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I'm confused what "never made it to the finish line." Like, do they need money for more planning; was this to the point of where it just needed funding for construction, what? It sounds like this is a money issue, but they aren't explicit about that…
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So, next weeks agenda are showing the Planning Commission meeting has been cancelled. [sigh]
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Looks like the MEDC's Michigan Strategic Board approved their incentive package for New Vision Lansing, today. Kind of wish I could read the details, but they don't put up meeting packets until weeks after the meeting. In any case, this appears to h…
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The forces of the universe are conspiraring against you Who caught this, and which neighborhood was it? Why wouldn't the change just be something administrative that wouldn't have to start the process back over? I wish they wouldn't have caught …
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I noticed on the south end of the Neogen expansion, which spans Shiawassee to Michigan, that there appears to be steel rising, again. I'm always shocked to see how massive this thing is, a large manufacturing operation returning to the city that's n…
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Ah, thanks for clarifying. I guess I don't mind it as an accessory use in the downtown districts. I jumped the gun a bit and thought you guys were expanding the zones in which it could be included, and also I guess I wasn't aware of what was permitt…
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Ah, thanks for finding this thread! I forgot I made it, and it definitely makes sense to be posting specifically zoning-related stuff here. Also, thanks for refreshing us on this. I like the changes to basically legalize building fourplexes, a…
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Thanks for the update! We probably talked about this months ago, but to refresh us, can you hash out a bit more of some of the changes you mentioned? For instance, what was the minimum dwelling width before and the purpose for the decrease? Also, ki…
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Sometimes the media gets details wrong; I'm hoping that's what this was. lol The only way this would even make a half-way bit of sense is if GM was goingt to sell the frontage along Malcolm X in places to allow some infill development so that you co…
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WILX story says they are talking about a cap between Walnut and MLK, which...isn't really reconnecting ANY of the actual neighborhoods along this stretch. This is literally just stretching from one end of the GM plant to the other. I'm so confused; …
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Looks like Planning & Development Committee meets next week to discuss the amendments to the Form-Based Code (FBC), again. As is typically the case, minutes from the previous December meeting are included, and it gives me an idea of some of the …
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Yep, that's it. Thanks. I'd definitely love to see something like this. But I also understand how expensive it'd be to engineer something beyond open space that tops a cap, so I'm definitely not expecting something like that. Same reason I'm …
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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…