Ann Arbor City Council Meeting Summaries

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For each City Council meeting, I have provided 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 have listed 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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December 7, 2020

This was the seventeenth regular Council meeting since Governor Whitmer declared a state of emergency and stay-at-home order due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This meeting was held online, via the ZOOM application.

• APPROVED: Amendments to the City’s sign ordinance clearly define standards for lighting, area size (relative to street frontage), larger non-conforming signs, non-commercial flags, window signs and temporary signs.(Legistar)

• APPROVED: Site plan for Brightdawn Village, a development with four four-story buildings on 8 acres at 2805 Burton Road. It will include 120 units of housing at market rate with 284 parking spaces (located in garages beneath and in surface lots). The development will be accessed from Packard (via Burton Road). (Legistar)

  • The site plan was amended at this Council Meeting to restrict access from Eli Road. A lockable gate will restrict vehicular access via Eli Road to emergency vehicles only, but will allow access for pedestrians and bicylists. The gate will allow for the possibility of more open vehiclular access at a later date (if effective traffic calming measures are in place).

  • https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2020/12/developer-proposes-some-of-the-least-expensive-new-condos-in-recent-ann-arbor-history.html

  • https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2020/12/ann-arbor-requiring-locked-gate-as-temporary-traffic-solution-for-new-condos.html

• WITHDRAWN: A resolution would have delayed the City’s communication to the Governor and delayed the City’s request for EPA/Federal intervention to clean up the Gelman Plume. The City’s request would have been delayed for several months, pending the results of a court decision. The resolution was added to the agenda on Friday (12/4) and removed on Monday (12/7) before the meeting started. (This item has been removed from Legistar)

  • City Council passed a resolution on 11/5/2020 to send a letter to the Governor supporting EPA involvement (Legistar)

  • The City sent the letter to the Governor on 12/11/2020

  • Additional Thoughts (Dec 5, 2020) - Request for EPA Intervention in Gelman Plume Cleanup

  • https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2020/12/debate-flares-over-proposal-to-delay-seeking-superfund-cleanup-of-gelman-plume.html

  • https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2020/12/ann-arbor-washtenaw-county-officials-ask-whitmer-to-support-superfund-cleanup.html