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Some renderings of the Fisher Freeway caps planned in Downtown Detroit at Grand River/2nd, Woodward and John R: With the Lansing planning money we got the other day, Detroit got $2 million for engineering for their proposal, but it was sh…
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Here's to hoping that Kost completely redoes the planning committee so we can get past this, already. lol, he kept both Hussain and Garza on the planning & development committee, and simply switched Brown out for himself, because of cours…
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The LSJ story on this today gives a bit more detail as to what the city is aiming it. Of course, it's not even a proposal, but you get the outline of what they may be shooting for: Schor's op-ed described the rough sketch: "Our preference would …
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I wasn't really talking of replicating Campus Martius, rather just commenting on a successful rink. But even apart from that, none of that stuff really existed in downtown Detroit when the park was built. The district grew around the park. It's n…
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Definitely, I'd like to see some kind of capping between Grand and Capitol, even if it's just extending land out half a block on Washington. West of there to MLK is mostly just frontage for the GM plant on the south, so it'd make much less sense sin…
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I learned to ice skate at the outdoor rink at Washington Park. It was a shame to see it go; it gave kids who don't usually get an opportunity to learn to do it an opportunity, since most rinks are located in the burbs, now. Washington Park was abou…
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The Cascades is actually a county park. But it's history is that it was privately developed, and the benefactor handed it over to the county in the 1940's. BTW, there was a proposal probably a decade ago that was to put a proper skating rink in R…
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Here's a diagram showing the old streetcar and interurban (called "electric railways", here) lines: Interurbans would be more akin to longer-distance light rail lines, today. Both the streetcar system and interurbans got replaced earlier than…
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Yeah, I was talking about back-in-the-day, too. What's throwing me off is it only being two lanes with pull-in parking, and that being 6-ish previous lanes. It's weird, because I think the general sense if that it's noticeably wide, but somet…
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When we're talking caps, just realize that we're most likely talking a few blocks at the eastern end of downtown (Grand, Washington, Capitol); it'd definitely won't be a full tunnel, which requires a complicated ventilation, drainage, emergenecy...s…
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DOT announced it's grant winners for the "Reconnecting Communities" program, today. Lansing was one of the winners of a "Community Planning Grant" for its "Our Way for the Highway: Capping Lansing’s I-496 to Reconnect Communitie" planning proposal. …
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To be clear, I wasn't advocating for turning it back into a full pedestrian mall; I don't particularly like that idea. I was specifically talking about the idea of doing what they are doing to Monroe in Greektown in Detroit - and what is similar to …
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Very glad to hear the planning commission pretty decidedly recommended rejection. Here's to hoping that Kost completely redoes the planning committee so we can get past this, already. It seems only to be popular with Hussain; the community is not as…
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I guess you should be optimistic about the Wheel District site simply because it's finally come back up after remaining dormant for a year or so. I was surprised to see the variance request, because I'd basically thought it was dead. It shows that h…
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BTW, looks like Councilmember Kost was elected president, and Councilmember Carter was elected vice president. I know Kost has a reputation for being a stickler for details to a fault, but I've never gotten the sense he has been opposed to any of th…
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I think it was very encouraging that as bad as they've been, one part of the culture that had changed is that they are way more willing to return right-of-ways to the cities than they once were. Getting them to part ways with Saginaw/Oakland & C…
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Without giving any details, is it a significant change from the original proposal? I appreciated the density of the original proposal, but wasn't crazy about the designs or that everything was simply attached single-family. It'd be nice to see more …
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This City Pulse article mentions an unannounced development going up somewhere along Turner, also, some refurbishment of the fish ladder: A second development on Turner is in the planning stages and will be announced soon. “Both will bring much …
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Updates: Councilmember Hussain forced changes to the proposed ADU ordinance, which was holding up the zoning proposals. The Planning Commission will meet tomorrow, to take up the revised ordinance: An ADU must be registered and properly license…
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Right, I've heard about no major delays. So perhaps they just do it conventionally.