Planning Commission

The City of Manistee Planning Commission will be holding a Master Plan Visioning Session instead of their regularly scheduled worksession on Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 6:30 pm in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 70 Maple Street, Manistee, Michigan.  City of Manistee Announces Master Planning Visioning Session Manistee, MI – The City of Manistee invites all members of the community to a Visioning Session to be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 21, at Manistee City Hall (70 Maple Street). The session will be held in conjunction with the writing of an updated City of Manistee Master Plan, and its purpose is to gather input from the public for use in formulating the City’s long-range priorities, goals, and strategies. The City of Manistee is the most recent addition to the largest planning collaboration in Michigan history, the 16- community Lakes to Land Regional Initiative. This collaboration seeks to use the master planning process to identify shared priorities and opportunities for cooperative implementation strategies, and each of the new master plans written within the collaboration has been grounded in priorities set by its citizens through the visioning process. The meeting will be held in a workshop format in which participants work with their neighbors to identify the community’s strengths, barriers, and preferred strategies. Results from the session will be made public on the project’s website, www.lakestoland.org, by mid-December. A follow-up survey will be conducted for a several-week period in December and January to give community members who are unable to make the November 21 meeting a chance to weigh in on the results and to offer their commentary and suggestions. Beckett & Raeder, Inc., a planning and landscape architecture firm which serves as the consultant for the Lakes to Land Regional Initiative, will facilitate the session. Questions and comments are always welcome at 734-239-6616 or ldumouchel@bria2.com. The City of Manistee has joined the Lakes to Land Regional Initiative, a unique collaboration in which 16 Northwest Michigan communities are using the master planning process to identify strategies for working together. The City of Manistee will be updating its master plan. You are invited to a Community Visioning Session to share your preferred vision for our future. Citizen input is critical to creating a plan that genuinely reflects our community. Please join us. November 21, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. Manistee City Hall 70 Maple Street www.lakestoland.org