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Ann Arbor City Council Meeting Summaries

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For each City Council meeting, I provide links to the City's Legistar website, CTN's YouTube video, and links to my newsletters and voting charts that I publish on A2ELNEL.com. I list agenda items of interest from each meeting, along with Legistar links, articles I've written (highlighted purple), and articles published on MLive. Look for highlighted text to find votes on development, affordable housing, and the City's Sustainability and Innovations department.

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October 21, 2019

• APPROVED: $593,201 of Ann Arbor Affordable Housing Funds to Avalon Housing to support housing at Hickory Way Phase 2 & 108/110 Glendale and to support three Ann Arbor Housing Commission projects: Miller Manor, Maple Meadows, and Baker Commons (Legistar)

• APPROVED: $55,296 for staffing requested by the office of Sustainability and Innovations and Community Services to launch a Green Rental and Building Efficiency Program (Legistar)​

  • $27,648 from Sustainability & Innovations budget for 50% share of an FTE to support growing demand for energy and sustainability-related services within rental, building development, and homeowner communities.

  • ​https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2019/10/ann-arbor-wants-to-make-rental-housing-new-buildings-greener.html

• APPROVED: Brownfield fund reimbursement for cleanup of Leslie Science Center (Legistar)

• APPROVED: Old West Side Residential Parking District - Third Street (Legistar)

• APPROVED: Amendment to Burns Park Residential Parking District - Woodlawn Avenue (Legistar)

• APPROVED: Shell Gas Station PUD Site Plan and Landscape Modification, 2679 Ann Arbor-Saline Road (Legistar)

• DEFEATED: Issuance of $23,000,000 General Obligation Capital Improvement Bonds for the DDA to expand the Ann Ashley Parking Structure (Legistar)

  • Note: this was initially proposed at $27,000,000 and was defeated at the Sept 3, 2020 Council meeting (Legistar)​

  • https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2019/10/council-blocks-23m-expansion-of-downtown-ann-arbor-parking-deck.html

• Additional Thoughts (Oct 19, 2019) - New York Times article about Michigan Daily