Nashville council kills latest downtown flood wall and protection system proposal
For the fourth consecutive year, the Metro Council voted late Tuesday night to kill a controversial proposal to build a $125 million downtown flood protection system anchored by a flood wall.
This time, it might have sidelined the proposal for the foreseeable future.
By a voice vote, the council voted to eliminate the flood wall from city's capital improvements budget put forward by Mayor David Briley. As vice mayor last fall, Briley had pushed for an up-or-down vote to settle the long-debated issue.
The latest rejection came despite a refocused effort by the Metro Water Services department to reframe the project by shedding light on millions of dollars in flood mitigation efforts Metro has made in neighborhoods across the county while downtown has gone neglected.
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