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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPUBLIC HEARING - 2017-09-20 - WASHINGTON PARK CITY OF LIVONIA PUBLIC HEARING Minutes of Meeting Held on Wednesday, September 20, 2017 ______________________________________________________________________ A Public Hearing of the Council of the City of Livonia was held at the City Hall Auditorium on Wednesday, September 20, 2017. MEMBERS PRESENT: Kathleen E. McIntyre, President Brandon M. Kritzman, Vice President Maureen Miller Brosnan Jim Jolly Brian Meakin Cathy K. White MEMBERS ABSENT: Scott Bahr OTHERS PRESENT: Todd Zilincik, City Engineer Don Knapp, City Attorney Bonnie J. Murphy, CER-2300, Certified Electronic Recorder The Public Hearing was called to order at 7:00 p.m. with President Kathleen McIntyre presiding. This is a Public Hearing relative to the establishment of the Assessment Roll for the Special Assessment Street Lighting Project in the Washington Park Site Condominiums, in the S.W. ¼ of Section 31, located South of Ann Arbor Road and West of Hix Road, within the City of Livonia, Wayne County, Michigan. The City Clerk has mailed a notice to the Petitioner and those persons owning land in the proposed Special Assessment District and all other requirements of Section 3.08.110 of the Livonia Code of Ordinances, as amended, have been fulfilled. The public hearing is now open for comments. There was one person in the audience. Please state clearly your name and address before making your comments. McIntyre: Mr. Zilincik. Zilincik: Would you like me to go ahead and give a brief background, Madam President, and City Council members? McIntyre: Please do. Zilincik: As you know, this development entails forty-five lots of which the anticipated annual assessment would be $60.18 per lot for a total annual electrical costs of $2,078 based on a 70-watt LED installed by DTE on a 2 14-foot high fiberglass post that will be colonial and if there are any particular questions, I’ll be happy to answer those. But pretty much looking for approval to install these lights, obviously it will help with security as the houses are under construction and it will definitely benefit the development as we get into the winter months as the days get shorter and it gets dark at 5:00 o’clock and hopefully with the approval tonight we can get the check to DTE to install and hopefully have it up and running by early December. McIntyre: Thank you, Mr. Zilincik. Council, any questions of Mr. Zilincik? Anyone from the audience? Are there any comments? Meakin: Madam Chair. McIntyre: Councilmember Meakin. Meakin: Mr. Soave, how many houses are occupied already or have owners? Soave: Good evening everyone. McIntyre: Good evening. Could you just state your name and address for the record? Soave: Enricoh Soave, 37771 Seven Mile Road in lovely Livonia. Currently none of the houses are occupied. A few of them are near completion but I think Todd indicated sometime in December, by December there will be actual residents living there. The exact number, uncertain, there will probably be about at least a half a dozen or so that will be moving in by the end of the year, so there will be residents by the end of the year. Meakin: Through the Chair to Mr. Zilincik, whose responsibility is it to tell the residents that there is an assessment on their lot? Zilincik: Through the Chair, the developer will be informing them of the anticipated electrical costs that will be involved and obviously security will be a key for them, the road has been completed, so obviously it will help in their ability for security and things of that nature. The developer will most likely tell everybody as they move forward with the purchase of the house. Meakin: And you’re okay with that, Mr. Soave? Soave: Yes. One caveat, though, when do these notices go out again? Zilincik: Technically the developers pay for the streetlight, it’s just electricity so I think in December of next year they’ll receive the SAD lighting bill for the development so technically it will come into play for next December’s tax 3 bill but they’ll see the lights up, they’ll see that they’re getting a new subdivision with new lighting and then they get the electric costs of $60 obviously most likely next tax bill for that. Soave: So notices were not mailed, correct, prior to tonight’s meeting to the actual homeowners around the subdivision or no? Because normally and why I state that is because I know probably a good handful of people that have bought in that community for the past year, they bought them prior to construction which means they purchased the acquisitional land first so that they’re the actual fee holder of the dirt and then the house that’s built thereafter. So there are people on tax rolls and there are taxes actually th being paid, actually just due September 14 for the summer, they would have gotten notices or will be getting notices? Zilincik: Through the Chair, there’s four people listed at the time this roll was made so as Mr. Soave had talked about, people that were on the tax roll at that time were sent the information but the majority of these will probably be paid by the developer until which time of the transition to the purchase of that lot or the house itself. But the majority, as you know, will be paid by the developer and probably I’m sure there will be a lot of change over next summer as we proceed forward. McIntyre: So everyone that currently owns land in this Special Assessment District would have received notice of this public hearing? Soave: That’s what I thought. Zilincik: Unit 7, yes, we have 7, 9, 27 and 28 and 16, the rest are all owned by Washington Park Development, L.L.C. Meakin: We did have a woman at the first public hearing asking how word would get out. Soave: Madam President, one more question, what is the cost per year for each unit? Zilincik: It’s $60.18 per unit for the yearly electrical costs. Again, that’s estimated but we’ll know more when they do the bills next fall or whatever, electricity through DTE. But again, $60.18 per lot for the forty-five lots. Soave: And are these on the winter and summer tax bills? Zilincik: Just one bill I think in December when the winter tax bill goes out. Soave: Good information. 4 McIntyre: All right. So we have an approving resolution offered by Councilmember th Meakin, that will be on the regular meeting of October 16, 2017 and we would ask that the petitioner or a representative be present at the meeting. As there were no further questions or comments, the Public Hearing was declared closed at 7:09 p.m. SUSAN M. NASH, CITY CLERK