Good evening. Welcome to the City of Warren Planning Commission meeting.
It's now 7:00 on April 20th, 2026. Please
stand for the pledge of allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,
and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under
God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
All right. Roll call.
Come on, machine.
Commissioner Ansara.
Commissioner Holowaty.
Present.
Commissioner Hogue. Present. Commissioner Doucet, present.
Commissioner Mori is absent. Commissioner Bonecki.
Present.
And Chairman Smith.
Present. I need a motion to excuse Commissioner Ansara,
Commissioner Mori.
I make a motion to excuse Commissioner Mori and
Commissioner Ansara.
I support it.
All in favor?
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion to approve the agenda. Item four.
Okay. Approval of agenda.
Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion that we approve the agenda.
Support, Mayor Bonecki.
There's a motion by Commissioner Doucet, support by Commissioner Bonecki to approve
the agenda. All in favor?
Aye.
Any opposed?
Item number five, approval of the minutes of March 23rd, 2026.
Chair, I make a motion to approve the minutes of
March...
What date was that? 23rd.
I support it.
There's a motion by Commissioner Holowaty, support by Commissioner Hogue.
All in favor?
Aye.
Any opposed?
I don't see our ex officio's. They're probably in another meeting.
So, number six, public hearing items 6A.
6A, site plan for open storage of pallets
and two shipping containers to store sheet metal parts
and metal tubing located on the north side of Ten Mile Road,
approximately 191 feet west of Bunnert Road,
14219 and 14201
Ten Mile Road. Section 24, Nancy Morrow,
American Fan and Blower, Tom Joicele,
American Blower Supply,
PSP-260006.
Postponed from February 23rd, 2026 and March 9th,
2026.
Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Is the petitioner here this evening?
Good evening, sir. You can come up and tell us a little bit about your project.
Yes. My name is Jeffrey Graham. I'm project architect with Camtech and
Associates. I'm here with Tom Joicele
from the company,
he's a client's representative. What we're
doing is they needed to
add some additional storage,
because they're extremely busy right now.
So, we're going to add a couple of storage pods to
store mechanical equipment and duct work.
What they do is they
build equipment to handle dust in
industrial settings, and their business has taken off.
And so, right now it is. So temporarily, we'd like to
put those storage pods in there, but we don't know how long we're going to keep
them. And,
then also adjacent to the building, we have racks for
the equipment that comes in, and once they've built something, they put it on the
racks for removal to be shipped out
later.
We've been working closely with the planning department.
They've come up with a number of recommendations, including additional parking,
expanding the driveways from 20 feet to 30 feet, there's
two of them, and building a
curb, because initially the curb was never built on the
street because that was a driveway
for the
adjacent piece of property. So that was never built,
but now we will finish it.
We're talking 20 or 30 years ago, it's been sitting like that.
And then we will add a concrete skirt alongside the street.
And we will be doing everything that the planning department has
asked us to do.
Thank you, sir. Correspondence?
Correspondence. Taxes current. Engineering, we offer
the following comments. One, combination of both the
parcels is required to conform with the site plan.
Two, two-way entrance drives must be 30 feet wide at
the property line. Radii should be a minimum of 20 feet.
Drive approaches shall conform to Michigan Department of Transportation
standard detail R29J detail
M. Three, Macomb County Department of Roads approval and
permit required for all work in the Ten Mile Road right of way.
A copy of said permit must be provided to our office.
Police, the Warren Police Department has reviewed the submitted site plan and
does not foresee any issues at this time.
AT&T does not object to the proposed storage
plans. We do have facilities serving the building, but they
should not be affected. Comcast, we have no conflicts with the
proposal, but we have aerial and underground facilities in the
area. Macomb County Public Works office has reviewed the
site plan for the project referenced above and has determined
that proposed site disturbance is less than one acre and
will not require a stormwater review from this office.
If a no objection letter is required, please forward your request to
wesleyjanek@macombgov.org.That
concludes the correspondence, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Planning department's recommendation.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. The recommendation is as follows.
It is recommended that the site plan for open storage of pellets
and two storage pods be approved with the standard conditions
of the Planning Commission,
and more specifically, number one, five copies of revised site plans shall
be submitted indicating the following.
1A, add all previously
approved variances, except the variances
approved on November 10th, 1993, to
the completed site plans.
1B,
the site plan approved by the Planning Commission on December
6th, 1993, scales to a
20-foot wide building setback to the east property
line.
The site plan provided for the current project indicates
a side
setback of 18.21 feet. A
variance may be required to retain
the building setback to the east property line.
1C, the site plan indicates a front
setback of 48'
5"
along Ten
Mile Road, and 50 feet is the minimum required.
However, per Section 17.02,
Subsection
A2, it states,
"In an M2 zone where a front yard has been established by the
majority of the existing buildings in a block,
all buildings thereafter
erected or altered shall conform to the building
line thus established, provided no
building in an M2 zone shall
be required to be set back further than 50
feet. Provided further, however, notwithstanding
any provisions to the contrary,
in M2 zones, yards fronting on a
major thoroughfare as defined in the master
thoroughfare plan for the city of Warren or
front yards facing residential district
shall be 50 feet."
