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Board approves special exception for GCA cultural center with neighborhood conditions
Summary
The board granted a special exception for a proposed 84,000 sq ft cultural center on Old Lebanon Dirt Road, approving a two-year extension with conditions to protect neighbors that include urban-forestry review, police traffic control for large events and written notice for major construction.
The Metro Nashville Board of Zoning Appeals on Dec. 4 approved a special exception allowing the Greater Cultural Association (GCA) to proceed with a proposed cultural center and related site work on Old Lebanon Dirt Road, subject to conditions intended to limit neighborhood impacts.
The project team — Daniel Whitley, engineer, and Roshan Patel of GCA — told the board the site plan complies with required buffer yards, includes turn-lane recommendations from a 2024 traffic study performed with NDOT and features a 25‑foot landscape buffer (40 feet where the lot fronts Old Lebanon Dirt Road). Patel said the building would be about…
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