A few days ago, I posted a story here about the recent re-zoning of a neighborhood southeast of the intersection of Spring and Huron, and how, as a result, at least one homeowner on Bell Street, Erin Snyder, was finding it difficult to sell her property. [The southern stretch of Bell Street had been re-zoned […]
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The Danger (re)Zone… the unsellable houses of Bell Street
Every once in a while someone I don’t know hands me something and asks me to publish it on this site. Until today, however, I don’t think that I’ve actually ever done it. I’ve never taken something that I’ve found scrawled on a piece of paper and stuck in my mailbox, and posted it. An […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Bell Street, Bonnie Wessler, contamination, environmental injustice, environmental racism, Erin Snyder, fair housing, Habitat for Humanity, Huron Street, landfills, PMD, poverty, property values, soil contamination, Spring Street, toxic environment, Ypsilanti Housing Commission, Ypsilanti Planning Commission, Ypsilanti real estate, zoning, Zoning Board of Appeals 45 Comments