Current Events in East Bay Township

RecycleSmart "Take It Back" recycling program

The Take It Back recycling program is a convenient product return infrastructure, where residents can return unwanted products to local businesses.
For more information on where you can locally return over 100 products, please visit: www.RecycleSmart.info and view the Take It Back website link.

 

Clean Up and Green Up

Currently 60 local businesses are registered members including Grand Traverse County Resource Recovery (RecycleSmart). The Michigan Green Consortium (MGC)  
organizes and conducts the Clean Up and Green Up recycling events that are held during the Daylight Savings Time spring and fall time change weekends.
These recycling events have drawn thousands of participants and have collected material for recycling, reuse, and repurpose.
The  next Clean Up and Green Up event will be held:
Sunday, March 11, 2012 from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm at the
American Waste Recycling Facility
280 Hughes Drive, Traverse City, Michigan.
More information on this event can be viewed at: www.CleanUpGreenUp.com

 

From time to time we have vacancies that need to be filled on our boards or commissions. If you are interested in filling one of these vacancies, please submit your resume to Supervisor Glen Lile at 1965 N. Three Mile Rd.

TRAVERSE CITY—The City of Traverse City will undertake a study of five streets within the City (Garfield Ave., Eight Street, Fourteenth Street, East Front and West Front), focusing on increasing economic vitality, increasing housing choice and improving public infrastructure.

The goal here is to find out what the City can do to help these corridors flourish, recognizing that they are prominent centers of business, adjacent to neighborhoods and important traffic corridors within the City”, says Russ Soyring, the City Planning Director.

The Corridor Study is funded as one part of a Sustainable Communities Planning Grant awarded to Grand Traverse County that will also develop a County‐wide master plan and Housing Strategy. The City has hired Houseal Lavigne Associates, an award winning firm specializing in community development and urban design, to conduct the study. A ten‐member CorridorSteering Committee will guide the process, expected to be complete within 8‐12 months.

Doug Deyoung, Vice President of Government Relations and Business Advocacy for the Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce is a member of the Steering Committee. “These corridors are very important for future economic development within the City. Our goal is to find out what we can do to make them attractive places to locate and operate a business, while balancing the needs of traffic movement and adjacent neighborhoods.” Julie Clark, Executive Director of TART Trails and another Steering Committee member agrees, “With their close proximity to neighborhoods, these corridors are important for local commerce and travel and should offer connectivity to existing trail systems and appropriate amenities for bicyclists and pedestrians”.

The consultants have been gathering background information over the past month, and the City will kick off the study with two public outreach events:

• A Community Workshop from 7‐9 pm on January 11, 2012 at Traverse Area District

Library, and

• A Business/Property owners workshop from 8‐9 am on January 11, 2012 at the

Governmental Center