Jul 15, 2000
Research Report : The Cost of Sprawl The following information is submitted on behalf of Michigan Land Use Institute and other concerned citizens. The issue to be addressed in...more
Jul 05, 2000
Do We Really Want A Conventional Sprawlscape? In case you missed it, Benzie County this year is the focus of a $100 million, 610-unit mega development proposed for 522 acres of farm and...more
Jun 28, 2000
Auctioning The Future to Private Interests It was Aldo Leopold, the writer and forester, who counseled more than half a century ago that the basis of successful conservation was to...more
Jun 01, 2000
Smart Roads: Petoskey: The Smart Choice After more than a year of work by dozens of Petoskey area residents, and our consultant New Alternatives, the Michigan Land Use Institute...more
Jun 01, 2000
Smart Roads: Petoskey: The Smart Choice Studies show that more than 80 percent of Petoskey area motorists begin or end their journeys in Petoskey, rather than just passing...more
Jun 01, 2000
Protecting the Land Petoskey area residents want to protect farms, recreational land, and the region’s rural character. In conversations and community...more
May 11, 2000
Plan to Keep Farmers on Land Symied by Subsidy Just when it seemed hopeless that anything would be done to tame sprawl and protect farmland in Michigan, Gov. John Engler himself popped...more
Apr 01, 2000
Michigan's Road to Rail Widespread agreement on what a community's public transit vision is and why it's needed is the key to developing a workable, fundable rail...more
Mar 01, 2000
Breaking the Sprawl Addiction By all appearances, suburban sprawl is a natural, free-wheeling outgrowth of healthy economic activity. Conservationists even contribute to...more
Mar 01, 2000
Breaking the Sprawl Addiction By all appearances, suburban sprawl is a natural, free-wheeling outgrowth of healthy economic activity. Conservationists even contribute to...more
Mar 01, 2000
Breaking the Sprawl Addiction By all appearances, suburban sprawl is a natural, free-wheeling outgrowth of healthy economic activity. Conservationists even contribute to...more
Mar 01, 2000
Breaking the Sprawl Addiction By all appearances, suburban sprawl is a natural, free-wheeling outgrowth of healthy economic activity. Conservationists even contribute to...more
Mar 01, 2000
Breaking the Sprawl Addiction By all appearances, suburban sprawl is a natural, free-wheeling outgrowth of healthy economic activity. Conservationists even contribute to...more
Mar 01, 2000
Your Tax Dollars at Work The following taxpayer-financed subsidies over the last 30 years paved the way for suburban sprawl in Garfield:...more
Mar 01, 2000
Working Together Makes Sense When people think "regional planning" in Michigan, they think next about the state's 2,884 units of local government, boards, and...more
Mar 01, 2000
Holding Out for the Family Farm Dean Edgecomb and his family operate one of the last independent small dairy farms in northern Michigan, keeping 50 cows and growing corn...more
Mar 01, 2000
Why Franchises Rule the Road Fast food restaurants. Big Box stores. The decline of locally owned businesses. All are synonymous with sprawl. The rise of the franchise...more
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