Metro Council committee approves consent agenda authorizing property transactions, utility work and zoning items

A Metro Council committee approved a consent agenda that included resolutions and ordinances authorizing property purchases, aerial encroachments, and changes to public water and sanitary sewer infrastructure during a committee meeting. The committee took the action by voice vote after a motion to approve the consent agenda was moved and seconded.

The consent agenda included a resolution authorizing purchase of property at 1725 Seventeenth Avenue North; resolutions permitting aerial encroachments at 804 Fourteenth Avenue North and at 116 Representative John Lewis Way North (sponsored by Grand Ole Opry LLC); and multiple resolutions to abandon and accept public water mains, fire hydrant assemblies, sanitary sewer mains and manholes at addresses including 1201 Gallatin Avenue (Whataburger), 55 To 2 Russell Street (East End UMC), 1425 Fourth Avenue North, and properties on Old Hickory Boulevard and Hamilton Church Road. The committee also advanced an agreement allowing the Metropolitan Department of Water and Sewer Services to enter into an agreement with Fisk University to provide green stormwater infrastructure, including construction of a green roof, and considered a companion ordinance establishing building-material restrictions for a later bill.

One zoning item on the consent agenda sought to change zoning from RS-10 to SP for properties at 2819–2821 and 2823 Jones Avenue (approximately 8.27 acres, described as approximately 43 feet south of Hart Lane) to permit 84 multifamily residential units; a companion ordinance would adopt building-material restrictions for that project. Several items were described as authorizing acceptance of new public water and sanitary sewer infrastructure or abandonment of existing infrastructure for specified properties.

Committee procedure: the chair stated, "All of the items on our agenda have been recommended for consent," then read the captions. A motion for the consent agenda was moved and properly seconded; the committee then voted by voice. No opposition or abstentions were announced on the record.

Because the items were approved on the consent agenda, the meeting record shows the committee adopted the listed resolutions and ordinances as a group; the transcript does not record individual roll-call tallies for each item. The transcript does not specify any dissenting votes, nor does it record numeric vote counts.

The committee did not take separate public comment on those items during the recorded portion of this meeting.