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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPLANNING MINUTES 1997-06-03 15560 MINUTES OF THE 744th REGULAR MEETING HELD BY THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LIVONIA stow On Tuesday, June 3, 1997, the City Planning Commission of the City of Livonia held its 744th Regular Meeting in the Livonia City Hall, 33000 Civic Center Drive, Livonia, Michigan. Mr. James C. McCann, Chairman, called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. Members present: James C. McCann Robert Alanskas Daniel Piercecchi John Walsh Michael Hale Elaine Koons Members absent: Patricia Blomberg Messrs. John J. Nagy, Planning Director; H. G. Shane, Ass't. Planning Director; and Scott Miller, Planner III, were also present. Mr. McCann informed the audience that if a petition on tonight's agenda involves a rezoning request, this Commission only makes a recommendation to the City Council who, in turn, will hold its own public hearing and decide the question. If a petition involves a waiver of use request and the request is denied, the petitioner has ten days in which to appeal the decision to the City Council; otherwise the petition is terminated. The Planning Commission holds the only public hearing on a preliminary plat and/or a vacating �.. petition. Planning Commission resolutions become effective seven days after the resolutions are adopted. The Planning Commission has reviewed the petitions upon their filing and have been furnished by the staff with approving and denying resolutions. The Commission may use them or not use them depending upon the outcome of the hearing tonight. Mr. McCann: Tonight we have a special guest, Mayor Kirksey, who has a few words to say. Mayor Kirksey: I would like to take this opportunity, Mr. Chairman, to present some service pins to two of the folks who are in attendance this evening. I would like to present the first service pin to Bob Alanskas for 15 years of service to the City of Livonia. We want to thank you for the dedicated service and contribution you have made to the City. We certainly appreciate your dedication. Mr. Alanskas: Thank you Mayor. Mayor Kirksey: To John Nagy, a 30 year service pin. You are a very talented individual and you have added much to this community. Your knowledge of planning and what it has added over the years is very difficult to 15561 measure but it has been a considerable and valuable contribution to the City. '411. Mr. Nagy: Thank you very much. I collected my first pin from Mayor McNamara; Mayor Bennett gave me my 20 year pin and now you have presented me with my 30 year pin. I have had three good Mayors to work with. Mr. McCann: Before we begin, I would like to welcome our newest member, Elaine Koons, who we borrowed from the Livonia Public Schools to assist on the Planning Commission. Mr. Alanskas, Secretary, announced the first item on the agenda is Revision to Petition 95-6-8-12 by Albert Abbo & Associates, on behalf of the Nicholas Plaza, requesting approval to revise the site and landscape plans that were approved with this petition for the property located at 31429 Schoolcraft Road in the Northwest 1/4 of Section 26. Mr. McCann: Mr. Nagy, do we have any new information? Mr. Nagy: We have received correspondence from the Inspection Department referencing subject petition, Seating at Royal Coney Island Restaurant, which reads: As requested, the Inspection Department conducted a site review of the subject premises. All excess seating has been removed. The restaurant currently has 44 seats and is in compliance with the original site plan. This letter has been signed by David M. Woodcox, Sr. Building Inspector. That is the extent of our correspondence. Mr. McCann: So everything is in compliance? Mr. Nagy: Yes. The plan has been revised to show the expanded landscaping as adjusted by the Commission at your previous study review. Mr. McCann: If there are no questions from the Commissioners, a motion is in order. On a motion duly made by Mr. Walsh, seconded by Mrs. Koons and unanimously approved, it was #6-89-97 RESOLVED that, the City Planning Commission does hereby recommend to the City Council that the Revision to Petition 95-6-8-12 by Albert Abbo & Associates, on behalf of the Nicholas Plaza, requesting approval to revise the site and landscape plans that were approved with this petition for the property located at 31429 Schoolcraft Road in the Northwest 1/4 of Section 26, be approved subject to the following condition: 15562 1) That the revised Site& Landscape Plan submitted by the Nicholas Plaza Shopping Center as received by the Planning Commission on May 12, 1997, is hereby approved and shall be adhered to, and shall supersede the approval as N.. set forth in Planning Commission Resolution 