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Michigan State University Extension
     Greening Michigan Institute
          Government and Public Policy Team
             Land Use Planning and Zoning Services

July 2012

Download a small flyer about MSU Extension Land Use Education Services, and contact information for the people listed here.

Looking for someone else?  Use this searchable database of all MSUE staff: http://people.msue.msu.edu/

To call, toll-free, any MSU Extension office in Michigan: 1-888-678-3464, then use your phone key pad to enter the first four letters of the county office you desire.

• For a list of education programs and services click here.
• If you do not see education programming desired here, contact your Land Use Educator, above.  It is possible a program can be set up for your community.

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  Other Land Use Services and Links

  Former MSU Land Use Area of Expertise Team web page (the new team membership and their web pages is listed above)	Land Policy Institute	MSU Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Science
  	Citizen Planner	Institute for Water Research at MSU
  School of Planning, Design & Construction	Planning and Zoning Center at MSU	Michigan Natural Features Inventory
  Department of Geography (college of Social Science)	Wind Power web site

   

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The Michigan Prosperity Initiative (MPI) is an innovative effort by Michigan State University, in partnership with the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the Michigan Association of Regions, the Michigan Municipal League, the Michigan Townships Association, the Michigan Association of Planning and Michigan State University Extension to help return economic prosperity to the state. The MSU Land Policy Institute (LPI) is leading this effort.

The MPI will provide the state of Michigan and its citizens with strategies based on MSU and other university and think-tank research that have the potential to return the state to a place among the most prosperous places in the world. From mid-April to mid-June, 100 training programs will be offered across the state by LPI and MSUE educators in over 50 locations. Three separate training programs are being offered:

• New Economy 101 will describe how Michigan's present economic circumstances developed, and emphasize that because Michigan has many assets there is good reason to be hopeful about our economic future.
• New Economy 201 will focus on a simple common vision and basic goals for prosperity; it will describe in detail Michigan's critical assets and then identify place-based strategies to help us create new prosperity on a regional basis.
• New Economy 301 will address detailed economic analyses that can be performed to help inform regional strategic growth plans and the key strategies necessary to implement those plans.

The first program is intended for all audiences. The second and third programs are intended for stakeholders, economic development professionals and those people that attended the first program and desire more information.For more information visit : www.landpolicy.msu.edu/MPI.