Young children playing soccer in yellow shirts on the Belmont lawn.

Community Relations

Fostering relationships in the Belmont community and all across Nashville.

Building Bridges: Connecting Belmont University and Our Vibrant Community Through Engagement and Support!

A Belmont employee smiling at a table with a group of children

The Office seeks to identify and cultivate alliances with neighborhoods, community groups, nonprofits and governmental authorities in Nashville to increase the effectiveness of Belmont’s outreach and service initiatives.

  • For a drafted version of Belmont's Institutional Overlay Master Development Plan, click here. Highlighted text is new, while the remainder of the document is original to the 2005 plan that remains in effect. 
Young children with their parents at Community Night

Community Night 2025

Coming February 19!

The Neighborhood Advisory Group

The Belmont University Neighborhood Advisory Group was formally established by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County in 2005 as part of the passage of BL 2005-555, an ordinance establishing the Belmont University Institutional Overlay Zoning. The advisory group works with the neighborhood, Belmont University, and Metropolitan Planning staff on issues associated with implementing the institutional overlay and its’ associated Master Development Plan.

The membership of the Advisory Group was expanded in 2007 by action of Metro Government to further inform the operation and oversight of the Lease Agreement between Belmont University and the Metropolitan Department of Parks and Recreation. 

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Pictured left to right (front row): Tom Cash -18th District Council Member, C.J. Hicks, Canesha Conger, Thenita Jones (second row) Joyce Searcy, Cordenus Eddings, Bradley MacLean, Cynthia Owsley, Jason Rogers (third row) Stanley Kinnard, Gladys Easley, Charles Howe
 Not Pictured: Bob Bernstein, Bobby Halliburton, Kristine LaLonde, Chris Kearney, Patricia McCarroll, Pamela Mishaw Jordan, Paula Wyatt