CNU Michigan

Area: The State of Michigan
Status: Chapter Organizing Committee
Contact: Leslie Kettren, michigan@cnu.org

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CNU Michigan was first organized on July 9, 2008. The first Annual Meeting was held on October 2, 2008 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. During the meeting, the results of the first election of the Board of Directors was announced. Congratulations to CNU Michigan's first Board of Directors:

Leslie E. Kettren, President
Terry Sanford, Vice-President
James Bedell, Secretary
H. William Freeman, Treasurer
Doug Atkinson, Director-East Region
James E. Tischler, Director-East Region
Phil Meyer, Director-West Region
Jay Hoekstra, Director-West Region
Leslie Sickterman, Director-North Region

Book ------- Talking the Walk: Building Walkable Communities
--- FREE DOWNLOAD ---contact: michigan@cnu.org
Written by Leslie E. Kettren, AICP, PCP
Published in 2006
Leslie writes ..... Have you ever visited a town that you just knew was special? Maybe you weren't even aware of why you felt that way - you just knew you never wanted to leave. These special places always had a welcoming feel about them with their tree-lined streets, children playing on the sidewalk and neighbors sharing gossip on the front porch. I bet it even had a lovely little downtown where shoppers could spend all day wandering around looking through the brightly decorated windows of the shops there. You didn't need a car to get around, your feet worked just fine, and after all, what would be the sense of driving when eveything was so close and convenient? While it seems that in this day and age towns like this can only be found on television, there are still places in this world where they exist.
Five years ago, I began to research and find out more about the sense of place that makes some towns in Michigan so wonderful, and why others remain in a state of deep failing and fatigue. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and so keeping this in mind, I've written this book to show you how we can turn our sometimes forbidding and hostile urban landscapes into the types of welcoming places in which we all wish we could live.