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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.…
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After I'd asked on here, I actually did hear something through the grapevine that the project is still very much working behind the scenes, though I didn't get any details. So that was good to hear. I was just surprised how it completely disappeared…
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Between Cane's, Dave's, Buffalo Wild Wings and Detroit Wing Company, I think we may be getting chickened out. I'm only half joking. lol
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I'm going to keep asking, but what's going on with New Vision Lansing? As soon as it was announced, the council was talking about actions to vote on accepting the money from the state literally within the week or two after the announcement, and then…
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Citykid, I've been here all these years, but something just struck me, yesterday. The parking lane on the east side of Larch between Shiawassee and Saginaw continues north of Saginaw to Grand River, basically. But it appears that it hasn't been u…
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They are painting and putting some of the siding on the market-rate building. Something else I'd noticed I hadn't before is that they're almost finished with the internal parking lot. But what I noticed was how low the new grade is over the previous…
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It's in an overlay district that requires it to be urban in design. Remember, they'd proposed something substantial here a few years back, though the weird inclusion of a self-storage business as one of the uses on the site seemed to have (fortunate…
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Yep, posted about Cooper's Hawk just above. They've already started site-prep if that clearing is what I saw recently. It's just east of McCallisters.
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Missed that we had a Planning Commission meeting this week. Looks like the most notable item was the Act 33 Review for the old Center for the Arts parking lot across from the bus station: Parking Lot #1 (P1). These are the reviews that happen when t…
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Looks like the media is reporting tonight that the Lansing City Rescue Mission rezoning and special land use was approved.
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Ah, I see. I was searching "505 E. Shiawassee" it skipped my down to the resolution for it. lol I like what they have planned in terms of aesthetics for 505; looks really tasteful. I hope they don't plan to do to 507 what is shown. If it need…
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Another relatively slow month for development-related stuff - and I'm still not seeing anything for New Vision Lansing - but there appears to be a Brownfield Redevelopment plan for the old bar and neighboring Riverfront Cycle buildings at the northe…
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Oh, no doubt. Most of my comments are about how nice they look, particularly given that they aren't high-end units, and it's adding much needed affordable housing in the area. They started painting them, today, in fact. But yeah, you just wish th…