Ben Vaught

Vocal NIMBY homeowners view the zoning code as giving them a veto over any and all change (regardless of what the text says), and they see the conclusions of H&I and the Nations rezoning as a threat to that power

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Historic Edgefield Neighbors could burn a pile of oil-soaked tires at every meeting and it probably still wouldn’t be as damaging as their land use policies

urban NIMBYism is the functional and moral equivalent of climate change denial

Worth noting that the mouthpiece of Save Our Nashville Neighborhoods sells his services as a “development consultant”, and their second most prolific writer is a landlord

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Genuinely grateful that Nashville has journalists both willing and able to give road safety this depth of coverage

Also grateful that Steven Hale was able to pluck a cogent thought from my stream of consciousness

Thankful to live in a progressive city like Nashville that would never exacerbate infrastructure strains by enacting broad bans on all but the most expensive and resource intensive form of housing mainstreetmediatn.com/articles/unc...

This is, not coincidentally, also exactly how most regular people engage with urban planning questions! But our engagement practices generally don't reflect that reality.

I think my follow-up question is if the bike lane will remain installed, or if we’ll plow it under to add street parking

for the poor, culture-deprived souls that haven’t seen it: youtu.be/4a-SEPT8DeE?...

waiting for the bus shouldn’t require cosplaying a Hilary Duff music video

This building could’ve been a beautiful monument to our shared responsibility to house the least among us, and directly at a gateway to the core of the city. We instead decided to remain imprisoned to “context” and the bad faith demands of wealthy homeowners. What a waste.

Over 3 years after seeking “community” approval, the Inspiritus project in Salemtown has topped out, a full floor shorter than it could’ve been

This building could be done and housing 95 low income Nashvillians, but we wasted time trying to placate the implacable, and lost 15 homes in the process

Hey, Nashvillians: How about a list of food banks to contribute to? 🦞

Lol yes

Since it matters to mediocre, talentless men like him, eight generations of my family have lived in this state. I’ll be damned if some California carpetbagger will tell me I can’t set foot in a single town inside its borders. Eat shit, Eric.

I think opposition to this pencil-necked loser and his abhorrent vision for society requires acknowledging that we already have state-sanctioned tools to all but achieve his goal

Ten points if you can guess which city this is

i've been saying

I keep saying it’s camp but I don’t think it actually is

True. One of them was a firenado, though, and the one before that had an evacuation zone? Their timelines of how long tornadoes last is insane

I’ve heard of it, but I’ve never seen one in real life. Never heard of a walking taco until like 2 years ago at Bridgestone

When in Rome

#YASNI

Lol fair

"Cities should remain museum pieces for incumbents and any newcomer is strictly a burden" is the most loser mindset that powers the most loser politics in America today.

So we’re getting a waternado

Celeb spotting (the KVB flex posts)

3 episodes of 911 Nashville and we’re at tornado number 5 by my count. Incredible content

Washington Post editorial: In defense of the White House ballroom Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs

I can’t believe there are not one but two articles, in major papers, with this dumb framing. It is not NIMBY to express dismay when a big part of the White House is suddenly rubbled