HomeMy WebLinkAbout1,173 - July 27, 2021 signedMINUTES OF THE 1,173'd PUBLIC HEARINGS AND REGULAR MEETING
HELD BY THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION
OF THE CITY OF LIVONIA
On Tuesday, JUIy 27, 2021, the City Planning Commission of the City of Livonia
held its 1,173'd Public Hearing and Regular Meeting in the Livonia City Hall, 33000
Civic Center Drive, Livonia, Michigan.
Mr. Ian Wilshaw, Chairman, called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m.
Members present: David Bongero Glen Long Betsy McCue
Carol Smiley Peter Ventura Ian Wilshaw
Members absent: Sam Caramagno
Mr. Mark Taormina, Planning Director, and Stephanie Reece, Program Supervisor,
were also present.
Chairman Wilshaw informed the audience that if a petition on tonight's agenda
involves a rezoning request, this Commission makes a recommendation to the City
Council who, in turn, will hold its own public hearing and make the final
determination as to whether a petition is approved or denied. The Planning
Commission holds the only public hearing on a request for preliminary plat and/or
vacating petition. The Commission's recommendation is forwarded to the City
Council for the final determination as to whether a plat is accepted or rejected. If a
petition requesting a waiver of use or site plan approval is denied tonight, the
petitioner has ten days in which to appeal the decision, in writing, to the City
Council. Resolutions adopted by the City Planning Commission become effective
seven (7) days after the date of adoption. The Planning Commission and the
professional staff have reviewed each of these petitions upon their filing. The staff
has furnished the Commission with both approving and denying resolutions, which
the Commission may, or may not, use depending on the outcome of the
proceedings tonight.
ITEM #1 PETITION 2020-08-01-06 Middlebelt-Plymouth Venture
Ms. Smiley, Secretary, announced the first item on the agenda, Petition 2020-08-
01-06 submitted by Middlebelt Plymouth Venture L.L.C. pursuant
to Section 23.01 of the City of Livonia Zoning Ordinance #543, as
amended, requesting to rezone parts of the properties at 29707 &
30273 Plymouth Road, located on the south side of Plymouth Road
between Middlebelt Road and Milburn Avenue in the Northeast'Y4
of Section 35, from C-2 (General Business) to R-8 (High Rise
Multiple Family Residential District — Maximum 4 Stories).
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Mr, Wilshaw: Mr. Taormina, this is a petition that we have recently received a
request to have this item tabled from the petitioner. Is that
correct?
Mr. Taormina: That is correct. Yesterday we received email correspondence
from the petitioner indicating their desire to put this item on the
table. There is a representative from the petitioner here this
evening. It is at your pleasure how you would like to proceed at
this point.
Mr. Wilshaw: In light of that, because this is a very important petition for us and
many in our audience are interested in, I would like to
ask... instead of going through the entire process of a public
hearing and having you read out all of the correspondence and
so on, I think what I would like to do is just immediately go to our
petitioner. He can speak to his request for a tabling, explain why
if we have any questions for him we can do that and then we will
also give an opportunity, because we do have residents here and
this is a public hearing, to speak to the petition. Although, given
the fact if they are requesting a tabling, there is not going to be a
tremendous amount of discussion or presentation given by the
petitioner tonight. I am going to ask our audience to be patient
with us if this is going to get tabled and to continue to follow this
so you can come back for a full public hearing, and we can listen
to everyone's comments when we get the petition before us.
Mr. Taormina: If I may point out that unless the commission this evening tables
this to a date certain, meaning a specific date in the future, then
we will readvertise for the hearing if it is to a date uncertain. If the
petitioner leaves this open, in terms of a date and when it would
come back, the residents will be notified once again in the same
manner that they were originally notified.
Mr. Wilshaw: Good. We have received a number of correspondences from
residents as well. We want to acknowledge that it has been
received and I am sure we will continue to get more, and you are
welcome to continue to send that correspondence to us. That
way we can notify those people when the item has been reposted
for our public hearing. So, with that I am going to go to our
petitioner who I believe is in the audience and he can start with
his name and address for our record and explain his request to
table this item.
