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Resolution Directing the City Administrator to Provide Additional Funding in the FY20/21 Budget and Financial Plan to Address Affordable Housing, Climate Action, and Pedestrian Safety and Provide SMART Performance Outcomes
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Whereas, The City Council of the City of Ann Arbor, on behalf of the members of the community, has established the following policy goals that reflect our community values: enabling a safe, welcoming, and inclusive community; providing a financially stable local government; promoting responsible economic development; protecting the environment as responsible stewards of natural resources; and building and maintaining sustainable infrastructure;
Whereas, The City Council adopted the Housing and Affordability and Economic Equity Analysis Report in 2015 (Washtenaw County), which Report includes the recommendation that the City of Ann Arbor add 140 affordable housing units per year to create resiliency, promote equity, and improve opportunity for households of all income levels;
Whereas, The City Council adopted the City of Ann Arbor Climate Action Plan in 2012, an ambitious multi-strategy vision to reduce community wide emissions through aggressive actions in the areas of renewable energy, transportation, building efficiency, land use, and adaptation and resiliency; and the City has subsequently adopted policies setting goals for conversion to clean and renewable energy, green fleet conversion, and environmentally preferable procurement;
Whereas, The City Council adopted the City's Non-Motorized Transportation Plan in 2007 and a Vision Zero policy in 2017 to improve and enhance pedestrian and bicyclist safety and to encourage alternative forms of transportation to single occupant vehicles and to pursue a Complete Streets approach, and the City is currently updating the overall Transportation Plan to include the incorporation of a Vision Zero approach;
Whereas, The lack of dedicated and reliable funding sources and achievable meas...
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