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  SPECIAL REPORTS

Growth Management | Land and Water | Transportation | Prosperous Farms

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 Growth Management Special Reports [top]
Growing Grand Rapids TEXT
Scores of mid-sized American cities in the 21st century face a profound and similar challenge: confront the relentless march of new highways, sewers, schools, subdivisions, and shopping centers pushing ever further into the countryside and develop a new style of growth that rejuvenates dreary downtowns, adds enduring value to the economy, and enhances opportunity for all citizens. This special reporting series, Growing Grand Rapids, investigates the work underway in one midwestern community — a 2003 All America City Award finalist — to solve sprawl and create a world-class place to learn, live, work, and play.
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Seeds of Prosperity TEXT
Michigan’s agricultural sector does not attract nearly enough attention from the state’s government, although the industry contributes more than $59 billion annually to the state’s economy and employs one million people. Yet, even as more farmland falls to suburban development and agriculture’s political influence erodes, many growers are developing bright, new, entrepreneurial approaches that can save their family farms, the rural towns that depend on them, and our precious land. This special, ongoing series, which points toward the Institute’s second Seeds of Prosperity conference this fall, reports on the challenges and opportunities facing Michigan’s farmers and new policies that local, state, and national officials must embrace to strengthen this welcome trend. The series’ first four articles were written in partnership with Michigan State University’s Land Policy Program.
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Smart Vote TEXT
Historic election results in Michigan and in other states since 2000 should settle any dispute over whether voters care enough about solving congestion, slowing sprawl, investing in downtowns, workforce housing, environmental protection, and farmland conservation to make their leaders care, too. The message for elected leaders, even candidates for the presidency in 2008, is unmistakable. Take sprawl seriously. Work for sensible solutions. Or face defeat.
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Collected Essays TEXT
A collection of stirring articles by the Elm Street Writers Group
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Follow the Money TEXT | PDF
Follow The Money documents a profoundly misguided investment strategy that harms Michigan’s quality of life by subsidizing sprawl. the 21st century.
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Living for The City TEXT | PDF
Developing Smart Growth Leadership in Detroit
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New Plans For Barren Lands TEXT | PDF | ORDER
A brownfield redevelopment guide for Michigan’s northern coastal communities
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Going To Town TEXT | PDF | ORDER
New Urbanism Arrive In Nothwest Michigan
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Elm Street Writers Group: Collected Essays 2003-2004 TEXT | PDF | ORDER
This third collection of stirring articles by the Elm Street Writers Group continues chronicling the decade-old national Smart Growth movement, which is doing so much to make America a better place.
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Lansing Lowdown TEXT
Telling conversations with some of the most interesting and influential people in Michigan's capital.
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Hard Lessons TEXT | PDF | ORDER
Causes and Consequences of Michigan's School Construction Boom
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Progress and Prosperity TEXT
Remarkable work is under way in Michigan to slow sprawl and make Michigan more competitive. Governor Jennifer M. Granholm and Republican leaders are cooperating to produce promising reforms in land use, economic, urban, transportation, and environmental policy. The Michigan Land Use Institute is covering the events, the players, and the ramifications of Michigan's determined drive to achieve Smart Growth.
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10 Ways to Increase Michigan's Prosperity TEXT
The Michigan Land Use Leadership Council presented the Legislature a bipartisan plan to improve the quality of life, job security, and economic opportunity. The Michigan Land Use Institute and United Cerebral Palsy identified 10 of the council's recommendations that if enacted will produce the greatest results.
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A Civic Gift TEXT | PDF
Historic Preservation, Community Reinvestment, and Smart Growth in Michigan
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The Turning Point TEXT
On March 24, 2003, Gov. Jennifer Granholm personally opened the first meeting of the Michigan Land Use Leadership Council. The council is the most prominent, state-sanctioned effort in three decades to address the consequences of Michigan’s ever-spreading patterns of development. The last effort failed. The 21st century version is likely to be more successful. The Michigan Land Use Institute's news desk is keeping a close eye on the proceedings.
