Fuller Road Station Gets Initial OK

After three hours of staff presentations, a public hearing and commissioner deliberations at their Sept. 21, 2010 meeting, the Ann Arbor planning commission voted 7-2 to approve the site plan for Fuller Road Station, a joint city of Ann Arbor/University of Michigan project. Seventeen people spoke during the public hearing, the majority of them against the project. The site plan calls for building a five-level, 977-space parking structure on city-owned property that’s designated as parkland. The site would include a 44-space parking lot and bicycle parking. The city hopes eventually to build a train station at that location as well, but that isn’t part of the current site plan. Dissenting votes were cast by Kirk Westphal and Erica Briggs. The plan will next be considered by city council.

This brief was filed from city council chambers during the planning commission meeting. A more detailed account of the meeting will follow: [link]