Knoxville City Council will tackle Recode’s residential provisions in a 5:30 p.m. workshop Wednesday, Feb. 20, in the main assembly room of the City County Building. Council must address the …
Recode rambles on; council holds workshop
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
Last night (2/7) Knoxville City Council held a three-hour workshop on Recode’s treatment of the commercial, office and industrial zones. …
Planning commissioners send Recode headache to City Council
At its Jan. 10 meeting, the Metropolitan Planning Commission — now called Knoxville-Knox County Planning — kicked the most recent Recode Knoxville documents on to City Council.
The approval vote came …
Recode Draft 4 on fast track to MPC
A dozen members of the 20-member Recode Knoxville Stakeholder Advisory Committee met with MPC executive director Gerald Green and City Codes director Peter Ahrens for four hours on Jan. 3 …
Let’s glimpse behind the Recode wizard’s density curtain
One of the “driving forces” behind the need for the proposed Recode ordinance is the projected growth of the city’s population over the next 20 years. This is manifested in …
Advisory group addresses Recode residential issues
The Recode Knoxville Stakeholder Advisory Committee met with Metropolitan Planning Commission executive director Gerald Green and city Plans Review & Inspections director Peter Ahrens on Dec. 4 at the John …
Recode: Let’s discuss affordable housing
Recode Knoxville harbors an unstated goal of increasing affordable housing. It seeks to accomplish that indirectly by adding density features like expanding multi-family zones and allowing ADUs in every residential …
Recode: Pack ’em and stack ’em near the bus lines
Proposition: Knoxville needs more affordable housing.
Question: How do we get there?
Solution: Increase transit-based housing using the RN-4 multi-family zone. Plus ADUs.
Where: Anything within a quarter-mile of a bus route is …