Julie Weatherbee
@juliewbee.bsky.social
I find lost things, watch Ann Arbor City Council, and I like squirrels, tech, and city living. Change is fine. Primarily pedestrian.
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Sorry, but I’m not pulling punches on this one. Being “anti-ICE” is the only possible “good messaging” that anyone that wants to be on the right side of history can have. Many issues have room for nuance, but this one doesn’t. You’re either anti-ICE or you’re wrong, and likely an awful human being.
i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.
January 15, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Sorry, but I’m not pulling punches on this one. Being “anti-ICE” is the only possible “good messaging” that anyone that wants to be on the right side of history can have. Many issues have room for nuance, but this one doesn’t. You’re either anti-ICE or you’re wrong, and likely an awful human being.
If you lost your golf ball, it is across Main Street from Ann Arbor Golf and Outing.
January 9, 2026 at 2:43 PM
If you lost your golf ball, it is across Main Street from Ann Arbor Golf and Outing.
Trainnnnssssss!!!! Please fill out this survey about Michigan’s potential North+South Passenger Rail! (Tangentially #A2Council related.)
www.northsouthrail.org/public-engag...
www.northsouthrail.org/public-engag...
Public Engagement — North + South Passenger Rail
www.northsouthrail.org
January 9, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Trainnnnssssss!!!! Please fill out this survey about Michigan’s potential North+South Passenger Rail! (Tangentially #A2Council related.)
www.northsouthrail.org/public-engag...
www.northsouthrail.org/public-engag...
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From the Editorial Board: Every last American should agree the death in Minneapolis of a 37-year-old American mother of three at the hands of a gun wielded by an agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is an abomination and, we fear, a harbinger of yet worse to come.
Editorial: A needless death in Minneapolis
Look at the beginning of the Minneapolis killing footage, not the end.
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January 9, 2026 at 12:42 AM
From the Editorial Board: Every last American should agree the death in Minneapolis of a 37-year-old American mother of three at the hands of a gun wielded by an agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is an abomination and, we fear, a harbinger of yet worse to come.
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if you lost your glasses they are on the curb at DTW mcnamara departures
December 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
if you lost your glasses they are on the curb at DTW mcnamara departures
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If you lost your tiny shoe, it's on the front steps of Angell Hall cc @juliewbee.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
If you lost your tiny shoe, it's on the front steps of Angell Hall cc @juliewbee.bsky.social
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if you lost your iceberg lettuce it is on a seat towards the back of the town shuttle in jackson hole, bus number 333 /cc @juliewbee.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
if you lost your iceberg lettuce it is on a seat towards the back of the town shuttle in jackson hole, bus number 333 /cc @juliewbee.bsky.social
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The final #a2Council night of the year is starting. Here's your preview: www.damnarbor.com/2025/12/ann-...
This meeting has everything:
Trunkline improvements
Resolutions of intent
Funding for the subsidized development on the Y lot
This meeting has everything:
Trunkline improvements
Resolutions of intent
Funding for the subsidized development on the Y lot
Ann Arbor City Council Preview: December 15, 2025
Gentle readers, tonight is the last #a2Council meeting of the year. Here's the agenda . The evening kicks off with a respectable 21-item co...
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December 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The final #a2Council night of the year is starting. Here's your preview: www.damnarbor.com/2025/12/ann-...
This meeting has everything:
Trunkline improvements
Resolutions of intent
Funding for the subsidized development on the Y lot
This meeting has everything:
Trunkline improvements
Resolutions of intent
Funding for the subsidized development on the Y lot
Watching bicyclists go by on Main Street after a big snow, knowing that there will be a chorus of people absolutely certain that they don’t exist. #A2Council
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Watching bicyclists go by on Main Street after a big snow, knowing that there will be a chorus of people absolutely certain that they don’t exist. #A2Council
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Most of the buildable land in #AnnArbor -especially the high demand neighborhoods-has been downzoned for many decades. Now we live with the predictable consequences. #A2Council
New Chicago-focused research @yonahfreemark.com reached an unsurprising conclusion: “Downzoning has contributed to reduced housing availability in high-demand neighborhoods, while reinforcing class and racial segregation.” findingspress.org/article/1474...
