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A resolution supporting District One, the Bordeaux Community, and its residents, and condemning any future environmentally unsound infrastructure, development, and services in the district.
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WHEREAS, District One, located in the northwest corner of Davidson County is home to Bordeaux, Joelton, Bells Bend, Scottsboro, and part of Whites Creek; and
WHEREAS, for decades, District One has been a predominantly African American community, home to many working- and middle-class families, and doctors and administrators from Nashville's historically Black colleges and universities; and
WHEREAS, during the area's infancy, many Black families worked on large, productive farms near the Cumberland River and built homes in areas like Ewing Drive, Whites Creek, and Eatons Creek; and
WHEREAS, today, a high percentage of African American families still live in District One, and areas like the Clarksville Pike corridor are home to family-owned restaurants, small businesses, and churches; and
WHEREAS, for years, community concerns regarding underinvestment, blight, and lack of resources have grown louder, with some residents referring to District One as "overlooked" and "forgotten"; and
WHEREAS, for much of its existence, District One's communities have been riddled with and dominated by landfills, waste services, scrap metal businesses, and unchecked grading and filling; and
WHEREAS, Southern Services Landfill, a 77-acre site in the historically Black Bordeaux neighborhood, accepts more than 90 percent of all construction waste generated from Nashville's rapid development, and has drawn complaints of noxious odors and environmental racism; and
WHEREAS, in 2017, over the protests and complaints of community leaders and residents, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. constructed two 30,000-horsepower natural gas compressors in Joelton which continue to operate today; and
WHEREAS, in the 2017 Assessment of Fair Housing report prepared by the Metropolitan Government and MDHA...
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