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. …
Recode rambles on; council holds workshop
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 …
Singh-Perez makes some noise
Seema Singh-Perez was one of four women elected to City Council last year – a record for Knoxville. She stood out because she is one of two women of color …
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 …
MPC responds to pushback, plans changes to Recode Knoxville
On Nov. 26, a public panel discussion about issues of concern to Realtors and developers regarding Recode Knoxville was hosted by Compass at the East Tennessee History Center. The panel …
Affordable housing – prerequisites? – land bank
We began Nov. 6 by asking: How can we increase the construction of affordable housing? Let’s zero in on one or two of the suggested tools identified earlier, that could help …