Planned development is one of the many issues that deserves additional city council attention. Under Recode Knoxville, it is being reworked from three separate “zoning districts” into a “process,” administered …
Recode Workbook 3: Unresolved housing issues abound
Let’s revisit residential zoning.
Recall that 85 percent of the 73,000 parcels in the city are designated “residential.” Those eight zones (EN plus RN-1 to -7) house some of the mostly …
Recode Workbook No. 2: Preserve hillside ridgetop protection
At its June 13 meeting, the Knoxville-Knox County Planning Commission recommended that City Council approve the current Recode Text (Draft 5+) – well almost.
In making his motion to recommend the …
Recode Workbook 1: Lot size matters
Last month, Knoxville City Council amended the text of Recode Draft 5 in two long work sessions (the parcel-specific map is still in progress). The resulting marked-up draft, referred to …
Still time to make Recode the best it can be
The second round of Knoxville City Council’s clean-up-messy-Recode draft No. 5 extended over nine hours on May 30. The work session lasted till after midnight … longer than many in the …
Recode: City Council begins editing text
The close work of legislative review of the 400-page Recode Knoxville text began at last night’s special-called council meeting. Kudos to both the council and the mayor for recognizing the …
Recode: Does City Council have enough information?
Last week’s City Council workshop slogged on about residential code topics for some 3 1/2 hours, without final resolution. A number of individual suggestions were made but not resolved. (There …
Scenic Knoxville urges strong parking-lot landscaping standards
(Note: This article has been updated at the request of Joyce Feld)
Last spring Scenic Knoxville put together a landscaping coalition that included representatives from Trees Knoxville, the City Tree Board, …