This is a summarized list of various meetings happening throughout the city, in one convenient location.
UPDATE 2024-09-10: The times 7:00pm and 2:00pm of the City Commission meetings in December have been swapped, typically the first meeting of the month is at 2pm and the second meeting is at 7pm. These were swapped to accommodate performing the oath-of-office for those elected in December; so the first meeting of the month - the 3rd of December - will at 7:00pm and the second meeting - the 17th of December - will be at 2:00pm.
The Mackinaw Center's Issues & Ideas Forum hosted a session entitled "Why Michigan Should Embrace Zoning Reform". The three guest panelists included Joshua Lunger of the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce, Jessica Letaw who is an activist and organizer in Ann Arbor, and Emily Hamilton an urban economic and land-use policy scholar of George Mason University.
If you are not planning for your housing future as a community you are committing economic suicide.
On November 6th the community access show "City Connection" hosted Kyle Van Strien, current chair of the Grand Rapids Planning Commission, and City Commissioner Melinda Ysasi (2nd Ward). In the show's traditional format the host interviews the Commissioner Ysasis, then Planning Commissioner Van Strien, and then the two together.