There are residential homes located across Ten Mile Road
along Melody Road. A variance may be
required to retain the existing setback.
1D, update the plan to meet the ADA
requirements. When 30 parking spaces are provided, two
accessible parking spaces per ADA
requirements shall be provided,
one being van accessible.
1E, the parking lot shall adhere to engineering
standards for drainage and stormwater collection.
1F,
the proposed 12-inch wide, six-inch high
continuous concrete curb
shall be provided from the east edge of the west
driveway
east for approximately 55 feet and abutting
the existing parking area.
1G, the engineering division recommends that both driveways shall be
widened to 30 feet. Planning staff concurs,
and the site plan shall be changed.
Update the east driveway on the site plan.
1H, the petitioner seeks approval to not
provide a trash enclosure as the dumpster will
be screened in the rear of the yard behind
fencing with opaque slats.
Condition number two, two parcels identified as
13-24-380-013
and
-012
shall be combined into one parent parcel.
An application shall be submitted to the planning department requesting
approval of the combination.
Condition number three, the following variances may need to be
obtained from the Zoning Board of Appeals prior to the release of
the site plan to the building division,
and that is
3A, to retain the existing building
setback 18.21 feet from the east property
line. 3B, to retain existing
building setback
48.5 feet from the front, that's Ten Mile Road
property line.
3C, to construct
the new parking lot, that's nine feet from the
front, 10 feet at
Ten Mile Road property
line. And
we'll go here, 3D, to construct the new
parking lot on a gravel surface.
If approved, the variances shall be added to the
revised site plan.
Number four, condition number four, performance bond, the amount of
$60 be posted according to the estimated cost
of $2,000 by the petitioner.
There is a note. There are a couple of notes here.
The planning staff believes that the proposed bond amount
is too low given the fact that concrete curbing,
parking lot changes
Including new hard surfacing and landscaping are part of the improvements.
The new estimate shall be provided closer to
$33,500, resulting in a bond in the
amount of $1,000.
Note number two, the planning commission currently retains a
performance cash bond in the amount of $3,500 as
a guarantee for site improvements.
The $3,500 cash bond was posted in
1994 by the previous owner.
Planning staff recommends releasing the bond,
as the new owner will have a new bond for the current project
in progress. And so with that, Mr. Chair, the recommendation
is submitted. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Wirth. This is a public hearing.
If anyone would like to come up and speak on this item, please state your name and
address for the record, and you'll have three minutes to speak.
Seeing none, we'll turn it over to the commission.
Chair, make a motion to approve with discussion.
I support it, Mr. Chair.
That was a motion by Commissioner Holowaty, supported by Mr. Hoch.
Discussion?
Okay.
To the petitioner, can you please step forward?
Good evening, gentlemen.
Okay, you heard all these new recommendations, and I think I heard you say
earlier you have no problems with any of them now?
That's correct. Yep.
Because I know I do recall that we met with you about
a month ago,
and there was some discussion about the parking situation,
and you were able to work that out?
Yeah. We basically
looked over what we needed to do, and putting in a parking
lot would be beneficial for everyone.
Okay, thank you. I relinquish the floor.
Anyone else like to speak on this item?
Mr. Chairman.
Commissioner Dujie.
Will the maker of the motion
also
add in that
the
$3,500 cash bond from the previous owner
be released
as part of the motion?
Yes, I forgot to mention that,
Commissioner Dujie. I forgot to mention, yes. Those two...
It's not on our bond releases.
Oh.
So therefore, it has to be released, and will have to come back under bond
releases.
Okay.
Because I was...
Okay, thank you.
You got to do that separately?
Yeah, we'll do it separately-
Okay
... because if we look at our bond releases, it's not under bond releases.
If we're going to release the bond, we need to do an appropriate area.
It's just a note saying that it should be released.
Okay.
But we're not doing it right now.
We still need to address the amount of the bond though.
Okay.
They released it to you? You just want it released. Anything else?
Oh, no. I'm done.
Okay. Good evening, sir.
Hi.
Hello.
Hi.
So are you okay with the increased bond amount of $33,500
with the bond of
$1,000?
No problem at all.
No problem with that? Okay. So we'll note that you okay-ed that.
I noticed the two shipping containers that are on the side of the building in the
driveway.
They moved them into the back corner?
Correct.
Because I saw where they had moved those.
Last time I was out there, they were still there, but when I went out this past
time and I saw they had been moved to the back.
Correct. Yeah, we were asked to move them because they could be seen from Ten
Mile. Now they can't.
Right. If you look real hard, you can see them.
Yeah.
All right, sir. That was a motion by
Commissioner Holowaty, supported by Commissioner Hoch. Roll call.
Commissioner Holowaty.
Yes. Turn your mic on.
Commissioner Hoch.
Yes, to approve.
Commissioner Dujie. Yes, to approve.
Commissioner Bonacci.
Yes, to approve.
And Commissioner Smith.
Yes, to approve. Good luck with your project, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you. All right, number 6B.
