DDA approves Lower Boardman Unified Plan | Business

TRAVERSE CITY — The Traverse City Downtown Development Authority board voted Friday to accept a report three years in the making: the 120-page Lower Boardman Unified Plan.

“This plan, that involves 1.6 miles that meanders through downtown Traverse City, has been a focus to restore and reconnect the river to the downtown and to the community,” said DDA CEO Jean Derenzy. “Instead of turning our backs on the river, really starting to embrace the river, identify it as the great resource that it is, and provide an opportunity for the community to identify hour their values and their vision is going to create this.”

DDA Lower Boardman River Leadership Team co-chair Brett Fessell, river ecologist with the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, said the group reviewed…

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