Urban Grand Rapids

It is the end of August, and that means a new Rapid schedule. You can download the new schedule book 👉here👈. All the apps should adjust automatically, but be sure to double check your connections. There are no frequency changes this time, however some of the stop timings have shifted a few minutes forward or back.

The municipal agenda for the Planning Commission meeting on 2024-08-22 is 👉here👈

Don't forget to participate in 👉Mobile GR's current mobility survey👈.

The municipal agenda for the Planning Commission meeting on 2024-08-08 is 👉here👈

1700 28th St & 2856 Kalamazoo Ave SE

This item was postponed to from the 2024-05-09 Planning Commission meeting and then tabled at the 2024-06-13 Planning Commission meeting.

On 2024-07-16 the City Commission and Planning Commission held a joint meeting to begin final review of the new Bridge To Our Future Master Plan. City Commissioners O'Connor (1st Ward) and Robbins (1st Ward) were absent. The format of the meeting is a presentation by the Planning Department and their consultants, followed by questions from City Commission and then the Planning Commission.

A presentation was made today (2024-07-11) to the Downtown Development Authority (DDS) about the proposal to house a childcare center at the Rapid Central Station (RCS). This is an idea which has been under development for some time. The video of the meeting can be found 👉here👈 with this agenda item of the meeting beginning at 1:17:00. It is difficult to imagine a more perfectly urbanist project than a childcare facility provided at a transit center - - and this may be the first such facility in the nation. 👍

There will be a joint meeting of the Planning Commission and the City Commission on July 16th at 11:30am - 1:30pm in the City Commission Chambers to discuss the adoption of the new Master Plan. The 👉agenda item for this meeting👈 contains the proposed adoption schedule.

There are two "Affordable Housing" subdivisions of the City of Grand Rapids: the Grand Rapids Affordable Housing Commission (GRHC) and the Grand Rapids Affordable Housing Fund Board (GRAHFB). The two units of government are completely distinct.