Why We Made This Resource:

We hoped that Ann Arbor's Comprehensive Plan would start with facts and genuine input from the whole community. What we found instead was a vision document created by a few, with incredibly limited public engagement begun after the fact. Just 2% of residents participated in the city's survey, which largely missed students, renters, newer residents, and lower-income households. Yet despite this failure, the plan proposes drastic changes that would affect every neighborhood in our city and threaten natural features that we prize.

Instead of sharing realistic growth numbers based on official forecasts and recent population trends, the Planning Commission created its own inflated projections without explaining how it arrived at them.

What's even more troubling? There's no financial analysis showing how we'd pay for the billions in required infrastructure. There is no real plan for housing affordability. Without this crucial information, we're concerned about what could follow: unsustainable tax burdens and unaffordable gentrification—which always hits vulnerable working families, young renters, and fixed-income seniors the hardest.

That's why we created this resource. Ann Arbor deserves what other forward-thinking cities expect and receive. That is a plan built on real community conversations, accurate data, and realistic projections which provide clear pathways to reach our common goals. 💙

-A2N2 Steering Committee: Hank Barry, Lisa Jevens, John Godfrey, Ann Arbaugh, Nancy Leff, Brad Pritts, Ellen Ramsburgh, Rita Mitchell, Irma Majer, Tom Stulberg, Barry Checkoway, Karen Wight, Wendy Carman