Thursday, November 20th, 2025.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Good morning.

Council President Pro Tim James Tate.

Good morning here.

Councilmember Fred Durhal.

Present.

Councilmember Letitia Johnson.

Present.

Mr.

Chair, we have quorum.

Thank you.

We have a quorum.

We're now in session, and I would like to uh take a moment to uh have an opportunity to honor a great man, uh gentleman who uh we all know and love and served a number of years in state legislature, but even more in the city of Detroit doing great work, working in various capacities, and um very surprised to see this the legacy of that that great man here today.

Um surprised but not surprised because I know of the character that this gentleman has, and I will uh definitely want to have a moment of silence, but I will allow Member Durr Hall uh turn the floor over to you, sir.

The floor is yours, Member Vice Chair.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um I would say uh first I appreciate everybody's heart, felt thoughts and prayers.

Uh a lot of calls this morning, a lot of texts.

Uh and uh if we haven't responded to you, no, you don't go unheard.

Um but on the passing of my father was just an extraordinary man uh who left a profound legacy, uh love the people to serve the city uh and our state with his heart.

Uh I am here today because I know my dad very well.

Uh and I can hear him in the back of my head if I would have missed committee today, I would have been getting cussed out.

So what I will say is uh I'm appreciative of my colleagues uh and everyone reaching out uh to us as well as my entire family today, uh, and just uh appreciative of all he has done uh poured and to all of us.

So thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Uh and just know that our hearts and our prayers are with you and our condolences, my brother.

All right.

And if we can uh please have a moment of silence.

Thank you.

Okay, um colleagues, is there a motion to approve the minutes?

So move, Mr.

Chair.

See any objections that action shall be taken.

We want to let everyone know that we have uh a number of public hearings today.

So if we're gonna move through this agenda as swiftly as possible, but ensuring that we provide the time that's necessary for each item to be deliberated and thoroughly discussed.

Uh if there's anyone who would like to provide public comment, please raise your hand.

This is general public comment.

If there's anyone who would like to provide general public comment, please raise your hand.

I see three hands in the committee of the whole if you're at home as well.

General public comment.

There's four.

One, two, three, let me see three.

All right.

Going once, going twice, going three times.

The collection of public comments have now concluded.

Uh good morning, Miss Jackie.

How are you today?

I'm doing okay.

How are you, sir?

Good, good.

How many callers do we have online, ma'am?

Twenty-two.

Twenty-two callers.

All right.

For those who are calling for any of the public hearings that we have, um, you will have an opportunity to provide comment during the public hearings.

And that is uh line item uh five, six.

Um, and then line item seven is a continued public hearing.

So if you're calling about uh either uh line item five or six, you can lower your hand.

We will definitely have an opportunity to speak during those public hearings.

We want to give folks an opportunity to lower their hands at this time if they would choose to do so.

All right.

Any lowered hands at all?

We are now at 18.

18.

Okay.

We're gonna give everyone uh a minute 30 uh for I'm sorry, for general public comment this morning.

Uh and we will start with the individuals that we have in the committee of the whole.

Please take one of those three seats for those who are here uh in the committee of the whole as well if you at home.

We have to provide everyone the same amount of time.

So when your minute 30 is up, keep your eye on the clock because when your minute and 30 is up, we are unfortunately going to have to move on to the next speaker.

Um you see that button in front of you if you want to push it in front of the microphone until the red turns green.

And we'll start first to my left and over further left.

Um we'll start first with um Mr.

Theo Pride.

The floor is yours, sir.

Uh yes, first uh my condolences to you, Councilmember Durrhall.

Um good morning, Theo Pride with Detroit People's Platform, a longtime Detroiter uh and resident of District 2.

I'm here to speak on the DCFC Soccer Stadium Community Benefits Agreement.

Uh DPP help uh anchor the citywide coalition that put Detroit's community benefits ordinance on the ballot in two six 2016.

Uh so we believe deeply in CBAs uh as a tool for equitable development.

Uh but the purpose of the CBA uh movement in the city that brought the practice to the city uh was always two fourfold.

First, to protect Detroiters uh that are most vulnerable, uh, and second to ensure that development benefits all Detroiters, uh, not just those living next to the project uh because the impacts of development ripple outward.

Displacement pressure spread into surrounding neighborhoods and tax incentives affect every household in the city.

Uh the soccer stadium CBA fails to do these two incredibly essential things.

Uh in previous CBAs, developers made contributions to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, including the Future of Health and the District Detroit, because it remains the only tool the city has to produce deeply affordable housing that matches Detroit's income.

This project should do the same to lean into the spirit of our CBO.

If we are going to subsidize development at the scale, there must be real citywide benefits and real protections for residents most at risk of displacement.

And the affordable housing trust fund does this.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Before we move forward, I'd like to call the 1010 public hearing and recess it to the call of the chair.

Next speaker.

Good morning, ma'am.

Good morning.

Uh, my name is Samara Hill, and I'm a resident of Corktown and the impact area.

I'm here to make an ask on behalf of frontline providers who serve vulnerable individuals and households in the impact area of the planned soccer stadium development.

Direct support to ARC Association and Man and Males seems like a small investment in exchange for the investment of millions of public tax dollars into this private soccer stadium, especially in light of the planned federal cutbacks in emergency housing and food assistance.

The proposed CBA agreement overlooks providers like the ARC Association and Man and Mills who have more than 75 years of service in this community and together serve upwards of 200 individuals and households weekly.

The current benefit in the CBA agreement calls for working with the City of Detroit Homeless Outreach Unit and does not provide specific details about any direct funding for services.

There is a need for services to be delivered in the neighborhood that is easily accessible because ultimately city outreach services depend on providers who work in the neighborhood.

Those who are unhoused and vulnerable will not completely disappear from the neighborhood, but will only become more marginalized in the face of the growing wealth and prosperity in our neighborhood.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Is this on?

Yes, we can hear you now.

No.

It once the green turns red.

There's only green.

Okay.

Well, you're all good.

He's on.

You're on.

You're on.

Okay.

Uh Adam Barrett, Detroit is for tax justice.

I live at uh the corner of 24th Street and Porter, uh within sight of the proposed uh well, I can see the hospital from my backyard and I can throw a snowball into the freeway.

So I'm kind of like hemmed into a dead-end corner of the neighborhood.

So I'm absolutely gonna be impacted by this traffic situation because a 4th of July neighborhood fills up with spectators, or not 4th of July, but for the fireworks and for Cinco de Mayo.

Um I can't get in or out of my neighborhood as is because the state police and whoever shuts it down for those events on pretty much the entire evening.

So I'm a prisoner either inside or outside of my neighborhood, and this is not gonna help us.

Tax incentives aside is one of my main concerns, and everyone else's too.

Um City Council spent our money on having that uh CRC committee study the impact and usefulness of tax incentives in Detroit a while back, and their finding was that tax capture and the DDA need to end.

Um, but I don't think that council has implemented or even looked at those recommendations since the CRC report came out.

Um this project is gonna tax capture our schools and libraries.

It's gonna affect the Bowen Branch Library by about 271,000 by the end of the period of the incentives.

The library has no AD accessibility.

The windows are a hundred years old and they look like it.

Um stadiums are not essential, libraries are.

Thank you so much, sir.

Our next public commenter.

Good morning.

Good morning, everyone.

Um my name is Kristen Dyeg.

I'm the chief of staff for District 6 City Councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero, who represents the project and impact area of the DCFC Stadium.

I am here to read remarks onto the record on her behalf.

After going through a few of these CBO projects alongside each neighborhood advisory council, has become clear that benefits often fall short in meeting the needs of residents when comparing to the incentives being sought and eventually approved for the developers.

To that end, I am asking my current and future colleagues as well as the incoming Mayor administration to work together with state partners to restore local authority to implement an admissions or entertainment fee.

Such fees ought to be collected and invested back into our residence and our communities annually in areas such as housing, public safety, arts and culture, and transportation, or any other mutually agreed upon need that will both support the need for development in our city and prevent the displacement of our residents.

In closing, thank you to our DCFC NAC members for their laser focused and sustained engagement.

I know you worked incredibly hard.

To the developers, thank you for your work to put Detroit on the map as a soccer city and for choosing District 6 as a future home for this impressive stadium.

And finally, to my colleagues, thank you for thinking beyond just this project and considering the ways.

Thank you, man.

Ensure to provide benefits to Detroit.

Thank you.

So much.

Thank you.

All right.

So we'll transition now to our online callers.

Who do we have first?

Mr.

Chair, our first caller online is Jadante Smith.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30.

General public comment.

Good morning.

Hello, can you hear me?

Yes, good morning.

Good morning.

I was gonna say sorry for your loss, uh, Councilmember Durha.

Very sad to hear someone losing the uh parent.

Um, I also want to say I'm very disappointed in the amount of zoning that we have around uh Detroit City FC and also around uh uh W Detroit uh I think LLC and the Pistons facility on uh on the river walk.

Uh we're not on a riverwalk, but on Jefferson and Grand Boulevard because Magic Johnson wanted to buy their property years ago when he owned the Starbucks across the street.

And I feel like there's not been much community input, and the threshold for CBA is 75 million dollars.

This development is going to be 50 million dollars.

Also, it's going to strategically uh go around the amount of abatement that they should do, and they're going to um just kind of do the abatement they want to do and put the building up how they want to do it.

Also, I think it's unfair to the residents who have stayed in this neighborhood for years and years and years, and we get no real benefits.

There's no roofs being put on people's homes, no furnaces, no hot water tanks, no anything that'll help the residents who've stayed for all of this time.

Also, the Busel Family Center development uh to sell private a publicly owned parking lot, part of it to a private developer is really really egregious, and there's not been any real community outreach done around this um this project.

And I'm gonna do everything I can to block this project because the supposed trusted messengers in the city of the community of Island View have not been trusted outside of Charlotte Boy Village.

They're the only ones who really engage residents and let them know what was going on.

And so it's very, very sad to see that we're doing developments right around the people.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is Betty A.

Varner.

Uh good morning to all within the sound of my voice.

I'm Betty A.

Varner, president of the Soda Elsewhere Black Association.

And uh myself and my uh association, we want to give our heartwarm uh condolences to honorable uh council member Durhal.

Your father uh was a great man with much wisdom that flows down to you.

Uh we will pray for your family to have peace and y'all be supportive of each other.

God bless your family.

Our organization, we are um trying to raise money to help us uh with our project for the uh additional uh um land we have purchased to expand our park.

If you would like to donate, you can do it by Zell.

If you know my telephone number, you can use my number to donate.

If not, you can go to DBA, D S N dog E, B S M Boy A.

We lead B S N Boy E L at Gmail.com.

Again, that's D E B A W E B E L at Gmail.com.

God bless you all.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is owner Papa.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Caller, are you there?

Let's put that caller at the end of the queue and go to the next caller, please.

Our next caller is Stephen Harring.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Thank you.

First I want to send my condolences to council member.

Um and your loss.

But I'm calling in from Miami, Florida, which is a city that doesn't implement bureaucratic, you know, the ass like the CBO.

But to the point is, I'm in strong support of this development.

You know, this is a development that is done by Detroiters, not billionaires.

And you know, the Detroit People's Platform, you know, they're having a felon who embezzled $600,000.

And this was the first speaker named Theo Pride.

$600,000 from Detroit public schools, spread a bunch of lying trash.

You know, this development is something that will transform a longtime eyesore in Corktown.

And you know, actually make something worth, you know, make Detroit a soccer city.

And you know, that grumpy old NIMBY Bill Sheiks.

You know, he just wants the city to be a wasteland.

Um, other than that, you know, I really hope this passes and you know, the council doesn't play games with the Detroit People's Platform because with two socialists coming to this city council.

I'm really concerned about that, you know, because socialists don't get elected in Miami.

Our next caller is Cunningham.

Brother Cunningham, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Pulling over to the side of the road for safety purposes.

313, 444, 9114, 313, 444, 9114.

134, 911.

That number was made so you can remember it.

Remember that 444 number, 31344, 9114 is my cash app.

It's the hotline number to listen to the message that's on there, and also to reach me for any reason.

People have called me that I did not know and brought them to meetings.

Um, tonight is a D dot meeting with pizza and a raffle um to win two 31-day passes.

That's starting at five o'clock at the Rosa Cartel Parks Trans Center upstairs.

I give my condolences to the Durhal family, you and your lovely wife, uh, who's always been so kind to me.

Um, I just want to read the scripture or from memory, but my memory is not that good, so just bear with me.

Psalms chapter 34, verse 18.

The Lord is near the brokenhearted and save the crushed in spirit.

Psalm 34, 18, the Lord is near the brokenhearted and save the crushed in spirit.

