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Wakefield poised to revise master plan

WAKEFIELD — Thanks to a Monday evening vote, the city of Wakefield is now positioned for a revision of its master plan.

“We will start working on that probably within about a month,” said City Manager Robert Brown, Jr. in a Wednesday phone call.

City Council members voted to approve a cooperative funding system in which the Michigan Economic Development Commission will provide $20,000 toward the project while the city will pay about $14,500.

Brown said the master plan has had no major revision for a couple of decades.

“We will start working on that probably within about a month,”...