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Meeting Documents:

• 11-15-2017 Northfield Township Planning Commission Meeting Agenda
• 11-15-2017 Northfield Township Planning Commission Meeting Packet
• 11-15-2017 Public Hearing Notice: Ann Arbor Dog Club Building Plans
  • AADTC Application, 2017-03-13
  • AADTC Application, 2017-03-22
  • AADTC FireDepartment Review Dry Hydrant objection, 2017-10-30
  • AADTC OHM Site Review No 1, dated 2017-04-14
  • AADTC OHM Site Review No 2, dated 2017-06-23
  • AADTC Site Plans bundled prints, dated 2017-10-12
  • AADTC Water Resources Commission review, dated 2017-11-01

   

• North Village Park Master Plan, 3-23-2017
• Poster Board: 10-12-2017, North Village / Downtown Synthesis Plan 
• Poster Board, 10-12-2017, North Village Park Synthesis Plan
• Downtown and Village Park plan FAQ, McKenna, 2017-10-09
• North Village Site and Park RFP, McKenna, 2017-10-12
• Downtown Strategic Action Plan and Design Framework, McKenna, 2017-09-25    [5.2MB]

Background on local issues

Sign Ordinances and protected speech:

• Supreme Court Reaffirms Prohibition on Content-Based Speech Restrictions in Sign Regulations, by Lisa Hamameh, Foster Swift, November 24, 2015

- Reed v Town of Gilbert discussed

• Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign, by Lisa Hamameh, Foster Swift, January 30, 2014

- a discussion of Commercial Speech vs Expressive Speech

Medical Marijuana:

• Nuts and Bolts of the New Medical Marijuana Facilities Licensing Act, by Leslie Dickinson, Foster Swift, April 14, 2017
• Michigan roadside drug testing device and procedures explained, by Brad Devereaux, MLive, 11-7-2017

Dark Box Stores and local property taxes:

• Bringing Light to Michigan’s “Dark Stores,” by Jack L. Van Coevering, Foster Swift, May 31, 2016

    - on the ethics of taxing freshly built Big Box stores as if they were bankrupted empty buildings

• Court of Appeals Issues Critical Decision on "Big Box" Store Property Tax Appeals, by Jack L. Van Coevering, Foster Swift, May 27, 2016
  

- the May 26, 2016 Court of Appeals decision in the Menards Inc v City of Escanaba discussed

• The Impacts of Menards Inc. v City of Escanaba by Jack L. Van Coevering, Foster Swift, June 30, 2017

- State of Michigan discovers yet another way to be unfriendly to Big Box Retail