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| Date | Brief | The one-line version |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-15 | Nashville Bikeways | Of the 510 segments in Nashville's Bikeways layer, the 499 segments that carry a recorded length total 314.9 miles; protected bike lanes account for 45.6 of those miles (14.5 percent), the largest share is signed shared routes at 143.4 miles (45.5 percent), no protected segment is dated before 2015, and 343 of 529 address-carrying pedalcycle-involved crashes (64.8 percent) street-name-match to a bikeway street, an upper bound printed next to its 45.1 percent all-crashes control. |
| 2026-11-14 | Nashville Vision Zero High Injury Network | Of the 297 segments in Nashville's Vision Zero High Injury Network layer, the layer records 29,530 crashes and 1,955 KSI crashes across 226.3 miles; the 16 High-tier segments hold 372 of those KSI crashes (19.0 percent) on 13.8 miles (6.1 percent of network miles), at 27.0 KSI crashes per mile against 6.0 on the Low tier; Gallatin Pike's network segments carry the most of any street (173), and the layer states no study window for its counts. |
| 2026-11-13 | Nashville Crosswalks | Of the 1,823 records in Nashville's Crosswalks layer (every dated audit from 2023), 683 (37.5 percent) are recorded with Poor paint, and of the 1,811 records with a recorded cross slope, 626 (34.6 percent) sit in the lowest bucket (less than or equal to 2 percent) while 1,185 (65.4 percent) sit in buckets above 2 percent; the layer carries no street, district, or neighborhood field, so the findings cannot be assigned to a place from the layer as published. |
| 2026-11-12 | Nashville Right-of-Way Permits | Of the 20,500 records in Nashville's Active Right-of-Way Permits layer, 11,132 (54.3 percent) are lane closures with a median scheduled window of 6 days, while 6,348 excavations (31.0 percent) at a median of about 90 days hold 563,765 of 699,124 scheduled window-days (80.6 percent); only 2,102 records (10.3 percent) overlap November 12, 2026, and Onstreet, Council District, and ZIP are populated on 6 of 20,500 records. |
| 2026-11-11 | Nashville Curb Ramps | Of the 18,388 audited curb-ramp records in Nashville's Curb Ramps layer, 9,103 (49.5 percent) are recorded Yes for conformance, 4,035 (21.9 percent) No, 2,425 (13.2 percent) Maximum Extent Feasible, and 1,226 (6.7 percent) Technically Infeasible, with 961 (5.2 percent) recorded No Ramp; District 18 records the lowest Yes share at 36.3 percent (273 of 752) and District 11 records the highest No Ramp share at 19.0 percent (134 of 704), and the No Ramp records are a separate, mostly undated subpopulation (91.2 percent carry ProjectType UNKNOWN), never merged into No. |
| 2026-11-10 | Nashville Sidewalks Inventory | Of the 14,938 sidewalk segments in Nashville's Sidewalks Inventory, 9,399 (62.9 percent) are recorded Good, 2,308 (15.5 percent) Fair, and 1,454 (9.7 percent) Poor, with 1,777 (11.9 percent) carrying no usable condition value; a repair score is recorded for 97.3 percent of Poor segments, while a repair construction cost is recorded for only 69 of the 1,454 Poor segments (4.7 percent) and for 1,520 of the 9,399 Good segments, so the recorded $59,743,161.85 cost sum cannot be read as the repair backlog. |
| 2026-11-09 | Nashville Historic Zoning Permits | Of the 9,171 historic-zoning permit cases Nashville accepted between December 7, 2011 and November 6, 2026, 8,337 (90.9 percent) carry an issued date and 59.8 percent of those issued the same day they were accepted; among the 3,352 cases that took at least a day, the median wait was 17 days, and cases accepted since 2021 are recorded as approved 90.1 percent of the time (3,661 of 4,065), against 1.4 percent for cases accepted in 2011-2020 (73 of 5,106) - a break inside the register's own Decision field, with 4,602 of its 5,416 Disapproved cases carrying an issued date. |
| 2026-11-08 | Nashville 311 Service Requests | Of the 248,066 service requests opened with hubNashville in 2025, 78,753 (31.7 percent) were resolved on the first call and every closed one of them closed the same day; among the other 161,645 closed requests, 44.0 percent closed the same day and the median wait was 1 day, while closed property-violation requests (20,564) waited a median of 6 days and 21.1 percent of them took more than 30 days; council district is missing on 32.0 percent of records and the request-origin field is blank on all of them. |
