Smart Roads: PetoskeyThe 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.
Petoskey
Thursday, September 01, 2005 Successful Bypass Foes Get Busy Again
Almost three years after they convinced the state to abandon plans to build a bypass around Petoskey, residents and officials are eager for the arrival of federal funds that will launch a long-delayed, locally led study that will identify better ways to reduce their area’s thickening traffic congestion.
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Emmet County farmland
Monday, January 20, 2003 Community Opportunity in Petoskey
As the Legislature and Governor Jennifer Granholm seek solutions to a serious budget crisis, the quiet, steady voice of a small, northern Michigan city offers Lansing some compelling guidance on how to save billions of dollars, build cooperation between the state and local governments, and move the fledgling administration’s aggressive Smart Growth agenda forward. Petoskey’s successful battle to stop a highway bypass has put the 107-year-old city at the forefront of land use planning in the state.
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Agency not to build road through Petoskey countryside
Thursday, September 26, 2002 $90 Million Highway Ditched in Petoskey
Petoskey, MI - It's over after 15 years. And it's only just begun. With both stunning finality and a promise to finance a much less costly and damaging citizen-initiated transportation plan, the Michigan Department of Transportation this week formally canceled its nearly generation-old effort to build a $90 million bypass in Petoskey. But in ending its campaign to build the four-lane highway through farm fields and forests that surround this Lake Michigan coastal city, the state Transportation Department on September 23 also issued a unique challenge to citizens and local governments that has broad ramifications for other Michigan cities
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Tuesday, February 26, 2002 New Alternatives’ Comment on the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement
These comments are submitted as an attachment to the comments prepared by the Michigan Land Use Institute and the Environmental Law and Policy Center and are intended for inclusion in the official record of the Petoskey Area Improvement
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Tuesday, February 26, 2002 Summary of Comments on the Petoskey Bypass
The Michigan Land Use Institute and the Environmental Law & Policy Center, with the assistance of New Alternatives, have evaluated the Federal Highway Administration and Michigan Department of Transportation’s "US-31 Petoskey Area Improvement Study" Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Section 4(f)/6(f) Evaluation (hereafter referred to as the SDEIS). This evaluation of the SDEIS is submitted herein for the public record as part of the public comment period on the SDEIS.
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Friday, December 21, 2001 Top 10 Flaws of Petoskey Bypass
More than 500 residents turned out on Dec. 5, 2001 to attend the Michigan Department of Transportation's hearing on the proposed $90 million Petoskey bypass. The crowd overwhelmingly opposed the state’s proposal to carve up the countryside of southern Emmet County with a 4-lane highway and plant sprawl where active farms prosper today.
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Friday, May 18, 2001 “Smart Roads: Petoskey”
The Michigan Department of Transportation is not studying all reasonable alternatives as part of the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Petoskey Area Improvement Project.
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Wednesday, November 01, 2000 Support Grows for Institute’s Alternative to Petoskey Bypass
At their September meeting, the Menonaqua Beach Cottage Owners Association passed a motion in support of the "Smart Roads: Petoskey" project and requested the Michigan Department of Transportation to make a full and complete study of the "Smart Roads" alternative.
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Thursday, June 01, 2000 Detailed Alternatives to the Petoskey Bypass
Petoskey area residents will long remember 1999 as a turning point in the debate over whether to build a highway bypass through the countryside. No more will neighbors ask each other, "Are you for or against the bypass?"
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Thursday, June 01, 2000 Smart Roads: Petoskey: The Smart Choice
After more than a year of work by dozens of Petoskey area residents, and our consultant New Alternatives, the Michigan Land Use Institute has developed a better, faster, and cheaper alternative to the Petoskey Bypass proposed by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT).
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Thursday, June 01, 2000 Smart Roads: Petoskey: The Smart Choice
Studies show that more than 80 percent of Petoskey area motorists begin or end their journeys in Petoskey, rather than just passing through. Therefore, to ease congestion, investments should continue to be made to upgrade state, county, and municipal roads by expanding intersections, adding turn lanes, and computerizing traffic lights.
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Thursday, June 01, 2000 Protecting the Land
Petoskey area residents want to protect farms, recreational land, and the region’s rural character. In conversations and community surveys, residents have expressed the high value they place on conserving the countryside.
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Wednesday, December 01, 1999 Proposed Petoskey Bypass
Rick Kuner, a nationally-recognized authority on transportation planning, has been hired to assist area citizens and local governments in the "Petoskey Alternative Transportation and Land Use Project" and design a technically feasible alternative to the proposed $70 million Petoskey bypass.
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Wednesday, December 01, 1999 PETOSKEY BYPASS
MDOT began with two bypass routes -- the Near South and the Far South. They met stiff public resis- tance because one would involve major reconstruction of local roads and neighborhoods, and the other would carve up the countryside.
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Saturday, May 01, 1999 Report Outlines Workable Alternatives
Residents in and around Petoskey are facing a historic choice. Should they agree to allow the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) to build a $70 million highway bypass that will fundamentally change the character of the region and fuel sprawl?
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Saturday, May 01, 1999 An Interview with Joe E. Hoffman, Jr.
Joe E. Hoffman, Jr. began helping on the 300-acre family farm that he now owns with his father and brother not long after learning to walk.
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Monday, February 01, 1999 Useful Alternatives to the Petoskey Bypass
The Michigan Land Use Institute, assisted by area residents and officials from Bear Creek Township, has launched the Petoskey Alternative Transportation and Land Use Project to develop a feasible alternative to the bypass.
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Monday, February 01, 1999 Report: Useful Alternatives to the Petoskey Bypass
In Phase Three, New Alternatives will compare the performance of the proposed alternatives with the performance of the planned Petoskey Bypass. The evaluation will include a rigorous and comprehensive review of the competing proposals’ effects on land use, the environment, the local economy, municipal costs, local taxes, and the level of improvement in the regional transportation system.
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Monday, December 01, 1997 Driving Away Sprawl
PETOSKEY, MI — There isn’t any mystery about the cause of Joe Hoffman Jr.’s discomfort. It’s right there, just below the broad ridge his family has farmed since 1877. Every evening, like corn popping on a giant skillet, the lights switch on in the subdivisions on the edge of Petoskey, the nearest city.
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Area residents seek to protect the rural character of their community May 18, 2001 “Smart Roads: Petoskey” Institute urges state to study alternative to Petoskey bypass The Michigan Department of Transportation is attempting to plow forward with its bypass proposal, ignoring the wishes of Petoskey-area residents and local governments. The Institute and the Environmental Law & Policy Center are cautioning MDOT to comply with federal law and listen to local citizens.
Downtown PetoskeyAugust 4, 2000 Institute Advances Alternative to Petoskey Bypass The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that two Petoskey-area townships praised the Institute's work to advance a local roads alternative to the state-proposed Petoskey bypass.
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