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- 1. Development
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- 2. Costs of Development
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- 3. Affordable and Dense, Ann Arbor Adding Housing
- (Notes)
- ... ance a "transit oriented zoning ordinance" that would allow more intense development along major bus corridors, including Plymouth, Washtenaw, W. Stadium-Maple, and the State and Eisenhower area. If a ...
- Created on 13 April 2021
- 4. Only the Best Cookie Dough in our Cookie Cutter Plans
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... th timestamps under the youtube video. 4/5/2021 Proposed housing, commercial development in rural township north of Ann Arbor ignites debate, by Samuel J Robins ...
- Created on 07 April 2021
- 5. Livingston County Continues, Then Cancels State of Emergency Allowing for Virtual Meetings
- (Front Page)
- ... 33 patients in the study tested positive for COVID-19, "indicating that development of MIS-C was delayed by days to weeks after initial infection," researchers noted. 4/12/2021 CDC direc ...
- Created on 29 March 2021
- 6. Covid-19 Vaccines
- (COVID-19)
- ... de ago, technology did not exist that could bring vaccines so quickly to the public’s arms. The story of the vaccine’s path from development to mass distribution is a lesson in the power of ...
- Created on 17 March 2021
- 7. Township Manager Aynes Eased Out the Door at 2/9/2021 Board Meeting
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... Steve Aynes was hired. He was a nice guy. He knew his business. He spoke calmly and even mentioned the truth about the net costs of development at his public job interview. He knew what Fink knew but ...
- Created on 11 February 2021
- 8. Scandalously Short: The Twenty Minute 2/3/2021 PC meeting
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... - Gronow PUD requires a rezoning E. Parks and Recreation F. Downtown Planning Group - Buzzwords Ready: Redevelopment Ready 9. UNFINISHED BUSINESS: A. Further Discussion Code Enforcement ...
- Created on 04 February 2021
- 9. LiveTimelined: Watch the January 27 DDA meeting
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... S 12/16/20 F. Parks and Rec Report (Wilbur) (Dignan) G. Supervisor’s Report (Dignan) Chestnut Development Livonia Builders Woodbridge 75 Barker Al Dente Doug Wilbur mentions Ann Arbor's Al ...
- Created on 31 January 2021
- 10. Roads, MDOT & Taxes - News and Resources
- (Roads & MDOT)
- ... higan's transportation system. MDOT has begun development of a new plan to replace the existing plan, known as the MI Transportation Plan, in consultation with the public and stakeholders. ...
- Created on 05 January 2021
- 11. After Two Years in the Township Glue Trap, WLPS Met by Lawyered-up Board, Fantasies of Pot Shop Future for WLPS' Prime, 'Base of the Electronic Billboard' Property..
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... ecommended at this time) 1. Consider Resolution to participate in Redevelopment Ready Communities (RRC) Lippens recommends and explains participation in RRC communities Zelenock - how long is ...
- Created on 25 November 2020
- 12. Links to Reporting about America (slowly) Voting Trump Trash to the Curb
- (Elections)
- ... ome very troubling behavior that was openly fascist and unapologetically authoritarian. But a true power grab requires more than rhetoric and a culture of chaos; it requires the development of the pil ...
- Created on 04 November 2020
- 13. LiveAgenda: October 13th Board Meetup / Trainwreck
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... a Item 16. Discussion of Sale of 75 Barker Zelenock Chick Beliger Chockley Chick: So what are gonna do about the cleanup? Chockley on Brownfield Redevelopment Authority Cleanup bids we ...
- Created on 19 October 2020
- 14. Gas Line Easement Hell and Township Tax Mixups uncovered at 9/16/2020 PC
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... TIONS FROM COMMISSION [None] 03:11 6. CORRESPONDENCE: A. Michigan Pure Green: Future Development Agreement 03:20 7. PUBLIC HEARINGS: 04:05 A. Case #JPC200014 : Kheti, LLC Conditional Use 05:10 Planner's ...
- Created on 17 September 2020
- 15. Meet the Candidates for Trustee in a 9/15 LiveForum
- (Elections)
- ... for development in the township and what type of development would you support? 55:40 Gordon 56:46 Chick 57:49 Nelson 58:40 Muchow 59:46 Forrester 01:01:50 Miles 01:01:52 Otto 01:03:04 Olney 01:04:1 ...
- Created on 16 September 2020
- 16. Petition: Save Our Waterfront Park
- (North Village Park)
- ... or mixed-use residential/commercial development that might be attracted downtown by the new beach and park. This is not what residents told the Board we wanted. In two surveys, a supermajority of residents ...
- Created on 10 September 2020
- 17. Neighbors Endorse Zelenock & Dignan. Here's Why:
- (Elections)
- ... from development by opposing sewer line extensions? I fully support the Master Plan. Protection of areas identified in the future land use map as priorities to maintain Agricultural zoning ...
