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We were able to catch

We were able to catch about 5 minutes of CTN this morning, and the Planning Commission was discussing some new development of condos and townhouses around Kingsley, which the A2 residents who spoke at the meeting generally opposed (except for an urban planning undergrad). One of the reasons given was that even though the units were to be sold, there’s no guarantee they won’t eventually be rented - and there goes the neighborhood right there. Does anyone know anything else about this?

And more armed robbery downtown.

Anyone who’s interested in the proposed meetup should e-mail us (aaio @ annarborisoverrated.com) with times you’d be available (we’re thinking Friday possibly) and venue suggestions.

6 Responses to “We were able to catch”


  1. I actually thought about going to that to speak against the expected NIMBYs, but studying for the GRE has put a damper in such plans. There was an article in the AA News and linked to on Goodspeed a week or two ago– it will be at the corner of Kingsley and Ashley, and contain (for downtown) moderately-priced units, as well as some office space.

    P.S. UM has no undergrad urban planning program as far as I know. There is an undergraduate urban planning club now though, I believe.

    posted by Brandon on November 19th, 2003 at 3:45 pm

  2. I'm considering recording AAPD scanner traffic this weekend. The YPSI traffic hasn't been very exciting, the real action seems to be in A2.

    posted by Steven B. Cherry on November 19th, 2003 at 4:00 pm

  3. Brandon, the planning department does have about three or four undergrad courses, and usually offers one of them every semester. Winter '04 semester they're offering UP423, “intro to urban and regional planning”, or something like that, which I've applied to be a GSI for (ohpleaseohpleaseohplease). But no, they don't have an undergrad degree program. I think the undergrad classes are a recruitment sort of thing–very few undergrad degree programs in planning exist, but they all offer a few undergrad courses to draw people in.

    posted by Murph on November 19th, 2003 at 4:04 pm

  4. Murph,
    You are right, it was probably just someone in an undergrad planning course. Funny you mention that– I took Intro to Urban and Environmental planning last spring with Prof. Norton and really enjoyed it. I didn't even realize we had undergrad planning courses until my history of American suburbia professor suggested I look into it (I always just looked at the LS&A course guide, not Taubman's). And now I am applying to planning grad programs, so I guess their recruitment scheme is working.

    posted by Brandon on November 19th, 2003 at 8:15 pm

  5. I was going to email you times that I'm availible, but I figured it'd be better to just see what time the consensus comes to and see if I can make it. Saturdays are generally best, but my schedule's so complicated that I can't tell you hardly anything…
    js

    posted by js on November 20th, 2003 at 12:45 pm

  6. Yeah, same situation as JS. I've got a fairly tough schedule (1st-year-PhD sort of workload) but if I get enough advance warning I can usually make room in my schedule. But constant deadlines don't make me a good person to make plans around.

    posted by Nick on November 20th, 2003 at 7:24 pm