SG-W:/ county comprehensive plan

[Vivienne Armentrout <varmentrout000@ameritech.net>]

The county planning commission (formally, the Washtenaw County
Metropolitan Planning Commission) has begun work on a new comprehensive
plan for Washtenaw County.  This will result not only in a land use plan
map but in analysis and discussion of many facets of county life,
including housing and environment.  

At present the main discussion has been about the importance of the plan
as a statement for what we want the county to look like and be like in
the future.  This is the "mental model" which we hope to construct on
the basis of all-county discussion.  The plan will also include much
technical material (inventories, etc.) but we agree that this picture of
the future will be the most important feature and the one which informs
the rest (strategies, etc.).

There will be a formal kick-off statement issued by the PC shortly;
however, last night we voted to devote the first hour of every monthly
meeting to the plan. WCMPC meetings are the second Thursday of each
month, 7:00 pm at 110 N 4th in Ann Arbor. (The June meeting is
off-schedule, on June 13, a Tuesday.) Public comment is at the beginning
of the meeting, before the comprehensive plan discussion.  This is a
chance for you to help shape the model.


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