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August Christopher がリツイート
August Christopher がリツイート

Though Attorney General Dana Nessel criticized utility regulators March 27 for approving a rate increase for Consumers Energy, she also supports clean energy mandates that some experts say increase the price of electricity. michigancapitolconfidential.com/news/nessel-bl…
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@MichCapCon An excellent demonstration of how liberals want all of these projects moved forward, just not in their neighborhood
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The Royal Oak Zoning Board of Appeals rejected a request on March 12 to accommodate a 45-unit affordable housing development for downtown.
The quasi-judicial body of nine members denied a parking variance sought by Lockwood Development Co, LLC on a vote of 4-2. Board members Arvind Reddy and Isaac Wolf voted to approve the variance. One seat is open and another member recused himself.
The development would have provided 40 affordable housing units and five workforce housing units, a representative of the developer said. The project, planned for the corner of East Third Street and Knowles Street, was to be partially funded by the federal American Rescue Plan Act, with funds channeled through the Michigan State Housing Development Authority.
Those funds must be spent by Sept. 30, after which the city is required to send that money back to the federal government. The site will likely remain a parking lot.
Board Member Michael Leinweber made the motion to deny the variance request.
“As has been discussed, I think that the proposal as shown puts a burden on the neighborhood and that all the criteria are not met,” Leinweber said. “I feel that it does put a burden on the property owners in the area.”
Some members of the public said they supported the project because of high housing costs. Others said it would increase congestion downtown.
Royal Oak’s standard zoning ordinance requires 1.5 parking spots per each dwelling unit. That would mean 68 parking spaces for the project, but the developer offered 35 parking spaces, said city planner Alex Bahorski.
The board previously approved a plan that included underground parking and more floors, but the developer changed the plan due to projected costs and a too-high water table that made underground parking unworkable.
Even if the appeals board approve the variance, the project would still need to go before the state housing authority.
YIMBY Oakland County, a group that supports more housing in the county, said the board blocked more affordable housing.
“This is exactly how the housing crisis gets perpetuated. Several ZBA members said they support affordable housing in theory, but in practice the board found reasons not to allow it,” the group said in a news release. “Objections included concerns that reducing parking would discriminate against people who own cars, and even questions about how residents would carry groceries into the building without parking spaces.We cannot continue to put solutions to the housing crisis before boards and committees that oppose housing when it actually comes time to approve it. Royal Oak is rewriting the zoning ordinance, and we need you to provide input that you want the new ordinance to have reasonable requirements so homes are not blocked by a few unelected community members.”
In 2024, city regulators approved a proposal for a downtown apartment building at 505 Lafayette and waived the parking lot requirement, which was for 85 spots.
The board vote came before members of the Michigan Legislature introduced nine bills that they say will make housing more affordable. Those bills are 5529, 5530, 5531, 5532, 5581, 5582, 5583, 5584 and 5585.
The bills would allow multiple homes on single lots across the state, such as duplexes and accessory dwelling units. They also would limit local governments’ power to mandate a minimum number of parking spots, require studies and documents for site plans, minimum setback requirements, minimum lot sizes and minimum home sizes.
“Michigan’s housing shortage isn’t an accident — it’s the result of policy choices that make building homes harder and more expensive than it needs to be,” Jarrett Skorup, vice president of marketing and communications at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, said in a February press release on a housing reform legislative package currently before the Legislature. “This package eliminates some of these barriers to help create more opportunities for affordable and accessible housing.”
Lockwood Companies founder Rodney M. Lockwood, Jr. is the chairman of the board of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which owns Michigan Capitol Confidential.
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What do a demolished building, a dental office, and an immigrant hub have in common?
In Michigan, they’re all billing Medicaid, and you’re paying for it.
I went chasing a lead, all I found was the demo team eating lunch.
That crew sent me chasing a story that found $118M billed by 21 dissolved businesses across the state.
The demolition site became the blueprint I needed to follow the money. 🧵🇺🇸


