Fuller Road Station Timeline

  • 1824 Ann Arbor is founded.
  • 1837 University of Michigan re-locates from Detroit to Ann Arbor.
  • 1993-Jun-26 UM and city make a land swap deal involving the surface parking lot at the site of the proposed Fuller Road Station. Ann Arbor News article states: “Oak trees to be spared from ax – A request from UM officials for a temporary parking lot may be the key to saving condemned burr oak trees.”
  • 2006-Jun-15 City of Ann Arbor “Model for Mobility” introduced as a three-point vision, with: (1) north-south commuter rail, (2) east-west commuter rail, and (3) local circulator connector system.
  • 2008-Sep-18 University of Michigan regents give initial approval to $48.6 million Wall Street parking structure.
  • 2008-Dec-16 UM officials meet with residents who live near the proposed Wall Street parking structure projects.
  • 2009-Jan-27 City transportation program manager gives combined multimodal transit center and parking structure concrete form by showing a sketch of the project, indicating its location at the Fuller Park parking lot. The presentation takes place in the context of a neighborhood meeting to respond in part to concerns about the UM proposal to build parking structures on Wall Street.
  • 2009-Jun-19 UM regents pause the proposed Wall Street parking structure project.
  • 2009-Aug-17 Ann Arbor city council approves $213,984 of city funds for an environmental study and site assessment. Of that amount, $104,742 was appropriated from the economic development fund.
  • 2009-Nov-05 Ann Arbor city council approves memorandum of understanding with UM on Fuller Road Station.
  • 2009-Nov-05 Ann Arbor city council authorizes additional $111,228 for environmental study and site assessment.
  • 2010-Jan-21 UM board of regents approves the Fuller Road Station project.
  • 2010-Feb-10 Public forum held for Ann Arbor residents on Fuller Road Station.
  • 2010-May-04 Ann Arbor park advisory commission weighs a resolution calling for the city council to abandon the Fuller Road Station project, or at the least to get a better deal from the university.
  • 2010-May-04 Ann Arbor city planning commission recommends amending zoning code list of permitted principal uses of public land (including the site of the proposed Fuller Road Station) – specifically, changing a “municipal airports” use to “transportation facilities.”
  • 2010-May-18 Ann Arbor mayor John Hieftje attends meeting of park advisory commission urging their support of Fuller Road Station.
  • 2010-Jun-01 Ann Arbor park advisory commission modifies resolution draft due in part to the mayor’s visit at their previous meeting.
  • 2010-Jul-06 Ann Arbor city council votes to change zoning code to allow transportation facilities as allowable use for public land.
  • 2010-Jun-15 Ann Arbor park advisory commission passes resolution on Fuller Road Station calling for transparency.
  • 2010-Sep-21 Ann Arbor city planning commission votes 7-2 to recommend approval of the Fuller Road Station site plan.
  • 2011-May-17 Ann Arbor park advisory commission gets update on Fuller Road Station, including award of $2.8 million from Federal Rail Administration for environmental study and site analysis. The funds would reimburse some money already expended.
  • 2011-Jun-06 Public commentary at a city council meeting prompts city councilmember Sabra Briere (Ward 1) to request that a council work session be scheduled on Fuller Road Station – mayor John Hieftje agrees that one can be scheduled.
  • 2011-Jun-20 City council adds a working session to its calendar for July 11, 2011.
  • 2011-Jul-05 Mayor John Hieftje indicates during the city council’s meeting that Fuller Road Station is not among the intended topics for the July 11 work session.
  • 2011-Jul-27 Mayor John Hieftje sends letter to constituents about Fuller Road Station.
  • 2011-Oct-20 Jim Kosteva, UM director of community relations, sends an email to the mayor and city administrator warning of the need for urgency.
  • 2012-Jan-31 Press release from Huron Valley Group of the Sierra Club calls for details of Fuller Road Station plans to be made known.
  • 2012-Feb-10 Press release from the city of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan announcing a halt to the project.
  • 2012-Jun-15 Date by which Ann Arbor-UM memorandum of understanding anticipates Fuller Road Station parking structure would be ready for use.