2026.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Councilmember Letitia Johnson.

Present.

Councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero.

Present.

Council President Pro Tem Cole Miyo.

Here.

I'm sure you have a quorum.

Thank you.

Having a quorum present, we are now in session.

And good morning, colleagues.

I know it's a rough morning for everyone.

Um, you should have received the minutes.

Is there a motion to approve the minutes?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

And I just want to share with everyone.

I know we are all experiencing the impact of the wildfires in Canada.

Um, just encouraging folks to stay indoors if you can.

If you have to go outside, please wear a mask.

As I was driving in, I saw a number of people catching the bus who did not have on a mask.

And um, I know we have Mr.

Cunningham here.

My team is going to gather up masks and drive around the district and provide them to folks that we see standing out at the bus stops.

Um, I know that the administration is working on some things as well.

Um, so definitely stay tuned for that.

And as I receive information, we'll certainly share out any information on where folks may be able to obtain a mask.

Um, we also recognize that the weather is hot um and that there are facilities that are open to prevent people from having to open their windows.

Um, the libraries, the rec centers, of course, are available for folks um to get a break um from the heat and hopefully to um stay away, stay out of all of this wildfire smoke.

I know uh myself has experienced headaches just being out for a very short period of time, and so really want to encourage folks who are outside um if you have to be to wear a mask.

All right, we are going to move on to public comment.

If there is anyone joining us who'd like to make a public comment, please raise your hand, whether in person or virtually, please raise your hand.

Public comment will be cut off at 1010.

And good morning, Ms.

Great.

How many hands do we have raised virtually?

Good morning, madam chair.

We currently have 11 hands raised for virtual public comment.

All right, we'll give everyone a one minute 30 seconds for general public comment.

We do have three public hearings on the agenda, and we do have Mr.

Cunningham who's here in person.

If you would please set the clock.

So I need masks for the people and look at God.

Appreciate you.

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Um, so there is a D dot meeting tonight.

Um, people that take the bus don't really feel like the upper echelon care about them.

So when you you raise your hand or put your information in the chat, powers that be whomever is listening that will send people to this meeting.

It just means a lot for you know, um, I know that councilwoman Johnson's office has been there um a couple times, a few times.

She likes to always send someone there.

Uh I know people from your um Pro Tim's office uh and Councilwoman GSR um and everyone under the sound of my voice.

Please come to this uh D dot meeting.

Um which is uh tonight at 5 p.m.

You can text message me and I will text message you the link and the flyer.

Text message me, I'll respond with that flyer for that D dot meeting today.

And I'd like to thank Mr.

Clover of Waters office for that 200 bus ticket donation.

200 bus fares two dollars uh a trip.

Awesome.

Thank you.

We are now now going to turn to our virtual callers and who do we have first?

Our first caller is William M.

Davis.

William M.

Davis, you have one minute 30 seconds for general public comment.

Uh good morning, could I be heard?

Good morning, yes.

I was wondering, uh, is the city offering masks to people?

I know at one time the health department was passing out masks because if they are, it would be good if people could go to health departments, uh recreation centers and get masks.

Because if they are, it would be good if people could go to health department, the recreation centers and get masks because it is bad outside.

I'm glad I don't live in Southwest Detroit, which will make it even worse.

But you know, especially for older people, young people, people with respiratory issues.

This is a day that you should not be outside.

I'm glad I have central air.

But you know, the day is not a good day to be out walking or jogging or what have you.

Also, even though my good buddy has his meeting at one o'clock, but also at one o'clock, DTE is having a meeting.

Uh, there's a meeting about DTE, about especially where people can call in and complain about the poor service that we have been receiving and continuing to receive.

I think things was better in the city of Detroit when we had our own power facilities.

We was generating our own power.

And we should possibly think about doing that again.

Uh, because during the time when Komayan was there, we had public lighting, and we could do better than public lighting, and we could be generating power and steam or what have you.

Uh, we can make the city less polluted and make it more comfortable for more people.

Y'all have a good day and y'all be safe.

Thank you.

You as well.

I'd like to note that the collection of general public comment has concluded.

And who do we have next?

Our next caller is Tyson Gersh.

Tyson Gersh, you have one minute, 30 seconds for general public comment.

Hi, can you hear me?

Yes.

Thank you.

Um, I'm just like looking at this.

211 page.

Six general text amendment proposal.

It's just too much.

You know, like maybe, maybe there could be a package amendment if it was all non-substantive changes.

But I don't, it's just there's just no way under the charter for good reason.

Uh, that all of these very different substantial changes can be packaged into one thing.

It's just, it just doesn't work.

And that's not even me having an opinion about the specifics, like just at the most basic procedural level.

Um, I'm also I sent an email to the members of this body this morning um asking for some clarification.

I see in the title that the public parking credit is uh applied to the TMSOs, which I believe council member Johnson last year requested that be removed.

It looks like it was removed from the actual, it's not referenced in the actual text revisions, but it's still in the title, and I just feel like this is part of the problem doing something so big, right?

Like it's just it's kind of sloppy, it's it's messy.

Like don't do something this big, you're gonna mess it up as it looks like it's already happening, and there's just like consequences to that.

Just like do them one at a time.

Thank you.

The next caller.

Our next caller is Jadante Smith.

Good afternoon.

Good morning, we have you heard.

Morning, yes.

So I want to say, um, I'm gonna start out by saying this wildfire smoke is very terrible.

I want to say I do not stand on anything ice related.

Mary Sheffield needs to take a stand against ice.

I'm a proud uh son of an immigrant.

I kind of forget about my my Jamaican ancestry, but my father was never a citizen of the United States of America, and I'd be uh I'm I can't say the word, but I'd be the uh, you know, the rest of it.

Uh if somebody was chasing around my father, he's the only father I had.

So I stand with my brothers and sisters in Southwest Detroit.

Um, get ice out now.

I also have a message for Mary Sheffield, Marvin Walker, Todd Bettison, and Kim Worthy.

When it comes down to prosecution of people, anybody can be prosecuted, no matter what your job title is or what you uh claim to have evidence on, and if you're doing criminal activity in City Hall, you will be prosecuted.

I'm also gonna say no more solar farms.

And I want to say it's everybody in City Hall.

When it gets hot, blame Mary Sheffield.

She had Ray Simpson call me yesterday and pretty much pseudo-threatened me allegedly to tell me not to make noise about her alleged criminal activity with Marvin Walker and her looking the other way about that criminal activity.

I'm going to the FBI and anybody who I caught doing anything illegal, queer pro quote donations for votes on contracts with Albanosh Rossmell, LGC Global.

I don't care if I like you or not.

If you did something illegal, you are going to take a plea deal or you're going to prison.

I put that on my life.

I don't make many promises I can't keep, but I promise you you're going to prison if you did something illegal.

Have a nice day.

Thank you.

You as well.

The next caller.

Our next caller is Betty A.

Varner.

Betty A.

Varner, you have one minute, 30 seconds for general public comment.

Good morning to all within the sound of my voice.

I'm Betty A.

Barner, president of the Soda Elsewhere Black Association, but I'm calling in today as a um 7-year resident of the city of Detroit.

I'm seeking help.

The sidewalk program is a good program.

There was a tree that was causing my issues.

I had three walkways.

They damaged the walkways, pulled them up, and they only replaced one.

They came out and they put out the grass seeds.

Now the paperwork that I received before they started the work stating any damage that was made to your property, your landscaping, or etc.

They would uh replace and put your property back the way that they found it.

That is not happening.

I have reported it to the uh complaint line.

I've talked to a young lady named Kenya.

I talked to her this morning.

I've had three or four conversations about the same issue.

They say they take care of this in four weeks.

It is not happening.

I've spoken to.

Thank you.

And Ms.

Verner will um tap the uh Department of Public Works on behalf of you and the issue that you raised.

The next caller.

Our next caller is owner.

Owner Papa, you have one minute 30 seconds for general public comment.

Oh, good morning, and through the chair, may I be heard.

Good morning, yes.

Yes, Ms.

Varner, in a typical situation would be what we call a one-off.

You shouldn't need a city council member to uh address her issue because there should be a system in place that addresses those issues.

But I understand we're in a state of chaos.

Uh five master plan.

Can we see the master plan?

You have money for a master plan, but the people who are paying for it don't seem to be able to have access to it.

And in light of Tuesday's meeting, I believe that five, um, uh six, seven, eight should be rescheduled because we need a full look at 10.11, which are LLCs that are operating in a deleterious way in our environment, and we are getting the short end of the stick.

And so while you want to sit there and act like business as usual, business is not as usual, and it should not be.

After the um uh maller mallet, um uh David Whitaker, Graham, and Julie Snyder, all of them should be called to a meeting in front of the public, and we should find out how they're making their decisions.

And let's not leave out Mr.

Todd and Mr.

Gulach.

Something is going on in this city, and it's incumbent upon you all to stop this where you are and and do something different.

10.1 and 10.2.

Do we have any control over this 50 million dollars and where it's going to spend?

Please don't put it in the hands of these people.

They are corrupt.

Please don't.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next caller.

Our next caller is Legendary Detroiter.

Legendary Detroiter.

You have one minute, 30 seconds for general public comment.

Okay.

Listen up closely.

Letitia Johnson, Coleman Young, Gabriela Santiago Ramira.

Today is July 16th.

About six years ago now.

July 16th, 2020.

Kenisha Coleman was shot.

Nini wants what the F she wants.

She wants that force, a double dollar sign, bogus A double dollar sign, tag, classification, designation, label of suicide up off her mama.

Y'all didn't want to do it.

Now I have identified what it's gonna take to make that happen.

And I'm also stumbled across election fraud, voter fraud, absentee ballot fraud, and international absentee ballot fraud.

The whole city council is cheated in every one of y'all by Dennis M.

Wumphrey City Clerk and Chairperson of Detroit Election Commission.

Y'all gotta go.

Gig is up.

And I'm black bag, and I'm outside outside outside with it now.

Thank you.

The next the next caller.

Our next caller is Marguerite Maddox and Scarlet.

Ms.

Marguerite Maddox and Scarlet, you have the floor for general public comment.

Good morning.

Because I'm going.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Maddox.

I hope everyone heard you loud and clear.

Before we proceed to the next caller, I'd like to call the 1025 public hearing to order and recess it to the call of the chair.

We are now back at general public comment.

And who do we have next?

Our next caller is what happened to Zone Detroit.

Caller, what happened to Zone Detroit?

You have one minute, 30 seconds for general public comment.

Good morning.

May I be heard?

Good morning, yes.

Hello, may I be heard?

Yes, you may.

Okay, thank you.

Um thank you for not lowering my hand.

So hey everybody, when it's this cold, when it's this hot and the smoke is out there, put wet clothes on, put a wet towel over yourself to cool yourself down.

That's one way to not inhale the smoke, etc.

Also, imagine if you live in one of those targeted solar areas and all those trees were cut down, they got a lot less oxygen.

Imagine if we were engulfed with toxic solar smoke right now.

Like really, the lack of an environmental impact study and that thing is really problematic.

But what happened to Zone Detroit?

I I signed up as the Zone Detroit ambassador.

I was not notified of this.

This is massive.

I I mean, uh it's so resident disrespectful.

Like you you know that the average resident can't understand something like this, it needs to be broken up into pieces.

I remember writing Marcel Todd asking him about some of this, and then he never wrote me back, said he called me, and then I didn't answer, but I said, What number do you call me from?

I had no miscall from that, so I don't trust the planning commission staff very politely.

Also, none of this should be done on the text amendment stuff until we do the master plan.

And the master plan, they need to meet with residents in the neighborhoods where they live.

Why can't that happen?

I've been asked for thank you.

The next caller.

Our next caller would be Black Bag, but he has already spoken.

So our next caller is Renard Monchonsky.

Renard Monchunski, you have one minute, 30 seconds for general public comment.

Good morning, madam chair.

Can I be heard?

Good morning, yes.

Thank you for pronouncing my last name correctly, even the Zoom controller, too.

I'm kind of shocked, but uh that's not the point I'm making.

Uh Renard Mosansky District Sixth Resident Legacy Detroiter and organized with Detroit People's Platform.

Um, I'm just wanted to comment about the smoke out here.

Just wanted to publicly um just extend my prayers and thoughts.

And I wanted to also ask, is the city using vehicles um to search for people that may be outside in the smoke and offer an opportunity, not coerce them, of course, to go to a place that has air conditioning and an air filter as well.

I I I cannot imagine anyone being outside today.

It it um I'm an empath, I care about people, and I just really wish that um people are okay.

So I just want to know what the city's emergency response is to that.

Also, um when it comes to the master plan, I have a concern about this, and I echo the sentiments of some of um the folks in the city that feel like this master plan is an imposition, it is from people that are outside the city and lacks a racial justice and um um uh you know racial equity analysis because we are a majority African American city, so that has to be taken into consideration and the voices of the majority and everyone in the city of all communities need to be heard and not just selected privileged people that can make these meetings.

So I just warned on that as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next caller, Madam Chair.

The last caller lowered their hand, so that concludes public comment.

Thank you.

And um, I see member Santiago Romero has a response.

Thank you, madam chair.

Less of a response, more of a question.