Steve Duczynski, 17800 Laurel Park Drive, Livonia, MI. We would ask that the
vote this evening be tabled. After last weeks study session and
some additional comments we have received from these revised
submission plans, we would like the opportunity to further study
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our current plan and those comments, which requires additional
time. Putting it simply, we have more work to do. We are
committed to bringing a quality development to this site and
providing the additional time as a result of listening to those
concerns with the opportunity to analyze the feasibility and
address accordingly. We do apologize for any inconvenience this
has caused the city and the community in attendance this
evening. Thank you very much.
Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you, Mr. Duczynski. Are there any questions for our
petitioners from any of the commissioners? If there is no
questions... Mr. Ventura.
Mr. Ventura: Mr. Duczynski, can you tell us...l guess number one, do you
intend to change the material way rezoning that you are
requesting and the project that you envision?
Mr. Duczynski: Currently we are not thinking of changing the zoning, which is
currently R-8. As far as the project in general, there were some
comments regarding the densities. There were some comments
that we heard regarding the aesthetics and in order to further
study those items and listening to those concerns we just would
like some additional time to maybe improve those issues and
come back after conversations with the city and move forward.
Mr. Ventura: Thank you.
Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you, Mr. Ventura. Any other questions for our petitioner
from any of the commission? If not, again, I want to give anyone
in the audience an opportunity to speak if they would like to. That
being said, you see we haven't heard much from the petitioner
about this petition, so if you want to reserve your comments for
the next public hearing you are welcome to, but if you would like
to speak now you are also welcome to. This is a public hearing,
so we definitely want to give you an opportunity. If anyone wishes
to speak, they can come forward to the podium. Good evening,
sir.
Steven Weldon, 29912 Orangelawn St., Livonia, MI. Good evening. I see that this
is the ongoing petition that we keep facing, the southeast corner
of Livonia. Every time Schostak has tried to do something we
faced, as a community, the Planning Commission, the City
Commissioners, and the Mayor, all seeming to go against what
the community wants. We fought many times when they tried to
introduce and change and destroy the old retail outlets there and
build and construct and we face a lot of issues there. One of the
things that they agreed to do was build a 12 foot berm and put
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alternating trees to prevent people from being able to scale up
there and look in our backyards and possibly break in. They built
about an eight -foot berm. Part of that... half of that whole section,
they didn't put up but a few scraggly trees back there that we have
been dealing with. The tree right in back of my house is on a 45-
degree angle just about. Not a pretty sight. Not something you
would say this is Schostak's best efforts for delivering a quality
product to the community. We have had so many meeting for
Schostak. Whenever they have a project and it just seems
blanket blanket... we will voice our complaints, it gets approved.
When they did that theater, they said there would be no shows
after 10:00pm. We had showings up to two in the morning. We
would have beer bottles, sirens going off all night long. The police
would have to show up. Then they had that fun entertainment
section for teens. They swore it was just a little family
entertainment. There wouldn't be anything... we had teens there.
They were drinking. There has been nothing but problems. This
was brought up to the City Council and Planning Commission
many times. Issues with the trash. All sorts of issues, and yet it
gets blanket approval. I don't know why they keep saying Livonia
is family's first. You really need to take down that sign, at least in
the southeast corner. It is a shame to have to say that it really is.
I have been here since 1955 when our family first moved in. I
don't know how many of you are long time residents, but this is a
shame that we have to fact this kind of a construct that is like us
against both our city government and the Schostak's. Now let me
address this current rezoning. Without that berm and everything,
that detracts from what it is. They don't deliver on what they say.
Then our city government doesn't enforce what they were
supposed to do. They still have refused to come through and put
up those trees or increase the berm. They are not going to deliver
on their promises, and it gets overlooked by enforcement. I don't
know why that is. What is it that you guys are not providing when
you blanket these approvals that they can ignore it? As far as
this apartment, let's look at the fact that this is not one of those
integrated developments like they have done in Detroit where
they have both the apartments and the retail stores built together.
This is an adhoc throw in. Schostak has for decades, probably,
looked at getting a big box store in that corner. They can't get
anyone to come in there. This is a low -rent, low-income, low
property value area. It is one of the first developments of Livonia.
