I think of a "downtown" as a mix of retail & housing in a very walkable format. Our other retail districts — Stadium/Maple, Plymouth Rd, Washtenaw — use the bleak strip mall format where walking isn't enjoyable & can even be dangerous when people have to cross 5 lanes. His objections make no sense.
If they didn't send postcards the public engagement doesn't count. Pause the pausing of the dismantling! DM me if you'd like a lawn sign.
Those 0.03 centuries went by in the blink of an eye.
The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today.
Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere.
Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
It goes both ways. You talk about your love for 1,000 sq ft single family houses w/ yards. Wonderful! Others would love to live in a high rise or triplex. There is room for all of it, but today too much of Ann Arbor prohibits anything other than single-family houses, so many don't feel represented.
Just so I'm clear, you heard a commenter express some excitement and you understood that to mean someone could tear down your house without your permission? And this commenter spoke during Monday's City Council Meeting or a different meeting?
You seem to have heard along the way that something in the CLUP could force you out of your own home. Do you know where you heard that?
Adams noted the city has about 1,200 affordable housing units built or in the pipeline using money from the 20-year affordable housing millage city voters approved in 2020. “These two approaches — increasing market-rate supply as the plan recommends and the affordable housing subsidies that the city’s already doing — they’re complementary,” he said. When housing stock is constrained by zoning, increasing market competition and prices, public dollars invested into affordable housing don’t go as far, Adams said. “To quote Ned Resnikoff of the Roosevelt Institute, market-rate housing is not an alternative to social policy,” he said. “It’s a strategy for making social policy work the way we want.”
It's pretty gratifying to see a local planning official take up this point and run with it! www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
Announcing you intend to start frivolous lawsuits may not be the best legal strategy.
6 months ago, voters in Ann Arbor decided turn the page on the Library Lot. Erich Z. shares an elegy for the Library Green Conservancy. The non-profit opposed the Props A and B and was found to have violated state campaign finance laws.
www.damnarbor.com/2026/02/the-...
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Greg is right, SFH with back yards are not precluded by the CLUP. It makes more residential options possible but doesn't take any away. There is so much misinformation out there. Please remember who it is that's misleading you.
What mechanism is Woodbury using to prevent the city from fixing your street?
I think both Copernican and non-Copernican locals united on the issue of freeway expansion, as both sides understood the concept of induced demand.
Are you talking about the buildings as located in their actual proposal? Or are you talking about buildings that they've never proposed?
I'd be happy to redo the calculation with better measures, but it won't change things much. You have a next door house plus trees to your west that have much greater impact than a building 400' away.
I estimate: your solar panels are 15' above the ground, the distance from the west side of your house to the 7 story building is 400', and a 7 story building is 80' high. The elevation above horizontal from your solar panels the lip of the 7 story roof would be 9.2°. If any impact it'd be minimal.
Aren't the 7-story buildings in the interior of their owned property, so they would not, in fact, abut the back yards of any single family houses in the surrounding neighborhoods?
A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
Sounds incredibly familiar, #a2council
Back then developers were ethical and made sure they lost money on every home they sold.
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
2025 is on pace to be Ann Arbor's worst year for pedestrian crashes. We talk with @crashesinannarbor.bsky.social's Peter Houk who complied these data.
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www.damnarbor.com/2025/10/2025...
Great to see Michigan’s Dana Nessel on this list.
This is what privacy advocates have been warning about for a long time. Locally, despite attempts at a ban Ann Arbor has a facial recognition policy that’s basically “yup, we use facial recognition.” Ditto drones. Countywide, there has been public pushback against ALPRs it’s not settled. #a2council
The DSCC’s pick for MI senate is Haley “Endorsed non-Democrat Michael Bloomberg for President” Stevens. Vote McMorrow!
NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...
genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.
donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Someone should post this to the Ann Arbor Reddit. I’ve seen so many posts claiming that Dunbar Towers will be bad actually bc people who are homeless are all criminals and drug users who are unhoused because they are bad people. #a2council
As universities are pushing students to use generative AI for all kinds of things, even going so far as to call it an “ethical responsibility,” I hope this will be a resource for people who supervise student workers and need to gently push back.