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Elm Street Writers Group: Collected Essays 2001-2002 TEXT | PDF | ORDER
This collection of commentary, the second by the Elm Street Writers Group, takes in a year in the life of America starting with the September 11 calamity and ending with the November election results. Throughout, perceptive writers provide discerning perspective on how old and basic civic ideals — natural resource protection, neighborhood preservation, economic competitiveness, local control — are being expressed in new ways.
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Great Expectations TEXT
Governor Jennifer Granholm promised to strike hard at wasteful development. House Speaker Rick Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema support government activism on land use. Action on Smart Growth is now possible in Michigan.The Institute's journalists are closely tracking the story
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The Great Choice TEXT
The Institute's corps of top journalists and editors covered the 2002 Michigan gubernatorial campaign. See their thorough, probing reporting of what the candidates said about Smart Growth, transportation, agriculture, and the environment.
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The New Entrepreneurial Agriculture TEXT | PDF
Farmland in Michigan is currently more valuable for building superstores and subdivisions than growing corn or strawberries because global markets pay little for the state’s farm products. But a new crop of innovative farmers is making money and keeping land in agriculture. New Entreprenurial Agriculture explains how communities can help their farmers switch to profitable markets and reap the many benefits of working farmland. By Patty Cantrell and Jim Lively
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Elm Street Writers Group: Collected Essays 2000-2001 TEXT | PDF | ORDER
Some of nation's most talented writers explain the Smart Growth movement's significance, defend it from critics, and report on new and promising trends. Elm Street commentary has been published in more than 60 major newspapers nationwide, more than 40 Web sites, and in dozens of magazines and newsletters.
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Land Use Need: A Statewide Plan (GLB 1, Summer 96) TEXT | PDF
Land Use Need: A Statewide Plan MERC Gaining Ground on Oil and Gas Industry
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Sprawl Costs Us All (GLB 2, Winter 97) TEXT | PDF
Sprawl Costs Us All Oil & Gas Drilling: Special Section
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Smart Growth (GLB 6, Spring 98) TEXT
Smart Growth Michigan's Oil and Gas Debate
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Taming Sprawl (GLB 9, Spring 99) TEXT | PDF
Taming Sprawl: Grand Rapids Leads the Way in Michigan
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Breaking the Sprawl Addiction (GLB 11, March 00) TEXT
BREAKING THE SPRAWL ADDICTION: A TWELVE STEP PROGRAM. Far from the free market at work, sprawl is dictated by detailed zoning plans and is heavily subsidized by taxpayers. Here's how to get unhooked.
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 Land and Water Special Reports [top]
Water Works TEXT | PDF | ORDER
Water Works describes a new way of thinking about water resource development that is gradually and organically emerging in the Great Lakes Basin. It reduces costs, safeguards waterways, and strengthens the region’s economic competitiveness. The challenge and responsibility for the region’s civic and business leaders is to understand this movement and establish an atmosphere in which it can flourish.
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State's Proposed Crystal Lake Boat Launch: Three Ways to Make it Right | PDF
The state DNR has proposed a new boat launch for Crystal Lake; the Institute has three recommendations that would make it right.
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Target: Environment TEXT
A rash campaign to radically change the nation's basic environmental and public health protection statutes is under way in Washington. The potential effect on Michigan is profound. In partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Law and Policy Center, the Institute is investigating the proposed changes and undertaking reporting and commentary about the brazen program and its potential to affect citizens, natural resources, and the quality of life here in Michigan and the Great Lakes region.
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Code Red In A Blue Water Basin TEXT | PDF | ORDER
The mere mention of diverting fresh water from the Great Lakes to far-off lands usually triggers passionate calls for immediate protective action. But concerns about far more mundane issues — those local water uses that actually drain aquifers and stress lakes and rivers — receive far less attention. Code Red in a Blue Water Basin highlights four Great Lakes communities where unrestrained local consumption and a lack of scientific information already frustrate attempts to keep local water supplies clean and plentiful. Code Red urges lawmakers to promptly enact modern water-protection legislation that ensures safe, fresh water for industrial, agricultural, and residential use.
