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December 6 - 12, 2017 The First-Ever City Pulse Coffee Issue! Who’s roasting? Lansing’s Mr. Coffee See Page 8 SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS AND DAVINA & THE VAGABONDS JANUARY 18, 7:30PM Cobb Great Hall whartoncenter.com • 1-800-WHARTON The Jazz Series is sponsored by MSU Federal Credit Union. Media sponsor WKAR. 2 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • December 6, 2017 CELEBRATES Hours: 9-6 M-F; 9-2 Sat; closed Sunday YEARS VIDEO EVENTS LEARNING DESIGN MessageMakers is a creative communications service company that has been providing award–winning results–driven videos, events, design and learning programs in nearly 50 countries and in 12 languages for over four decades. They have a hands–on creative team, focused on projects that help people to learn and connect with purpose. They are makers and collaborators. Come visit us in Old Town messagemakers.com 517.482.3333 City Pulse • December 6, 2017 www.lansingcitypulse.com 3 THE BEST BUFFET. 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Cusack, Tom Helma, Gabrielle Lawrence Old rockers return for a reunion of The Underground Johnson, Eve Kucharski, Terry Link, Andy McGlashen, Kyle Melinn, Mark Nixon, Shawn Parker, Stefanie Pohl, Dennis Preston, Allan I. Ross, Dylan Tarr, Rich Tupica, Ute Von Der Heyden, David Winkelstern, Paul Wozniak PAGE Interns: Kelly Sheridan, Shruti Saripalli, 1 Sherry Min-Wang Generously sponsored by Craig and Lisa Murray; Wolverine Development Corporation, Joseph Maguire Distribution manager: Paul Shore • (517) 999-5061 Cover art by Todd Zapoli Delivery drivers: Frank Estrada, Dave Fisher, Jack TICKETS Sova, Richard Simpson, Thomas Scott Jr. MUSIC.MSU.EDU/JAZZY (517) 353-5340 RFQP/18/037 MEDICAL MAR. APPLICATION CONSULTANT as per the specifications provided by the City of Lansing. The City of Lansing will accept sealed bids at the City of Lansing, C/O LBWL, Purchasing Office, 1232 Haco Dr, Lansing, Michigan 48912 until 2:00 PM local time in effect on DEC. 18, 2017 at which time bids will be publicly opened and read. Complete specifications and forms required to submit bids are available from Catherine Davila, [email protected],(517) 702-6288 or go to www.mitn.info The City of Lansing encourages bids from all vendors including MBE/WBE vendors and Lansing-based businesses. CP#17_316 B/18/038 APPRAISAL FOR COMM PROPERTY as per the specifications provided by the City of Lansing. The City of Lansing will accept sealed bids at the City of Lansing, C/O LBWL, Purchasing Office, 1232 Haco Dr, Lansing, Michigan 48912 until 2:00 PM local time in effect on DEC. 18, 2017 at which time bids will be publicly opened and read. Complete specifications and forms required to submit bids are available from Catherine Davila, [email protected],(517) 702-6288 or go to www.mitn.info The City of Lansing encourages bids from all vendors including MBE/WBE vendors and Lansing-based businesses. CP#17-317 GROESBECK PARK DRAIN DRAINAGE DISTRICT NOTICE OF INTENT TO RELEASE EXCESS EASEMENT Notice is Hereby Given, that I, Patrick E. Lindemann, Ingham County Drain Commissioner, intend to release to the fee owner an excess easement previously used for a retention/detention basin located on a parcel of land in Lansing Township, Ingham County, Michigan, assigned Parcel No. 33-21-01-03-427-039. The easement that is the subject of this Notice was granted to the Groesbeck Drain Drainage District on October 20, 1994, and recorded with the Ingham County Register of Deeds at Liber 2429, Pages 771-773. A copy of this easement is available for inspection at the office and address listed below. No other easements granted to the Groesbeck Drain Drainage District or the Groesbeck Park Drain Drainage District are intended to be released. Any taxpayer who wishes to protest release of the above described easement may appear at the Office of the Ingham County Drain Commissioner, 707 Buhl Avenue, Mason, Michigan 48854, on January 10, 2018, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., for that purpose. After said date and time the excess easement may be released back to the landowner. This Notice and action is made pursuant to Act No. 40, Public Acts of Michigan 1956, as amended. See MCL 280.6. Dated this 29th day of November, 2017. Patrick E. Lindemann Ingham County Drain Commissioner CP#17-318 City Pulse • December 6, 2017 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION Crackdown looming City to strike against dispensaries not seeking licenses Lansing’s Wild West era of medical mar- quickly to shut down any businesses who provisioning center owner said. ijuana dispensaries is rapidly coming to an have not applied for a conditional city With uncertainties in state and local end. license by Dec. 15. enforcement and licensing processes, busi- An estimated 60 dispensaries have until “I’m not directly involved in enforce- nesses have been hard pressed to justify Dec. 15 to apply for 20 licenses under the ment, so they won’t be my steps. I’ll be com- paying the city’s $5,000 application fee, city’s new ordinance. municating with other city departments,” said Rufenacht. City Attorney Jim Smiertka said Monday Swope said. “I know there will be enforce- State licensing officials at the Michigan that proceedings to shut down those that do ments beginning on those that do not apply Department of Licensing and Regulatory not apply will begin within two weeks after by the deadline.” Affairs had promised emergency rules last the deadline. His options include cease and Under the recently adopted city ordi- month, but they weren’t released until desist letters, enforcement of new zoning nance, 25 provisioning center licenses will Monday restrictions and civil infractions. be issued over the next year. Twenty licens- What worries some in the medical mari- Dispensaries have been illegal under es are up for grabs in this first phase, as juana trade is that they follow city rules, but state court rulings, but pro-marijuana required under the ordinance. The second inadvertently violate state regulations. Mayor Virg Bernero has held back enforce- phase, which must begin within one year of Businesses will have until Feb. 15, 2018 to ment. Mayor-elect Andy Schor, who takes phase one, would allow a maximum of five submit state applications and a $6,000 fee, office Jan. 1, is less pot friendly. licenses to be issued. There are no city caps which could be raised during the approval The city’s nonrefundable application on the other marijuana facilities like grow- process, or face closure. Any business not fee is $5,000, the maximum a jurisdiction ing operations, processing facilities, secure operating under a local municipality’s law Todd Heywood/City Pulse can charge under state law. That alone is transporters and testing centers. Dec. 15, could face action by state or federal Swope expected to take a toll on how many dispen- Smiertka said that if no one applies by authorities, according to the rules issued by sary owners will take a chance on filing one. Dispensaries in communities that will Dec. 15, Swope could begin a new applica- LARA Monday. “You don’t want to pay a $5,000 fee allow them, such as Lansing, will need both tion period for licenses. Swope, who is responsible for scoring and then not get it back from the city, you a local and state license to operate legally. Swope said he has no plans to do so, but applications to determine which businesses know,” said Jacob Rufenacht, owner of Like Lansing, the state will consider dis- didn’t rule it out. “That’s not a bridge I’m will be granted a license, said he was sur- KIND Dispensary, 2201 E. Michigan Ave. pensaries illegal if they do not apply for a going to cross until I get to it.” prised at the lack of applicants, but was “That’s why these people aren’t applying.” license by its deadline, Feb.