From food carts to live music, Ann Arbor ponders ways to launch future central park
Updated Feb 15, 2021;
Posted Feb 15, 2021
The city-owned Library Lot parking lot on Fifth Avenue in downtown Ann Arbor on April 1, 2020. City leaders are discussing plans for a future downtown central park and civic commons space here.Ryan Stanton | The Ann Arbor News
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ANN ARBOR, MI The vision Ann Arbor voters approved in 2018 for a “Center of the City” urban park and civic commons has yet to happen, but could it begin this year?
The consensus seems to be that any kind of elaborate transformation of the downtown library block to resemble a central park is still a longer-term idea.
UpdatedFri, Jan 22, 2021 at 3:21 pm ET
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county Executive Director Howard Lazarus introduced a change to policy that would allow the county to hire non-residents who pledge to move into Delaware County within three months (Shutterstock)
January 21, 2021
Like neighboring Philadelphia, Delaware County has a residency requirement for its county employees. But now the Delaware County Council is considering loosening that requirement in order to find the qualified workers the county needs.
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Wednesday night, county Executive Director Howard Lazarus introduced a change to policy that would allow the county to hire non-residents who pledge to move into Delaware County within three months. Agency heads would be able to push the deadline back to one year, and perhaps up to two years in some circumstances.
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Looking back at 2020 on the Ann Arbor city beat and what’s ahead in 2021
Updated Dec 31, 2020;
Posted Dec 31, 2020 This is so cool! one of these two cyclists exclaimed after passing through Ann Arbor s new riverfront tunnel pathway completed in 2020.Ryan Stanton | The Ann Arbor News
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ANN ARBOR, MI It was a year filled with bright spots and not-so-bright spots, both progress and turmoil, and it was a year most will never forget.
Set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter demonstrations and the political drama of the U.S. presidential election, here’s a look back at some of what happened on the city beat in Ann Arbor in 2020, with a look ahead to 2021.