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Deciding The Fate Of The Great Lakes TEXT | PDF | ORDER
Great Lakes governments now are negotiating a common strategy to implement the Great Lakes Charter Annex, and protect all water users — from farms and cities to fish and forests. To develop a truly effective plan, leaders must: • LAY DOWN THE LAW. Turn general principals for protecting Great Lakes water into enforceable law with no loopholes. • PROTECT IT ALL. Protections should apply to the entire freshwater system, including groundwater and small streams that feed the Great Lakes. • SEEK PUBLIC PARTICIPATION. States and provinces must involve citizens, businesses, and communities in decisions that affect their freshwater resources.
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Liquid Gold Rush TEXT | PDF | ORDER
Michigan Land Use Institute’s Liquid Gold Rush is a comprehensive analysis of the state’s quick permitting of the Perrier Group’s plan to bottle central Michigan spring water and implications for the environment, economy, and quantity of fresh water in the Great Lakes region.
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Liquid Assets (GLB 14, august 2001) TEXT | PDF | ORDER
LIQUID ASSETS Detroit teaches Michigan a lesson in natural economics.
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Great Lakes Water Security TEXT
On December 6, 2000 the Perrier Group, a subsidiary of Swiss-based Nestle, the world's largest food company, applied to the local health authorities in Mecosta County for permission to drill two water wells on an 800-acre private hunting preserve in the county's southern reaches. The company's purpose: to establish a source for a new bottling plant to ship its popular Ice Mountain brand of spring water throughout the upper Midwest. Five weeks later the permits were granted. Like a hot match put to a fuse, the approvals touched off a stunningly fierce debate about who controls Michigan's underground reservoirs of fresh water -- water so abundant and pure that half of the state's 9.9 million residents draw theirs straight from the ground
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Opposing Land Deal on South Fox Island TEXT
David Johnson, one of Michigan's wealthiest and most politically influential developers sought for years to wrest control of valuable public lands on South Fox Island, a magnificent Lake Michigan atoll 25 miles west of Leelanau County. On March 7, 2003, Mr. Johnson's latest proposal to turn 219 acres of magnificent state-protected dunes, virgin cedars, and untouched beach previously owned by the people of Michigan into his own private domain was approved by Republican Attorney General Mike Cox. The Institute discovered that in the week prior to the November 2002 election, Mr. Johnson and two senior executives of his development company made large campaign donations to Mr. Cox, who narrowly won his race.
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The Engler Record TEXT
Judging Gov. John Engler’s environmental record against Michigan's tradition of leadership on conserving natural resources is like comparing a common moth to a monarch butterfly. The Institute closely covered Michigan’s weakening resolve during the Engler years to safeguard resources, protect public health, and enforce environmental law. No journalist documented the story and its consequences more thoroughly than Keith Schneider, the Institute’s program director.
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The Harding Watch TEXT
Russell Harding, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality director under Governor John Engler, was a candidate for a senior environmental posting in the Bush administration and was under consideration as a possible EPA chief. Michigan business leaders often commended Mr. Harding for streamlining the state's permitting system. But Michigan's environmental and grassroots organizations were forthright in their critical assessment: Mr. Harding's seven-year tenure was marked by a consistent pattern of violating, skirting, and undermining Michigan's environmental laws.
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Mega Manure Fails Farmers, Public, Environment TEXT
Results of a 1999 Institute investigation of lax oversight of Michigan's factory farms.
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H2S Protections TEXT | PDF
This comprehensive proposal to protect the public from dangerous exposure to hydrogen sulfide recommends better communication and access to information; new public safety standards; better research models; coordinated and uniform state oversight; a new role for the DEQ Air Quality Division; improved preventive and emergency response measures and reforms in well permitting.
