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Chestnut quadplex - the most I heard is that too many neighbors spoke against it. But they were okay with two duplexes or a triplex, so go figure. Planning Commission voted to approve the City Rescue Mission's move 5-1. Not surprisingly, property…
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RE: the Public Safety complex, I totally hear you all. The main reason it looks the way it does is because of potential threats against the police and the array of users. The developers visited quite a few newly built locations, namely one in metro …
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There is no political will or pressure to broach corridor street design. Heck they didn't even put in the promised bike lanes for the street conversions downtown. But local design control of trunk lines will be a strategy mentioned again in the comp…
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Sorry I wasn't clear. FBC added mixed-use and 100% residential by-right in the commercial districts on the corridors (Saginaw, Oakland, MLK, Cedar, Pennsylvania) with the intent they should transition to the TOD concept. I did say we haven't seen i…
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I've been reading a lot from https://twitter.com/holz_bau and Larch Lab - he gets into US transit oriented development - how we zone all density housing on loud, dangerous, and unhealthy corridors. Lansing bought into this in the FBC and while we ha…
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@hood @MichMatters You both touched on good stuff - The Planning & Zoning Office is keeping track of all comments received about FBC/zoning and over half have been requests for ADUs. I do think it helps for those comments to be laid directly in…
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In addition to R-MX and R-6b, you could also look at DT-1 for that triplex model. I'll be pretty frank - FBC was relatively conservative (by this forum's standards) by design because of who was in power and who was designing the actual text. The old…
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@MichMatters yes the minimum width (contradicted by the zoning ordinance, but the subdivision ordinance governs) and depth-to-width ratio thing is out of control. Even the State's standard is 4:1. Planning & Zoning Office is working on an amendm…
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We wanted it along Kalamazoo and Cherry but they couldn't make the numbers work with the floodplain. FBC has a stipulation to work around natural features and we can make a compromise for additional outdoor seating, bike racks, and rain gardens in t…
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Here is a concept layout. Not getting the Baryames property is a missed opportunity and makes it clunky/hard to integrate into a traditional downtown layout, but Baryames owns it outright and it is prime downtown land so I'm sure if they were contac…
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ICLB is proposing the same kind of row houses on a site on MLK at W Genesee and two of them on S Pennsylvania south of E Kalamazoo. I think it is becoming their go-to model to recoup costs and such. They have run into a few space issues with setback…
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Planning Commission (5-2-23) voted to recommend approval of the Miller/Aurelius rezoning for the single-family/duplex development. There was some concern about street access points and removal of woodlands. Applicant said the entire development will…
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The subdivision ordinance definitely needs an update so the city does not have to go through these bureaucratic processes. It reminded me of a case last year - the guy who bought that section of North Cemetery for multiple quadplexes. I just happen…
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A full Planning Board packet just dropped. Of note are some details about H Inc.'s plan for that area by Saginaw and N Pennsylvania. It looks very copy and paste 4-unit, mini rowhouses. I hope the city or others can encourage him to add some variety…
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Hepler/H Inc. is focusing on this block and has some understanding with the Land Bank for a serious modular/prefab housing development, but yeah definitely not moving swiftly enough to see any results besides more dilapidated structures. One of his…