Site plan for parking lot expansion and open storage
of shipping containers and miscellaneous construction
materials located on the south side of 11 Mile Road,
approximately 186 feet west of Bonnert
Road, 14220 and 14240
11 Mile Road, Section 24, William
Derks, Derks Management, LLC,
PSP260016.
Good evening, sir. You want to tell us a little bit about your project?
Yes. My name is Tim Story out of Story Engineering, the
engineer representing the project.
So it's three existing buildings on...
It's actually four parcels, but the two applicable parcels are
parcel 14220 is the address, and the other one is
14230. We previously had
approval on some outdoor storage on
parcel B at the bottom. What they're
proposing to do, as you read, was they've got some outdoor
storage that they need to get on an approved site plan, so we're
showing that on the site plan. And they
realize that they
really need some more parking, so then we're proposing some additional
parking at the north end of the
property.
It's about 20 feet south of the right-of-way line.
Okay. All right. Thank you, sir. Correspondence?
Correspondence. Taxes are current.
AT&T has facilities in the vicinity, but they should not be
affected by the proposal. AT&T does not object.
Comcast, we have aerial and underground facilities in the area,
but we have no conflicts with the proposal.
DTE Electric Company has reviewed the site plan for parking lot
expansion and open storage of shipping containers and
miscellaneous construction materials.
DTE has no objection to this request impacting
14220 and 14240 11 Mile
Road, section 24, per the site plan provided.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call me at
586-783-1978.
The Macomb County Public Works office has reviewed the site plan for the
project referenced above and has determined the proposed site
disturbance is less than one acre and will not require a
stormwater review from this office.
If a no objection letter is required, please forward your request
to Wesley Johnick at macombgov.org.
Prior to construction, a soil erosion permit may be
required from this office. Contact our Soil
Erosion Department at
586-469-5327 for
more information regarding same.
MDOT. The site appears to have
work in MDOT's right of way. Any work, water
main taps, sanitary sewer taps, drainage, and driveway
modifications in MDOT's right of way or
changes to the drainage system that may impact
MDOT's storm system will require a permit.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
That concludes the correspondence, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Planning Department,
recommendation?
All right. Thank you, Mr. Chair. The recommendation is as follows.
It is recommended that the site plan for parking lot
expansion and open storage of shipping containers and
other miscellaneous construction materials be approved with the
standard conditions of the Planning Commission, and more specifically,
number one,
five copies of revised site plans shall be submitted indicating the
following.
1A,
add the Zoning Board of Appeals approvals from
August 13th, 1975, and July
13th of 1977 to the site plan.
1B, provide the dimensions for each storage
area on the plan.
1C,
review and update the total square footage for each
proposed storage area.
The outdoor storage area amounts differ between the
site data chart and the notes on the plan.
1D, add the
setback dimension from the new parking areas on
parcel A and parcel B to the north.
That's 11 Mile Road property line.
1E,
add the cross access and the parking easement legal
description
as provided in the new cross-access
agreement, Exhibit D, to the site
plan.
1F, provide four new trees in the front
lawn areas, two on each side...
Excuse me. On each parcel, A and B,
located approximately 20 feet apart.
Suggested trees include
shad blow, serviceberry,
eastern redbud, chokecherry trees, and
Japanese lilac trees. Condition number two,
the following variances may need to be obtained from the Zoning Board of
Appeals prior to the release of the site plan to
the building division, and that would be,
A, to retain the building on parcel A,
that's 14220 11 Mile Road,
3.9 feet from the west property line
and 32.44 feet to
the east property line.
Number two, that's 2B,
retain the building on parcel B,
14240 11 Mile Road,
31.24 feet to the west property line
and 23.43
feet
to the south property line. And finally,
2C, to continue new parking 20...
Excuse me.
To construct new parking
20 feet from the north 11 Mile Road right
of way. The minimum front yard
setback in an R1P zone
is 25 feet, and that's parcel A.
If approved, the variances shall be added to the revised site
plan.
And condition number three, a performance bond in the amount of
$540 shall be posted according to the
estimated cost of $18,000 by the petitioner.
There is a note. The planning staff believes that the proposed bond amount
is too low given the fact that additional
landscaping is part of the improvements resulting
in a bondIn the amount of $1,000. So with that, Mr.
Chair, the recommendation is submitted. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Worth. This is a public hearing.
If anyone would like to come up and speak on this item, please state your name and
address for the record and you'll have three minutes to speak.
Seeing none, we'll turn it over to the commission.
Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion that we approve
this item with the recommendations of staff.
Yes, Mr. Chair,
I support it.
Okay, hold on real quick. Your motion should address whether or not you're amending
the bond amount, because it's just a note by planning.
It's not actually on there, and so-
And we will modify the bond amount per the recommendation of staff.
$1,000. Yes, I support it, to increase the bond amount.
There's a motion by Commissioner Dusek, supported by Mr.
Hoek to
approve with discussion and amending the bond amount to
$1,000.
Discussion?
Seeing none, good evening, sir. Come up, please.
I thought we were going to have a lot more to talk about.
But everything looks pretty good. I went by there and I looked at it.
The only concern I had was on a couple of the storage
containers in the back of the building to the
east, had some pallets up on top of it,
and you can't stack pallets on top of those shipping containers.