You are not going to get a retail in there, so now they are doing a
in and around run where they can still generate some income with
the property, rental properties. Well, this particular location and
for the rent that they would have to charge, they are going to get
Section 8, they are going to get low-income teenagers that will
then get other teenagers to move in with them to share the rent
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and they will have more vehicles there than there are supposed
to be. That means more police. This is also an area that if you
have such a big complex, that is where you are going to have the
gang activity. You are going to have drug activity. You are going
to have crime starting to pop up. You are going to see ... I have
already heard, instead of having homes maybe in this area that
would be family oriented. You are going to have to have the
whole water infrastructure there rebuilt to handle such a massive
apartment complex. The retail stores there don't have a big
demand for water themselves. It is probably bigger, but it isn't
not a massive thing where you are going to have a couple
hundred or more residents. My brother had two complexes where
he had those issues, where old people Section 8 or any
entities .... they flush down the toilets and it clogs things up. It is
going to start backing stuff up. Have you guys looked at those
kinds of issues? So, you have the integration fact that this is a
ad in issue that shouldn't be there. They could have gone across
the street where the... right on the corner where the Walgreens is
or was and then all of the stores that have failed over there... there
was Office Depot and they finally moved out. Why couldn't they
move there? Did you look at that aspect? I will tell you why they
didn't, because this is a property that Schostak owns. He wants
to get that filled. He wants income at the expense and interest of
the community, which is you people as well. I hate to say this,
but this smells. I don't know if you remember the Waste
Management issue where there is a lot of corruption that goes on
for them to get things done. I hate to say that about this area. I
hope it isn't true, but any of you are looking at future political
aspirations here in Livonia, we are going to mark your names
down. We are going to look who is supporting the community and
who is going with the developer over us. Thank you.
Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you, Mr. Weldon. Appreciate your comments. Anyone
else wish to speak? Good evening, sir.
Craig Grzech, 29761 Orangelawn Street, Livonia, MI. Good evening. I am kind of
new to this whole getting involved thing and I am kind of enjoying
it, but... so, I don't know a lot of the past history, but I have kind
of looked at some different things and when I first saw this my
first thought was I hope the Planning Commission along with the
Council kind of takes a look at, and I don't know how you go about
doing your job, but as far as the setbacks and how close this
would be to that berm and that wall, you know where the parking
lot would be, so I think that is a very valid concern for us down in
that neighborhood especially on Orangelawn Street. Also, the
height of it. Being four -stories and I know it sounds like its tabled.
I don't know for what reasons, but I don't know if that is public
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record to find out like why they are looking at different things or
what you have gone back to them at in regard to height of the
building, the setback and again where the parking lot would be
located. I also echo the gentleman's last comments in regard to
just traffic patterns and the things that are going on as far as an
ad-hoc...I don't really think this is ... it doesn't seem like it is a
community type effort with the way things have been going in that
area between a Wal-Mart, a Target, and now a blood plasma
center. It seems pretty unstable across the street as far as
development and then with the Chick-fil-A going in you know the
traffic...I hope you are doing studies on how that is going to affect
this rezoning as well. It seems to really be getting cluttered in that
area. Also, I don't know if that is part of the rezoning conversation
but the kind of ... the rent rate. What type of housing are they
looking at doing in regard to rent rates? In some of the studies
and stuff that I have seen online is that Livonia does a very good
job of keeping the rent rates higher than some of our neighboring
communities. It seems to kind of help overall. I was born and
raised east side. I have been here 10 years...12 years.
Absolutely love what is going on in Livonia, but it seems to be
kind of ... we kind of need to watch what we are doing from a
zoning and planning. Livonia seems to look at new developments
before trying to take existing ones. There are a lot of vacancies
out there. I am hoping that the zoning commission and the City
Council really takes a hard look at this because I do think however
this plays out, if it does happen that hopefully it is done the right
way and I would agree...I don't know how it is policed, but I was
in involved in some of the conversations with the retail space
when it was Wal-Mart and a lot of the stuff didn't happen. As far
as the berms and all that. So, hopefully there is some policing
there if they move forward.
Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you, Mr. Grzech. Just to give you a little explanation
because you are...you said you are a little newer to this process.
