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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…
  • 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…
  • 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 …
  • 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 …
  • 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…
  • Right, I've heard about no major delays. So perhaps they just do it conventionally.
  • As far as I can tell, nothing is going on a the Wheel District and hasn't for months. And as far as I can find in the council minutes and agendas, the PILOTS for the LHC projects weren't denied, they were simply never brought back up after their pub…
  • So, the AA-to-Traverse City is priority not because of what you said, but rather because it's where the state actually owns the actual rails. A lot of us have been pushing our legislators to at least study how much it'd cost to buy the CSX Plymouth …
  • https://x.com/LSJNews/status/1868853648605782049
  • Council agenda for next week has over a dozen make-safe-or-demolish of demolish orders on it for dilapidated buildings. I remembe reading in the Pulse some weeks back that they've streamlined the process to make it go more quickly, so perhaps the ma…
  • It's one project. The Monroe Street reconfiguration will keep some parking.
  • No, there is parking. And, no, this isn't really like the mall because it's reversible to allow in emergency vehicles and/or different programming for different times of day. I don't think there'd be anymore pushback here against it than it was in D…
  • Yeah, Detroit is about to do something similar to what you described with state funding for Monroe Street: It just takes local vision. In this case, the Greektown Neighborhood Partnership came up with the idea to put this out for prop…
  • It's a proposal in the lameduck legislature to expand the "tax capture" district downtown. We'll see if it gets through. But I'm not particularly supportive of it, since it would steer more money away from the school district. They say the district …
  • Looking like a lot of loose end approvals getting tied up on the 16th at city council concerning the ADU ordinance and the amendments to the zoning code. I think New Vision Lansing's stuff, too? We'll finally have all of that out the way.
  • Looks like the public hearing for this is next Monday. I think there is one more council meeting left on the 16th, which I think means everything should be approved by then to end the year.
  • https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/michigan-avenue-construction-pause-bringing-relief-to-businesses/ar-AA1uS49Z
  • Don't see any demolition permits filed, yet. But, yeah, it doesn't sound like they've at all been receptive to anything the advocates for the old school building have had to say, so I wouldn't be surprised if they are prepping for demolition. I s…
  • While driving around I noticed crews cutting down all the trees on the SW corner of Oakland and Cedar, is this area part of the housing going up near Motor Wheel Lofts? No. As far as I can tell, this was just clean-up of part of the site afte…
  • Looks like Windsor Township approved the final site plan for Consumers Energy's new service center at Billwood and Canal. It will be nearly 94,000 sq ft, about 22,000 sq ft of which will intitially be unbuilt but added as needed. The facility on Wil…