So if you get a good wind or something, they may blow off.
So you need to make sure you don't stack anything on top of those shipping
containers.
So actually, by chance, I had spoken with the planning department earlier today
and heard that that was the case, and I spoke with
the owner, and he said that they would have that taken care of tomorrow.
Very good, sir. Thank you.
All right.
There was one other thing I wanted to mention was with respect to in
the letter that they got from MDOT,
there's no proposed work on the MDOT right away, so just want to make sure that was
clear.
All right. Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
That was a
motion by Commissioner Dusek, supported by Commissioner Hoek.
Yes.
Roll call.
Commissioner Dusek? Yes.
Commissioner Hoek?
Yes, to approve.
Commissioner Holovaty?
Yes, to approve.
Commissioner Bonacki?
Yes, to approve.
And Commissioner Smith?
Yes, to approve. Good luck with your project, sir.
Thank you.
Have a good evening.
Item number 6C.
Site plan for two
building additions, outdoor deck, relocation of
dumpster enclosure, and façade improvements to
existing Buddhist temple located on the southwest
corner of
10 Mile Road and Warner Avenue,
269010 Mile Road, Section 30,
Nang
Hong
Vietnamese Buddhist Association of Detroit,
PSP-260015.
Is
that the southwest corner?
Southwest corner.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good evening, sir.
Good evening, commissioners.
You want to tell us a little bit about your project?
Sure. My name is Navar, and I'm representing the applicant.
This project is an update to the site plan that was previously approved
in January 2024. The revised proposal is actually
smaller in scope.
We're proposing two additions, a 780 square foot expansion
to the main worship area on the north side, a
264 square foot entry vestibule on the west side.
Both are single-story conditioned spaces.
In addition, we're adding a non-conditioned exterior deck on the west
side and updating the building façade all around.
These façade improvements will increase the exterior wall height and will allow for
higher ceiling space in the main worship area.
But again, this is not a second story.
Total building size will be 6,076 square feet.
We are also reconfiguring the parking lot layout on the south side of the
site and relocating the dumpster enclosure to the southwest corner.
The project requires 54 parking spaces. We are providing 65.
Thank you, sir. Correspondence?
Correspondence.
Turn your mic on.
Mic. Mic.
Taxes current. AT&T does not object to the proposed
additions and changes to the property.
We do have facilities on the property and in the vicinity.
We do not expect them to be affected.
If any conflicts arise, please have the petitioner
contact me to discuss options.
Excuse me. Comcast, we have aerial and underground facilities,
but we have no conflicts with the proposal.
DTE Electric Company has reviewed the site plan for two building
additions, outdoor deck, relocation of dumpster enclosure, and
façade improvements. DTE has no objection to this request
impacting 2690 10 Mile Road, Section 30,
per the site plan provided. If you have any questions, please do not
hesitate to contact me at
586-783-1978.
The Macomb County Public Works office has reviewed the site plan for the
project referenced above and has determined the proposed site
disturbance is less than one acre and will not require a storm
waters review from this office.
If a no objection letter is required, please forward your request
to WesleyJannik@MacombGov.org.
Prior to construction, a soil erosion permit may be required
from this office. Contact our soil erosion permit
department at
586-469-5327 for more
information regarding same. That concludes the correspondence, Mr.
Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Planning department's recommendation.
It is recommended that the site plan for two building additions, an outdoor
deck, the relocation of the dumpster enclosure, and facade improvements
to the existing Buddhist temple be approved with the standard conditions of the
planning commission, and more specifically, number one, five copies of
revised site plans shall be submitted indicating the following.
1A, the plan indicates several sheds, six, along the west
property line within the side yard setback.
The sizes and uses of these sheds shall be indicated on the site plan.
Per Macomb County aerial imagery and the surveys completed by Neil
Tonmacher, professional surveyor engineer, in 2022
and 2025, the sheds were not on the property at the time of the first
survey. The petitioner shall indicate if all the sheds are necessary, the
dimensions, and the use of each. 1B, indicate the
existing trees planted east of the building in the setback area
and planted between the sidewalk and street curb.
1C, indicate the existing and proposed site amenities within the
front yard setback along 10 Mile Road.
Provide an enlarged view of the front yard area, which includes
the hard-surfaced areas, the meditation areas, pond, statues, et
cetera.
Number two, two copies of revised elevation plans shall be provided
that show the entire proposed second floor.
Number three, parking spaces abutting a property line shall be a
length of 19 feet for a 45-degree angle space.
It appears the applicant may be using four feet of a raised walk
along... I'm sorry, area,
located on the property to the south, the public
storage company, which abuts this parking area.
A cross-access agreement may be required if one is not existing.
Provide a copy of an existing agreement to utilize the four feet of
property to the south. This document shall be approved in draft format for
form and content by the city attorney prior to it being
recorded at the Macomb County Register of Deeds.
Number four, the following variances may need to be obtained from the Zoning Board
of Appeals prior to the release of a site plan to the building division.
4A, to permit the six sheds within the 20-foot
side west setback.
