Petra Kuehnis picked up the green pen and drew lines through large sections of Grand Traverse County, marking them off-limits to development.
"I want to see green space between the villages and the city," said Kuehnis of Traverse City. "We all seem to have the same idea (at her table), built up city cores circled by greenspace."
Across the room at Ted Okerstrom's table, they were creating a major road bypass around Traverse City and new entrance to the city from the south, but they too were concentrating future development around existing villages.


