Union Township officials confirmed their commitment to building a vital community by passing a Complete Streets Resolution at their regular meeting on Wednesday, March 23.
The resolution affirms the township is moving towards making the township more walkeable and bikeable and will incorporate Complete Streets concepts in its transportation planning and improvements.
Union Township became the 34th Michigan Community (see comment) to pass a Complete Streets ordinance or resolution in coordination with state legislation that was passed in 2010.
The township has been working with the City of Mount Pleasant, Isabella County, Central Michigan University, the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe. Local schools and other institutions and community organizations on a micropolitan area non-motorized transportation plan along with the Greenway Collaborative of Ann Arbor.
Union Township Complete Streets Resolution
▲ Here is a copy of Union Township’s Complete Streets Resolution
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April 4, 2011 at 8:40 pm
League of Michigan Bicyclists
Note: We recently learned that Milford Township passed a resolution in January/February which is prior to Union Township’s and a number of other communities. This would thus technically change the order of policies by one from January through the beginning of April 2011, effecting the order of policies from Allen Park, Munising, Burt Township, Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids. Charter Twp is thus actually the 35th (that we are aware of). For the sake of consistency, as it has been publicized that Union Twp is the 34th, we too will continue to list it as such and hope that this comment will serve as a point of clarification to our glitched counting system which does not take into consideration policies previously passed without our knowledge.
And yes, we realize that this is far more information than anybody really cares to read. The truly exciting thing, however, is that Michigan continues to lead the nation in the number of complete streets policies!
April 14, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Complete Streets updates from around the state « Michigan Complete Streets Coalition
[…] streets policies.” Other townships that have adopted complete streets include Marquette Township, Union Township and Atlas Township. We will be keeping a close eye on these communities to see how the road […]