GoPro footage capture iron workers from Local 25 working to manhandle beams into place as the build the new Little Caesars Arena. Diane Weiss, Special to the Detroit Free Press
The Detroit City Council approved an ordinance Tuesday to update the city's parking lot regulations following a Free Press investigation of lots owned by the Ilitch family near Little Caesars Arena.
The ordinance amends the zoning code to remove any ambiguity that would allow the city's buildings department to issue permits for parking lots without interior landscaping.
The newspaper's investigation in January found the city's Buildings, Safety Engineering and Environmental Department approved permits dating to 2016 allowing the Ilitch family's parking companies to build or renovate 18 parking lots throughout the Cass Corridor without including any landscaping inside the lots, as others have been required to do.