Residents favor mixed-use development at first “Design Lansing” workshop
Lansing may be on its way to saying goodbye to our old friends — or foes — the surface parking lot, the strip mall and the anti-pedestrian five-lane one-way street.
The first “Design Lansing” community character workshop was held Thursday at the Lansing Center, giving residents an opportunity to “vote” on changes to the city’s first comprehensive master plan effort since the last one was completed in 1958.
The main question now for planners and residents is, “What do we want to transform into?”
“We’re after the big picture,” said Bob Doyle, a project manager from JJR, the firm contracted by the city Planning and Neighborhood Development Department to develop the new master plan. “We try to get a sense of the big picture ideas people are supporting.”
The master plan establishes some very important — but perhaps mundane for the average Joe — rules about how our city will grow. Of importance is our zoning rules, which dictate what is allowed to be built and where. Zoning informs the physical appearance of a city, including its green space, parking areas, roads and whether we should keep slinging power lines high up in the air.
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