Design Lansing - Master Plan Project
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Its mission is to:
-- Actively engage the residents and stakeholders of the City
of
-- Examine implications of current trends on
-- Formulate consensus on a shared future vision of the City
In order to assure improved quality of life and economic competitiveness for our citizens and businesses.
The success of the planning process, and the plan itself, rests on the involvement of such key stakeholders as residents, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and agencies.
You can help plan Lansing's future together by clicking on the project information below, becoming familiar with planning issues and practices, and participating in future planning workshops. You can click on Plan Documents to download previously adopted plans, and click on Links for access to other planning websites. Click here to sign up to the Design Lansing mailing list, and get project newsletters and information about future workshops.
Thank you for your interest in the City of Lansing's comprehensive plan. Look for future updates to this website as the project progresses and more information becomes available.
The City of Lansing has engaged the services of a planning team headed by JJR, to complete the Design Lansing Master Plan Project. The team also includes LSL Planning, and Landscape Architects and Planners.
The project has several major components:
- A citywide plan focusing on the entire city and considering regional and national perspectives,
- Cluster plans of various areas within the city, and
- A Saginaw-Oakland Corridor study.
Citywide Comprehensive Plan
The Design Lansing Master Plan Project is a citywide comprehensive plan that looks at the form of development in addition to addressing land use, transportation, public improvements, urban design, and other aspects of the
The Plan also looks for context sensitive solutions to transportation, road design, and other public improvements, to improve the compatibility between the roadway design, the land use patterns, and community goals.
Finally, the Citywide Plan project will identify key areas for "cluster planning" , to take a closer look at key areas throughout the community.
Cluster Plans
Cluster Plans will zoom in on those smaller areas identified in the Citywide plan, apply the community goals and principles to those specific areas, and examine how these goals and principles work in the field.
These areas will be scattered in all quadrants of the city, and may include residential, industrial, commercial and public uses of land.
Several such areas already identified lie along the Saginaw and Oakland corridor, and since public improvements were already scheduled for that corridor, a detailed corridor study is included in the Design Lansing scope of work.
Saginaw-Oakland Corridor Study
Due to the timing of infrastructure work along Saginaw Street and Oakland Avenue, the Comprehensive Plan began with a study of that corridor. Detailed data on traffic levels and land uses in the area was collected, and three public workshop sessions were held. The results of this study will be been forwarded to Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) officials for their review.
For more information on this study, see the links listed below:
Design Lansing Brochure (dated May 8, 2008) - letter size
Design Lansing Brochure (dated May 8, 2008) 11" X 17"
June 26, 2008 Workshop Summary
September 4, 2008 Presentation
September 4, 2008 Workshop Summary
Thank you for your interest in the City of Lansing's Comprehensive Plan. Look for future updates to this website as the project progresses and more information becomes available.
