Kalamazoo College faculty, staff and students are invited to an Imagine Kalamazoo 2025 Master Plan Meeting on Tuesday, January 31, at 6 p.m. in the Mandelle Hall Olmsted Room. That meeting is one of 12 neighborhood gatherings being organized by the city. Each meeting focuses on a specific neighborhood and provides an opportunity for participants to share input on where they live, work or play. The hands-on activities and small discussion groups that characterize these open-house style meetings allow participants describe the improvements they’d like to see and the priority of projects they consider optimal. Some of the topics for the Kalamazoo College/West Main Hill neighborhood meeting will be: pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure; vehicular management (including on-street parking and traffic calming; M-43/West Main; West Michigan Avenue at M-43/West Main; West Michigan Avenue Lovell Street. Questions on this meeting or the Imagine Kalamazoo process can be sent to Christina (Dudek) Anderson ’98.

Text by Christina Anderson