I don't recall us receiving the notification about the air quality today from the city, and we are halfway through the morning.

People have been going out and about, and I'm just wondering again, process and notifications when we're supposed to be doing this.

In the past, I have seen them receive them at 1, 2, 3, 4 p.m.

after the half the day has gone through.

So just to note, Madam Chair, um, again, about our notifications going out in a timely manner to prepare people for the day.

I'm not sure if that's happened so far.

So I'm not sure if we can discuss this at the end, uh, just to get a uh an update on where we are.

Um, but I'm getting text messages of people walking out surprised and wishing that they would have got a notification from the city.

Um, that is it for me, madam chair.

Thank you so much for that.

Member Santiago Romero, um, as a co-chair of the climate and disaster recovery task force.

Um, I know the the teams are focused on communication and making sure that residents who are first of all encouraging residents to sign up for alert 365, um, but also making sure that our departments are utilizing the system to share um information around situations like this.

Um, my team member did share with me this morning that um they'd reached out to the department, and there was an alert that was sent out.

Um there was an Instagram post from the health department last night and also a message that went out this morning via three alert 365.

But to your point that you didn't receive anything, I didn't either.

And I signed up for alert 365.

I think the first year I got in office.

And so I'm not certain if um I need to sign up again or what the challenges are with the system, but it's certain certainly something that we need to share with residents to ensure that those who have signed up who want these alerts receive them when we have these types of situations going on.

I will also indicate that it was noted that um we want to ensure that people aren't fatigued by uh messages that are sent out.

I think this is something that is extremely important, and whether or not people feel fatigued, this is something that we should be making sure residents are aware of.

I can also say that I don't think it should be that we assume or that residents should have to watch the local news to get this information.

Um it is our responsibility to make sure we're sharing it with them.

And if if they feel like it's information overload or they're fatigued, then they may opt out of the system.

But I think it's important for those who have opted in to be alerted for such cases as this.

Uh, thank you for that.

Pro Tim Young.

Thank you.

Um chair.

Pro Tim Young, your your microphone is not on.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Uh, do we have somebody from BCED who's available for us to talk to about the air quality and give us an update on what it is and what's going on?

Um, pro Tim Young, I am checking into that on my way into the office this morning.

I did have a conversation with the administration, and I know they're going to share with us as soon as they have things wrapped up and um prepared to share with the community.

So uh to the administration to Malik Washington or Brianna Sullivan.

If you all are listening, if you can please chime in when you have information um to share with residents.

We appreciate it.

And I do see Mr.

Washington here.

Good morning.

Yes, and good morning, madam chair.

Um, we'll be sure to keep you up to date and hopefully we have a report by the end of committee.

Okay, thank you.

Uh I I just want to say respectfully all due respect.

I don't think there should be anything to check.

It looks like the end of the day is outside.

Somebody should be here available to explain to us why that is, even if it's something brief or if it's something small.

Somebody should be on the line from some department, BC'd or somebody to tell us what this is and what's going on, the brief announcement.

So everybody could be so everybody could be aware so the crowd can know.

It's not too hard.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And Mr.

Washington, I'm not sure if you have someone from the health department or BC who can um chime in and just share.

Thank you, the correction.

Um, if you can give me just a few moments, I can reach out and have somebody join us.

Okay, thank you.

And uh it is now 10 35, and I'd like to call the 1035 public hearing to order and reset it to the call of the chair.

And we are now going to the agenda and going back to the 1025 public hearing, and Mr.

Washington, if you'd like to interrupt us when you have someone, please do.

But at this point, I'd like to call the 1025 public hearing back to order.

The 1025 public hearing is for an obsolete property rehabilitation certificate on behalf of Busy B development LLC in the area of 1401, 1409, 1413, 1415, 1417, Grace Avenue, in accordance with Public Act 146 of 2000.

And we should have several individuals joining us.

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

Good morning, everyone.

Uh Alton Williams, Detroit Economic Growth Corporation.

Morning.

Justice Cook, Housing and Revitalization Department.

Morning.

Marcel Hurt, legislative policy division is substituting for uh attorney Barclay.

Good morning.

Cashland Wett, Real Estate Manager at Bosco.

Morning.

Roger Basmajan, head of uh Bosco Development in Detroit.

Good morning.

I believe we have everyone present who would like to kick us off.

I will.

To the chair, DB Development LLC is requesting the obsolete property.

We have location certificate in the area of 401 for 1409, 1413, 1415, 1417, Grasshaw Avenue, Detroit, Michigan.

This application is for a certificate, and this is the final public hearing currently scheduled in front of this honorable committee before our certificate may be approved and issued.

I would like to turn it over to my colleague Alton Williams for a quick presentation.

Thank you.

Thank you, Justice.

Um, to the chair, madam chair, may I please share my screen?

Yes.

Thank you.

All right.

Uh so today, 1401 Gratchett, led by Roger Bosmajian, is requesting approval of a PA146 obsolete property rehabilitation certificate.

PA146 was enacted by the state of Michigan to promote the redevelopment of obsolete commercial and or commercial housing properties per state statute.

The value of building improvements receives a 100% property tax exemption from local mills, with the exception of DPS operating and state education tax.

The exemption may be approved for up to 12 years.

There is no reduction to the existing property taxes, and the incentive benefits are not generated until after the completion of construction.

On July 7th, 2026, the Assessor's Office for the City of Detroit provided a letter confirming this project's eligibility for the PA-146 Oprah exemption.

The project is located at 1401 Gratchett at the gateway of Eastern Market and Council District 5 and is the site of the former Busy B Hardware store.

This project 1401 Gratchett is a 12.5 million dollar mixed use project.

Upon completion, 22,716 square feet will be reactivated to provide 8,887 square feet of residential space, in which the developer is committing to 20% of the units at 80% AMI.

This is also inclusive of the utility allowances.

The DGC has conducted its evaluation of the project.

As part of our evaluation, we ensure that every project meets specific policy objectives.

Projects should provide strategic benefits that align with the city's goals and initiatives, economic benefits that create opportunities for Detroit residents and businesses, and generate fiscal benefits for the city.

Projects should also meet the BUP4 requirement, indicating that financially the project could not proceed without the incentive.

1401 demonstrate strategic benefits by providing new affordable units with the developer committing to four uh or 20% of the units at 80% AMI.

Uh 1401 Grace demonstrate strategic benefits by eliminating blight, reactivating a vacant building, and providing a new community amenity.

1401 Grachit demonstrates economic benefits by creating 60 temporary construction jobs, creating one permanent FTE job, and adding two new retail businesses.

1401 Grasshead generates a 12-year benefit of 408,110, which is approximately 34,09 per year.

Through the DGC underwriting review, we have determined that the project meets the BUT 4 requirement due to the developer's inability to cover debt service payments without the incentive.

Mr.

Williams, if you will give me one moment to just call the 10 to recess the 1025 public hearing to the call of the chair, I'd like to call to order the 1040 public hearing and recess it to the call of the chair.

We are now back at the 1025 public hearing and you may proceed.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Through the DGC's analysis, we have determined that the existing annual taxes on the property are 12,436.

Upon completion of the project, the new unabated taxes are estimated to increase to 89,447.

With the abatement applied, the total annual property taxes would be reduced to 34,957.

This concludes my portion of the presentation.

I will now turn it over to the development team to discuss additional details about the development.

Thank you all.

Thank you.

Good morning, uh honorable city council members.

I'm Roger Basmajan, head of Bosco.

We're a Detroit-based uh development and uh and management company um right on Broadway here, and we've had multiple very successful projects in the city of Detroit.

Um, we're very focused on building walkable communities, investing in under served uh neighborhoods.

Um we've done many um conversions of existing properties that were vacant uh that are now full of tenants and residences.

We've also done ground up development and we've done considerable amount of uh historic restoration of uh of historic buildings in Detroit.

The current project we're discussing in Easter Market uh is very exciting because that's uh a historic project as well.

We were we are um committing to restoring the building to its original glory.

Right now, currently it's pre-dilapidated and need of considerable investment.

We are providing for the site layout, a proper parking lot.

Currently, we have a an existing parking lot that is just edge to edge with no landscaping and uh no ADA um accessibility and things like that.

So we will be providing 21 on-site parking spots for our residences and businesses.

Uh, they'll be offered at 150 for market rate and for 75 for the uh affordable units.

Uh, there's also street parking for visitors, mass transit in the proximity, and it's in walking distance of uh majority of the Eastern Market amenities in that district for accessibility and universal design.

Uh we have 17 units, and out of those 17, three will be fully accessible units, uh, which is uh quite a bit more than the minimum requirement.

Uh there will be those are type A units, um, which will have the larger door openings, accessible kitchen, uh countertop heights for bathrooms, grab bars, um side-by-side uh washing and drying capabilities instead of the stacked up and down umes that are for the non-ADA units, and accessibility to from the to and from the parking lot as well.

As mentioned, the accessible units are three of them, which will have uh uh no no step down, step-in, step up uh entrances and and ramps accordingly.

The retail spaces themselves, uh we have a larger unit on the corner, which will be a restaurant.

The restaurant tenant is committed to providing at least two single stall ADA uh bathrooms.

Um, and then we, as the landlord are also providing an additional two fully ADA accessible individual stalls for the other units, which are very very small and potentially just combined to be one 900 square foot unit.

Um, all those sidewalks and so on are being ramped accordingly to meet these uh accessible uh requirements as well.

For system sustainability, we are creating significant green space as much as we possibly can.

As mentioned today, the lot is literally a parking lot, edge to edge from sidewalk to building.

So we're taking considerable of that space, providing uh screening for residents, as well as to help in uh water shedding from the parking lot as well.

Um as far as the units themselves, they will all be um will have appliances that are energy efficient, roof that is uh energy efficient, uh, energy star-rated appliances, the windows themselves.

We will be using the existing windows, but retrofitting them so they are double pane and again energy efficient.

Uh and then the of course the waste collection systems and um recycle uh type uh programs will be um implemented on the project as well.

Uh so for job creation workforce development.

Um we are creating one permanent job, which would be the property manager of the property.

We're creating uh 60 temporary construction jobs, and we have estimated uh 57 additional permanent jobs that are being created by the tenants.

Uh we have quite a bit of experience in working in Detroit, so we always encourage our subs to hire Detroiters regardless of requirements or not.

Uh we've also uh actively been engaging Detroit at work to help us uh meet any kind of uh deficiency we might have with our subcontractors on the construction process, as well as uh helping our tenants find qualified staff for their businesses as well.

Um so we've uh as far as community engagement.

Uh we've had a meeting in um in Eastern Market uh to get the input of the community and community organizations.

We've gone out, walked around uh you know, passed out information to the local businesses and gotten their support.

Uh we've also engaged Eastern Market Corp for any support they can give, any uh any assistance as well as Tech Town in identifying tenants and uh we we are looking at because of the way the the some of the smaller units are laid out uh for emerging uh small business startups, minority-based uh minority uh targeted um new businesses, and then that's where our uh commercial side is being geared towards.

Thank you, everyone, and I will take any um questions that I may need to answer, please.

Good morning through the chair.

The chair may have proceeded yes, you may.

Are you able to hear me, Attorney Hurt?

No, thank you.

The obsolete property rehabilitation act, public act 146 of 2000, provides for a tax incentive to encourage the redevelopment of obsolete buildings.

This tax incentive is designed to assist in the redevelopment of older buildings that are contaminated, blighted, or functionally obsolete, and to return them to the tax roles.

Busy B development LLC, the Michigan Liability Limited Liability Corporation is the project developer for properties located at 1401, 1409, 1413, 1415, and 1417 Gratchett Avenue.

The developer is affiliate uh Basco of Michigan Incorporated and has hired Basco for development management and property management services.

The site is comprised of five parcels with a total of 0.362 acres of land.

The project is a mixed-use redevelopment of an existing historic building.

The historic Victorian properties located at 1401 through 1415 Gratchett were constructed separately in the late 1800s and later connected by the Busy B Hardware Store, the building's most recent and renowned occupant.

The project is a mixed-use project, which includes the rehabilitation of the existing vacant building into residential and retail spaces.

The ground floor of the building will be occupied by food-based retail spaces and three walk-up one bedroom residential apartments.

The second floor would include three studio, nine one bedroom, and two two-bedroom residential apartment units for a total of 17 residential apartment units in the building.

Four of the units will be affordable to residents making up to 80% AMI.

The proposed project consists of rehabilitating the property into mixed use development that will include ground floor retail spaces and 17 residential proper department units on both the first and second floors.

The impacting taxing units with regard to this project has a total of additional benefits before taxes in the amount of 2,084,665 with the real tax property tax abatement of 717,728, and the net tax benefits after the incentives being 744,490.

The City of Detroit in particular, the additional benefits before tax abatements will be 1,097,957.

And the real property tax abatement for the city of Detroit will be $349,556 for a total net benefit to the city of Detroit of $408,110.

The existing taxes on to each jurisdiction currently is $12,436.

With the net net tax new next tech taxes and with the incentive will be $34,957.

If the project was to go forward without the incentives, the total tax and jurisdictions amount will be $89,447.

The current existing taxes to the city of Detroit is $3,601.

With the incentive, it will be $3,619.

