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CITY OF LIVONIA
PUBLIC HEARING
Minutes of Meeting Held on Wednesday, August 21, 2019
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A Public Hearing of the Council of the City of Livonia was held at the City Hall
Auditorium on Wednesday, August 21, 2019.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Laura Toy, President
Jim Jolly, Vice President
Scott Bahr
Brian Meakin
Brandon Kritzman
Kathleen McIntyre
Cathy White
MEMBERS ABSENT: None
OTHERS PRESENT: Mark Taormina, Director of Economic Development
Paul Bernier, City Attorney
Sara Kasprowicz, Recording Secretary
The Public Hearing was called to order at 7:03 p.m. with President Laura Toy presiding.
This is a Public Hearing relative to Petition 2019-06-01-04 submitted by Ryan Kresge, to
rezone the properties located on the west side of Middlebelt Road between Joy and
West Chicago Roads (8999, 8985 and 8981 Middlebelt Road) in the Southeast ¼ of
Section 35, from C-1 (Local Business) to R-1 (One Family Residential - 60’ x 120’ Lots)
and will also be heard at the September 9, 2019 Regular Meeting.
The Public Hearing is now open. There were five people in the audience.
Toy: Mr. Taormina.
Taormina: Thank you, Madam President, this property is at the southwest ¼ of
Middlebelt Road and Dover Avenue. It consists of four platted lots that are
described as lots 31 through 34 of E.G. Settle Realty Company’s
Bonaparte Gardens Subdivision. The parcel would be address 8999
Middlebelt consists of Lots 31 and 32 and is developed with a single-
family home, the other two lots are vacant and contain separate tax I.D.
numbers. The three parcels together measure 94 feet frontage on
Middlebelt Road by 100 feet along Dover, so for a total of 9,400 square
feet. So, the purpose of the rezoning is to bring the current use of the
property into compliance with the zoning ordinance. The residential use of
this property hasn’t been in existence since 1937, well before the current
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zoning was established. So, this is considered a valid, non-conforming
use. The house is grandfathered, but with limitations and restrictions
Section 18.1a of the ordinance specifies that valid non-conforming use is
automatically terminated if more than 50% of the building is destroyed and
Section 18.21 prohibits increasing the height area or bulk of valid non-
conforming building so such limitations do, and restrictions do pose
difficulties in obtaining title insurance and financing. The R-1 Zoning
requires 60x120 and a lot area of 7200 square feet. Combining these
three properties do conform with the minimum lot area and width
requirements, however, not the depth, but there is a provision in the
ordinance that states there where immoveable, physical boundary
limitations exist which prohibit needing a locked-up requirement. That
section of the ordinance can be waived by City Council. Planning
Commission held a Public Hearing on this item, the Petitioner was present
at that hearing, explained the challenges that he has, has had, in selling
the property and that this would remedy that situation and for those
reasons, the Planning Commission is recommending approval of the
rezoning.
Toy: Thank you, any questions for Mr. Taormina at this point? No? Anybody
representing this Petitioner in the audience by any chance? Number 2, or,
yep, 3. Nope?
Meakin: Madam, President?
Toy: Yes, please.
Meakin: Since the Planning Commission held the Hearing with the gentleman here
and it does open sale of the real estate, I’m going to offer approving and
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go to the September 9 meeting so will have a chance to appear before
us with that.
Toy: Ok. Ok. Any others? Ok. Sara, you have that one?
Kasprowicz: Yes.
Toy: Thank you. Sara’s handling pretty darn efficient with this job.
As there were no further questions or comments, the Public Hearing was declared
closed at 7:07 p.m.
SUSAN M. NASH, CITY CLERK