UPDATE:

We still have not been provided any data / information from the City or Bolton &  Menk showing any improvement in water quality that will occur from installing a man-made holding pond versus what is currently done in the low area wetland. The only data they have given was to the Mayor and Council members in a 4 page memo which was very silkily worded and listed the amount of acres drained, sediment and phosphorus filtered in a pond. THE PROBLEM: it is all the same as already being filtered at the 3rd neighborhood drainage location already. They fail to point out the obvious that these are all the same amounts already done naturally in the low area wetland and so a pond would only replicate this current filtration. Adding to our taxes, taking away natural space, adding mosquitoes to the CMS grounds!
 
Mike Payne, City of Plymouth Assistant City Engineer, responded to us a week ago with the date planned for City Council. The plan is the project will go before the City Council for a vote at their 7pm meeting on January 23rd. He states this is “to approve plans, specifications, and authorize bidding the project”. However, he wrote that the intention is the Birchwood Street Reconstruction plans would be on the agenda aa a “consent agenda with no presentation planned”.
 
A “consent agenda” means the street plans item would be grouped together with other routine meeting discussion points into a single agenda item to be voted on all at once yes or no. Their hope in doing this would be that all the grouped items can be approved by one action, rather than through the filing of multiple motions / discussions for the street / pond plans.