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September 24, 1998
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION # 9 8 2 2 4
BY:PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE - CHARLES E. PALMER, CHAIRPERSON
Re: DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING DIVISION - ADOPTION OF A PROPOSAL TO
HAVE WOODWARD AVENUE DESIGNATED A HERITAGE ROUTE BY THE
MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), pursuant to the Heritage Route
Act of 1993 (P.A. 69 of 1993), is empowered to designate scenic, recreational, and historic highways in the
state, and
WHEREAS the public highway known as Woodward Avenue, extending from Jefferson Avenue
in the City of Detroit in Wayne County northwestward to and around the central business district of the
City of Pontiac in Oakland County exhibits exceptional historical, cultural and recreational quality and
passes through eleven communities of significant regional importance, and
WHEREAS a study has been undertaken by the Counties of Oakland and Wayne which assesses
the quality of and documents the character and features of the Woodward Avenue corridor, and
WHEREAS it is intended that the study be forwarded to MDOT in order to nominate Woodward
Avenue as a heritage route.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
enthusiastically supports the nomination of Woodward Avenue as a heritage route and authorizes
including this resolution with the nomination documents, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby requests
and encourages the MDOT to quickly designate Woodward Avenue as a heritage route.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby
supports the proposed sub-jurisdictional management plan part of this nomination.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Planning and Building Committee, I move the adoption of the
foregoing resolution.
G AND BUILDING COMMITTEE
Planning and Building Committee Vote:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote.
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Resolution 498224 September 24, 1998
Moved by Palmer supported by Jensen the resolution be adopted.
AYES: McCulloch, McPherson, Millard, Moffitt, Obrecht, Palmer, Schmid,
Taub, Wolf, Amos, Coleman, Dingeldey, Douglas, Garfield, Gregory, Hoffman,
Holbert, Huntoon, Jacobs, Jensen, Johnson, Kaczmar, Kingzett, Law. (24)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the
foregoing resolution is a true and accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the
Oakland County Board of Commissioners on September 24, 1998 with the original
record thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the
County of Oakland at Pontiac, Michigan this 24th day of September 1998.
LS aivez.
Lynn(D7 Allen, County Clerk