ONE MORNING LAST March—Maura Thomson can’t recall specifically when in the early haze of the pandemic—Thomson and three others piled into a van and set out to bag the meters.
Thomson is the interim director of the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority, which oversees the city’s 67-square-block core abutting the University of Michigan. It was clear to her and her fellow travelers—another authority employee plus two workers from its parking contractor—that things were about to change, at least for a few weeks. She understood that the street, the physical space of Ann Arbor, would need to change along with it. So just as the darkness started to lift, the group began to slip orange NO PARKING bags over about 100 meters, tacking TAKEOUT/DELIVERY PARKING signs above them. The reconfiguring of Ann Arbor had begun.
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