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Resolution to Approve Street Closures for University of Michigan’s Spring Commencement, Concerts and Football Games for the 2026 Season
Memorandum
This request is for approval of a resolution replicating street closures for the football games and applying them to Spring Commencement, 2026 and concerts being held in the Stadium over two days in July. This resolution will approve a request to close E. Keech Street between S. Main and Greene streets, limiting access to parking permit holders on Greene Street from E. Hoover to Keech streets, closing the westbound right turn lane on E. Stadium Boulevard (onto S. Main Street) just south of the Michigan Stadium, and closing S. Main Street to both local and through traffic from Stadium Boulevard to Pauline. These closures would be effective three hours before Spring Commencement, concerts and games to the end of these events, with the exception of south bound S. Main Street which will be closed beginning one hour before a game to the end of these events. The events for the 2026 season are on the following dates:
• 5/2/26 - Spring Commencement
• 7/24-25/26 - Morgan Wallen Concerts
• 9/5/26
• 9/12/26
• 9/19/26
• 9/26/26
• 10/17/26
• 10/24/26
• 11/7/26
• 11/21/26
This will be the second year of live concerts being held at Michigan Stadium.
The applicant, the University of Michigan, in close collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Ann Arbor Police and other local law enforcements officials, continues to enhance security at Michigan Stadium and for the residents who live in nearby neighborhoods by creating a vehicle-free zone around the Michigan Stadium during Saturday UM Football games and other major events. Vehicle access from the neighborhood streets onto the closed area of S. Main Street would be either prohibited or restricted at police-controlled access points depending on the street to accommodate people needing ingress or egress to properties fronting S. Main Street that have no side-street access. The closed portion of these streets will remain available for pedestrian use and emergency vehicle response to the area.
Staff
Prepared by: Debra Williams, Office Manager
Reviewed by: Derek Delacourt, Community Services Area Administrator
Approved by: Milton Dohoney Jr., City Administrator
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Whereas, The University of Michigan, Federal Bureau of Investigation, City of Ann Arbor Police and other local law enforcement officials are cooperating in a joint effort to enhance security at Michigan Stadium and for the residents who live in nearby neighborhoods by creating a vehicle-free zone around the Stadium during football games and other major events;
Whereas, The vehicle-free zone would be created by closing E. Keech Street between S. Main and Greene streets, limiting access to parking permit holders on Greene Street from E. Hoover to Keech streets, closing the westbound right-turn lane on E. Stadium Boulevard (onto S. Main Street) just south of the Michigan Stadium, and closing S. Main Street to both local and through traffic from Stadium Boulevard to Pauline;
Whereas, These closures would be effective three hours before the game (or concerts or Spring Commencement) to the end of these events, with the exception of south bound S. Main Street which will be closed beginning one hour before the events to the end of each event; and
Whereas, The dates for said closures would occur on the following dates:
• 5/2/26 - Spring Commencement
• 7/24-25/26 - Morgan Wallen Concerts
• 9/5/26
• 9/12/26
• 9/19/26
• 9/26/26
• 10/17/26
• 10/24/26
• 11/7/26
• 11/21/26
RESOLVED, Street closures on E. Keech Street between S. Main and Greene streets, limiting access to parking permit holders on Greene Street from E. Hoover to Keech streets, the westbound right-turn lane on E. Stadium Boulevard (onto S. Main Street) just south of the Michigan Stadium, and S. Main Street between Pauline and Stadium occur from three hours before until the end of each event, with the exception of south bound S. Main Street which will be closed beginning one hour before until the end of each event on the following dates:
• 5/2/26 - Spring Commencement
• 7/24-25/26 - Morgan Wallen Concerts
• 9/5/26
• 9/12/26
• 9/19/26
• 9/26/26
• 10/17/26
• 10/24/26
• 11/7/26
• 11/21/26