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Detroit planning director outlines youth-focused Plan Detroit update as council moves PDD budget to executive session
Summary
Planning Director Alexa Bush told the City Council Committee of the Whole that PDD will prioritize youth engagement, neighborhood framework plans and a retail strategy as it advances the Plan Detroit master plan; the council voted to move the department's budget into executive session and approved council members' requests to add schools and recreational-space planning to the closing resolution.
Alexa Bush, director of the city's Planning and Development Department, told the City Council Committee of the Whole that the department will prioritize youth engagement, neighborhood framework plans and a retail-focused economic strategy as it advances the Plan Detroit master-plan update.
"We are very excited to work with you," Bush said. "We are a small but mighty team of about 40 FTEs." She told the council PDD's budget is "just shy of $7,000,000" and said most of that funding is for staff capacity, training and software licenses such as AutoCAD and Adobe.
Bush said PDD will expand youth participation in planning through programs the department has piloted, including a master-plan youth summit and neighborhood work in District 7 (the Cody Rouge/Warrendale area). She said the…
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