Madison answers to Metro
Madison is a community in north Davidson County, inside Metro Nashville. Its ZIP code, 37115, had about 40,146 people in 2016. Old Hickory Boulevard, Gallatin Pike, Dickerson Road and Briley Parkway carry its traffic, and the Rivergate area and the Motor Mile corridor hold much of its commercial ground. Madison Park, Peeler Park off Neelys Bend Road and Cedar Hill Park at Old Hickory Boulevard and Dickerson Pike are its public green space.
Grading permits come from Metro Water Services. Its Development Services Division draws the line at 10,000 square feet of disturbance and 100 cubic yards of soil moved, and a regrade inside a designated floodplain gets no exemption at all.
Taking down a commercial building
On commercial property, demolition goes through Metro Codes, with the commercial application filed at the Zoning Help Desk. During review, the Health Department requires an asbestos survey for demolitions on commercially zoned property. An interior-only demolition can be permitted separately, with the same department reviews.
Metro Public Health’s Regulation No. 4 adds a written notice at least ten working days before demolition starts, with a $100 fee on the notification form. Homes with four or fewer dwelling units fall outside the regulation’s definition of a facility.
Those dates decide the earliest day a machine can touch the building, so they go into the schedule first. Where a historic overlay applies, the Historic Commission is on Codes’ review list as well.
A house of four units or fewer skips that notice. The grading thresholds still apply once its lot is cleared and regraded.
Digging after the building is gone
Clearing a demolition site means pulling the slab and footings, old service lines and pavement, then grading for whatever comes next. Before any of that digging, Tennessee 811 needs three working days’ warning, and a ticket can be postdated up to ten.