4B, to retain the concrete area constructed up to the front
10 Mile Road property line.
And C, indicate the proposed site amenities with the front yard
setback along 10 Mile Road. A variance may be required from the Zoning Board of
Appeals for any new site amenities.
If approved, the variances shall be added to the revised site plan.
Number five, the current project under review, which is
PSP-260015, was submitted after
meeting with the project professional representative.
Upon approval of the new site plan and when the new bond is paid, the old project,
PSP-230040, approved on January
8th, 2024, shall be requested to be withdrawn.
Number six, a performance bond in the amount of
28,500 shall be posted according to the estimated cost
of $950,000 by the petitioner.
Note, planning staff believes the bond is too high and recommends a bond in the
amount of $15,000. And this ends the recommendation.
Thank you, Ms. Michelle.
This is a public hearing. If there's anyone who would like to speak on this item,
please come forward, state your name and address for the record, and you have three
minutes to speak.
Seeing none, we'll turn it over to the commission.
Chair, I make a motion to approve with discussion.
Mr. Chair, I support it.
There's a motion by Commissioner Holoway, supported by Commissioner Houck.
Discussion?
Yes. Can the petitioner step forward, please?
Good evening, sir.
Yes, I've driven by that place, and it is a very beautiful place the way they are
maintaining it. But I just have a couple of quick questions.
What about the sheds that was notated in 1A?
Are you going to be needing sheds or...
Because that was notated in the site plan.
Good evening, Commissioner. The owner has agreed to remove all six sheds.
Okay.
And now, as far as point number three,
the rental place next to you as far as
a cross-access agreement, it was noted.
Have you talked to them? Is there any problems with your neighbor?
Yes, the adjacent property's owner resides in the state of California.
We'll be entering a cross-access agreement, and we'll provide that.
Oh, okay. So no problems then. Oh, that's good.
Nice to see everybody's working together.
Yes, sir.
Okay. Thank you, sir.
Mr.
And just four.
Anyone else like-
Mr. Chair.
Yeah. Go. Mr. Commissioner Houck.
Okay.
Mr. Applicant, are you able to talk to planning department about
all the recommendation?
Yes.
Okay. So are you guys okay with this, all the recommendation?
Yes.
Fine. Okay.
Okay, thank you.
Thank you.
Anyone else who would like to speak?
To the petitioner, good evening, sir.
Good evening, sir.
I had a question. When I was looking at your drawing, you say there's no second
floor,
but when you look at the drawing on the elevations, it looks like there's another
set of windows up above the lower level,
which to me was support of the second floor.
But when I looked at the job, the way the roof comes down like an
A-frameThere's no windows in there.
So are you bringing those sides up so you can put the windows in there
and then redoing the roof?
Correct. We're not adding a second floor.
We're just increasing the height of the wall to increase the ceiling in the
worship area.
Okay. So you-
Correct
... but you still have the windows that is going to show at the top.
Correct.
Okay. That was what's confusing me, because when I saw windows up above the other
ones, I'm saying, "Okay, got a second floor." But they don't have a second floor.
They're just going to raise it up, so it gives more light, more height in the
temple.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
Now it makes sense.
We actually added that comment after speaking with the architect today, who
indicated there are some existing offices on the second level.
Are you able to confirm? No, I'm not sure if I can ask him the question, but that's
why we added it, because we spoke with the architect, and so we
included that comment that was made in our meeting this morning about a second
floor, because the original elevations did not show existing
offices on the second floor.
Okay.
So
that's why we updated that comment.
All right. Thanks, Ms. Richelle.
You're welcome.
To the petitioner, can you come back and comment on that, please?
Yes, sir. The existing building has a second-floor
office on the west side of the building.
But we're not adding any second floor in the proposal. That's existing.
Okay.
But the windows will still go up higher
over that area, right?
These windows will be on the east side of the building.
The office she mentioned is on the west side of the property.
But I'm saying is that whole side is going to extend up,
just in the
area where you have your worship, which is going to be higher walls with the
windows. But that side will still come up higher also, so it'll all line up.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
Very good.
I had a question about the sheds, but you're going to remove those, so I guess
that's about it. So that was a...
That's a motion by Commissioner Holowaty, supported by Mr. Hoke.
Roll call.
Mr. Chairman, are we lowering the
bond?
Hold it. No. No. Hold it.
Okay. Yes, I make the amendment to my,
that we lower the bond
as noted by our planning department.
I make that amendment to my proposal.
Okay.
To $15,000.
Right.
15,000.
Just for the record.
Right. Lowering it.
Do you still support?
I support it, yes.
Okay.
All right.
Commissioner
Holowaty?
Yes.
Commissioner Hoke?
Yes, to approve.
Commissioner Bonacki?
Yes, to approve.
Commissioner Dufour, yes to approve. Commissioner Smith?
Yes, to approve with the amendment of the bond to lowering it to $15,000.
Very good.
Item number six.
Oh, no. Okay.
Item number-
Number seven, correspondence. Seeing none.
Item number eight, old business.
Old business.
Minor amendment for addition of storage shed to
existing Planet Oil Change building located on
the northeast corner of Van D**e Avenue and Farnum Avenue,
27612 Van D**e, Section 15,
Anthony Rea, Fairmount Properties, LLC,
Reham Saroot, Ornamics,
LLC, PMA,
250001.
Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Good evening.
Good evening.
Please state your name and address for the record and tell us a little bit about
your project.
Sure. My name is Reham. I'm the architect and the applicant for
27612 Van D**e Avenue.
We're here to apply for a minor amendment for a 300-square-foot
storage shed that has been added to an existing
Planet Oil Change building.
The site itself is non-conforming on its existing
condition, and we are proposing some site alterations to make the
site more compliant.
Some examples of these alterations would be closing the
south approach on Van D**e, updating the
landscape area, and updating the dumpster
enclosures.
Thank you.
Correspondence?
Correspondence. Taxes, current.
Engineering, preliminary review of this site yielded no comments
from the engineering division. AT&T, AT&T
does not object to the storage shed addition.
Comcast, in response to your utility request for the above project,
please refer to the attached map for the location of Comcast
CATV/fiber facilities.
Aerial cables are highlighted in orange for fiber and
yellow for coax cable. Underground is
highlighted in blue for fiber and green for coax cable.
If we can be of further assistance, please feel
free to contact us by email at
cccutilityrequests@teamsigma.com.
DTE Electric Company has reviewed the minor amendment for the
addition of storage shed to existing Planet Oil Change
building
impacting 27612 Van D**e Avenue, Warren, Michigan
48093, Section 15, and have determined that
there is no objection for the site plan provided.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at
586-783-1978.
MDOT, this is outside of MDOT right of way, and we have no
traffic concerns. It looks like it's already been built
actually.That concludes the correspondence, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Planning department's recommendation.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. The recommendation is as follows.
It is recommended that the site plan for a
minor amendment for a 308 square
foot storage shed addition and
alternative
trash enclosure to an existing
Planet Oil Change building be approved with the
standard conditions of the planning commission, and more specifically, number 1,
five copies of revised site plans
ASP-2 shall be submitted
indicating the following.
1A,
the zoning of the property shall be provided on the site plan
and listed
in the site data chart. The zoning of the property is as
follows. C-2 general business district,
the east 50 feet of the property, and
P parking district, the west 100 feet
of the property. 1B, the parking requirement
shall be provided in the site data chart.
The parking required per section
4.32 subsection 20 of the ordinance,
of the zoning ordinance, is one parking space for
each 500 square feet of floor area.
1C, the dimensions and bearings of the property per the
survey shall be provided on the site plan.
The words property line along all of the property
lines shall be removed from the plan.
1D, a small location map shall be
provided on the site plan.
1E,
the site information notes located on
the existing plan that's ASP-1 shall
be added to the proposed site plan,
ASP-2.
The proposed site plan is the plan the planning commission
will approve as it shows the proposed addition.
1F, the proposed utilities and
notes pertaining to closing the southwest
driveway on Farnham Avenue
located on the plan sheet
C-05 shall be added to the
site plan sheet
ASP-2.
1G, a note shall be provided stating open storage of
materials shall not be permitted on the site.
1H, concrete bumper curbs shall be
indicated set back five feet from the north property
line for each parking space.
1I, planning staff recommends planting
either white spruce or Norway spruce instead of
the Colorado blue spruce. Even though the Colorado
blue spruce is not on the invasive list, they
are not recommended either as they're susceptible to fungal
diseases due to the humid climate in Michigan.
1J, a note shall be provided stating all landscape
areas
shall be automatically irrigated.
1K, a note shall be provided stating
all lighting on the site shall be shielded and not encroach upon
abutting properties. The light fixtures, pole, and
base shall be no higher than 20 feet as
measured from the top of the light fixture to the bottom of the
base at ground level.
All glare shall be eliminated from all light fixtures.
Upward-directed lighting shall not be permitted.
1L, show existing and proposed utilities on the site
plan.
1M, indicate the existing guard rail fencing along
the north property line. Include the height
and if it is to remain or be removed.
I do believe that
we're fine with it remaining in place.
Condition number two,
two copies of revised proposed floor and
elevation plans, that's AZ, shall be submitted
indicating the following. Per a field check of the site,
it appears there is a door on the east elevation of the
building. Update sheet A-2 with this
information.
Condition number three, the planning commission shall approve
the alternative trash
enclosure provided on the site measuring
22
feet 10 inches by 10 feet 6 inches in
height
and constructed with aluminum panels.
Condition number four, the following variance
may need to be obtained from the zoning board of appeals prior to the release of
the site plan to the building division, and that is a
use variance
shall be obtained from the zoning board of appeals to
retain the storage shed building addition in
the P parking district and the expansion
of a legal non-conforming use, and that's Planet Oil Change.
If approved, the variance shall be added to the revised
site plan. And
finally, condition number five, a performance bond in the amount
of $450 be posted according to the estimated
cost of $15,000
by the petitioner. There is a note.
The planning staff believes that the proposed bond amount is too low
given the factThat removal of the southwest driveway
approach is part of the improvements.
A new estimate shall be provided closer to
$25,000,
resulting in a bond in the amount of $1,000.
So with that, Mr. Chair, the recommendation is submitted. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Wert.
And there's...