I just give my condolences.

Thank you for what you did for D dot.

You did a bus ride along, and you didn't forget everything you learned on that bus along.

You got that $600,000 to replace the seats to make them all plastic.

You didn't forget, and D dot folks remember.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is not that Karen.

Caller, the floor is yours.

We have a minute 30, general public comment.

Hello.

Hello.

Good morning.

Yeah, um, thank you for um your punctuality and also for the um minute and a half that you've given us this morning.

Thank public comment.

Uh, condolences go out to the Durha family and the loss of their loved one.

And um, may hope and faith keep you focused.

Uh as it relates to this new stadium, I think it would be a great time if we uh wrote into this contract the ticket.

Um surcharges, fees.

It doesn't have to be a tax, it can be a fee.

It could be the fee that goes into the demolition fund.

We could we could use our imaginations and figure out how to get more for the neighborhoods and how to get more for the city of Detroit as we continue to give tax dollars and and tax abatements uh for these, especially when you come to private um uh establishments.

So I think that we should rethink our whole idea of abtracting businesses because if we remember correctly, the majority of the buildings that we're demolishing now were did not belong to the uh to the city, but rather to private enterprise, like the Mammoth Building um uh on Grand River and uh Greenfield, for instance.

So we the p taxpayers should not have to continue to subsidize the demolition of these uh locations, especially we we don't get any title three benefits for the neighborhood uh workers.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is Cindy Dara.

Cindy Dara, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Yes, uh I was thinking today about uh how I haven't had really any response that I can see.

Nobody I've been complaining to people about not being treated fairly about having my writing uh votes counted.

That's all I want.

Just count them.

And yeah, there's nobody on the council or anywhere that I've I've gone to Greg Maurer to and he's supposedly forwarded.

But one thing I want to mention date.

Uh oh.

Could you hear me?

Yes, ma'am.

Okay.

Excuse me.

Uh anyway, they don't give anything in writing.

That's what I start thinking about.

You know, when they tried to shove my petitions back in my face, then they never sent me anything in writing.

Then I go down there in person to see somebody.

They say, leave your name and number.

I do that.

Then I go back, and this is the city of Detroit.

It's frustrating to deal with people that aren't really organized, competent, or honest.

And I would say all of that would fit the department of elections.

And they're not giving anything in writing because they don't want any paper trail.

And that isn't correct either, I don't think.

You know, they thank you.

Before we go for um, yeah, we're not there yet.

Like to now call who's who's our next caller, please.

Our next caller is Miko A.

Williams.

Nico A.

Williams, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Yes, hi.

Can you hear me?

Yes.

Can you hear me?

Yes.

Okay, yes.

Um, you know, around this development of the Detroit SEO, it's not really clear in writing what community benefit agreements are there.

Um that needs to be explained.

And it also needs to be laid out for all of us so that we can advocate for more.

I mean, a private stadium getting this much uh subsidy.

And also the city of Detroit loves to give tax abatements and such for free, and they don't pay any taxes, but the residents are expected to sh come up with that shortfall.

It's only it's not fair.

Um the best thing, you know, my my days are winding down.

I don't have time to talk about lame duck stuff and things that the charter that the charter specifies uh the citiz the um elected body to do.

You violate the charter every single day.

You have no regard for the law.

You also have no regard for the citizens of the taxpayers.

And when I step down, I'm very sure that Detroiters are going to step up.

They're going to stand up.

No one's that demoralized as such, where you think you could get away with just anything.

We watch, we see, we hear, and we know.

They just don't come down here because then we'll all be arrested for revolting.

Um, but I've wished all my life for the revolt of the city of Detroit to take back its power by the citizens.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Before we go forward, I'd like to call the 1030 public hearing and recess it to the call of the chair.

Who's our next caller, please?

Our next caller is please comply with Charter 6-205.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Good morning, may I be heard?

Yes.

Okay.

Uh well, I agree with uh Miko.

This body shows little concern for compliance with the charter and disregards residents on the regular.

Uh Mr.

Durha, I send you your condolences about losing your father, losing a parent is really entering another dimension.

Grief is real.

Um I lost.

And he was begging me to leave the city, which he grew up in.

Because all he could hear from me.

And mostly what he heard is how the city just regards me, disregards the charter planned in secret around us.

Doesn't answer my inquiries, just like just like um uh Cindy Dara brought up.

I brought up concerns, I brought up concerns about the law department, the election department, Letitia Johnson chairs internal ops, no response whatsoever.

It's just the absolute worst municipal government I've ever lived under in my entire life.

Uh I lived in a country in the aftermath of dictatorship.

What's lacking is just like systematic torture by people from USA that bring electric shock torture instruments to diplomatic bags.

This it's really really sad.

No wonder people leave the thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is Bianca.

Uh Bianca, the floor is yours.

We have a minute 30, general public comment.

Caller, are you there?

Caller, are you there?

Hello, can you hear me?

Yes.

Oh, I apologize.

My name is Bianca Cuevas, District 6 and Southwest Detroit resident and DCFC parent, a longtime community leader in support with the CBA on the construction of the stadium.

My family is deeply rooted here, and all three of my children have been part of the DCFC Youth League.

For us, DCFC has never been about soccer, it's been about family values, opportunity, safety, and representation.

I've also had the privilege of serving as a team manager in DCFC.

Made sure every manager and coach received truly meaningful training.

Uh, one workshop that stuck out with me was Soccer Without Borders.

It opened our eyes to the cultural barriers our kids face, language, access, income, and the weight of growing up in the underserved neighborhood.

The training reminded us that coaching isn't about the game, it's about the holistic, culturally sensitive approach DCSC stands for.

DCSC also partnered with initiatives like Black Star Soccer, which uplifts black soccer culture and creates pathways for the next generation of players, offering weekend programs for free.

That's why the new stadium in our neighborhood matters.

It brings jobs, creates a real soccer culture in our neighborhood, and city strengthens father-child bonds and unites our Latino community in a new way.

It builds possibility for kids, families for our future.

With everything happening in the world and the uncertainties our families face, the stadium brings a point of joy, hope, and pride.

I know DCSE comes with love and compassion for our city.

And as a resident parent and leader, I can say the stadium isn't just a project, it's an investment in our dreams, opportunities, and generations.

Next caller, please.

All right, caller.

The floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Hi, my name is Annie Gregorian.

I work with Detroit Disability Power, and I'm a resident of the Virginia Park neighborhood.

And I'm speaking today in support of the DC Etsy development.

We are really grateful for their uh commitment to accessibility that goes beyond legal minimums when most developments uh really don't.

Um, and we're excited to work closely with them as they continue to design and build out different elements of the project.

Uh, specifically, we're really really happy for their commitment to 100% type B accessible units that really is groundbreaking within the affordable housing plan and making all units adaptable will serve as a model for other housing developments across the city to better meet the dynamic needs of our residents.

Um, and of course, sending a big uh hug to the Durhal family.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is Galaxy S22 Ultra.

All right, caller.

The floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Good morning.

I want to give my condolence to uh Prayer Dual for his losing of the file of his father and thanks.

That's a hard appeal right there.

I've been through a lot of things with uh with my family.

And then I want to give uh thank you to uh my city council uh when district four.

You know, she's she's she come through with a lot of things that I've been dealing with.

I can always reach her.

So I want to give a thanks to um Miss uh Chef uh Miss City Council Johnson.

I'm sorry.

And uh I just I'm just trying to see out of all the stuff that we dealing with over here, and she's fighting for us.

I know she fighting, but we should be able to get some kind of grant, although we had uh uh uh 15,000 from Christ.

It wasn't from the city, and I know she's fighting.

She fighting for the light and behind my house, and that's why I want to thank her, you know.

And another thing, we have more marijuana dispenses than we do grocery stores in the city of Detroit.

Something was wrong with that bitch.

I travel outside, man.

My wife traveled outside of Detroit to go shopping.

We don't have no good name stores in Detroit.

We we got a lot of marijuana dismisses, and we should have grocery stores over here.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is caller ending 039.

Caller ending in 039.

The floor is yours.

A minute 30, general public comment.

I told you you see the car, Kenisha's mother.

Shermay McLeod, Kenita's blood relative.

That's who's responsible for her death.

You said it wasn't the right representative for the family.

Well, catching the Ivy didn't actually do nothing.

You're a liar, a cheater.

And fraud.

That's my word on it.

Y'all went too today.

Fred you're uh I would offer my condolences your family, but you didn't give Kenesha's family, her daughter or her mother, no condolences on the death of their daughter and a mother by a blood relative.

You heard that James?

Y'all been cheating in elections.

That is where we busted wide open.

I'm gonna turn it up to 1,026 into your political career, brother.

My word.

All right, next caller, please.

Our next caller is William M.

Davis.

Mr.

William M.

Davis, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Uh, good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes.

I'd like to give condolences to my city council person, Fred Duha.

I knew his dad.

I knew his dad quite well.

Um in fact, I met him in the early 80s when some of y'all wasn't born, and some of the others are just babies.

Uh I used to be the citizen co-chair for University City A.

Uh, and he commented on the fact that that time I was the youngest person on the council, and I received more votes than anybody else.

Um, and I was a Wayne State student.

And at that time, the citizen district council, we had uh representatives from Wayne State, Burroughs Corporation.

I know some of y'all don't remember Burroughs, and you know, we have people from Wayne State.

Uh at that time, we was able to get one of our projects.

We was able to get over one-third of the state budget for urban renewal, you know, for the Calamac development, if you know what that is, that's um uh right off of John C.

Lodge and off of Forrest and uh third.

We also had another project right before my time there was Freedom Place, uh on uh on the other side of the Lodge Freeway on between Trump and the Lodge and Forrest and Warren.

But you know, we need to go back to a time where we had people that was actively involved.

Your dad was actively involved, and he had to encourage me, and I hope that we can encourage more people to be more actively involved in our communities.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is Richard Noto.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Are you there?

Our next caller is Esteban Vargas.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Good morning.

Can you guys hear me?

Yes.

Good morning.

My name is Estella Barragas.

I am I I was born and raised and currently still live in Southwest Detroit.

I come here both as a player and as an employee.

I have been a player in this in DCFC since 2016, and they have helped me both on and off the field, not only uh in sports, but also academically and finding uh in finding schools and finding uh scholarships to be able to go to study.

I I'm currently enrolled at Wayne State, and they're helping me be on that.

I'm also an employee.

I am a match the staff employee, and I'm here to ask of you guys to please build the stadium.

As I am also working uh in a few years, if everything goes right, I will I like me, a lot of young folks will have the opportunity to to grow from this sport, but because of the lack of support, we we will uh unfortunately have to move away.

Like for example, for me, I'm I I currently have an opportunity to go, but I will have to travel all the way across to Florida to be able to have the opportunity.

I would I would love if those opportunities would would be here in Detroit so we can grow uh as a community.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is Jessica Avila.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Good morning.

First of all, my condolences to Mr.

Durrell.

I'm here in support of the DCLC stadium being built.

First of all, I'd like to thank the developers in trying to keep Detroit on the map here in the soccer world.

As a local Southwest resident, this is going to bring economic growth and job creation to our community, which is much needed, and will also help in the housing uh crisis we are currently living.

As a parent, I have four youth, uh active youth players in DCFC and my local family here in DCFC.

Um, this is a place that we can call home, and this is what we want.

We would love to have a stadium.

Um, as a community advocate, I can see DCFC being able to further help our local businesses and organizations as it has done as of now.

Um expanding more activities and being able to be more involved with our community.

I see that happening.

I'm also a local recreational soccer coach.

I have seven youth teams, and we are much involved with DCFC.

DCFC is part of our development.

They help tremendously in the development of our youth, our Hispanic youth, along with the Black Initiative.

Um, DCFC has been there.

I can see them breaking this cultural barrier that we have right now of not having this local stadium.

This is gonna bring nothing but greatness to the city of Detroit.

Um, and I wish that everybody would just be on board with this.

Um, I feel that this is gonna bring much opportunity for Detroit, and I feel that um it's nothing but the passion for soccer and the passion for Detroit, which is what DCFC stands for.

That's part of their growth grassroots.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is Miss Marguerite Scarlet Maddox.

Ms.

Marguerite Scarlet Maddox.

The floor is yours.

General public comment.

Ms.

Maddox, are you there?

Are you there, Miss Maddox?

Let's put Miss Maddox at the end of the queue.

Oh here, something happy belated birthday as well.

All right.

Let's put Ms.

Maddox at the end of the queue and go to the next caller, please.

Mr.

Chair, we are back to owner Papa noting there were a few hands raised after the public comment cutoff.

Okay.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Uh good morning, and through the chair, may I be heard?

Yes.

Thank you.

