Developer Core Spaces' development request includes four properties along Bogue Street, although attorney David Pierson reports the company has only purchased two. Pierson did not say which properties were acquired.

Core Spaces has yet to submit site plans or anything else representing a formal proposal, according to Meadows.

Fraternities currently occupying the properties haven’t received information from owner Community Resource Management Company, or CRMC, according to Don Nguyen, Vice President of Community Relations for the Inter-Fraternity Council and a University Student Commission member.

Alexander Furtaw, Vice President of Finance for Alpha Sigma Phi, said he wasn’t aware of the development until Nguyen mentioned it at an Inter-Fraternity Council meeting.

“As far as I know, CRMC still owns the properties,” he said.

Furtaw said the lease for Alpha Sigma Phi, at 131 Bogue St., lasts for at least another two years. He is confident the lease will be upheld in full.

“I think it would be a shame to demolish several historically relevant properties that have been owned by fraternities for years,” he said.

Beta Theta Phi, 207 Bogue St.; Sigma Alpha Mu, 217 Bogue St.; and Phi Kappa Sigma, 227 Bogue St. could also be affected by Core Spaces' plans. A group of students voiced concerns about the future of the fraternities along Bogue Street in a University Student Commission meeting last month, Nguyen said.

Meadows said due to CRMC's size, it would be odd if there has been no communication between the company and the fraternities.

He said in property agreements, developers often receive ownership contingent on approval of a specific project. This conditional agreement would allow CRMC to keep the properties if plans for the development failed.

CRMC owns every off-campus property on Bogue Street except for Farmhouse, according to Nguyen.

Before construction could begin, Core Spaces would have to pass through the city's bureaucratic process.

The East Village Master Plan was adopted in 2008 and requires 50 percent of residential units to be owner-occupied in any development in the area.

The city code requires new developments to be mixed-market rental units, including a mix of studio, one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom units. The building must be no more than eight stories tall, and a maximum of 25 percent of units can have three bedrooms.

“That really is intended to make sure student housing doesn’t happen,” Pierson said.

Pierson said the development plans include four-bedroom units on a building exceeding the height limit, so as to provide affordability for students and reduce construction costs of kitchens for residential units.

Changes to the city code would have to be approved by the East Lansing City Council before the development concept could be considered.

Meadows said he has received pressure to move as soon as next week on an ordinance to revise zoning laws surrounding East Village. The mayor said he was opposed to the changes. He said the issue would likely be brought up in a discussion-only city council meeting April 16.

Council member Aaron Stephens said he wanted to wait to see site plans before he gave a formal opinion.

“For me, the question is not necessarily whether I’m okay with four-bedroom apartments," he said. "It’s whether I’m okay with their four-bedroom apartments.”