Ben Vaught

funny how context suddenly disappears as a concern when the new homes are more expensive than the alternative

lol yeah I remember 8 townhomes getting approved in buena vista and everyone patting themselves on the back for supporting urban infill but it’s 8 insanely expensive townhomes replacing 6 apartments that were among the cheapest homes in the neighborhood… like would yall support that replacing a SFH?

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If I could pick one image to send back to 2003 to try and change the timeline

wait why? I don’t know about it

I cant find it now but I seem to remember a campaign website saying something like “big projects don’t belong in the interior of our neighborhood”. If it’s politically convenient I could see a politician claiming by-right housing on the pikes as a win

it seems like they will if they get to claim the housing built there. otherwise yeah

move to amend the statement to “I want more people to live in my neighborhood on local streets”

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yeah v true. I think it's also (at least a little) rooted in a belief that owning property somehow entitles them to choose their neighbors, and I just fundamentally disagree with that

always fascinating to find out which humble pre-gentrification homeowner is actually a landlord

mainlining tucker carlson has addled his brain, I fear

I have a spot in mind for the first MDHA-owned six story single stair building, by the way. new and old can coexist, even with different roof heights, and we can show that.

the at-large CMs (for obvious reasons) and @jkupin4d19.bsky.social (because the businesses in his district are being starved of a labor force and downtown is flooded with ring county commuters) should lead it, IMO. we should just get rid of Reagan-era laws that reinforce residential segregation.

should we argue with dime store fascists three dozen times about zoning? I don’t think we should expect neighborhood leaders or CMs to put up with this individually

“are the aesthetic preferences of wealthy homeowners worth reinforcing patterns of residential segregation?” does not seem like a difficult question for a progressive city to answer. and yet!

Nashville made the obviously correct choice last night. But we need to stop forcing individual CMs to do good things alone and just reform our zoning code citywide like we’ve said we want to in half a dozen planning documents.

I started to delete and rephrase but I just hoped you’d know what I meant haha

we all know what I think about this but if you’re lumping Ezra in with legitimate libertarian zoning abolitionists, you’re just entirely unwilling to see nuance or engage with reality

west nashville landlords rn

my “I’m all for economic segregation” shirt is raising a lot of questions that are clearly answered by my shirt

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a great thing about pedestrian spaces is that people will use them in ways planners could never imagine. what a beautiful slice of humanity 💙🥲

with new and unrelated reasons popping up on the reg

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it’s incredible how often the results of zoning don’t match the stated intent. it seems like maybe a bad and arbitrary system? idk someone should write a book on it or something

“do we live in a progressive city?” is a complex question, but “our zoning code forces affordable housing developers to ask permission to build less surface parking in front of a bus stop to save a historic sanctuary” is certainly clarifying. we should fix that, I think

if I just put “support trinity community commons” as the subject is that good enough