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I had started making a map highlighting historic buildings I think should be saved and put some more work into completing it when I saw this discussion. I (mostly) didn't include single family homes, only commercial and multi-family buildings. I als…
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Agreed, Schor has gotta go. If we get someone incompetent in his place then at least the political space is open for someone else to rise up, whereas nobody serious seems to want to go against Schor. Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll leave on his own …
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Regarding the Rescue Mission: As an agnostic I've never really had a problem with faith based services, I also don't have a problem with raising issues with them to garner support for alternatives. My big issue with the Rescue Mission is that I don'…
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Yeah, I absolutely don't agree with the city's concerns regarding the soccer dome. As @MichMatters said, it's literally in an industrial area. There's an outdoor construction materials yard right there, the city just approved an asphalt/concrete pla…
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Regarding the zoning map colors, I see that green is an almost entirely unused hue on the map. Switching one of those tan residential zones (maybe R-3??) to a sort of pea green may help differentiate. A more pure deep green could be used anywhere el…
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Thanks, I'm going to do my best to make the 4th ward meeting.
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I'm very much in favor of that inflatable sports building on Miller. Lansing needs more entertainment options and that area is as good a place as any for a structure like that. I'd love for our region to be able to justify a more permanent facili…
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Our city is just a sad, sad joke and I don't know how to help it get better. These are generational missteps that probably can't be rectified in a couple years or even decades.
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I just wanted to point out a couple of examples of architects that do very nice classically inspired buildings. https://www.ramsa.com/projects https://www.dmsas.com/portfolio/ I've always been and continue to be in favor of bonding out extra …
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lol What a basic, nondescript building. It looks like it belongs in a suburban office park in anywhere USA, if you told me it was literally a copy and paste design I wouldn't be surprised. I can't believe they wouldn't orient it to the corner if …
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I'm or less numb to this at this point. This city is full of inept "leaders" and politicians along with a largely apathetic citizenry. The result has been decades of stupid and counterproductive decision making, Eastern's demise just being the lates…
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I didn't see the second comment. It's really odd that this property was still owned by the RR. I do hope the city can acquire the rest of this spur north of Old Town.
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I know I've said it before, but I'll be very glad if this building gets anything approaching a decent restoration. We have so few pre-war apartment buildings here, every one is valuable to the urban landscape.
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I guess I don't really see what this acquisition changes. I assume the plots south of Oakland were owned by BWL and functionally the city's anyway while the lots north of Oakland don't lead to anywhere or offer much benefit without also having the R…
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It's good to hear that they're moving forward with the tower without explicitly seeking approval for the over-road garage. That would seem to mean that it's not a make or break item for their plan, I mean they'd save a lot of money not doing it and …
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I'm not sure how that act would relate to this project, its wording isn't terribly clear. Obviously one can't just unilaterally decide to build a structure over a public ROW, I guess the question is if what the planning commission/council already ap…
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@MichMatters I think the Park Michigan proposal did not get funded this year as it was expected to, it sounds as though they had a shovel ready design. A lack of support from the governor is implied. As for the old Michigan Theater balcony, the r…
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I emailed someone with the Capitol Commission whom I had contacted before regarding the Park Michigan project and it's not good news. They had just presented their finalized plans to the Commission in December but something went awry: Unfortunat…
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I also thought was that it wouldn't have really been a bad thing had the upzoning slipped by. Oh well, it was a nice try lol.
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@citykid Thanks for the detailed update there, I see a bunch of positive changes. It doesn't seem as though we've seen much of the results of the switch to a FBC yet, hopefully these changes can remove some the limitations that previously existed. T…