Chair?
Yes.
We have one comment that we want to correct the record.
This is a case where we had comments a year ago and now recently for
this plan. So the engineering comment that was read
actually needs to be updated. It's in the back of the finding, but the sheet
that was read off by the
secretary was
old. So the current comment, if you want me to read it, or
it's in the back of the finding. The engineering comment was,
"Preliminary review of the site indicates that the planning commission
approval should be contingent upon the petitioner's compliance with the
following condition." And it's, "The south drive approach on Van D**e
should also be eliminated." So that was the current comment.
The rest were very similar, just maybe minor wording different.
But I just wanted to correct that comment that was received.
Thank you, Ms. Michelle.
You're welcome.
Thank you.
First, I want to have a motion to recognize this as a minor amendment.
So moved, Mr. Chairman.
Support.
There was a motion by Commissioner Doucette, supported by Commissioner Binecki.
Roll call.
Commissioner Doucette, yes.
Commissioner Binecki?
Yes.
Commissioner Hoeg?
Yes, to approve.
Commissioner Holwate?
Yes, to approve.
And Commissioner Smith?
Yes to approve. So it's been motioned for a minor amendment, it's been approved.
Now we need a motion for the project.
I'll make a motion that we approve the project.
I'll support that as well.
That's a motion by Commissioner Doucette, supported by Commissioner Binecki.
We need to make an amendment to
the motion for the bond
that has been changed to $1,000.
$1,000.
You need to add that as an amendment to the motion.
So moved.
You made
a motion.
I made the motion.
I support it.
Okay.
Okay, very good. Any
discussion?
No discussion?
No discussion.
Mr. Petitioner, can you come up a minute, please? Good evening.
I went by and looked at the site, and
I had a couple questions.
Sure.
There was some question on the height of the guardrail that's on the one side and
whether it needed to be retained or removed.
I noticed it was averaging 20 inches to two foot on one side
because the ground is not level all the way through there.
Mm-hmm.
And I noticed that it did need some repair.
The one post on the end was broken off.
If you're going to keep the guardrail, which I imagine you want to,
because it's going to keep cars from the parking lot from going over and hitting
your building. So I would suggest you maybe repair it where it needs repaired
and maybe even paint it or whatever so it looks nice.
Absolutely.
Okay.
The other thing is I noticed the shed that you added has the
door on the east side, but the door doesn't have an entrance from the outside.
So I'm guessing, correct me if I'm wrong, that you probably
store the used oil in there until it's picked up and it can only be opened from the
inside of the shed?
Yes, sir.
Is that correct?
Yes.
Okay.
Because that'd be the only reason to have no handles on the outside, because you're
going to open it on the inside to have whatever truck take the used oil
away, and then close it back. So there'd be no entrance from the
outside.
There is no entrance from the outside, probably also for safety reasons.
Okay. Is that where they store the used oil?
Excuse me, can you repeat your question?
Is that where they store the used oil until it could be picked up?
I'm not sure if it's only used oil or also new
barrels.
If there is any need for explanation for every
material stored in the shed, we would provide that.
Okay. Well, do you know what would be stored in there other than that?
To be honest, I don't have a complete idea of every
material stored there.
Okay.
Very good.
All right, then.
Any other discussion?
Okay. There was a motion by Commissioner Doucette,
supported by Commissioner Binecki?
Yes.
Roll call.
Commissioner Doucette, yes. Commissioner Binecki?
Yes, to approve.
Commissioner Holwate?
Yes, to approve.
Commissioner Hoeg?
Yes, to approve.
Commissioner Smith?
Yes, to approve with the
inclusion of the amendment of the bond at $1,000 and also the correction
at the end of the findings,
stating about the south driveway being removed.
Yes, sir. Sure.
Okay.
So roll call.
We just did.
Huh?
We just did.
Oh. So you want to do it again?
No.
Okay.
Thank you, ma'am. Have a good evening.
Thank you.
Good luck with your project.
Thank you.
November 9th, you're
going to want to make a
motion to amend the ordinance adopted and order the release from print in 6A and
then discuss it. Mm-hmm. Never mention it again. Yeah.
Do you want to do that now? Are we doing the parade?
What do you mean? We just finished the parade item. Right.
So now we're done with that. So now we have nothing but the parade left.
This is the one we weren't going to do.
Looks like we wanted to address it under our agenda.
Right. Usually they'll-
Yeah.
Item number nine, bond release. We want to amend amendment for the bond release
to include the bond that was released under item number
6A.
So,
that bond was...
Hold one second. I got to find it.
Motion to amend the bond release, 3,500.
Amend the agenda.
Amend the agenda for the bond release 6A.
Do you have that, Commissioner Dujay?
Support.
Okay. And that amendment reads,
"Planning Commission currently retains the performance cash bond in the amount of
$3,500 as a guarantee for site improvements.
The $3,500 cash bond was posted in 1994 by the
previous owner. Planning staff recommends releasing the bond, as the new
owner will have a new bond for the current prospectus."
Correct.
So therefore, the motion to amend the agenda is to go ahead
and add that bond release to our agenda tonight.
Okay.
So-
Please support .
