April 10, 2008 – 12:38 pm
(Traverse City, Michigan) - Boosted by donations from several local organizations, The Grand Vision project officials said today that they have raised enough funds to expand the highly popular, citizen-based land use and transportation planning process from Grand Traverse County into Antrim, Benzie, Kalkaska, Leelanau, and Wexford Counties.
The new Grand Vision workshops will occur at [...]
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March 20, 2008 – 10:42 am
The Grand Vision, a regional land use and transportation study is gathering community input on how you'd like to see the Grand Traverse Region develop over the next 50 years.
There have been a variety of workshops since the fall. On Thursday, transportation was the focus.
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March 19, 2008 – 10:50 am
Jim Lively always liked the notion of a light rail system in Traverse City.
Thursday, he'll find out if it's a practical concept.
Lively is a member of a committee that's steering The Grand Vision, a $1.6 million land use and transportation study that will hold its final public workshops this Thursday in Grand Traverse County.
Workshop participants [...]
March 11, 2008 – 10:18 am
It's often said children are our future.
Students at Traverse City West and Central High Schools are getting the chance to shape not only their future but their community's.
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February 14, 2008 – 10:52 am
Demonstrating the intense interest many area residents have in helping to design their community’s future, more than 600 people showed up last month for three more planning workshops produced by The Grand Vision project.
Last October, the federally funded, locally based project, which aims to produce a six-county guide to future land use by the fall [...]
February 1, 2008 – 10:34 am
Last week a total of about 500 people attended three Grand Vision scenario planning workshops in the Traverse City area. They looked at three small parts of our region: downtown Traverse City, Interlochen, and Acme. When it was all over, The Grand Vision consultant team had collected more than 60 maps from workshop participants, who [...]
January 25, 2008 – 9:15 am
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(Traverse City, Michigan) - Close to 400 people participated last week at individual Antrim, Wexford and Benzie county workshops conducted as part of the expanded scope of The Grand Vision. Over 350 people had attended workshops in Kalkaska and Leelanau counties conducted earlier in May.
"The turnout was [...]
January 23, 2008 – 10:14 am
What should Traverse City look like in the next 50 years?
Several community members are helping with the answer tonight.
The objective of the Grand Vision workshops is to paint a picture of the city's future using community input.
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January 18, 2008 – 2:49 pm
The Grand Vision Land Use and Transportation Strategy began officially in early July, 2007 when the contract between Mead & Hunt, Inc. and TC-TALUS was signed. However, the discussion of transportation and land use in the Grand Traverse region started long before that. As the Grand Vision project moves forward with a new approach to [...]
