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December 7, 2009
On Our Way To Copenhagen
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July 31, 2009
Does City Want Affordable Downtown Housing?
City officials have an opportunity to approve the development of a major affordable housing project in downtown Traverse City, something city leaders have been ...more

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July 1, 2009
County Planning Needs All of Us
Something important and hopeful just occurred on the Benzie County Planning Commission: It adopted a new ordinance that could help heal some of the splits that ...more

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June 3, 2009
Production’s Fiasco Means Benzie Lacks Growth Tools
When Benzie County refused to allow Production Industries Inc. to build a new facility in Gilmore Township, it showed how crucial it is for the county to have ...more

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February 22, 2009
Institute Hires Program Coordinator
Fifteen years ago, the Michigan Land Use Institute set up shop in Benzie County in an old house in Benzonia. The Institute’s headquarters have since ...more

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February 19, 2009
Grand Vision: Grow Towns, not Subdivisions
The team leading northwest Michigan’s unprecedented, citizen-based Grand Vision land use and transportation study has unveiled its first draft of a ...more

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December 4, 2008
Tanner: Time to Fire Administrator Clarke
A new county commissioner is calling for Benzie County Administrator Chuck Clarke’s dismissal because of what he and others say is ongoing dysfunction in ...more

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October 13, 2008
Grand Vision Draws Another Record Crowd
More than 500 people packed Traverse City’s State Theater for another Grand Vision milestone. The largest citizen-based, regional planning project in ...more

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Benzie county eliminates longtime planner

September 18, 2008
Benzie OKs Eliminating Its Planner
Benzie County Planning Director Dave Neiger is out of a job. Benzie County commissioners eliminated his position, saying it would help balance their budget. ...more

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