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Committee approves consent agenda of public-works and utility items; nine votes recorded
Summary
The Transportation & Infrastructure Committee approved a consent agenda covering easement abandonments, public utility acceptances and property acquisitions by a 9-0 vote. Individual resolutions and ordinances were read into record and recommended for approval.
The Transportation & Infrastructure Committee on Oct. 12 recommended approval of its consent agenda, a package of resolutions and ordinances related to public utility acceptances, easement abandonments and a property acquisition, by a 9-0 vote.
The consent package included Resolutions RS 2025-1124 and RS 2025-1126 and Ordinances BL 2025-774, PL 2025-775, BL 2025-776, BL 2025-777, BL 2025-778 and BL 2025-779, each read into the record during the committee meeting and recommended for approval without separate discussion. Chair Parker called for a voice vote and recorded the tally as "9 in favor, 0 against, and 0 not voting." The committee had earlier removed committee items 1 and 4 and pulled item 5 for separate consideration.
Why it matters: The items approved through the consent agenda authorize Metro to accept or abandon utility mains and easements, exercise an option to acquire a flood-prone property for Metro Water Services, and allow a hotel owner to install an aerial encroachment at 118 Twelfth Avenue South. These actions move routine property and utility transactions forward without further committee debate.
Items included on the consent agenda and the committee recommendation:
- RS 2025-1124 (Coop, Gamble and Parker): Authorizes Nashville Gulch Lifestyle Hotel Owner LLC to construct and install an aerial encroachment at 118 Twelfth Avenue South — recommended approval, consent (9-0).
- RS 2025-1126 (Greg Porterfield, Gamble and Parker): Authorizes the director of public property or designee to exercise an option agreement to purchase a flood-prone property at 3050 Boulder Park Drive for Metro Water Services — recommended approval, consent (9-0).
- BL 2025-774 (Cash, Gamble and Parker): Ordinance to abandon easement rights for seven properties along Convent Place (previously an unnumbered alley between Convent Place and Calhoun Avenue) — recommended approval, consent (9-0).
- PL 2025-775 (Cap, Gamble and Parker): Ordinance to abandon existing public sanitary sewer main and accept new sanitary sewer mains and easements for property at Riverside Drive (Riverside Residential) — recommended approval, consent (9-0).
- BL 2025-776 (Gamble and Parker): Ordinance to accept new public water and sanitary sewer mains, hydrant assembly, manholes, and easements for property at Catonka Drive (Evergreen Hills Phase 3) — recommended approval, consent (9-0).
- BL 2025-777 (Gad, Gamble and Parker): Ordinance to accept new public water mains, hydrant assemblies and easements for property at 4320 Harding Pike (Hill Center Belle Meade access improvements) — recommended approval, consent (9-0).
- BL 2025-778 (Druffle, Gamble and Parker): Ordinance to accept new public sanitary sewer mains, manholes and easements for three properties at Harding Pike (Brook Hollow) — recommended approval, consent (9-0).
- BL 2025-779 (Gamble and Parker): Ordinance to abandon existing sanitary sewer main and accept new sanitary sewer mains and easements for property located at 1300 Hunters Lane — recommended approval, consent (9-0).
Meeting context and next steps: The committee's recommendation advances these items to the full council for final action according to the usual legislative schedule. Committee members removed several items from consent for separate consideration earlier in the meeting (items 1, 4 and 5). No public speakers had been signed up for the committee meeting's public comment period.
Ending: The committee completed the consent vote and then proceeded to consider the pulled items and a public update on the Choose How You Move program.
