More police officers and firefighters? A restoration of fall leaf pickup and holiday tree pickup services? Cuts to public art? The end of recycling rewards in Ann Arbor? Those are among the proposals on the table as the Ann Arbor City Council prepares to take final action on the 2012-13 ...
Ann Arbor residents will have a chance to weigh in on the city's proposed budget for next fiscal year during a public hearing tonight.
A dramatic transformation is in store for the riverfront MichCon site in Ann Arbor if DTE Energy moves ahead with a major cleanup project later this summer. It'd be the first step toward transforming the polluted industrial site into a usable green space along with new development, a vision city ...
Sabra Briere didn't mince words Monday night as she sounded off on the University of Michigan's renewed plans to build a parking garage near Wall Street. The 1st Ward Ann Arbor City Council member spoke toward the beginning of the council's regular meeting, voicing disapproval that U-M is once again ...
The Ann Arbor City Council voted 7-4 early Tuesday morning to approve a four-party agreement that lays the framework for creation of a new countywide transit authority. The decision came toward the end of a six-hour meeting, the majority of which was spent discussing the agreement with the Ann Arbor ...
The Ann Arbor City Council is prepared to take up the issue of medical marijuana tonight, and the city's licensing board is asking the city attorney's office to lay off dispensaries. AnnArbor.com obtained a copy of a letter the five-member medical marijuana advisory body sent to council members on Friday ...
Tensions between Ann Arbor's medical marijuana licensing board and the city attorney's office are behind a resolution on the City Council's agenda Monday night. The resolution seeks to halt enforcement activities against dispensaries in Ann Arbor until council members can decide on changes to the city's medical marijuana regulations. Sponsoring ...
The University of Michigan's decision to halt plans for a parking structure as part of Fuller Road Station leaves Ann Arbor officials contemplating the proposed transit center's future. Some, including Council Member Mike Anglin and the Huron Valley Group of the Sierra Club, argue the city should shift its attention ...
Ann Arbor Mayor John Hieftje says there's a chance he might not run for re-election again after this year, meaning the mayor's seat could be up for grabs in 2014. "My inclination would be not to run again if we can get through the recession and turn that corner," Hieftje ...
The Ann Arbor City Council weighed in on the national debate over immigration policy Monday night, passing a resolution opposing increased federal enforcement. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE, deported nearly 400,000 undocumented immigrants last year, the highest total on record.
The debate over expanding public transit services in Washtenaw County is expected to take center stage tonight inside Ann Arbor's city hall. The Ann Arbor City Council is being asked to give its initial blessing to the idea of creating a new countywide transit authority, and a mix of opinions ...
Ann Arbor City Council members may have been a bit overzealous in their attempts to be transparent about emails exchanged during council meetings. After tightening the rules around emailing during council meetings over the past two years, council members realized even third-party communications unrelated to city business were showing up ...
A majority of Ann Arbor City Council members joined forces Monday night to block a proposal to reduce the city's funding for public art. The vote was an exact reverse from two weeks ago when the council voted 8-3 to give initial approval to cutting the funding in half.
The Ann Arbor City Council took the first step toward scaling back the city's public art program Monday night, giving initial approval to a 50 precent reduction in funding levels. Following a two-hour debate and a public comment period during which several public art supporters spoke, the council voted 8-3 ...
The new language still gets rid of the vague term "approaching," but it doesn't go so far as to require pedestrians to be "within" the street to get motorists to stop for them.
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