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• What is a Community Plan?

Proposed "Downtown Code" would make development easier

The Planning Department, in cooperation with Downtown property owners and development professionals, has prepared a new and improved set of development guidelines for the Downtown area. The draft "Downtown Code" is now online for public review; details and contact information are on the Downtown Code page.

 

Community Plan guides downtown growth and development

The Downtown Community Plan is one of fourteen community plans which guide growth and development in Davidson County.  Each of those plans is updated every seven to ten years, and amended as necessary; the Planning Commission unanimously adopted the Downtown Plan on February 22, 2007.

This page also includes Detailed Neighborhood Design Plans and Urban Design Overlays in the Downtown area.  Links to individual DNDPs are found in Chapter 5 of the plan document.

Land use policies shown in the Community Plan and the DNDPs are contained in the Land Use Policy Application document, or "LUPA." On August 14, 2008, the Planning Commission approved a new land-use document, the Community Character Manual which replaces the Land Use Policy Application.  The CCM will be used as community plans and amendments are updated in Subarea 9.

• Cover, Resolutions, Table of Contents
• Chapter 1- Executive Summary
• Chapter 2 - How to Use This Plan
• Chapter 3 - Downtown Current Conditions
• Chapter 4 - Vision for the Future of Downtown
• Chapter 5a - Downtown Neighborhoods: Introduction & Special Policies
• Chapter 5b - Downtown Neighborhoods: Core, Second & Broadway, Upper Broadway & SoBro
• Chapter 5c - Downtown Neighborhoods: East Bank
• Chapter 5d - Downtown Neighborhoods: Gulch & North Gulch
• Chapter 5e - Downtown Neighborhoods: Southern (Lafayette, Rutledge Hill & Rolling Mill Hill)
• Chapter 5f - Downtown Neighborhoods: Northern (Hope Gardens, Bicentennial Mall, Sulphur Dell, Capitol Hill, Public Square)
• Street Designation Maps
• Appendix and Credits

Urban Design Overlays

• Gateway - adopted June 2006
  

For more information or questions on the Downtown Community Plan, please contact:
Jennifer Carlat
Community Plans
Metropolitan Planning Department
800 2nd Avenue South
Nashville TN 37210
(615) 862-7210

Joni Priest
Design Studio
Metropolitan Planning Department
800 2nd Avenue South
Nashville TN 37210
(615) 862-7165