Public meetings start tomorrow!!! Make sure you attend one of these!
The City of Detroit is embarking on a comprehensive planning process to devise a land use plan that will help shape the future of the city.
“We have an opportunity to reinvent Detroit like never before. Every Detroiter has a voice and a role in this process.”
Mayor Dave Bing, March 2010
Declining population, large amounts of vacant land and fiscal challenges that impact the City’s ability to effectively and efficiently deliver essential city services provide a context for re-thinking the City and planning for a city that is functional, desirable and sustainable for those who live, work and visit.
Have your say! Attend one of these Community Dialogue Forums for the Detroit Strategic Framework Plan:
- Tuesday, September 14
- Greater Grace Temple, 23500 W. Seven Mile Road (NW)
- Thursday, September 16
- American Serbian Memorial Hall, 19940 Van Dyke Street (NE)
- Saturday, September 18 (10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)
- Whittier Manor, 415 Burns Drive (SE)
- Tuesday, September 21
- El Kiosko Banquet Hall, 7271 Dix Street (SW)
- Wednesday, September 22
- Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Avenue (Central)
Weekday meetings will run from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free childcare provided on-site.
For more information, email [email protected].
Here are a few questions/topics to bring up:
- Make rapid transit a centerpiece of the revitalization, building vibrant, dense, mixed-use urban villages around rapid transit stops.
- Make Detroit more pedestrian accessible, with Complete Streets (designed for all users, not just cars), bike lanes, greenways, etc.
- To save money, return some minimally-used roads to gravel (which fits with urban farms and is far cheaper to maintain).
- Detroit must maintain strong bus service. It is far too important and has been cut too much already.
- Think regionally. Detroit is not an island.