The one thing I miss about voting in Alabama is that they literally vote on everything (and they hold county and state elections on the same primary ballot).

If you have imposter syndrome today, just know there are developers managing multi-million dollar projects who are typing their entire email in the subject line… and using are in place of our…

Daily coneflower check at the Hermitage Library. I knew this year would be better than last, but I didn’t expect this many blooms on year 2! More and more blooms keep opening every day.

If there is one change I could make in Metro Nashville’s Zoning Ordinance, it would be to make the street setbacks in CS and CL 0’ and the street perimeter buffer for parking the current 15’ setback.

A one year difference in the native plant bed at the Hermitage Library. Excited to see it in late summer!

This looks like a fun use for underneath bridges! Curious of who maintains the rock wall, equipment, and training though.

The coneflower bed at the Hermitage Library is really starting to bloom! Tennessee coneflowers in full bloom, prairie clover is starting to bloom, and the milkweed is blooming!

First, love the “People live in houses quote.” Second, I love that the commenter can ask and have his questions answered in the public meeting.

Having 15’ side street setbacks in the UZO for commercial (CS) districts seems weird. Don’t we want to activate the sidewalk and street corners? Seems even weirder to have to request a special exception and hold a community meeting to build a corner lot building for a straight zoned property.

Year 2 of the Tennessee Coneflower bed at the Hermitage Library is off to a great start! Still a few gaps to fill in, but the coneflowers seem to love the full sun of the parking lot!

When you’re riding your bike, but the locals won’t let you pass! Someone in a Facebook group snapped this of my friend and I riding our bikes in Cades Cove on Saturday.

Wild Storm complete with dust swirls and power flashes! youtu.be/1mMdTb8Gnwc?...

First Tennessee Coneflower of the year! Petals aren’t fully developed, but already blooming in April is a good sign for this year!

Knoxville Half Marathon! First sub 2 half!

A really interesting native garden idea in the last half of this video. The gardener uses a few inches of crushed recycled concrete and sand to plant in. Might be an interesting way to combine de-paving and native gardens. youtu.be/dBJgqdq8rDI?...

One of the better audiobooks I’ve listened to in a while. It has shipwrecks, atrocities, how they still affect present day, the founding of a town, the search for a lost ship, environmental disasters, and even the slow decline of a town due to loss of housing and wide roads.

If you see me out today and I look rough/smell bad, just know I got ready with no water this morning 😂

If we want more local coffee shops or small restaurants in the suburbs, we need to do away with the drive-thru bypass lane and queuing requirements. 🙃

Engineering school did not prepare me for debating with E911 over whether or not a road has enough of a bend to have Bend as the street name suffix.

Why do journalist use Weather Channel names for winter storms? It’s legit just a marketing tool by a private company. (A company with a history of lobbying congress to keep NWS from having a free app for publicly funded weather data).

Had some errands in Alabama to help the family with, and the snow followed me down here… A rare dry snow for Alabama, now if I can just find a safe way off this mountain 😬

Power just went out in Hermitage 😬😬😬

It’s actually really pretty (if it wasn’t trying to knock my power out).

It’s getting rough out there. Multiple trees down in the apartment complex, power is still on but flickering. Stay safe out there!

I know @nashseverewx.com says there’s still uncertainty with this, but the internet has already got my hopes high for this one. Anything less than a blizzard, and I’m going to be disappointed 😂

Decent chance of seeing northern lights tonight if you can brave the cold.

The content we need!

Forever grateful that wordle doesn’t count misspelled words as a guess

This flu season is giving pandemic vibes…

I’m going to bed, maybe there will be a vote by the time I wake up.

He’s not wrong… We are taking products off the table with height restrictions, not sure if it’s obtainable housing being taken off the table though.

Seems like an exciting job opportunity! Should I apply?? 😂

I accidentally stole a car from Beaman Toyota back during Covid. Doublecheck the VIN on the paperwork and the car, don’t trust the car dealership to write down the correct numbers.

Sometimes I get imposter syndrome Sometimes I receive emails from people managing multi-million dollar projects and suddenly the imposter syndrome goes away If they can be so wrong and still so confident, then so can I!

There’s a house in Fort Payne, AL where multiple trucks have crashed. The owner (Joe) built a substantial wall to protect his house/property. Locals affectionately refer to Joe’s house/wall as Joe’s Truck Stop. Unfortunately, it didn’t help and the state decided it was cheaper to buy his house.

Whatever you call them - detached unit, DADU, carriage house, back house, mother-in-law suite - we - the Metro Council - just made them legal over one of the physically largest urban areas in the lower 48. It wasn’t easy, it wasn’t always fun, and we have more to go. But we’re doing it.

We’re aware that a map is just going to shade the entire transect, right? It’s not going to highlight individual properties…

A regulatory issue in metro that makes fewer accessible townhomes is every SP that requires an 18” raised foundation guarantees the townhouse will have steps to the front door or in the garage.

The views from my apartment in Hermitage over the years! Don’t recommend photographing tornadoes when their moving in you general direction though…

No one is allowed to talk politics, housing or traffic while there’s an aurora occurring. Sorry, that’s just the rules.

There are Tennessee Coneflower seeds and Milkweed seeds at the Hermitage Library coneflower bed. This is the time of year native seeds need to be planted!

Some really interesting (and somewhat economically feasible) pre-cast litter and trash devices coming out now for in-line storm sewer designs.

“Since 1970, the metros where housing stock grew the least relative to population growth — think LA, San Francisco, San Diego or Seattle — saw some of the fastest home price growth. While metros that built enough housing…, saw home prices rise much less rapidly, even as their populations soared.”

Did my part for renters tonight at the Housing & Infrastructure meeting in Hermitage. For some reason, my opinion wasn’t very popular 😂

Yellowhammer carrying an article even mildly critical of Trump’s tariffs is surprising! Sounds like US forestry is taking a hit/having trouble navigating the tariffs: yellowhammernews.com/ledbetter-so...

Probably the last of the Tennessee Coneflowers blooms at the Hermitage Library. Really surprised there were any blooms the first year, so this many blooms is a promising start!

Perhaps the most annoying infrastructure issue in Metro Nashville has to be sewer capacity. MWS doesn’t plan until lines need to be over 15”, they don’t really account for new zoning, the state doesn’t allow sewer impact fees, and MWS can only require improvements based on your specific development.

When AI is able to decipher/dictate my southern accent, then I’ll start to worry about it taking over.

OSB from grass grown on old tobacco farms seems like a promising idea for Middle TN!

Has NDOT recently (last 2-3 years) changed their policy on allowing private developers to fund traffic calming measures in existing neighborhoods?