question is whether the benches are worth the liability concerns. (And apologies for making everyone here watch a video, which is decidedly not the point of this site!)

Dystopian

Is Nashville’s Vision Zero plan working? We asked Vision Zero Advisory Committee chair @charlieweingartner.bsky.social:

DADUs on nonconforming lots passes unanimously on third reading! Thank you to the young, growing family that brought this to my attention.

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

A familiar story

I have no more passwords left in me

Building new housing helps preserve existing more affordable housing

Building more housing lowers rents

do NOT show this to Save Our Nashville Neighborhoods

Cracking down on single family rentals will exclude poor and working people from desirable neighborhoods. It is profoundly inequitable.

Make spending government money efficiently sexy again

New book!

At more than 50% of trips being in a car, happiness drops. Look at people finding equilibrium once they have adequate tools.

I wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post with Allie Cannington – at The Kelsey, a disability-forward affordable housing developer – about how America's elevator accessibility rules backfire for small buildings, and about how a clarification from HUD could fix it www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

One of the 2025 biggest housing learnings for me - institutional investors reduced segregation through SFH rentals www.npr.org/sections/pla...

Rental homes provide important housing options for people. Trumps effort to ban institutions from renting out single family homes will worsen the housing shortage and raise costs. As always, the consequences will fall most heavy on working and middle class people.

Lots of little mid-rise single-stair buildings in my neighborhood, but this trio might be my favorite

#WholesomeNEXTDOOR in @rollinhorton.bsky.social 's The Nations

We bombed a girls elementary school.

Good reason for Nashville to continue to adhere to our modal hierarchy to prioritize walking biking and public transit - transitioning to EVs by itself won’t do enough to protect nashvilles health and air quality

I’ve got world tragedies interspaced with wholesome dog content

Nashvilles high housing costs price people out into less welcoming communities.

The state of our union is unaffordable.

flex posts are fossil fuel infrastructure

Pretty cool

valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.

shocked they didn’t have to go to 4 neighborhood association meetings and the Zoning Board of Appeals for this…

We are spending tens of millions of dollars to try to keep pedestrians away from a brand new downtown road.

Wedgewood-Houston is getting the Olympics apnews.com/article/2028...

Walkable neighborhoods don’t need to be a privilege reserved for the wealthy

if the intent was destroying the US from within, it sure doesn't look like a failure

WeGo is back to regular service today. Some routes have detours or adjustments. 🚌🚏 www.wegotransit.com/ride/weather...

This outrageous act — seizing ballots — follows Bondi’s demand that to stop public executions in Minneapolis, Minnesota needed to turn over its voter roll. They’re determined to steal the midterms since they know they can’t win under an actual democracy.

“The majority of Americans are open to living car-free even after decades of car-centric planning, a new survey finds…A stunning 18% of car-owning U.S. residents indicated that they were ‘strongly interested’ in living car-free, and another 40% said that they were ‘open’ to it.” @usa.streetsblog.org

NES board meeting live: www.youtube.com/live/MIktgGj...

Just a reminder FEMA used to help when during states of emergency. We’ve seen hurricane-level mass destruction. We’ve got local civil servants working 16 hour shifts. But we can only do so much with the people we have. Just another Tennessee weather tragedy where the feds failed to show.

Folks, all hands on deck, she cannot win.

Very cool read. With more particulate pollution from cars coming from tires than from tailpipes, even a full switch to EVs won’t be enough. If we want to protect Nashville’s health, we need prioritize less car traffic and more walking, biking, and public transit.