And condolences to you, uh, council member uh Durhall.

I'm sorry at the passing of your father.

It's always difficult to lose a parent.

I've experienced it and I know the grief that you must be feeling.

Um this soccer field is a private soccer field.

And the reason why it doesn't rise to the tier one is because you've eliminated what everybody was calling and champion, the um the youth portion of it.

They've left that portion out, and I think that's what is lost in all of this.

That is the portion that would have pushed it over to make it uh a tier one.

So that's the hocus pocus that goes on at uh this council table.

Um the um units that just had a big uh uh showing on television.

I didn't see any of you all there at the Dr.

Uh Lewis uh village.

Um groundbreaking, I guess it was supposed to have been.

But don't do you know that all of those lead the it's all leased up.

No nothing that's available.

They're all taken.

And and they use something called LITEC, L-I-H-T-C.

That is low-income housing credits that uh you, Mr.

Tate, and the rest of the council voted to uh use the tax credits, but not deliver the housing.

Um affordable housing is not the same as low income.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

We are back to Richard Nodo.

Richard Nodal, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Uh may I be heard now?

Yes.

Okay.

Um, I'm sorry.

Technical difficulties.

Uh councilman.

Your your mic will now let's take them back to uh top of the 130.

Mr.

Nodo, your Wi-Fi seemed to be breaking up.

We're gonna give you another opportunity.

Can you hear me now?

We can hear you now.

The floor is yours.

Okay.

Um Kathy Shonai and myself are here to support the DCFC project.

Uh, but we we want to get in the echo.

We can hear you fine on our end.

All right, I think we sent you a copy of our letter.

Did you guys receive it?

We want the neck.

Are you there, Mr.

Noto?

Yeah, I'm here, but you guys can't hear me.

We can hear you, we can hear you at this moment.

Are you there?

I'm here, yes.

Okay, you you may proceed.

Oh, you can hear me.

Yes, sir.

That's why I keep responding when you okay.

I'm getting that card.

Yes, I can hear you well.

You may proceed.

Okay.

So Kathy Schneider and ourselves are asking you to amend the DCFC document.

As you know, we live and on property in old uh Western uh run over Western Market and live across the street.

Uh our area of Western Cocktail were the most impacted by the needs through the NAC.

We're not met at all.

We are the president and vice president of Western Corktown Association and truly support the DCFC development.

We attended all the NAC meetings and our thoughts to be and uh let our thoughts be heard in person and by email.

Greatest concern is the DCFC project does not take away Michigan Avenue parking starts at the center for our area to develop and grow without parking.

As you guys well know, business cannot grow and real estate development cannot happen.

It's sad to say, since no one west in Cork then was appointed in ACO needs were ignored, while similar needs from other areas in the packed area were included.

We sent to you a document that describes things that we need, but most important.

Before we go forward, like to call the 1045 public hearing and recess it to the call of the chair.

Next caller, please.

Mr.

Chair, Kia Mathis was online prior to the cutoff for public comment, so she will go next.

Okay, Ms.

Mathis, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes.

Good morning.

Kia Mathis with Detroit People's Platform.

I'm calling about DCFC, you know, in the community benefit process.

Now the residents are able to engage as community partner with the purpose of getting proportional benefits that would mitigate damages and harms caused and influenced by development in a residential area.

Unfortunately, DCFC's conversation concluded with about a 1% return on an investment of 88 million dollars of public incentives.

What that means is in response to a citywide and national knowledge that is shown in data, is shown in the decline of critical supports, is shown in our housing insecurity.

The NAC members set it on benefits such as traffic plans, possible jobs, sidewalk repair.

Yet legal requirements are not community benefits, it's public money.

So I would like to see substantial security for residents who will be impacted by the increases in rent and taxes at the same time the decreases in our social safety net and the decreases in public in support of public institutions.

We already have a built-in fair system for reinvestment, which is a housing trust fund.

It already helped about 389 units in Corktown, and it also about 4600 citywide.

I'm asking you to add a multi-year funds into the affordable housing trust fund, which is reasonable return on public subsidy.

Also, acts of developers designed uh 50% of all residential units to be accessible and all the other ones to be adaptable.

Thank you.

You next caller, please.

Our last caller is Miss Marguerite Scarlet Maddox.

Marguerite Scarlet Mattock.

The floor is yours.

General Public Comment.

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Good morning, man.

Thank you for being here.

All right, now I'd like to go back to bring back to order the 1010 public hearing.

The parties who are participating, please queue up.

Uh colleagues uh line item five, the 1010 public hearing is a um public hearing regarding a rezoning request for the Detroit Goat Yard.

Uh Saint Jean, uh two Saint Jean, 21 St.

Jean, 95 St.

Jean, and excuse me, 140 terminal.

Uh colleagues, can we also move line items 8.2 and 9.33 together as well, please?

So move Mr.

Chair for discussion.

Thank you so much.

And I see Timory who's joined us today.

Yes, good morning, council members, and my condolences to Member Durhal and your family.

And I am also joined online by the petitioners and Kamani Jeffrey, if they would like to introduce themselves as well.

And may I share my screen?

We're gonna give you uh the opportunity to introduce yourself first.

I apologize.

Tim Rita Brule City Planning Commission staff.

Good morning.

All right, we'll go to our folks on the screen.

If you can you see yourself, please introduce yourself for the record.

Good morning, and definitely want to share our condolences as well.

Good morning.

Uh Matthew Walters with the Walters Group.

Also, my sincere sincerest apologies and uh thoughts and prayers with Councilmember Durrall.

Morning.

Uh good morning, Edwina King, Planning and Development Department.

Um, and to Member Durrhall, my condolences and may your father's memory be a blessing.

Good morning.

I'm Hanson Bratton with Goatyard Marine.

Uh my condolences as well.

Good morning, and thank you all.

All right.

Um, Mr.

Bromley, would you like to go first?

Yes, Mr.

Chair, may I share my screen?

Yes, ma'am.

So the proposal this morning is for the Detroit Boat Works, which is operating at 221 and 95 St.

Jean, and it is a proposed rezoning to go from a PD plan development to an M4 intensive and or from PD plan development and M4 Intests of Industrial to a B for general business.

Uh on September 4th, 2025, the CPC did hold the statutory public hearing regarding this proposed rezoning, and this is requested to permit a marina expansion, including a boat yard, inside storage, new boat slips, restaurant, and retail.

The proposed rezoning would also amend and remove a portion of the plan of uh PD created by ordinance number 2305, which is commonly referred to as Morgan Waterfront Estates.

The current zoning is shown here.

Uh the subject site, it is bounded by Nautical Way to the north, Sandbar Lane to the east, the Detroit River to the south, and St.

Jean Street to the west.

As you can see on the map here, there the hatched area that is PD, and then there is a smaller area that is currently M4.

So those will all be proposed to be B4 through this rezoning.

We did hold a public hearing on September 4th.

Um there were a number of comments and concerns both from commissioners and the public.

And some of those are listed here, um, such as the need for further engagement, uh, whether or not it will create a spot zone, and what impact this could have on the St.

Jean boat launch, as well as the appropriate width of the canal, whether it's appropriate for this proposed development for that many boats.

Um all of the commissioners' concerns were addressed by the petitioner, and we did find um that the canal is absolutely an appropriate width to accommodate these boats as was as well as the residents on the other side of the canal.

Um, and that the Saint Jean boat launch will not be impacted by this in any way.

During the public hearing, we had public comment from four members of the public, and they uh brought concerns of increased traffic, including vehicular and uh water, noise, and loss of the downtown skyline view.

Since that time, the petitioners have engaged uh quite a bit with the community on that other side of the canal and have addressed their issues and concerns, um, even as recently meeting with uh residents, even as recently as last night.

Um, prior to the public hearing, uh staff received a letter of support from the president of the Morgan Waterfront Estates HOA representing the HOA.

Following the public hearing, as I said, the petitioner has engaged quite a bit with that community there, and we have since received letters of support from the community treehouse center of Detroit, Jefferson East Inc.

and two uh private residents of the Morgan Waterfront Estates.

The current zoning, as I said, is going from M4 and a PD, which was created in 2005, and currently that PD was built.

The homes that are located on the other side of the canal, that part was brought to fruition where this area was not.

In the original ordinance, that area was set to be an 18 18 story high-rise luxury condos that were never built, and it has sat vacant since the surrounding area includes general industrial, intensive industrial, and then further north and to the east is residential.

The planning and economic development department did provide a master plan interpretation for this site.

But uh PNDD staff are going to consider this uh with the larger master plan update for an amendment to this area.

Uh I'm gonna briefly go through these and summarize what we have here.

Our staff analysis, which is the criteria provided in section 50 3 70 of the zoning code, which we based our recommendations off of, and some of these that are applicable to this is whether or not the proposed amendment is consistent with the master plan.

As I just mentioned, it was found not to be, but that is something that is being looked at for an amendment.

Uh, whether the proposed rezoning will have any significant adverse impact on the natural environment.

Staff does not anticipate any adverse impact on the natural environment, and this proposal part of it is to clean up the canal.

There are sunken boats in the canal that have been there for a very long time.

There is extensive remediation that needs to be done on the site, and so they are they are going to be doing all of that as a part of this development.

Currently, that part of the waterway is not navigable.

Um whether this meets a proposed uh meets or corrects an error or some challenge or changing condition.

This will correct or not correct, but it will bring that PD area to where it can be developed.

Currently, it would only be allowed for that high-rise luxury condos that was approved for, and so this has limited the marketability of that land.

And whether the proposed amendment will have any significant adverse impacts on other property in the vicinity.

Our staff does not uh believe that it will have any significant adverse impact.

And finally, whether this will create an illegal spot zone.

Um we do not anticipate that this would create an illegal spot zone, which is different from a spot zone.

Uh, not all spot zones are illegal.

As you can see in the image that I'm showing here, there is an area that will remain M4 that will be surrounded by the P B4 zoning if this goes forward.

Um there are certain indicators of what creates an illegal spot zone, and some of those are would the rezoning show favor to the petitioner over the adjacent property owner.

This the adjacent property owner did have the opportunity to rezone with this and chose not to, so it is not showing favor to one over the other.

Would the rezoning allow for land use is inconsistent with the area?

This is in the marina district, and they are looking to do a marina expansion and provide retail and restaurant, which is similar to other businesses in the area.

And what does FAT zone conflict with the master plan of policies and future general land use map, which as I said will be looked at for an amendment following the rezoning?

On October 9th, I apologize, I do have the wrong date there.

On October 9th, the city planning commission did recommend voted to recommend approval of this request.

The vote was unanimous on this.

And now if I could, I'd like to pass off to the petitioners uh to Mr.

Walters.

There they have a few slides to present.

You may proceed.

Thank you very much through the chair.

Uh just uh I know we'll be efficient with our time, uh, just a some quick uh highlights for the project.

Um this proposal uh would provide uh and benefit Detroiters.

We would be providing uh employment opportunities.

This project, we believe that it'll um the the employees now that work at the adjacent business, which is which would be expanding into this site.

Uh they employ about five people, half of which are Detroiters.

Uh we think with this expansion, there will be roughly 20 to 25 employees.

Um and Detroiters will be prioritized.

We'll be working with the Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation to fill those to fill those jobs.

Um the city marketed this property a couple years ago, and uh this proposal was the winning bid of that marketing effort uh by the housing and revitalization department.

Um the adjacent site, as has been said is the Detroit boat launch.

We believe that this project would add value to the boat launch and to the marina district as a whole, since this is a maritime uh use and boating use.

Um, so as what's been stated, we are downzoning from M4.

Um this M4 zoning classification is obviously across the street from uh single family homes.

So we think going from M4 to B4 is advantageous for the uh for the community because you will not be able to, or an owner of that property will not by right be able to build much more intensive uh uses, industrial uses that are in close proximity to single family residents.

Um there is no seawall along the canal here.

This uh um the existing business did clean up the shoreline and build a seawall, but down the stretch of two Saint Jean, uh the property that you can see is vacant in that image.

There is no seawall, and so the um the proposed project would build roughly uh between a two uh the cost estimate between two and a half and three million dollars to build a seawall down the entire site.

Uh the site is in a flood hazard zone, and so a seawall will help protect um the area, the residents from flooding in the future.

Um I already talked about the employees.

Um this uh existing business is a Detroit-based business registered with the Office of CREO.

Um, and the existing site, uh the sorry, the the two St.

Jean site, uh, the existing state of that site is that it's in incredibly contaminated.

Uh it's been vacant for decades, and um there the the previous use 80, 60, 70 years ago uh was uh a kind of uh uh an area, a train line used to a rail line used to go down into the site.

And so freighters would come into the canal, offload materials onto the the um the train line, the trains, and uh hazardous materials would spill over on the site.

