The Grand Vision project—the Grand Traverse region’s opportunity to produce a regional land use and transportation plan to accommodate the quarter of a million people who will be moving to this part of this state in the next 50 years—debuted last October in spectacular fashion.

More than 450 people showed up at the Park Place Hotel on Oct. 17 to sip coffee, munch on pizza, jaw with their neighbors from around the six-county region, and mark up maps with their first thoughts on how and where the region should grow and what to do to make sure people can get around the entire area both quickly and economically.

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