Recode workshop: Density is concern

Nick Della VolpeFeature

The community continues to ask, “Where are we going? What’s the schedule to get there?” City Council provided the first glimpse at last week’s Recode Knoxville workshop.
A long meeting. The …

Recode Knoxville will affect you

Nick Della VolpeFeature, Fountain City

In a previous Recode Knoxville article we confronted the overarching question: Where Are We Going? The focus was on the future vision of our city which the new “recode” purports …

Recode Knoxville can bring big changes

Nick Della VolpeFeature

“Let’s rewrite the entire zoning code—all 200 pages of it, hold a few 1-hour public information/input meetings, and then ram it home before the Christmas break.”
That seems to be the …

Adult onset diabetes: A cure

Nick Della VolpeFeature

Nearly half of Americans now have type II diabetes or prediabetes, a condition caused by insulin resistance that can morph over time into full-blown diabetes. It is becoming the scourge …

Magnolia’s miracle mile

Nick Della VolpeFeature

Dozer operators, start your engines!
After nearly a decade of discussion and design work, followed by public meetings, the city of Knoxville is finally ready to launch construction on the long-awaited …