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I don't know, but this is always a problem with rain gardens. As you've probably noticed over the years, the ones on Michigan Avenue can get quite bad with trash that water brings with it. Those are the city's responsibility since they are in the ro…
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Oh, the ones in the parking lot would be Frandor. And the city in the park. The drain commissioner's office doesn't own any of that land.
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@citykid I noticed in the Planning Commission meeting minutes from earlier this month the piece of business about the sale of the Lansing Building Authority's parcel for the new Public Safety Complex that I'd brought up recently. It's mentioned t…
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I feel like people don't often realize just how much larger GR is in every way (urban population, metro, etc). You stack that on top of it being run by a handful of ridiculously wealthy families, and it's just not comparable to us in any real way. I…
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Thanks for the heads-up. And the D&P Committee documents correct what I'd reported on a few days back in the full council agenda packet, namely the number of units, for which only the number of subsidized units was given in the latter. So Riverv…
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This all started with them announcing that they were perhaps moving their offices to the housing development being planned.
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Okay, had to edit that out. Had a major brainfart. lol But since I inadvertently brought it up, I wonder if they've had any formal talks with CATA about how to fit them in? This could end up being quite a substantial and Grand (to match its addre…
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Two PILOTS (payment in lieu of taxes) are submitted next week for the housing in the Cherry Hill neighborhood, finally. The first is Riverview 220 (56 units) that we've been talking about, the the other one is the 500 South Grand/Cherry (55 units) w…
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I hadn't even connected the Walter French renovation to this one. lol That building caught on fire multiple times, too. The last one was in January of last year, in fact. Same with the old Genesee Elementary finally about to be renovated. Eastern ha…
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We live in the state of Michigan where we've seen buildings as far gone as the Book Cadillac and Michigan Central Station in Detroit saved from this: There should be not even an inkling of entertaining that Michigan Medicine - which is pr…
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Perhaps it's not legally permissable to say publicly, but at least within the city government there needs to be an understanding that if they want to take this building down, there will be absolutely no help from the city for this; no tax incentives…
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but I think there will be backlash when people see them be built You think so? I don't imagine there will be any significant pushback. As you said, I think the regulations you guys have put on them (particularly the height ones) are conservat…
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@citykid how did the Planning Commission meeting end up with the ADUs and such?
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Thanks. When was this reported on?
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"Preservation Nonprofit Housing Corp." was obviously a shell, so I just saw the address. I don't know if the Boji's are part of the shell, but Cinnaire definitely appears to be the lead on this, now. BTW, what do you guys mean the "block to the s…
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Seeing that Cinnaire, which I guess is best described as a developer of lower-income housing units, appears to have bought the old Lansing Housing Commission site in late May. I think this is Riverview 220. BTW, what's going to happen to the housing…
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This will almost certainly end up being an industrial park (and probably a suburban one like you see on Keystone in SE Lansing), unless there is some kind of big public campaign for it to be something else, which I do not see materializing. I'd real…
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Board of Zoning Appeals agenda: - Just two requests for variances to allow for chained-linked fences with barbed wire on two property's front yards. I think this should be rejected on their face. I've noticed a lot of dispensaries getting awat wi…
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Planning Commission agenda: - A request for rezoning of 0.95-acre parcel adjacent and to the south of the old Lansing Fire Department Station No. 10 from single-family to mutlifamily to construct a two 5-unit rowhome on the site of a single-famil…
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Looks like the brownfield authority is going to vote on Friday on accepting a nearly $19 million state grant for getting the 57-acre site of the former Verlinden plant development ready. That'll mean further demolition, remediation, new utilities, e…