It really was a night where we should
have been in two places at once. My husband went to the city stormwater
meeting at the Downtown Library, and I went to the meeting at Eberwhite
with the architects, and after conversing with my husband I wonder if
we all would have accomplished more to change the course of this
development had we instead gone to the library.
My husband reports he seemed to be the only resident there who represented our neighborhood. He did speak personally to two representatives from the office, and he did speak publicly about the conditions that already exist in our neighborhood with storm and rain water, and the negative impact that further development on Glendale will have. He reported that Mike Anglin, our city council representative, spoke publicly about the need to handle this city problem with storm and rain water by preserving the present open spaces. I think that Vince's comments about city purchase of the orchard property with greenbelt dollars is a real possibility, and our persistence with this issue of rain/stormwater issues is a way to turn this project.
My husband reports he seemed to be the only resident there who represented our neighborhood. He did speak personally to two representatives from the office, and he did speak publicly about the conditions that already exist in our neighborhood with storm and rain water, and the negative impact that further development on Glendale will have. He reported that Mike Anglin, our city council representative, spoke publicly about the need to handle this city problem with storm and rain water by preserving the present open spaces. I think that Vince's comments about city purchase of the orchard property with greenbelt dollars is a real possibility, and our persistence with this issue of rain/stormwater issues is a way to turn this project.
Our
voices can still be heard even if we could not attend both meetings
tonight. I encourage all to personally email Jennifer Lawson, City of
Ann Arbor Water Quality Manager at jlawson@a2gov.org
with examples of water problems now present and how any new development
will make them worse. Lynn, your pictures specifically and other
similar examples can
be emailed to stormmodel@a2gov.org and the short stormwater survey can be found at https//:www.surveymonkey.com/s/A2storm.
As was
indicated by Mr. Eaton and Mr. Caruso in their previous comments, the
stormwater and watershed issues should be prominent in the planning
commission discussions, and if we can show the problems we already have
with these issues in our neighborhood, we may well be able to achieve
the preservation of the orchard open space to mitigate those problems,
not compounding them with further development on this property.
Marti Keefe
Abbott Street
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