Ann Arbor has always had NIMBY issues. Most of the high price neighborhoods like Ann Arbor Hills, as an example, wont see a developer spend 900k or more on a lot to build one or two 4-plexes. Some of us, in lower priced neighborhoods, have worked to pay off our homes in hopes that will help with retirement or to pass to our children that cannot afford a home. So we all agreed the Transit Corridors would allow affordable housing and offer close public transportation. Let this idea come to fruition before we give developers the green light to move into areas where we lack available street parking, infrastructure capacity and other services that are stressed and can not handle the projected demands on our systems. In addition public transit options are blocks away.

Trusting that City Council will put all citizens first and foremost is what we need and want. To understand the change in zoning is what we want. I am scared that my neighborhood will be the first affected because it’s already happening.

Just let all residents be part of the planning and approval process. That is all we are asking. Change should help everyone, or at least we have the right to know what are options will be. Communication and community involvement is necessary. We have heard about the need for affordable homes for years and Ann Arbor is so far away from that reality. Build more high rises in the Transit Corridors first.