Waterfront & parks – last night the city voted unanimously to go forward with the engineering of the bayfront improvements.  Info on the team and the public process for this work can be found here: http://www.ci.traverse-city.mi.us/departments/planning/bayfrontURS.pdf

8th St -  Next Monday, at its regular meeting time, the city commission will be discussing a list of possible changes in design elements for 8th St.  The list has to be discussed with MDOT and Federal Highway first.  It will go here when it’s available.

Budget – Tonight at 5 pm at the Heritage Center on 6th St the city commission will start talking about this year’s budget priorities.  We had a great meeting with COFAC last week to brainstorm ideas and I will have a detailed post on city finances here tomorrow.

Streets – Wednesday night at 7 pm the Planning Commission will review 2010 street projects for whether they conform to the Master Plan.  Streets being rebuilt this year include sections of Cass, Oak, Maple, Union, Hannah, Barlow, Highland Park Drive, Third, Airport Access, Boyd/Bates, and Kelley.  The info is here: http://www.ci.traverse-city.mi.us/boards/planning/packet20100303.pdf.  My opinion – these street projects could be more complete, hopefully you’ll decide for yourself and let the Planning Commission hear your views before they make a decision.  Their info is here:  http://www.ci.traverse-city.mi.us/boards/planningcomm.pdf