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 …
Greenways face uncertain future, more study
Mike Donila and I came out of the newspaper business – Mike from the News Sentinel and I from Shopper News. So, when we caught up Wednesday at Karns Elementary …
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 Knoxville: Powering it through
In a marathon meeting Thursday (3 p.m. until 12:21 a.m.), the Knoxville City Council finished its review of Recode Knoxville. It then postponed a vote until the regularly scheduled meeting …
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 …
Danger ahead for Marshall Stair
Mayor Madeline Rogero has lobbed a grenade at Mayor-wannabe Marshall Stair. Rogero is pushing ahead with a vote on rezoning every parcel of land in the city – a proposal …