6-127-95. Mr. Alanskas, Secretary, announced the next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes of the 741st Regular Meeting& Public Hearings held on April 15, 1997. On a motion duly made by Mr. Piercecchi and seconded by Mr. Walsh, it was #7-90-97 RESOLVED that, the minutes of the 741st Regular Meeting& Public Hearings held by the City Planning Commission on April 15, 1997 are hereby approved. A roll call vote on the foregoing resolution resulted in the following: AYES: Piercecchi, Walsh, Hale, McCann NAYS: None ABSENT: Blomberg ABSTAIN: Alanskas, Koons Mr. McCann, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution adopted. Mr. Alanskas, Secretary, announced the next item on the agenda is the approval of the row minutes of the 742nd Regular Meeting held on April 29, 1997. On a motion duly made by Mr. Alanskas and seconded by Mr. Walsh, it was #6-91-97 RESOLVED that, the minutes of the 742nd Regular Meeting held by the City Planning Commission on April 15, 1997 are hereby approved. A roll call vote on the foregoing resolution resulted in the following: AYES: Alanskas, Piercecchi, Walsh, Hale, McCann NAYS: None ABSENT: Blomberg ABSTAIN: Koons Mr. McCann, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution adopted. Mr. Alanskas, Secretary, announced the next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes of the 743rd Regular Meeting& Public Hearings held on May 13, 1997. On a motion duly made by Mr. Hale and seconded by Mr. Alanskas, it was 15563 #6-92-97 RESOLVED that, the minutes of the 743rd Regular Meeting& Public Hearings held by the City Planning Commission on May 13, 1997 are approved. A roll call vote on the foregoing resolution resulted in the following: AYES: Alanskas, Piercecchi, Hale, McCann NAYS: None ABSENT: Blomberg ABSTAIN: Walsh, Koons Mr. McCann, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution adopted. Mr. Alanskas, Secretary, announced the next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes of the 377th Special Meeting held on May 20, 1997. On a motion duly made by Mr. Alanskas, seconded by Mrs. Koons and unanimously approved, it was #6-93-97 RESOLVED that, the minutes of the 377th Special Meeting held by the City Planning Commission on May 20, 1997 are approved. Mr. McCann, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution adopted. Mr. Alanskas, Secretary, announced the last item on the agenda is Petition 97-5-8-12 by Dale Steltzner, on behalf of Quality Inn& Suites, requesting approval of all plans required by Section 18.47 of the Zoning Ordinance in connection with a proposal to construct a porte-cochere to the motel located at 30375 Plymouth Road in the Northwest 1/4 of Section 35. Mr. Miller: This is the Quality Inn Motel that is located on the south side of Plymouth Road between Middlebelt and Milburn Avenue and just west of the Kmart Store at Wonderland Mall. What they are proposing to do is rehab the outer elevations of the motel. Also, presently the entrance area of the motel is along the north wall and sets back in one area 15 feet. This area will be enclosed and the enclosure will be made flush with the rest of the north elevation. By enclosing this area it will provide a new conference room and additional office space. Presently the front elevation of the motel is constructed out of brick. What they are proposing to do is resurface the whole elevation with a dryvet material and also add this porte-cochere to the entrance area, and this will be constructed out of dryvet with pillars and columns, and have a 15564 peak type of metal seam roof. Also the existing metal seam roof that runs along this area will be replaced with a new metal seam roof. The east elevation, which faces most of the motel's parking lot, will be also covered with a dryvet type of material. Presently there is a textured block with balconies. All of these balconies will be moved and the textured block will be covered with a dryvet material and this wall will become flush. Also, presently there is not a metal seam roof, and the metal seam roof which is on the front elevation will continue along the top of this elevation so it will blend in with the front elevation. The new courtyard proposed for the front of the entrance within the parking lot will be heavily landscaped and will have a fountain in the middle of it and sidewalks that will run from the middle of it. Mr. McCann: Anything additional Mr. Nagy? Mr. Nagy: We have not received any further correspondence. Mr. McCann: Would the petitioner come up please. Dale Steltzner, 20244 Parkville, Livonia: I have nothing to add. All I have is a sketch of the color and a sample of the dryvet. We also revised all the plans so that the dryvet is protected with landscaping. (He presented his plans) Mr. McCann: Were you aware of the letter from David Woodcox, the