What can you actually do with a piece of Nashville?

What this shows that the city map does not

Rental bans the map does not label. About a sixth of Nashville's zoning districts are Specific Plans ("SP"). The city map labels them all the same, and what each allows is written into its own ordinance. We read the 389 that Metro Council publishes online (roughly 2020 onward): 301 prohibit all short-term rentals across the whole plan, 9 prohibit whole-home rentals only and 3 prohibit them in part. 5 allow them outright and 3 in part. Only 203 districts carry the visible -NS label. Metro's own rental eligibility viewer leaves Specific Plans to the Planning Department; we show the ordinance's own sentence. Read the short-term rental story.

Approved, not built. Of the 107 Specific Plans approved between September 2023 and September 2025, 83 were new plans rather than changes to an earlier one. 68 of those have no construction permit (new building, shell, foundation or frame) since approval. Their preliminary plans allow up to 6,297 homes on about 869 acres; final plans often allow fewer. That is where Nashville's next building could start, or stall.

Tax in one click. Nashville has two county tax rates (city core and the rest), three small cities that add a city tax of their own, and downtown districts that add more. Click a spot and the estimate uses the rate for that exact place.

Rental permits in the same click. The panel applies Metro's own eligibility rules for owner-occupied and whole-home permits, then adds what the Specific Plan or planned unit development says, and settles commercial lots from Metro's own lot records. New whole-home permits are possible on only 3% of the county's zoned land.

How to use it

• Pick a ready-made view, or type what you want, for example "industrial 5 acres out of the floodplain".
• Click anywhere, or type a street address, to see the rules for that spot.
• Share a view by copying the link. It opens with the same view selected.

Limits, plainly

• This is a screening tool. It is not a survey, a zoning letter, a flood determination or a tax bill.
• District lines are simplified for speed. Near a boundary, check the Metro Parcel Viewer.
• Specific Plan rules were read automatically from the ordinance text, then every text was read again on Sep 27, 2026, and an independent review added the plans that ban rentals by reference to an -NS district. They have not yet been checked against Metro zoning letters. Height, setbacks and layouts live in the plan drawings, which we do not read yet. Plans older than about 2020 are not decoded.
• Address lookup estimates a position along the street from Metro's address ranges. It can be off by a few lots. Add the ZIP when a street name exists in more than one part of the county.
• Tax estimates use tax year 2025 rates. The Midtown business district's assessment starts in tax year 2026 and is shown on top.
• An HOA, condo association or deed restriction can ban short-term rentals on its own. This map does not check them.

Sources

Retrieved September 26, 2026 from Metro Nashville's open data portal and Metro Council's legislative records, used under Metro's open data terms. Provided as is. MapLedger is not affiliated with or approved by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.

• Metro Nashville zoning districts
• Metro zoning overlay districts
• Metro services districts (city core boundary)
• Metro business improvement districts
• FEMA floodplains and floodways (Metro copy)
• Metro street centerlines (address lookup)
• Metro short-term rental permits
• Metro building permits issued
• Metro Council legislation (Legistar)
• Davidson County property tax rates

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