Just to help you and anyone else in the audience that wishes to
understand how this process works, the way this is going to work
is, and this is the way most of these petitions go. First it comes
to us for a rezoning request. First, we are looking at the zoning
of the property and is that zoning appropriate for that area. In this
case, it is a commercial zoning to a residential zoning that is being
proposed. We will consider that when we have our full public
hearing. We will hear from the petitioner, and we will hear from
everyone in audience that wishes to speak. We are going to
make a recommendation which goes to Council to either approve
or deny. It is not the final decision. City Council is going to make
that final decision. City Council will generally then ... they have a
couple step process. They first have to give a first reading and
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then usually they will hold it until a site plan catches up before
they give the final approval of the rezoning. The second step of
the process is the site plan. That is where we dig into all of the
details about the height of the buildings, the colors of the
materials, the setbacks, the parking lots, and all of those fine
details. That is in the site plan process. That will, again, come to
us. We will review it; we will try to massage it as best we can to
make what we think is the best possible outcome. We will then
send it on to City Council with an approving or denying
recommendation. Then City Council with review both the original
rezoning request and the site plan and make their decisions. That
then becomes the final decision that the city stays with, whatever
that is. That is kind of the process. There are several steps
involved. Unfortunately, in this case, our petitioner has for
reasons they have explained, asked that we table this first step
for now. So, most likely that will happen. The commission has
an opportunity to decide whatever they wish. They could still offer
and approving or denying, as well. Most likely it is going to get
tabled based on the petitioner's request. At least you have some
sense of what the steps are and what is going to happen in each
of those steps. This first one, the rezoning, we are going to pretty
much focus on the use of the property and is that an appropriate
use for that property. We will then get into the details of the site
plan. I hope that helps a little.
Mr. Grzech: It does a lot. From a rezoning...if it is approved for rezoning and
then lets say that the site plan you don't come to an agreement,
does that stay rezoned to that or would it go back to General
Business?
Mr. Wilshaw: No. That is one of the reasons that Council holds that rezoning
request, because they on want to go through the whole process
of approving the rezoning, have it rezoned, and then not come to
terms on a site plan. Now they have piece of property that they
can't do anything with. That is kind of why they go through this
process of sending it to Council, they hold on to it through this
first reading process and then they won't make their final
determination on the rezoning until they see the site plan.
Hopefully, if it is going to get rezoned and approved, it comes
through as a complete package everyone sees what it is. If it fails
or can't come to terms with the petitioner then it will just revert
back to existing zoning.
Or.
Grzech: Thank you.
Or.
Wilshaw: Thank you, sir. Appreciate you coming this evening. Anyone else
wishing to speak, please come forward.
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Jeff Grad, Blackburn Street, Livonia, MI. I am going to be brief because it has
been tabled. I don't want to take up too much time. I also don't
want to give Schostak, the petitioner, too much material here.
Two quick points. I am a little bit different from everyone else that
has come up because... well first off, I have been a Livonia
resident my whole life. I have two kids and one on the way. I live
relatively close to this rezoning petition, and I think if we all look
at ourselves in the mirror, we would realize that like they said that
this is an ad -hoc proposition to change the zoning. If they had
come 10 or 15 years ago when the Wal-Mart was put in and then
said we aren't going to put in a Wal-Mart here that is open `til 11
or 12 or 24 hours and a Target and a liquor store and a plasma
center and a gym, that are open late, let's make this an integrated
community like we have seen other places that is sustainable and
that could be part of a productive future, then this might be a
different story. This is just Schostak saying COVID hit, and we
aren't going to be able to turn this into a retail development, let's
try to make money on this and what is hot now. There is a
housing shortage in Metro Detroit, let's put apartments in here to
make some money. That was not part of the original plan, and it
doesn't fit with what I just mentioned right there. All these
businesses that are open late, etc. That is the first point that just
seems so obvious to me that I am actually surprised that they put
rezoning petition forward to be honest. The second one is you
know if we can't... you have all these people here... I have talked
to a lot of people. There was a petition against this already put
in. I am not sure of the details because I was not part of that
because I don't live right behind this. We, as residents, need to
have faith that our representatives are going to do what is in the
best interests of what the current residents want that pay the
taxes, not a big corporation that is just in it for the profits. I can
guarantee you that the owners of Schostak do not live in
Devonaire neighborhood right behind this development. It is not
as personal to them. They are looking at it for a profit. My last
point...I have already talked to multiple families... young families
in my neighborhood that if this goes through and including my
own, we are strongly considering moving out of the
neighborhood. I own a business in Livonia and that would just be
too bad because I love Livonia and it is a great place to live.
