City Council approves all mayor's re-appointments
Jun. 16, 2010 · 3:42 a.m.
After much procedure, Ypsilanti City Council approved six mayoral re-appointments to city boards and committees Tuesday, including the two postponed from earlier...read more
Council postpones two reappointments
Jun. 4, 2010 · 4:57 p.m.
Two of Ypsilanti's volunteer board members were not reappointed on schedule Tuesday night, owing to a 4-2 vote by City Council to delay the appointments until...read more
Downtown properties to be rehabilitated
Jun. 4, 2010 · 10:40 a.m.
Three recently-vacated properties in downtown Ypsilanti, two of them condemned, will soon be renovated owing to recent purchase by a local development company and...read more
Ypsilanti Township authorizes litigation against Liberty Square
May. 28, 2010 · 6:53 p.m.
Residents living in the Liberty Square complex of townhouses will see a sticker appear on their homes Tuesday, when the Ypsilanti Township Building Department places...read more
Ford plant granted tax exemption by township
May. 24, 2010 · 5:44 p.m.
New machines and equipment will soon be wheeled into Ford's Rawsonville Plant in Ypsilanti Township as it begins manufacturing a line of batteries for the new global...read more
Projects planned around EMU campus
Jan. 5, 2010 · 1:39 p.m.
The Ypsilanti Downtown Development Authority’s Design Committee discussed street enhancement projects around Eastern Michigan University’s campus last Tuesday.
There are sections of stamped concrete along the sidewalks on College Place and both east and west Cross streets that will replaced. There was talk about there being different themes on parts of the three streets that are on or around EMU’s campus.
Committee members Darryl Daniels and Sandee French want there to be a consistent color pattern and theme on the concrete throughout the city.
“I would like to see a tie in from east cross to west cross” French said in support of consistency.
This runs in opposition to committee member Linda French being open to designs that would differentiate EMU from the city.
“It could be alike but [not] alike, eastern might want to put their own flavor on it” she said.
For now, the committee will have to wait until they see samples of the proposed designs and determine their plan of action in their next official meeting.
The committee members also discussed the process they use to prioritize committee projects. The committee was working from a list of categories that will determine the plausibility of a project.
Each category has its own list of bullet points to help determine whether or not a project proposed to the committee is worthy of allocating resources toward. The committee eliminated some of the bullet points to simplify the prioritization process.
Because of the uncertain economic times, the committee wants to makes sure the projects it takes on are likely to help the district.
“We have to think of other ways to raise revenue for our district,” Daniels said.
In its next meeting the committee will modify the prioritization process by discussing ways to develop a point system to rate potential committee projects. It will also address how to raise money to conduct a traffic study for both districts of the DDA Board.
For Ypsilanti DDA committee meeting dates please check the Ypsilanti Citizen’s community calendar.
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