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The Homestead Swap TEXT | PDF
In 1996 the owner of the Homestead Resort in Leelanau County proposed swapping 161 acres of undevelopable wetlands for 207 acres of public land overlooking Lake Michigan in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The proposal was initially embraced by elected officials who agreed that the resort owner’s property rights, and the Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council contracted with the Institute to prepare this investigative report. It was a decisive step in convincing Congress to reject the proposal, and provides a well-argued case study for activists facing similar situations.
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Drain Code Fact Sheets (see Unfair Drainage Laws – 5 pdf docs) TEXT
Citizens across suburbanizing areas of Michigan organized in the late 1990s to stop property destruction and environmental damage from large-scale stormwater drainage projects. They discovered that citizens paid for these projects even though they primarily benefit and foster sprawling subdivisions and strip malls. The Michigan Drain Code is the outdated law that allows county drain commissioners to take citizens’ property and destroy habitat and water quality largely on behalf of private business. The Institute’s Public Trust Alliance joined with other grassroots groups to reform the Drain Code and make it subject to the checks and balances citizens expect in a democracy.
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Natural River Fact Sheets (4 in set) | PDF
Learn how communities and public policy makers can use the Michigan Natural River Program to protect some of the state's most treasured natural features and most valued natural resources.
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Benzie County Wetlands TEXT | PDF
The Institute launched the Benzie Wetland Protection Project to address the increasing loss of the county's prized wetlands to commercial and housing development. Based on the belief that wetland protection requires the active support of landowners and citizens, this report provides Benzie residents with an introduction to wetlands and how to safeguard them.
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Green Scissors TEXT | PDF
An extension of the national Green Scissors Campaign, this project draws on the insights of dozens of local citizen groups and is the first such report to focus on one state. Green Scissors Michigan recommends cutting ten wasteful government programs in order to save federal and state taxpayers $2.8 billion, while protecting the environment and communities.
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Rivers at Risk TEXT | PDF
The risk to northern Michigan's wild watersheds from oil and gas development has never been higher,according to this report. The Institute presents the case for reviving hydrocarbon development planning in Michigan, along with an account of the historic Pigeon River Model and an action plan for today.
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The Shoreline Guide TEXT | PDF | ORDER
This booklet gives property owners and local government officials detailed information on how to safeguard coastal resources by adding a shoreline protection overlay to existing zoning.
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Michigan’s Property Rights Debate (GLB 3, Spring 97) TEXT | PDF
Michigan's Property Rights Debate and the Search for Justice Citizen's Rights in the Oil & Gas Fields
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Lansing’s Environmental Record (GLB 7, Summer/Fall 98) TEXT | PDF
Lansing's Environmental Record (Special 21-page Election Focus)
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Conserving Farmland (GLB 5, Fall97/Winter98) TEXT | PDF
Conserving Farmland Oil and Gas Safeguards for People and Land
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Protecting Michigan’s Lifeblood (GLB 8, Winter 99) TEXT | PDF
Protecting Michigan's Lifeblood: why our rivers and lakes are suffering from haphazard uses of land, and how you can help turn things around.
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We the People (GLB 12, August 00) TEXT | PDF | ORDER
WE THE PEOPLE Polluters blatantly ignore Michigan's environmental laws while regulators look the other way. At the grassroots, a vigorous new patriotism emerges.
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 Transportation Special Reports [top]
Benzie Bus Fact Sheet | PDF
Build a Benzie bus system!
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Getting There Together TEXT | PDF | ORDER
Citizens’ Agenda to Move Transit Forward in the Grand Valley Region
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People and Pavement TEXT | PDF
A new approach for designing roads that better mesh with downtowns, neighborhoods, and the natural environment is quickly gaining acceptance in Michigan. Known in technical circles as “context-sensitive design,” the approach reflects both the increasing public resistance to new road construction and a more penetrating civic wisdom about the need to reduce environmental and community costs.
