Chris Remke

Context-Sensitive Urbanist, AIAret - The "guy with a pencil" reading blueprints, deconstructing pro formas - demanding civic solutions over partisan theater.

[Chris Remke @ccremke]

Check out this post on Nextdoor:

☕️ The Promise vs. The Reality Since 2015, this site has been envisioned as a Mixed-Use Center. A true neighborhood mixed-use center where locals could gather, grab a coffee, and connect.

Take a deeper dive into the issues. Do not contribute further to Nashville's Bedroom Warehouse District.

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#thenations #NashvillePolitics

[Chris Remke @ccremke]

Modern zoning operates strictly in the "Transactional Economy." It measures success by stacking the highest number of "heads and beds" onto a single tax parcel. It treats humans as economic units.

But a truly livable city operates on the "Gathering Economy." 🧵👇

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#urbanism #HousingPolicy #Nashville

[Virgil Davis Hunt @vrgldh]

In a certain street are three tailors. The first to set up shop hung out this sign -- 'Here is the best tailor in the town.' The next put up -- 'Here is the best tailor in the world.' The third simply had this -- 'Here is the best tailor in this street.'

[Chris Remke @ccremke]

@vrgldh In the minds of Nashville's tailors and their worldly ambitions, what I would give for a Council of tailors more concerned with understanding the fabric of their own streets than measuring the world.

[Chris Remke @ccremke]

@EmilyNEvans Would anybody who was actually there care to weigh in on the Council Member's version of events? I am trying to determine where the facts end and the horse manure begins.

[Chris Remke @ccremke]

What do housing policy and horse manure have in common?

Quite a lot, actually.

There is an old European theater tradition in which success was measured by the piles left outside the theater.

Housing policy has its own version.

We count units.
We count density.
We count permits.
We count studies.
But are we measuring success—or just counting piles?
New article:
Housing, Horse Manure, and Other Signs of Success

https://t.co/R0kHg9dDvG

Housing, Horse Manure, and Other Signs of Success

#HousingPolicy #CityBuilding

[Chris Remke @ccremke]

@KennyCap_Phd The government produces much that does not tie to anything. I think you could call them floaters, lots and lots of floaters.

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@KennyCap_Phd When wealth exceeds intelligence and your Realtor is untethered from the market, every forecast sounds like Pollyanna.

[Chris Remke @ccremke]

@WKRN Name one in Tennessee on open water, heck, even in the east. There are so many issues being chased that belong to other areas of the country demand and solutions vary widely. Strong opinions, weak knowledge.

[Chris Remke @ccremke]

LMAO, another nothing burger, just Political Theater for another topic the sponsor has not a clue about.

You are right on track, Nashville DC cooling systems for big and small data is “closed”(little to no water.) TVA loves them, the only constant power load among industrial users, usually improves the area electrical infrastructure as the facility funds additional capacity and redundancy. This list could go on, we will see a lot of legislation for ghost problems that never existed or were AI output from vastly different climate and infrastructure zones.

As for the mega, mega facilities, those will be in colder climates.

The irony, attack data centers while they sit home on AI trying to cover the knowledge gap for the effort. Maybe V.P. Gore can sell carbon credits at the newest sequel.

Those of us reading the data used by Metro Council 2023 know how well they understand their own data so far, I am convinced they don’t read more than executive summaries. AI is wired to tell you what you want to hear and has the unique gift for making dumb, dumber.

Legislation can’t fix …..

[Chris Remke @ccremke]

@marcportermagee Does this suggest the more education and income, the less capable of governing within a budget, managing homelessness, controlling corruption, street crime … wow.

[Chris Remke @ccremke]

Highest and Best Use - Property is worth its potential, if that value is greater than the structures on it (like my house in Hillwood) that is the value. It is about ZONING and the most revenue generating opportunity (if zoned for apartments, it will on some future date, become apartments).

[Chris Remke @ccremke]

Another check off the bucket list . The National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia, this Memorial Day Weekend.

Bedford lost more sons per capita on D-Day than any other community in America, forever linking this small Virginia town to one of history’s most pivotal moments. The memorial is powerful, humbling, and beautifully done. A reminder that freedom has always carried a cost paid by ordinary people willing to do extraordinary things.

[Chris Remke @ccremke]

@KennyCap_Phd The 2024-2025 “jump” is a mathematical distribution of “international migrants” for which Nashville posted approx 8k. So a data WAG for the CB to try to capture a previously uncounted cohort. Yet, GOV is celebrating. Precision exceeding accuracy.

[Chris Remke @ccremke]

Brilliant negotiations TN! Moving to Tennessee’s biz friendly and right to work state is such a substantive and very real incentive for location as compared to Washington State, “S-bucks” would likely have paid Tennessee to come here. Their per employee tax burden cost and cost of living savings would save S-bucks, mega bucks! - Yet, pay them to come? - Great Question @TheGillReport

[Chris Remke @ccremke]

For cites experiencing high growth for the last decade plus, the results are the same: "affordability" zoning policy and rhetoric produces luxury housing units, skyrocketing land prices, and higher taxes.

The “Missing Middle” blended w “reform” is like going to a wine and cheese shop to solve a nutrition crisis and to double down by turning good planning over to developers.

It loads cities with debt while pushing middle class working families out, and moving high earners in.

Say, WeHo, the Nation’s ….

GOV reform in Nashville arrived 15 years ago, bifurcated / segmented for high income earners, gutted low income …

Nashville’s following the age old government results: arrive after the private sector, solves the problem, focus on the wrong problem, and produce a solution that hyper accelerates taxation.

[Chris Remke @ccremke]

@marcportermagee If AI this building a gazillion data centers, how is it that the electrical field is shrinking?

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@KennyCap_Phd What a contradiction, soft landing and explosive inflation. Is that a match?

[Chris Remke @ccremke]

@SeanForFive @matthewrobb22 I am sure that is true!

[Chris Remke @ccremke]

"Nashvegas" used to be a sardonic joke. Now, it’s a reality threatening Nashville's soul, aided and abetted by our Council's Planning and Zoning Committee and their puppets at the Planning Commission. They are full-bore focused on making room for Vegas at the expense of NashNatives.

People look at the zoning disasters and ask, "Are they really this blind and incompetent?" The truth is, they want you to think it's a huge "miss." That's why they look into the news cameras, totally "astonished" by the massive tax bills and displacement destroying our neighborhoods.

Don't buy the fake surprise. They built the machine, they pulled the lever, and now they are playing dumb.
The mechanics are working exactly as designed: more density - more inflation - more gentrification of NashNatives and BizNatives.

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#NashPol #PropertyTax #NashvilleHousing

[Tennessean @Tennessean]

Photos: New Nashville Yards hotel coming: See renderings https://t.co/NAFUCGRqvm