So the city of Detroit conducted a phase one and phase two environmental studies, finding that arsenic uh lead asbestos and um uh uh mercury and other volatile organic compounds were all found on the site.

So this project would remediate and cap uh so that the um uh the site and so the folks that live there work there would no longer be exposed to those um to those uh um uh uh contaminants, hazardous have hazardous contaminants.

Uh next slide, please.

Oh, sorry, Ms.

King had raised her hand.

No, I can go after you.

Oh, okay.

Um one concern that we've had from the uh residents across the canal was the width of the canal, because part of this project is to include uh new slips, some slips along the canal.

And so we wanted to show that the the width of the canal and that uh the boats that would be docked at this uh marina and maritime hub is what we're calling it, would not encroach at all uh within that 90 foot easement, which is between the two yellow lines.

We want and we've we've made that clear to residents in the canal that there we will not obstruct their ability to traverse and uh enter, exit and and uh store their boats up against their seawall that's in front of their homes.

Uh next slide, please.

Uh as I mentioned the seawall, uh there's also sunken boats that are in the canal, two uh sunken boats still.

Uh part of this project would be to remediate and remove those sunken boats, and then also completely clean up the shoreline and uh install the seawall that I uh mentioned.

The two photos on the left, or is the seawall that uh the existing the the business owners Hansen who's with us today and his partner, uh they already installed a seawall roughly uh two or three hundred feet down the shoreline.

So that would be continued down the entirety of the canal.

Uh next slide, please.

Uh these are some the next couple slides or images of what was and what is there now.

You can see on the left, that's a before.

There was a blighted industrial buildings uh and hazardous material and just debris and garbage uh all over that was uh cleaned up when they bought the property.

There was a consent order with the building department, and that has now been dissolved because of the cleanup that the existing owners uh performed.

Next slide, please.

Uh other images of the old seawall versus the new.

You can again see the blighted industrial building that's there.

Next slide, please.

Uh more pictures.

Uh this was uh a ship that was in the canal.

It had been there for years.

The kids in the neighborhood called it the ghost ship.

Um the owners, Hanson and Alex, when they bought the site, uh, completely refurbished, invested and refurbished this ship, and uh was able to remove it from the canal uh where it had been sitting uh for many years.

Next slide, please.

Uh again, just repeating what uh was already said.

It's in the marina district, just showing the location.

Next slide, please.

And that's it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yes.

Yes, thank you.

Um, and through the chair.

Um, so just wanted to emphasize um or inform rather uh with this particular project, because um there's a land transfer that is associated with it.

The amount of land that is um being transferred to the developer is north of excuse me, five contiguous acres.

So it triggered a class A CLO um process.

We worked with the developer um and held two meetings um as required.

We provided notice to um residents in district five and members of the CAC, as well as the city council, and we advertised it as required per the ordinance.

Um both meetings were um attended.

There was a report that was produced um and to uh piggyback on what uh Miss De Brule said there were letters of support.

We also included that in our report, and that is before you today as line item 9.33, excuse me.

Thank you.

Any further?

Seeing none, we shall now go to colleagues.

Colleagues, any questions, comments, concern regarding line item five and the uh other items that we move for discussion?

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, and good morning to all of you for the presentation.

Um of the main things I was going to ask about were the seawalls, of course, because uh although the project is currently in district five, as district four boundaries expand in January, it will be part of District Four.

Uh, and that is something that we have been working very diligently to address in other parts of District Four in areas that sit in a floodplain current currently.

Uh and so thank you for addressing that um and for addressing the seawall.

Uh it really looks great.

Can you speak to that particular area?

I did see a note about the current owner of that property.

And some heavy industrial business opens up there.

As I mentioned, yes, it is privately owned, and the owner did not want to uh rezone.

I will since I I don't believe that the site is currently in operation.

Mr.

Hanson may be or Mr.

Pratton may be able to speak more to that.

Um but they have because they've been looking, I believe, to sell the property.

Um it is a very small site though.

So the number of intensive uses that could go there are a little bit limited by that.

Um but if Mr.

Brenton uh or Mr.

Walters wants to speak to the current operations there.

Yes, this is uh this is Hanson.

Um yes, the current business is known as Hackett Brass, and uh they are they do have uh limited operations still currently.

They have a foundry at another location in Detroit where they uh make parts and then they take them to this facility uh that we're talking about and they clean up the parts and then they they send up they send them off to their clients.

Uh but uh the owner who we're very friendly with, we get along well with uh is does have the property for sale.

Uh I I think he's had limited interest, and it's really about the use of the building for them.

So if anybody went in there to use the building, it would not impact our operation whatsoever.

And there's a very strong possibility down the low road that we may negotiate a deal with him to take over that property as well and incorporate it into our development.

Okay, thank you.

I was wondering if you all had considered that because of its proximity.

Um the only other thing that I wanted to say is uh thank you for continuing to engage the community and to respond to the concerns that have been addressed.

My office has received questions and concerns um because people know that it's moving into District 4.

Uh, and so I appreciate you you all reaching out to them and addressing their concerns.

I have received responses to those conversations indicating that they are now supportive of this particular project moving forward.

So thank you for that.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Uh, through the chair, that engagement will not end.

So through the duration of the project, we will continue to meet with community members and the residents.

All right, thank you.

Colleagues, any additional comments, concerns, questions?

Seeing none, we shall now go to public comment.

If there's anyone from the public who would like to speak on this item, please raise your hand.

I see one in the committee of the whole.

If you're at home, you can raise your hand now as well, going once, going twice, going three times.

Collection of public comments have now concluded.

How many folks do we have online?

Mr.

Chair, we have nine callers online.

Okay.

We're gonna give everyone a minute and a half uh for public comment regarding line item five, and we'll start in the committee of the whole.

Uh we'll Mr.

Foster, Brain Freeze.

Um, good morning through the um chair.

Just wanted to say a few things.

First, uh, thank the CPC um young ladies, very nice, always present.

Um, good information.

I see you're in the community quite a bit, alone for boyfriend, and very nice people.

So did want to say that.

But as far as this um hearing today, I would like to see when we do zoning change, especially in particular areas like this.

I would like to see more innovative thinking.

You know, the largest fishing pier in North America is in Virginia.

Yet we have the largest fresh water in probably all of the Americas.

And so we have to be open to new ideas, incorporating new things that can evolve more social um activities in areas.

Secondly, as a former boater out there, it's a different perspective.

You get a chance to see the marathon um gas station, get a chance to see Sandbadge, you get a chance to see parks and things from different views.

When we talk about adding community benefits in there, I think one of the things that we should add is maybe a marketing sign down there in which we can interchange information amongst our boating community, our mom and pop spots can um market and advertise, and then we could be more open to more communities and more diverse information to interchange.

So I do like these things, but we have to be more innovative in our thinking and not just reinvent the same wheel.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

For the first caller.

Our first caller online is Jedante Smith.

Mr.

Smith, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30 regarding line item five.

Good afternoon.

I just want to say that uh it seems like there was some community involvement put in this uh project.

There's a lot of thought putting this project a lot of money.

But to only have four people come from the community around this project is very interesting.

Also, um I think we need to really do the change the process of engagement.

Uh the Trait legal news and having 13 newsstands and 139 square miles for the city of Detroit for any type of engagement around uh development is really irresponsible.

David Whitaker, you need to change that speaking to you because you are the one who says that is okay because you're the head lawyer for LPD.

And so on this proposal, I think that um we need to we need to do some revisions around how we do these things because all these uh proposed developments come from the same origin of this Detroit legal news being the apparatus to spread the information, and we being 300 feet around uh whatever development it is, being have having to engage residents.

I think that's irresponsible.

You do look at that process.

Okay.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is please follow charter section six-205.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30 regarding line item five.

Good afternoon.

Can you hear me?

Yes, ma'am.

Hello, good afternoon.

Can you hear me?

Yes, ma'am.

Let's take our time to the top, please.

Okay, sorry, some problem that the it the zoom dropped, and thank you for putting me back on.

If you could put it at the full minute, that'd be great.

I don't start.

Unless there's still a zoom problem.

The floor is yours, ma'am.

Okay, I didn't see it start at one minute 30, it started one minute 20.

We went back to 130, Miss Wark.

Your time is rolling.

Well, that's very disrespectful.

Another reason why many people think to leave this, uh, please note uh Miss Renata Miller, how this council treats people.

Also, um, you can't limit people's time to your one minute 30 or whatever.

It's violating charter section six-205.

And um, so this lack of respect for the charter is really really disappointing.

And the people are just mistreated regularly because people disrespect the charter.

Yeah, I heard it that guy.

I am talking about this item, sir.

And then they were talking about it's not consistent with the master plan, but they want to go ahead because people requested changes to the master plan, and the master plan process is intentionally non-inclusive and and secretive, so that people can get their little Aston and screw the residents.

This is the most horrible local administration I've ever lived under.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is Stephen Haring.

Stephen Howard, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

How's it going?

So I just want to say I'm in support of this development.

You know, I grew up boating.

I remember when I was young, um, my dad would um take the family to Sinbads from um all the way from um Harrison Township.

So I think boating is very important to the city, and I think this development is very um, you know, a very good idea.

It's the rest of my time.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is Cindy Dara.

Cindy Dara, the floor is yours.

We have a minute 30 regarding line item five.

Yeah, uh, I used to go sailing there at with Steve Hume and Sue McDonald.

They had the boat yard there on the east side of St.

Jane.

And it was cheap and the most fun.

We had these wonderful uh sailboats that were a lot of fun.

And there was day sailors, but it was a place that people could sail out of cheaply without paying a lot of money.

When I came to Detroit, we could get a canoe right down on the river, close to downtown.

On the others on Bell Island side, we could rent a canoe and go out on the river.

We could rent a sail, a small sailboat and go out on the river.

Well, of course, people have to sue, so um we don't have any fun things that left a lot of the fun things that you might get hurt and sue.

So anyway, uh I just wondered uh are you gonna keep a boat yard where people can keep their boats in there fairly cheap and be able to sail out of there, and maybe we could also on Bell Island.

There's the way they've got more water on Bell Island, you could have more boats going the uh more the length of the from one uh little lake to the next when they're connected.

But I I just uh I had a good time there, and I hope that people can thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is owner Papa.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30 regarding line item five.

Uh good afternoon, and through the chair, or good morning and through the chair.

May I be heard?

Yes.

Thank you.

Um, yes, I agree with uh Miss Walwick and the other uh commenters about uh this project.

It's strange to me how um we have a master plan, but that master plan can be altered, and the people don't know anything about the master plan.

Um I would like to ask the uh the gentleman who said that there were going to be 30 to 35 uh jobs created at varying skill levels.

Can he uh elaborate on the skills that will be necessary and the salaries commensurate with those skills?

Um I would also like to ask the body who's sitting here and and the people on the panel.

How did the how did they clean up the marina so far?

How did they where did they get the funding from and um how did they go about cleaning up the um marina?

And it it is a shame that uh we live in a city where the government allows this kind of toxicity to exist and they don't uh address it themselves, they wait for developers to come in.

Um, and I'm pretty sure soon we'll um have uh more ask from for this marina.

But at any rate, uh yes, I agree with Mr.

Howell.

Um Miss Letitia Johnson is one of the few council members that really advocates for the people in her area, but uh please make sure the people in the area are being informed.

That's what's important.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is Ash Rose.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30 regarding line item five.

Thank you.

My name's Ash Davis.

I'm a resident of Detroit.

Uh, I'm pleased to hear this is being down zone.

I think it'll be a good benefit to the community.

Uh, my question is what considerations, if any, are being made regarding supporting the ecosystem for the area.

I'm wondering if there will be any effort to support native habitat.

The Detroit River and the surrounding area is a crucial habitat for many local and migrating birds.

And I would like to ask that any trees and other plants planted there be native to the area so that they can provide benefit to the birds and pollinators of the area.

I would love to see a dedicated native habitat included in the plans.

Um, using native trees and other plants doesn't add any additional costs to the project.

It's a simple swap for the existing planned trees, um, just for native trees.

Um I'd like to share that a list of plants which are native to any specific area can be found at nwf.org/slash native plant finder.

I also wondered if the area would be open to the public at all.

Um, so the community would be welcome to sit at the riverfront to fish and enjoy the river.

Um that that's all.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is Eric Sattler.

Eric Sattler, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30 regarding line item five.

Good morning.

Uh, first condolences to the councilman for his immeasurable loss.

I know what it's like to lose a parents.

Uh, I am the only resident of Morgan Waterfront Estates that was directly impacted by the ghost ships at 82 Sandbar, having purchased a home in 2015.

