Public Works

Above: Fiesta Charra restaurant, behind which Costco plans to build a store

Following the reaching of an agreement between the City of East Lansing and Meridian Township, Costco is likely to soon be building a new store in East Lansing along Saginaw Highway just east of Park Lake Road on land adjacent to the Fiesta Charra restaurant.

Above: an East Lansing basement floor drain through which sewer back-up has occurred

The City wants you to know that, if a sewer backs up into the drains in your East Lansing home and creates a big mess, odds are high the City will not help you financially and that your homeowner’s insurance will be inadequate to managing the cost of cleanup. That’s the message of a brochure recently distributed by the City on basement flooding.

"I feel this has always been Corey Cafagna’s park and we have simply put up a sign to acknowledge that fact," said Sheila Taylor.

This Saturday, June 4^th, the City of East Lansing invites residents to bring their hard-to-recycle items to the Abbott Center to be reused, recycled, or disposed of properly. This annual event began over 20 years ago as a community clean up effort organized by community members, and continues to grow larger every year.

A reader asks: Is CATA’s bus rapid transit plan a done deal?

Above: the project site at the northeast corner of Grand River Avenue and Spartan Avenue.

The East Lansing City Council voted yesterday on both the site plan and Brownfield Tax Increment Financing (TIF) plan for the White Oak Place project at Spartan and Grand River Avenues (just west of Brookfield Plaza). But in both cases, what the Council approved was significantly different from what the developer had proposed.

As a key Parks millage is due to expire later this year, East Lansing’s City Council held a tense conversation about whether the upcoming November election is the right time to try to get East Lansing voters to renew that millage. ELi's Alice Dreger reports.

Above: A rapid bus system in downtown Chicago, with photo showing a raised station platform and dedicated bus lane, similar to what CATA is proposing for its Bus Rapid Transit (BRT).

As MSU students leave for the summer, the City of East Lansing wants to ensure that adequate curbside recycling services are available. They will be offering an extra recycling day on Monday, May 9 in areas of the community with high student rental turnover.

“We believe this extra collection day will help to reduce trash overflow and litter in these areas, while providing students with extra opportunities to recycle as they move out of their homes for the summer,” said East Lansing Environmental Administrator Cathy DeShambo.

Monday (May 2, 2016) marks the last no-fee yard waste pick-up for East Lansing this spring, so today we’re bringing you information about yard-waste management with the help of Cathy DeShambo, Environmental Services Administrator for the City, including an answer to an ELi reader’s question about why yard waste pick-up is not free as the pick-up of refuse and recycling is.

First, some news from DeShambo: