And a progress set showing end of 1st summer, middle of 1st summer, and 1st spring. Most natives have few blooms their 1st year. So, it’s been a summer of trusting the process and hoping for more blooms next year!
Probably the last of the Tennessee Coneflowers blooms at the Hermitage Library. Really surprised there were any blooms the first year, so this many blooms is a promising start!
Are these new poles and new sidewalk? It’s almost always a condition from NDOT that the poles be outside the sidewalk. It would take some extenuating circumstances for NDOT to approve a vertical obstruction even with 5’ clearance.
In areas with slope, this isn’t an issue. For mains that typically follow streams at a very flat slope, it’s becoming increasingly common to rip these same segments out over and over.
The result? Developers installing an 8” sewer line to a project. When the next project is approved, the 8” sewer that was just installed has to be replaced with a 10”. When the next project is approved, the 10” has to upsized to a 12” main…
Perhaps the most annoying infrastructure issue in Metro Nashville has to be sewer capacity. MWS doesn’t plan until lines need to be over 15”, they don’t really account for new zoning, the state doesn’t allow sewer impact fees, and MWS can only require improvements based on your specific development.
I would love to see Hermitage remove some of the old commercial PUDs on OHB and Lebanon and zone to allow for community centers that are (somewhat) walkable and more dense.
Was on the receiving end of a crowd earlier this week for one of our projects. Lots of respect for city staff who lead the planning community meetings, it can’t be fun being on the receiving end!
When your area commonly has 20% and greater slopes, the only way new development can meet these requirements is with significant earthwork. Also makes retrofitting existing infrastructure difficult…
Add the landing requirements, and that distance gets even shorter. There’s also a 5% max cross slope of the crosswalk which sounds as if the curb line can only have a slope of 3%.
Since the drop in elevation is the same at the centerline and the curb line, a 5% centerline may end up being closer to 10% at the curb line since the elevation drop occurs over a shorter distance. PROWAG adds an exception, but it’s not clear if it’s discussing centerline slope or curb slope.
Road slope is often designed by the centerline, not the curb/sidewalk line. So, if you have a 5% road with a cross road at 5%, you typically have a continuous centerline at 5%.