Building *NovInspector, regarding the parking lot on the spillage of the lights? John Glasnak, 30375 Plymouth Road: We had Detroit Edison out over a period of several months and they addressed that with the complainants, which is a block over. We took the lights over to them. They approved the lights and we changed the lights. Mr. McCann: When was this done? Mr. Glasnak: This was done well over a month to a month and a half ago. Mr. McCann: The letter from the Inspection Department is dated May 27. Mr. Miller, can you give us any additional information regarding that? Mr. Miller: I believe it is the residents on the west side. I think they are getting some spillage. I think the Inspection Department was saying there still is spillage. Mr. Glasnak: Detroit Edison went over there and put a streetlight in that is exactly the same type of streetlight that is in front of the complainant's house, which is a normal streetlight that reflects completely down, but we had 15565 some lights that you can angle. Detroit Edison came out and angled them down as much as they could be angled and then the gentleman still wanted to relocate it. So they went over there and took lights and �.. everything over to him, and he approved of the light which is the same type of light which is in front of his home, which is 20 to 25 feet in front of his home. This is 175 feet away from his home. It is a normal light which just reflects down. He approved it and that was the end of it. Mr. McCann: And your parking areas needing resealing, repairing and restriping? Mr. Glasnak: That will take place when this does because we are going to have to break up the front pavement in order to do this project. Mr. McCann: So you wouldn't have a problem if we included this as part of the resolution approving this? Mr. Glasnak: No. Mr. McCann: You are going to irrigate the greenbelt areas? Mr. Glasnak: Yes. Mr. McCann: Are there any questions from the Planning Commissioners? Mr. Alanskas: In the very front you have a bunch of wood timbers going across the entire front of the property, and they are tilted, ready to fall over. Are you going to redo those? Mr. Glasnak: Yes. We have done them a couple of times. We are just going to have to redo the whole thing. Mr. Alanskas: When you have redone it, what have you done to it? Mr. Glasnak: We have actually taken out several rows of them. There were all kinds of old railroad timbers in there. We have put smaller ones in there. The problem is they are round and much higher than where the pavement is. We want to plant that area and in order to do that we will address that at that time. There used to be old evergreens out there that were half dead, and we went and cut them out. Mr. Alanskas: You might consider putting either large rods or wood in front so they can't tilt, and they will stay secure. Question number two in regards to the parking lot, you say you will repair that. What are you going to do 15566 to it? Because there are a lot of big holes there. Are you going to resurface it? Mr. Glasnak: We have contractors coming out and we want them to cut it out right to the ground. Because what they are normally doing is coming out and patching it, and it doesn't last and it doesn't look very good either. We want them to come out and cut it out right through to the dirt. I think there is concrete under there too. Cut that out and make it level and then reseal it. Mr. Alanskas: The front lot is in really bad shape. Mr. Glasnak: It is my intention to completely redo it. Mr. Alanskas: But not at this time? Mr. Glasnak: That is a lot of money right now. Mr. Alanskas: As long as it is repaired properly that will be fine. Mrs. Koons: I had a question about the large green utility boxes on the east side of the building. Will they be covered or shielded? Mr. Glasnak: You can't do that. Mrs. Koons: They are right in the middle of your parking lot. Mr. Glasnak: To the side. They are Detroit Edisons. They are not ours. I believe they have to have access to those. I don't know if we can even do that. I would have to talk to Edison. We have had transformers blow up out there. We have a lot of brown outs. We have a lot of people staying in the motel because the rest of the area is affected, and they have to be able to get to those. Mr. Alanskas: I forgot one question. In regards to the restaurant, when do you plan on having the restaurant open? Question number two, is that going to be leased out to someone? Mr. Glasnak: We are debating on that. I was in a meeting today with people on that, and we are trying to make a decision whether or not we want to run it ourselves with a party, or lease it to them. It hasn't been determined. It is a question of dollars and cents, and how much they want to invest, how much we want to invest. I don't have an answer for you today. Mr. Alanskas: So the restaurant is down the road. It is not in the near future? 