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City wants a short-term yard next door while DPW is rebuilt

Consent vote would let Public Works use the vacant township lot at 1300 E. Keating for 18 months while 1350 is under construction.

Consent item: borrow the empty township lot next door while Public Works rebuilds its yard.

The city shop at 1350 E. Keating is about to get crowded — trailers, materials, parking. Immediately west is 1300 E. Keating, about 2.5 acres owned by Muskegon Charter Township, with a vacant former animal-control building left out of the deal. Township board already said yes on September 8. The city would be the tenant. Muskegon County is stepping back from older rights on the site so this can happen; the county still has a household-hazardous-waste license on part of the parcel,

Lakeside’s Meurer Court park may get charter protection

Commission can lock a 1.6-acre Lakeside parcel as a charter park so it stays park land unless voters say otherwise.

Commission is being asked, on the consent agenda, to lock in a small Lakeside park as a charter park.

Meurer Court is already on the city’s park list — about an acre and a half on a quiet street off Morton, not a beach. A charter park (the extra protection the city added to the charter in 1998) is park land that is supposed to stay a park. Selling it later would take a vote of Muskegon residents, the same idea that already covers places like Kruse and Hartshorn.

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40 apartments proposed for 118 W. Clay, with a tax tool attached

Commission holds a hearing on a plan that would let a five-story mixed-use building on Clay tap new taxes to cover site work and a financing gap.

Tuesday night is a public hearing on a five-story building at 118 W. Clay — apartments over first-floor storefronts — and on the tax plan that would help pay for it.

The developer on the packet is Revilo Two GRR, LLC. Staff describe 40 units: 12 studios, 21 one-bedrooms, seven two-bedrooms. Total investment is about $12.9 million. Construction is aimed at spring 2027 and 15 to 18 months of work.

What Commission is being asked to approve is a brownfield plan amendment (the legal paper that lets new taxes on the site — tax increment financing,

City wants a short-term yard next door while DPW is rebuilt

Lakeside’s Meurer Court park may get charter protection

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40 apartments proposed for 118 W. Clay, with a tax tool attached

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