Ann Arbor’s ‘Greenbelt’ gets bigger

Ann Arbor’s greenbelt program just got considerably bigger. This program is designed as a preservation initiative to hold onto the green land around Ann Arbor. The city has purchased two plots, adding nearly 400 acres to its greenbelt land. Excerpt: The combined 336-acre deal preserves farmland proximate to other protected open space. It also fulfills a a long-held wish, said Mayor John Hieftje, who remembers using the Whitmore Lake Road property as an example when he promoted the idea of a greenbelt program in 2003. “It’s a wonderful opportunity to preserve agriculture around Ann Arbor for a very long time to come,” he said. Read the entire article here.