Downzoning Chicago: How Local Land Use Policy Has Reduced Housing Construction and Reinforced Segregation | Published in Findings
By Yonah Freemark, George Kisiel. Downzonings were used by US cities in the postwar period to preserve neighborhood character. These land-use policies were associated with lower housing supply, higher...
findingspress.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Most of the buildable land in #AnnArbor -especially the high demand neighborhoods-has been downzoned for many decades. Now we live with the predictable consequences. #A2Council
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Although most US cities have failed at attracting families with kids in downtowns and other urban places (largely through the creation of a self-fulfilling prophesy of failure), other places, including Vancouver, have succeeded. Read my @vox.com interview with @volts.wtf. www.vox.com/2017/6/21/15...
Young families typically leave cities for the suburbs. Here’s how to keep them downtown.
Urbanist Brent Toderian explains how Vancouver held onto its families.
www.vox.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Although most US cities have failed at attracting families with kids in downtowns and other urban places (largely through the creation of a self-fulfilling prophesy of failure), other places, including Vancouver, have succeeded. Read my @vox.com interview with @volts.wtf. www.vox.com/2017/6/21/15...
Hey #A2Council and architecture fans, here is an interesting event tomorrow at the U-M Library: www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
The Michigan Kit-House Industry: Not Just a Flash in the Pan
www.lib.umich.edu
November 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Hey #A2Council and architecture fans, here is an interesting event tomorrow at the U-M Library: www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
NEW from me: A recent study finds that fully electrified homes in Handsworth, built to adhere to a draft version of the Future Homes standard, put less pressure on the grid than researchers expected.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Heat-pump homes put less strain on grid than expected, study shows
Analysis of new-builds in Birmingham suggests all-electric homes not only use less energy but vary in peak usage
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Woot! The Draft Ann Arbor Comprehensive Land Use Plan will now enter the requisite 63-day plan review. #A2Council engage.a2gov.org/comprehensiv...
Draft Comprehensive Land Use Plan (Comp Plan)
A plan to guide growth and land use decisions
engage.a2gov.org
October 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Woot! The Draft Ann Arbor Comprehensive Land Use Plan will now enter the requisite 63-day plan review. #A2Council engage.a2gov.org/comprehensiv...
New open data portal from the city! Intended to be easier for everyone to use than previous machine-readable site. ADA and mobile device compliant! www.a2gov.org/news/posts/a... #A2Council
Ann Arbor Launches Open Data Portal | City of Ann Arbor
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October 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
New open data portal from the city! Intended to be easier for everyone to use than previous machine-readable site. ADA and mobile device compliant! www.a2gov.org/news/posts/a... #A2Council
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Gentle readers, it's #a2Council night. Here's your preview: www.damnarbor.com/2025/10/ann-...
In a rare turn of events, tonight's spiciest chili is on the consent agenda. Hopefully nobody pulls the Comprehensive Land Use Plan update from the consent agenda and it passes with out much ado.
In a rare turn of events, tonight's spiciest chili is on the consent agenda. Hopefully nobody pulls the Comprehensive Land Use Plan update from the consent agenda and it passes with out much ado.
Ann Arbor City Council Agenda: October 20, 2025
Gentle readers, it's #a2Council night in Ann Arbor. Here's the agenda . The meeting kicks off with a scant, 4 item consent agenda. The sp...
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October 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Gentle readers, it's #a2Council night. Here's your preview: www.damnarbor.com/2025/10/ann-...
In a rare turn of events, tonight's spiciest chili is on the consent agenda. Hopefully nobody pulls the Comprehensive Land Use Plan update from the consent agenda and it passes with out much ado.
In a rare turn of events, tonight's spiciest chili is on the consent agenda. Hopefully nobody pulls the Comprehensive Land Use Plan update from the consent agenda and it passes with out much ado.
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Does your local coffee shop look like this?
If not, it’s probably because:
1) zoning created large distances between housing & shops.
2) the streets between housing & shops are unsafe for biking.
3) there isn’t any/enough secure bike parking
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If not, it’s probably because:
1) zoning created large distances between housing & shops.
2) the streets between housing & shops are unsafe for biking.
3) there isn’t any/enough secure bike parking
1/2
October 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Does your local coffee shop look like this?
If not, it’s probably because:
1) zoning created large distances between housing & shops.
2) the streets between housing & shops are unsafe for biking.
3) there isn’t any/enough secure bike parking
1/2
If not, it’s probably because:
1) zoning created large distances between housing & shops.
2) the streets between housing & shops are unsafe for biking.
3) there isn’t any/enough secure bike parking
1/2
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Interestingly, the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, who had previously opposed the infrastructure, eventually reversed their position and became one of the city’s most vocal cycling proponents—calling protected bike lanes “the way of the future” and a “win–win–win for all users”.
October 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM