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https://twitter.com/LSJNews/status/1728943229201002572 Genuinely confused if this is a legit excuse, or something they are using to procrastinate. As far as I know, whatever the redefinition of the floodplain, the actuall "floodway" will contin…
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The Penn stuff is apparently under an existing NEZ.
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A new Neighborhood Enterprise Zone (NEZ) is being proposed, and this one much larger than the previous iterations. It's to be called the "Wheel District" NEZ: NEZs reduces property taxes temporarily to induce housing development/redevelopment…
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From WKAR: Councilmember Noel Garcia Jr. expressed some concern that the decision would expand density downtown... Mayor Ron Bacon also voted against the proposal over parking concerns. But he maintained the city and private owners of th…
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The council blocked the plans over concerns for...parking. They were literally arguing that the parking lot is needed. In the middle of a downtown. In a college town. Broke my whole brain.
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Nope. The state still doesn't allow it. Ferndale has had it since the early 00's, and East Lansing passed earlier this month, too. None of this can go into effect until state law allows them to.
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I wouldn't even call these plans; we're at the very beginning of this. What is being shown is a concept, at best. It really does leave questions as to who they've talked to in the state on this. But like you said, that they've conceived this would i…
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I certainly hope they develop this concept a bit more - the northwest and southeast quadrants will really need to be something other than grass lawns - but I'm just so happy about getting rid of those awful surface lots. Also, I'm confused about why…
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Yeah, I was excited when I saw this. I hope this spurs redevelopment of the parking lots on the other side of Allegan, eventually. I'm very curious about the discussions between the Capitol Commission and DTMB on this, because it could point towards…
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Looks like the only thing of interest in next week's council agenda is the approval for the brownfield plan for 505-507 East Shiawassee Street being up. There is also the public hearing for the sale of the parking lot at 425 South Grand, which I ima…
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Ahh, thinking more about it, I wouldn't mind the addition of a 5th ward seat so that we wouldn't have ties on council and because I'd like another ward seat. But that'd be more of a cosmetic concern than anything else since ties are simply failed vo…
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I mean, I imagine they have just found out about it like the rest of us. lol
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A very vocal group has been pushing a change to a manager-council government and for 8-9 wards. Funny, I'd heard absolutely nothing of this. But maybe this is why in the last few weeks I heard Clerk Swope slyly warning people against it. lol …
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Well, because voters didn't know what they were doing, Lansing voters narrowly and accidentally approved a general revision of the city charter proposal, tonight, which will open up an expensive process. Any structural changes anyone wants to see? l…
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Oops, wrong thread.
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Can you guys take this over to more appropriate threads for this? This is getting off-topic, here. Streets & Transit Natural Lansing: Parks, Forestry and Nature
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Yeah, I'm looking back to a post I made in June 2019 when they were building Block 600 and made an easement request for building foundation footings which would literally only extend 2 feet under the sidewalk. The agenda for that meeting brings up t…
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There was an update on the Ovation Center in the CoW meeting minutes. MSUFCU is apparently still fundraising to "enhance" the project; they won't be asking the city for anymore money. The city is currently doing soil testing & other prelim site …
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I'm a broken record on this, but the city should have been actively look at commercial/industrial/vacant areas it wants to annex and finding a few favorable residential parcels to vote on to bring the land into the city like they did down at the nor…
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Because they have such sparse agendas (no packets) & minutes, there is not a lot of detail in the last planning commission about Howard & Michigan, but what I'm noticing from the minutes is that they are again micro-managing the development.…