And if the project went forward without the incentive to the city of Detroit, it will be $25,901.

The Detroit Library, the existing taxes currently are $695.

With the incentives, the taxes will be $699.

And if the project went forward without the incentive to the library, it would be $5,002.

In Detroit public schools, the existing taxes are $4,688.

The with the incentives, it will be $21,555.

And if the project went forward without the incentives, there will be $33,719.

The estimated capital investment for this project is $12,560,084.

The sources of funds for the project are through owner equity, grant funding, historic tax credits, and permanent financing.

It is also estimated that the completed project will create one full-time employment job and 60 temporary construction jobs.

The total value of the 12-year Oprah tax savings is estimated at $717,728.

Based on the investment of jobs, this project is estimated to provide the city of Detroit the net benefit of $408,110 and the impacting taxing units combined a net benefit of $744,490 over the 12-year Oprah tax abatement.

Or that the holder of the obsolete property exemption certificate has not proceeded in good faith with the operation of the rehabilitated facility in a manner consistent with the purposes of the act and in the absence of circumstances that are beyond the control of the holder of the exemption certificates.

Thank you.

All right, colleagues, any questions?

Pro Tim Young.

Thank you.

Hello, everybody.

What's going on, Roger?

Good to see you again.

Long time no see.

Uh I just wanted to say really quickly, um, I'm a supporter of this, and this is a personal relevance to me because I started my first campaign right in this building.

So the fact that we are rehabilitating this area, you know, I have a lot of uh mixed emotions of joy and happiness.

So uh really excited about this project, and really excited about what you're gonna do and look forward to supporting this.

Thank you very much, madam chair.

Thank you.

Uh, I do want to uplift um a couple of things.

So I believe the planning department had some outstanding requests for the developer relative to um an updated site plan that included a landscape landscaping plan as well as a floor plan and roof plan.

Just want to find out if that information has been provided to the planning department.

Uh, through the chair, um, yes, that has been, and there are those tweaks um for additional landscaping and so on have been made to our plan.

And we're in communications right now to finalize those.

Okay, thank you.

And if someone can share the um landscaping design uh with us, I know Mr.

Bazmajian, you mentioned it for the parking lot area, and that it would help to address uh storm water in the parking lot.

But if someone can share the layout, the design of that with us, I would appreciate it.

And I I'd also just want to make sure that it includes screening and buffering around the trash receptacles.

Uh, through the chair, uh we'll share those, and yes, that was addressed as well.

The screening uh of the dumpsters and then and better screening of the three residential units on the ground floor as well.

Okay, all right.

Thank you so much.

Seeing no additional questions from my colleagues, we are going to turn to public comment.

If there is anyone joining us who'd like to make a cut a public comment in regards to the presentation we just witnessed, please raise your hand, whether in person or virtually, please raise your hand going once, going twice, going three times.

The collection of public comment has concluded.

Ms.

Great, how many hands do we have raised virtually?

Seeing no hands in the committee of the whole, madam chair.

There are currently six hands raised for virtual public comment.

All right, thank you.

We'll give everyone one minute for public comment regarding the public hearings.

Who do we have first?

Our first caller is legendary Detroiter.

Legendary Detroiter, you have one minute for public comment regarding the public hearing.

Yeah, and this is directly related to this public hearing.

I just witnessed we as Detroiters, citizens, taxpayers, and residents of the city of Detroit should not be uh subjected to the whims and uh proclivities of cheated in public officials.

Now, this public hearing now, just witnesses.

This one I'm talking about.

Now, the project may be a very beneficial, good project for the city, but we got cheated in people voting on these projects.

They're not going over the particulars that the citizens, taxpayers, and residents need to understand.

They're doing it uh serendipitously in order to get what they got coming from the situation and not what the citizens' residents and taxpayers are expecting from their elected officials.

We got to get a federal injunction.

The next caller.

Caller, you have one minute for public comment regarding the public hearing.

Good morning, may I be heard?

Morning, yes.

Yeah.

Well, I love to see built historic buildings restored instead of destroyed.

There's been too much destruction of historic buildings going on here.

Um I also question is it blighted because it was tax reverted in the past, like the way they're taking so many solar properties based solely on the history of the property.

And then the other thing is um, I didn't hear there were two how many two-bedroom apartments would there be because there just seems to be too many studios and one bedrooms, and the older building may not allow for more, but it would be nice if you could.

And the other thing is where are the efforts to just revise the overall taxing scheme?

Because like I know some people that are paying some really, really, really high taxes, like 8,000 or more for just a single family home.

The next caller, our next caller is owner papa, owner papa.

You have a one minute for a public comment regarding the public hearing.

Uh good morning, and through the chairman.

I'll be heard.

Good morning, yes.

Uh, yes, yes.

Uh the the presenter, he said he was very successful and that he had built several uh properties in the city of Detroit.

I would like to know what properties are those, and if he's so successful, why are we still dealing with but four for him?

Um it said Oprah, a hundred percent uh deduction in taxes, property taxes.

Is that true?

A hundred percent and I would like to ask Mr.

Howe or Mr.

Hurt, how do you account for the additional people in terms of the stresses on the services?

If they're paying lower taxes but adding more people, and we're still paying for police fire, um garbage pickup.

How do you account for the reduction in uh in uh the because many of the people don't live in the city of Detroit?

And I would also like to ask whoever can answer out of all the projects that you have run and have had, do you always meet the 51% um creole requirement or executive order requirement?

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next caller, our next caller is Marguerite Maddox and Scarlet.

Miss Marguerite Maddox and Scarlet, you have the floor regarding the 1025 public hearing.

Yes, thank you, thank you, and thank you.

Um my question is going to be and say the second door and how are we gonna get uh the second floor and did I say anything about the Iron Man and with the shot in that getting it over and may I have a copy I would never do it?

I remember going inside no longer dead but the planning issue I see a copy of the home we are doing thank you.

I'm getting thank you.

Thank you.

The next caller.

Our next caller is Toya.

Toya, you have one minute for public comment regarding the public hearing.

Yes, morning.

Can you hear me?

Yes.

Hello?

Can you hear me?

Yes, we can hear you.

Thank you.

Morning.

I'm talking to the developers.

They say they had a meeting with the Eastern market.

Business on top of business talking.

We didn't get a notice about any meeting about Busy B.

Busy B is a busy corner right there.

Turning on to Russell.

You got another business behind that building.

And turning on to um the Russell.

So we didn't hear anything about this meeting.

And I don't want to know why you're getting a tax abatement from the city.

If this developer has done so much building and renovation on anything he has done, but I want to know what kind of business, what's the name of this apartment?

Is he going to keep the history of busy B down here?

I mean, it's going to be really compact.

How many apartments?

How many parking space?

Where people are going to park, what kind of business?

Can we have a hardware down in there to keep the busy B name historical?

What we're going to get out of this building.

Thank you.

The next caller.

The last caller who had their hand raised before you cut off public comment is William M.

Davis.

William M.

Davis, you have one minute for public comment regarding the public hearing.

Good afternoon.

Can I be heard?

Yes.

Okay.

I'm I am pleased to see that y'all are that this project is helping to maintain and extend the life of older building, a structure.

Overall, the presentation was pretty good.

I think a little bit more information could have been done about how they're going to do with storm water flow.

And also I think a little bit that information could have been done as it relates to overall parking in that area.

But overall was a good presentation.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That now concludes public comment.

And we had a number of questions that were raised.

Who would like to begin with responses?

Through the chair, um, if I may answer those, uh I will I'll I'll I'll I'll do my best.

Um so for the how many two-bedroom units there was a question early on.

Uh there's two two-bedroom units in the in the building out of 17 units.

Uh there was a question about what other uh projects that we have done in the city.

Uh 607 Shelby.

Uh it's a mixed-use office commercial, 220 West Congress, 311 Grand Rivers, the old Harmony Club that was uh uh almost coming down where we've saved and turned into a uh a community events uh space and uh with multiple restaurants within it uh and an amenity to the public.

Uh we've worked on um other public projects on part of the Paradise Valley Conservancy.

We have upgraded to parks.

We're building a green alley uh between Grasshead and Grand River.

Um and that's to mention just some of the successful projects.

Uh there was a question with the same person about the need of a tax abatement.

The issue is that the millage in Detroit is so high that when you are taxed at the new level, it's not as if you can afford to pay that.

You just can't, and you you are you are thrown in the negative to lose money, which then of course no developer is going to build something, put their money up in equity and then take a loss of a year.

Uh and and all we're doing is asking for an abatement until the property gets stabilized and so on, and then it goes back on the added with the added tax benefit to the city.

By the way, all our projects um now produce two, three times the tax that um they were producing prior to our development, even with the abatement.

When that abatement goes away, that number is even uh uh you know maybe fivefold or so.

Um as far as 51% Detroiters, we do try to do that.

Do we meet on every project?

No.

Uh, but we do our best, and then for example, we have a project on Broadway.

It's an all-union project, and we're doing our best to meet that.

And if um, but we do have some money um put aside for any type of penalties and so on that would go into the training programs to uh for the skills uh skill trades and uh in the city.

So uh we do our best that we can, but uh not all the time do we reach executive 51%.

As far as uh there was a fourth question there.

Um was the second floor ADA accessible?

I believe that was the question.

Uh the building is too small, so we will not have an elevator.

There's just not enough units to justify that.

But that's the reason why we have uh dedicated three ADA units on the ground floor, which is uh if you look at the ratio of 17 to 3, you know, that that's pretty high percentage of the total of units, and those will be safe for people in need for those units.

As far as automatic doors, that is correct.

All the commercial uh tenants will have automatic uh uh uh door swing systems uh for ADA users, and uh similarly uh when you're going into the main space of the building itself.

Um again, there was another question about tax abatement.

I think um I think I touched on that already.

Uh there's a discussion of the history of Busy Beam.

Uh this was not a requirement, but in fact, the the name of the building will be something busy deep.

Uh, but we've also gone a step that is by documenting all the artwork that's on the it on the building and identifying the artists, and after our stabilization and tuck pointing, we're gonna invent uh we're gonna invite those artists back, those artists that we can find to recreate some of these murals that are um on the building currently.

So we we will try to make sure that we don't lose that art history that's on the on the building.

There was a question about parking.

We have more than plenty of parking uh that's required in our uh in that location, above and beyond what's required.

Um as far as water management, as mentioned in the presentation, uh all we are you know grading things to shed in the proper directions as well as adding additional landscaping uh to to mitigate some of that runoff.

Now, this this pro this parking lot is very small and it doesn't require anything beyond that.

The threshold of putting a water detention system would have been if you were half an acre or larger, this is less than a quarter of an acre.

So we're way underneath that uh uh that requirement.

By the way, I also want to mention I'm I'm sure it was part of these questions that the the units themselves not only are we committing to the 80% of the units at the affordability at the you know the whole project is set itself is actually all affordable.

It's from 80 to 120, which is uh again pretty um significant given that most projects um don't fall into that category uh uh uh you know 100% of their units.

So I hope I've answered every question.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Mr.

Bazmajan, if you can just indicate specifically how many parking spaces you have, and there was a question about the sidewalks.

Madam Chair, um there are 21 parking spots.

Um if the question of the sidewalks and the elevations of accessibility, if that's the question, it will be whether or not the sidewalks would be redone.

Uh Madam Chair, all the sidewalks that are in bad condition will be replaced.

That's correct.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

Uh yeah, Madam Chair, if I may.

Um I know that uh Carolyn Hughes had a great question.

Uh so just for uh clarification, the developer does still pay uh 24 meals, and that's the um state uh education and the uh school operating mills, those are still paid.

And Mr.

Williams, can you just speak to overall the taxes?

There was a question relative to um a reduction in the taxes for this project, and how the city still provides for the increase in individuals that will come into the city to be able to provide city services.

Yeah, understood.

That's a great question.

Thank you.

So there's a variety of additional taxes that are collected through, you know, we've got municipal income taxes, uh, through direct workers, indirect workers, uh, corporate income uh taxes, construction taxes.

So uh if I remember correctly, the question was um just you know, how do we deal with the uh additional strain on city services?

Well, we actually um collect more taxes to help to offset that from this particular development as a result of the development project.

That is correct.

All right, thank you.

And lastly, I believe um Mr.

Bazmajian, did you indicate someone did inquire about a hardware store there?

Because I know there was one.

Um do you have any plans to have a hardware store there?

Uh madam chair, I we don't have any plans, uh, but if there is a hardware store that wants to open up, uh we'd love to be connected to that.

That that's somewhat of a uh dying art, uh, you know, where when you have all these larger box uh white uh big box stores, but we we'd love to you know have a tenant that's willing to open up one.

All right, thank you.

Colleagues, any did I miss any questions?

Any additional questions?

Pro Tim Young.

Thank you.

Uh excellent presentation, everybody.

I don't have any more questions per se, but I just want to say um manual chair, and this is at your discretion, but I think in the future it would be better if we have a discussion on infrastructure as a whole.

Um I know Mr.

Um I don't know, uh, they were talking about um one of the questions was talking about us having infrastructure in terms of water retainment and things of that nature, and I think we need to have that discussion in terms of green infrastructure and bio swells and wetlands and expanding of pipes and gray infrastructure and things that nature as a whole.

