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by P.D. Lesko After an expensive and bitter battle between the Library Green Conservancy, the AADL Board members and City Council members, on August 5, 2025 Proposals A (to revoke the 2018 Charter amendment which called for the creation…

Alan Haber serves on the Ann Arbor Community Commons Initiating Committee, AnnArborCommunityCommons.org by Alan Haber While they brought it forward with smiles and promises of a new jewel in the Center of the City, this new Library…

by Bruce Laidlaw On June 20, 2023, the Ann Arbor City Council approved the zoning and site plan for a 12 story, 166-foot-tall structure containing 228 residential units and 733 bedrooms. The proposed structure would be at 721 South…

by Cathrine Gross, Ph.D. From single-family development, to high rise apartment buildings, new resource projects seem to be pitting communities against developers, and people against their neighbors. We often see, in such cases,…

FORMER WARD 4 City Council member Marcia Higgins, along with Mayoral candidates Christopher Taylor and Sabra Briere all voted to allow the city’s parkland to be “repurposed” for “transit.” It was Higgins who inserted language into a zoning…