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What is Building Place? Effective community planning is essential to keep your hometown an attractive place to live, work, visit, and play. Building Place seeks to consistently provide exceptional community planning, zoning, and economic development advisory services to Michigan’s smaller towns, villages, and rural communities. We also have computer mapping (GIS), landscape architecture, and other expertise available as needed Building Place Consultants will meet both your expectations and your budget. No matter where you are in Michigan, Building Place is ready to be your local choice for professional planning, zoning, and economic development consulting services.
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Building Place Notebook · 1M ago

Legislative Action Alert: MI Senate Poised to Preempt Local Control over Cell Towers

SB1064 would impose a one-size-fits-all mandate on local governments where cell tower collocation is concerned. This is a solution in search of a problem.
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Building Place Notebook · 1M ago

New MI Law Restricts Use of Road Ends for Mooring of Boats on Inland Lakes

For our many rural townships with lakes and lots of summer recreational visitors, this new state law provides additional regulatory teeth to reduce conflicts with lakefront cottage neighbors.
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Building Place Notebook · 2M ago

MI Court of Appeals: Junkyard Removal is a Reasonable Remedy for Violations

The following was excerpted from a case summary prepared by Kurt Schindler at MSU-Extension (excerpts reprinted with permission from the author). The Zoning Guru chose this case because it offers some hope for communities dealing with nuisances related to old, nonconforming salvage yards and junkya
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Building Place Notebook · 10M ago

Friday Funny! – The Ultimate Takings Issue

A Friday Funny! cartoon courtesy of Paul Zucker, FAICP of Zucker Systems....
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Building Place Notebook · 10M ago

Planning for Agriculture is our Specialty

In the past, the conventional wisdom among too many “urban” planners was that agricultural zoning was little more than a “holding zone” for vacant land, waiting for development at some future time. Today, there is a growing understanding that communities wishing to preserve the agricultural economy
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Building Place Notebook · 10M ago

Jargon-Free Zoning Advice – What a Concept!

As the Building Place Notebook enters its third year, we're pleased to be your online resource for jargon-free information on community planning, zoning, and local economic development topics!
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Building Place Notebook · 1Y ago

Speaker’s Corner

As a writer, public speaker, and community planning consultant, Building Place's Rodney C. Nanney, AICP strives to translate the tangled legalisms and technical jargon of zoning and land development into everyday language. Mr. Nanney currently has several openings available to speak on these topics
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Building Place Notebook · 1Y ago

Five Steps towards Downtown as an Indispensible Place

To retain existing businesses and create new investment and growth opportunities, communities must do more than just respond and react. Implementation of aneffective and coordinated economic development strategy is an essential part of making your downtown an indispensible place to work, shop, live
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Building Place Notebook · 1Y ago

The Art of Active Listening

[reposted from February 23, 2009 - well worth another read!] How to revitalize a neighborhood?  By listening to its residents. Community planners and planning consultants (like many “experts”) can easily fall into the trap of listening too little and talking too much.  Planning is not like medicine,
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Building Place Notebook · 1Y ago

Zoning without Boundaries

Proximity, association, and accessibility between home, work, and leisure activities are essential factors in building places with a strong sense of community. In place of single-use zoning districts that tend to isolate people and places, the Place Zoning model emphasizes that new uses must be loc
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