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).

I love when people respond to something bike commute related with a quip about snow as if bikes can't work in snow, and as if every winter we are not bombarded with images of cars struggling in the snow or highways filled with stalled or abandoned cars.

if you are mad at people on bikes because they are biking where you're walking, you are almost certainly actually mad at cars

We’ve built an exceptional urbanism and city-building community here on Bluesky. The best on any social media platform in my opinion. Thank you, please share this, and please help this keep growing every way you can. #UrbanistShoutOut #UrbanismOnBluesky

If you lost your elephant and/or snake, they are at Wurster Park. I don’t know if they started as friends, but they appear to be now. #AnnArbor

tfw you’re having an #a2council party with @juliewbee.bsky.social and @damnarbor.bsky.social

Hey @A2Council. Power is currently out at City Hall, so be prepared if you are coming to tonight’s Planning Commission meeting. Not sure what you should be prepared for, but be prepared. Heat? Cancellation? Who knows!

FYI, for those in Ward 1, Precinct 2, your polling place is still Community High School. You just need to enter on the Division Street side! (Don't be put off by all of the Construction Zone/Closed signs on the 4th Street side!) #a2council

Today in Ann Arbor we have the chance to support our beloved library by voting YES on proposals A&B. A bigger site will get us a better library and more housing, and finally put a desolate parking lot to good use. #a2council

The polls are open so here's our election endorsement: Vote Yes on Ann Arbor Proposals A and B today. Proposals A and B will build a stronger, more equitable, more affordable, and more sustainable community with a stronger library at the heart of it. www.damnarbor.com/2025/08/elec... #a2Council

Tonight’s the night we move on from seven years of waste: wasted time, wasted resources, and wasted opportunities to meet community needs. Let’s turn a parking lot that we don’t need into so many things that we do need. Vote yes on Props A and B. #a2council

Let’s go #annarbor. Vote for a new downtown @aadl.org library. People over parking lots! #a2council #a2schoolboard

The timing of my family being featured in this article on the amazing @aadl.org Summer Game has given me the opportunity to tell all my local friends who text me in excitement to VOTE YES ON PROPS A and B tomorrow! #a2council, #a2schools, #a2schoolboard

Hey #AnnArbor! Vote YES for proposals A & B on or before August 5! We need a new downtown #Library and a lot more #housing #AffordableHousing #HousingAffordability #LoveLibraries

"Now today we can build a bigger, better library for children like me all those years ago, for parents like my mother," Sova said. "New inventory, an outdoor play area, a kids room, gathering space, performance venue, gallery, studio, cafe — for zero new tax dollars." #A2Council

Exclusive: a Michigan Campaign Finance Act complaint has been filed against Ann Arbor's Library Green Conservancy. The complaint alleges LGC's advocacy against Props A & B violates state law limiting how 501(c)(3)s can engage in politics. Read more here: www.damnarbor.com/2025/07/excl... #a2Council

Oh also before you go, you might want to visit mvic.sos.state.mi.us/Voter/Index and confirm you're registered to vote in the city. If you're not (and should be), then you gotta go to City Hall! #a2council

A2 friends, right now you have the EXTRA SPECIAL opportunity to vote FOR the library, AT the library! Early voting sites are the Westgate, Traverwood, and Mallets Creek @aadl.org branches, as well as City Hall. Get yourself to any of 'em and vote YES on A and B today! #a2council

Early Voting starts today in #AnnArbor! VOTE YES on Proposals A & B to support our Library (with no new taxes)! 🗳️✅📚 If you are registered in the City of Ann Arbor, you can early vote in the August 5, 2025 special election. #A2Council

Happy first day of early voting, #a2council! From now through Sunday, you can vote at any early voting location: The Malletts Creek, Westgate, & Traverwood libraries, & City Hall. If you’re not registered to vote, you can register at City Hall & then vote immediately, including on Election Day.

If you lost your cabbage, it is on N. Fourth Ave. #AnnArbor

“We, writers, painters, sculptors, architects, & lovers of the beauty of Paris that was until now intact, come to protest with all our might… against the erection in the very heart of our capital, of the useless & monstrous Eiffel Tower.” - Protest against Eiffel Tower. 1889 🇫🇷

Listen, you do you. But maybe not as the former president of the Library Green Conservamcy while in a government meeting for a commission you’re serving on. These are not serious people. #a2council

From a former AADL director: “Over the years the AADL met with the Library Green Conservancy several times…Our efforts were met with ridiculous, unworkable proposals, such as a cryptocurrency that would be unique to their Commons…” www.damnarbor.com/2025/07/lett...

Today's reminder that Library Green is an unserious organization run by unserious people. Prop A/B stand on their own merits, but anyone on the fence ought to shudder at the thought of giving LG another 5-10 years to cosplay fundraising and park planning. #a2council

A very special letter to Damn Arbor from former AALD Director, Josie Parker. www.damnarbor.com/2025/07/lett... #a2Council

Ann Arbor Public Schools also has little farms at some schools managed by PTOs. annarborfarmtoschool.weebly.com/school-garde...

And Willow Run Acres to rent a raised bed, come to a workshop, and visit the Underground Railroad Garden. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...