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WAIT, HOME STUDIOS ARE OUTLAWED
IN NASHVILLE?
In another stunning edition of ‘Wait, Whaaat? ’ news, it turns out that
owning a home recording studio can get you in a lot of trouble with
Nashville’s government. According to a provision in Metro Nashville’s
zoning laws, owning and operating a home recording studio is illegal… in a
city affectionately known as “Music City.”
Wait, what ?
This, my musically talented friends, is irony. Not the kind of irony that’s
actually a coincidence, or just weird. This is a truly ironic legal quirk for a
city internationally known as a music industry capital.
The ban on home studios is part of a ‘blanket ban’ on home-based
businesses serving patrons from said property. It’s not uncommon to find
laws against residential zones being used for commercial reasons. That’s not
terribly weird. Someone shouldn’t be able to start, say, a daycare center in
their basement or sell home-brewed beer from their backyard. Those are
regulatory and safety concerns that should totally be addressed.
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However, it’s because of the broadness of this ban that makes it hard for
perfectly credible, and safe, home businesses to operate. According to
Census figures
(https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/business_ownership/cb11-
110.html), more than half of all businesses in the US are based in a home. In
California, the legislature just made it legal
(http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/21/business/la-fi-mo-governor-
1616-homemade-food-20120921) for citizens to sell everything from
organic cupcakes to homemade jam from their home kitchen.
So, why can’t Nashville’s many, many musicians be legally allowed to record
in their own homes?
For some citizens, there’s a concern that increased traffic and lack of
parking could lose a neighborhood’s “residential character .” But that feels
more like a, ‘old man yells at cloud’ kind of concern. I mean, do you think
these home studios are going to generate Walmart-like business? I don’t
think so.
Citizens and home studio owners hope that newly-elected Mayor Megan
Barry, who unsuccessfully tried to reverse the policy with legislation back in
2012
(http://www.nashville.gov/mc/ordinances/term_2011_2015/bl2012_292.htm)when she was on the Metro Council, will revisit the issue now that she’s in a
position of power.
Producers who own home studios are in a pickle of a situation. These aren’t
rebels simply looking to break a law for breaking-a-law’s sake, these are
people trying to support their homes and families. “Well, why don’t you use
a commercial recording studio? That’s legal .” Well, because the current
trend in the music industry has encouraged home recording. Improvedrecording technology has made owning the best of the best equipment far
more affordable.
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If you can work from home, why wouldn’t you?
If a producer obeys the law, they can’t support their family. If they support
their family, they could be penalized. This isn’t an uncommon story across
this country. We hear this time and time again. Because of a weird law,
someone doing something completely harmless in their own homes is illegal.
That doesn’t make sense, and neither does this weird zoning law. When
you’re self-employed in the music industry, you have to hustle your ass offand promote yourself through social media, websites, or whatever else
helps advertise your brand. Why is recording from home any different?
Nobody in the music industry should be in a situation where they can’t grow
and expand because of some stupid, weird law that makes no sense. In a city
that’s known all over the world as “Music City,” the government should be
doing everything it can to encourage, support, and foster that community
that brings in so much revenue.
Get your priorities straight, Nashville government.
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January 7, 2016 at 5:24 pm
The homebrewed beer comment in this is off base. Home
brewed beer would be as safe as the food items that were
mentioned being legal in California. As such you analogies
seem distorted. Under federal law if the brewery building is
seperate from the home it is legal to make and sell commercial
beer from a residentially zoned property. It does require more
over sight than the recording studio, but please do not make
homebrewed beer sound potentially dangerous compared to
other home produced food and drink. Now if you were talkingabout distilling, that is different.
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