Even though a rezoning ordinance was removed from Tuesday night’s Lebanon City Council meeting agenda, it still prompted discussion amongst the public and council members.
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Plan to build near Newsom Station hadn't seen work in years
With support from Newsom Station residents, the Metro Planning Commission eliminated a Bellevue development project contracted to Olde Mill Partners of Franklin for its lack of progress, which neighbors say turned out to be the best possible outcome.
Councilmember Dave Rosenberg — in whose district the land sits and has been awaiting development for 14 years — first established the proposal to designate the development “inactive” on Jan. 11. Newsom Station residents had been vehemently opposed to its development for years already.
Since 2007, the project threatened to bring some 250 to 300 new homes right across the street from Newsom Station, a neighborhood so well established and fundamental to Nashville that a 2015 Neighborhood Nostalgia article in