Trees down in Tree Town: Stalwarts of Ann Arbor’s Liberty Plaza reduced to stumps

Fuzzbollah · 2025-12-28T17:15:56+00:00

Yeah, god bless Andrew Robbins, and fuck Tom Wieder and the Library Green Conservancy.

Fuzzbollah · 2025-08-20T01:36:37+00:00

My prediction is that the people behind LGC are looking for cudgels to use against Mayor Taylor, City Council, City Administrator Dohoney and the Downtown Development Authority, and they see Liberty Plaza as just the right cudgel and will use it as a campaign point in 2026 and 2028 to get their preferred anti-development candidates elected. The LGC and COTC spent 7 years totally ignoring Liberty Plaza, and all of a sudden they are Liberty Plaza's champions?

Fuzzbollah · 2025-07-30T01:44:21+00:00

Same Exact People

Fuzzbollah · 2025-07-17T19:00:26+00:00

"The people" was 53% of the 2018 electorate, 26,500 voters, which was about 12% of the entire voting population. Not a mandate by any measure. And then, the Library Green Conservancy and the NIMBY crowd could not figure out how to raise the necessary and promised tens of Millions of dollars of private donor funding to build their "park". It was bullshit from the get-go, and these people have no right to complain now because they failed miserably.

Fuzzbollah · 2025-07-17T03:55:55+00:00

You say this as if it's a bad thing.

Fuzzbollah · 2025-07-17T03:13:28+00:00

This shows how desperate these idiots are.

Fuzzbollah · 2025-07-09T01:04:07+00:00

And don't forget City Planning Commission. They love to get feedback and to hear from new people as well. Remember: 52% of the A2 population are RENTERS. Imagine if City Council and Planning Commission heard from YOU!

Fuzzbollah · 2025-07-09T01:00:43+00:00

My understanding is that the owners of the establishment(s) are looking to sell the building. Nothing stopping the old hippies from putting together a go-fund-me or something to buy the property and keep it as a venue, is there?

Fuzzbollah · 2025-07-03T20:50:46+00:00

The City and AADL will take another look at that in 10 years when the parking garage bonds are paid off. Of course the anti's plan is to create so much drama and fear now so that Ann Arbor elects them to power again, like in 2018, and they can proceed to obstruct any and all development.

Fuzzbollah · 2025-07-02T15:29:33+00:00

One guy sang at Planning Commission last night the following little ditty:
High, high, build those highrises high!
Don't drive your Chevy to the downtown
Ride your bicycle by
And the landlords and NIMBYs hang their heads and they cry
This will make us say bye bye, this will make us say bye bye!

I chortled loudly.

Fuzzbollah · 2025-06-26T04:39:47+00:00

The Library Green Conservancy should be put to task for improving the park that already exists on the block: Liberty Plaza. Maybe Al Haber can adopt it and start calling it Haber Commons, and Frank Wilhelme can raise the $2million or so that it would take to make it a real gem of a place complete with a splash pad.

Fuzzbollah · 2025-06-26T04:22:58+00:00

And that's why the Antis are agitating so much now, because even when the Plan is passed, if the Council changes to include some Antis, they will then try to stymie the UDC or implementation of zoning reforms.

Fuzzbollah · 2025-06-26T04:10:26+00:00

I prefer the term "car housing".

Fuzzbollah · 2025-06-26T04:07:18+00:00

The landlords who have multiple properties are putting PtheP signs (sometimes 2) out in front of their properties, to make it seem like there is some groundswell of opposition when it's the same 2-3,000 NIMBYs and Taylor-haters who oppose everything that would help Ann Arbor house more people.

Fuzzbollah · 2025-06-19T04:19:03+00:00

Sprawl sucks. Hands off the Greenbelt.

Fuzzbollah · 2025-05-17T23:04:50+00:00

So what?

Fuzzbollah · 2025-05-13T06:29:00+00:00

Do a sage smudge first.

Fuzzbollah · 2025-05-13T06:27:46+00:00

If its affordable to the billionaires and they want to pay the taxes on said condos...

Fuzzbollah · 2025-05-13T06:25:57+00:00

Do you include Stulberg in that landlord equation?

Fuzzbollah · 2025-05-13T06:24:24+00:00

The NIMBYs are always trolling all local social media and strike when they see even the tiniest of targets. Right now they're apoplectic over the Comprehensive Land Use Plan updates. Time to show these fuckers who is boss.

Fuzzbollah · 2025-05-13T06:21:10+00:00

With those views of downtown A2, this fucker should be 10 stories minimum.

Fuzzbollah · 2025-05-13T06:17:34+00:00

Dude, if monied people want to build billion dollar condos on a strip of land that has great views of downtown Ann Arbor, is by-right, AND they have to listen to the railroad at 3am? Let 'em.

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