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I'm still confused about what council approval is needed for the tower, or would it just be the brownfield (and maybe the garage over the street if that's still in the works)? There won't need to be any rezonings or anything. Glad to hear of updates…
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Signage has been put up, and it's nice. There are vertical signs on the northeast corner of the senior building at Larch and Erie, and one on the southwest corner of the 'workforce' building on Cedar with nice, clean fonts. They are marquee-like.
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My understanding of the Consumer's service center on Willow is that the ground is too polluted for any kind of residential usage and no one is going to put in the money to clean it to that degree, so it'd have to remain industrial or rezoned to inst…
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Of all the things she could have legitimately hit us on - and she hit a few - here basically saying there is no good Mexican food in town is probably the silliest of all. We generally do food pretty well for such a small city; it's one of our strong…
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I'm still confused about this mix, but this would still be substantially better than the vacant lots at the location currently. That said, I'm still disappointed in som of the conditions placed on the development, which just seem totally arbitrary a…
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Nice!
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https://twitter.com/LSJNews/status/1728943229201002572 Genuinely confused if this is a legit excuse, or something they are using to procrastinate. As far as I know, whatever the redefinition of the floodplain, the actuall "floodway" will contin…
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The Penn stuff is apparently under an existing NEZ.
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A new Neighborhood Enterprise Zone (NEZ) is being proposed, and this one much larger than the previous iterations. It's to be called the "Wheel District" NEZ: NEZs reduces property taxes temporarily to induce housing development/redevelopment…
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From WKAR: Councilmember Noel Garcia Jr. expressed some concern that the decision would expand density downtown... Mayor Ron Bacon also voted against the proposal over parking concerns. But he maintained the city and private owners of th…
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The council blocked the plans over concerns for...parking. They were literally arguing that the parking lot is needed. In the middle of a downtown. In a college town. Broke my whole brain.
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Nope. The state still doesn't allow it. Ferndale has had it since the early 00's, and East Lansing passed earlier this month, too. None of this can go into effect until state law allows them to.
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I wouldn't even call these plans; we're at the very beginning of this. What is being shown is a concept, at best. It really does leave questions as to who they've talked to in the state on this. But like you said, that they've conceived this would i…
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I certainly hope they develop this concept a bit more - the northwest and southeast quadrants will really need to be something other than grass lawns - but I'm just so happy about getting rid of those awful surface lots. Also, I'm confused about why…
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Yeah, I was excited when I saw this. I hope this spurs redevelopment of the parking lots on the other side of Allegan, eventually. I'm very curious about the discussions between the Capitol Commission and DTMB on this, because it could point towards…
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Looks like the only thing of interest in next week's council agenda is the approval for the brownfield plan for 505-507 East Shiawassee Street being up. There is also the public hearing for the sale of the parking lot at 425 South Grand, which I ima…
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Ahh, thinking more about it, I wouldn't mind the addition of a 5th ward seat so that we wouldn't have ties on council and because I'd like another ward seat. But that'd be more of a cosmetic concern than anything else since ties are simply failed vo…
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I mean, I imagine they have just found out about it like the rest of us. lol
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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…