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Wetlands You Can't Bank On

… start "a wetland mitigation bank," an area that is managed specifically … owner of an approved wetland bank can receive state certified … destroyed. Wetland mitigation banks make it easier for developers, … maintenance of the wetland in the bank. Such wetland banks are precisely … established for use by commercial land developers. Even more disturbing, …

Our Accomplishments

… they caused the Small Business Administration to pay lender fees to the bank that processed the loans,” the Justice Department’s Civil Division announced … 2010-2019 | 2020-present Dec 2009 Merit pay for teachers becomes law of the land Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed into law a requirement that school districts …

Michigan Needs a 'State Bank'

by Michigan Sen. Hansen Clarke, D-Detroit

… Michigan should run its own bank. This idea has recently been … have already purchased the land and entered into leases to … loan. This proposed state bank would provide our small businesses … not against the market. The bank that we are proposing would be a wholesale bank which would support our community …

Land Use: Markets, Mandates, or Both?

… being drawn between competing land-use interests than on Old Mission … the Peninsula has made farm land extremely expensive. Many farmers … activists are trying to keep land from being developed on Old … easement. There are 40 charitable land trusts in Michigan today that … attracts developers with bigger bank rolls. Environmentalists will …

Racetrack Buys Property From Wayne Co. Taxpayers for $1 and Sells It for $179K

One-dollar investment may yet yield two more property sales for track owners

… Township racecourse that bought land for $1 from Wayne County less … Pinnacle Race Course bought the land after agreeing to numerous … could not get details of the land deal on Thursday. The land … voicemail. The Wayne County Land Bank Authority sold the land to … Analysis: Genesee County Land Bank Threatens Private Property …

MichiganVotes.org June 11 Weekly Roll Call Report

… Authorize extra Detroit/Wayne "land bank" property tax breaks, passed … combined Detroit/Wayne County "land bank" authority, rather than the … year tax break for other land bank authorities.  Complete Roll … among the things that local "land bank" authorities are supposed … Add public transportation to land use planning considerations, …

August 9, 2013, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Vote Report

… House Bill 4626: Authorize land bank sanction and complaint process … for a local government “land bank” that acquired tax reverted … ruling went against the land bank and was upheld by a circuit court, the director of the land bank would have to be fired. This … cost to the Kent County land bank, as a way of circumventing …

Legislative Proposals Revealing of Michigan's Plight

… promulgated a law prohibiting knights from killing rich widows and taking their land, we can infer that there was a whole lotta widow-killing going on back then. … R-Muskegon, on Dec. 10, 2009, to revise the 2003 law that created local "land bank" authorities empowered to assemble and dispose of abandoned tax reverted …

'Privatize Federal Lands,' Says Newest Nobel Laureate

The 2002 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (more commonly … Smith, is an advocate of federal land privatization. Michigan's government, … owns 12 percent of the state's land, could learn from the newest … environment” by privatizing federal land holdings. Former Mackinac … privatization journal. The article, “Land Ho! Should Government Be Lanlord?” …

Property Rights Network Produces Boardman River Dam Video

… rights of individuals who own land on the dam impoundments. Proponents … intend to turn the Boardman's banks into an extended park for picnics, … hundreds of trees along the banks to enhance the area's natural … water exposed several pieces of land that have been hollowed from … erosion. Anyone stepping on the land, unaware that it is unsupported …

‘Privatize Federal Lands’ says Newest Nobel Laureate

The 2002 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (more commonly … Smith, is an advocate of federal land privatization. Michigan’s government, … owns 12 percent of the state’s land, could learn from the newest … environment" by privatizing federal land holdings. Former Mackinac … privatization journal. The article, "Land Ho! Should Government Be Landlord" …

Clearing the Forest for Solar: A Green Mistake in the Making

… state approved plans to log 420 acres of forest near Gaylord and clear the land for solar installations. I appeared on “The Dave Bondy Show,” “Tom Jordan … areas, lawmakers appear more concerned about getting greenbacks into the bank accounts of solar developers and monopoly utilities. The Gaylord project …

III. Forest Resource Management

… responsible for the stewardship of their own land, and they have a financial incentive … dearth of advice on how to manage land in a way that is ecologically sound.  … consult any one of 40 Michigan-based land trusts.  One group, the AuSable River … AuSable” program to help maintain the banks of the AuSable river.  Savings:  $879,600. …

Standard Fair

… and the sale of its Detroit land in 2003. The recommendation … selling off a portion of its land. It then saw expenditures exceed … has reported that just the land without the 20 buildings on … the site to a government “land bank” authority, which has issued … sale or development of the land. The Upper Peninsula state …

Other Policies

… Mayor also convened a 34-member Land Use Task Force to prepare a comprehensive land use plan for the City. In the … Realty Advisors and National Bank of Detroit also committed to … ·        Organization of a Land Use Task Force and Task Force … Realty Advisors, and National Bank of Detroit to spur downtown …

House GOP Action Plan Points the Way to Real Reform

Repealing prevailing wage a top priority

… should be gotten rid of. Land Banks: “Michigan’s land banks face various problems across … development. Some county land banks have circumvented the tax … Statutory reforms to make land banks more accountable will be … the very least, the 40 lands banks in Michigan should not be able …

State Fairgrounds to be Sold

Delay cost state millions

… success of the project. In other words, the state (represented by its Land Bank) is still keeping something of a grip on the property and could earn additional … option to take the property back if the project falters. Even at today's land prices, the state should have just shed the property by selling it to the …

Let Private Developer Find Money-Making Use for Ford Auditorium Property

… government has failed to come up with a suitable plan for the building or the land. In 1990, then-Mayor Coleman Young ran an idea up the flagpole: Bulldoze the site and let Comerica Bank build a $200 million, 25-story headquarters on it. But critics shot the …

Position mischaracterized

FLINT JOURNAL LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Friday, October 04, 2002 Genesee County Treasurer Daniel T. Kildee mischaracterized the Mackinac Center for Public Policy research in "Land bank could pay dividends countywide" [Sept. 8, Page A3]. Our 14 years' worth of published research on corporate tax policy clearly shows our preference for low …

MICHIGAN CAPITOL CONFIDENTIAL

Summer 2013 Edition

… Welfare? Michigan’s Craziest Laws: Don’t Seduce an Unmarried Woman or Dance to the National Anthem Proposed Bill Would Provide Accountability For Land Banks Bill Would Lessen Mandates on Landscape Architects Legislators Steering Michigan Toward Red Light Cameras I’m Just A Bill