And I don't know if you want to have um the Department of Public Works come out and make that presentation sometime in the future, just terms of what their plan is.

I don't know if you want to talk about master plan as well, in terms of how that's going to be developed and in terms of sidewalk infrastructure and complete streets and how all that connects, but I think that's a conversation that we should have at a larger scale.

I you I'm not saying that those questions um aren't legitimate.

They are.

I just think that when we have conversations like that in terms of these type of developments, it kind of misses the whole point in terms of what we need to do for development as a whole.

And so I think we would it would be nice if we could show the citizens the plan and the whole board so they can understand what those infrastructure problems infrastructure issues are, what the solutions are to address them, and how they all connect together in terms of that.

And so, you know, from from you know, and and you know, from his technical dealing with Ms.

Dig to expanding pipes to um it to housing to bioswells to um pernable concrete.

I got it, prokay, okay, okay.

Thank you.

I just yeah, I was I was I'll I was I'll I was a midstride there.

I was a midstride there.

But you get my you get what I'm you picking up when I'm putting down.

So I'm picking it up.

I really appreciate it.

Thank you.

And I will pivot over to council president because I think there are several departments that would um weigh in and need to weigh in to provide an overall perspective about water infrastructure for residents, but I do also believe that every development project um can certainly do their part to help keep water out of the uh system, and so that's important as well.

Thank you.

Colleagues, any additional questions, comments, or concerns?

If not, is there a motion on line item five?

Motion on line five.

Is there a motion to send line item five to formal with a recommendation to approve?

Motion is sending line on five to formal session with recommendations for approval.

Any objections?

Hearing none, that action shall be taken.

This now closes out the 1025 public hearing.

I'd now like to call to order the 1030 discussion.

The 1030 discussion is for Michigan taxing jurisdictions regarding the Brownfield plan for Busy B redevelopment project.

If there's anyone joining us who would like to speak in regards to the Busy B redevelopment project, any taxing jurisdictions, please raise your hand.

Ms.

Gray, do you have any hands raised?

Madam Chair, I promoted Cora Cathlard as a panelist.

Thank you.

Ms.

Kapler, do you have anything to add for the discussion?

Good morning.

Cora Kapler, Detroit Economic Growth Corporation and the Trade Brownfield Redevelopment Authority.

I do not have anything to add to the taxing jurisdiction discussion.

All right.

Thank you so much.

Seeing no additional hands raised in regards to the 1030 discussion.

We shall close out the 1030 discussion.

I'd now like to call back to order the 1035 public hearing.

The 1035 public hearing is for the Brownfield Plan for Busy B, the Busy B redevelopment project.

And we do have Ms.

Cora Kapler here online.

Ms.

Kapler.

Are the developers joining you as well?

Yes, they should still be online for this public hearing.

All right, thank you.

Um just introduced yourself, and as they come online, we'll make sure they are promoted as panelists.

If you'd like to proceed to get us started.

Sure.

Um, may I share my screen, please?

Yes.

Thank you.

Um, I will keep my remarks brief.

This is the same project that we just had a public hearing for the Oprah certificate.

Um, this public hearing is specific to the Brownfield request for this project.

Um, so to start a Brownfield plan uses tax increment financing or TIFF to reimburse developers for costs they have to pay to redevelop land and properties within the city that they wouldn't otherwise have to pay if they were to redevelop an undeveloped site on the edge of the suburbs.

Um TIF is used to help level the playing field and encourage the redevelopment of contaminated, blighted, obsolete historic properties and also uh for the development of affordable housing.

At its simplest, TIFF works by freezing the taxes at the current undeveloped value of the property, which continues to be received by all taxing jurisdictions.

The developer captures the increase in property taxes from the renovated property to be paid back over several years for costs they paid related to environmental cleanup, demolition, obsolete utilities, and the um for providing affordable housing units.

Once the approved eligible costs under a plan are repaid, the Brownfield plan sunsets and all the full taxes for the property are received by all government entities.

Busy B development LLC is the project developer for this plan, which consists of five parcels located at 1401 Grasshet, bounded by the alley between Grasshay Avenue and East Fisher Freeway to the north, the project property line to the east, Grass Avenue to the south, and Russell Street to the west and the Eastern Market neighborhood.

The property is eligible property to be included within a Brownfield plan because it has been uh determined to be a historic resource as well as housing property.

The project is a mixed-use redevelopment of the existing historic structure.

The historic Victorian properties located at 1401 through 1415 Grashit were constructed separately in the late 1800s and later connected by the Busy B Hardware Store, the building's most recent and renowned occupant.

The ground floor will be occupied by food-based retail spaces and three residential units.

Multiple retail spaces of different sizes will be available, creating options for both emerging businesses and established entrepreneurs with a focus on food-based uh tenants to expand Eastern Market.

Three walk-up gardening units will be located on the ground floor, and 14 additional residential units will be located on the second floor and will include three studios, nine one-bedroom units, and two two-bedroom residential units for a total of 17 residential apartment units in the building.

Four of the apartments will be affordable for households at 80% AMI and will be scrapped spread across all unit sizes for a period of 30 years.

A total of 21 parking spaces will be located to the north of the building.

It's anticipated that 17 of those spaces will be reserved for residents, with four of those residential parking spaces being offered at a discounted rate for the affordable units.

It's currently anticipated that construction will begin this year and will be completed in approximately 18 months.

The total investment for the project is estimated to be 12.5 million, and the developers requesting tax increment financing reimbursement of approximately 2,216,789.

Those eligible activities include the project rent loss for the affordable units, demolition, infrastructure and safety improvements, and qualified rehabilitation costs for providing the affordable housing.

The developer is seeking additional incentives, which includes approval of an absolute property rehabilitation or PA 146 tax abatement.

Approximately 60 temporary construction jobs are expected to be created by the project, and one permanent job is expected to be created by the developer.

Additional permanent jobs are expected to be created by the future commercial tenants.

And for LPD to provide the report.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning, honorable city council members.

If you'd like me to repeat some of the stats that I gave earlier, I would love to do so.

Otherwise, I'll turn it over to the rest of the team to give their input on this.

I don't think that's necessary.

Just if you have any additional information to share.

Thank you.

Attorney Hur, you are on mute.

My apologies, ma'am chair.

The Brownfield Redevelopment Financing Act 381 of 1996 provides tax incentives and tax increment financing to develop Brownfield properties in an area at or on which there has been a release or threat of release or disposal of hazardous substances.

Developer is requesting $2,216,789 in TIFF reimbursement, with the overall value of the plant estimated at $2,730,481, which includes local brownfield costs.

It is currently anticipated that the construction will begin in the summer of 2026 and the project will be completed in the winter of 2027.

In addition to currently requesting the brownfield TIFF, the developer is also seeking an obsolete property rehabilitation act, which was a subject of the prior uh public hearing.

The overall capital investment, including land, is estimated to be approximately $12.5 million.

The property is considered eligible property as defined by Act 381 Section 2 P double I because it was previously utilized for commercial purpose.

It is located in the city of Detroit, a qualified local governmental unit.

The property is considered to be a historic resource, and the property will be developed as housing property.

Section 2Y of Act 381 defines housing property as a property on which one or more units of residential housing are proposed to be constructed, rehabilitated or otherwise designated to be used as dwelling, or one or more units of residential housing proposed to be constructed or rehabilitated and located in a mixed-use project.

The project qualifies as a quote housing property pursuant to Section 2Y double I of Act 381 because the project to be completed at the property includes the construction of approximately 50 residential units in a mixed unit, mixed use project.

The grassroot parcel also qualifies as a historic resource pursuant to Section 2W of Act 381 and Section 90 of the Michigan Strategic Fund Act because the grassroot parcels are listed as a contributing property to the Eastern Market Historic District, which was listed on the National Registry of Historic Places in 1978 and was expanded in 2007.

The Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority will reimburse the developer for the cost of approved eligible activities, but only for tax increment revenues generated and captured from the property.

No advances have been or shall be made by the city or the DBIA for the cost of eligible activities under this plan.

The eligible activities are estimated to commence within 18 months of the approval approval of the plan and be completed within three years.

The cost of reimbursement with the TIFF include the demolition, which was $251,500, the infrastructure and safety improvement cost of $546,095, qualified rehabilitation cost of $492,587, the financing gap $2,228,040 for a total reimbursement to developer of $3,518.

The authority administrative cost of $388,918.

The state brownfield redevelopment fund of $124,774 for a total estimated cost of $2,730,481.

The tax increments are projected to be captured and applied to the reimbursement of eligible activity costs and payment of the DBRA administrative and operating expenses and to make deposits into the state brownfield redevelopment fund and make deposits into the DBRA's local brownfield redevelopment fund.

In addition, the following taxes are projected to be generated but shall not be captured during the life of this plan.

Those include the city debt of 211,594, school debt of $687,682.

Wayne County DIA of $10,469 and Wayne County Zoo $5,226 for a total of $914,971 that will not be captured.

The eligible activities that the developer intends to conduct at the property pursuant to this plan are considered edible activities as defined under section two of Act 381 because they include department specific activities, hazardous building materials, survey, engineering studies, interior demolition, and leading the best as best of abatement, site preparation, public infrastructure improvements, and the development preparation and implementation of the Brownfield plan and or Act 381 work plan.

Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the DBRA, all eligible activities shall commence within 18 months after the date of the governing body approves this plan and be completed within three years after execution of the reimbursement agreement.

No cost of eligible activities will be qualified for reimbursement except to the extent permitted in accordance with the terms and conditions of the reimbursement agreement and the Act 381.

And that concludes my report.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, I believe that concludes the presentation.

Colleagues, any questions?

Comments?

Pro Tim Young?

Oh, I don't have a question for them, but I do have a question about what I just received, so I just want to let you know after we're done with this.

I do have a question that I want to ask.

So after we're done with this, then I'll ask.

I'll just put myself ahead of queue here.

Thank you, Pro Tim.

Um, I do want to ask if there is a utility allowance for the affordable units.

Madam Chair, the affordable units actually have their utilities within uh yes, we we bake them in at the affordable rate.

Perfect.

Thank you.

All right.

We are going to move to public comment.

If there's anyone joining us who'd like to make a public comment in regards to the presentation we just witnessed, please raise your hand.

Please raise your hand, whether in person or virtually going once.

Going twice.

Going three times.

The collection of public comment has concluded.

Seeing we don't have any hands raised in the committee of the whole, how many hands do we have raised virtually?

Madam Chair, there are five hands raised for virtual public comment.

Thank you.

If you will please set the clock for one minute, and we'll get started with the first caller.

Our first caller is legendary Detroiter.

Legendary Detroit, you have one minute for a public comment regarding the public hearing.

Okay, uh heard this public hearing, and this needs to stop in Detroit, Michigan.

Uh we got the project, maybe a great project.

But what I heard that there's too many inconsistencies with what's going on with these TDM public officials voting to approve and pass it to approve.

We just had to Coleman A.

Young.

The second on it on that committee come in before on the last public hearing and say it what he said and pass it on for approval.

Now, if y'all don't cut out this nonsense, we're gonna need we need a federal induction right now.

Stop all this nonsense here in the city of Detroit because I'm sick of it.

And if black kids, I feel the same way.

If you have a black candy in the black.

Do you have anything about this public hearing?

On it on the committee come in but before on the last public hearing and say it what he said and pass it on for approval now if y'all don't cut out this nonsense we gonna need we need a federal injunction right now to stop all this nonsense here in the city of Detroit because I'm sick of it and the black kids I feel the same way if you have kids in the black do you have anything about this public hearing hey you cut me off that's all right I got some for ya thank you the next caller my next caller is Toya Toya you have one minute for public comment regarding the public hearing yes again I want to talk to Roger because he never said how many meetings they had with the residents on the busy B and you know this is my um go-to place down at the Eastern market and just the activity that we do have down there with the parking space is really gonna be it's gonna be difficult to a lot of people still because of the you know visitors or anybody that visit anybody in this apartment building that you've been to build but the idea of how many meetings you had with the public not with the eastern market people so could you answer that and why is it brownfield still going on with this um building that I didn't know that Brownsfield I thought is only contaminated dirt area so educate me on the Brownsfields tax issue thank you thank you the next caller our next caller is owner papa owner papa you have one minute for public comment regarding the public hearing owner papa are you there for the chair maybe heard yes uh yes good question from the last caller uh how many meetings did you have with the community um and I'd like to know from this body are any LITEC or any low-income tax credits being used on these projects and how many low-income properties are being created it seems to me that if you're going to pay for the demolition infrastructure and safety improvements and quality and qualified uh rehabilitation cost is going to be wrapped all into this then we need to know absolutely how many low-income housing is being created because I think we could spend our money much more better if we took this money and and rehabilitated the houses that we have already instead of waiting years to for this project to come and he already has projects and I would like to ask Mr Hurt or Miss Capillar um again how are we uh going to account for all of these um new people coming into the city if they're all getting uh reductions and we had to substitute we had the thank you the next caller the next caller is Marguerite Maddox and Scarlet Miss Marguerite Maddox and Scarlet you have the floor regarding the 1035 public hearing yes um gave it no painted the change stay in the thing this same DNG um yes it is okay okay thank you um that the blind fear the battle meant leads to my kiss you that people that that live in that area I am here that it didn't left you that it lives in that area and the vision that how and visit the eastern market and I am I am

That isn't the Eastern Market.

