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East Lansing planning commission reviews comprehensive plan update with social equity, housing and resilience focus
Summary
Planning staff presented a deep dive on the 2025 comprehensive plan update on Nov. 19, emphasizing social equity as a guiding lens and recommending zoning and implementation steps to expand housing choices, improve public health outcomes and increase climate resilience.
Planning staff presented a slide-led review of East Lansing’s 2025 comprehensive plan update at the Nov. 19 Planning Commission meeting, telling commissioners that social equity emerged from public engagement as the plan’s top priority.
Landon Bartley, planning staff, said early outreach at Winterfest 2023 and subsequent committee work prompted the commission to frame housing, public health and climate resilience through an equity lens. “Social equity was the number 1 priority of folks,” Bartley said, adding that the plan emphasizes implementation actions and partnerships with the city’s DEI office and community groups to reach marginalized residents.
The presentation summarized extensive engagement: a coordinating committee that met through 2024–25, student outreach with almost 500 student interactions and 13 on-campus workshops, and 160 online survey…
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