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City staff and WMU graduate present searchable Planning Commission database documenting records back to 1954
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City planning staff and an intern from Western Michigan University demonstrated a new Planning Commission database that compiles 1,100+ historic requests back to 1954, with search and filter functions and links to TIFF minutes; staff said public access and curation logistics remain under discussion.
City planning staff and a Western Michigan University graduate student demonstrated a new searchable Planning Commission records database at the May 7 meeting of the City of Kalamazoo Planning Commission.
Bobby (city planning staff) introduced the project and credited Charlie Kovacs, a recent graduate and former intern, for compiling the data. Charlie said he entered more than 1,100 individual planning commission requests covering 1954 through the present…
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