I applaud these builders and developers for the work they've done so far.

I wholeheartedly support this project.

I think it would be an amazing improvement to the uh to the land for those people complaining about master plan, master plans and other information is really available to the public, um, free of charge.

So some of the arguments put forth against this proposal are not current residents.

The HOA meeting and board has has approved this.

far I wholeheartedly support this project I think it would be an amazing improvement to the uh to the land for those people complaining about master plan master plans and other information is really available to the public um free of charge so some of the arguments put forth against this proposal are not current residents the HOA meeting and board has has approved this I understand concerns that from prior callers that there may have not been uh as much engagement uh from the from the waterfront Morgan waterfront community only because certain homes are affected by this again I fully support this project this it would be a direct impact positive impact these builders developers have spent to the uh council's uh presentation millions of dollars already I believe they will incorporate proper um environmental and they will do things as outlined in their proposal and it's a very good positive impact for the city and section four and five thank you very much thank you next caller please our next caller is not that caring the floor is yours you have a minute thirty regarding line item five yes thank you for the uh minute thirty seconds um I'll say that we need to have make sure we have um reach out and make harder efforts make bigger at uh bigger efforts to make sure that the public is involved um uh it was say it was stated that that that this project is not uh in line with the master plan so I'm not sure what the last gentleman was talking about but um it seems that we do too much too many things for individuals and not enough for the public at large so um I seawall is an issue not having a seawall there is an issue or not planning the seawall is an issue um it's gonna you know lead to more flooding in high water time or when the when the wind blows eastward from on the river it's gonna cause flooding so I think that seaw is imperative it must be installed and I also like to make sure that we it's gonna be have some benefit to the general public not just the specific boat owners or residents that happen to be able to take advantage of the breaks and the abatements that are going to be given uh for this project uh it is a beautiful scene from the river looking back into the city my son has a boat and took me out with him um a couple couple weeks ago a few weeks ago beautiful day in October it was but yeah I think that everyone and we should have a place my son has to dock his boat in St.

Clair Shores I think it'd be better if we have places local in the city that benefit the city residents and not so much individual entrepreneurs next caller please our last caller before public comment was cut off is Miss Marguerite Scarlet Maddox Margie Scott Maddows the floor is yours regarding line item five okay morning I some question is this she well we have the right enough the can go in out because some equipment may be the native plant sure it is native because we all

Equipment may be good environment.

That takes us to the end of our public comments.

We're going to give the presenters an opportunity to respond to the questions.

I see Mr.

Jeffrey, your hand has been raised for some time now.

Want to give you the opportunity.

First up, the floor is yours.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I just wanted to respond regarding the master plan items that were raised during public comment.

Just wanted to speak to the issues regarding the master plan.

People spoke to, you know, concerns about master plan inconsistency or the statement that was made.

The plan and development department is going to be submitting a an amendment for this item to bring this particular piece of land into consistency with the master plan.

And typically that might happen simultaneously, but because there is already a comprehensive effort underway, as many people know, uh plan Detroit is already underway.

And so the city is currently uh taking that effort up, and so they are folding this particular piece of land, they're folding that into that effort.

And so they'll be updating this particular land into that effort and bringing that into consistency along with Plan Detroit.

And not only that, this particular uh area in question, but also several other areas in question.

They'll be folding those areas all into that effort as well.

Um just as it relates to the master plan as well, just I just want to make sure that people understand that the master plan is transparent and it is always available online.

So if you just Google City of Detroit Master Plan, you can always find those documents online.

So there are maps and there are uh there's a document with the text uh that you can find online at any time.

You can also visit the planning and development department's website to find those documents and see what the master plan actually says.

You can also follow Plan Detroit to follow that effort that's currently underway to update a comprehensive update that the city is undergoing to update the uh master plan for the city of Detroit that's been underway for some time now.

And uh just as far as the uh master plan amendments go, uh, there is uh uh process uh that's set by the uh planning enabling act as well as the city charter that outlines the process that we have to go through in order to amend uh the master plan.

And so as we talk about master plan amendments to change what the master plan says about a particular area, there is a process that the master that the city charter and the planning and enabling act sets forth that indicates uh the process that we have to go through that uh outlines public hearings that we go through uh as well as uh ways that the public can weigh in, um notices, noticing requirements, municipalities surrounding us that we have to notify, um, and all of that can be found um through the planning enabling act as well as the city charter.

So I just wanted to let people know that it is a transparent process.

Uh the most recent time that we went through that was with the Eastern Market Master Plan Amendment process.

Uh we had city uh public hearings that we went through, city council approved it.

Uh so I just wanted to sort of share some light on what that looks like so that people can have some more awareness.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh whoever would like to provide additional comments.

The floor is yours.

Mr.

Chair, um, I was just going to comment on there were some concerns about only four people speaking during our public hearing with CPC, as well as um how far the notices went out, what radius it went out to.

Um, for this particular rezoning, even though we are required by the Michigan Open Uh Meetings Act to do 300 feet for our public uh hearing notices.

I actually expanded the boundary for this one because of the river being to the south.

It didn't include very many um residents by only going 300 feet.

So we did expand that out, I believe, to 400 or 450.

Um, so there were additional, but we are only required to do the 300, and that's per state law.

Um as far as four people coming out to speak, oftentimes people don't always come out to speak of their support or if if they're just neutral on it.

Um typically it's it's the people that have concerns um about it that do come out and or strong support.

So it it's not abnormal for only a few people to come out to a CPC hearing for rezoning of this size.

Um a lot of times people are neutral on an issue.

Um then also um again the lack of info to the community was mentioned by a few other people, and we do require that all of our petitioners um before they go to public hearing need to engage with those residents adjacent, as well as we recommend that they go to community meetings for organizations for block clubs, and for this particular one, as I had mentioned in the presentation, they had support letters both from two nonprofits in the area as well as the uh HOA for the Morgan Waterfront estates, and then also they received letters of support from two residents in the area as well.

So they did engage with a number of community organizations as well as all of the residents there and presented at the HOA.

Thank you.

Any additional responses?

Again, please note that we are woefully behind right now only at uh the one public hearing, and we have the entire agenda still before us.

Uh, but give you an opportunity to respond to the questions.

I know there was questions about native plants.

Yes, sir.

I'll be very quick through the chair.

Uh this will be a public business, it will not be a club or membership-based business, so we'll be open to the public.

Um, the native plants, uh, the response I would give is that yes, we would consider native plants and native trees.

We are, uh I'll just add again remediating a site that is extremely environmentally contaminated.

And so um, you know, removing those toxic waste uh toxic uh contaminants will help grow any plants uh on site.

Um how do we pay for cleaning up the site?

Uh it was paid by through private dollars, uh, private investment, and uh jobs for the project will be um around uh you know boating voting like jobs, so fixing votes, uh managing the site, managing the slips.

Um we also are proposing a small burger bar, so there would be jobs related to that burger bar that would be on site.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Any further no sir.

Any nine colleagues, is there a motion for let's uh any additional questions?

Let me just ask that first.

Member Johnson Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I do just want to ask a brief brief question as it relates to the master plan.

Do we know what the master plan called for in this particular area of the chair to member Johnson?

Currently, that is uh low density residential was the current master plan uh designation.

Okay, thank you.

And I know you mentioned that previously there was a proposal for 18 uh units to be developed, but that didn't happen.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

All right, thank you so much.

All right, colleagues, is there a motion for line item five or further discussion?

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I'll move that we send line item five or 1010 a.m.

public hearing the formal with a recommendation to approve.

There's a motion to send line item five, our 1010 public hearing, the formal with a recommendation to approve.

Any objections?

See none, then action shall be taken.

Uh colleagues, is there a motion?

Oh, let me close this out first and then I'll put the other motions.

So now close out the 1010 public hearing.

Colleagues, is there a motion to receive and file line item 9.33?

So move that is the thank you, sir.

That is the community outreach report.

There is a motion to uh receive and file.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Is there a motion to approve line item 8.2?

And that is the transfer of property uh that was discussed, noting that during formal, we are we should be voting on this item first before we vote on the rest of the items.

But as been noted, uh that's not a challenge for a committee.

Is there a motion?

Move to send line item 8.2 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

There's a motion to send the line item 8.2 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Discussion with discussion, member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I apologize, and not necessarily relative to this item, but the overall project.

I'm not sure that anyone responded to the ADA design question uh that Ms.

Maddox posed.

I can handle that, Matt.

Okay.

Uh the uh the seawall will have a boardwalk uh running behind it, and we've designed that the parking will be at the same level as the boardwalk, and the docks that we're uh designing will be floating docks, so they'll maintain a uh proper level uh to board and off board on boats, and each of the docks will have a ADA appropriate ramp to get down to the level of the floating dock from the boardwalk.

And so our intention is to uh make the site accessible to all parties.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I believe uh there was a motion to approve line item 8.2.

Any objections?

See none, then action shall be taken.

Thank you, colleagues.

Now call back to order the 1030 public hearing with the parties who are participating, please queue up.

The 1030 public hearing is a request to establish uh a commercial redevelopment certificate for buildings uh that build community development LLC in the area of one two four zero zero Kelly Road.

Uh in accordance with public act 255 of 1978.

Will the parties who are participating, please cue up.

This project is uh called the hub.

Received uh quite a bit of accolades from everyone when it came before us before.

Looking forward to it.

Please introduce yourself for the record.

Justice Cook, housing and revitalization department.

Morning.

Nicole Scott, Detroit Economic Growth Corporation.

Morning.

To the chair, the developer, and my condolences to your um colleague, Mr.

Durhal on the loss of his father, Marcia Spivy.

Good morning, thank you.

Letisha Barcliffe LPD and my sincerest condolences to you, Member Durhal.

Morning, thank you.

Omar Udin Udan Development Consulting, and I also send my condolences to Mr.

Durhall.

Good morning, and thank you.

All right, Mr.

Cook, the floor is yours, sir.

Thank you.

To the chair, building that bill community development LLC is establishing a commercial redevelopment certificate in the area one, two, four, zero zero Kelly Road, Detroit, Michigan.

This is the final public hearing.

Currently scheduled in front of this honorable committee before a certificate may be issued.

The DGC and petitioners present to answer any additional questions.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Just noting again, we are behind schedule, so please be mindful of the time.

The floor is yours.

Thank you, uh, Mr.

Chair.

My condolences as well to you, uh Council Member Durr Hall.

Um, can I share my screen, please?

Yes, ma'am.

All right.

And can everyone see my screen?

Yes, ma'am.

Okay.

Today we come before this honorable body to request a commercial facilities exemption certificate for the hub laundromat and cafe project being led by uh Marcia Spidey Esquire, excuse me.

The Hub Laundromat and Cafe is a 1.5 million dollar commercial development located at 12400 Kelly Road in the Denbury neighborhood on Detroit's east side.

The project consists of redeveloping the current structure into approximately 4,500 square feet of laundromat and cafe space that will also serve as a community space for events and local engagement.

The commercial facilities exemption act provides for a reduction in the future increase in property taxes as a result of the improvements to the commercial properties, including new construction or renovations.

If you turn your attention to year zero, you'll see that taxes were not collected previously, as this was a city owned property prior to the developer's purchase.

Upon completion of the project, the assessor will reassess the property, and as a result of the improvements, the property's value will increase.

If we move over to year one, this bar reflects the total amount of taxes that we project based on the investment of 1.5 million dollars that will be made into this project.

The green bar represents the amount of taxes the developer will be responsible for.

This comes out to be approximately $3,000 per year.

The yellow bar reflects the abated portion of the taxes, and this amount equals approximately $6,500 per year.

Assuming that they receive the full term of the abatement in year 13, after the abatement has expired, they will be responsible for the entire amount of the taxes, which is approximately $11,000.

The development is located in an existing commercial facilities exemption district that was established in October of this year.

The developer before you today is requesting a certificate.

On October 21st, 2025, the assessor's office wrote a letter confirming that this project meets the eligibility requirements for a commercial facilities exemption certificate.

We have completed our underwriting and net fiscal impact analysis.

The project demonstrates a financial need for the abatement.

Based on this review, we recommend approval of the certificate for 12 years on this project.

That concludes my presentation, Mr.

Chair, and I will now turn it over to the development team to offer more details regarding this development.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good afternoon again, or good morning, almost afternoon.

Just a little bit about me.

I know we um you guys have a full full schedule.

So I am born and raised in the city of Detroit.

I graduated from Finney High School at 12,000, I'm sorry, 1620 on the east side of Detroit.

I'm also a graduate of Michigan State University and Thomas M.

Cooley Law School.

Just really briefly, if you all have not read Black Tech Saturday's newsletter that went out today, they um they said something very poignant.

And they said that Detroit is stepping back into its destiny because we are living in a renaissance and a real one.

