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IN THIS ISSUE:
- Community Meeting Scheduled Thursday, October 16 at 6pm – Bellevue Community Center
- Election Day
- Taste of Bellevue
- Old Harding Pike Street Closures
- Zoning, Housing and Infrastructure
- Traffic Calming Program – Fall Award and Program Changes
- Bellevue Community Corner
BELLEVUE DISTRICT 22 COMMUNITY MEETING
Please note that the next scheduled Community meeting will be THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 at 6pm at the Bellevue Regional Community Center (next to Ford Ice). We will discuss current topics of interest – Crime, Homelessness, Zoning, Housing and Infrastructure. I’ll share some updates and we may just have a guest or two to answer questions. This is not limited to just District 22 – all welcome from the Bellevue area. See you there!
ELECTION DAY IS OCTOBER 7 FOR US DISTRICT 7
Please follow this link and confirm that you do live in US Congress District 7.
Not everyone in Bellevue does.
FIND MY US CONGRESS REPRESENTATIVE
Once you have clicked above and entered your zip code you will be again prompted to enter your physical address. Then you will learn if you are in District 7.
If you are – Every Vote Matters. Every Voice Counts. Up to now about 97% of the eligible voters have chosen to stay home instead of exercising their right to vote.
Y’all – it doesn’t take that long. Please make your voices heard!
EARLY VOTING SCHEDULE
U.S. House of Representatives, District 7
Special Primary Election Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Six (6) Early Voting Locations Open
Wednesday, September 17 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Thursday, September 18 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Friday, September 19 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
Saturday, September 20 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Monday, September 22 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
Tuesday, September 23 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Wednesday, September 24 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Thursday, September 25 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Friday, September 26 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
Saturday, September 27 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Monday, September 29 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
Tuesday, September 30 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Wednesday, October 1 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Thursday, October 2 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Bellevue Library 720 Baugh Road, Nashville 37221
Bordeaux Library 4000 Clarksville Pike, Nashville 37218
Hillwood High School 6215 Hickory Valley Road, Nashville 37205
Lentz Public Health Center 2500 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville 37209
Madison Library 610 Gallatin Pike South, Madison 37115
Metro Office Building 800 President Ronald Reagan Way, Nashville 37210
Davidson County Election Commission
1417 Murfreesboro Pike, Nashville, TN 37217
615-862-8800
www.nashville.gov/vote
TASTE OF BELLEVUE 2025 WILL BE
CAPPED AT 1200 ATTENDEES
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Thank you to Austin and Colin for the Taste of Bellevue 2025 promo! It’s too darned cute! Scan QR code to access this 30 second video. |
Proceeds support the ongoing mission of Bellevue Community Foundation’s annual financial grant awards to our area non profit organizations.
NIGHTTIME STREET CLOSURES OF
OLD HARDING PIKE
Duke Energy is continuing its gas line work on Old Harding Pike at Clofton that has required night-time street closures. There are detour signs in all directions and message boards are installed on both sides of the closure to inform the public. This should be coming to an end soon weather-dependent.
ZONING, HOUSING & INFRASTRUCTURE
Proposed Zoning Changes Before Us
BL2025-1005 creates two new zoning districts that would be available to use in the future. It establishes Residential Neighborhood (RN), Residential Limited (RL) , Building Type Supplemental Standards and Frontage Type Standards as new options in the zoning code. It includes single family cottage development standards within the RN and RL zoning districts as well as additional parking dimensional standards, landscape buffer yard requirements.
BL2025-1006 amends the regulations pertaining to height within the RS (single family residential) and one and two-family residential (R) zoning districts and simplifies the condition whereby two family dwellings may be permitted in a host of agricultural and residential zoning districts.
BL2025-1007 amends the regulations pertaining to detached accessory dwelling units and the Detached Accessory Dwelling Unit Overlay District (DADU) – allowable ONLY in the USD. (Part of Bellevue is in the USD - Urban Services District and part is in the GSD – General Services District).
What are the Differences between the Urban and General Services Districts?