That's it.
Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you for your comments, sir. Good evening, ma'am.
Susan Micallef, Orangelawn Street,
Livonia, MI. I live behind
the mall.
I remember
it when it was an
open-air mall. My concern right
now is, I live
behind Wal-Mart,
I have been fighting and
arguing
with the city
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since they started bringing those trucks, those 18-wheelers in.
They are blowing diesel in my back yard. My husband has
COPD, can't breathe. I got grandkids that I watch. I don't know
who is in these trucks. My concern is I can't get any help from
the city, not really. The police do a good job. They do a good
job. It's like these people said, the city does not care, so my
concern is if you do go ahead with this development who is going
to take care of the problems that are going to arise. Don't tell
there aren't going to be any problems because there will be. That
is my concern. You have to consider those of us that live there
and how this is going to improve our quality of life and quite
frankly I don't think it is. I agree with everything everybody has
said. If I have been fighting with Wal-Mart, who is going to help
with this stuff coming in. That's all I want to say.
Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you,
Ms.
Micallef.
Is there anyone
else in the
audience... we
have
one more.
Good evening, ma'am.
Cheryl Lupu, 29864 Orangelawn, Livonia, MI. Good evening. How is everyone
this evening? I live next door to Susan. I have gone through the
amount of problems that she has gone through. We never get
any help. I have come before the Council. They tried to help me
a little and it still has gone nowhere. It is ridiculous the amount of
times we have to call the police. If you guys need to do a little
reference, start with that. At how many amounts of phone calls
have been made to those police and that is not really their job. I
believe it is private property. Hmm? No one is ever out there
taking care of anything, let alone the extra garbage in our yards
and the people that are on that hill. So, there is a lot to look at
here. It is bad enough when these trucks are staring into your
home while you are trying to sit or in your bedroom or something
back there because these people just sit in those trucks. They
run them. Our houses vibrate and it is just ridiculous. No one
really does care. The police actually do their job. They can't
always get to there, but it's the point of these are our backyards.
Not yours, they are ours. We need them to be kept private as
possible. We are fighting someone all the time over there it
seems like. By the way, that wall hasn't been repaired since
what...1910? It's crumbling. They don't care. It is disgusting if
you just take a look and look because the grass is high and there
you go. That is all I have to say. Thank you.
Jr.
Wilshaw: Very good. Thank you, Ms. Lupu. Good evening, ma'am.
Reverend Victoria Kowaleski, 29960
Orangelawn, Livonia,
MI. For
the record I ask
you all now, do our
voices count? How
many of
you are saying
in your head, no?
Regardless, we will
have our words heard
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here. Wonderland mall was officially shattered in 2003, After the
all closed, plans were announced to demolish the entire
structure and plans were to build a new shopping center
anchored by a new Target, as well as a Wal-Mart. Opponents of
the mall's redevelopment held a civic meeting in late 2005 which
was interrupted by pranksters shouting epitaphs and other
opponents picketed in front of vacant mall. Despite the local
opposition plans were approved for the new shopping center and
demolition began in 2006, We were assured that this would be
an asset to our community and our concerns were unwarranted.
I was one of those voices telling my concerns at that time.
However, my pleas fell on deaf ears. The developer had all the
power. Our voices didn't count. Once this development was
completed, it wasn't long before our neighborhood was a target
for vehicle theft. Personally, my van was stolen from in front of
my home and was never recovered. I didn't have theft insurance
because it was an older vehicle. I went out my door in the
morning to go to my job as a babysitter for a Livonia police
officers' family. My van was gone. One of my neighbors had a
four -wheeler stolen. The family that first welcomed us into the
neighborhood in 1992 have had two vehicles stolen from in front
of their home. A neighbor on the next street over had a vehicle
stolen. This is all since the opening of the Wonderland Village.
One of my friends told me that some of our neighbors have had
their vehicle windows broken by people driving by and throwing
bottles through them and speeding off. When we bought our
home in 1992, we never foresaw the possibility that hundreds of
people would be living permanently just outside our back yard.
