The Plan to Destroy the Suburbs Comes to Nashville

by Rebecca Bynum

President Trump warned about the democratic plan to destroy our suburbs before the last Presidential election. The plan for Nashville is called NEST – Nashville’s Essential Structures for Togetherness. This proposal is comprised of NINE bills which will change the city forever. It will remove single family zoning for the entire county. and allow more “infill” housing which is already destroying my neighborhood of Green Hills and would allow what are now single-family homes to be divided into four-plexes to house as many as 20 people.  The rationale for this insanity is that there is supposedly not enough middle-class housing (property values have gone up – big shock), but why they think the market can’t supply this supposed urgent need was not explained. That problem is solved now by people living outside the city where housing prices are lower and driving in. This has caused traffic problems, but instead of addressing those, the liberals in charge have put bike lanes all over the place (that no one uses), making traffic that much worse, and are proposing more busses that no one rides now.

Nevertheless, I attended what was supposed to be a community meeting on the NEST proposal yesterday. I have never seen anything like it. There was no actual meeting. Instead, we were forced to sit and listen to Councilwoman-at-large Quinn Evans Segall give her power point presentation pitching the proposal on how we have to remove single family zoning or else our teachers and firemen won’t have a place to live. There were terms in the power point board like – I kid you not – “bathroom equity.” Furthermore, they are going to remove safety regulations to make these four-plexes as cheap as possible and I suspect to enable what are now single-family homes to be chopped up into four units so that 20 people can live where there was once a single family.

Everybody suspects this is to house the illegal immigrants who have been pouring into our state since Biden took power.

The meeting had an overflow crowd – many, many people were not allowed into the room – they were kept out and the door shut. Eight-hundred people had previously signed up for a zoom meeting and they had to close that because they said there were too many people. So instead, they rented a small classroom at Belmont which held maybe 100 people and turned everyone else away.

After her interminable power point presentation, Quinn Evans Segall refused to answer direct questions from the audience. No one but she was allowed to speak. She did allow us to write our questions on cards to be screened by her assistant. When a couple of people objected and yelled, “We want to speak!” she shut down the meeting entirely – one half hour early – and apparently had called the police! Four policemen showed up in addition to the security guard.

In other words, there was no community meeting – they don’t want our feedback. They want to shove this proposal down our throats and too bad if we don’t like it.

Nashville is still a nice place to live, but it won’t be for much longer.