UPDATE: MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP - The house on the property owned by Township resident, Chris Drobney, was severely damaged during a storm. Because damaged house is too old to be feasibly repaired, Drobney is planning to remove the old house and cut into he ground underneath it, use the removed earth to fill in the ground elsewhere on the plot in order to build the new residence. The proposed plan includes construction of an approximately twenty-two hundred square foot residence. The footprint of the house is approximately nineteen hundred square feet, and that will be taken into consideration as will the impacts on the floodplain. It is because the plot is located on a 100-year floodplain adjacent to Lake Lansing that Drobney needed special permission to plan construction on the property. Approval of the plans requires that they show how the construction will have minimal effect on the groundwater runoff that drains into Lake Lansing and the neighboring inlet, which they do. The Planning Commission heard the request and may make a decision at their next meeting.

ORIGINAL STORY: MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP - During their recent meeting, the Meridian Township Planning Commission heard a request for reconstruction of a 100-year floodplain property off of Lake Lansing.