Brown Recommended for N. Main Group
At its May 23, 2012 meeting, the Ann Arbor public art commission (AAPAC) unanimously recommended that Connie Rizzolo Brown be nominated for a position on a task force to study the corridor along North Main Street and the Huron River. That recommendation will be forwarded to mayor John Hieftje.
The task force was established by the city council at its May 7, 2012 meeting, with membership to include the following: one member of the park advisory commission, one member of the planning commission, one resident representing the Water Hill neighborhood, one resident representing the North Central neighborhood, one resident from the Old Fourth Ward, one resident representing the Broadway/Pontiac neighborhood, two business and property owners from the affected area, and one member of the Huron River Watershed Council.
At its May 21 meeting, the two sponsors of the resolution that created the task force – Ward 1 councilmembers Sabra Briere and Sandi Smith – proposed adding three additional representatives: a member of the city council, someone from the boating/fishing community of river users, a representative from the Huron River Citizens Association. Tony Derezinski (Ward 2), who also serves on AAPAC, then proposed an amendment to add an AAPAC member to the task force. The AAPAC addition was passed by council on a 6-5 vote. [See Chronicle coverage: "Positions Added to North Main Task Force"] Appointments are expected to be made at the council’s June 4 meeting.
At AAPAC’s May 23 meeting, Derezinski told commissioners that “basically, we need someone at the table.”
The task force is charged with delivering a report to the city council more than a year from now – by July 31, 2013 – that describes “a vision to create/complete/enhance pedestrian and bike connection from downtown to Bandemer and Huron River Drive, increase public access to the river-side amenities of existing parks in the North Main-Huron River corridor, ease traffic congestion at Main and Depot at certain times of a day and recommend use of MichCon property at Broadway; …”
Earlier than that – by the end of 2012 – the task force is to make recommendations on the use of the city-owned 721 N. Main parcel.
Brown has served on AAPAC since early 2009, and has chaired the commission’s projects committee. She is a principal of Rizzolo Brown Studio, an Ann Arbor architecture firm.
This brief was filed from the basement conference room of city hall at 301 E. Huron, where AAPAC held its meeting. A more detailed report will follow.
What makes this strip great is the details–the bars on the window and the drizzling… thing in panel 2, the armband and bizarre steampunk clock-like object in panel 6, etc.
Can someone explain this cartoon? “Great details”, but… what the heck is going on in the last three panels? Is it intended to be a random sequencing of cute drawings? Seriously, this requires explanation!
You have to let go of such mundane preoccupations. :)
Okay, I admit to being mundane.
My comment got posted before I was finished. My next line is: what does it all mean? I have been forever mystified by Bezonki, and at one point Mary Morgan threatedned me with a Bezonki calendar. I guess I am totally out of it!
The Detroit Free Press once had an ad for itself with a cartoon by Richard Guindon. The footline on the ad was “We don’t get it either.”
I really liked and understood the obscure homor of cartoonists like Richard Guindon and Ben Katchor, but Bezonki goes right over my head.
Yikes, my name got messed up in the previous!
Kester.enbaum has a good ring to it.
I think Bezonki gallantly exemplifies Ann Arbor’s tolerance for cross-species dating.
I think each panel is actually from a different story.
That’s an interesting idea. Let’s put a bunch of strips side by side and read across. But actually, I was totally following this story right up to the cart with the heads, which was a total lurch into dream logic.
Bringing home the bacon? It’s a love story. You need to go back to the Feb 1 strip, where they meet for the first time.