Council adopts changes to diverse-housing rules, adds small parking incentive

The East Lansing City Council on Sept. 8 adopted ordinance 15-59, amending the city's diverse-housing rules to lower the required on-site proportion from prior levels and to create a staff-administered fee-in-lieu option. Bartley, the principal planner, told the council the measure "would modify the city's diverse housing requirement" and explained a 5% residential construction-cost fee-in-lieu option that would be deposited in a fund administered similarly to existing CDBG procedures.