Sorry, but I'm sure that you have organized your one million screen shots of metro council, committee, and commission hearings, and can find these votes within seconds.
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Sorry, but I'm sure that you have organized your one million screen shots of metro council, committee, and commission hearings, and can find these votes within seconds.
C.M. Eslick supported the drastic weakening of the M.H.Z.C. and the radical re-zoning of The Nations.
"Governor Armstrong supports a ban on abortion. During a debate against Cara Mund in 2022, Armstrong said he supported the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that overturned the right to abortion set forth in Roe v. Wade (1973)." (Wikipedia)
No cabs? What is B.P.A.C.?
6. Are you concerned about local politicians who are owned by the tourism, real estate, or development industries?
All the charges of sexual molestation against Woody Allen were investigated and found to be without merit. Either find totally new evidence, or concede that your accusations are merely the product of a very closed mind.
Anyway, there's no comparison between Jeffrey Epstein's behavior and that of Woody Allen. If people find evidence that Allen molested his daughter, then they should make it known to the legal system and to the media. Until then, you just have an empty, pointless smear of a very good filmmaker.
In spirit, maybe.
The strip club on Dickerson Pike, just north of Old Hickory Blvrd., had a buffet. The food was Not Good. (The place is now the Beast House.)
Jeffrey Epstein was investigated, charged, tried, and found guilty, and he had been arrested again when he killed himself. The Epstein case supports the lack of substance in the accusation against Woody Allen. Thanks.
I trust the investigations--as any rational person does. All the charges of sexual molestation against Woody Allen were investigated and found to be without merit. The end.
Well, it's important that everyone sticks to the facts. We have enough falsehoods coming out of the Executive Branch. Let's hold on to reality as much as possible.
BUT: Did they take photos/videos of themselves ("Look at us! We're riding the bus!") and then post them on TikTok or other social media (on Facebook for their grandparents, maybe)?
Oh, Dylan Farrow still makes those claims, but they remain false. Trump still claims that he won the 2020 election. That remains false as well.
Only if you believe in unicorns and fairies.
According to Christina Engelhardt, he didn't know that she was not yet seventeen (though she turned seventeen--the legal age in New York in the 1970s--a few months later). You may find the relationship distasteful, but it wasn't illegal.
These claims were investigated three times and found to be without substance: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_A.... 2/2
Yes, since 1992, Dylan Farrow has often repeated the claims against Woody Allen, which were first made by Mia Farrow, after Mia discovered that Allen, her ex-boyfriend, was in a relationship with her oldest daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, then 21 years old. 1/2
C.M. Horton counted every time he had a beer with neighbors as a "neighborhood meeting." 2600 parcels were affected, only 61 people voted on this plan. At the Planning Commission, twelve residents spoke for the plan (mostly wanting DADUs & more trees), 23 spoke against it.
Maybe so. I haven't seen that comparison. I have, though, noted people saying that any zoning is racist. So the hysteria is not just on one side.
Yes, and that's what I'm saying now. Do not spread innuendo. We differ in our work for Nashville, but your honesty has taken a few hits here. By the way, are you the one who caused G.M. Welsch to look ridiculous by spreading the falsehood that Lauren Magli lived in Franklin?
We don't know whether Dylan Farrow made those claims. They were reported by Mia Farrow *after* she was angry with Woody Allen for his relationship with Soon-Yi Previn, his wife for almost thirty years now.
So am I. You have lost some credibility.
Christina Engelhardt was sixteen when she came on to Woody Allen, and didn't tell him her age. She soon turned seventeen, which was, at that time, the legal age for consent.
Yes, Mia Farrow was upset that Woody Allen, who had broken up with her, had taken nude shots of her now-adult daughter--at the daughter's request. Then, suddenly, Farrow claimed that Allen had molested their daughter. Those claims were thrice investigated, and thrice found meritless.
Then, Neil, with all due respect, you are a craven chickenshit, and your remark is garbage. Either you man up and name whom you're talking about, or you shut up about it. You did this "tar & feather" thing one day. You're doing this "loser guy" whipping up others another day. It's disgusting.
I didn't say that I didn't want "upzoning" in neighborhoods. If a neighborhood wants to "upzone," then it should. When C.M. Horton, however, imposes "upzoning" on 2600 parcels in The Nations with hardly any warning and with most residents against it, then I, too, am against it.