- Created on 25 July 2020
- 18. Gronow's Leland Farm Development Introduced, Pot Biz Applications Review Process Reviewed
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... He said that he has followed the Leland property history, that he plans to work another 7 or 8 years ,and that this project will be his "crowning achievement and swan song," a signature development ...
- Created on 02 July 2020
- 19. Seven Days of Rage
- (AmericaUnravelling)
- ... s of a dead past; rather, they helped do the work of justifying segregation and relegating African Americans to second-class status. Monument Avenue was unique in this regard. While most monuments were added ...
- Created on 01 June 2020
- 20. Opinion: The Fart of the Deal
- (North Village Park)
- ... ne no studies for a park or a beach and #2 – residential development does generate extra tax revenue, but it requires more in services resulting in a net loss, not a net gain, in tax revenue. Appalling ...
- Created on 26 May 2020
- 21. Hate: Made in Michigan, Made in America
- (AmericaUnravelling)
- ... de a Boise courthouse, was the latest development in Bundy’s escalating, and unusual, legal drama. The saga is testing the power of an alleged nationwide network of far-right activists Bundy calls Peo ...
- Created on 20 April 2020
- 22. How the Coronavirus can take over your body
- (COVID-19)
- ... , instead of protein, could enable rapid development of preventives for infectious diseases ...
- Created on 27 March 2020
- 23. COVID-19 News - Updated Daily
- (COVID-19)
- ... failed so far, and it’s unlikely that developments like Hudson Yards will ever really pay off. The voices like those at the Chicago Council of Global Trade insisting that things will soon go back to “ ...
- Created on 26 March 2020
- 24. Coronavirus COVID-19: Spread and CleanUp
- (COVID-19)
- ... ncy (DARPA PREEMPT No. D18AC00031, to Drs. Lloyd-Smith and Gamble), from the National Science Foundation (DEB-1557022, to Dr. Lloyd-Smith), and from the Strategic Environmental Research and Development ...
- Created on 24 March 2020
- 25. Meetings in the Minutes: Sewers, WWTP, and Tetra-Tech
- (Sewers)
- ... Board discussed the differing views of whether a basin is needed and why. Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent said the basin is needed with or without additional development. He said nearby communities ...
- Created on 12 March 2020
- 26. 2/25/2020 Northfield Township Town Hall LiveTimeline
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... it so that the total debt load on sewer customers can be planned for] Udo Huff: Why are we paying for this development when it is for the development of the North Park, correct? Chockley: No ...
- Created on 03 March 2020
- 27. The Majority Illusion
- (Planning)
- ... This is what drives attempts to undermine the Master Plan and the plundering of North Village plans. A small clique of people talk mostly to each other. Because they are willing to allow development ...
- Created on 24 February 2020
- 28. The High Costs of Township Services
- (Front Page)
- ... These studies show that, nationwide, residential development is a net fiscal loss for communities. Taxes on farmland, forest, open land, and industry generate more in tax revenue than they cost ...
- Created on 23 February 2020
- 29. 2004-2008 Supervisor Mike Cicchella Speaks Out about the Park
- (North Village Park)
- ... lake view and the park. The current Board is now going to push through a housing development that would take up 17 acres of township owned land and leave us a 6-acre park. This was never ...
- Created on 23 February 2020
- 30. LiveTimeline of 1/14/2020 Town Hall
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... to: So we learned before that if we ever had a road that went from the development thru 7 Mile right over here it would cost of millions and millions of dollars to do [blank] Chick: I just wanna s ...
- Created on 11 February 2020
- 31. LivePacket for 2/11 Board, Brief and Inspired Roundup of What Seems Conspired to Transpire
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... iding services to people who are residents and given to people who aren't. We pay the cost of development. Do Trustees even care? No need - it's other people's money. & ...
- Created on 10 February 2020
- 32. 1/7/ Special Board meeting LiveTimeline, Rude and Crude
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... eater amount of land dedicated to Park Lippens: and I think simply the reason why ... is the plan shows higher density development Lippens: But it also includes many elements that were desireable as far ...
- Created on 13 January 2020
- 33. Waterfront Park “Give-Away” to Developer
- (North Village Park)
- ... these development proposals are not good enough.” Jim Nelson chided the Board for ignoring it’s own subcommittee ranking of the project. “The development proposals got a ‘D’ grade in terms of meeting ...
- Created on 12 January 2020
- 34. Jacki Otto: A real lakeside Park is wasted on Taxpayers. How about a swamp view? Water's water! And we'll throw in a view of the A$$ end of the Township Hall Parking Lot.
- (North Village Park)
- ... nal advice, ignored, about handling the 23 acre parkspace treasure that's been bastardized into the North Village Development? "Mow the grass" - i.e. Make a Park. Idiots ignore good advice. ...
- Created on 08 January 2020
- 35. 12/18/2019 Planning Commission LiveTimeline
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... nly remaining lakeside open space with asphalt, apartments, and Low Income Housing. The upcoming January 7th special Board meeting was hastened and arranged specifically to give Chockley's hottest devel ...
