Posts under Land Use Category
Info from Urban Ag Hearing 12-6-12
Posted on December 6, 2012 In: Land Use, Local Policy, Planning, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Missed the hearing? Click Here for updates that was taken live from the hearing.
Urban Ag hearing Dec 6 5:45PM
Posted on November 27, 2012 In: Community Development, Environmental Justice, Land Use
Coleman A Young Municipal Center 13th floor, 2 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48226
Toxic & Green Jobs Tour
Posted on September 27, 2012 In: Advocacy, Community Development, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, EPA, Events, Federal Policy, Green Jobs, Land Use, Local Policy, State policy, Uncategorized
Who: Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (DWEJ)
It’s Finally Here!
Posted on September 11, 2012 In: Community Development, Green Jobs, Land Use, Local Policy, Planning, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Did you know that urban agriculture isn’t technically legal in Detroit? But the planners at the City Planning Commission have been working hard over the last couple of years researching and engaging the local urban agriculture community and various other stakeholders to create a comprehensive policy to allow and encourage urban agriculture in Detroit while making sure to protect the more »
Detroit Works Project
Posted on April 3, 2012 In: Call to Action, Community Development, Environmental Justice, Events, Land Use, Local Policy, Planning, Sustainability, Uncategorized
700,000 people living in a city built for 2 million. What will we do with all that land?
EPA on Smart Growth
Posted on March 8, 2012 In: Community Development, Environmental Justice, EPA, Federal Policy, Land Use, Sustainability, Uncategorized
The EPA’s Smart Growth office has released a draft document tying together Smart Growth, Environmental Justice and Equitable Development.
DWEJ & Detroit Works Project
Posted on March 6, 2012 In: Community Development, Environmental Justice, Land Use, Local Policy, Planning, Sustainability
Last Friday (1/20/2012), DWEJ President & CEO Guy Williams went on the Craig Fahle Show with University of Detroit Mercy’s Dan Pitera, who is in charge of the Detroit Works Project Long Term Engagement Process (DWPLTEP), to talk about why DWEJ is involved in this process, and discuss the DWP’s new Home Base for civic engagement. Interview link: RADIO INTERVIEW more »
“Solving the Real Estate Crisis with Parks” – dirt.asla
Posted on November 30, 2011 In: Brownfields, Community Development, Green Infrastructure, Green Jobs, Land Use, Planning, Sustainability
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)’s “Dirt” blog, which has the tagline “Connecting the built & natural environments,” posted this article about the Redfields to Greenfields project earlier this year in June. Build Up Detroit program manager Sandra Yu presented Detroit’s case study with John Saad from the city planning department and Charles Cross from the University of Detroit-Mercy more »
EPA’s Expanding the School Siting Conversation: A Webinar Series
Posted on October 7, 2011 In: Community Development, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, EPA, Federal Policy, Land Use, Planning, Youth
Announcement from the national Environmental Justice list-serv run by the EPA: To encourage healthy, sustainable schools and communities, the Council for Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI), the National Center for Safe Routes to School, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity, and EPA are offering a series of educational webinars, including more »
Midtown Whole Foods Brownfields Public Hearing – summary
Posted on September 7, 2011 In: Brownfields, Community Development, Environmental Justice, Land Use, Local Policy
by Sandra Yu So Sept 2, I was at the brownfields public hearing. I will try to remember correctly here what was shared. NEW WHOLE FOODS STORE IN MIDTOWN Location: John R & Mack, behind Ellington Lofts, where Starbucks, Kinko’s, etc. are. Currently a closed Chase Bank and active Chase ATM. Site owner is working with Chase to find alternate more »