The third city council Recode workshop, held on April 4, left me speechless. Well, almost.
The three-hour session started with a crisp presentation by the East Tennessee Community Design Center on …
Recode Knoxville: Public notice or PR piece?
Among the issues surrounding Recode is the adequacy of the recent public notice mailed out to property owners of record in the city of Knoxville. Council requested that such notice …
Rider represents ‘new urbanism’ on city council
Carlene Malone, Rob Frost, Nick Della Volpe, Lauren Rider. What do these four have in common? Not much. But combined, they have represented Fountain City on the Knoxville City Council …
Rogero’s leaving successor with formidable to-do list
Outgoing mayors often leave their successors with a “to-do” list. New mayors usually have a vision for what they want to accomplish, but often they start their terms dealing with …
Recode Knoxville: Single-family house design standards?
March 15 has come and gone, but the local planning commission decided not to issue the promised clean draft No. 5 of Recode. The current schedule is to hold that …
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, …
Residential recode – what vision are we pursuing?
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 …