Only one woman has told an unsubstantiated story about Woody Allen: Dylan Farrow, and she was a very small child of a very angry mother when she made these unsubstantiated claims.
Oh, those terrible "they"! (Is this part of the "real conversations"?)
It's a lynching.
Oh, we have working-class folks on our street. I'm one of them. I make just slightly more than the figure you mentioned earlier. Don't put words in my tweets. No one is segregating folks to the pikes. We have--and need more--buses like the #4 (the people's bus!) that go through neighborhoods.
I love it: Vice-Mayor: "Mr. Clerk, would you please flip a coin, please?" Clerk stands, fishes out a quarter, flips, catches, slaps it on the back of his hand, shows back of hand to vice-mayor. Vice-Mayor: "Congratulations, Mr. Horton."
Anything not to answer my question! Here it is again, for the third time. You wrote: “Council members are going to get a bunch of emails whipped up from someone who ran and lost a council seat.” Who is that "someone"?
The bad faith is also yours. I never told you what you should focus on, just that your foci were deflections--exactly what you said to me. (By the way, I knew that you would never criticize Neil. There's a lot of lockstep among the BEBEs.) A good day to you as well.
Yes! And that is much more quickly done NOT by huge fights over "upzoning" neighborhoods but by encouraging density on the bus lines. Density hand-in-hand with improved mass transit creates housing for the working-class. Sticking them in Madison (as C.M. Benedict has done) does not.
Which neighborhood is this?
"Investigated" does mean that it didn't happen until you supply evidence that undermines the results of the three investigations. The relationship with Engelhardt probably did happen. She says that she wanted a relationship with Woody Allen, and that he didn't know her age.
The deflection is yours, Ms. Pechan—twice. Firstly, you overlooked the sleazy, demonizing spin in Neil’s original remark while jumping on my highlighting of the sleaze, and now you evade my question by claiming that my quote isn’t “direct,” simply because I substituted the noun for the pronoun.
Yes, Nashville population is declining: worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/te.... Please answer my earlier question. You wrote: “Council members are going to get a bunch of emails whipped up from someone who ran and lost a council seat.” I asked who is that person?
The "deficit of 90,000 units" also makes a serious conversation on Metro's housing issues more difficult. Metro's population is shrinking; rents have stopped rising; many units are still empty, and none of the "upzoning" helps the unhoused. We need planned, walkable neighborhoods.
… (the DADUs and more trees) but simply didn’t want a radical re-zoning which would place hundreds of modest, sometimes historic, houses at risk of the bulldozer and replaced by ten units stacked on every quarter-acre of a lot?
Let’s ask that question first of Neil’s opening remark: Is it helpful or honest to characterize the majority of the residents of The Nations as being “against change,” when almost all of them approved parts of CM. Horton’s bill …
...whether the CHANGE is from the self-proclaimed YIMBYs (actually BEBEs: Build Everything Build Everywhere) or those of us mis-named NIMBYs, when we are actually pro-housing while also being pro-neighborhood.
... and a use of an empty word that is used by every side of every discussion, including by such creeps as R.F.K. jr. & Pete Hegseth. All sides want to claim that their CHANGE is good, when it obviously isn’t so—…
I don’t know whether *every* word can be a “B.S. spin word,” but certainly presenting the discussion concerning Metro’s current housing issues as folks either “leading for *change*” [emphasis mine] or being “actively… against it” is misleading spin,…
Build homes? Good! Bulldoze modest single-family houses to stack ten units on every quarter-acre? Not so good. Everyone wants more houses--for the unhoused. But most of us also know that there are plenty of opportunities for such housing without bulldozing neighborhoods, as Kornutick wants.
I simply point out that "change" is one of those b.s. spin words. What Neil Kornutick promotes is radical, blanket re-zonings whether neighborhoods want such or not. Yes, that's *change*, but it is of questionable good. Scrap the b.s. Be forthright. And you won't get lumped with RFK jr.
The fear is mongering?
That's a large group, those who ran and lost. Which one is doing the whipping here? "Change" cuts both ways. RFK jr. trumpets CHANGE! in our vaccination proticols and in the C.D.C. Hegseth trumpets CHANGE! in our military. You trumpet CHANGE! in our neighborhoods.