I am ready here.

And then you thank you.

The next caller.

The last caller before you cut off public comment, noting that there was one hand raised after you cut it off is what happened to Zone Detroit.

Caller, you have one minute for public comment regarding the public hearing.

Yes, good morning.

May I be heard?

Good morning, yes.

Yeah.

So I echo the concerns of Ms.

Toya Watts.

I also um I heard there were two bedroom units, but is there a reason why there can't be more?

It just seems like there's so much stuff is being built, not for families.

Uh may have something to do with the structure of the building.

Uh also didn't hear whether this property had been tax reverted in the past or not.

That was a question I had because that is a per se blight definition under state law.

And um, but I agree with the presenter that the millage rates are too high.

There's just an incredibly unequitable taxing scheme throughout the city of Detroit.

And I would like to hear more from the city and what their efforts are to do this, because otherwise we just sit in hearing after hearing after hearing of people who got the money to do these hearings and not.

Thank you.

That now concludes public comment.

And who would like to begin with responses?

Madam Chair, if I may respond, uh Roger Basmajan from Bosco.

Um I will answer the the I believe it was the second question.

Uh we regarding meetings in the district.

Uh we walked around the businesses, passed out flyers, we got names of any neighborhood organizations uh that were active in the area.

Um from uh Eastern Market Corp as well as EDC and the Brownfield uh board as well, any suggestions that they had and and and sent out notices.

I believe uh the DEGC did the same, and we had we held one meeting, a public meeting in at Sacred Heart Church in Easter Market.

Um there was a question about why is this being considered as brown field because of the contaminants that are on the project that there was a question there is asbestos, there's lead and uh a need for a significant demolition and cleanup of the the site as well uh from contaminants.

Uh next question was I believe is this a lie tech project?

It's not, but the entirety of the project is affordable for the definition of it, which is from 80% to at most 120% of uh AMI.

Um so it's uh quite extraordinary that there are no units beyond that because most market rate projects go well well beyond that that uh cap of under 20% of the MI.

Um if someone can help me if there's a question Ms.

Maddox posed that I could not understand uh so if there's anybody that maybe could chime in on that, I would appreciate to address those questions.

Uh as far as the last question, why only two bedroom, uh two units, two bedrooms, the the the building itself doesn't lay out well uh other than these two locations we found for the for the two bedrooms and has the building or property been tax reverted?

Um I'm not sure it has been, I'm not aware of that.

Thank you.

I believe Ms.

Maddox's question was in regards to the location, which um I confirmed with her.

Um to Ms.

Kappler, are there any questions that you are able to respond to?

Yes, through the chair.

Um, there's a question about the Brownfield program and whether it's uh solely to address contaminated properties.

Um the Brownfield program is uh possible through the State Act 381, which allows for eligible costs uh to be reimbursed using tax increment financing, not only for contaminated properties or properties that are uh determined to be a facility, but also for blighted obsolete historic properties, and then the act was um most recently amended to include um uh the development or redevelopment of affordable housing.

Um so while you know it's still called the Brownfield Program, um, there are other eligible properties that are included are eligible to be included in a prom in a brownfield plan.

Um they don't necessarily have to have contamination present um in the ground.

Thank you for that.

Um Ms.

Kappler, are you able to share how you all send out notifications for um any community engagement in your hearing that you have how residents might be able to get those notices to be aware whether or not they live within the footprint of a development project because I believe I'm not sure how many people actually live within uh 300 feet of this building.

Um, and I know that may be somewhat of a challenge trying to uh connect with residents who may patronize businesses there, but how can people sign up for notices for your your hearings?

Yeah, that's a great question.

Um so while we do try to notice as many known um uh community organizations or uh block clubs um or businesses in the area, that does vary obviously uh depending on the project location.

Um we do share that notice with uh the council district staff for the district in which the project is located, um, and as well as the department of neighborhoods.

Um we share all of our uh public hearing notices for our local public hearings and our um city council public hearings on all of the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation's social media pages.

Um all of those notices are also always posted on our website, DEGC.org.org slash DBRA.

Um you can also find copies of um the Brownfield plans that are under consideration or have been recently approved, all of the notices for local public hearings, city council public hearings, as well as the uh Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority Board meetings.

The notices, agenda, and minutes for those meetings are also on our website um as well as the community advisory committee.

There are also other resources on our website um about the brownfield program.

Okay, thank you for that.

And my last question to the developer is um did you consider deeper affordability uh in this building, especially considering the um request for a brownfield?

Um madam chair, we did consider um, but it just didn't pencil out.

That's why we limited at least our upper end to also help out.

But we've ran multiple, multiple models and barely made one work with various different uh programs and so on.

Okay, all right, thank you.

Colleagues, any additional questions, comments?

Seeing none, is there a motion on line item seven?

Motion to move line item seven, the formal session with recommendation for approval.

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

Any objections?

Hearing none, that action shall be taken.

Thank you all so much for joining us.

That now closes out the 1035 public hearing.

And before we proceed to the 1040 public hearing, I believe we have the administration here to share information about um air quality.

Oh, okay.

We'll draw the question.

Mr.

Washington.

Yes, good morning again.

Through the chair, we have Kelvin Freeman as well as Crystal Rogers online.

Thank you, Ms.

Grade.

If you would please promote them, if you all will please raise your hand so it's easier to find you, and we can promote you as panelists.

Madam Chair, they've both been promoted as panelists.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Please introduce yourself for the record.

Good morning.

My name is Kelvin Freeman, Director of Emergency Preparedness and Bioterrorism for the City of Detroit Health Department.

Morning.

Good morning.

Crystal Rogers, General Manager for Environmental Affairs with Building Safety Engineering and Environmental.

Good morning.

Do you all have an update to share with residents or are you here to answer questions?

Here to provide updates what we are doing at the Health Department through the Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness.

Once we have alerts sent out from either the state and or through our eagle partners, we monitor air quality every hour on the hour once there are elevated alerts.

So that's what we're currently doing at the current moment.

We're still in a maroon AQI of 301 or higher.

The last time we checked in the last hour, we were at uh 585 AQI.

So we are currently doing air monitoring in the sense of checking our eagleair now.gov.

And can you explain a little bit more about the uh maroon, what that means, and um how residents can protect themselves?

Sure.

So the different ranges uh that we have from our air now and from the AQI, they range from green to maroon.

So anything between uh zero to five index is good.

There's air quality satisfactory, uh, and air pollution poses no little or to no threat.

Um, yellow is moderate.

This is 51 AQI.

Uh AQI is air quality index from 51 to 100 air quality is acceptable.

However, there are some risk, and that color is yellow.

Um, orange is when you start to hit to 101 AQI to 150.

Uh, it's unhealthy for sensitive groups and these sensitive groups and are experiencing some type of health effects if they go outside.

And but the general public is less likely to be affected.

Uh, red is unhealthy from 151 to 200.

Some members of the general public may experience health uh effects, um, but the members of sensitive groups may have a more severe health effect from that.

Um purple is classified as unhealthy.

That's 201 to 300 as an AQI, uh, as a health alert that the risk of health effects is increased for everyone.

Um, when you're in Maroon where we are now, the uh title or the name is called hazardous.

That's 301 or higher.

Uh, that's a health warning of emergency conditions.

Everyone is more likely to be affected.

And currently we are sitting at the last meeting and check, was that 585 AQI, which is more than the 301.

Thank you for that.

Um is there any information to share with residents on how they can protect themselves?

Are we um as a city?

Are we providing any um masks?

Um, what how are we as a city responding to this hazardous air?

Uh great question, and I'm also deferred to with Crystal as well what we're doing.

Uh, but from the health department standpoint, we utilize um the crisis 24 platform that's shared through Detroit Homeless Security Emergency Management.

Um, a alert, health alert went out this morning.

Um, once we saw that the again, then when we check, it's not just one zip code, we also check all seven districts to see if we have congruency across all.

Um, a message was sent out via text message, also email and voice phone.

Uh and the fourth message is really reading what the text message and emails are sent.

Um, that lets everyone know one that we were in Maroon, what that is, and also to limit for everyone if they can stay indoors as much as possible, do so.

Um, if they do have to go out to make sure they have masks of the highest filtration uh as possible.

Uh so we have to be concise.

But we want to make sure if you do need masks, um, that the health department, I believe now, um, our chief public health officer and health director uh Ali Abazid has just completed a PSA or a message with the mayor's office uh to be sent out so people can know about air quality and where they can go to get masks.

Currently, masks are being distributed to uh four of our rec centers um that will be patent.

That's also um also our Northwest Activity Center, Adam Buxle, and uh uh Farwell.

So I'd hit all corners, uh, carton corners of the city uh and masking are being distributed as we speak to those areas for the public to pick up if needed.

Um, we are in a little bit of a limited situation, so we are looking to try to get some additional masks for the continuation if this goes beyond um today.

There are some activities that are um aligned with the D Dot that they are looking at different stations that they are looking at as well.

Um for those that are you know, bus riders and transit.

Um I cannot speak to what others are doing at this moment, but for the health department, we are pushing out mass um from the health department to those areas in the four areas of the city.

Thank you for that.

Um additional information.

Uh yes, I know that some everyone may not be a part of our Detroit Alerts 365 system.

So um currently we have between uh a little bit over 6,000 individuals that are on our program, and we would like to make sure everyone, because this is an opt-in system.

Um, there are not ways that we can push out to everyone.

So if individuals would like to know more about how to receive a Detroit Alerts 365, you can always go to Detroit Mi.gov, and then you can search for Detroit Alerts 365, and then once you search, this is the first one that comes up how to sign up, and you can click here to register to receive Detroit Alerts 365 notifications.

Please note that this is not just things that come from the health department, but DWSD, fire police, also national weather can push information directly to our citizens, but it is an opt-em opt-in system.

Thank you for sharing that.

And the alert 365 is something that we've been encouraging residents to sign up for since I took office because it is about emergency situations, things that residents should be aware of from the city of Detroit.

Um, Ms.

Crystal Gilbert Rogers, I wonder if you can chime in about air quality monitors.

I know we have them throughout the city.

I know um during our budget hearings, we did ask for us to create a platform that information from the various air quality monitors that exist throughout the city of Detroit.

I wonder if there is somewhere that residents can go online um to find out the air quality in any particular area throughout the city via a platform that we have, or if we have somewhere for residents to see uh air quality from the monitors that we have within the city.

Thank you, madam chair.

We do.

Residents can visit Detroit Mi.gov slash air quality.

And the city of Detroit does maintain monitors uh such that we have one in each of the seven districts.

You'll be able to see the air quality at the your local monitor, as well as you can look backwards in time and see what the uh air quality has been uh since that monitor was established.

We are encouraging residents to check the air quality and take uh you know appropriate actions right now with us being in the hazardous region.

We encourage everyone to stay indoors uh and utilize you know air conditioning and air filters to help to filter the air.

If residents do not have air conditioning, we encourage them to visit a library or recreation center that are open.

And uh if nothing else, you can go for uh heat as well as uh particulate matter relief.

Right now, we also want to make sure everyone understands that this air quality is alert is a result of wildfires, and it probably will continue for a couple of days while the air will progressively get better.

Uh, and we are working with meteorologists to uh look at the cloud as it moves across the region.

Uh it's gonna it's this is not gonna disappear tomorrow, but we do hope to have significant relief very soon.

Thank you for that.

And I actually thought the rain from yesterday evening might help, but it really didn't seem to.

Um, thank you, colleagues.

Pro Tim Young.

Yes, uh, thank you very much.

I appreciate this.

Before I begin, I just want to say I appreciate the alert with all the respect as a city council person.

I should get update or at least informed before the alert comes out.

Because when the alert comes out, the citizens are gonna ask me what's going on.

And I don't have anything to tell them because I haven't been updated on what's happening.

And that's important.

One, because they need to know what's going on.

But secondly, because we have to mitigate this this action with the truth.

So people understand that this is because of the Canadian wildfires, not because of the Illuminati.

You understand what I'm saying to you?

So we can mitigate moral panic here.

So I think that's important.

One, we got to work on the response time.

One.

Secondly, what I wanted to ask you is are masks available to city count or to the city employees here.

And do we know how many masks we've given out to city employees, how many masks we've given out to the citizens?

What that coverage ratio is, and how much further we have to go to be able to get it to all the people who are most vulnerable and all the people who need them.

Is that for anybody who can answer the question?

Okay.

Uh, first part, your mic was out, so I didn't really hear the first part uh about response time.

I didn't hear about response time piece.

It was not okay.

I need to be able, as a city council, as an elected official, I need to be updated on what's going on before the alert comes out.

I got an alert, I think about 1132, 113.

I need to be updated before that happens.

Because when that alert comes out, people are gonna call my office.

And what am I gonna tell them?

Because I haven't been updated.

I need to be updated so they have the information so they know where to go, so they know what's going on, so they know what's happening.

One, because that's my job.

Two, because they need to know because that can protect and save lives and people's health.

