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Thursday, June 7, 2018
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NEWS
Council Discusses
Game Day Condos
Councilmembers
review zoning laws
By SAYALI AMIN
Daily Staff Reporter
On Monday June 4, Ann Arbor
City Council convened to discuss
a variety of issues, including the
Unified Development Code as well
as implications of zoning laws on the
proposed construction of new game-
day condos.
The revision of the UDC was
first brought up by a group of
residents during the public hearing.
Wendy Carman, a member of the
Environmental Commission, said
she was in support of a consolidated
ordinance and has reviewed parts of
the new working draft.
“The
draft
went
almost
completely unnoticed by the public,”
Carman said. “I began with the
Wetland Ordinance and I found
one glaring mistake — a missing
sentence requiring a permit to drain
a wetland.”
Carman said the mistake was later
corrected, but explained that there
was no process in place to catch these
errors. It took Carman four months
to review a small portion of the more
than 200-page document.
Councilmember
Zachary
Ackerman, D-Ward 3, suggested
postponing discussion to the second
council meeting in June, while
Councilmember Jack Eaton, D-Ward
4, said it should be postponed to the
second meeting in July.
“We really need to have a chart,”
Eaton said. “When you do complex
legislation like this and you move all
the parts around you should have
a cross-reference chart of it, where
it used to be and where it ended up.
This is what we should be doing,
instead we issued a report that was
275 pages long and 656 footnotes,
pointing things that had been done to
the previous code.”
Ackerman
said
any
desired
changes to the zoning laws should
be carried out through the UDC and
should not be tabled for months.
Ultimately, City Council voted to
move the decision to July 16.
Partnerships focus
on women’s health in
Sub-Saharan Africa
By ALICE TRACEY
Summer Daily News Editor
A University of Michigan-led
study published May 1 in the
American College of Surgeons
Bulletin reported partnerships
between
the
Obstetrics
and
Gynecology departments of high-
income
academic
institutions
and corresponding departments
of
sub-Saharan
African
institutions have the potential
to
greatly
improve
maternal
and neonatal medical care. The
study referenced several U-M
collaborations that enrich ob-gyn
training
and
improve
access
to women’s health care in sub-
Saharan nations.
According
to
Timothy
R.B.
Johnson,
ob-gyn
chair
at
Michigan
Medicine,
the
University has a long history
of academic partnerships with
medical institutions in other
countries,
especially
Ghana.
Johnson
founded
an
ob-gyn
clinic in Ghana in 1989 during an
epidemic of maternal morbidity,
starting a partnership that has
helped expand access to women’s
health care. The University now
participates in other initiatives
with the mission of improving
international ob-gyn training. The
1000+ OBGYNS project, founded
in 2014, is working to educate
new doctors about maternal and
newborn health in sub-Saharan
Africa. Also founded in 2014,
the
Center
for
International
Reproductive Health Training
works with 10 institutions in
Ethiopia and one in Rwanda to
improve reproductive health care
education. In the future, it aims to
extend its work to Southeast Asia.
The
University’s
efforts
in Ghana and Ethiopia have
expanded to other medical fields,
such as emergency medicine, but
women’s health remains a central
focus. Johnson said Sub-Saharan
African countries suffer from high
rates of maternal deaths. In a joint
email interview, CIHRT Program
Director Lia Gebremedhin and
CIRHT Managing Director Janet
Hall
added
underprivileged
women in these areas also lack
safe
abortion
methods
and
contraceptives.
“Women and girls in developing
countries
disproportionately
suffer from maternal morbidity
and mortality due to unsafe
abortion,” Gebremedhin and Hall
wrote. “In addition, they lack
adequate access to comprehensive
family
planning
services
to
prevent unwanted pregnancies.”
U-M Helps Train
OB-GYNs Abroad
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