| 2026-11-07 | Nashville Trade Permits | Of the 111,321 trade permits entered in Metro Nashville between October 12, 2023 and October 16, 2026, 107,213 carry an issuance date, and 87.1 percent of those were issued the same day they were entered, while the median building permit in the companion register waited 29 days; the volume spreads across all 35 council districts (the largest, District 19, holds 5.9 percent), 43.2 percent of electrical permits are service-connection events, and 117 of the 141 parcels whose trade permits state a project value of $10 million or more are in District 19. |
| 2026-11-06 | Nashville Beer Permits | Of the 2,064 issued beer permits in Metro Nashville's register on November 6, 2026, 458 (22.2 percent) sit in a single Metro Council district, District 19 downtown, while the median district holds 40; ZIP 37214's 213 permits include 74 held by one resort complex, and joined by ZIP to the police incident layer the two registers' shares track by rank (0.904 across 33 ZIPs) while downtown holds 16.3 percent of permits against 6.3 percent of ZIP-coded incident records (46.6 percent of incident records carry no numeric ZIP). |
| 2026-11-05 | Nashville Police Incidents | Of the 945,811 records in Nashville's police incident ledger since 2019, 34.0 percent sit under MNPD's own non-criminal incident-type codes; records under criminal offense codes fell 9.9 percent in Jan-Oct 2025 and another 10.1 percent in Jan-Oct 2026, carried by vehicle break-ins, vehicle theft and robbery, while assaults stayed flat at their 2019 level; the ledger's 31.7 percent UNFOUNDED share sits 96.3 percent under the non-criminal codes (1.8 percent within criminal codes). |
| 2026-11-04 | Nashville Building Permit Applications | On November 3, 2026, Nashville's open building permit queue held 6,036 applications recorded as not issued; their median age was 330 days and 47.5 percent were over a year old, while about 1 in 8 applications entered in 2024-2025 (2,928 of 22,654 observable in either of Metro's two permit layers) remains unissued; ages describe the pending stock only, against a 29-day median completed wait among issued permits. |
| 2026-11-03 | Nashville Building Permits Issued | Among the 29,651 building permits issued in Nashville from Oct 30, 2023 to Nov 2, 2026, the median entry-to-issue wait was 29 days; Commercial Tenant Finish Out permits (1,573) waited a median of 119 days, and Council District 19 holds $3.15 billion of the $13.23 billion in applicant-stated construction value (23.8 percent) with a median wait of 62 days; waits are among issued permits only. |
| 2026-11-02 | Nashville Traffic Accidents | Of the 926 people killed in Nashville reported crashes from Jan 1, 2019 to Oct 31, 2026, 280 (30.2 percent) were pedestrians, and the fatal-crash share of reported crashes coded DARK - NOT LIGHTED is 1.14 percent (143 of 12,565) against 0.22 percent in DAYLIGHT (297 of 134,199), per reported crash; 222,903 reported crashes pulled Nov 2, 2026. |
| 2026-11-01 | Nashville Property Standards Violations | Of the 568 property standards cases recorded with the exact string "host - no strp", 419 (73.8 percent) sit on parcels with no STR permit record of any status in Metro's STR permits file, and 38 (6.7 percent) sit on parcels with a currently issued STR permit; 43,283 cases received Oct 26, 2023 to Oct 29, 2026, both layers pulled Nov 1, 2026. |
| 2026-10-30 | Denver Street Occupancy Permits | Across 259,284 duration-valid segment records, the median segment permit runs 3 days, while the 4,537 records running over 90 days (1.8 percent) hold 898,253 of the register's 2,595,960 segment-days (34.6 percent); purpose and company are blank on essentially all 2018-2019 records. |
| 2026-10-29 | Denver Building Energy Benchmarking | Among the 984 Denver buildings with a reported site EUI in both 2016 and 2025, the median site EUI fell from 64.8 to 53.1 kBtu per square foot (-18.1 percent), and 73.7 percent of the buildings report a lower EUI in 2025; the 1,687-building panel on the program's 2019 baseline year fell from 65.9 to 52.4 (-20.5 percent). |
| 2026-10-28 | Denver Curb Ramps | Across Denver's 479 pedestrian-demand zones, the zones rated highest for walking demand hold 563.3 curb ramps per square mile, fewer than the medium-demand zones at 663.1; pedestrian crashes per square mile rise with demand (42.2 in high-demand zones vs 7.7 in low), while ramp density peaks in the middle of the scale. |
| 2026-10-26 | Denver Traffic Signals | Denver's traffic signal register lists 1,288 signals and records an installation, rebuild, or major retime date for none of them - 0 of 1,288 on each field - so the fleet's age cannot be read from the public record; 34.5 percent of geocoded crashes since 2021 fall within 150 feet of a signal. |
