Not sure on what development Gillespie is referring to. Perhaps the Marketplace expansion. There were some small flags on the Marketplace property when I was by there a couple weeks ago, but they are AT&T's.
I honestly don't know what other projects Gillespie is planning.
I care enough about this that I had to send Adam Hussein an email regarding this issue. The city finally has some momentum going here, the population is creeping up and developers are investing in the city. This is a dangerous and reckless game to play.
Yeah, there's definitely some backstory behind the severance pay, but it shouldn't derail the rest of the city. In the grand scheme of things, the $160,000 payout is very minor out of the whole budget of the city.
@MichMatters Thanks for the construction map. Besides the omission of Michigan Ave I see a few streets that are getting resurfaced that really need it. Trappers Cove, W Jolly, S Clemens and N MLK are all streets that I've driven down often enough to know how bad they are.
As far as the council HUD complaint, I think it's a wait and see situation. If this drags on into an investigation and council members boycott housing development incentives at this crucial time the fallout would no doubt be bad, really bad. I can't imagine how it's even solid legal strategy, they've already approved many housing incentives. It'd seem to me that doing an about face and voting against them after publicly acknowledging that it's only due to the allegations would raise further suspicions.
Thanks for the construction map! Actually it looks like a reconstruction of Michigan Ave is planned for 2017 from Bingham St (near Sparrow) to Clemens Ave. It's hard to see, but on the layers tab, click on proposed 2017 projects and uncheck 2016 projects. I live on the far southeast side of the city, and I'd like to see part of Miller Rd resurfaced. There's a very short stretch east of Pennsylvania (near the Meijer) that's quite bad.
I would like to see a lot more resurfacing plans there are so many streets in very rough shape. It's a start.
In the future if the city begins to get some more money from the state and feds,[soon I hope] maybe the city could say, divide the city into quarters, with a public service garage and crew for each quarter. Four small crews keeping up with a smaller area of the city that they would be more familiar with. Each neighborhood could contact their quarter's garage for service. Maybe downtown could have it's own garage as well. Downtown streets should be beautiful. Perhaps neighborhood and business associations could help fund the crew in their area.
I have been contacting a web site called seeclickfix.com there I have reported several giant potholes in my neighborhood and fresh graffiti on the river trail and the city has actually patched some of the potholes and painted over the graffiti. Each time I received a note from the public service department saying thank you and that I should contact them directly for faster service. I was impressed that they would actually act on the problems I had brought attention too.
The mayor and the council are being very thin skinned about issues that do not relate. The mayor is beginning to behave like he is more important than the city itself, and the council is fooling around with the only power they have to get the major's goat! He should fess up if there was something wrong with the attorney deal. Hey people have lives they are living even if they are in politics and I don't care about that, just don't try to pull something off on the public dime. The council needs to understand that they and the mayor should put Lansing first, all the time. What are they thinking?
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I honestly don't know what other projects Gillespie is planning.
As far as the council HUD complaint, I think it's a wait and see situation. If this drags on into an investigation and council members boycott housing development incentives at this crucial time the fallout would no doubt be bad, really bad. I can't imagine how it's even solid legal strategy, they've already approved many housing incentives. It'd seem to me that doing an about face and voting against them after publicly acknowledging that it's only due to the allegations would raise further suspicions.
In the future if the city begins to get some more money from the state and feds,[soon I hope] maybe the city could say, divide the city into quarters, with a public service garage and crew for each quarter. Four small crews keeping up with a smaller area of the city that they would be more familiar with. Each neighborhood could contact their quarter's garage for service. Maybe downtown could have it's own garage as well. Downtown streets should be beautiful. Perhaps neighborhood and business associations could help fund the crew in their area.
I have been contacting a web site called seeclickfix.com there I have reported several giant potholes in my neighborhood and fresh graffiti on the river trail and the city has actually patched some of the potholes and painted over the graffiti. Each time I received a note from the public service department saying thank you and that I should contact them directly for faster service. I was impressed that they would actually act on the problems I had brought attention too.
The mayor and the council are being very thin skinned about issues that do not relate. The mayor is beginning to behave like he is more important than the city itself, and the council is fooling around with the only power they have to get the major's goat! He should fess up if there was something wrong with the attorney deal. Hey people have lives they are living even if they are in politics and I don't care about that, just don't try to pull something off on the public dime. The council needs to understand that they and the mayor should put Lansing first, all the time. What are they thinking?