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Garden City reviews East Lansing‑style rental overlay to limit new rental licenses
Summary
City Manager Gibbons opened a Nov. 3 workshop for the Garden City City Council to review three options to strengthen blight enforcement and rental regulation, including a neighborhood petition overlay modeled on East Lansing that would restrict new rental licenses in a mapped area.
City Manager Gibbons opened a Nov. 3 workshop for the Garden City City Council to review three options to strengthen blight enforcement and rental regulation, including a neighborhood petition overlay modeled on East Lansing that would restrict new rental licenses in a mapped area.
The overlay model described by staff would let property owners propose a district boundary, gather signatures from at least two‑thirds (66.7%) of property owners within that boundary, send the petition to the city clerk, and then proceed through planning commission review and a council decision. "Ultimately city council holds the ultimate authority of it," City Manager Gibbons said, describing…
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