Claims of molestation of Dylan Farrow were investigated and found to be without substance. Christina Engelhardt has never reported molestation.
There is no evidence of grooming Soon-Yi Previn, and it makes little sense to claim that, considering that hey have had a happy marriage for 28 years, and she is now 54 years old. Amazing that you think that you know her mind better than she does.
Yes, there are good people on Facebk, but I'm not sure that this person is one of them. I love the speed cushions and want to see them on more streets, and I drive over them at a deliberate speed, and I don't swerve to avoid them, but I don't enjoy annoying other drivers.
Yes, Mia Farrow & Woody Allen had one birth-child, Ronan, and adopted two others, Dylan & Moses Farrow. He does not lust after children. He did not groom Soon-Yi Previn. They wed in 1997, adopted two little girls, who are now adults.
Totally agree, but, in the meantime, Maryland could offer free vaccines to residents of D.C.,and ask fellow pro-science states to help with the cost.
Woody Allen didn't marry his step-daughter. Allen & Mia Farrow were not married. The claims of child molestation were thoroughly investigated and found to be without merit. You can believe what you choose, but you have no grasp of the facts.
Woody Allen has written some great humor pieces and stand-up routines, and made some very good movies. He's probably no more of a sleazebag than you are or I am--indeed, possibly less than you, since you made a series of false accusations concerning his personal behavior.
Woody Allen never married Mia Farrow or even lived with her. All the facts are readily accessible. Accuse those who actually deserve accusing. Allen doesn't.
Sorry, but trying to lump Woody Allen in with Jeffrey Epstein and his friends is a baseless smear tactic. "The allegation against Allen was investigated and dismissed by both the judge in the custody case and New York Social Services. In Connecticut, it was investigated without charges being filed."
There was a hookah bar beside The Sitar in Midtown.
Yes, it is Nashville's regular & traditional solution to the "homeless problem": make the unhoused even & ever more uncomfortable. It would be really nice if the Council & Mayor focused on providing housing for the unhoused: our real housing crisis.
I missed the tarring & feathering. Who was that?
No, Soon-Yi Previn is the adopted daughter of Andre Previn and Mia Farrow: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soon-Yi....
You can believe in the Easter Bunny and that Donald Trump is an honest man, but none of these things is true. That you prefer your delusions over the well-documented facts tells something about you, but the facts remain the facts.
No, Soon Yi Previn was the adopted daughter of Andre Previn & Mia Farrow. Woody Allen was not married to Farrow, and did not live in her house. Please find accurate sources about this matter.
The median salary of an employee of New York City is $75,589. What do these N.Y.C. employees do for housing?
Woody Allen didn't go to Russia: edition.cnn.com/2025/08/26/e...
Woody Allen did not marry his adopted daughter.
Woody Allen is not a child abuser.
Those accusations were investigated twice and found to be without substance.
Woody Allen didn't marry his daughter.
Some jobs--teaching & building--will not be done from home, but designing the buildings will be done from home, and many folks in my occupation, tutoring, already work from home (a mistake on their part, I think). W.F.H. is definitely the future, which will upend housing needs.
I support the U.D.O. I was against the unnecessary & unrequested imposition of radical re-zoning on 2600 parcels. Almost all of us supporting neighborhoods also support more housing, sidewalks, trees, & DADUs. That can be achieved without RM40. What is "WFH"?
Neil, please read your tweets before clicking "Reply." What are you trying to say here? that you support subsidies for housing? That's great, but you keep supporting bills that will have no improvement for the unhoused (our real housing crisis) but *do* have the effect of destroying neighborhoods.
That's an irrelevant "challenge." There are houses under 500K all over the county and in the surrounding counties as well. Since increasing numbers of us work from home, we have increasing choices about where to live. The "starter home" was a unique phenomenon of the mid-20th century.
Also: "Increasing the supply of housing is necessary, said Been, but 'it’s not sufficient because there will always be people who do not make enough money or... don’t have enough income to pay for housing.' She... said robust housing subsidy programs are crucial for those households."
