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Residents urge shelter, remediation and stronger local affordability rules as Ypsilanti forms Water Street committee
Summary
At a packed Ypsilanti meeting on the Water Street RFQ, residents pressed for protections for people living on the site, called for environmental remediation and for community benefits that use a local AMI; dozens introduced themselves as nominees for an ad hoc committee ahead of a Feb. 17 council appointment.
YPSILANTI — Dozens of residents used a public meeting on Thursday to urge the city to protect unhoused people, require stronger affordability measures and prioritize environmental cleanup on the Water Street site, as staff and consultants described a forthcoming RFQ and the ad hoc committee that will shape community benefits.
"This is our piece of land. We are the public and this is public land," said a longtime organizer who told the room Water Street has been contested for more than 20 years and warned that development without local safeguards would displace minority residents. Multiple speakers raised the presence of…
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