The Nashville City Paper has a well-balanced story on the fight by a northwest Nashville neighborhood against the density and the accompanying traffic to their area associated with a Habitat for Humanity development.
Residents are right to fear a cram-down effort of this project over their well-reasoned objections. And their comments about Habitat developments only being located in areas where African-Americans live are dead on correct.
The Metro Zoning Commission wants both sides to meet before an Oct. 23 meeting to work out differences. But there is no working out discrimination. Residents are right to believe there will be no workable compromise about this project.
It is a matter of right and wrong and confronting Nashville bigoted history that continues from the education of its children to the enforcement of laws to now the development of affordable housing.
Mayors from Phil Bredesen to Bill Purcell to Karl Dean have paid only lip service to the matter and desperate need of decent, safe and affordable housing for the city's working poor. Habitat developments are no substitute for public policy.
The proposed development is wrong, neighborhood residents are right and the planning commission should vote against rezoning on Oct. 23.
To read the well-written piece, go to: http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/news.php?viewStory=63447
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