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Detroit committee advances Alexa Bush for planning director after interview
Summary
The Internal Operations Standing Committee interviewed mayoral appointee Alexa Bush and moved her appointment (line item 7.1) to formal session with a recommendation to approve. Bush outlined neighborhood-focused priorities including the master plan update, climate resilience and historic preservation.
Alexa Bush, the mayor’s appointee to lead Detroit’s Planning and Development Department, appeared before the Internal Operations Standing Committee on Jan. 15 and the committee voted to forward her appointment to the full City Council with a recommendation to approve.
Bush told the committee she is a landscape architect and a former city planner who returned from a three-year post at the Kresge Foundation to accept the mayor’s call to lead the department. She described a neighborhood-first agenda that emphasizes updating the city’s master plan of…
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