ADJOURNMENT
Action: Adjourn (Eyer)
Result: Pass
Voice vote
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ADJOURNMENT
Action: Adjourn (Eyer)
Result: Pass
Voice vote
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Resolution Regarding the Draft Comprehensive Land Use Plan Contract Amendment
Action: Postpone (Disch)
Result: Pass
Voice vote
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Kitty Kahn gets the last word. Calls CM Briggs a liar. Reads some charter language. Tells the Mayor to make eye contact or something. #a2council (can I get a FUCK YOU MARK LEE in the chat?)
Thankfully Ann Arbor's most famous holocaust denier is not here to speak today. #a2council
DC-3: Resolution Regarding the Draft Comprehensive Land Use Plan
https://a2gov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7489500&GUID=97DDAC87-8998-4EA9-AB26-DB18110D4229&G=505481FE-B2ED-4B34-9A92-FDB26536D1E1&Options=&Search=
Action: Approve as Amended (Eyer)
Result: Pass
Absent: Briggs, Harrison, Mallek
Nay: Cornell, Edwin
Yea: Akmon, Disch, Eyer, Radina, Taylor, Watson
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Weider claims there are no receipts to prove that they promised to fund the park with private dollars. There are! Someone please paste them here! #a2council
Thomas Wieder, library lot lawyer guy, is mad that his unfunded mandate parking lot park hasn't gotten developed and we're going to vote to do something else. #a2council Vote Yes on A and B!
Former CM Kathy Griswold is worried about our divided community, I think because people disagree on the comp plan stuff? idk exactly. She also doesn't like the Miller two-way cycle track I think? #a2council
Shannon Lau is disappointed about DC-3. Happy about a few points that expedite triplexes. Frustrated about unit-based limits. Quadplexes that have the same envelope as a monoplex are not ok? Can't convert a monoplex to a quad? Why? #a2council
Tom Stulberg (is The Mayor of LowerTown wearing his tophat?) liked when people didn't attack other people. Does housing provider stuff re: duplexes and triplexes. Claims the plan will not do anything about affordability and that we've been "duped". Denies supply and demand. #a2council
Eric Shalayko also disappointed in DC-3. Despite the fact that it might make things happen, it caters to the wealthy and privileged. Eric calls out pause the plan people and other nimbys for their classist attitudes. #a2council
Nishant Kheterpal disappointed in DC-3. Lives next to an 8-plex, multiple small apartments from the 60s nearby. Used to be legal, not anymore. We should bring em back citywide without limitation on units or by neighborhood. #a2council
Alec Doss doesn't agree with DC-3 but thanks #a2council for thoughtful deliberation. Wished we hadn't limited unit sizes, hopes council continues to increase housing production. Limiting units just makes solving the problem take longer.
Deb Stern thanks #a2council, appreciates their service. Says yes to more residents and housing options, and wants them everywhere, equitably, in all neighborhoods. This is about near-campus neighborhoods, and wants development pressure to be counterbalanced by policy.
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We hit the time limit! Everyone else at the end of the meeting! We'll see who stays! Those who stay will be champions, etc. #a2council
Anyhow they need 8 votes to pass a budget amendment so they had to split the budget thing out and bring it back up when the absent CMs are back cuz they didn't have the votes. DC-3 proper passed. #a2council
If you can find me a Concerned Person that didn't read the ptp website or talk to someone who got a bunch of misinformation from the ptp website I would be very surprised. #a2council
Mayor Taylor thinks these Concerns were organic, but man I am pretty sure it was astroturfed ptp shit leaking out into the world and poisoning people's brains. #a2council
City council discussing land speculation. (We built this city on land speculation, right from the very start.)
CM Disch wants to know what other college towns do about near-campus housing costs (i'll find the clip for the actual question) #a2council