The Detroit City Council met to review three major redevelopment proposals requiring public hearings: the Grand Oaks Apartments (Public Act 146), the Detroit City FC Stadium (Public Act 255), and the WNBA Practice Facility at the former Uniroyal site (Public Act 210). The agenda also included general public comments addressing local safety, housing affordability, election integrity, and police conduct. All three major items received strong staff support and community backing, with the committee recommending approval on all motions despite public concerns regarding tax abatements and environmental remediation.
Grand Oaks Apartments (3642 & 3651 Oakman Blvd)
Detroit City FC Stadium (2201-2401 20th Street)
WNBA Practice Facility (6000 East Jefferson Blvd - Uniroyal Site)
Is yours. Please introduce yourself for the record. Hi, my name is Tamara Crook. Mr. Benson is my uh council district on three. I'm here because I'm um have concerns about an area, Farwell Field. I'm very passionate about this area. Our community is we're the ones that keep it up, keep it safe, make sure the kids get back and forth to school. One of the concerns that I have is that um I walk my dog. I see you guys remodeling. I walk my dog there three times out the week. Um, I'm sorry, three times out the day. And during that time, I am unwanted approaches have came. Um people are uh laudering, smoking, drinking, loud music, partying, and this is a tennis court area, so no one has a rock the racket. Um it's times I have to avoid that side. But I have noticed that you guys are remodeling Farwell Field. Um, I don't know if you guys are accommodating other districts like Sterling Heights or Warren for them to go ahead and um participate in the field. It's a beautiful agriculture. I agree, but you guys have made a parking area that you guys, after I'm looking at your phase three that you guys are building, and I'm opposed to it just because I know for a fact that same situation over there by the tennis court where no one is playing tennis, it's gonna happen, and it's in front of our house, in front of where they can see us go in our houses, they can approach us while we go in our houses, our kids, a lot of music smoking. I was told my mom's here. I was told if you come with a problem, come with a solution. My solution is over there by Lightguard Army, that's the plenty parking area. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. So uh it's it sounds like you have talked to Member Benson's office. No, I emailed them, but they never contact me back. Okay, I'm not sure. Uh typically we have someone from the staff that's here. Uh, hopefully they're hearing uh the voice uh and they can come out now and speak to you, but if you don't mind, uh we'll get leave your information and we'll make sure that we get that information to uh member Benson's office for certain. And wish you all the best. Thank you for for providing that information. All right, sir, the floor is yours. If you can hit that button in front of you until the red turns green. Just again advising folks if you're calling in about a public hearing, please lower your hand. We will have an opportunity to uh get you during one of those public hearings. One of the four public hearings we have today, sir. Good morning. Good morning to y'all. Blessings to y'all. Okay. And I'll just give that the solutions, the main solution to all of the uh economic problems we have right now is gonna be the reparations. Yeah, uh Judge Matthew started and uh and Mary Sheffield been trying to get and uh she will be mayor no matter who don't like it. And uh and Mary Waters gonna be up there too, no matter who don't like it. And uh I just want to also say that world is in trouble, been in trouble because they never did it right by us on reparations like they did everybody else. And uh time is clicking. Clock is ticking, time is running out on uh and quiet as people got to it about maybe a few more months in the gut in every nation on this earth, and especially this government gonna be borrowing down because uh the ancestors Mother Goddess and Father God, they all the way way now to watch it all see it happen. Fall of America and everything unless they want to cut a pull up a little bit about it. It'll be the fall of America and it only could be forgiven between within the next 90 days deadline January 4th or my birthbirth. Okay, but anyway, it can only do right by us in order to solve all the problems. And if they don't do it, guess what?