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File #: 25-1519    Version: 1 Name: 9/2/25 AA Marathon 2025
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 9/2/2025 In control: City Council
On agenda: 9/2/2025 Final action: 9/2/2025
Enactment date: 9/2/2025 Enactment #: R-25-325
Title: Resolution to Approve Street Closings for the Ann Arbor Marathon Running Event - Sunday, October 12, 2025
Attachments: 1. A2M PROPOSED COURSE MAP.pdf
Title
Resolution to Approve Street Closings for the Ann Arbor Marathon Running Event - Sunday, October 12, 2025
Memorandum
Attached for your consideration is a resolution to approve the closing of certain streets for the Ann Arbor Marathon Running Event on Sunday, October 12, 2025 from 3:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M.

The applicant, Epic Races, LLC, is raising money through this event for select charities with the common mission to "E-Race the Stigma" surrounding mental health: Families Against Narcotics, Miles Jeffrey Roberts Foundation, Girls on the Run, Lost Voices, and Concert Music Outreach Collective.

The applicant has requested to close the following route between 3:00 A.M. and 1:00 P.M. and the streets will be reopened as soon as safely possible after participants have cleared the areas (many of these streets will occupy one lane only). The races start at 7:00 AM:

* Start on ASHLEY heading SOUTH
* LEFT on LIBERTY
* RIGHT on STATE
* LEFT on SOUTH UNIVERSITY
* LEFT on PEDESTRIAN MALL (Sidewalk)
* Follow along and cross NORTH UNIVERSITY
* Take the path to the right of the Biological Sciences building and head straight to the CCRB bridge.
* Make your way across the bridge, along the path until you come to OBSERVATORY ST. TURN RIGHT on OBSERVATORY. LEFT on GEDDES
* SLIGHT RIGHT to stay on GEDDES
* DO NOT TURN LEFT INTO ARBORETUM - 10K ONLY
* LEFT on HURON PARKWAY
* LEFT on E. HURON RIVER DRIVE
* LOOP LEFT on DIXBORO (NOT OLD DIXBORO)
* LEFT turn (before the light at Geddes) to go down to the DIXBORO DAM
* LEFT on GALLUP PARK PATHWAY
* STAY ON GALLUP PARK PATHWAY FOR .64 miles, all the way to PARKER MILL
* STAY RIGHT at the fork in the path to continue under GEDDES ROAD
* STAY ON PATH straight through to DIXBORO ROAD
* CROSS DIXBORO ROAD
* CROSS GEDDES ROAD and jump on sidewalk (stay on sidewalk)
* Sidewalk ends after Concordia College, continue onto GEDDES ROAD (stay left)
* CROSS HURON PARKWAY move to the sidewalk on the right side of FULLER RD.
* At traffic ligh...

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