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The setback doesn't look any larger than the existing setbacks for the the travel lane, to me. Though, I agree, I'd have liked to have seen a tigher code. At the same time, we're talking a strip along a literal state highway. Short of giving it a ro…
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Drive-thrus are permitted with conditions up to MX-3, apparently, on all street types except local streets. So this appears to follow the code. Where you'll really see the code come into play in this area is if/when Logan Square is developed. The cu…
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These are empty lots; he's building infill. That's why they are requesting lot splits. Edit: Looks like the development and planning committee delayed more the lot splits forward since the land bank no longer owned the land. The committee believe…
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I assume they are just going to be some slapped up habitat-for-humanity style homes with the vinyl siding and minimal amounts of windows. That's all that gets built at the lower end of things; no one's found a way, here, to bring middle housing. I h…
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A little thing I caught in the minute of the previous planning board agenda. The county land bank requested two lot splits variances to allow two lots to be split for the construction of four single-family homes on the southside. But the more intere…
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As far as I know, Frances Park doesn't have any "Friends" group, and is simply kept up by the Parks & Rec. The city is just keen to keep up it's premiere park. It gets lots of weddings, family reunions, etc.
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Actually, it looks like Lansing does have an individual parks millage in addition to the county parks millage; we have so many different ones I can't keep up with them. Anyway, it's only 1 mill; looks like we last approved its renewal in 2020 and wa…
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I agree with all of that. Cities usually passively let basketball courts rot because they look at them as breeding crime; just a prejudiced thing we really need to get over. The one thing the city has done poorly in the parks beyond that is generall…
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You live in the city? Parks are included in the general operating budget, which is just our general city millage (19 mills or so), I think. I'd argue that parks & rec is one of the service the city does fairly well, though there could definitely…
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Here's the MSU discussion: https://develop.metrolansing.com/discussions/discussion/32/msu-development#latest And, really, it probably belongs in the general thread.
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https://twitter.com/DowntownEL/status/1493322875813736452
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Yes, they added Shiawassee. You retroactively apply that. So it was 534,684 in 2010 to 541,297 in 2020, a significantly lower rate of growth that estimated (about 550,000). And it was even more stark for Ingham County which was estimated to have gro…
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This doesn't square with with either the Census count nor the estimates; it's just not possible particularly given the trends.
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Boji Group bought it last August, said they are considering residential usage for it, which would take quite the reconstruction.
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I have this gut feeling that Gillespie has offered up the old Frandor Sears for some part of this project, but it's a total guess.
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I shouldn't have been so glib about the police and courts; I'd much rather them stay downtown. But I guess what I was getting at is that that's not a make-or-break thing for me. Moving out of city hall, totally, would be. Unfortunately, the central …
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Broken record, because y'all know how I feel about this, but, yeah, if they need more room for the police department and courts? I honestly couldn't care less where they'd move something like that. But they should really just renovate city hall. Tha…
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https://twitter.com/CityofEL/status/1489637410422075394
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The potential residential component - which isn't set, yet - is explained to help offset the operating expenses of the center. I don't think I'd personally want to live right above the auditorium. In my mind, you'd built it above the lobby, which wo…
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Oh, I was just talking about the fact that they'd announced they were lining up a performing arts center, not that they'd already picked a location. My hope is that they used this time to figure out financing for a project like this, and the next st…