Would any one of you want or tolerate a four-story apartment
building in your backyard? This is unfeasible. This developer is
asking for an oasis of residential property surrounded but backed
up by a neighborhood surrounded by commercial property. My
neighbors are already putting out signs to sell. A close neighbor
and his family, this is two doors down from me, had just
completed their dream of an outdoor hot tub and an entertaining
area and planned on it being their dream home to retire and hand
it down to their son as their mom had handed it down to them.
Forty years they were there. Upon their notification of this
proposed project, they put their dream home up for sale. They
left in tears. They are now gone for their dream home of 40 years.
Regarding the existing Wonderland Village, someone said build
it and they will come, businesses and consumers. Now we have
the developer telling us that we need a multi -story apartment
complex abutting our backyards. Is that so he can get more
people shopping at the properties he makes money from? Our
voices have been ignored for too long by our city representatives.
Our property values will be negatively impacted by this project.
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Our sewer system will be compromised by this development. Our
privacy and our rights as homeowners in the City of Livonia will
be impinged upon by the development that this man is trying to
put behind us. My neighbors and I are totally against this. This
time hear us and stand up for us, your taxpayers, the people who
pay the salaries of the people who work for Livonia. As you
ponder what I have said, I wish you all here a blessed evening.
Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you, ma'am. Appreciate your comments. Is there anyone
else that would like to speak? Sure, you can have the last
comment, sir.
Mr. Weldon: Another aspect that is part of the consideration I would hope you
would look at is being a member of the residential site right behind
where this is supposed to go. I would like to mention how, if you
have noticed in the news for the past couple years, there have
been a lot of apartment fires. You see it on the news
occasionally. Whole big apartments just going up in smoke. The
devastation is terrible. You get something like this going right in
our area, I can tell you with the wind that comes tunneling over
that berm right now, it is like a major forest coming across. If it
catches some embers right there and comes across and hits our
roofs and the roofs beyond that, you are going to have a whole
devastation of a bunch of homes in that area. I have been
through one of these before where just a few embers sets off
another fire, another fire. These homes can go up like (snaps)
that. That is exactly what can happen in this. There is no
guarantee that they can build a fireproof apartment complex,
especially of that size. Especially when you have got, like I said,
the type of people that will be looking to move into this area. You
are not going to have people that are very well off with well paying
rents that want to live in that kind of area. Again, ad -hoc. It's not
something that is going to be integrated where they can say I can
go here and do this. No, you are going to have these young kids
that come in, and I hate to say it, teenagers. I have been one
myself, but I knew some of them that when they did, they had four
or five roommates. You had four or five cars that shouldn't be
there. Multiply that by how many other apartments going to be
like that. So, you are going to have that going on. You are going
have again some of the gang member stuff and once you get that
kind of going on, like he said, many of these people are looking
to move their home. Why? For the sake of the developer? We
are going to (inaudible) to them again? Like I said, we have been
battling this, the Schostak entity, for ages now. If any of you...I
am going to apologize in advance for having the assumption that
you are all on the take. That is the wrong way to look at it, but
unfortunately with the previous commissions and planning that
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went through, they were outraged when I said oh it looks like
Schostaks got his hand in your back pocket. One of them broke
down in tears but that is exactly what we see in all of these other
cities. The influence of these developers far outweighs what the
families are. Again, our slogan is supposed to be Families First.
All 1 can do is say look at these issues of the infrastructure, the
potential for the fires, like I said, I have lived through some of
those fires where they came through the apartment complexes
where I was at and those were where some of them were spread
out. You get this concentrated one right here... it would not be
pretty for not only residents, but even the side -by -side retails
stores. Something to consider seriously and like I said, when you
guys make your decision, even if you disapproved, we are going
after the City Council members because they have done the
same thing in the past. They aren't all the same ones that we
voted for or against before, but we are coming out for them next
time. Any of those members, any of them that we got, we are
going to have people running against them. We will not stand for
this again. I apologize to all of you, but I hope you will look at this
very seriously from the fact of what the Schostaks and he is a
Schostak employee, that is all they are. They are just looking for
the money. They want to fill that lot somehow and this is the only
way they can get it. They cannot get a retail business in there.
So, look at it from that point of view and say that is not a good fit.
