The Nashville District 17 newsgroup is a Google Groups public forum dedicated to news, announcements and opinions pertinent to the residents of District 17. Similar electronic bulletin board and email services in other neighborhoods are frequently called “list-serves.” Participants in the Dist. 17 breakfast roundtables have repeatedly called for a system to alert them to important planning, zoning and Metro Council agenda items which they are otherwise not learning about. But the posted announcements can also deal with lost cats and dogs, restaurant openings, political commentary, and other information of timely value to District 17 residents. For a preview of the fledgling Nashville District 17 newsgroup, visit http://groups.google.com/group/nashville-district-17

Woodland-in-Waverly residents may also subscribe to the Woodland-in-Waverly Newsgroup at woodland-in-waverly@googlegroups.com.

Messages in this group are available only to identifiable residents of the neighborhood. 

Subscribers may read the messages online and select a way that new messages or summaries be emailed to them. Only subscribers who use their first and last names may post messages for the neighborhood to read.

Having trouble signing-on? Follow the detailed instructions accompanying the article above about the Distgrict 17 Newsgroup. 

More questions? Call Pete or Bette Horton, 298-5017 or email them at dist17news@gmail.com.

Dist. 17 Councilman Ronnie Greer will conduct a Woodland-in-Waverly Community Meeting at the Knowles Senior Center on Thur., Oct. 12, 2006 atarting at 6 pm. A free buffet supper will be served during the meeting starting at 5:30 pm. Mr. Greer promised the Board of Zoning Approval (BZA) he would hold this meeting with the neighborhood to mediate a solution regarding restrictions on weddings and special events hosted at The Timothy Demonbreun House.

Court: widow must remove siding from house in historic district

By Bill Harless, bharless@nashvillecitypaper.com

Margaret Hudson, an 85-year-old South Nashville resident sued by Metro in 2002 for installing vinyl siding on a rental house located within a historic neighborhood, must remove the siding, Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle ruled Thursday.

TDOT (Tennessee Department of Transportation) officials are inviting WiW residents to discuss and vote on landscape plans for the Lindell Ave. sound barrier at a meeting on Tue. Sep. 19 starting at 5:30 pm. The meeting will be held at the Knowles Senior Center near the fairgrounds entrance. A free buffet supper will be served by committee members Gertrude Davis and Ann Burks.

“Construction is expected in the spring of 2007. Everything is still on schedule,” according to TDOT project manager Jim Ozment. “If all goes as expected, we should have a sound barrier fully built by Summer 2007,” said WiW committee chairman David Earnhardt...

Editorial from The City Paper

In the little, historic South Nashville neighborhood of Woodland-in-Waverly, something is going very, very wrong. The letter-of-the-law is being upheld in the name of historic zoning while common sense and good old fashion right and wrong are not being honored. A court order came down last month demanding 85-year-old widow Margaret Hudson remove the siding from her home because the building sits within a historic zoning overlay prohibiting use of the artificial material.

Dear Residents of Woodland-In-Waverly Historic District,

Please join me and your neighbors at a Neighborhood Meeting and free supper at the Knowles Senior Center, corner of Wedgewood and Rains Avenues, on Thursday, October 12, 2006. The free supper buffet will begin at 5:30 p.m. and remain available during the meeting from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Click on headline to read entire letter.

* WiW President John Root - acting as an individual - not as a WiW officer - has asked the Board of Zoning Approval to immediately revoke the historic home events permit at the Demonbreun House. With his written appeal, John attached photos he took over the fence in the alley of a badminton net in the back yard of the former day care property next door. He said this was being used in conjunction with his wedding and special events business.

Richard Demonbreun said the net was placed up for his 9-year old son and his new 12-year old step daughter before his wedding in the grandfather's yard next door in case the children wanted to play. He said that his wedding guests did not play either badminton or volley ball.

Recently rediscovered is a 20-year-old report of the WiW’s Long Range Planning Committee. The committee identified five major areas of concern:
* Identification of the neighborhood;
* Crime control;
* Lack of public (park) areas;
* Ways to help neighbors upgrade their houses, inparticular…
* Repairing Robincroft (now The Timothy Demonbreun House.)

By Bill Harless, The City Paper, bharless@nashvillecitypaper.com

Louisiana-Pacific Corp. (LP), the building products giant that relocated to Nashville from Oregon in 2004, has offered to strip the vinyl siding off the house that 85-year-old widow Margaret Hudson owns on White Avenue and to replace the siding — at no cost — with a wood-based based product. LP’s offer follows a court order last month demanding Hudson remove the siding from her home, 2208 White Ave., because the building sits within a historic zoning overlay prohibiting use of the artificial material.

But following a meeting last week with Metro Historical Commission Executive Director Ann Roberts, area Metro Councilman Ronnie Greer, who had approached LP, is again tapping his foot with impatience and frustration, being told Hudson must receive Historic Zoning Commission approval to have the LP product installed and being advised Hudson may have to retain the original wood on the home, if it is not overly worn. LP, to install its product, would have to strip off the wood.

Woodland-in-Waverly grass-roots effort pays off: By Linda Bryant, The Tennessean

Relief from car and truck noise from Interstate 65 is coming for the Woodland-in-Waverly neighborhood, but it's probably going to be late 2007 before it is finished.