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The Regional Ride TEXT | PDF | ORDER
The Regional Ride is the second of four annual reports to be published by the Michigan Land Use Institute in partnership with United Cerebral Palsy of Michigan. MLUI and UCP Michigan are part of the statewide Michigan Transportation & Land Use Coalition, which is working to make public transit — including services to people with disabilities — a local and state priority.
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The New Economic Engine TEXT | PDF | ORDER
New Economic Engine is the first of four annual transit reports to be published by the Michigan Land Use Institute in partnership with United Cerebral Palsy of Michigan. MLUI and UCP Michigan are part of the statewide Michigan Transportation and Land Use Coalition, which is working to make public transit — including service to people with disabilities — a local and state priority in Michigan.
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Transportation Fact Sheets | PDF
The Institute's Michigan Transportation and Land Use Coalition has published four new fact sheets. They describe in clear terms where state transportation policy has taken a wrong turn, and how to get it back on track. The fact sheets are designed as tools for activists and citizen groups to understand how to overcome the state's primary obstacles to better transportation choices in Michigan.
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Smart Roads: Grand Traverse TEXT | PDF
Traverse City area residents joined with the Institute and the grassroots group Coalition for Sensible Growth to develop an innovative, citizen-led program to meet the Grand Traverse region’s transportation needs now and in the 21st century. It’s an alternative to the costly and destructive Traverse City bypass proposal.
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Smart Roads: Petoskey TEXT
The Michigan Department of Transportation is proposing to build a $70 million highway bypass in Bear Creek and Resort townships near Petoskey. The Institute is working with township officials and community groups to promote less expensive and more effective solutions to the summer traffic problem in the area.
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Better Transportation Choices (GLB 4, Summer 97) TEXT | PDF
Planning for Better Transportation Choices The Oil and Gas Debate Heats Up
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There's a Better Way to Get There (GLB 10, Summer/Fall 99) TEXT | PDF
There's a Better Way to Get There: Build our way out of congestion? It can't be done.
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Will Michigan Climb On Board? (GLB 13, Spring 01) TEXT | PDF
WILL MICHIGAN CLIMB ONBOARD? Rail is energizing cities coast to coast. Michigan needs to catch the train.
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  GREAT LAKES BULLETIN

The Great Lakes Bulletin is the Institute’s quarterly magazine. It features in-depth reporting and reasoned analysis about Michigan’s land use issues to inspire citizens to become more involved in designing their own communities. When you join the Institute you receive a subscription to the printed edition as a benefit of membership.

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Issue 21, FALL 2005 TEXT | PDF | ORDER
The Institute’s First 10 Years and Michigan’s Path to Prosperity
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Issue 20, SPRING 2005 TEXT | PDF
Lines in the Sand
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Issue 19, Summer 2004 TEXT | PDF | ORDER
Show Da City Sum Luv: Kelli Kavanaugh’s sidewalks and Detroit’s path to prosperity
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Issue 18, Spring 2004 TEXT | PDF | ORDER
Lake Michigan Springs a Leak
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Issue 17, Fall/2003 TEXT | PDF | ORDER
Granholm's Way: A bridge, a valley, and the governor’s new economic vision
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Issue 16, Summer/2003 TEXT | PDF | ORDER
Oh My Gosh, That's So Cool! Cities matter. Detroit is reviving. Michigan needs to do much more to energize its urban landscape to attract and hold the knowledge workers of the future.
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Issue 15, Spring/2003 TEXT | PDF
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm was elected on a promise to curb sprawling patterns of development. Piece by piece, from the moment she took office on January 1, the governor took purposeful steps to meet her commitment including establishing a state-sanctioned Smart Growth council.
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Liquid Assets (GLB 14, august 2001) TEXT | PDF | ORDER
LIQUID ASSETS Detroit teaches Michigan a lesson in natural economics.
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ISSUE 13, March 2001 TEXT | PDF
WILL MICHIGAN CLIMB ONBOARD? Rail is energizing cities coast to coast. Michigan needs to catch the train.
