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  1. Apr 2015
  2. a2gov.legistar.com a2gov.legistar.com
    City of Ann Arbor - Meeting of City Council on 4/6/2015 at 7:00 PM
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    1. ChronicallyDave 06 Apr 2015
      Luke Norman - Accessory Dwelling Units Not available Not available 2. Rowena Paz-Norman - Accessory Dwelling Units Not available Not available 3. Tracy Williams - Accessory Dwelling Units Not available Not available 4. Gordon Smith - Accessory Dwelling Units Not available Not available 5. Doug Kelbaugh - Accessory Dwelling Units Not available Not available 6. Sanders Hamson - Accessory Dwelling Units Not available Not available 7. Mike Black - Accessory Dwelling Units

      I think most of these folks will speak in favor of ADUs, but there are a couple names I don't recognize.

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  3. www.civcity.org www.civcity.org
    Update: April 3, 2015
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    SystemsPlanning_080114_NonMotorized_Inventory_2013.pdf
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    1. ChronicallyDave 05 Apr 2015
      201 3 marks the nin th year in which Ann Arbor city staff gathered data on bike lanes and the seventh year of maintaining an up to date record of the condition of these lanes, providing a basis for maintenance recommendations .

      Wonder if this was done in 2014 and whether it is planned to be done in 2015 (this year).

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  5. www.freep.com www.freep.com
    Direct bus rides to Metro Airport could be in the works
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    1. ChronicallyDave 05 Apr 2015
      Al McWilliams, 35, of Ann Arbor uses the AirRide service once or twice a month for his advertising business. He often travels to Los Angeles. McWilliams considers the service a more "holistic approach to travel." His office is only about a block from the AirRide pickup at the Blake Transit Center on Fourth Avenue in Ann Arbor. "I use it because it's the best way for me to get to the airport, period," McWilliams said. But as McWilliams considered how a similar service might work in the Detroit area, he pondered the need for locations that would work for picking up passengers and dropping them off. Would someone in Birmingham, for example, travel to Royal Oak to catch a bus, he wondered.

      The reporter owed readers the additional clarification that Al McWilliams' advertising company, Quack!Media is contracted with AAATA (AirRide) to do marketing and advertising work.

      It's not surprising that the guy in charge of marketing and advertising for a service has nice things to say about that service.

      An additional conflict exists for McWilliams as a source that could be cited in a news article: He serves on the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority Board, which provides parking at a discount to patrons of AirRide.

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    A2 Open City Hall
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  7. Mar 2015
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    News and Announcements
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    1. ChronicallyDave 29 Mar 2015
      News and Announcements

      The City of Ann Arbor's approach to providing these kinds of updates has vasty improved over the last two years. For example, the links don't click through to .pdf files but rather to standalone pages.

      I'd suggest that the City take this "News and Announcements" page as a great starting point and (1) add content to which the City has easy access. E.g. outcome-based reporting on City Council votes; new candidate filings; crime graphs on a quarterly basis; etc. (2) tag the articles so readers can filter in and out the kind of thing they want to see. E.g., roadclosing, publicinputmeeting, or what-have-you.; (3) provide a page design that has look and feel of a "news outlet" with appropriate logo and brand it as "Official City News" every so there's no mistaking it for third-party reporting about the city.

      This could potentially become the most reliable and well-read "news source" in the city.

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    Dave Askins on Twitter: "wearing new belt this a.m.; my modest goal for day: do not let pants fall down; or wind up anyplace where belt is taken away from me;"
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    City of Ann Arbor - File #: 15-0198
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  11. annarborobserver.com annarborobserver.com
    Mary Morgan and Dave Askins - Ann Arbor Observer
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    1. ChronicallyDave 25 Mar 2015
      (Friendly as I found them both, I occasionally wished Askins would shut up and Morgan would say more.)

      Authenticating description to prove an actual interview with the subjects was conducted.

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