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It's recommendation failed on a 3-3 vote. Now it goes before council for a public hearing and then a subsequent approval/rejection vote. This is pretty typical for East Lansing, though. It's a small miracle that the 10-story project down the street is just about under construction. The minute something even so much as begins to run up against the 140-foot height limit, the city looses its nerve to the NIMBYs.

The crazy thing is that the developer addressed the parking concerns from the first showing before the planning commission. The developer added enough bicycle parking so it's now at a 1:1 ratio; they removed balconies to appease people yelling about balconies being hives for "noisy students."...but the commission is still hung up on the 0.22 parking/resident ratio even though the city's transportation commission praised it.

Anyway, the developer has not been deturred and made known he wants approval for this project from city council before the end of the year so he can keep with a February 2018 ground breaking.

You'd think in a college town like East Lansing that the city government would discourage parking, particularly knowing that students are less likely to own cars than other folks in the city. But they often do quite the opposite.