The Planning Commission held a pre-review meeting on Thursday, August 7, 2025, at 5:30 p.m. in the Auditorium of City Hall to discuss agenda items for the subsequent regular meeting. No formal votes were taken; all items were reviewed and will be acted upon at the regular meeting.
So if you guys are ready, I'll run through the things really quick. Everybody ready? All right. So four, well, that we've got three sets of minutes to adopt because we have both the joint council meeting minutes appeared this month, and then the minutes from last month. And then there's four, we got four applications, really three applications, and then that uh the historic designation of the Franklin School based on the guidance from June. Had to bring that back. Um, and I'll talk a little bit about that when we get to it. Um the first application we got was for a lot consolidation. This is for the south portion of the Barry Buick project that came through that that's under construction. It's three parcels right now per the county property records. All of them are C three. Sorry, the and the graphics are terrible, but you can see there's the three parcels. It's the two parcels on the right side that had um homes in them. Uh I think one has been knocked down, one they're using as an office until they have to knock it down. And so this is a consolidation of that. Um talked with Sean earlier today, and so we dug a little bit into this uh setback requirement that I did not catch the first time around that Sean caught. Um they referenced it on here. So after we talked, I brought it up to the applicant who then sent a response back and said it's it's from an old Ulta survey or something that and then that they have done the title work, and so that is no longer in effect. So it was like what what year is it? Like 1908. Yeah. So that hopefully that that puts that issue to bed. So it's just a it's just a consolidation in support of that uh construction project. And it unlike a plan development, the mixed use overlay didn't have a requirement for the plat to come through, so that's why it's coming through now. Um good lesson learned on my part that when we go through mixed over mixed use overlays on multiple parcels. I should need to ask for the plat, like in conjunction with the uh the zoning review so that we don't run into an issue like that, and they don't build across a uh deed restriction line that it that is still in effect. So I did not see any issues with this pending, and uh the one thing I this is pending uh engineer review, so that that's kind of the standard condition. I I'll bring that up again during the meeting. But it has already been through county review. I know that second application is uh mixed use overlay. Um the building that was part of North Coast Community College that is um and I the applicant I believe was the was the head of the North Coast community college. They still like own the buildings. So he's he's basically working through an adaptive reuse of this building. Um they want to convert it to uh multifamily with a uh commercial storefront uh on the front of the first floor. Um so that unfortunately that's why we're here for mixed use overlay because there is a apartment, uh I think there's yeah, one or two apartments on the ground floor, um, which is why it has to go through the overlay. It is a specific case that we are addressing in this the zoning refresh uh that that we are going to propose that first floor residential will be a condition as part of adaptive reuse and other things that it's allowed on the ground floor as long as it's not on the commercial. There's a whole bunch of things that we're working through that. But this is one of those cases that I'm just like it's the process that's got to go through, even though there's not a lot to it. So they're not existing not non-conforming, they're new units. They're new units. Yeah, that's my understanding. Was that uh this is this was a commercial building from its inception. Property records listed as like it was an industrial use originally, whether it's like a they manufactured stuff inside it or whatever, but it has never been residential. Um it is and it's entirely within the walls of that existing building. It's all C3. It's a building that needs needs some attention. So there you can see the ground floor, second floor, third floor working left to right. So there's three units on the ground floor there towards the the north end of the building away from Detroit. And then uh one, two, three, four, five, six on the second floor and three on the third floor. This is going through ABR concurrently for the just the work that they're doing on the the outside.