And I am so very proud to be a part of this renaissance.

Again, never in my lifetime did I actually think um, despite what we tell our children you can be whatever you like to be.

Never in my lifetime that I really think that development and and ownership is something that I could do.

But nevertheless, I am Detroit bred and raised.

And so that's one thing that we know we are very good at, and that is to change the narrative.

And so I am very proud to be living in this in this renaissance and even before this honorable honorable body asking for um this tax abatement.

The project absolutely needs it.

At year 13, I'll be able to say that not only am I have I not only have I provided a staple in the community, but that then once the taxes um increase to that amount, it will do my heart so well to know that I am contributing um to the economic development as well as the quality of life for a neighborhood that I grew up in.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh Ms.

Barclays.

Good afternoon.

Um you have before you buildings that build community development, LLC.

Um seeking who is seeking a commercial facilities tax exemption certificate for the redevelopment of property located at 1240 Kelly Road.

This is a one-story commercial structure built in 1955 with a 0.417 acre on a 4.7 um acre lot.

This is 4,500 square feet structure.

The goal is this of this project is to provide combine the essential services of modern conveniences by renovating the commercial building into the hub, lodging mat and cafe.

The owners seek to enhance the quality of life and promote local entrepreneurship and build thriving hub within that community.

The structure has been vacant and obsolete and requires extensive rehabilitation that will require site remediation and a full rehabilitation of the interior.

This would include demolition of interior elements, new HVAC systems, new electrical and plumbing systems, facade restoration and replacement of roofing windows and doors.

In addition, the commercial in addition to the um commercial facilities tax exemption, this project is also utilizing grant funding from the Michigan uh economic development corporation and its building Michigan community community program.

The estimated total capital to investment for this project is 1.5 million.

The developer will utilize the um combined a combination of equity debt and grant funding to finance the project.

It is also estimated that the completed project will create two full-time jobs and 10 temporary construction jobs.

The 12-year commercial redevelopment tax abatement is estimated to provide the developer a tax savings of $85,802.

Based on the investment, this project is also estimated to provide the city of Detroit with a next um a net benefit of $67,884.

And with all of the taxing units combined, um, $71,700 and $8 over the 12 years of the tax abatement.

And that concludes our present my presentation.

Thank you so much, colleagues.

Uh, we've seen this project before, as mentioned before, it was um very, very uh well done.

And uh now open up for questions, comments, concerns.

See none at this moment, which I did not anticipate.

We shall now go to the public who would like to provide comments.

If there any if there's anyone from the public would like to provide uh comments on this particular project that is line item six to 1030 public hearing, please raise your hand now.

If you like to provide comments on the 1030 public hearing, this line item six, please raise your hand now, going once, going twice, going three times.

Collection of public comments have now concluded.

Ms.

Ramsey, how many callers do we have?

And who do we have first?

Mr.

Chair, we have seven callers online with Teresa D being the first.

Teresa D, the floor is yours.

We have a minute 30 regarding line item six.

Caller, are you there?

I'm sorry.

Um I did not want to speak on this uh project at all.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is owner Papa.

Caller, the floor is yours.

We have a minute 30 regarding line item six.

Good afternoon, and through the chairman I be heard.

Yes.

Carolyn Hughes, thank you.

This is a project that I'd like to see all over the city of Detroit.

Every neighborhood, every community needs laundromats and coffee or tea.

Um bravo.

Going back to your own neighborhood and making it better.

Um, the price tag is not bad, unlike the football, which is a private industry thing and um doesn't deserve our abatement because they're not a butt for.

And I I agree that you probably fit that bill.

Um I would like to know if uh we can get something like this in the 7th district on Joy Road, a um laundry mat and um coffee shop, some sort of like the jungles that people that the Java houses that people go to when they take their children and have coffee.

It's a it's a it's a nice uh it's a nicety in the neighborhood that is necessary other than use car lots and uh police uh holding vehicles.

Um we don't have a cleaners, we don't have a real laundromat, and so the seventh district would like to see you come, even though I went to McKenzie.

Um we would like to see your idea come to a joy road or a district seven area.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Good uh afternoon.

Like I said, I support this.

I support this uh very, very strongly as well, especially being an East native.

I went to King High School.

I don't know what we thought in our high schools, especially being an esquire.

Hopefully, you have you're upholding your oath, you know, as being an esquire and being a trusted um leader in the community.

But this project sounds wonderful.

I think we have something very similar on the east side in island view, uh uh Mackin, I believe Burns made us a little bit outside the island outside of Island View, but I think it is inside of you with the commons.

We have a laundry bag and cafe.

I think that you are capitalizing off such a brilliant idea.

I would I wish you much, I wish you much success.

Um, also that neighborhood definitely needs a lot of revitalization um near Denby.

A lot of violence, a lot of uh a lot of destitute poverty in the area, and hopefully your your development comes and spurs community, spurs uh business owners outside of your business and shows young black children that they can also too come out of the community and create positive change.

Great, great idea, and you have a wonderful day.

Next caller, please.

Cindy Dara, the floor is yours.

We have a minute 30 regarding line item six.

Yeah, uh, I think this is great, and if there's something if she's trying to uh help entrepreneurs, something they did in Jamaica Plains in Boston.

Uh that's a suburb close by.

They set up a place that if you're trying to start uh like making uh special food, they had a commercial kitchen that you could rent time in, and they had people to help you make labels so and how to uh promote your product and market it.

So I'd like to see uh some more maybe this woman once she gets this going, or some other people can start something like that.

The city, I think, paid for that in Jamaica Plains.

I think that's something they set up to help people uh have small businesses and not have to have a big lot of money to start it.

So anyway, that's that's something that would uh be helpful, I think.

But I I uh I'm glad to see that my neighbor also just seen complaints in a cast quarter in the midtown.

Also, you see us a bunch of restaurants, and you don't see any other types of business, and that's not good.

That is not good.

We need diverse things, and it's gotta kept sheep.

So thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is William M.

Davis.

William M.

Davis, the floor is yours.

We have a minute 30 regarding line item six.

Uh good afternoon.

Can I be heard?

Yes.

I I don't like to say this, like I spoke before in favor of this.

I speak in favor, but now uh this needs to be replicated all over the city, especially over here in District 7, where we we have an abundance of us, car lots and possibly chop shops up and down Joy Plymouth and Chicago.

You know, we need to encourage more black entrepreneurs.

We need to encourage more small businesses growth.

That's what economic opportunity is for many of our people.

So that's all I need to say.

This is uh a great idea, great concept.

I like to see it more of that on the west side.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is Vanessa Peak.

Put Ms.

Peak at the end of the queue and go to the next caller, please.

Our next caller is Marguerite Scarlet Maddox.

Marguerite Scarlet Maddox, the floor is yours regarding line item six.

Yes.

And I see we we hope that this will be of seep.

Um the telephone about we take pleas because it next caller, please, Mr.

Chair.

We are back to Vanessa Peak, noting two hands were raised after the cutoff.

Okay, Miss Peak, the floor is yours.

Peak, are you there?

Going once, going twice, going three times.

Unfortunately, Miss Peak, we're gonna have to move on.

If you would like to provide your comments to the clerk's office, they will be placed on to public record.

All right, we're gonna give the presenters an opportunity to respond to the questions, and the floor is yours.

Thank you so much.

Um, from what I recorded, I just I start with um I really really appreciate um the support from my community.

I heard the resident in the 7th district, two residents in the 7th district very loud and clear.

I would encourage anyone that wants to follow the development process because we will be engaging in community development at Dimby High School as well as an elementary and middle school in the community so that our children are understanding um public surveying, their understanding um architect design, their understanding electric uh electrical work, and so you can follow the project at WW dot the hub, H U B laundromatcafe.com.

If you click on the contact us page, there will be updates.

And so if you're interested, um I am very intently focused right now on this project being very successful.

Um, not yet considering myself the laundromat queen just yet.

Um, but I'm very um focused on this project.

Uh, when it comes to the comments, um, that project was absolutely a um a driving force.

Ezekiel Harris, who's recently returned back to the city of Detroit leading a nonprofit, was the leading developer on that.

He has been a huge support to me for the past three years, and so I absolutely agree with the community that Alondromat Cafe laundry meets community, and this is what we do very well in the city of Detroit.

We are a community, we are a city of neighborhoods, and so it absolutely is a great combination of the two.

I want to say um just thank you to the residents, and then I do believe that um our favorite um resident Margaret Marguerite had a question about universal design.

I just if I heard her correctly, I just want her to know um that because of her advocacy and others like her, there will be accessible parking and there will be accessible equipment.

There's only one laundromat distributed, one laundry machine maker, a manufacturer that that designs equipment for those who have mobility challenges, and so I have moved in the direction of bringing those particular some of that equipment into the building.

And so um, and there will be doors, there will be sliding doors, and so um because of our residents doing exactly what they've done today.

This is why I am as a developer list is listening to my community and want to ensure that there is a universal design um that tends to the needs of um our populations that are mobility challenged.

And so I think that was all the questions.

There was a lot of great comments.

Great, great joy, and I will certainly make Detroit proud um and bringing about a very valuable, thriving community hub.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

All right, colleagues, any additional questions, comments, concerns?

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Just want to uh say to attorney Spivey, thank you so much for everything that you do in the community.

I know I see you um not only in district three, but also in district four quite frequently um serving on the board of different organizations throughout District Four, uh, being present as we were uh having the discussion about creating the Whittier Business Association or the uh Moring Business Association.

I know that you are also involved with the Whittier Business Association, and so uh although this development is on its way to fruition, uh you have not left the community, you've stayed there, you've been an advocate for the east side, and that I do genuinely appreciate.

I think there should be more of us that are always standing up and advocating for uh more and greater uh on the east side because we know that we all deserve it.

Uh, and it is passed due, but we certainly do appreciate you investing your time, energy, and resources into this project um in an area that I am looking to help to reshape and revitalize in the near future.

So thank you for that.

Uh, and if there are no other questions, Mr.

Chair, I move to send this public hearing to formal with a recommendation to approve.

There's a motion to send line item six, the 1030 public hearing to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Seeing no objections, then action shall be taken.

Thank you so much.

We should now close out the 1030 public hearing.

Would now like to call back to order the continued public hearing.

Um, it is our 1045 continued public hearing regarding uh screening and fencing.

It's a text amendment to chapter 15.

We already held the uh public hearing and previously along with public comment and today is to go over a few of the non uh substantive changes, if you will, that have been added uh as requested.

So the parties who are participating.

Oh, see Mr.

Please introduce yourself for the record.

Uh good morning, uh Mr.

Chair Eric Fazini, uh CPC staff, good morning as well, uh, Member Johnson and Member Durhal and condolences uh to you and your family, sir.

Um, also joined by Greg Moots with planning and development, I believe.

All right, if Mr.

Moots would like to join us.

Uh would you like a um to the chair?

Would you like a brief PowerPoint or no?

Just verbal through for this.

I don't know if we need a PowerPoint because we've gone through the public hearing already, but talk to us about the uh changes that have been made, please.

So um following so in June of this past year, we had a public hearing, uh actually two public hearings, um, and based on that and additional discussions we made.

Um looks like um consider we we considered seven changes um based on um discussions with CM Johnson's and her staff as well as Santiago Romero.

Uh so we'll go through those quickly.

Um, first, um, and they're primarily the the main focus was to um increase plant size kind of um main focus was on the details of the ordinance, not sub not huge or substantial changes.

So the first change um is to the TMSO overlays specifically, so these are the main street areas.

There are 11 uh of these within the city, so uh within that the change was to just tighten up the tree spacing to every 15 feet you're required to do a street tree or a tree if you're adjacent to um residential, so this only applies to gas stations.

So that was just to keep that requirement in line with some of the other things we were doing.

Um one change we didn't make, um which was not something we discussed through the CPC um process or the engagement process was um a recommendation which is a very good one to add a recommended plant list either as an appendix or as um sections within the zoning ordinance so that it's something we can give developers to say these are the trees we want, these are the most effective trees, and then also they could work with GSD landscape um professionals on that.

So we would hope to bring that back um to this bodies um as a separate um effort that would kind of restart through CPC and staff at some point, possibly next year, just to make that plant um species changes, which wasn't something we started with.

Um the third change was to increase um shrub size to 24 inch.

So when you're installing your shrubs um prior to your permit or occupancy, that the minimum size has to be 24 inches in height, um, and then trees were increased to 10 feet in height.

So deciduous trees would need to be 10 and evergreens would need to be 10 at planting.

Um so that was again uh based on our discussions.

Um and then similar um to the TMSO, we type kind of tightened up the tree spacing to 15 feet.

