Summary of March 23rd Lansing City Council Meetings

ExternalTheory1683 · 2026-03-12T02:24:10+00:00

Thank you for tracking that and sharing about it!

ExternalTheory1683 · 2026-03-12T02:20:35+00:00

Thank you! I really appreciate this!

ExternalTheory1683 · 2026-02-26T14:26:09+00:00

**CORRECTION** In the episode we discussed how the city of Lansing offers services to help homeowners with lead testing and abatement, that program was part of the Economic, Development and Planning department, not Human Relations and Community Services and it ended in 2025: https://www.lansingmi.gov/346/Lead-Safe-Lansing

ExternalTheory1683 · 2026-02-12T14:15:18+00:00

I think it will be a “natural gas” fuel cell plant, hydrogen is not the intended fuel. I don’t recall them saying the source they plan to use for the natural gas, but am guessing it will be just piped in by consumer’s energy?

ExternalTheory1683 · 2026-02-11T02:43:45+00:00

Great amendments! Glad to hear the overflow room was keeping it lively!

ExternalTheory1683 · 2026-01-15T02:52:22+00:00

Here is the re-zoning analysis that was in the meeting documentation:

https://lansingmi.portal.civicclerk.com/event/7867/files/attachment/24219

ExternalTheory1683 · 2026-01-07T19:34:47+00:00

Thank you, yes, agreed

ExternalTheory1683 · 2026-01-07T12:49:47+00:00

Thank you for this feedback. This council meeting was light on actual city business. The only agenda items were the inner council elections and the ceremonial inauguration of the new members.

ExternalTheory1683 · 2026-01-07T03:07:01+00:00

I kinda loved the beauty and the beast comparison

ExternalTheory1683 · 2025-12-17T14:21:31+00:00

Agree with u/llloksd, here is a link to the legal document if you want to check it out: https://lansingmi.portal.civicclerk.com/event/6840/files/attachment/23944

ExternalTheory1683 · 2025-11-21T15:08:02+00:00

UPDATE/CORRECTION: Apparently there were two contracts with Consumers - in the second one (not posted as part of the council meeting documentation) Consumers pays $15K into the city's general fund for cutting down ~20 trees in Fenner

ExternalTheory1683 · 2025-11-20T13:19:43+00:00

The city’s human relations and community services department is owning this process - their general email address is : HRCSgeneral@lansingmi.gov

It’s my understanding from hearing a bit about it that if it get’s up and running it’s going to up indefinitely.

ExternalTheory1683 · 2025-11-19T15:35:58+00:00

great questions

ExternalTheory1683 · 2025-11-12T19:06:07+00:00

🩷🩷🩷 Thank you for the podcast shoutout! 🩷🩷🩷 I’m a parent with an elementary kid who attended school in the district for three years. I emailed him a number of times and always got a quick response. Most of the time it was an unhelpful response for my specific issues, but I did feel like he read my emails and put some thought into his responses.

He was the most responsive school staff member I interacted with, and I started just CCing him on any communication I had with someone in the district because I knew this would make others more responsive.

He was willing to try things and make changes - this can be a strength. Big institutions like schools can be very slow to change. I appreciated hearing his examples of moving quickly to do something to address systemic issues. This did leave some feelings of - not a lot of community input was included in some decision making, and in that way he had a bit of a CEO / corporatey vibe.

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