LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — An error by the Ingham County Treasurer’s Office has left a historic property unprotected from redevelopment and structural changes, forever altering the historic value and nature of the property.
Ingham County Treasurer Alan Fox tells 6 News Investigates that 108 S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. does not have a historic covenant attached to the deed. A covenant would require rehabilitation of the property to keep it within its original structure and design purposes.
“Turns out reference was made in the auction catalog to a historic preservation covenant, but that when the deed was recorded (2019), no covenant was recorded,” Fox wrote in a text. “So there is none.”
The Lansing City Council Committee on Public Safety will consider a resolution to create a historic district study committee for the property on Tuesday. The move could retain the structure and prevent altering it.
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If a district study committee is established, it will have 180 days to make recommendations to the city council as to whether or not to establish a formal historic district. Such a district would restrict how the property can be renovated, the city’s Historic Preservation website reveals…