michigan

Mobility Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

Transportation Bonanza 11: The Rural, The Urban, And The MDOT

February 17, 2020February 20, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments conferences, field trips, green stormwater infrastructure, lansing, mdot, michigan, mobility, planning, stormwater, transit, transportation, transportation engineering, transportation planning, Urban planning

Nat takes a snowy Thursday trip to the capital to attend the Transportation Bonanza in Lansing with other planners, engineers, and nerds.

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Michigan Transit infrastructure 

It’s Not Infrastructure If It’s Just Roads

February 14, 2020February 14, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments brian calley, Bridge Magazine, gas tax, Gretchen Whitmer, HOV lanes, infrastructure, lee chatfield, matt maddock, michigan, mike shirkey, NUMTOT, public finance, road funding, roads, Sprawl, tolls, transit, transit infrastructure, UN Agenda 21 Globalist Conspiracy, user fees, VMT tax

I spoke with Brian Calley on proposals to fix the damn roads– and to understand whether Republicans might consider transit a good complement.

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Business & Economics Culture & Language YouLam 

YouLam No. 2 – February 2020

February 10, 2020February 11, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments black history month, civil rights, coronavirus, current events, detroit regional chamber, Donald Trump, global economy, michigan, news, ontario, pennsylvania, rockvale square, state of transit, stock market, thurgood marshall, transportation riders united, w.e.b. dubois, youlam

Happy February. It is Black History Month! It’s also Leap Year, which means we have the opportunity to enjoy 3.6%

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Energy Efficiency 

Lansing Field Trip: Michigan Public Service Commission

December 5, 2019December 6, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments Brianna Parker, Brittany Turner, Detroit, EcoWorks, EGLE, energy efficiency, energy waste reduction, Gretchen Whitmer, Joel Howrani-Heeres, Justin Schott, lansing, MDHHS, MEEFA, michigan, Tim Skrotzki

Today marked my quarterly pilgrimage to the great center of Mitten-power, that is, Lansing, Michigan. I go up every few

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Historic preservation Parking Urban Planning 

Saturday Night Parking Fever

October 9, 2019October 9, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments coleman young, demolition, Detroit, detroit saturday night building, detroiters for parking reform, emmett moten, fort street, francis grunow, green task force, ilitch, michigan, Mike Ilitch, olympia development, parking, surface parking

En route to the Green Task Force meeting at Walker-Miller Energy Services in New Center, I stopped at 550 W.

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Environment 

Fall Into Detroit Flavor

September 30, 2019September 30, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments air pollution, Detroit, fall, marathon refinery, michigan, particulate emissions, petcoke, pollution, recipes, Regulation, rouge river, Zug Island

(Satire, in case it isn’t apparent.) A new season is upon us, so, naturally, our top talent at the Handbuilt

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Energy Efficiency Environment Environmental Justice Utilities 

The Red-Blooded, Gas-Fired Future of Midwestern Energy

October 26, 2018October 26, 2018 admin 0 Comments coal, DTE Energy, electric grid, electricity, elon musk, energiewende, energy poverty, lignite coal, michigan, michigan public service commission, ontario, photovoltaics, POCACITO, power grid, powerwall, public utilities, pv, renewable energy, solar panels, Tesla, utilities, Zug Island

I attended a forum on DTE’s Integrated Resource Plan Tuesday. The state’s public service commission, an entity that seems to

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Urban Planning 

There Is No Public Transit Across One Of The Busiest Border Crossings In The World And That’s Kind Of Problematic

June 20, 2018June 20, 2018 admin 0 Comments ambassador bridge, customs and border patrol, Detroit, detroit department of transportation, detroit river, gordie howe bridge, matty moroun, michigan, ontario, public transit, regional transit, trade, transit, transit windsor, US-Canada border, via rail, windsor

The corner of Wyandotte Avenue West and Patricia Road in the west end of Windsor, Ontario, is an odd nexus,

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Affordable housing Housing 

Policy Point: Limiting Rent Increases

July 10, 2017July 10, 2017 admin 0 Comments affordability, affordable housing, housing, landlord-tenant law, michigan, ontario, rent, rent increases, rental units, san francisco, tenant law

I’ve heard plenty of horror stories recently of rental increases resulting in people getting kicked out of apartments and having

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Detroit Energy Efficiency Environment Michigan Ontario 

Ontario Hydro vs. Michigan Coal: A Cross-Border Perspective on Energy Policy

April 27, 2017April 27, 2017 admin 0 Comments coal, coal power, Detroit, electrical generation, electrical grid, energy efficiency, energy policy, energy poverty, hydro power, hydroelectric, kathleen wynne, michigan, nuclear power, ontario, ontario hydro, photovoltaics, renewable energy, renewables, solar power, utilities, utility bills, wind power

Michigan’s neighboring state, also known as the Canadian province of Ontario, has been struggling for months with untenable increases in

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