HomeMy WebLinkAboutPUBLIC HEARING - PH 2016-08-15 - REZONING - SOAVE ORO
PUBLIC HEARING
Minutes of Meeting Held on Monday, August 15, 2016
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A Public Hearing of the Council of the City of Livonia was held at the City Hall
Auditorium on Monday, August 15, 2016.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Kathleen E. McIntyre, President
Scott Bahr
Maureen Miller Brosnan
Jim Jolly
Brian Meakin
Cathy K. White
MEMBERS ABSENT: Brandon Kritzman, Vice President
OTHERS PRESENT: Mark Taormina, Director of Planning
Don Knapp, City Attorney
Bonnie J. Murphy, CER-2300, Certified Electronic Recorder
The Public Hearing was called to order at 7:15 p.m. with President Kathleen McIntyre
presiding. This is a Public Hearing relative to a request for a change of zoning within
the City of Livonia on the following matter: Petition 2016-06-01-04 submitted by
Soave/Oro Construction, L.L.C., to rezone the property located on the north side of
Lyndon between Harrison and Barkley (28200 Lyndon) in the Northeast ¼ of Section
24, from R-U-F (Rural Urban Farm – minimum ½ acre lots) to R-2 (One Family
Residential – 9,600 sq. ft., 80 ft. x 120 ft. lots).
The City Clerk has mailed a notice to those persons in the area affected by the
proposed changes, and all other requirements of Ordinance No. 543, the Zoning
Ordinance, have been fulfilled. There were fifteen people in the audience.
McIntyre: The Public Hearing is now open. Mr. Taormina, would you like to begin?
Taormina: Thank you. The property that is the subject of this rezoning petition is the
former CB Swim Club, which is located on the north side of Lyndon
between Harrison and Barkley. This property is 2.71 acres in area and
includes roughly 346 feet of frontage along Lyndon and 341 feet of depth.
The front part of this site, as most everyone knows, contains an old
swimming pool, clubhouse and parking lot, while the rear part of this site is
undeveloped and maintained as an open field. And as we all know, too,
that this swim club has been vacant for a number of years. The purpose
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of the rezoning would be to allow for the development of single family
homes that are in accordance with R-2 district regulations. R-2 requires a
minimum lot size of 70 feet by 120 feet, for a total area of 8,400 square
feet of lot area and the land area requested to be rezoned is sufficient in
size to allow for the division of the property into approximately eight
conventional sized lots. This is actually the third rezoning petition
involving the CB Swim Club property. The Swim Club site was originally
much larger and had extended north to Oakley Avenue and west to
Harrison Avenue. In 1988 the land area, roughly 1.70 acres in size, that
included all of the Oakley Avenue frontage into the site, was rezoned from
R-U-F to R-2. The petition was approved and the property was
subsequently subdivided into six lots. And then in 2005, the westerly 120
feet of the Swim Club property, the property’s entire frontage along
Harrison Avenue, was also rezoned from R-U-F to R-2, and that was
subsequently developed into six condominium lots.
The surrounding property to the north is R-2 residential, to the east R-2
residential and to the west, R-2 residential as well as Grace Baptist
Church which is zoned R-U-F and Compton Park is zoned PL, and then
to the south is the Perrinville Early Childhood Preschool which is zoned PL
as well as single family under the R-1 category.
The Future Land Use Plan designates this area as Low Density
Residential, that corresponds to a density between one to five dwelling
units per acre and is consistent with the R-2 zoning and anticipated
maximum development density of approximately three dwelling units per
acre.
The Planning Commission is recommending approval of the rezoning.
Thank you.
McIntyre: Thank you, Mr. Taormina.
White: Madam Chair.
McIntyre: Yes.
White: Through the Chair to Mark, you mentioned that the R-2 lots are 70 x 120,
and the notice says 80 x 120.
Taormina: Yes, I think that that was corrected, I’m not sure which notice. I know we
sent out a corrected notice on that. So you’re looking at the old notice.
White: Thank you.
McIntyre: Anything else? Alright. Would the petitioner like to come forward?
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Duggan: Good evening. My name is Brian Duggan. My address is 14315 Denne,
Livonia. I am here representing Michael Soave, if you have any
questions.
I think Mark did a fine job. The site is a hangout for teenagers, there’s
been several police calls on that site already. So this will clean it up and
hopefully put some new homes in that area.
Bahr: Madam Chair.
McIntyre: Yes.
Bahr: I don’t have to ask any questions. I’ve lived in that neighborhood for many
years. I’m very happy to offer an approving resolution. It’s a reputable
developer. Although many of us would have loved to have seen the swim
club use continued, it’s been vacant for a long time
McIntyre: Thank you. And we just want to make sure that you know that the next
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Regular Meeting for this item will be Wednesday evening, September 7,
so know that either you or a representative of the petitioner needs to be
there.
Duggan: I will be there. Thank you.
McIntyre: All right. Thank you very much.
White: Madam Chair, did you want to go to the audience at all?
McIntyre: I’m sorry, thank you very much. Would anyone from the audience like to
comment on this item before we move on to the next public hearing.
Thank you very much for the reminder, Councilmember White.
As there were no further questions or comments, the Public Hearing was
declared closed at 7:20 p.m.
SUSAN M. NASH, CITY CLERK