Three, so we can deal with moral panic for people going on the internet so people understand that this is due to the Canadian wildfires, not due to the Illuminati or some other government plot.

You understand what I'm saying to you?

Because that's how information, that's how misinformation spreads.

Because misinformation spreads in the light, it's in absence of the truth and actual facts.

And so I need when you have something like this that is going on, we need to be able to have that immediately so we can deal with that.

And not only that, but also people want to spread narratives that the city doesn't care, which is not true at all.

You know what I'm saying?

And also, so we know what you're doing.

So we know you're out here.

So what people tell me the health department fell, you know, did falling on their job not doing it, I can say that's not true.

Look at what they did here.

Look at what they did here.

So people understand that.

So we so the response time has got to be quicker once, especially when we are in actual committee.

One.

Secondly, I want to know how are there masks available to city workers?

Because I had a staffer that came in here that was giving out masks to people who didn't have one.

Are masks available to city workers?

And then, secondly, for the public, how many masks have we've given to people in the city of Detroit as a whole, and do we have that break it down by need?

And how many air filters have we given to people?

And is that broken down by need as well?

And what's the coverage ratio of that?

So let me ask you the first question if I may, and I want to make sure I defer if I can uh to my chief public health officer Ali Abazid.

I know he's trying to get into the meeting, so if he is in, I would like to make sure that he has a part to say of this as well.

But for the response time, um, I want to make sure that uh one thing you don't always have to wait for us.

There are many ways, and then Crystal can talk about it as well.

Um, there are many tools that you can put into yourself, and once uh AQI hits a certain level, you automatically receive information before we even have a chance to send it out because one thing we're doing is taking the message that we receive from the same monitoring tools that others can sign up for to receive those as they come in, and all we're doing is taking that information and give it back out.

Um, looking at what we're doing for uh, and that's a great thing to talk about what our wins are.

Um, the Detroit Health Department, especially in uh the Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness, uh, we monitor the air quality every single day.

And if we have special events going over into the weekend, uh part of our plan is also to look and check.

Anytime we have a uh AQI that goes above moderate, uh, where you have unhealthy or maybe to sense the populations, that that time we check every single hour on the hour while we're there until that level is dissipated.

That's something that we have not just been doing started, but we've been doing for almost the last two and a half, three years.

Um also to talk about too when it comes to pushing out information uh when council, I want to make sure possibly we can probably get with Malik to figure out what's the best avenue and the best mode modality to make sure that that's being done in the event of something like this.

Um secondarily uh about the number of masks um and if masks are being covered for our employees.

I was on a call this morning um where every city agency or most of the city agencies were coming to see how many had masks and whether their employees were being covered.

And to my knowledge, that has been covered from it was uh CO CO meaning cabinet meeting.

Um they pretty much mentioned that they were covered for either today and tomorrow, but something that may be last.

We are looking to see can we get some type of emergency um funding and emergency POs is put in place to get more masks in the city of Detroit for our city workers and for our um constituents.

Looking past that too, um the masks that we currently have are being sent to those four areas that I mentioned.

Um my staff actually went about 30 minutes ago to make sure that those things are being pop dropped off and delivered.

So I do not have the numbers currently of how many have been distributed distributed.

Um and when we are distributing for us, I can only speak to mask.

Um the air peri air filters, I am not for sure.

That is beyond my scope, and I would have to defer to someone else at that moment.

No, no, no, first of all, I just say when you say defer to somebody else, you say somebody else in another department or somebody else within your own department?

Uh someone else probably outside of my my division.

I do not deal with those.

Yes.

So I cannot speak to that.

Okay, well, well, okay, so that's another conversation I gotta have with the health department head.

Uh, first of all, I I I appreciate what you're saying in terms of me being able to go get the information.

I appreciate that, but I should get an update from the health department.

I should get a report, I should get a text, I should get an email, I should get a stork, I should get firework, I should get dog, I bite you.

I should get something for the health department.

When I go outside and I look at what I'm seeing outside, that looks like the beginning of every disaster film ever made out there.

I should get something directly.

So I just want to say that.

One.

Secondly, um, I wanted to ask you the questions about what the technology is that we are implementing to be able to make sure that we can respond to this.

Um I know we talked about air uh filtration.

Have we talked about smoke scrubber systems at all?

Um, have we talked about um working or partnering up with the fire department for drone-based smoke suppression at all?

Um, I just want to know what your or fire retardants or suppressants, and have we also talked about um clean air shelters?

How many are available?

Is there a map that people could go to where they can find out where uh where they you know, depending on where they live, well, the air shelters that are available to them, where can they go for that?

Uh have we had those type of discussions?

Is there a plan like that laid out?

Crystal, can you speak to that?

Council Member Kelvin Crystal, may I uh hi everyone?

This is Ali Abazid, uh Chief Public Health Officer for the City of Detroit.

Council member, I I I'll get where where are you, man?

I get the he BG, somebody talking to me.

I can't see their face.

Or at least they're I uh I'm I'm in my car.

I I I'm in my car.

We're transporting uh to different sites today.

Because you can imagine this is a whole of government response to air quality.

Um is there anything that I can respond to directly, or can I uh comment on a couple of the things that were just said in the last few minutes?

Oh, go ahead.

You if you want to comment on last things that you can say, and then you can talk about air filters afterwards.

I uh oh, there you go.

Okay, I uh I appreciate that.

Well, I'm in my car and I'm and I'm parked, so I can do this safely.

Forgive me for being on my forgive me for being on my phone counsel.

Uh thank you for having me.

Uh Dr.

Freeman, thanks for uh, you know, uh sharing some of your thoughts there.

Uh I heard the tail end of it, so forgive me if I'm repeating uh things that are uh uh uh that that have that have already been said.

Do you need to repeat myself?

I uh just wanted to share that uh You got time okay.

All right.

No, no, the chair said we ain't got time.

Go ahead, but can you all not hear me?

Yeah, no, go ahead.

I was go ahead.

Go ahead.

I'm sorry, go ahead.

Okay, I I I trust you all can hear me.

If you can't, just let me know.

Um, I just wanted to share that, you know.

Uh, since uh, you know, Dr.

Kelvin Freeman, the director of our emergency preparedness division, they monitor air quality regularly.

And so some of the things that I heard just in the last few minutes is uh that you know when you step outside, you need to be hearing from the health department.

Um we're doing health department things.

What I do want to clarify, however, is that air quality is not fully in the jurisdiction of just the health department.

We have for good reasons multiple departments that play a role in this, including BC, including operations, including our homeland security.

And so what we have done to this point, and I'm really proud of the work that the team has done is that on social media and through traditional media, we've disseminated as recently uh uh as early as yesterday before the wildfire smoke came penetrating into the state of Michigan that there is going to be a statewide air quality alert, and also we provided health guidance on what these AQI measures mean.

Since we learned that the AQI reached a hazardous point as of early this morning, we then communicated again with the public across all of our socials and all of our traditional channels that the AQI is in a hazardous range, meaning 300 and up.

Currently, it's sitting at 500.

These are unprecedented numbers, meaning that these this is a health hazard for everyone, not just those that we typically refer to as sensitive groups.

This is a health hazard for everyone.

So for everyone listening, for everyone that's tuning in, want you to know that this is something that everyone should be taking cautions for.

Which again, we provide it on DETL, all of our socials and traditional media channels.

That's what the health department does.

And then through our collaboration with Homeland Security, we sent out at the mayor's behest and at her approval a message to the entire city uh informing folks that the AQI is poor.

Stay inside if you can and follow DET Health for more guidance.

Um, and so I just wanted to clarify if there are any questions about what the health department's role is, what it is that we have done to this point.

I heard a couple things around certain things that we probably don't have jurisdiction over, council member, uh, but happy to explore those as possibilities.

Uh, but that's uh I wanted to provide a general lay of the land update.

Now I just left KMAC where we recorded a video with the mayor to inform the public um of these hazards, and we're gonna continue to monitor within the department.

No, no, listen, I I I I appreciate that.

I mean, I I have a whole lot of questions, but uh the the chairwoman said that we don't have a whole lot, we don't have a whole lot of time.

So I I'm not I'm not gonna try to push the limit like I usually do.

But I was so what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna just send you the questions that I have in writing.

I appreciate the work.

I know this is unprecedented, and I get that, but somebody, it doesn't have to be a personal one-on-one meeting, but I should get some sort of notification of what you're doing or what's going on before an alert comes out, and I'm overwhelmed with having to respond to something that I don't have the information in my hand about what's going on and what you're doing.

And I just want to say for the record, when we have something like this, it's good for us to have the health department, and I appreciate that and I appreciate you guys being here.

But we also should have people that are here that can answer the question I'm having evolving from the fire department, so we can have a conversation not just about what's going on and how we're addressing this, but the technologies that we're gonna implement to be able to mitigate this type of thing in the future.

Because I understand it's unprecedented, it's going to be unprecedented with climate change, other such things.

It's gonna be unprecedented when it comes to floods being over there on the east side.

It's gonna be a president if it comes to Canadian wire wildfires.

We are gonna have unprecedented weather events that are continuing to happen.

And we gotta have some sort of technology and some sort of coordinating plan together is some sort of response team that can respond to when stuff like this happens.

So we have the answers and we have the solutions.

So I'm gonna I have a lot more questions in terms of backup power and shelters, but I'm not gonna overwhelm you with that.

Thank you for the info.

And and the thing you just said about the number, the reduction that went from 500 to 301.

That's a big deal.

I, you know, people, you know, people still might, you know, wear me out, give me the business when I talk about it, but people should know.

You know, at least you're out working doing something progressively making it better.

I don't know that if I'm not updating.

All right, thank you for that.

I appreciate you.

I will send the rest of my questions in writing, madam chair.

I'm done.

Thank you.

Thank you, Pro Tim.

And I don't want anybody to believe that I'm saying we don't have additional time to discuss this.

This is extremely important.

I just want to have you all cued up for NCS uh at one o'clock, and I'm sure Pro Tim will ask his additional questions of you all because I think for things that the general public needs to be aware of, we should have this conversation public publicly for them to be aware, for them to get the answers.

And I do just also want to say that there is an intersectionality around many things that we do in this city.

We don't necessarily just have one department to respond, but we look for the administration to pull the team together to be able to respond as a city as a whole.

So we appreciate the work that has been done.

We appreciate the work that is being done and the work that will be done because this is something that we weren't necessarily expecting, but we certainly have to respond to it for the health of our residents and the general public.

Member Santiago Romero.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I will keep this brief and just say uh to add to our responses.

Um our office reached out to Henry Ford Health to see if local hospitals can give us uh masks, um, emergency management as well.

It sounds like there might be some support to drop off more masks and other rec centers like Kemene.

Um so we're working on on that.

Um we are also checking in with our senior buildings, but quite frankly, this should be already a part of the system of response.

So just a suggestion if we're not already doing this through our department of neighborhoods, through our senior advocates.

Um, but if we see this happening, we should immediately track with our senior buildings, see it what how many masks they need, already have those set aside and drop those off to seniors.

They can't go to our rec centers uh to be able to pick up these masks.

So just a note um for something else that we need to be prepared for when this is to come, uh, because it seems to be a regular summer cadence now.

Um, so we need we need to be prepared.

Thank you, madam chair.

Thank you.

Any reflection.

All right.

I anticipate that uh Mr.

Washington is listening so he can involve the Department of Neighborhoods or any other department that should be involved in this conversation and making sure that we are getting the word out and getting resources out to our residents.

I also just want to add and remind everyone that we do have a climate and disaster task force that is co-chaired by myself, Member Santiago Romero, and Member Waters.

Um these are the reasons we have those conversations so that we can be we can proactively identify how we will address these emergencies and these situations that come upon us that we're just not um blindsided by that we may not be thinking about on a day daily regular basis, but to make sure we're prepared and planning how we respond to our residents to get information out to them again.

I want to say thank you to the administration for sharing the information.

I think we need to get many more people signed up for Alert 365, and that we utilize that platform whenever we need to.

It is for emergencies, it is for informing residents within the community of what is taking place.

Uh, and so I did see Dr.

Abazid's hand first.

So, Dr.

Abazid.

You are currently muted.

Sorry about that.

Thank you, Councilmember.

I just wanted to let folks know that you know we've been coordinating with the mayor's office and operations and fire and B seed and uh all the range of folks that would have a hand in this.

The health department uh is also just uh uh uh as Dr.

Freeman mentioned a little bit ago.

We are going to be providing masks.

They're already at the sites at four rec centers that are listed in our social media.

And so uh we're taking those actions.

Uh, we've been coordinating since you know uh early yesterday morning on the action plan.

A lot of the stuff goes through the emergency preparedness division within the health department.

Um, and we have distributed those alerts.

Uh we cannot send messages to folks who haven't opted in.

That said the mayor did make a decision to send out uh a text public service announcement blast that went out to folks all across the county area, um, informing them again of that health guidance.

And so uh again, happy to have the conversation about uh coordination, happy to have conversations around what else we can do uh going forward, but also in this particular acute episode as well.

Um, and uh happy to you know get ideas from the council as well.

But just wanted folks to know that a lot of that coordination is happening, uh, and I'm curious uh what else um you all would like to see going forward.

