Acres Of Common Ground

On Monday in Lansing, the Michigan Land Use Leadership Council meets for the first time to pursue its mission to "minimize the negative economic, environmental, and social impacts" of Michigan’s runaway sprawl. Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who has embraced solving sprawl as a central theme of her administration, will personally open the meeting and deliver the panel’s charge. The council represents the most prominent, state-sanctioned effort in three decades to confront the consequences of Michigan’s ever-spreading patterns of development.