Greenway Greenway Blah Blah Blah
“Some of you may have heard of the Ann Arbor Downtown Development association’s plan to build a series of parking structures and commercial buildings on three city owned properties in downtown Ann Arbor,” an e-mail sent to various environmental lists begins. “Unfortuately, these three properties will be cost inefficient to build and lie directly in the path of the proposed Ann Arbor Greenway, a sustainable vision for the future of our city.”
This is a terrific line of reasoning that we intend to employ more often. Isn’t the whole point of putting the greenway there to stop those properties from being developed? “Unfortunately, [AAIO’s roommate]*, that sheepskin rug will lie directly in the path of the proposed 308 Walcott Tileway, a sustainable vision for the future of our shared sanity.”
See you all at City Hall tonight.
UPDATE: The meeting actually starts at 7, not 7:30 like the Greenway website reports.
* Not our current roommates, who are all wonderful people, but our former roommate in Boston, who is also a wonderful person.
As opposed to what the Greenway website says, I am pretty sure the meeting tonight actually begins at 7, not 7:30. Get there early and beat those folks out for the good seats if you plan on attending.
posted by Brandon on March 21st, 2005 at 11:55 amWow, is this like that “Republicans Encourage Minorities to Vote on November 3rd” Onion article?
posted by ann arbor is overrated on March 21st, 2005 at 11:57 amYes, it’s awfully strange that they’re advertising the wrong time on their own website and to people whose support they’re trying for. Also, the “7:30-9:30″ bit is hopelessly optimistic. There’s not a set end time for the Council meetings, and there’s a public hearing on the school annexation, and then a Council vote on that, before the greenway land set-aside resolution. Expect every last member of the school board, some consultants, the Superintendant of schools, and bunches of parents to speak for 3 minutes each in favor of that, and bunches of parents (and, cynically, neighbors) to speak for three minutes each against it. I expect that hearing alone will eat up an hour at the bare minimum. There’s also a public hearing on whether or not to create a Lower Town Historic District and a public hearing on changes to the municipal cable television ordinance, both of which will probably take less time than the school annexation, but definitely non-zero. I give better-than-even odds they won’t even get to the Easthope/Johnson greenway parks resolution before 9:30.
posted by Murph on March 21st, 2005 at 12:40 pmanyone want to go to ABC afterwards?
posted by OFWinsurgent on March 21st, 2005 at 6:39 pm