| 2026-10-24 | Denver Liquor Licenses | Five neighborhoods hold 554 of Denver's 1,965 active liquor licenses (28.2 percent) on 7.4 percent of the city's residents; the CBD records 20.7 active licenses per 1,000 residents against a citywide 2.7. |
| 2026-10-23 | Denver Tree Inventory | 33,479 ash trees among 305,295 inventoried trees (11.0 percent): Marston is 29.6 percent ash, Gateway - Green Valley Ranch holds the most ash at 2,374, and the inventory's own EAB field is blank for 87.1 percent of ash. |
| 2026-10-21 | Denver Affordable Housing Inventory | 29,474 income-restricted units in 497 projects: the inventory records at least one project in 63 of 78 neighborhoods and none in 15; Five Points holds 2,757 units, and all 2,628 supportive units sit in rental projects. |
| 2026-10-20 | Denver Residential Rental Licenses | 26,941 active long-term rental licenses under 20,780 holders: 68.6 percent are their holder's only license, the largest holder carries 525 (1.95 percent), and the register's rows are not licenses - one license carries 697 rows while whole apartment buildings sit on single rows. |
| 2026-10-19 | Denver Short-Term Rental Licenses | 2,083 active licenses under 2,080 licensee names: 99.7 percent of active licenses are their holder's only license and none is filed under a business-entity name; the stacking the register does show sits on parcels (12 parcels, 84 licenses, all distinct holders) and in neighborhoods, not on holders. |
| 2026-10-17 | Denver Reported Offenses | Denver offense reports fell 18.7 percent from the 2022 peak to 2025, and the entire net decline is vehicle offenses: vehicle reports fell by half while reports not involving a vehicle climbed 11.2 percent to their highest level of six matched windows; the 2026 window ticked up 1.6 percent, the first increase since the peak. |
| 2026-10-16 | Denver Property Sales | Denver recorded 105,585 market sales from 2020 to October 2026: the median price rose from $450,000 in 2020 to a $595,000 peak in 2022 and has held between $525,000 and $550,000 since, and the share of sales at or under $500,000 fell from 57.2 percent to 47.4 percent. |
| 2026-10-15 | Denver Net Housing Change | Denver permitted 11,585 new residential buildings and 3,837 demolitions from January 2020 to October 2026, a net of 7,748 structures; 60 percent of demolitions were followed by a new-building permit at the same address, and 11 neighborhoods demolished more than they built. |
| 2026-10-15 | Denver Lead Service Lines | 21,426 premises remain in Denver Water's Lead Reduction Program: 18,775 are in the City and County of Denver, one in ten city premises, and in five neighborhoods more than half of all inventoried premises are still in the program. |
| 2026-10-14 | Nashville STR Permits | 7,017 permits in force: 71.4% are not owner occupied, 49.9% of investor permits are owned from outside Davidson County, and only 5.2% sit on single-family parcels. It is a buildings market. |
| 2026-10-13 | Data Center Water, Compared | Irrigation used up about 101 trillion liters in 2015; every US data center combined used 0.86% of that. One day of farm use equals about 117 days of data centers. Most charts in this fight mix water taken out with water used up - a 31x cheat. |
| 2026-10-12 | Denver 311 | 1.38M 311 cases over three years: 84% close same-day (the front desk, not the dispatch radio), field-work waits run 3x longer in District 6 than District 11, and "encampment reports" never collapsed - the city just renamed the category. |
| 2026-10-12 | Data Center Water: Known vs. Asserted | The viral 500 mL-per-prompt figure is 10 to 50 times off from its own source. What the paper actually said, what Google reports, and what nobody has measured. |
| 2026-10-11 | Denver Housing Permits | 30,902 permits vs the city's own growth plan: 75% of new homes went up outside it, 81% away from rail. The plan is decorative. |
| 2026-10-10 | Denver Bike Safety | 3,521 bike crashes vs infrastructure: 80% happened where there's no bike lane. The lanes go where the crashes aren't. |
| 2026-10-08 | Denver Homelessness | Denver spends roughly $105,000 per long-term housing exit (about $178.1M against roughly 1,700 exits): a 43% housing-exit rate for people brought indoors, and shelter beds at roughly $34,000-$36,000 per bed per year, on par with permanent housing. |
| 2026-10-08 | Denver Tree of Heaven | 731 observations + 311 weed complaints vs Colorado's noxious weed lists: the case for upgrading tree of heaven from List C to List B, or for Denver to act alone. |
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