@a2gaurav.bsky.social
Here’s the resolution text. City council will vote on its adoption on Monday.
17.07.2025 19:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A woman wearing a blue dress holding an average sized pickling cucumber in a community garden while smiling
First cucumber of the season with @alphahelicalhair.bsky.social! #projectgrow #gardening
06.07.2025 15:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of a three people in a row at Ann Arbor city hall. The two people on the ends just got married. The woman on the left is in a white silk dress, the man on the right is in a beige linen suit. The man in the center is the Ann Arbor mayor, Chris Taylor, holding the couples completed marriage certificate.
@alphahelicalhair.bsky.social and I got married! Thank you Mayor Taylor for officiating.
29.06.2025 00:28 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
A google maps screenshot showing walking directions from the Ann Arbor Westgate Library to nearby HOMES brewery. Google Maps shows a 0.3 mi / 6 min walk
A google maps screenshot showing walking directions from the Ann Arbor Downtown Library to nearby Ashleys. Google Maps shows a 0.3 mi / 7 min walk
If you were going from the Westgate library to the HOMES brewery, would you walk or drive? Even as an advocate for walking, I've driven the 0.3 mi.
If we want this to be a hub district, we need comfortable walks. For perspective, it's also 0.3 mi from the Downtown library to Ashleys. #a2council
I wish more folks in Ann Arbor could imagine that how great dense walkable neighborhoods can be for families. Being able to walk to places is life-changing, especially as a young person who can't drive. Denser housing isn't just for students! #a2council
06.06.2025 20:09 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from an email sent to city council that reads: The central mistake of this plan is for city council to think they can change the most basic values of Ann Arbor voters. … who relate to Ann Arbor's beauty and “character” and the fact that it really is “Tree City”. Now we are being told (pg. 21), to sacrifice these core values in order to uphold other values like equity and affordability and sustainability and dynamism. But, planners are now ready to wreck our city in service of their sellout to developers. The report states, that we must focus on these lovely new goals “rather than” worrying about old-fashioned things like “protecting the existing character and natural environment” (trees) “of Ann Arbor”. Sorry, any “value” they can think of is secondary to the trees and character of Ann Arbor. The defacement of Ann Arbor could go on until they “kill the goose“ that laid our golden egg.
Also a deep disagreement on fundamental values. Props to the author for not even pretending to care about values like equity and sustainability. This is so heinous. #a2council
03.06.2025 18:54 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
A bingo card with squares like “Complains about new bike lane”, “Doesn’t know current cost of housing” and a free space in the center that says “‘I’m not racist’”
NIMBY public comment bingo. Sound familiar? #a2council
Source: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/nim...
Wild that a public commenter at the planning commission meeting said people who can’t afford it can just live outside Ann Arbor. He really said the quiet part out loud #a2council
14.05.2025 01:10 — 👍 117 🔁 21 💬 12 📌 3I would love one of those crossing Madison right outside Washtenaw Dairy. Cars don’t even have stop signs and a lot of people cross there (especially kids)
13.05.2025 18:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0Hey look, here's information from a year ago about how to make your voice heard during the comprehensive plan process! I went to one of those open houses. Seems like there were clearly documented and publicized ways to voice opinions earlier in the process: a2elnel.com/post/ann-arb... #a2council
09.05.2025 02:28 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
