Ann Arbor proposals A and B could settle -- or extend -- 7-year impasse over top of underground lot

[RandySF]

For seven years, a simmering dispute over a prime piece of property in the heart of Ann Arbor’s downtown has kept it from being developed.

It's the concrete top of an underground parking structure, called the Library Lane Parking Structure. The vote in the Tuesday, August 5 primary on Proposals A and B will give city residents yet another chance to decide its fate.

I asked Ann Arbor District Library Director Eli Neiburger to meet me at the lot and describe what he saw.

"Well, we're standing on the surface parking lot on the top of the Library Lane parking structure," he began. "Most of the site is taken up by stairs and ramps and elevators. And there's a few planters and a lot of parked cars."



https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2025-07-31/ann-arbor-proposals-a-and-b-could-settle-or-extend-7-year-impasse-over-top-of-underground-lot