Thank you, and we'll have those conversations within the climate and disaster task force meetings.

So um I know that there are representatives from various departments that are there, including Health Fire, uh B seed, um, Homeland Security as well.

So certainly look forward to additional conversations.

Miss Crystal Gilbert Gilbert Rogers.

Yes, ma'am.

Yes, ma'am.

I just wanted to I just got a message that uh Director Peck and Paul does have senior advocates out distributing masks to our uh senior residents.

And I also wanted to uh take a moment to address some of our uh more vulnerable but still loved um companions, our pets and our animals.

So if you do have pets, we encourage you to bring them inside as well.

Um, air quality affects us and them equally.

That's it for me.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for that.

Um, we certainly do appreciate you all joining us this morning uh into the afternoon.

Um, I'm sure you all will continue to uh get information out to residents.

We appreciate the work, we appreciate the information, and uh we just have to continue to come together and work together to get the word out and make sure that we are providing the resources to our residents.

Thank you all so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, we are now going to go back to our agenda, and I'd like to call back to order the 1040 public hearing.

The 1040 public hearing is to establish a commercial rehabilitation district for Co.

Van Dyke 2 LLC in the area of 1500 Van Dyck.

And we do have the developer, I believe, Clifford Brown, who is also slated to join us.

That is correct, madam chair.

Mr.

Brown, if you would please raise your hand if you are joining us virtually so that we can get you ported over as a panelist.

Madam Chair, Mr.

Brown is a panelist.

Thank you.

All right.

Who would like to uh oh, would you all please introduce yourself for the record?

Justice Cook, Housing and Revivalization Department.

Good afternoon, Alton Williams, Detroit Economic Growth Corporation.

Afternoon, and Mr.

Brown, if you can please, there you go.

Introduce yourself for the record.

Hi, my name is Clifford Brown.

I'm the president of CEO of Woodborne.

I'm also the owner and manager of Co Van Dyke.

Uh and uh Co Vandy LLC.

Good afternoon.

Who'd like to kick us off?

How well Madam Chair, Co Van Dyke to LLC is requesting a commercial rehabilitation exemption district in the area 1500 Van Dyke Detroit, Michigan.

The legislative body of a local qualified governmental unit may establish a district on its own initiative or upon written request filed by an owner.

This is the first step in the process for a certificate.

Thank you, Justice.

Um Madam Chair, may I share my screen, please?

Yes.

Thank you very much.

All right.

So today, CO2, led by Clifford Brown, is requesting the establishment of a PA210 commercial rehabilitation district.

Just the level set uh very briefly.

The incentive being requested today is for the commercial space on the building.

Uh however, we wanted to ensure that we presented the project in its entirety uh inclusive of the residential space as well.

So uh PA210 was enacted by the state of Michigan to promote the development and redevelopment of commercial businesses or multifamily residential facilities.

Per state statute, the value of building improvements receives a 100% property tax exemption from local mills, with the exception of DPS operating and state education tax.

Uh the exemption may be approved for up to 12 years, and there is no reduction to the existing property taxes and the incentive benefits are not generated until after completion of construction.

On May 26, 2026, the assessor's office for the city of Detroit provided a letter confirming this project's ability for the establishment of a PA210 district.

This project is located in the area of 1500 Van Dyke in the West Village neighborhood of Council District 5.

CO2 is a 15.5 million dollar 34,000 plus square feet square foot mixed use resident uh mixed use development project, which consists of over 1,100 square feet of commercial space and 47 residential units, with 20% of those being priced at 80% AMI.

The DGC has conducted its evaluation of the project.

As part of our evaluation, we ensure that every project meets specific policy objectives.

Projects should provide strategic benefits that align with the city's goals and initiatives, economic benefits that create opportunities for Detroit residents and businesses and generate fiscal benefits for the city.

Projects should also meet the butt four requirement, indicating that financially the project could not proceed without the incentive.

CO2 demonstrates strategic benefits by providing 20% of their units at 80% AMI, which does include uh utilities.

Uh CO2 also uh demonstrate strategic benefits by activating vacant land and providing a new community amenity.

CO2 demonstrates economic benefits by creating approximately 100 temporary construction jobs and creating three permanent FTE jobs, as well as adding a new local business to the area.

CO2 generates a combined benefit of 1,217,480, which is approximately 81,165 per year.

Through the DGC underwriting review, we have determined that the project meets the butt four requirements due to the developers' inability to cover their debt service payments without this incentive.

Through the DGC's analysis, we have determined that the existing annual taxes on the property are $3,413.

Upon completion of the development project, the new unabated property taxes are estimated to increase to 205,580 with the abatement applied.

The total annual property taxes would be reduced to 70,257.

This concludes my portion of the presentation.

I will now turn it over to the developer to discuss additional details about this project.

Thank you all.

Cliff.

Yeah, thank you.

So my name is Stuart Brown again.

I'm president of CEO of Woodborne Partners.

We invest in five neighborhoods within the city of Detroit, as well as downtown, Midtown, and the Riverfront.

We've invested over 110 million dollars in Detroit's neighborhoods to date, and we are a Detroit headquartered uh business.

Next page, please.

So uh what we are proposing includes 43 parking spaces.

That also includes two accessible parking spaces as well as 10 uh visitor parking spots.

Um our plan is to charge 100 uh monthly parking, but that is like um that is the net of it.

Um, and then we will have sorry, I can't see part of the screen.

Give me one second.

Um parking lot is one way, so that for safety purposes, and then we'll be a walking pedestrian path.

Uh, next slide, please.

Uh so in terms of accessibility, we will have one type A unit with counter level microwaves, uh uh bathtubs, lower cabinets, uh side-by-side uh washer and dryer.

In addition, um, there will be accessible restrooms with turn radiuses, roll under sinks, and and blocking for grab bars as well as grab bars.

Um, there will be a zero-step uh entrance.

The total number of uh type B units are 46, eight will be on the first floor, and all type B units are adaptable to be type A as needed.

And then we have elevator access on all levels as well as zero step uh entries.

And then our commercial restroom that will uh be on the first floor will be uh ADA accessible with grab bars uh and the like.

And we also have uh uh so let's go to the next slide, please.

Uh we do have a stormwater retention plan in place to help with runoff all of the water that is fought on site will stay on site, and I'm getting the metrics from our architects and our engineers who have been doing the calculations to ensure how long they will stay on site.

We are exploring the potential for EV charging stations.

We have them in a in another building, and we want to implement them here.

We just want to implement them in a way that they are actively used with energy star-rated appliances as well as high efficiency HVAC electrical employment systems.

Uh next slide.

Uh, we uh this project will create three full-time equivalent jobs, approximately 100 FTE construction jobs.

Uh we are prioritizing the hiring of Detroit residents, and uh we will engage with Detroit at work to explore construction and retail job opportunities for Detroiters.

We're also going to be working with Motor City Match in the placement of the retail and the general contractor that we're using.

We've used them across all of our projects, and we work closely together to not only create opportunities for Detroit-based businesses in this specific project, but also to create opportunities where if they apply for this project and whatever reason they are not able to get this project that they get specific feedback so that even if this project doesn't work out for them, that they're available for the next project.

Let's move to the next one.

Next slide, please.

Uh there right now have had fires, one as recently as a month ago.

And you know, we have worked with BC to make sure they're secure, but they're uh starting to become a health hazard.

Um we will be repaving the alley um from Parker to Coast Street as well as uh plowing of the alley after snowfalls.

We have nine new affordable units on site.

We um as part of uh not as part of this project, but because we knew we were doing this project and this project could not accommodate two bedrooms.

Um we did acquire uh and preserve uh uh uh 16 unit historic building down the street um where we preserve the affordability where 50% of the units are between 50 and 80 percent AMI and the other are at 120% AMI, so it's 100% affordable.

We're adding over a thousand square feet of retail space.

We're adding a lounge slash community space that will be available for community meetings and events, not just for our residents but also for the public.

Um very similar to what we have done in southwest Detroit.

Um we uh in addition to that uh sorry some of the uh we're adding a shared business center, not only for our residents, but also for community use.

We're adding bike rocks and uh bike racks in the parking lot as well as along Van Dyke.

We're um redoing the sidewalks on both uh Co as well as Van Dyke.

We're adding lights and security cameras on Co and Van Dyke Street.

We're adding density, safety, and security to a street that is known as a known place for stolen cars due to a lack of lighting.

Um and then the residents at the existing co, which is already there, we'll see increased security, additional parking, a package room, and access to the lounge, business center, exercise room, and outdoor recreation space with grill.

Um and uh and then um we are working with the community, so we have two specific things that we are doing in partnership with the community.

So the building will have a mural on it as well as the landscaping we're doing.

We've hired a landscape architect, and we have a uh um a muralist that we're going to engage, and we're going to have at least three um community uh collaborative community planning events with the community for the landscaping as well as the mural.

And um with that, I I apologize for talking so long and I'll I'll be quiet and answer any questions you have.

All right, thank you so much for that.

And to my colleagues, just want to note that I am going to ask for a motion to bring this back in one week as a line item, noting that there is a brown field that will be before us next week.

Um, and so with that, I'd like to turn to public comment.

If there's anyone joining us who would like to make a public comment regarding the presentation that was just shared, please raise your hand.

Please raise your hand going once going twice, going three times.

The collection of public comment has concluded.

And Ms.

Great, how many hands do we have raised virtually, noting that there are no hands raised in the committee of the whole?

Madam Chair, there are currently five hands raised for public comment.

Thank you.

If you if you will please set the clock for one minute, we will get started.

Who do we have first?

Our first caller is Cindy Dara.

Cindy Dara, you have one minute for public comment regarding the public hearing.

Are you there?

Let's come back to Miss Dara.

Our next caller is Owner Papa.

Owner Papa, you have one minute.

Miss Great, let's come back to this caller.

Our next caller is Marguerite Maddox and Scarlet.

Miss Marguerite Maddox and Scarlet, you have the floor regarding the 1040 public hearing.

Yes.

Thank you.

Um my question is how many eight apartments.

Any unit with shipment driver.

And the doors are gonna have automatic door open.

Open it for the interview.

And for the apartment and chef.

I think it's gonna be key uh key poding doors.

Thank you for missing about the shower.

Thank you for that.

Um, question was guys to the ADA apartment.

How many are gonna be the register design?

Mean, but they can change for every day.

That they can meet their needs, and how many parking spaces are gonna be a very for edge the one more?

Please.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next caller.

Our next caller is Toya.

Toya, you have one minute for a public comment.

Yes, good evening.

Um, I'm calling about the I wanted the information on the 20 meetings that Clifford Brown conducted.

Are you gonna have another meeting?

That's number one.

Number two, why I have to pay a hundred dollars a month to park in an apartment building that I'm renting.

That's number three, and what I'm getting for that hundred dollars for number one, and it is a historical area for the villages, the West Village area, Clearford.

And what are they asking for?

Are you having another meeting with the community?

Are you asking for Brownfield money, tax abatement money?

I didn't hear all of this.

So, and I mean you got 47 apartments, but you're gonna have 43 spaces, and it's gonna be sugar be tight.

And you're talking about putting commercial down at the bottom again with everybody.

I'm looking at curtable, all of this, and no business is coming in our backyard, even on Agnes and St.

Paul.

So tell me something new.

Thank you.

The next caller.

Our next caller is Mr.

Foster.

Mr.

Foster, you have one minute for public comment regarding the public hearing.

Oh, good up to know.

I just wanted to say very briefly, I did hear 20 community engagements, 12 uh letters of support.

I would just ask um at these engagements, do they have sign in sheets?

How many people more recently?

What I've um seen is is that organizations that speak on behalf of people sometimes they incentivise themselves and deceive the people in which they're trying to represent.

So I think that's important that we start to take account of individuals, their perceptions, their perspectives, and their supports until that we can really fully engage what the leaders are or block club members or whoever it is, where they stand at the integrity of them.

I think that at each one of these engagements, any time these businesses come ahead, or DGC say they have community engagement, it should be documented with sign-in sheets as well as somebody identifying whether they support or disagree.

Thank you.

The next caller.

We are going back to Cindy Dara.

Cindy Dara, you have one minute for public comment regarding the public hearing.

Are you there?

Going once.

Going twice.

Going three times.

If you'd like to make a public comment regarding the public hearing, please reach out to the clerk's office, and your comments will be placed on public record.

Who do we have next?

Our last caller is Owner Papa.

Owner Papa, you have one minute for public comment regarding the public hearing.

Going once.

Going twice.

Going three times.

Owner Papa, we have to move forward.

If you'd like to make a public comment, please provide that public comment to the clerk's office, and it will also be placed on public record.

Does that now conclude public comment, Ms.

Great?

Yes, madam chair, that concludes public comment.

All right, thank you so much.

That concludes public comment.

And Mr.

Brown, would you like to kick us off with responses to the questions you heard?

You are currently muted.

You would think I would know technology by now.

Um, through the chair, uh, I I want to offer one thing, and if I'm out of order, please correct me.

Um, I would I would love to, if appropriate, um, meet with Miss Maddox and anybody else um from the council who they would deem appropriate so that in the future um any other ideas that she has or feedback that we can incorporate from the very beginning, I think will be very helpful.