You require to have one tree um whether evergreen or deciduous within the buffer types three um through six.

Um we also um at the request of um council members made some changes to the use table applicability.

So if you're coming in as a warehouse development, what's the buffer type required there along the street or adjacent to residential?

And then if you're not a use that requires screening, but you may have a commercial parking lot, then you're also required screening.

So we kind of tweak some of the buffer types there.

And one um change that um PNDT has requested on that if there is action on this today, is that um there be no concrete masonry units or CMU block for parking lot screening in the buffer type one?

Um it's an existing policy.

I understand that they want a masonry wall with screening, but they don't want on that concrete block.

So that would be um section 15 50 14 368.

So um pointing that out since this is a public hearing.

Um otherwise that would be the only change to the um ordinance approved as the form, which we have received from the law department to reflect those memo changes.

Um so that um would be provided to council upon any recommendation from this body.

Um this effort's gone back a couple years.

It originated in 2022 with CPC.

We did a CPC forum, um, Doncast meetings with district three uh as requested, um, and CPC recommended approval in 2023 where and we we're hopefully finally reaching um a point on this um this year.

So that's all I had, Mr.

Chair, thank you.

Thank you so much.

Mr.

Moots have anything to add.

Good morning, honorable council.

Sorry I wasn't able to introduce myself earlier.

I was just being switched to panelists during introductions.

Um my condolences, Councilmember Durh.

Um no, I have nothing else to add.

I just wanted to um to emphasize the request of no concrete block along the right-of-ways for parking lot screening that's an existing policy, but the ordinance has drafted, does just require masonry on the on the right-of-ways, but doesn't prohibit just the ugly concrete blocks.

That's the only thing.

Um I believe that we've made the requested changes to this ordinance after working with the council offices.

It seems like it's ready to be approved.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

And no member Johnson, you've been the champion on this item.

Thank you so much for saying it through from the beginning to where we are today.

Uh and I would like to turn the floor over to you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Just want to say thank you to CPC and um the planning department for the work that you all put into this.

Um the focus for my office as well as member Santiago Romero was just creating a greater buffer for residentially zoned land when it's a budding um industrial land in particular.

Um, but I think these changes are beneficial for our residents and the environment to um collect any additional pollutants that we can, uh, really just helping to improve the environment around our residential areas.

So we do greatly appreciate everything that you all did, walking us through the process, working with the general services department as well, um, identifying the uh different types of species that would be most impactful.

So thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Any further discussion, colleagues?

See none, uh member Johnson.

Is there a motion?

Uh move to approve line item seven, the continue public hearing um as amended, I suppose, with the addition of not allowing concrete block.

Okay.

There's a motion on the floor.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

All right, this now closes out our 1045 public hearing.

Now on to unfinished business line item 8.1, status of contracting and procurement.

Uh contract number 60690, 100% grant funding to provide public investment evaluation software system.

Uh is there a motion to discuss, please?

So move.

Thank you so much.

Just looking for someone to join us.

Um Keegan Mahoney or Justin Early.

Mr.

Chair, I do not see them online.

Okay.

Malik Washington is on.

Yeah, Mr.

Washington.

I'm just going what we're gonna do is give them an opportunity because more than likely we're gonna have to recess to allow NCS to take place.

And so we're going to bring this line item back at the end of the agenda if there are no objection, colleagues.

So move.

See no objections.

We should bring back line item 8.1 at the end of the agenda, Mr.

Washington.

If you can please have uh someone available to speak us, talk us through this particular item as we uh return back to it.

All right.

Uh, line item eight point three, status of council member Letitia Johnson submitted memorandum relative to request for data and metrics on HUD Section 3 compliance and outcomes.

Um I believe there is a request for a receive and file, but member Johnson, I will turn the floor over to you.

Move to receive and file.

All right, there's a motion to receive and file line item 8.3.

See no objections, then action shall be taken.

All right, colleagues.

If we can please take up line item 8.4, 9.27, 9.39.

Is there a motion to discuss, please?

So move.

Thank you.

And all of these are the projects involving the uh W property LLC.

Um will the individuals who have information on this item please queue up.

When you see yourselves on the screen, uh please introduce yourself for the record.

Line item 8.4 is a commercial rehabilitation certificate on behalf of WD uh property LLC uh in the area of again 6,000 East Jefferson.

Uh line item 927 is the site plan review and line item 9.39 is a response to a memo related to this CBO tier two compliance that I requested.

Um I'm just gonna ask because I did receive the response and I'm fine with line item 9.39.

Is there a motion to receive and file, please?

So move.

That's a motion to receive and file line item 9.39.

See no objections, then action shall be taken.

Uh as we have the individuals queuing up, colleagues.

Um, are there any questions, comments, concerns regarding these particular items?

Okay.

Good morning.

Morning.

Okay.

Seeing none, colleagues, is are there any motions?

Move to send to formal with a recommendation to approve.

There is a motion to send line item 8.4 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Seeing no objections, then action shall be taken.

Now moving over to line item 9.27.

That is the site plan review.

Is there motion uh for that particular item, colleagues?

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I'll move to send a formal with a recommendation to approve as well.

There's a motion to send line item 9.39 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

See no objections that action shall be taken.

Colleagues, I would like for us to take up uh the items dealing with DCFC uh once we reconvene.

So is there a motion to move to the end of the agenda line items 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, and 9.35?

So move, Mr.

Chair.

Seeing no objections, we shall move line items 8.6, 8.7, and 9.35 to the end of the agenda.

Action shall be taken.

All right, let us now drunk down to line item 8.8, I believe it is, madam clerk.

All right.

We're all on the same page.

Let me scroll down on the screen here.

All right, these items uh are dealing with land bank occupied homes.

Colleagues, if we can please take line items 8.8, 8.10, 8.11, 8.12, 8.13, 8.14, um, as well as 9.31, which is the actual MOU that is before us, the restated and amended MOU.

Is there a motion to discuss, please?

So moved.

Thank you so much.

All right, line item 8.10 is a memo report.

Uh let me go through it here.

It is a memo request uh for a draft resolution to transfer occupied uh Detroit Land Bank properties to HRD and PDD.

That is from uh council member waters.

Line item 8.11 is a response from the from uh housing revitalization regarding a memo that member waters submitted line item 8.12 is a resolution that has been proposed uh relative to a draft resolution again requesting uh to direct HRD and PDD to form a joint occupied home rehabilitation program with nonprofit support.

Line item 8.13 is a resolution to uh urging uh transfer of occupied properties uh from the Detroit Land Bank Authority to HRD and PDD, and 8.14 is a resolution from the Detroit Land Bank Authority with its proposal for uh dealing and addressing with addressing occupied properties and as mentioned 9.31 is the uh restated uh mo you that we have discussed several times up to this point.

Um we are now in discussion.

Colleagues, we I think it was prudent, and we've had some discussion with other offices as well, and believe that it is most prudent to deal with this issue in the upcoming year while we have a new uh mayor and a new council uh that will be in session uh to allow uh that body as well as the mayor, new incoming mayor, to uh determine the fate of the occupied properties proposals.

Um is there any further discussion on those items?

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, I did have an opportunity to connect with member waters, and I do understand that she would like to have these items come back at the beginning of the year or sign I die.

Um I had an opportunity to meet with the Detroit Land Bank Authority about their proposal on the occupied properties.

Um I think it's a good um a good way of addressing the properties, recognizing the response that we received from HRD.

Um I do want to, I am interested in having some additional discussion because I know when we initially talked about the occupied properties going to HRD and perhaps utilizing Section 108 funds.

Um, I would like to have a conversation with the land bank as it relates to CDBG home dollars that may be able to be utilized even with their thought on how to um work with the occupied programs moving forward.

So I do think it's a good idea to bring them back at the beginning of the year.

Um, and I'm interested in seeing how the MOU moves forward.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay, colleagues, is there a motion to bring back uh at a date to be determined on line item 8.10, uh 8.12, 8.13.

And 8.14.

So moved.

Thank you.

There's a motion to bring back at a date to be determined line items 8.10.

I'm sorry, 8.8 as well, colleagues, and 8.8 as well.

Is there a motion to bring back at a date to be determined line item 8.8 as well?

So thank you.

There's a motion to bring back line items at to at a date to be determined.

Line items 8.8, 8.10, 8.12, 8.13, and 8.14.

Seeing no objections, then action shall be taken.

Is there a motion to receive and file the response for line item 8.11?

So moved.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Is there any discussion?

Uh move for approval or discussion for line item 9.31, which is the third amended restated MOU.

No questions on this.

Move to send a formal with a recommendation to approve.

There's a motion to send line item 9.31 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Seeing no objections, then action shall be taken.

Okay.

Let's go, I believe, to line item nine.

8.9.

8.9.

Line item 8.9.

So scroll back up.

Line item 8.9 is status of council marry council member Mary Waters submitting memorandum relative to questions regarding outstanding city tax abatements set to expire.

Colleagues, the response was provided to the office.

Is there a motion to receive and file line item 8.9?

So moved.

There's a motion to a receive and file line item 8.9.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Now on to new business line item 9.1.

Uh Office of Contract and Procurement, submitting resolution authorization for contract number 6004587-A5.

100% ARP of funding.

This is amendment number five to provide an increase in funds for youth wages and program support for the Row Detroit Young's talent program.

Is there a motion to approve and or discuss?

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Great program.

Uh move to center formal with the recommendation to approve.

As a motion to approve line item 9.1 and send to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Seeing no objections, then action shall be taken.

Line item 9.2 submitting resolution authorization for contract number 6006242-a1, 100% choice grant funding.

This is to provide an extension of time and increase the funds for planned study services for street calming and pedestrian connectivity intervention in the Corktown Choice Neighborhoods area.

Is there a motion to discuss and or approve, colleagues?

Move to send the formal with a recommendation to approve, Mr.

Chair.

There's a motion to send line item 8.2, excuse me, 9.2 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Line item 9.3 submitting resolution authorization for contract number 6007514.

100% CDBG funding.

This is to facilitate down payment assistance to scattered home site projects.

Excuse me, family homes.

Discussion.

With discussion, Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I received the information indicating where the scattered site projects are located.

I'm interested in understanding how the sites were chosen.

I do recall previously there were dollars provided for a scattered site housing projects as well.

Um and would like to know if it has already been identified where the 11 homes are located.

Um that was indicated other portfolios.

Okay.

We have a number of folks from uh HRD who are queued up.

And when you see yourself on the screen, please introduce yourself for the record.

Mr.

Chair Rebecca Labov is joining.

Okay.

Good afternoon, Rebecca Laboe of Housing and Revitalization.

Good morning.

Did you hear the question or did you need the question restated?

I did hear the question through the chair to Councilmember Jackson.

The SCATER site low-income housing tax credit developments are a finite set of developments that were built in the early 2000s.

And all of those developments have been eligible for a number of years to elect to participate in this home buyer program for residents.

We know over the last couple of years the team has been really successful in getting those sales done to home buyers.

They've served over 70 of them, but we have more folks in the pipeline in those developments that are already engaged who are also looking to purchase their homes.

And so we are essentially looking to expand this program to allow more residents in those developments to be able to purchase.

And I I will note I I think this council is aware, but just to be clear, this is distinct from the citywide down payment assistance program because it's intended for uh the mostly very low-income first-time home buyers who are living in these low-income housing tax credit rentals.

Thank you.

And um, can you share how we I'm not sure if you all know this or if you can just email me where the 11 homes in other portfolios where they are located?

Um, I just want to be sure that if there is any communication that needs to happen from our office to any properties in district four, that we have those conversations because I don't want to happen what we had happen uh not long ago with a district four property.

Uh so if there are any properties in district four that could qualify that um maybe we've had difficult difficulties in communicating with them or they're not communicating back.

If um you can let our office know, we would love to intervene and be part of the conversation just to make sure that we're providing the assistance to uh any of our residents that could take advantage of the the opportunity.

Thank you.

Yes, through the chair, uh we are certainly able to provide that map.

And there are there are two developments, one in district five and one in district one, where we already have um a pretty specific queue of residents who are interested and who are pre-qualified and ready to close.

Um, and then there are other other developments um across the city that would be eligible to participate.

And you know, if the program is successful and we see a pipeline in those other um other developments as well, we'll continue to look to add funding for this program because we want to see as many folks become home buyers as are interested, where there is um interest and the capacity of the owner of the development to sell those homes.

So we do need the cooperation of those developers, which I think is you know has been a challenge in some cases, but we are certainly open to working with your office um to help engage those owners because we want as many as possible to take advantage of the program.

Thank you.

And we would love that opportunity.

I know there are some in district four that um have not stepped up to uh go through this process, but we can certainly have those conversations.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any additional for line item 9.3, colleagues.

