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I should have mentioned that unfortunately 308 E Cesar is in the latter stages of make safe or demolish and assessed as too far gone. It is a damn shame the Brewer family let it rot for so long. The more I thought about it, it seems more likely it w…
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I wasn't expecting Turner North to break yet, but one of the proposed parcels is city-owned so they will go through Act 33 review within a month or two. The city will have to publish the RFP response so there will be more details to come. I haven…
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Gillespie Group has been and are doing things so kudos, seriously, it's awesome. I just wish if they had the resources they would be more aggressive. They keep peddling their obsolete industrial buildings on loopnet rather than demolishing and build…
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The irony of Gillespie Group being named the Gateway District developer (partner) meanwhile their Stadium District properties are half vacant and overwhelmed by parking lots. I jest, I know MSU will make them a ton more money, but dang I wish they w…
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BZA is the second Thursday of each month so yesterday. They merely asked to postpone their March application so they could add more renderings and supporters. The reduced the height to 67' and there is a condition they will be planting a ton of stre…
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The Nationals Soccer Club received their variance requests on the E Miller Rd property.
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Nationals Soccer Club asked that the application be tabled so no action was taken last Thursday. I think everyone is excited about the project, but not aligning with the architectural standards with the sheer height is a tough variance. There is a …
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Act 33 - not every community does it Lansing's way but per Public Act 33 of 2008 (and Act 285 before that) Planning Commission is tasked with reviewing the topics Mich linked but here PC also makes recommendations for sale/purchase of real property,…
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For those interested I made a reply in the zoning thread so as to not take up space here. I actually hit the character limit so I was being long-winded giving nuance and the reasoning behind changes. One thing I appreciate about Kost is his willi…
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D&P voted the second set of FBC amendments out to full Council without so much as a comment. Now I really don't understand what all the hemming and hawing the last few months was about. So this should be on the agenda Monday. Due to the required…
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Sorry about the map, yes it is out of date. A previous update undid all of the rezonings of the last two years. We were waiting for the second amendment to pass which would consolidate all of the districts to reflect both changes, and I thought that…
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I think it boils down to a test project of the greater vision, but again some big details on site layout and massing are missing. There were discussions for a pedestrian overpass to Oak Park, either over Saginaw St. or along the train tracks, but y…
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RE: BZA - H Inc wasn't able to submit all of their materials in time for the meeting so it was pulled from Thursday's meeting but will be on a special meeting soon. I can't comment but we'll have to wait on the details to be published.
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I do not want to stick my nose in Council's agendas, but the screenshot pulled from Planning Commission's August 7 packet, with the parking garage, that @hood just reposted, is the approved site plan and what is being built. Someone over there uploa…
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New Vision has not done one thing necessary through planning and zoning for their supposed projects. I'll take a look at the parcel splits/combinations. I'm not the GIS person but it seems like every time an update is pushed, something wonky happ…
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I think at most there is a small office space for the apartment/LHC in the riverview 220 building. I know they explored commercial early in the process and it got scrapped pretty fast because they could not identify any demand and whatever happened …
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They have been using www.hookerdejong.com The city told them about the proposed rules for articulation and prohibiting different styles/materials from crossing multiple floors/horizontal segments and the blue and brown stripes on the wilx news stor…
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33' is common in a lot of neighborhoods platted before automobiles were a thing. The width minimum is to accommodate a 5' minimum side setback (which if built to a new dwelling would require a fire-rated wall), a 10' second side setback/driveway, an…
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There is willingness to publish a public-facing development-status page. I'll report back. Grand Rapids Example
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@MichMatters re: Lansing Building Authority. A building authority is a creature of municipalities, LBA is made up of board of employees. My understanding is that it serves to act on things more quickly without having to go through red tape for acqui…