Great Lakes Coastal Planning & Zoning Email Course

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The Michigan Sea Grant Great Lakes Coastal Planning & Zoning Email Course is a learning opportunity for coastal land use decision makers and interested residents. Through a series of five lessons, delivered to your email inbox, you will learn about Michigan’s Great Lakes shorelines and how communities can plan and zone for those shorelines. This course is meant as an introduction to coastal planning and zoning topics of interest. Each lesson provides some general information with plenty of links to more content to explore.

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Once you have registered the first email lesson will be sent to the email address you supplied. You will receive one lesson a week for five weeks. The lessons consist of a key topic overview with plenty of links to additional content and resources. The course lessons include: 

  • Lesson 1: Introduction & Coastal Processes of the Great Lakes
  • Lesson 2: Legal Framework for Shoreline Planning and Zoning
  • Lesson 3: Planning for Shorelines
  • Lesson 4: Zoning Tools for Coastal Communities
  • Lesson 5: Continuing Your Learning

We hope you will enjoy this email course and learn about Michigan’s Great Lakes shorelines and their use. If you have any questions during or after the course please contact Tyler Augst (augsttyl@msu.edu) or a Michigan Sea Grant Staff member near you.

Tyler Augst

augsttyl@msu.edu 

Michigan State University Extension

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