If they ... like the other gentleman said, if they integrated this and
built this where it was going to be fitting, that would be a whole
different story. You would have families that were wanting to
move in there. They might enjoy that. This is not. You are going
to have... again, the wrong type of people with the wrong type of
intentions of not being a family driven unit, but just part-time. It is
just something to crash and maybe as a Section 8 person for a
while. Thank you for listening and I hope you will look at this long
and hard. Thank you.
Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you, Mr. Weldon. Appreciate your passion on this item as
well. If there is no one else that wishes to speak, Mr. Duczynski,
is there anything else you would like to say on behalf of the
petitioner before we make our decision?
Mr. Duczynski:
We would
just
like to say
that
the comments have been noted and
we would
like
to reserve
our
response for future meetings.
Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you, Mr. Duczynski. We appreciate that. If there are no
other comments or questions, I am going to close the public
hearing at this time a motion would be in order.
July 27, 2021
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On a motion by Long, seconded by McCue, and unanimously adopted, it was
#07-38-2021 RESOLVED, That pursuant to a Public Hearing having been held
by the City Planning Commission on July 27, 2021, on Petition
2020-08-01-06 submitted by Middlebelt Plymouth Venture L.L.C.
pursuant to Section 23.01 of the City of Livonia Zoning Ordinance
#543, as amended, requesting to rezone parts of the properties
at 29707 & 30273 Plymouth Road, located on the south side of
Plymouth Road between Middlebelt Road and Milburn Avenue in
the Northeast 'Y4 of Section 35, from C-2 (General Business) to R-
8 (High Rise Multiple Family Residential District — Maximum 4
Stories), the Planning Commission does hereby table the item at
the petitioners request to a date uncertain.
FURTHER RESOLVED, That notice of the above hearing was
given in accordance with the provisions of Section 23.05 of
Zoning Ordinance #543, as amended.
Mr. Wilshaw: Is there any discussion?
Mr. Wilshaw, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution
adopted.
ITEM #2 PETITION 2021-06-01-05
Belal Hourany
Ms. Smiley, Acting Secretary, announced the next item on the agenda, Petition
2021-06-01-05 submitted by Belal Hourany pursuant to Section
23,01 of the City of Livonia Zoning Ordinance #543, as amended,
requesting to rezone the properties at 27428 and 27432 Long
Avenue, located on the north side of Long Avenue between
Inkster Road and Rensellor Avenue in the Northeast 'Y4 of Section
1, from R-1 (One Family Residential) to C-2 (General Business).
Mr. Wilshaw: Okay, so on this item we have received a request from the
petitioner in advance to table this item as well. That is the case,
Mr. Taormina, correct?
Mr. Taormina: In this case, he had not requested a tabling. We cannot lawfully
conduct a public hearing based on the fact that the required
notification sign was not posted on the property. He is correcting
that error and once that sign goes up, we can reschedule another
date. We will send the notices once again and reschedule the
public hearing.
Mr. Wilshaw: Yes, that is correct. Do we need a formal tabling?
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Mr, Taormina: We do not.
Mr. Wilshaw: That way we can let anyone who is watching know that this is the
reason why this is going to be postponed, due to a technical error
on the part of the petitioner. That will be coming to a future
meeting as well. There is no vote on that.
ITEM APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1,1715YPublicHearingsand
Regular Meeting
Ms. Smiley, Acting Secretary, announced the next item on the agenda, Approval
of the Minutes of the 12172"d Public Hearing and Regular Meeting
held on July 13, 2021.
On a motion by Ventura, seconded by Bongero, and unanimously adopted, it was
#07-39-2021 RESOLVED, That the Minutes of 1,172"d Public Hearings and
Regular Meeting held by the Planning Commission on July 13,
2021, are hereby approved.
A roll call vote on the foregoing resolution resulted in the following:
AYES: Long, McCue, Bongero, Ventura, Wilshaw
NAYS: None
ABSENT: Caramagno
ABSTAIN: Smiley
Mr. Wilshaw, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution
adopted.
On a motion duly made, seconded and unanimously adopted, the 1,173rd Public
Hearings and Regular Meeting held on July 22, 2021, aat 7:42 p.m.
CITY PILA'NNING COMMISSION
ATTEST:
Ian Wilshaw, Chairman