NASHVILLE, Tenn (WTVF) — Nashville needs significantly more housing in the next decade, and the Metro Planning Department has proposed new bills moving through the Metro Council for approval.

Officials say the new zoning rules will create simpler housing regulations and incentives for affordable housing, but community members argue they do more harm than good.

Wayne Uphill has called West Meade home for more than 40 years. Now, he fears that peace is slipping away.

"We love our trees and we want to keep them, and we want to we don't want the density," Uphill said.

Signs of change dot the neighborhood.

"Here we have single-family zoning, and we're protected. But we're being threatened by the new zoning rules greatly," Uphill said.

That fear packed neighbors inside Brook Hollow Baptist

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