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ISSUE 12, AUGUST 2000 TEXT | PDF | ORDER
WE THE PEOPLE Polluters blatantly ignore Michigan's environmental laws while regulators look the other way. At the grassroots, a vigorous new patriotism emerges.
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ISSUE 11, MARCH 2000 TEXT
BREAKING THE SPRAWL ADDICTION: A TWELVE STEP PROGRAM. Far from the free market at work, sprawl is dictated by detailed zoning plans and is heavily subsidized by taxpayers. Here's how to get unhooked.
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Issue 8, WINTER 1999 TEXT | PDF
Protecting Michigan's Lifeblood: why our rivers and lakes are suffering from haphazard uses of land, and how you can help turn things around.
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Issue 10, SUMMER/FALL 1999 TEXT | PDF
There's a Better Way to Get There: Build our way out of congestion? It can't be done.
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Issue 9, SPRING 1999 TEXT | PDF
Taming Sprawl: Grand Rapids Leads the Way in Michigan
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Issue 5, FALL 1997/ WINTER 1998 TEXT | PDF
Conserving Farmland, Oil and Gas Safeguards for People and Land
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Issue 7, SUMMER/FALL 1998 TEXT | PDF
Lansing's Environmental Record (Special 21-page Election Focus)
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Issue 6, SPRING 1998 TEXT
Smart Growth, Michigan's Oil and Gas Debate
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Issue 2, WINTER 1997 TEXT | PDF
Sprawl Costs Us All, Oil & Gas Drilling: Special Section
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Issue 4, SUMMER 1997 TEXT | PDF
Planning for Better Transportation Choices, The Oil and Gas Debate Heats Up
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Issue 3, SPRING 1997 TEXT | PDF
Michigan's Property Rights Debate and the Search for Justice, Citizen's Rights in the Oil & Gas Fields
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Issue 1, SUMMER 1996 TEXT | PDF
Land Use Need: A Statewide Plan, MERC Gaining Ground on Oil and Gas Industry
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  MCLUC REPORTER
The Institute began in 1994 as the Michigan Communities Land Use Coalition — the MCLUC Reporter was its quarterly newsletter focusing on oil and gas policy reform. MCLUC’s acronym was pronounced "muk-luk," as in the soft-soled moccasin that steps lightly and respectfully on the earth. The MCLUC Reporter was incorporated into the Great Lakes Bulletin.

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MCLUC Reporter (Winter 1996) Text | PDF
MCLUC Reporter (Summer 1996) Text | PDF
MCLUC Reporter (Winter 1995) Text | PDF
MCLUC Reporter (Fall 1995) Text | PDF
MCLUC Reporter (Summer 1995) Text | PDF
MCLUC Reporter (Spring 1995) Text | PDF
MCLUC Reporter (Fall 1994) Text | PDF

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  ANNUAL REPORTS
Most Annual Reports are provided in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. PDF allows you to view these publications exactly as they looked in print, as well as to save for later viewing and share with friends. Click the "PDF" links for these files, or visit Adobe's Web site to download the free Acrobat Reader software required for viewing these files.

2001-2002-2003-2004 Annual Report PDF | TEXT
Where Are You From?
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2000 Annual Report PDF | TEXT
Smarter Growth Arrives in Michigan, Institute celebrates progress and promising days ahead
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1999 Annual Report PDF | TEXT
Across our programs -- communications, promoting transportation alternatives, curbing sprawl, protecting natural resources, providing support to grassroots groups -- the Institute is achieving what we set out to do four years ago, and much more.
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1998 Annual Report | TEXT
1998 was a year to celebrate. With new programs, new staff and board, and new friends and members, we're making a difference in communities throughout Michigan and influencing public policy in Lansing.
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1997 Annual Report | TEXT
1997 was a big year for the Institute, with our programs, membership, funding, staff, and board of directors all growing to meet the needs of our grassroots constituency. This Annual Report describes the year’s accomplishments, and gives new and potential members a strong sense of the Institute’s mission and approach.
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