Metro Planning director draws ire of critics, again

By Richard Lawson

Battles over signs pop up fairly often with urban overlay districts but Metro Planning Director Rick Bernhardt isn’t usually in the middle of them.

So Bernhardt raised a few eyebrows when he appeared at a Board of Zoning Appeals in June to oppose a commercial property owner’s request for a sign variance to the new Donelson urban design overlay, and did so with incorrect information.…{+}