The article suggests that building more housing *might* lower the price of housing, although it also states that doing so in established neighborhoods (like The Nations) causes more gentrification which counters any decrease in rents. It never says, "Make it easier to build more housing."
I disagree with Emily Evans almost all the time, but she is correct that The Nations rezoning won't lower housing prices in Nashville. More importantly--and not an E. Evans issue--, is that our housing crisis concerns the unhoused, not the so-called "missing middle."
Again, there is building that doesn't require re-zoning. If 2% is too low, then what is the satisfactory number and why? Our metro area population (not just Nashville) is growing at only 1.28%. The population of Nashville itself is declining by 0.09% annually and has decreased by 0.46% since 2020.
Which is ironic, since the anti-regulation & anti-zoning folks are the ones who threaten minority neighborhoods. It's a form of "liberal racism." An issue in Nashville is the imposition of re-zoning by fiat, without neighborhood buy-in.
55+84+28+59+52=278. 278 "units"/meeting x 26 meetings/year = 7228 "units" per year. Of course, there are many more that don't require re-zonings.
Ah, I call them crosswalk signals. Yes, get that done. We need to change the speed hump/cushion rules. The humps/cushions were denied on Ewing Drive (in 37207), too. I believe that Metro can change those rules.
"HAWK"?
You're on the Traffic Commission, aren't you?
Maybe @jkupin4d19.bsky.social should worry less about pandering to developers and downtown businesses and more about his pedestrian constituents.
Housing is a right, but this rezoning won't provide any more housing for the unhoused. The t-shirts are just virtue-signalling. C.Ms. Welsch & Sepulveda are good at that.
The U.D.O. isn't the big issue. It's the unwarranted rezoning of 2600 parcels without public outreach. The Nations' neighbors are against this rezoning, but Metro, the developers, and the realtors are for it. The neighbors, naturally, lost.
You used to live in Williamson County, too. Then you moved to Nashville and immediately began telling us everything that we are doing wrong. You & Magli have a lot in common.
Between 2nd reading & 3rd reading, Gamble & Webb moved from Abstain to No, Hancock & Weiner (voted Yes on 2nd) were absent, Eslick moved from No to Yes, Vo (absent on 2nd) voted Yes, Nash & Styles (voted No on 2nd) were absent, and Benton & Lee moved from Abstain to Yes.
Everyone is "pro housing." Most of Nashville, though, is also pro-neighborhood. Horton's bill has just made things uglier--in many ways.
Got it. I support those speakers trying to lower further the speed limit on Ewing Drive. I drive Ewing often, and have wondered why the speed limit is so high. Ewing needs sidewalks, 30 m.p.h., bike lanes, and speed cushions or other traffic slowing implements.
Thanks to C.S.X. & the T.B.I., there are no short bicycling routes between the East Precinct and El Fuego that avoid Gallatin Pike (not a nice bike road). I suggest taking Oakwood to Jones to Hart to Baxter, and keeping time on Gallatin Pike to an utter minimum: longer ride but more pleasant.
Bus, bike, or car? What brings you over here to the civilized side of the Cumberland?
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You, as well.
...depends on a consistent one-to-one relationship and very few things (like houses and guns) are that precisely like something else. A comparison is simply a description of similarity, which is what my tweets do, describe a similarity in some of the argumentation of both BEBEs & gun-oholics.
Not exactly. An analogy is a rhetorical form, often used for argumentation, but, as such, it is rather weak, since, as your replies point out (in their misreading of my tweets), it…
...some of the arguments and attitudes of gun-oholics. I’m not surprised that you found the comparison off-putting, but I wasn’t put on this earth to be nice, but, like you (I hope), to tell the truth and shame the devil (hence my wife’s worries). 3/3
Your tweet here supports our agreement that a written discussion between us about housing is likely to fail. You refer to my tweets as making an analogy. They don't. They make a comparison between some of the arguments and attitudes of BEBEs and… 2/3
My wife also goes through active shooter training, every year, though, ironically, she fears more for my life than she does for her own, having heard or witnessed folks (some of them your colleagues) shout or curse at me in meetings. 1/3
...—from all of us—and that gives me pause about involving myself in a lengthy written discussion on the interesting and important topic of housing. I fear that it will soon devolve into a great many “I didn’t say that!”s, but I appreciate the offer and will consider it.