Council to discuss development plans
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Changes to the site plan for Gaslight Village, a development located to the north of East Lansing’s downtown area, will be discussed at tonight’s City Council meeting.
The site plan calls for the construction of 20 apartments and 40 townhouses. Council members will discuss changing the maximum occupancy for the apartments from two to three people at tonight’s work session, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Courtroom 2 of 54-B District Court, 101 Linden St.
The site’s 20 apartments already have been constructed and about 18 rental licenses have been handed out, said Tim Schmitt, a community development analyst for East Lansing.
In other business, council will discuss the possibility of constructing a 75,000 square foot office building at 3515 West Road.
The land is zoned as a residential agricultural area, but GreenStone Farm Credit Services applied to develop the area as an office headquarters location, Schmitt said. GreenStone is currently located at 1760 Abbey Road, just off of West Road and south of the new site.
“Council introduced this a while ago, but will discuss it again at the meeting,” Schmitt said.
The council also will discuss an ordinance that would allow property owners to rent their home under limited conditions while looking for prospective buyers.
The item has been on the agenda in past weeks, but no decisions have been made.
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When a developer wants to charge too much for their property and the consequence is that they have several vacancies, the city’s solution should not be to increase the rental licenses for these apartments — unless they are willing to do that across the board including in the downtown area. This developer has a strong track record of building projects that are not cost effective. They have under utilized business condos around the corner on Lake Lansing, this project, and their less than stellar condo development on Saginaw that had to continually reduce the cost of their apartment condos down to less than 100k because no one was buying them. It is time to either stick to the guns and keep the rentals as is, or change those in the down town area as well.