In a unanimous decision the Ann Arbor City Council rezoned several streets in the Lower Burns Park area south of campus for single family housing. The change in code will impact Golden Ave, Granger Ave, Rose Ave, and Brooklyn Ave.
Several speakers including Nancy Leff, the chair of the Lower Burns Park Neighborhood Association spoke in favor of the rezoning. Leff pointed out that her organization had originally asked only to have Golden rezoned in accordance with statements in the 1992 city master plan. Leff said that the Neighborhood Association had “no complaints about people who live in our neighborhood. The group explained that they supported the rezoning to prevent future development of large multi-family homes in the area that could change the composition of the neighborhood. Under tonight’s decision structures that are currently used as multi-family units will be grandfathered as “legal nonconforming structures” until their use changes.
“This reasoning is absurd,” said area land-lord Bart Fisher. Fisher stated that he believed the Neighborhood Association hoped to excise students from the neighborhood. The Association denies such claims.
Ann Arbor Mayor John Hieftje recognized that more students have moved into the neighborhood in recent years. He voted in favor of the rezoning.
“This won’t change this from one kind of neighborhood to another,” said Councilwoman Joan Lowenstein. She stressed that the rezoning is intended to preserve the neighborhood from future pushes to greater density housing rather than to exclude any current residents.
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This will be justified if more high-density housing near campus (especially along South U) is approved, and even encouraged by the City.
Any of these lower Burns Park residents who think they can have it both ways (no outward or upward growth of student housing) are just not grounded in reality.
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