Zoning appeals board docket lists 12 cases for Oct. 15, including Metro emergency operations campus
Requests range from home setbacks to a West End apartment height exception and a Metro emergency communications building on Murfreesboro Pike.
NASHVILLE - The Metro Board of Zoning Appeals has 14 cases on its draft docket for Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026, at 1 p.m. in the Sonny West Conference Center of the Howard Office Building, 700 President Ronald Reagan Way. Two of the cases are already marked withdrawn, leaving 12 for the board to hear, according to the docket posted on Nashville.gov.
The largest case involves land owned by Metro government at 2491 Murfreesboro Pike. It seeks a special exception in the AR2A district to build a three-story, 90,567-square-foot Emergency Communications Center and Office of Emergency Management building, a three-level garage with 288 spaces, and a two-story, 116,391-square-foot logistics building for emergency management and the Nashville Fire Department.
Other cases include a building-height exception for a multi-family building at 3819 West End Ave.
The rest are mostly setback, driveway or buffer variances for homes.
Members of the public may attend and speak for or against any case, the docket says.
Source: Metro Board of Zoning Appeals draft docket for Oct. 15, 2026, and meeting page on Nashville.gov, opened Oct. 12, 2026 - https://www.nashville.gov/departments/codes/boards/zoning-appeals-board/meetings/zoning-appeals-board-meeting/2026-10-15