Nashville · public meeting archive
Every Nashville Planning Commission and Board of Zoning Appeals meeting since 2011, transcribed and searchable — the sidewalk variance, the rezoning debate, the exact sentence a commissioner said about your street. Timestamped, sourced, and free.
30,194 searchable segments 695 meeting videos 2011 → 2026
The problem
Fifteen years of Nashville land-use hearings sit on YouTube as four-hour videos nobody rewatches. The rezoning debate that decided your neighborhood's character, the exact words a commissioner used about your case — buried, unindexed, effectively gone. CivicFindery turns that video into text you can search like the web.
Real searches, real results
Four real queries against the live corpus — genuine quotes, genuine timestamps, each one a deep link to the exact moment on YouTube.
"...is it really a vesting process with short-term rentals, or is it a vesting process with the zoning that allows short-term rentals under a one-year permit only?" — committee discussion of STR use-permit vesting
"...the applicant cites two specific reasons for the variance — the first is that there is no sidewalk in the vicinity of the property... the second is the slope of the adjacent streets and the ditch along the property frontage..." — staff presenting a subdivision plat
"...the flood plain area and conservation policy will lose 80% of its existing tree canopy — does that sound right to you?" "...tree canopy is not synonymous with conservation policy... there's a standard that says 20% of the existing tree canopy on the entire site will be maintained..." — commissioner questioning staff on a rezoning
"...the Wedgewood Houston Chestnut Hill planning study, adopted in 2019, argues that to ensure the design objectives associated with the community character policies are realized for new development, rezoning is needed..." — staff presenting the UDO rezoning case
These are real results from the live corpus. Run your own search or set up a watch on CivicAlerts.
How it works
Every PC and BZA meeting since 2011, sourced from the boards' own YouTube channels.
Captions and audio become searchable text, chunked into overlap-aware segments with a timestamp back to the exact moment.
Case numbers and addresses spoken aloud — often mangled by auto-captions — get matched and corrected against the board's official agenda text.
New meetings enter the archive automatically, no operator required. The record only grows.
What's actually here
Two bodies, fully covered: Nashville Planning Commission and Board of Zoning Appeals, 2011 → today. Metro Council and other boards aren't in the archive yet.
Case numbers, corrected: auto-captions mangle case numbers constantly — we match the spoken form against the agenda's authoritative text and flag the correction.
Grows automatically: new meetings enter the searchable archive the day after they happen, no operator required.
Free, no account required. Search is open now. The archive is the front door, not the product.
Not built yet: official vote records, entity resolution across cases, or live-meeting monitoring. What you see here is transcript search — nothing more is claimed.
Speaker attribution is partial and honest: transcripts are auto-captioned, so speaker labels carry a confidence score — unattributed speech stays unattributed rather than guessed.
CivicFindery shows you what already happened. CivicAlerts tells you before it happens again.
Found your case, your street, your case number in the archive? CivicAlerts watches for it going forward and emails you the moment a new agenda mentions it — days before the hearing, not after the vote.
The archive is live. CivicAlerts watches for your case, street, or keyword on future agendas and emails you before the hearing.