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General Services District (GSD): This covers all of Davidson County. Everyone pays GSD taxes, and in return gets the basic countywide services like schools, police, fire protection, and general government.
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Urban Services District (USD): This is a smaller area within the GSD — basically the old “City of Nashville” and nearby neighborhoods. People here pay a higher property tax rate because they also get extra services, like trash pickup, street lighting, sidewalks, police/fire services. Liquor stores can only locate in the USD.
Think of it this way:
- GSD = basic services, lower taxes.
- USD = basic services + urban extras, higher taxes.
Housing and Infrastructure Study (as a reminder)
What is it? Last year Council approved a resolution after the Nest Bills were proposed, asking the planning department to conduct a study and we funded it. It includes community study into housing needs and the infrastructure required to accomplish the goals identified. Phase 2 is underway which includes creating new zoning districts but will not rezone properties. It will create a tool for areas in the county that wish to use them. These have begun to be introduced in council. The draft standards for the proposed Residential Neighborhood and Residential Limited districts are now available on the H & I Study website.
Helpful Links:
Facebook: Metro Nashville Planning Department | Nashville TN | Facebook
Twitter: https://x.com/MetroNashPlan
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/metronashplan.bsky.social
What Do I Think?
I agree that we do need our housing costs to be attainable for our families and firmly believe that we must preserve the neighborhood character of our community. I am uncomfortable allowing anyone to substantially change the character of a neighborhood in neighborhoods that do not abutt transit options. Until I am convinced that our neighborhoods’ character and liveability are protected, I am not supportive of BL2025-1005 or BL2025-1006 in their current form. BL2025 – 1007 only applies to properties in the USD so, I sit on a fence in this regard until I hear from my constituents in the USD. There will be representative(s) from the Planning Department to address this at the community meeting Oct 16. I’ll be interested to hear from you.
TRAFFIC CALMING PROGRAM
Examples of traffic calming measures include installing speed cushions, narrowing sections of a street, and placing traffic circles at intersections. You can learn more about NDOT’s Traffic Calming Toolkit here: Neighborhood Street Traffic Calming Toolkit. As a new change to the traffic calming application process, NDOT will now accept applications on a rolling basis, but will still select projects twice a year. Neighborhoods can submit their applications here.
Visit Nashville's Neighborhood Street Traffic Calming Program page for further information.
To report a non-emergency issue affecting a Metro Nashville street, visit hub.nashville.gov
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
BELLEVUE’S COMMUNITY CORNER
(A Recurring Segment)
Arts Bellevue is a dynamic arts organization that has been serving the Bellevue and west Nashville community since 2018, by providing a wide variety of arts programs – both live and online in the performing, visual, literary, and culinary arts. We are a 501(c)3 membership-based nonprofit that supports local artists, students, families, and individuals, promoting diversity and partnerships through the arts. Arts Bellevue presents Vue in the Round, an intimate singer-songwriter concert, most months on the third Thursday in our second floor Listening Lounge at the Ford Ice Center in One Bellevue Place. It’s a great way to kick-back and listen to some of Nashville’s most talented and professional singers, songwriters, and musicians as they play, sing, and spin tales from their lives and careers. Most artists provide their music for sale at the event. VUE IN THE ROUND
BELLEVUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
In 2007, the Bellevue Community Fund was established in association with the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee with a goal to grow the fund and create a pool of charitable dollars to support programs serving the Bellevue Community. We provide annual grants to our area organizations. In 2020, the name evolved to become the Bellevue Community Foundation, an organization committed to working in collaboration with like-minded civic organizations in Bellevue. The Bellevue Community Foundation exists to support community initiatives of our local nonprofits and civic organizations all focused on making Bellevue a great place to live, work and play. It is an affiliate of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. For more information contact Councilwoman Sheri Weiner, it’s Chair at sheri@sheriweiner.com. Yes, we are the Taste of Bellevue!