- Created on 27 December 2019
- 36. 11/26/2019 Board of Trustees meeting Live Timeline
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... l scoring mechanism was rejected by the board Chockley: I do. Some of the items in the scoring were worthless. Security? They have to have security anyway. Otto: Chick: You can't ask vague questions.. ...
- Created on 26 November 2019
- 37. Pot Biz Legitimized at Four Hour Township Board Meeting
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... Land Preservation Committee – 3 openings Downtown Development Authority – 3 openings Planning Commission – 2 openings Parks & Recreation Committee – 1 or more Contact Chockley. Office: (734) 449-2880, ...
- Created on 19 November 2019
- 38. Board OKs Local Pot Businesses, Downtown Property Value Jumps 27%
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... Committee – 3 openings Downtown Development Authority – 3 openings Planning Commission – 2 openings Parks & Recreation Committee – 1 or more Contact Supervisor Chockley. Office: (734) 449-2880, ext. ...
- Created on 18 November 2019
- 39. Fighting Rages on All Fronts: Master Plan, Parks, Sewers, Marijuana and Road Commission Shakeup
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... of the Plan rewrite which costs $35,000 and took nearly two years. Supervisor Marlene Chockley pushed for the adoption because she said the new plan “opens up lots of land on Whitmore Lake Road for development”, ...
- Created on 28 October 2019
- 40. Irresolute Waffling Vaguely Squish-puffs Into Actions Impacting a Largely Unexamined Future at 10/22 Trustee Meetup Meltdown
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... 03 [the memo in the 2019-10-22 packet] 2019 Northfield Township Master Plan, McKenna [35MB] 2013 Northfield Township Master Plan, Carlisle-Wortmann 2019-07-10, North Village Developm ...
- Created on 23 October 2019
- 41. Your 2019 Master Plan
- (Township Master Plan)
- ... because she said the new plan “opens up lots of land on Whitmore Lake Road for development”, one of her main priorities. For reference, I've included a link to the 2012/2013 version of the Master Plan. &nbs ...
- Created on 22 October 2019
- 42. PC Hosts a Last Call for comments on the latest Master Plan in 6/19/2019 Public Hearing
- (Community Surveys)
- ... Commissioner Susan Shink comprised the entire audience. A late correspondence from a Dominoes Farms development entity was entered into the record. Dominoes expressed a vaguely described interest ...
- Created on 19 June 2019
- 43. Full Speed Ahead on Spending & Debt at the 5/14/2019 Board Meeting
- (Sewers)
- ... Janet Chick and Jacki Otto, who claim, without any evidence, that the WWTP needs the tank to protect the environment and to attract development. (Maybe they’ll hold an Open House....or Open Tank...because ...
- Created on 27 May 2019
- 44. Marijuana in the News, in the Law, and in Michigan: Resources and Links
- (CannaBiz)
- ... from hemp plants, said Clarence Hulse, executive director of the Michigan City, Indiana’s Economic Development Corp. The facility is expected to generate 32 new jobs with salaries at an average $20 per ...
- Created on 06 May 2019
- 45. Billions being made in "Dirty Hippie" Industry.
- (CannaBiz)
- ... icenses under development. All told, the deal puts Harvest on pace to have more than 70 dispensaries, 13 cultivation facilities and 13 manufacturing facilities operating by the end of 2019, according t ...
- Created on 03 May 2019
- 46. Michigan's Republican Gerrymandering Ruled Unconstitutional by Federal Court
- (Elections)
- ... Court refuses to block Michigan Redistricting Panel, by Dave Eggert, AP, 4/16/2020 Development is driving rapid changes in Michigan House districts' voting patterns - Graphic ...
- Created on 26 April 2019
- 47. 3/26/19 BOT: Residents Question Need for $8M Sewer Expansion
- (Sewers)
- ... the $8M would revive downtown or attract development even though Supervisor Marlene Chockley and Trustees Jacki Otto and Janet Chick have been lobbying for expansion since 2016. It was revealed that ...
- Created on 31 March 2019
- 48. 3-26-2019 BOT Sewers-Up!
- (Sewers)
- ... of 160 studies demonstrating the NET cost to communities of adding residential development: Cost_of_Community_Services_Studies_AFT_FIC_201609 Supervisor Chockley's power point presentatio ...
- Created on 26 March 2019
- 49. Planning Commission to Board of Trustees: “Why Are You Selling the Historic Barker Road Fire Station?”
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... the property was Treasurer Lenore Zelenock. Downtown Development Authority (DDA) Chair Barb Griffith Watson said “the DSAP has been completely ignored by the Board.” DSAP member Jack Secrist said “we ...
- Created on 10 March 2019
- 50. BoT approves $2,000 for imperiled preservation deal.
- (Meeting Notes)
- ... Stanton, Jan. 11, 2019 Council members who voted against the project noted that Northfield Township had not made a contribution and that A2 was shouldering 54% of the $478,867 purchase of development ...
- Created on 15 February 2019
