The Metro Council is set to consider a set of bills aiming to address Nashville’s housing crisis at a meeting on Nov. 4. The legislation stems from a Metro housing study that found Davidson County needs approximately 90,000 additional units in the next 10 years to keep up with demand.

“We did find that in our zoning code there are some barriers to housing production,” Metro Planning Department deputy executive director Lisa Milligan tells Scene sister publication the Nashville Post .

“What we have found is that our zoning code is really good at producing single-family housing and really large-scale multifamily housing," she says. "And there's a whole lot of stuff there in the middle that our code is not as good at producing in a good design. And that's things like townhomes

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