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Council debates Water Street RFQ process and committee role; timeline amendment unresolved as meeting adjourns
Summary
Council considered a staff plan to use an ad hoc citizens committee to develop community benefits and an RFQ for the Water Street redevelopment. Members clashed over pace, committee composition, facilitator use and whether RFQ release should move from June to August; discussion ended without final vote and the item will return to a future meeting.
YPSILANTI, Mich. — The future of the city's largest redevelopment parcel, Water Street, remained unsettled after a protracted council debate about how an ad hoc citizens committee should shape community benefits and a request-for-qualifications process for developers.
Staff proposed a staged timeline: a set of visioning meetings with the ad hoc committee, an RFQ released…
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