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Traffic stops increase in East Nashville's police precincts
Transforming a historic home into a restaurant and new apartments
Nashville Newsletters
February 08, 2023
⚡️ SPEED READ
Traffic stops in one of the police precincts that cover East Nashville increased 170% compared to the same period last year.
A new bill would punish people for leaving unlocked guns in cars.
Developers plan to transform a historic home in East Nashville into a restaurant.
Metro’s Planning Commission will consider proposals this week to allow apartments and a hotel.
A bill to cut the Metro Council in half is moving quickly through the state legislature.
Plus: a petition to block naming a road after former President Trump, an upgrade for Shelby Park, and restaurant inspections
👮♀️ Traffic stops increase in East Nashville’s police precincts
More people are getting pulled over by police.
Since January 1, Metro Police reported a 60% increase in traffic stops across Davidson County compared to the same period last yaer.
Stops spiked 170% in the Madison precinct.
The East precinct reported a nearly 10% increase.
Stops across Nashville are still down 88% compared to five years ago. The city rolled out new traffic stop training in 2018 after “two independent reports found that Black drivers were being stopped and searched at disproportionate rates,” WPLN reported.
Police also reported a 12% increase in arrests this year.
Punishment for leaving unlocked guns in cars
75% of guns stolen in Nashville last month were taken from vehicles. That’s more than 100 guns.
A new bill would require gun owners to take a safety course if they leave a gun in their car, don’t hide it, and don’t lock it up.
Guns taken from vehicles are “routinely involved in criminal activities, including carjackings and robberies,” police said.
Car thefts in East Nashville
Police reported three stolen cars between Friday and Sunday near Dickerson Pike and Dellway Drive. Here’s the map:
🗳️ Today’s poll
🚧 Development planned in and near East Nashville
Metro issued a building permit to transform a home at 814 Woodland Street into a restaurant called The Estelle. The Nashville Post described it as one of Nashville’s oldest homes. It sold for $1.72 million after the previous owner bought it for $85,000 in 1997, according to the website.
The Metro Planning Commission will consider several rezoning requests on Thursday, which would allow:
175 apartments near 3302 Walton Lane
A hotel at 408 Woodland Street
A mixed-use development with 194 apartments at 253 Nesbitt Lane
🏛️ Bill to cut the Metro Council in half moves forward
A bill that’s widely seen as punishment for the Metro Council blocking the 2024 Republican National Convention is moving quickly through Tennessee’s House.
It would cut the size of the Metro Council from 40 to 20. If it passes, council districts will be redrawn. Members will serve more constitutents.
The sponsor, Representative William Lamberth, argued a smaller council will be more efficient. Vice Mayor Jim Shulman reminded a House subcommittee last week that Nashville’s voters repeatedly rejected the idea.
East Nashville council members Brett Withers, Emily Benedict, and Sean Parker voted Tuesday night in favor of a resolution stating the council’s opposition to cutting its size.
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🤠 THE ROUNDUP of other news
A petition urges lawmakers to reject a bill that would remove civil rights leader Representative John Lewis’s name from a portion of road and turn it into President Donald Trump Boulevard.
Councilman Sean Parker: NDOT “appears to have made a temporary fix to the Douglass Ped Bridge just a few dozen hours after taking ownership of it.”
Metro’s Parks and Recreation Board voted Tuesday to accept a grant for “for the installation of a boardwalk on the Shelby Park Events Lawn Loop.” According to the city, “the boardwalk is necessary due to regular flooding in the area that makes the path impassible.”