Ann Arbor Links

Brownfield projects, including details of the Broadway Village at Lowertown brownfield project.

Property tax records

etrakit, for various planning and property information.

Zoning

• Unified Development Code
• Zoning map and other info. Though for looking up individual parcels it may be easier to do a property search on etrakit then look at the "land use" tab.
• Historic District Maps
• Note arborwiki could use an update.

Education

• AAPS page on Nov. 2019 bond vote. Kinda fun to look up facilities assessment for your school.
• November 2019 Bond millage
• and previously
• MI last in school funding growth
• arboriwki Ann Arbor Public School Funding

Lower Town

• Project SP17-009 on etrakit
• Legistar entry for Oct. 2 2017 council meeting approving 1140 Broadway rezoning
• Reference on odd claims about lowertown rezoning: neighbors challenging zoning and land use decisions, Fifth amendment (due process) considerations

Pedestrian Ordinance

• Independent review finds Ann Arbor's crosswalk law is 'reasonable'

Library Lot

• City Administrators Office - Library Lot Development
• dis-endorsements?: AADL board, AA Housing Commission, Parks Advisory Commission, AA Library Board, Washtenaw Housing Alliance.
• PAC downtown parks subcommittee final report
• Ann Arbor Chronicle article on meeting that produced those recommendations

Water Rates

• Cost of Service Study
  • final report
• Water Bill Calculator

Local News

• mlive
• The Observer
• Concentrate
• Damn Arbor
• The Michigan Daily
• Seeding an Oasis in Our Local News Desert: Mary Morgan on what it might take to sustain a decent local news organization. Also some useful links to existing news sources.

Roads

• City budget probably around $10M/year for roads, of a $400-million-ish city budget.
• But most road funding is state and federal, googling suggests about $550 per person where that $10 million would be about $80 per Ann Arbor resident, so spending on roads in the city could be another order of magnitude.
• Lower cost preventative road treatments

General YIMBY issues

• Nice explanation of affordable housing costs: https://apps.urban.org/features/cost-of-affordable-housing/
• Evidence on influence of supply: this article, this wiki page, this article

Random other sources

• UM + Ann Arbor facts + figures
• Semcog data and maps
• Ann Arbor housing market
• UM employment data
• DDA State of the Downtown Report 2018
• michigan traffic crash facts: want a graph of number of bicylist-involved crashes over the last 10 years in Washtenaw county? No problem!
• DDA structure availability: what'd be more interesting is graphs over time. Somebody could scrape this, I guess, but does the DDA already have it somewhere?
• 2020 citizens' academy

Affordable housing

• The State of the Nation's Housing 2019
• "gentrification and segregation in Ann Arbor and Ypislanti" from ecurrent.
• Ann Arbor needs more affordable housing, but how?

Commuting

• semcog basic stats including modal shares (under transportation tab) and commuters (under Econony and jobs tab). Gives 128K jobs, 58K non-working residents, for total 186K daytime population. 63K commute in, 16K out.
• See also this which gives 68K in, not sure why it's a little different. Gives numbers only for 2010 and 2013.
• more here?

Housing prices

• Zillow 2010-now
• Trulia has median sales prices back to 2000.
• Fred has an "all-transactions house price index" for Ann Arbor MSA back to 1980.
• Ann Arbor area's growth sends housing prices soaring
• Housing market should stabilize in 2019 in Washtenaw County, experts say has lots of data.

Police

• Stuff from legistar
• more from legistar

Random questions

• population over time, # of units over time?
• How do I convert mils into funding totals for various property tax recipients? (Equivalently: what is total taxable value for their various areas?)
• Would like to understand school funding better.
• What's the effect of new development on AAPS? Do uncapped new property taxes help or is that limited by statewide school funding rules?