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🚨 BREAKING: Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen ACCUSED of romantic relationship with the lawyer who helped Democrats STEAL a congressional seat.
Texts reveal intimate relationship between the Justice and Attorney for the Redistricting case while the case was live. She ruled in their favor. Utah lost a safe Republican district thanks to the new map.
Governor + legislative leaders launching a probe into the cozy “friendship.”
Utah never should’ve lost that seat. Judicial swamp just got exposed.
ksl.com/article/514845…
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August Christopher がリツイート

Obama deserves to DIE in prison!
Karoline Leavitt:
“While publicly pretending to support a peaceful transfer of power, Barack Obama privately worked to sabotage President Trump.
Newly declassified evidence from the DNI proves the Obama administration manufactured and politicized intelligence to fuel the Russia collusion hoax — a deliberate effort to delegitimize Trump before he even took office.
Trump had nothing to do with Russia. The entire thing was a fraud, and Obama and his top officials — Brennan, Clapper, Comey, and McCabe — knew it from the beginning.”
Tony Seruga@TonySeruga
This is the REAL Barack Hussein Obama II. He will go down as one of the most evil Manchurian candidates in history. You may think you know who this man is, I assure you don’t. A tool of the global elites, CIA and radical Islam, his goal was to destroy America. There’s a reason his Washington, D.C. residence is a quick 5 minute walk from The Islamic Center of Washington D.C..
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@SDentropy @mich_enjoyer Excited for businesses investing in the community is not weird.
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The long-established gas stations currently in operation have changed their exterior and interior visages very little in the last several decades, and have sought to chase the personal vices of working-class residents. Anyone purchasing fuel at the counter can also peruse a endless array of hookahs, vape pens, and dick pills. @Stainless31


Michigan Enjoyer@mich_enjoyer
The Sheetz Effect Is Fixing Up Livonia @Stainless31 enjoyer.com/sheetz-effect-…
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August Christopher がリツイート

Before the 2020 election, USB keys and a laptop were stolen from a PA election warehouse, which grants full admin access and compromises the entire election.
Trump led PA by 800k votes when counting stopped. Biden then won the state by 60k votes. Guess what county gave Biden the 60k vote win?
The same PA county that the USB keys and a laptop were stolen from. There are no coincidences.
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🚨 WHAT THE HECK???? Here's Soros-linked Hennepin County DA Mary Moriarity. She has now literally filed ARREST WARRANTS for ICE agents.
But that's not all. She falsely claimed they can be arrested ANYWHERE IN THE NATION.
A court needs to IMMEDIATELY shut this down. The DA needs to face criminal charges and should be thrown in prison.
REPOST and show the world what a traitor looks like!
#thinblueline #lawenforcement
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August Christopher がリツイート
August Christopher がリツイート
August Christopher がリツイート
August Christopher がリツイート

BREAKING
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) says “It’s time to nuke the filibuster.”
This is the first time Senator @BasedMikeLee has overtly called for passing the SAVE America Act via nuking the filibuster.

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The NCAA just vacated multiple Iowa football wins for “tampering” with Cade McNamara while he was at Michigan. Understandable… but… the fact that Michigan still has a national title is WILD #TikTokCampaign #football
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The election fraud operation that took place at the State Farm Arena during the Georgia 2020 Election is clear as day. They got CAUGHT.
- They purposely placed a long black-draped table into the counting room that had hidden suitcases full of fraudulent ballots underneath it.
- They then lied to election workers and observers, told everyone that they were all going home and would resume counting the next day.
- When all election officials, poll workers and legal observers left, a few Democrat workers came back and started pulling those hidden suitcases full of fraudulent ballots out from the table that they placed there earlier and started running stacks of the same ballots through the machines all throughout the night until they cleared the margin of victory for Joe Biden.
- State Farm Arena's cameras caught it all on video, these cameras had nothing to do with the election and wouldn't of caught them otherwise.
Trump was so far ahead that after all the election fraud, they still only remained to run enough ballots to get ahead by only 11,779 votes. Trump won in a landslide.
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