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Abraham Louis DeMoss, of noble Huguenot ancestry and a Revolutionary War Captain from North Carolina moved to this area in the late 1700s. On July 28, 1800 he purchased 150 acres of land overlooking the Harpeth River where he had built his log cabin on a knoll overlooking the river, (just off Morton Mill Road). He called it Belle Vue, French for Beautiful View. His wife and at least some of his nine children occupied the cabin with him. He built a sawmill, a grist mill, and a blacksmith shop, the beginnings of the thriving community that eventually took its name from his cabin.
After several generations the cabin fell into a state of disrepair. Wanting to preserve the history of the cabin, descendants of DeMoss, through Frank Carter, his wife, Dolores Hutchison Carter and children donated the cabin to the Bellevue Harpeth Historic Association. The cabin was dismantled, all pieces labeled and reassembled at the location at Red Caboose Park. BHHA is responsible for Bellevue History Day coming October which is a great opportunity to learn about our early settlers and how they lived. Contact Clare Baker (a direct descendent of Abraham DeMoss), BHHA President at clarecbaker@icloud.com.
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In September of 1979, this local chamber of commerce was born with the help of a newspaper ad. Doug Underwood, publisher of the former Westview put a notice in his paper inviting those interested in creating a chamber to attend a luncheon at a Bellevue restaurant. It was Underwood’s belief that unincorporated Bellevue needed an organization that would provide a voice for the community.
The guest that day was the executive director of the Nashville Chamber who gave advice on organizing the first Bellevue Chamber. Underwood had hoped to get at least 10 people to attend; more than three dozen showed up. Those on hand included business owners, dentists, bankers, insurance agents, contractors, and veterinarians, among others. By the following year, the new Bellevue Chamber of Commerce boasted more than 100 members. Now, after nearly 40 years of continuous service, the Bellevue Harpeth Chamber of Commerce continues to serve as the voice of the Bellevue community. The Chamber puts on the Bellevue Picnic, now in its 46th year held the 3rd Saturday in May annually. Other events include Crawfish Boil and Glow on the Green, among others. For more information contact Executive Director Hattie Dewalt at 615.662.2737 or info@bellevueharpethchamber.com.
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Exchange is an all-volunteer, national service organization of men and women who want to serve their community, develop leadership skills, and enjoy fellowship with their friends and neighbors. Exchange is comprised of more than 630 clubs and 15,000 members across the United States. Founded in 1911 in Detroit, Michigan and now headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, the Exchange Club of Bellevue is one of a dozen Exchange Clubs that supports positive parenting at Family Centers in Nashville and Murfreesboro. For more information contact Executive Director Maureen Riley at exchangeclub.bellevuetn@gmail.com.
HUB.NASHVILLE.GOV
The hubNashville site also is where you can report a myriad of public safety concerns….go to Request Type: Public Safety. It is also the location for you to ask for Metro services…go to hubNashville and select your area of need. For example, if your concern is an issue with homeless encampments, please file a report at Request Type: Request Non-Emergency Police Assistance.
WEST PRECINCT, MNPD
As a reminder, your West Precinct holds an open community meeting the 2nd Thursday of every month at 6pm at the precinct. During these meetings Commander Bowers provides statistical updates, answers questions and discusses initiatives ongoing in the area. It’s an informative and helpful opportunity to engage 1:1 with your officers. I hope to see you there.
LINK TO MNPD TRESPASS WAIVER
It should be returned to Sgt. Amanda Kozen (amanda.hane@nashville.gov) or postal mail to the precinct (5500 Charlotte Pike 37209).
BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS
If you want to get involved, I can share that you have a lot of opportunity among the over 70 boards and commissions. Lend your expertise. Browse the list of opportunities. Call me and I'm happy to connect you to those in the know. Check out the vacancies and apply.
About Boards and Commissions | Nashville.gov
Thank you, in advance, for your willingness to serve.
CONTACTS and INFORMATION
You can contact Metro directly to request Metro services at
hub.nashville.gov
In the event you do not receive a response or confirmation from HUB, please email or call me.
I typically respond within 24 hours (if not sooner).
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