Urban Grand Rapids

The ZORI is the Zillow Observed Rent Index from, you guessed it, Zillow, Zillow provides a variety of data at their Data page. We periodically check in on the ZORI to see what it says about rents in Grand Rapids.

The municipal agenda for the Planning Commission meeting on 2024-03-28 is 👉here👈

UPDATE 2024-03-12: Zoning text amendment adoption vote [or not] has been moved out to April 23rd, which will be a 7pm evening meeting.

At the 2024-03-05 Committee of the Whole (COW) discussed the proposed zoning / land-use reform proposals from the Planning Commission.

The municipal agenda for the Planning Commission meeting on 2024-03-14 is 👉here👈

The municipal agenda for the Planning Commission meeting on 2024-02-22 is 👉here👈

UPDATE 2024-02-22: The Special Land Use request for 540 Cherry St SE was withdrawn from the agenda by the applicant.

There has been a great deal of mobility news in the past few months; 2024 is shaping up to be a big year.

This Thursday (2024-01-25) the Planning Commission will hear the official presentation of a suite of zoning reforms which have been in development since the joint meeting of the Planning Commission and the City Commission in July. As expected, as with any land-use reforms, the opposition has mounted quickly.