On East Lansing's city council agenda for Tuesday is:
Introduce and set for public hearing on November 7, 2007 Special Use Permit
and Site Plan: An application from Meijer, Inc. to construct a 3,628 square
foot convenience store and gas station on the northeast corner of Lake
Lansing and Marfitt Roads. The entire site of the Meijer Store is 28.13 acres
in size located at 1350 West Lake Lansing Road. The new construction
would consist of a one story structure with a "green roof" opened 24 hours a
day, utilizing a portion of the existing 1,006 parking spaces. The property is
zoned in the B-5 Community Retail Sales Business District
I know Meijer has been trying to do this for a long time and I don't expect this to pass this time either.
It's not the biggest development, but the significance is that this is probably the fifth time they have tried to get this passed and it will be interesting to see if the city gets what it wants this time around.
I just got accepted this week to MSU so I took a visit up there to check out EL. I was impressed with the new developments downtown. The building that housed Taco Bell was very nice and so was the building that has the CVS in it. I did notice some empty buildings. The first was the Thai Hut (I think thats how its spelled) its right next to some Koren church at the beginning of Downtown, and the other building was pretty close to the hut and looked like an old office building. Does anyone know if there are any plans for these buildings to be developed?
More development is coming on Coleman Rd in East Lansing. From next weeks city council agenda:
Introduce Ordinance No. 1183 and refer to the Planning Commission an
ordinance to rezone the property at 3203, 3303 and 3341 Coleman Road,
including the parcel of vacant land just west of 3303 Coleman Road, from the
A Agricultural and BC Business Community Districts (DeWitt Township
zoning) to the B-2 Retail Sales Business District (City of East Lansing
zoning). The combined parcels to be rezoned consist of 10.06 acres.
It looks like the sprawl is what is keeping the population of East Lansing steady. It's too bad that a city spends money to help out its business district yet shoots itself in the foot when it spreads businesses all around the city, making it just as beneficial to live near farms.
Found these items in the upcoming council agenda for EL, as I'm not familiar with the street names, I don't know exactly where it's at.
"Introduce and refer to Planning Commission proposed Ordinance 1187; An
Ordinance to rezone parcels on Evergreen and Albert Avenue from B-1,
General Office Business District and RM-32, City Center Multiple-Family
Residential District to P, Parking district in order to develop a City-operated
parking structure"
"Introduce and refer to Planning Commission proposed Ordinance 1188; An
Ordinance to rezone parcels on Evergreen Avenue and Albert Avenue from
B-1, B-3 and RM-32 to RM-32 City Center Multiple-Family Residential District
and B-3 City Center Commercial District to rezone parcels on Evergreen. If
approved the Ordinance would rezone these parcels from B-1 and B-3 and
RM-32"
the items from the EL council agenda are about rezoning the properties where the new parking garage for the Michigan Museum/City Center 2 project is being built.
Comments
DTN Clears Way For $3 Million East Lansing Development
"Introduce and refer to Planning Commission proposed Ordinance 1187; An
Ordinance to rezone parcels on Evergreen and Albert Avenue from B-1,
General Office Business District and RM-32, City Center Multiple-Family
Residential District to P, Parking district in order to develop a City-operated
parking structure"
"Introduce and refer to Planning Commission proposed Ordinance 1188; An
Ordinance to rezone parcels on Evergreen Avenue and Albert Avenue from
B-1, B-3 and RM-32 to RM-32 City Center Multiple-Family Residential District
and B-3 City Center Commercial District to rezone parcels on Evergreen. If
approved the Ordinance would rezone these parcels from B-1 and B-3 and
RM-32"