See none.

Is there a motion?

Move to send line item 9.3 to formal with the recommendation to approve.

There's a motion to send line item 9.3 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Seeing no objections, then action shall be taken.

Line item 9.4, contract number 600522-a three.

100% ARPA funding amendment number three to provide an increase in funds to update terms and conditions for rapid title search for current owners and date of ownership services.

Is there a motion to discuss and or approve?

Discussion with discussion member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, interested in understanding what the data will be used for if there is a particular program that we're doing title searches for we have Sonia Clifton who's going to be joining us.

That's Mr.

Washington.

Good afternoon through the chair.

Good afternoon.

Um, we also have Rico Razo as well as uh Crystal Rollins Wingham.

Okay, we'll allow them to come before us.

Let me see yourself on the screen.

Please introduce yourselves for the record.

Good morning, Sonia Clifton, Office of Contracting and Procurement.

Morning, Rico Rosso, Chief of Home Repair and Neighborhood Services, HRD.

Good morning.

Morning.

Uh the floor is yours.

If you'd like to respond.

So through the chair, I'll I'll get started.

This e-title contract is actually owned by uh renewed Detroit.

And so the law department had reached out to see if they could add contract authority to this contract in order to uh perform title checks on houses that are going through uh the public nuisance uh program through the law department.

So that is that is the reason for the $15,000 um increase on this contract.

So it's tied to renew Detroit law will be utilizing uh the potential added capacity here on this contract for those services.

Thank you.

And do we anticipate the uh services will be needed beyond 2026?

I would defer to law for that.

I don't know if Crystal is on.

Um, but but it was my understanding that they would not be needed uh past this period.

And and I understand it's ARPA funding, so I'm not certain if that's why this particular contract is ends December 2026.

Yeah, we don't have anyone from the law department joining us, Mr.

Watch.

Yes, sir.

Yes, we have been joined by Jason Harrison from law.

All right.

We'll allow him to be moved over.

Good afternoon.

Please introduce yourself for the record.

Thank you, Jason Harrison, City of Detroit Law Department.

Right.

Did you need the uh question restated by member Johnson?

Uh yes, thank you, Pro Tim.

All right, member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, just wondering if the title if the title search um uh not document, um if the services will be needed beyond December 2026.

Thank you, council member.

Did the just to back up just a little bit, we use the service to ensure we're suing uh properly to properly identify the correct owners of the properties that we're suing relative to the blight program uh as to whether or not that would extend past December of 2026.

Uh, from my seat as the supervisor of the the legal department's blight program, I would say yes, uh, unless for some reason all blight is remediated before that time, council member, and I hope that doesn't sound like a vague answer.

Uh but uh it's a it's an integral service to ensure uh the accuracy of the lawsuits against the proper parties.

Uh I would expect that that's gonna extend uh yes, a few years ahead.

Uh what I can say in interacting with the e-title is that they've given us a pretty good deal, and I'm not here to speak on procurement or anything like that.

Uh that the corporation council attempted to negotiate for the per deed search that we're looking for.

Thank you for that.

Um it now just brings me to a thought around anyone else within the city being able to utilize this uh software or the opportunity to do a title search.

Um presumably I can just reach out to the law department and ask you all for ownership for any particular property.

Yes, I don't I don't see why we would not be able to do that for you, council member.

I mean, we're trying to be as economical as possible, but I'm certainly not gonna say no, council members, that we would not be able to perform that search for you.

Uh I will I will add one note that we specifically do these searches when we are about to file.

I know the council member is familiar with the Kefalinos litigation, the real token litigation, the mammoth litigation.

And the reason why uh council member is we need to be searching when we go before the judge after we file that we've named the proper priority.

So we don't just do searches to figure out who the owner is absent litigation, but I'm certain the corporation council wouldn't have an issue if you have a problem within your district where we're attempting to properly identify the right owner.

The other search that we use, just so you know that we also pay a very small fee for us.

The Wayne County Register of Deeds search.

Uh we found that the e-title search is really give us a lot more than what we can pull sometimes from the Wayne County Register of Deeds.

But if you have an issue, Councilmember, by all means send that over to us, and we will attempt to figure out who the owner is.

Sounds great.

Thank you so much.

I will be reaching out.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

All right, colleagues.

All right, colleagues, is there a motion for line item 9.4?

Move to send a formal with the recommendation to approve, Mr.

Chair.

There's a motion to send line item 9.4 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Seeing no objections, then action shall be taken.

Line item 9.5 submitting resolution authorization for contract number 600475-A to 100% grant funding.

This is amendment number two to provide an extension of time only for commercial property management services for Dexter Retail Pop-Up.

Is there a motion to discuss and or approve?

Uh move to discuss very briefly, Mr.

Chair.

With discussion, Member Durha.

Uh through you to someone from HRD.

Uh want to just talk just very quickly about the expansion of the pop-up.

All right.

Or extension, I'm sorry.

Okay.

Got uh I know we had some folks from planning.

I'm not sure if HR, if you're looking for anyone in particular with HRD member vice chair.

Um planning I know I see that uh see it on the document, but they a number of folks from planning who uh sign.

There she is.

Uh good afternoon through the chair.

Um, my apologies.

My connection was was a little bit slow.

My name is Gabrielle Sierra, District 7 project manager in the planning and development department.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

And I see we've been joined by Director Bush.

Uh through the chair, good morning, Director Bush, uh, planning and development department.

And my condolences to you, Member Durhal, for your loss.

Thank you.

Member Vice Chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, and thank you both for that.

I appreciate that.

Um as we're looking at the extension for Dexter pop-up and the retail, uh, just wanted to ask very quickly about one, the need for the extension.

Two, uh, are we broadening our uh ideas and vision uh for that particular pop-up beyond that area?

Uh noting that it used to be a very vacant space and nothing was there.

So it is great to see something there and that is being utilized, but I also understand challenges of being able to keep vendors in there uh and maybe access and how does this fit into the overall vision that we are having for Dexter uh with that particular site.

Whoever would like to respond, the floor is yours.

Okay, I'll step in and director Bush, please.

Um add where needed um through the chair.

Um the Dexter pop-up program actually has been amazing um in the area.

Two of our inaugural business owners have moved on to permanent locations.

One Pops Place is now on Limwood, just near uh Linwood Fresh Market near Linwood and Glendale.

And then uh the additional uh business owner be Jewel now in the Fisher building.

Um, our site manager at the pop-up, Casey Michael is a local active resident.

Um, and she has a uh essentially a register of businesses that are interested in pursuing uh tenant space at the pop-up.

Should it continue?

This uh request is continu is to extend uh the current contract as there was uh it an error it noted to end this year at 2025, but during the planning process and engagement um and kind of erection of the pop-up, we had essentially promised and and spoken with community about um 2026 um being the end date.

So this request is just to extend it currently until the end of next year, but we would love with the new administration um to speak about uh potentials of either transforming the purpose of the pop-up essentially, whether that's extending it or looking um at other creative ways to utilize that space.

Thank you.

I'm so glad that we are keeping our word.

I did want you to put that on the record.

I do understand the need for the extension.

Uh so for those residents who are listening to us that were worried for some uh reason.

Uh it's good that we are keeping our word through 2026.

And it is my hope uh we can have further dialogue to talk about how we can better uh not just use that pop-up as a hub for businesses that uh serve as a catalyst for startups, uh, but also finding some ways uh in to engage that local community to spark just the beginning of entrepreneurship uh within the Dexter Linwood, Russell Woods uh area, have an opportunity to go across a lot of young folks or young families now that are moving in that area that are very interested in business.

So thank you so much for your work, both of you uh on this uh been a great project uh in the district and a lot better than the I Sword used to be right on there.

I can promise you that.

So uh thank you, Mr.

Chair, and with that I'd like to move uh line item 9.5 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Thank you, sir.

There's a motion to send line item 9.5 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

See no objections, then action shall be taken.

Thank you.

Colleagues, if we can please take line items 9.6 through 9.11, all are dealing with uh concerning excuse me, uh private sewer repair uh using CDBGDR funding.

Is there a motion to discuss and or approve?

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Move to send a formal with a recommendation to approve.

There's a motion to send line items 9.6 through 9.11 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Line item nine point twelve, submitting resolution authorization for contract number six zero zero seven five two one, one hundred percent CDBG funding.

Uh subrecipient agreement to provide an additional 40 drop-in emergency shelter beds.

Colleagues, is there a motion to discuss and or approve?

Move to send a formal with a recommendation to approve.

There's a motion to send line item 9.12 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

See no objections that action shall be taken.

Colleagues, if we can please take line items 9.13 through 9.25.

All of these are abolishments or requests for abolishments or terminations for projects, brownfield plan projects, uh, projects that didn't move forward, projects that did not excuse me, projects that didn't move forward, projects that uh proceeded without uh the TIFF, as well as projects that have been completed and are now being requested to be abolished.

Is there a motion to approve and or discuss line items 9.13 through 9.5 excuse me 25?

Move to send a formal with a recommendation to approve.

Thank you, sir.

There's a motion to send line items 9.13 through 9.25 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

From the city planning commission, line item 9.26, submitting resolution authorization for a request of Northern Sign U Company on behalf of Bed Rock for a public center adjacent special district review of a proposed sign at 611 Woodford Avenue, also known as Chase Tower.

City Planning Commission did um review and send forward their approval.

Colleagues, is there a motion to discuss and or approve?

Line item 9.26.

Move to send a formal with the recommendation to approve, Mr.

Chair.

There's a motion to send line item 9.26 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

See no objections, then action shall be taken.

We've dealt with 9.2.

Well, we will be doing well, we've dealt with 9.27.

9.28.

A proposed exterior alterations to Spirit Plaza at one East Jefferson Avenue.

Is there a motion to discuss and or approve?

Move to send a formal with a recommendation to approve.

There's a motion to send line item 9.28 to formal with the recommendation to approve.

See no objections that action shall be taken.

Line item 9.29, submitting resolution authorization for a delegation of city council special district review and approval of building permits application during winter recess 2025.

Colleagues, is there a motion to discuss and or approve?

Move to send a formal with the recommendation to approve.

There's a motion to send line item 9.29 to formal with the recommendation to approve.

See no objections, that action shall be taken.

From the historic designation advisory board submitting resolution authorization for an extension of the study period for the proposed conductors protective assurance building, also known as the CPA building historic district.

Is there a motion to discuss and or approve?

Move to send a formal with a recommendation to approve, Mr.

Chairman.

There's a motion to send line item 9.30 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Dropping down to line item 9.32, submitting resolution authorization for PA 147, which is an NAZ to establish a commercial redevelopment district for Detroit 5 and Dime LLC around 3700 Third Avenue.

Detroit Michigan, in accordance with public act 147 of 1978.

Colleagues, we did have this project before us, but as with all NEZs, there's a 60-day gestation period that must take place before we can approve and move it forward.

That time is now.

Move to send a formal with the recommendation to approve.

There's a motion to send line item 9.32 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Dropping us down to nine line item 9.34.

Submitting resolution authorization for a corrected resolution of author authorizing sale of property to CHN Tribe.

Jefferson Limited Division, excuse me, limited dividend housing association, limited partnership.

This is a correction uh letter due to the correct the purchase price being incorrect when it was presented to us uh previously.

Uh the previous amount was 100 and move to discuss, I'm sorry.

So move, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

I'm just I'm just moving.

So line the the previous amount that was provided to us was 140,000.

The corrected amount is 130,668 dollars and 78 cents.

Colleagues, is there a motion to discuss and or approve?

Move to send a formal with a recommendation to approve.

There's a motion to send line item 9.34 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

See no objections, that action shall be taken.

That takes us down to line item 9.36.

Submitting resolution authorization for approval and authorization to accept easement interest in furtherance of the Detroit Charge Ahead Initiative.

Colleagues, is there a motion to discuss and or approve?

Move to send a formal with a recommendation to approve.

There's a motion to send line item 9.36 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

See no objections, that action shall be taken.

Line items, if we can take colleagues, both line items 9.37 and 9.38.

Uh, if we can take those items, uh, is there a motion?

We we've dealt with those items and approved them in formal that action that uh amendment that was discussed.

Is there a motion to uh remove line items 9.37 and 9.38?

So I'll move Mr.

Chair.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Uh would like to note that we've been joined by member Young.

Clerk will know.

Thank you so much.

Uh, we're going to recess to the call of the chair, colleagues.

We do have uh all of the DCFC items and one item that we move to the end of the agenda to address.

I do believe that there is a uh more robust uh agenda today in neighborhood and community services standing committee.

So um like to recess to the call of the chair, but we expect to return at 2 30 at 2 30.

Seeing no objections, we shall recess to the call of the chair,