15567 Mr. Glasnak: There will be a restaurant there and that restaurant will be open within six months. There is no question about that. Mr. Hale: I noticed when I was out there that there is a dumpster enclosure wooden fence on the west side of the building. What is going to be done with that, if anything? Mr. Glasnak: I am probably going to replace it. Mr. Hale: You wouldn't have a problem with us putting that as part of the resolution? Mr. Glasnak: No. Mr. Hale: Can you tell us a little bit more about the dryvet. The dryvet as I understand it, especially on the east side of the building, is going to come all the way down to the ground, correct? The entire resurface is going to be dryvet? Mr. Steltzner: We are going to stay 8 inches above the ground, and we are going to have landscaping around the whole thing. Mr. Hale: Is that a change from the study meeting? r.. Mr. Glasnak: Yes, because there wasn't landscaping around the perimeter but we changed it to have landscaping around the entire perimeter. Mr. Walsh: Just to follow up on the question of the dryvet, and I appreciate the effort that you put into protecting it, as we conveyed to you at that time some of our concerns about it. Correct me if I am wrong. We talked a little about the columns, and perhaps some planters or something you might use to keep your dryvet columns from being damaged. Do you still intend to do something like that? Mr. Glasnak: The columns that are towards the front are actually sitting within an island itself, which is going to be a curbed island and a landscaped island. Mr. Walsh: I couldn't tell from your plans. So the car really can't get near the columns without going over a curb. Mr. Glasnak: I am very leery of that. I don't want anyone to come in there and crash into it with a car. 15568 Mr. Walsh: That is fine. Looking at it I was unclear if there was going to be that protection. Nom . Mr. Piercecchi: Did I understand you correctly sir that there is going to be landscaping on the east wall? Mr. Steltzner: Part of the east wall. Mr. Piercecchi: Because there is an opening on the east wall, correct? Mr. Glasnak: Right where the stones are. Mr. Piercecchi: Is there a sidewalk there? Mr. Glasnak: There is a sidewalk there, and then there is at least three feet between the sidewalk and the building that has landscaping stones in there. Mr. Piercecchi: So that will more or less protect the dryvet in that area. Mr. McCann: If there are no other questions, a motion is in order. On a motion duly made by Mr. Hale, seconded by Mr. Walsh and unanimously approved, it was #6-94-97 RESOLVED that, the City Planning Commission does hereby recommend to the City Council that Petition 97-5-8-12 by Dale Steltzner, on behalf of Quality Inn& Suites, requesting approval of all plans required by Section 18.47 of the Zoning Ordinance in connection with a proposal to construct a porte-cochere to the motel located at 30375 Plymouth Road in the Northwest 1/4 of Section 35, be approved subject to the following conditions: 1) That the Site& Landscape Plan marked Sheet 1 dated 5/25/97, as revised, prepared by Designs Plus Inc., is hereby approved and shall be adhered to; 2) That all planted materials, existing and proposed, shall be installed to the satisfaction of the Inspection Department and thereafter permanently maintained in a healthy condition. 3) That underground sprinklers are to be provided for all new and existing landscaped and sodded areas; 4) That this establishment's entire parking lot shall be repaired, resealed and the parking spaces shall be double striped as part of the renovation; 15569 5) That all existing light standards shall be shielded or relocated so that light spillage is screened from the abutting residential properties; ,,ow 6) That the Building Exterior Elevation Plans marked Sheets 5 & 6 both dated 5/25/97, as revised, prepared by Designs Plus, Inc., is hereby approved and shall be adhered to. 7) That the dumpster enclosure shall be replaced with more appropriate materials as required by the Zoning Ordinance. Mr. Alanskas: I just want to say that you are doing a wonderful job dressing up Plymouth Road and the building looks great and to have a bad parking lot, the sooner you get that fixed the better, and the sooner you get that restaurant open, more people will be aware of the whole concept of having people stay at your entity. Good luck to you. Mr. McCann, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution adopted. On a motion duly made, seconded and unanimously adopted, the 744th Regular Meeting held on June 3, 1997 was adjourned at 7:55 p.m. CITY PLANNING COMMISSION iezr-A/ /-2 Zbfe;n011---) Robert Alanskas, Secretary ATTEST: Ta 4 ( 7" *nes C. McCann, Chairman jg r..