Michigans Land, Michigans Future

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Michigans Land, Michigans Future
Final Report of the Michigan Land Use Leadership
Council Presentation by Julie Metty
Bennett Public Sector Consultants jbennett_at_psc
inc.com
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Creation of the Council

• Created in 2003 by Governor Granholm through
  executive order, supported by Senate and House
  majority and minority leaders
• 26 voting members appointed, representing broad,
  diverse interests
• 6 state department directors as nonvoting
  participants

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Charge to the Council

• Identify trends, causes, and consequences of
  unmanaged growth and development
• Provide recommendations to the governor and
  legislature designed to
• Minimize negative impacts of current land use
  trends
• Promote revitalization and reinvestment in cities
• Foster intergovernmental and private sector
  cooperation
• Identify growth and development opportunities
• Protect natural resources including farmland and
  open space
• Better manage public infrastructure investments

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Michigans Largest Cities19902000 MSA vs. City
Population
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Detroit vs. County Growth19902000 Population
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Ann Arbor vs. County Growth19902000 Population
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MSA Land Development to Population Growth Ratios
19601990

• Ann Arbor
• Lansing
• Grand Rapids
• Kalamazoo
• Flint

2 to 1 2 to 1 3 to 1 2.5 to 1 7 to 1
Muskegon Jackson Saginaw Detroit Bay City
12 to 1 10 to 1 14 to 1 13 to 1 27 to 1
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Michigan Land Use, 1980
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Michigan Land Use Projections, 2020
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Michigan Land Use Projections, 2040
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Results Future Trends

• Land Use Change in Michigan, 19802040
  (Millions of Acres)

Change
2040
1980
Class
-17
- 1.9
9.1
11.0
Agriculture
178
4.1
6.4
2.3
Built
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- 1.3
16.9
18.23
Forestland
-24
- 0.7
2.2
2.93
Other Vegetation/ Open Space
-10
- 0.2
1.37
1.83
Wetland
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Michigan Cities Rebuilding?

• In its 2002 research, the MEDC found that only
  eight counties increased their population of 25-
  to 34-year-olds.
• In four of these, the increase can be attributed
  to correctional facilities
• The remaining fourMonroe, Benzie, Cheboygan, and
  Livingstonexperienced a true increase in that
  age cohort

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Four Areas of Focus

• Infrastructure and community services
• Land resourcebased industries
• Planning and development
• Revitalization of urban areas

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10 Principles That Guided the Council

• 1. Create a range of housing opportunities and
  choices
• 2. Create walkable neighborhoods
• 3. Encourage community and stakeholder
  collaboration
• 4. Foster distinctive, attractive communities
  with a strong sense of place
• 5. Make development decisions predictable, fair,
  and cost-effective
• Adapted from the Smart Growth Networks
  Principles of Smart Growth

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10 Principles That Guided the Council (continued)

• 6. Mix land uses
• 7. Preserve open space, farmland, natural
  beauty, and
• critical environmental areas
• 8. Provide a variety of transportation choices
• 9. Strengthen and direct development toward
• existing communities
• 10. Take advantage of compact development design

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Recent Governmental ActionsUrban Revitalization

• Attracting Private Investment
• Authority over tax-reverted properties
  transferred from MDNR to Department of Treasury
• Cool Cities initiative launched (20 pilot
  projects)
• CAT teams at MEDC created
• CMI funds redirected to brownfield redevelopment 
  
• Land Bank Fast Track Authority created
• New tools created for cities to fight blight
• MiTAPS one-stop shop for permits created

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Recent Governmental Actions Urban Revitalization

• Supporting Livable Communities
• Tricentennial State Park
• State facilities in urban areas
• DDA-funded downtown hotspots 
• Michigan Housing and Community Development
  Program
• TIFAs for historic districts
• Expanded Michigan IDA funding

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Recent Action from the Field Urban
Revitalization

• This forum and its sponsors
• Affordable housing (Flint/Detroit/Grand Rapids)
• Historic preservation and the arts
  (Flint/Detroit/Grand Rapids)
• Redevelopment Readiness (CMS/MSA)
• Urban GreenWays
• Detroit riverfront revitalization

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Recent Actions on Recommendations

• Encourage Intergovernmental Cooperation
• Creation of DLEG
• Governors Regionalism Project
• Joint planning authority legislation (all uses
  need not be provided for in each jurisdiction)
• Principal shopping districts
• Multijurisdictional DDA board
• Multijurisdictional watershed alliances

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Recent Actions from the Field

• Encourage Intergovernmental Cooperation
• LIAA/MML/MTA Partnerships for Change
• West Michigan Strategic Alliance
• Coordinated planning efforts in Harbor Springs
  area and Charlevoix, Otsego, Jackson, and Emmett
  Counties
• MLUI and Michigan Chamber schools project
• Corridor management planning (US-2, US-31, M-72,
  M-28)
• West Michigan Trails/Greenways Coalition

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Recent Actions on Recommendations

• Create Walkable Neighborhoods
• Safe Routes to School
• MLUI/Chamber Schools and Smart Growth project
• WMSA Green Infrastructure Task Force
• The GreenWays Initiative
• Grand Traverse and Antrim County trail system
  development

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Recent Actions on Recommendations

• Training and Providing Tools to Local Officials
• Contract zoning
• MSPs 8-publication series on implementing
  recommendations
• Leadership development for design and land
  development professionals
• Citizen Planner and other local technical
  assistance initiatives
• Land Information Access Association

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Issues for the Legislature to Address

• School siting
• Agricultural preservation areas
• Increased density in developed areas
• Rationalizing boundaries and clarifying
  responsibilities of regional planning
  commissions 
• Standardizing zoning laws
• Commerce centers 
• Smart housing zoning codes
• State sanitary code

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Complete report available atwww.michiganlanduse.o
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The 37 million acres that are Michigan is all
the Michigan we will ever have
Michigan Governor and Land Use Leadership Council
Co-chair William Milliken
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