While it's personally good for me, it's bad policy. If this goes to its full intentions, I'd have to either live in an Ypsi ghetto, pay big bucks for Ann Arbor, get lucky with a spot in a small town, or go past the county line and pay for it in transportation costs as well as increased housing costs from supply.
Exactly. I personally like having state land around that I can wander on but its land that produces little to no revenue. If you want a small town you better hurry because they're strangling us with new state land right up to our backyards. (never mind all the connecting corridors)
Claiming its land being preserved is foolish in this case. Its already rural and isn't threatened by urban sprawl. I was out and about the other day and can't for the life of me figure out why the state has to have this land. Aside from all the oil and gas drilling going on in the area.
They appear to be building a green wall right down the Jackson/Washtenaw county line.
The surprising part about Washtenaw County is that it's still mostly rural, with or without the greenbelts. Large multi-acre lots aren't uncommon away from the main development areas. Anything west of Dexter or Saline is all rural outside of Chelsea or Manchester. South of Ann Arbor or Ypsi is rural east of Saline until Milan. Farms still border Ann Arbor to the north going past my area until Whitmore Lake. Salem is mostly rural, still. Most of the building is in Scio, Pittsfield, or Superior Townships. Northfield has some by Whitmore Lake.
A lot of the new building is instead over in Dundee, Plymouth, Canton, South Lyon, or Livingston County
