Grants: Land Use

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Mid-Michigan Community Pathway Project, Shepherd, MI

Jun 2014

Mid-Michigan Community Pathway Project – Part of a coordinated effort that will connect the Pere Marquette system with both the Great Lakes Bay Trail (a past WIN investment) and the Fred Meijer Trail, the Mid-Michigan Community Pathway is requesting WIN support to match a pending Michigan Department of Transportation Grant (MDOT) to connect the Village of Shepherd and the City of Mt. Pleasant. The proposed WIN funding will be specifically designated for a bridge system, scenic overlook and interpretive signage that will traverse a wetland area along the path. This path is proposed to be approximately 6.8 miles long.

Birch Run Trolley Line Trail North

Dec 2013

This non-motorized trail construction project will connect the communities of Clio and Birch Run as part of a regional plan for trail connectivity. This project was identified as a primary connection in both the Saginaw Bay Greenways and Nonmotorized Transportation plan as well as the Genesee-Lapeer-Shiawassee plan, both funded by Saginaw Bay WIN. The trail will connect the Birch Run shopping area (one of Michigan’s primary tourist/retail sites, with other community assets. The WIN funding will match a grant to be provided by the Michigan Department of Transportation. WIN support will pay for benches and plantings along the trail.

Delta College Sustainability Center

Dec 2013

This project supports a rehabilitated facility to be used as the Delta College Sustainability Center. This project will demonstrate the efficiency of reusing an existing building, upgrading its energy efficiency, and using it to serve as a formal and informal educational facility about sustainability, as well as a meeting space and potentially a lab space. WIN funding will support solar array racks, solar hot water heater, siding, trim, windows and signage.

Freeland M-47 Pathway

Dec 2013

This project contemplates WIN support for the construction of a non-motorized path along M47 in Tittabawassee Township. This route has been identified as primary connection link in the Saginaw-Bay-Midland Vision of Green Plan (funded by WIN) and also a priority connector by the Great Lakes Bay Regional Trail plan. WIN funding, along with other community contributions, will match a Michigan Department of Transportation Grant. This project will occur along with an additional trail project in Kochville Township, connecting the larger Saginaw County trail system to the M-47 Pathway.


Pump House Overlook at Midland’s Emerson Park

Dec 2013

This project will re-purpose an abandoned water intake pump house located at Emerson Park along the Tittabawassee River in the Cit of Midland, into a river overlook, program space, and interpretive education station that will discuss the City’s early water system as well as the ecology of the river and surrounding area. The project will reuse the facility and provide an innovative overlook at the river unlike any other in Midland County. WIN funding will be used to match a state grant.

Pump House Overlook at Midland’s Emerson Park

Dec 2013

This project will re-purpose an abandoned water intake pump house located at Emerson Park along the Tittabawassee River in the Cit of Midland, into a river overlook, program space, and interpretive education station that will discuss the City’s early water system as well as the ecology of the river and surrounding area. The project will reuse the facility and provide an innovative overlook at the river unlike any other in Midland County. WIN funding will be used to match a state grant.

Low Maintenance Greening Demonstration Project

Jun 2013

The Geneseee County Land Bank Authority aims to test low maintenance plantings at various sites in the City of Flint. The project supports research into different plantings that concentrate a “low” growth plants that can be used at commercial and residential settings. The objective is to establish plant types that do not require maintenance and are pleasing to the public to eliminate the cost of mowing and more intensive and expensive management.


Dow Diamond LED Light and Occupancy Sensor Additions

Jun 2013

This project, proposed by the nonprofit Michigan Baseball Foundation, includes the purchase and installation of new LED lights and occupancy sensors at Dow Diamond in Midland. Dow Diamond is the home of the Great Lakes Loons minor league baseball team. This effort is part of Dow Diamond’s effort to reduce energy use, water use, and waste by 50% by the year 2020. It is estimated that the project will cut down on energy usage by 2.8% yearly.

Potential Conservation Area Analysis for Genesse, Lapeer and Shiawasse Counties

Nov 2012

Using a science-based approach to identify “potention conservation areas”, the projected prioritized those important places in Genesee, Lapeer and Shiawassee counties that, with proper management, will have their ecological integrity maintained. The primary audience for this project was conservation organizations, so that they can more effectively and efficiently identify and protect sites of imiportant ecological integrity. This project was an additional component of the previously WIN – funded GLSGreenlinks project.

Urban and Community Forestry / Saginaw Bay Watershed Region

Jun 2012

This project, developed by Global ReLeaf of Michigan, supports a growing a network of communities in the Saginaw Bay region that are focused on maintaining and establishing urban tree programs. This grant supports quarterly meetings for watershed communities, provision of technical assistance to communities, the utilization of native and local provenance trees for street tree replacement and park plantings, and the engagement of volunteers in tree inventories, tree boards, and tree plantings.

Flint River Priority Lands, Landowner Connection and Enrollment Program

Nov 2011

This project builds on previous WIN investments including the Genesee, Lapeer, Shiawassee Greenlinks Project and Metamora Horse Country Project. Fashioned after WIN-funded work at Little Forks Conservancy in 2004, this effort will target and map strategic lands in the upper Flint watershed that are most strategic for conservation. In addition, the program will develop that region’s first enrollment program (registry) of landowners interested in conservation, but not yet ready to commit to permanent conservation. This project also seeks to implement the “bioreserve” program, which will establish biological inventories on properties of willing landowners.

Place Based Blended Learning

Nov 2010

This project, sponsored by University of Michigan – Flint intends to fund the development of a series of on-line short courses focused on improving the capacity of schools (particular focus on urban schools) to conduct place-based education. Place-based education promotes learning that is rooted in local, unique history, environment, culture etc… that is in a student’s own place or immediate geographic location. This project is a part of an ongoing effort at U-M Flint that partners the university with the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative in a 10-year program to promote and address urban environmental stewardship needs. The online course will focus on sustainability – the relationship of the environment, community, and economy – and will offer continuing education credits through UM-Flint for successful completion of the courses.