Planning Department

Downtown Community Plan (Subarea 9)

Downtown Community Plan Adopted by Metro Planning Commission on February 22, 2007

The Metro Planning Commission unanimously adopted the Downtown Community Plan: 2007 Update on February 22.  Staff are currently working to publish, in hard copy, the final plan.  Please find below an electronic copy of the plan, as presented to Commission on February 22.  Please pay particular attention to the link titled – “Read list of changes made to the plan as of February 7, 2007” for changes that were made at the Metro Planning Commission hearing.

Questions?  Please contact Jennifer Carlat at 862.7210 or jennifer.carlat@nashville.gov

Adopted Downtown Community Plan
Document Date Description
Cover, Resolutions, Table of Contents

Adopted February 22, 2007

 The Downtown Community Plan: 2007 Update and accompanying Detailed Neighborhood Design Plans provide land use and community character guidance for future development in Downtown Nashville.
Chapter I – Executive Summary    
Chapter II – How to Use This Plan    
Chapter III – Downtown Current Conditions    
Chapter IV - Vision for the Future of Downtown    
Chapter V – Downtown Neighborhoods – Introduction and Special Policies    
Chapter V – Downtown Neighborhoods – Core, Second & Broadway, Upper Broadway & SoBro    
Chapter V – Downtown Neighborhoods – East Bank    
Chapter V – Downtown Neighborhoods – Gulch & North Gulch    
Chapter V – Downtown Neighborhoods – Southern Neighborhoods – Lafayette, Rutledge Hill & Rolling Mill Hill    
Chapter V – Downtown Neighborhoods – Northern Neighborhoods – Hope Gardens, Bicentennial Mall, Sulphur Dell, Capitol Hill, & Public Square    
Street Designation Maps    
Appendix and Credits    

Adopted Detailed Neighborhood Design Plans
Document Date Description
There are seventeen adopted DNDPs for Downtown.  They are found in the Chapter V links above.    

Adopted Urban Design Overlays (UDOs)
Document Date Description
gateway June, 2005 An Urban Design Overlay (UDO) is an overlay of zoning, over the base zoning, that applies additional development standards.

 

Other Non-Regulatory Plans


Gateway Partnership Plan

This Plan is not an Urban Design Overlay (see above) or a policy plan for the area. It can be used, however, to generate ideas for future growth and development in the Gateway area.

This document had no individual chapters, but was broken up into quarters so as to speed the download time for those on the standard 56k modem.

Document Date Description
Gateway Partnership Plan (a)   This document consists of: Mission statement, Goals, View Corridors, Transportation Systems, Topography, Soils, Zoning, Existing Land Use Map, Historic Building Map, Publicly Owned Property
Gateway Partnership Plan (b)   This document consists of: Redevelopment Districts, Storm Sewer, Existing Street Direction, Traffic Volumes, Significant Features, Alternative Sketch Plan, Phase One Development, View Of Hotel And Gateway Commons - Looking South On Fifth Avenue, Northwest Towards Arena, and West From Shelby Street Bridge.
Gateway Partnership Plan (c)   This document consists of: View of Hotel and Gateway Commons - Looking North On Fifth Avenue, Outdoor Event, Covered Area For Special Event, Flexible Retail Space, Parking Garage Options, Phase Two Development, Site Section Looking West, Model Shot, Phase Three Land Use Plan, Density.
Gateway Partnership Plan (d)   This document consists of: Avenue Of The Arts Plan, Fifth Avenue, Demonbreun Street, Wilson Branch, Franklin Street Corridor, Parking Garage At Fifth Avenue, Shelby Street Bridge, Edge Condition, Building Articulation, Contextural Building Facades, Credits.
Gateway Partnership Plan   Full Document

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