Sorry, but I’m not pulling punches on this one. Being “anti-ICE” is the only possible “good messaging” that anyone that wants to be on the right side of history can have. Many issues have room for nuance, but this one doesn’t. You’re either anti-ICE or you’re wrong, and likely an awful human being.

If you lost your golf ball, it is across Main Street from Ann Arbor Golf and Outing.

Trainnnnssssss!!!! Please fill out this survey about Michigan’s potential North+South Passenger Rail! (Tangentially #A2Council related.) www.northsouthrail.org/public-engag...

From the Editorial Board: Every last American should agree the death in Minneapolis of a 37-year-old American mother of three at the hands of a gun wielded by an agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is an abomination and, we fear, a harbinger of yet worse to come.

if you lost your glasses they are on the curb at DTW mcnamara departures

If you lost your tiny shoe, it's on the front steps of Angell Hall cc @juliewbee.bsky.social

if you lost your iceberg lettuce it is on a seat towards the back of the town shuttle in jackson hole, bus number 333 /cc @juliewbee.bsky.social

The final #a2Council night of the year is starting. Here's your preview: www.damnarbor.com/2025/12/ann-... This meeting has everything: Trunkline improvements Resolutions of intent Funding for the subsidized development on the Y lot

Watching bicyclists go by on Main Street after a big snow, knowing that there will be a chorus of people absolutely certain that they don’t exist. #A2Council

Most of the buildable land in #AnnArbor -especially the high demand neighborhoods-has been downzoned for many decades. Now we live with the predictable consequences. #A2Council

Although most US cities have failed at attracting families with kids in downtowns and other urban places (largely through the creation of a self-fulfilling prophesy of failure), other places, including Vancouver, have succeeded. Read my @vox.com interview with @volts.wtf. www.vox.com/2017/6/21/15...

If you lost your pizza, it is on S. Main Street by the railroad tracks. #AnnArbor

Hey #A2Council and architecture fans, here is an interesting event tomorrow at the U-M Library: www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

If you lost your bottle of beer, it is by this tree at Packard and Fourth. #AnnArbor

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

If you lost your Swedish fish, it is at Wurster Park. #AnnArbor

If you lost your cross, it is on the corner of S. Main and E. Davis. #AnnArbor

Woot! The Draft Ann Arbor Comprehensive Land Use Plan will now enter the requisite 63-day plan review. #A2Council engage.a2gov.org/comprehensiv...

New open data portal from the city! Intended to be easier for everyone to use than previous machine-readable site. ADA and mobile device compliant! www.a2gov.org/news/posts/a... #A2Council

Gentle readers, it's #a2Council night. Here's your preview: www.damnarbor.com/2025/10/ann-... In a rare turn of events, tonight's spiciest chili is on the consent agenda. Hopefully nobody pulls the Comprehensive Land Use Plan update from the consent agenda and it passes with out much ado.

Does your local coffee shop look like this? If not, it’s probably because: 1) zoning created large distances between housing & shops. 2) the streets between housing & shops are unsafe for biking. 3) there isn’t any/enough secure bike parking 1/2

If you lost your cut-glass rocks glass, it is in front of the Intramural Sports Building. #AnnArbor

If you lost your very fancy eagle-embossed belt with a wolf buckle, it is on Fourth Ave. #AnnArbor

If you lost your BORG, it is on Greene Street. #AnnArbor

Wake up, #A2Council fans, T. Swift isn’t the only person dropping something new today! Draft 3 of the Comp Plan is available now! engage.a2gov.org/comprehensiv...

2025 is on pace to be Ann Arbor's worst year for pedestrian crashes. We talk with @crashesinannarbor.bsky.social's Peter Houk who complied these data. #a2Council www.damnarbor.com/2025/10/2025...

Very interesting, #A2Council.

This is why I’ve been trying to reform design review for a decade and generally oppose more new city regs. This isn’t benign bureaucracy—it ossifies into a tool for capricious delay and to extract reductions in dev capacity.

There are only 41,000 coal miners in the United States. By way of comparison, there are 100,000 **registered** yoga teachers, 361,000 Starbucks baristas and 265,000 faculty and staff members working for the University of California system alone.

Ye Olde Ann Arbor hasn’t seen this many cowboy boots since, well, maybe ever. #ZachBryanConcert

If you lost your Detroit Lions Defend the Den rally towels, they are by (new) Elbel Field. #AnnArbor

Three years and no response from the city for this report on a dangerous intersection. I bike this way regularly and cars never yield to pedestrians even when the walk signal is activated. This area has very high pedestrian traffic. #a2Council seeclickfix.com/issues/13483...

Zach Bryan and John Mayer are headlining @umich.edu's first concert at Michigan Stadium on September 27. While the show is expected to have over 112,000 fans in attendance, it got us wondering about some of the other concerts at U-M’s second-biggest venue: Crisler Center. pulp.aadl.org/node/647186

Someone had to say it

Crowd sourcing this: What's the best way to bike between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti after dark? I usually bike along Packard to/from work, but how is it at night? My bike has lights.

It's #a2Council night in Ann Arbor. Here's your preview: www.damnarbor.com/2025/09/ann-... Of note: Sale of the Kline Lot and 415 W Washington A vote of support for the Treeline Trail.

if you lost your toilet bowl cleaner, it’s on the curb across from frisinger park /cc @juliewbee.bsky.social

See you at the Green Fair, #a2council! www.a2gov.org/news/posts/a...

Michigan Contemporary Craft opens tonight at the @a2artcenter.bsky.social! Come see this incredible exhibition and have a Mothfire brew with me tonight, 6-8p. Exhibition runs until October 5. concentratemedia.com/the-art-of-f...

"Conservationists should measure their success by looking at outcomes, not by how many development or management projects they managed to stop in a given year... We need an approach to nature that not only protects but builds." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/29/o...

Ooh, petrichor!

Want a happy city? Build for bikes. So pleased to see Minneapolis continuing to be on this list & can personally confirm: I am happier here than anywhere I've ever lived. And a huge factor in that is my ability to live a less car dependent life with my family.

If you lost your wheelchair, it is on Hill street. #AnnArbor

If you lost your turkey, it’s hanging out in someone’s front yard on the 700 block of Miller. cc @juliewbee.bsky.social

#A2Council make sure you fill out the Ann Arbor Transportation Survey! Note that the map input thingies are a little clumsy.

Good to see that Boston is still out there, doing Boston things!

No car? No worries! IKEA Utrecht rents (covered) cargo bikes, bike trailers, and trolleys to easily transport (large) purchases home. Because most of the times, you don't need a car to get your favourite products at home! 🚲 📦 👌🏼

Still think families with kids don’t want to live downtown? They will, if you actually plan for them. Downtown Vancouver’s 3rd elementary school is opening this fall in Coal Harbour. 3 storeys, 340 capacity (should’ve been more), homes/daycare above. 7300+ kids (0-14) in downtown peninsula (2021).