I don't want to ignore that and blow past that.

And I do want to address her questions right now.

Um, so we have one ADA unit um in the building based on the number of units that we have.

Um we do have in that unit, we have side-by-side washers and dryers.

Um, we don't currently have automatic um door openers, but I'm actually gonna go back to my construction team to get an understanding of the cost and the implications on um the project, and then we have two ADA um parking spaces and what we have historically offered to everybody and anyone who is in any of the districts in which we have operating projects um knows that you know we operate from a spirit of humility, so anything that we don't have um that is you know, we can't meet every need, and we'll be very frank and very honest in terms of what we can and can't do, but we also want to make sure that we're listening and being proactive, particularly um because this is not the only project that we have in the city of Detroit, and we're committed to doing work in the city of Detroit.

Um, the questions that she had that I did not, I wasn't sure I understood, and I'm not sure if um anyone can shed light on.

There's a question regarding key pod opening doors, a design question, an assistance dog question.

And I wasn't sure if I heard those clearly.

Mr.

Brown, I believe the um question was will there be uh key pads to access the apartments.

Yes, absolutely.

So um thank you so much.

So um we we just recently built a building we're very proud of in Southwest um the Brooklyn Bagley, and um what we've been able to do there, we want to bring to West Village.

We think um it's very similar to what should happen in all the neighborhoods, and so in that building, um, all of our entries are keyless.

They have key uh keypads where you can use a keypad, but you can also use your door um to open them, and then we have staff that can support if there are any other um issues, but we do uh absolutely have keypads.

Thank you for that.

And if you can um if anyone can respond in regards to any additional community meetings, yeah, so I can I can speak to that and um and I can provide the specific detail, but we've met on a number of occasions with the West Village Association.

Um we've met on a number of occasions with um the East Jefferson Development Corporation with the Indian Village Tennis Club, um, with the villages CDC, and then we've hosted um at least six community engagement meetings, one um with uh when the when the mayor was the uh local council person, um, and then um we have attended a number of the five or live community meetings, um, and then most recently we had a public hearing with uh the Brownfield Development Corporation, but prior to that um we've had I I want to say we've had three to five meetings um this year, and um we have regularly kept um and I I don't wanna I don't want to make it sound like an endorsement.

I I never want to speak out on behalf of another organization, but we have actively whenever anything is going on, actively communicated with both the villages CDC as well as the West Village Association, um, particularly the most recently when we had the fire so that they had an update.

I sit on the brush park CDC board and I realize as a developer how hard it is when you're trying to meet all the different parties that have a vested interest.

And so we have tried to document every single meeting that we've had um as well as to keep a log and sheet.

Thank you for that.

Um in regarding to the parking spaces, we actually have uh we are in alignment in terms of the number of parking spaces for zoning, but we actually, as part of the feedback from the community, because we have a list of concerns that the community previously had, and we we tried to address each of their specific concerns, and one of them was the parking, and so we've actually added more parking back um than was required or um requested by the planning department.

So we do have 43 or 47 spaces, and then the retail that we're playing there, we want it to be community-based retail that is more of a walk-up than a park, and understand that with the 43 parking spaces, we're also um as part of our work on Coast Street.

Um, we are opening up uh, I think it is 10 additional parking spaces on Co.

So there actually will be a total of 53 parking spaces, but 43 that will be dedicated to this project.

Thank you, Mr.

Brown.

Um, because we do still have to complete a the the remaining of our agenda, and I know you'll be back next week for the brown field.

Um, can you just briefly answer the question around uh support animals being allowed?

Yes, absolutely.

We allow um um we do allow pets in all of our buildings.

Um we do have uh uh uh breed restriction and a weight restriction, but obviously that um if if somebody has a letter from a doctor, even outside of that, there's only so much we can do, but we do um engage with that resident to ensure that they know like typically we have families in our buildings in terms of young kids and we have um older people and um we have uh accessibility needs in our buildings, and so we want to make sure everybody is safe and secure, but we do allow pets and we do allow service animals.

Okay, thank you.

And I am going to reserve my questions until next week.

Um, so we have a little bit more time to go through them.

Colleagues, is there a motion to bring line item eight, the public hearing back as a line item in one week?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Thank you so much uh for joining us, and we will see you next week.

This now closes out the 1040 public hearing.

And we are going to move to unfinished business and move through this agenda very quickly so that we can make way for NCS.

Uh colleagues, without objection, I'd like to combine line items 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3.

These are all regarding 590 East Jefferson.

Is there a motion for motion?

Is there a motion to send line items 9.1 through 9.3 to formal with a recommendation to approve?

Motion is send line 9.1 through 9.3 to formal session with recommendation for approval.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Line item 9.4, status council member Mary Warter, submitted memorandum relative to follow-up questions on DLBA development activities.

Is there a motion to receive and file?

Line item 9.4.

Motion receive and file.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Line item 9.5 status of council president James Tay.

Submit a memor memorandum relative to request for comprehensive homeless services contract matrix.

There's a request for a one-week bringback.

Is there a motion?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Line item 9.6 status of council member Angela Whitfield Callaway.

Submit a memorandum relative to request for resolution in support of Senate Bill 1053.

Is there a motion to receive and file?

Votion receive and file.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

The resolution is line item 10.8.

Uh moving on to new business.

Without objection, I'd like to combine line items 10.1 and 10.2.

10.1 is contract number 6007918, 100% CDBG DR.

That is disaster recovery funding to provide funds for the alley sewer repair program for inspection rehabilitation and replacement as needed.

Contractor LGC Global with a joint venture with Detroit Grounds Crew, a district four organization.

Contract period upon City Council approval for a period of four years.

Total contract amount 25 million dollars.

And line item 10.2 is contract number 600720, 100% CDBG DR funding to provide funds for alley sewer repair project.

Inspection rehabilitation and replacement as needed.

Contractor, major contracting group.

This is also for a period of four years.

Total contract amount 25 million dollars.

Colleagues, is there a motion to approve or discuss?

Noting that these two line items are federal dollars that have come as a result of the 2023.

The uh what do I want to call it?

Natural the weather event we had in 2023.

This will address sewer repairs throughout the alleys.

Is there a motion?

Discussion.

Discussion, pro Tim Young.

This includes uh in your area, particularly that's this considerable flood zone.

Yes, pro Tim Young.

This is throughout the entire city.

Okay.

All right.

Is there a motion?

Uh motion to move line on 10.1 to formal session with recognition for approval.

Uh Pro Tim, thank you for the motion uh to send line items 10.1 and 10.2 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Hearing hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Without objection, I'd like to combine line items 10.3 and 10.9.

Motion.

Line item 10.3 is contract number 6005549-82, 100% city funding.

Amendment number two to provide an increase of funds and an extension of time for professional services to assist the planning and development department to update the city of Detroit's master plan contractor, Smith Group contract period through December 31st, 2026.

Contract increase amount 100,000 dollars.

And line item 10.9 line item 10.9 is submitting resolution authorization for the community outreach ordinance report for the master plan update contract amendment.

Is there a motion to send line item 10.3 to formal with recommendation to approve or a motion to discuss?

Most to approve.

This is the send vote to approve the send line or 10.3 to formal session for approval.

With recommendation for approval.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Is there a motion to receive and file line item 10.9?

Motion received a file.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

That brings us to line item 10.4.

Line item 10.4 is submitted resolution authorization for the July 14th, 2026.

List of contracts subject to delegated approval.

Is there a motion for a brief discussion?

Motion discuss.

Discussion.

Thank you, pro Tim.

I believe we have Director Stahl joining us for line item 10.4.

Madam Chair, I do not see Director Stahl.

If she could raise her hand.

Colleagues, is there a motion to bring line item 10.4 back in one week?

Motion to bring back line 10.4 in one week.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Line item 10.5 submitting resolution authorization.

This is the submission of the fiscal year 2026-2027.

Annual action plan.

Is there a motion for a one-week bring back?

Motion to bring back.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Without objection, I'd like to combine line items 10.6 and 10.

10 point.

I'm sorry.

Line.

10.6.7.

Yes.

I actually I'm going to keep them separate.

Line item 10.6 is submitting resolution authorization.

This is the third extension of review period for the proposed zoning ordinance text amendment.

The sixth general text amendment.

Is there a motion to discuss?

Motion discuss.

Discussion, Director Todd, if you can well is there is there a motion to discuss line item 10.7 as well.

Motion discussed 10.7.

I I get it.

I get it.

That's the reason for the combination to discuss both.

Director Todd, I will yield the floor to you if you can share where we are with these items.

Certainly, Madam Chair.

Uh good afternoon to you and the members of this honorable committee as quickly as I can.

Consistent with past indications over the course of the earlier part of this year, we have now received from the law department a new updated version of the sixth general text amendment ordinance that is reconciled with the actions taken by the previous council last year with the adoption of the screening and buffering ordinance as well as the adaptive reuse ordinance.

That being the case, we are now ready to recirculate this document for consumption, for review consumption by city council members, and look to do so over the course of the next few weeks going into your recess and would respectfully request that it may be bright be brought back in September in order for uh introduction to take place, if in fact that ends up being the desire of uh the committee.

But we're looking to meet with council members in order to review the ordinance and make whatever modifications are necessary.

Now, in order to do that, uh for uh that uh uh otherwise it's moved, we would need uh your honorable body to advance item 10.6, which is the extension of the viability for the item.

And just for clarity's sake, the way the ordinance works, as long as the request was received before the matter expired, uh it can still be extended.

So that is why there is a request to extend before you today uh so that this matter can remain viable going into early next year if need be.

Uh, again, this is the sixth general text amendment that the commission acted upon over a year and a half ago uh and was uh distributed to this uh city council last fall and was uh not acted upon and brought back to this new council uh and it again includes a number of general housekeeping items and another of other ad hoc items that are uh had been deemed necessary as having been collected over a period of time to be brought before you given that it is the sixth general text amendment.

Uh we have clearly done it five times before, and that being the case, it has been consistent with the charter, the law department, uh the the review by the law department um uh uh in the past and is now the case as well.

All right, thank you so much.

With that being said, colleagues, is there a motion to send line item 10.6 to formal with recommendation to approve?

Discussion.

Discussion, pro Tim Young.

Yeah, I just want to ask this really quickly.

Uh, has there been any discussion about adding uh Thomas vehicles into this at all?

Through the chair to member young.

Given that zoning focuses primarily on zoned land on property and does not deal with the right of ways except in very limited situations, that would be more appropriate under another aspect of the city code.

However, we are looking at things that could in fact marry with that, as we have our EV charges, charging station autonomous vehicles where the the use and operation of such vehicles impacts the zoned land.

That is definitely something that we're looking at.

In terms of waiting, in terms of waiting spaces and things that nature as well.

Are you saying that that discussion would be more appropriate if I did it with like uh department of public works or something of that nature in terms of the actual road and the like some states actually have like lights that they have as well, and I just want to know is that something that'd be more appropriate with them than in this?

Through the chair again, it would be a combination because what we see and what you will be seeing in the coming weeks is uh a reformation of discussions that were taking place last year.

We would think that that would be part and parcel of a parking reform ordinance.

Okay.

So is that a combination with you, combination with public works, and combination with D dot, right?

Certainly could be with D dot as well, yes.

Coordinated committee.

All right, thank you.

Thank you, Mayor Chair.

I'm done.

Thank you.

Colleagues, is there a motion on line item 10.6?

Motion.

What's the motion protest?

You bringing this back, right?

Or you move this out.

You move this out today?

All right.

Motion to move out.

Oh no, you move out line 2.6, not 10.7.

Oh, okay, my bad.

Motion to move out line item 10 point.

No, motion to move line on 10.6 to formal session with recognition for approval.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

And colleagues, is there a motion to bring line item 10.7 back on September 10th.

Motion.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

And madam clerk, if you will please note that member Benson has joined us.

Thank you.

That brings us to line item 10.8.

Line item 10.8 is submitting resolution authorization.

City council member Angela Whitfield Callaway requested LPD provide a resolution in support of Senate Bill 1053.

Is there a motion to send line item 10.8 to formal with recommendation to approve?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Line item 10.10.

Councilmember Mary Waters submitting memorandum relative to ordinance request, good faith in housing.

Is there a motion to refer line item 10.10 to LPD and bring back on September 10th?

Motion refer.

Hearing no objections, line item 10.10 will be referred to LPD and brought back September 10th.

Attorney Heel.

Uh yes, sorry.

Uh good afternoon to this honorable body, D Hill Law Department.

Um actually 10.10 is with the law department.

And I'm actually going to request that we bring this item back after recess, please.

Okay.

It's colleagues, thank you for that.

Um is there a motion to refer line item 10.10 to LPD and the law department and bring back on September 10th?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Line item 10.11.

Councilmember Reneta Miller.

Submitting memorandum requesting a report identifying individuals, companies, LLCs, or affiliated ownership groups that own 10 or more residential and or commercial properties within the city of Detroit.

Is it is there a motion to refer line item 10.11 to the housing and revitalization department as well as the assessor's office and bring back September 10?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

That brings us to member reports.

Is there a motion to suspend?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

And without objection, if there is nothing further to come before the Planning and Economic Development Standing Committee, we shall stand adjourned.