{"id":8346,"date":"2017-01-25T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=8346"},"modified":"2024-09-17T15:07:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T19:07:46","slug":"cityvisionsmeeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/cityvisionsmeeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Part of the Vision for the City&#8217;s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8349 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/01\/VisionsIllustration.jpg\" alt=\"Visions Illustration\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/01\/VisionsIllustration.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/01\/VisionsIllustration-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/01\/VisionsIllustration-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Kalamazoo College faculty, staff and students are invited to an Imagine <strong>Kalamazoo 2025 Master Plan Meeting<\/strong> on <strong>Tuesday, January 31<\/strong>, at <strong>6 p.m.<\/strong> in the <strong>Mandelle Hall Olmsted Room<\/strong>. That meeting is one of 12 neighborhood gatherings being organized by the city. Each meeting focuses on a specific neighborhood and provides an opportunity for participants to share input on where they live, work or play. The hands-on activities and small discussion groups that characterize these open-house style meetings allow participants describe the improvements they&#8217;d like to see and the priority of projects they consider optimal. Some of the topics for the <strong>Kalamazoo College\/West Main Hill neighborhood<\/strong> meeting will be: pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure; vehicular management (including on-street parking and traffic calming; M-43\/West Main; West Michigan Avenue at M-43\/West Main; West Michigan Avenue Lovell Street. Questions on this meeting or the Imagine Kalamazoo process can be sent to <a href=\"mailto:andersonc@kalamazoocity.org\">Christina (Dudek) Anderson &#8217;98<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Text by Christina Anderson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College faculty, staff and students are invited to an Imagine Kalamazoo 2025 Master Plan Meeting on Tuesday, January 31, at 6 p.m. in the Mandelle Hall Olmsted Room. That meeting is one of 12 neighborhood gatherings being organized by the city. 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That meeting is one of 12 neighborhood gatherings being organized by the city. Each meeting focuses on a specific neighborhood and provides an opportunity for participants to share input on where they live, work or play. The hands-on activities and small discussion groups that characterize these open-house style meetings allow participants describe the improvements they&#8217;d like to see and the priority of projects they consider optimal. Some of the topics for the <strong>Kalamazoo College\/West Main Hill neighborhood<\/strong> meeting will be: pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure; vehicular management (including on-street parking and traffic calming; M-43\/West Main; West Michigan Avenue at M-43\/West Main; West Michigan Avenue Lovell Street. Questions on this meeting or the Imagine Kalamazoo process can be sent to <a href=\"mailto:andersonc@kalamazoocity.org\">Christina (Dudek) Anderson &#8217;98<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Text by Christina Anderson<\/em><\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8346"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23083,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346\/revisions\/23083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8346"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=8346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}