The State of Recode Knoxville
It’s been almost two years since I first wrote about Recode Knoxville and I was pretty late to the party. It was February 2017 that the effort officially got underway with with the outside consultants who...
Metropolitan Planning Commission
Recode Knoxville Enters Its Final Stretch
It’s been a long trip, but it is beginning to wind down. The City of Knoxville, in the form of the Metropolitan Planning Commission is attempting the first re-write in fifty years of our city’s zoning...
Developing Knoxville’s Future with Sixty-Year-Old Codes
It would be kind of crazy, wouldn’t it, if we stated our intention of guiding Knoxville’s current and future development boom with the principles and ideals of the 1960s? You know, the same era of planning...
Smart Trips: Saving Knoxville’s Air One Commuter at a Time
I’ve mentioned the organization before, but I’ve never officially written a piece about them, which is kind of shocking, as I’ve loved Smart Trips since very early in their history. Officially started in 2004 as a...
A Discouraging Day for the City
There are good days in the city, great days in the city and then, there was yesterday. It started with an article by the News Sentinel’s Josh Flory in which he reported the owners of the...
Do Knoxvillians Still Tear Buildings Down? Find Out Today at 1:30
Months ago I, along with others, wrote about St. John’s Episcopal Church’s request to demolish two 1920s era buildings, which they own, adjacent to their church. Presumably it would be for parking or access to parking,...