Yeah. So we need a roll call on that.
Okay. We have a motion by Binecki, support
by Dujay to amend the-
Bond release
... the bond release
to apply to 6A.
Commissioner Binecki?
Yes.
Commissioner Dujay, yes. Commissioner Holovati?
Yes.
Commissioner Hope?
Yes.
And Commissioner Smith.
Yes. Yes to approve.
Okay. We have
five yay
to approve the addition of the bond release,
and now we need a motion to-
To approve the release
... to approve the release.
I'll make a motion that we release the bond.
Support.
That was a motion by Commissioner Dujay, supported by Commissioner Binecki.
All in favor? All in favor?
Aye.
Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Number 10, new
business. Seeing none, citizen participation.
Would anyone in the audience like to come up and speak?
State your name and address for the record. You'll have three minutes to speak.
Seeing none, we'll go to item number 12, Planning Commission business.
Okay.
Thank you, Mr. Chair, Ron Wirth.
It was a quick week, so not too many things to
talk about. I got to... If I can read my writing here.
We had
one
discussion with a company called The
Night Owl. It's a
restaurant, and
discussion on
that particular thing, that'll be coming before
us soon.
Next, on the corner of Groesbeck and Eight Mile,
there's a shopping center. I think right now it's Family Dollar.
That's about the only thing that's there.
It's a bunch of paved...
Everything's paved there. So anyway, these people
wanna change it to perhaps a multi-use of
different things that would go in an
M2. It's owned, I believe it's... Okay.
C1. Is that? Yeah. C1 on the corner,
and they'll have to get it rezoned to
M2. I think that's possible. You have to look at the surrounding
zoning. It's all M2 for the most part.
And then they can do these multiple uses that they're
thinking about. So,
that was a meeting we had.
Then we had a meeting
with the historic district,
concerning the Historic District Commission.
That's with Amanda, myself, Laura,
and
yeah, Michelle was there.
She's always there. That's good.
Anyway, so we talked about some
new flow charts on how to operate our way
through the Historic District Commission
additions to
the
Village district, and making new districts, and adding
districts, and all sorts of
complicated work, so to speak. But the more
flowcharts and ways we have to
show ourselves and to show the public how to get through things,
even right on down to
if somebody wants to replace some windows on a historic structure,
they have to be done in a certain way, and there's a certain way
to do that. It's all process generated.
So,
we had quite a conversation about that and
many other things had to do with the
historic districtCommission. That was Thursday.
Friday,
we again had a meeting regarding the
zoning ordinance, reviewing it,
and remind me, what's the date? The next date, is it
June 2nd?
12th.
12th. Okay. So June 12th we'll be back, and
that's internal
with
various people concerned internally to
continue that discussion with the zoning ordinance and see
if we can make
some traction, get some traction on this thing, because it's been taking a long
time to review.
And then,
Saturday,
we had our review from the city
council.
They commended us
on the packet that we put together
for the planning commission, and it goes to the
city administration, and this year we sent it to city
council, and they
really thought that was great work, all right, to show them
everything the planning commission does and what the planning
department does for the commission.
So,
that worked out pretty well.
There is, I think, the GIS
planner that we were hoping for, not at this time.
I think they're going to expand engineering with more
GIS
planners,
and if we want something done, then we can go and
ask for the help
and line up, because I think there's going to be a lot of
usage of GIS in the future once everyone
discovers its use.
When it comes to
everything else,
there weren't too many questions.
They asked about the climate action plan and
where that's going. They
didn't
say anything about the planning commissioners
getting a raise from $75
per meeting to $100 per meeting.
So,
excuse me.
I'll
take a chance here. Usually, if they don't say anything, then that's a
good thing. They're not talking about it, and they're not criticizing it.
So I'm going to believe that
by
July 1st or July, you'll begin getting
$100 per meeting.
So with that, if you have any questions for the last week, let me know.
I'll try to-
Do you have any questions for Mr. Wery?
Chair. Okay. It was mentioned at the last meeting,
is it starting next month
that we'd be moving our meetings to the cafeteria,
or is that in May?
I know that's May, but
further on down the line or starting next month already?
Starting May 11th.
Sorry, that would be our next meeting.
May 11th.
And so this is our last meeting for-
This is our last meeting here until sometime after
September because they're going to
do some work on this auditorium
and-
No. Okay
... make it livable, so to speak.
And so you're able to-
I hope the lighting gets a little bit better for you guys-
Yeah, that too
... up there.
Because you mentioned about working with the communications department and
TV one or whatever about
showing up for the
live screening and everything.
Yeah. Yes.
You were able to work that out with them?
Well, with them, we're going to work...
I don't know about working out things here.
Mostly it's working out things in the cafeteria.
Right. That's what I meant.
To make sure its
layout's similar and
microphones and that kind of thing, because it's been a little
less than that in the past when we've had to use that.
I remember one meeting, we had to pass a microphone from person to
person.
That's right. That's not too good.
Not very-
Hopefully it'll be better.
Not very professional. So we'll try to get it as professional as
possible-
Okay
... on that.
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Wery.
Yes, Mr. Chair. I have a concern.
Go ahead, Commissioner Ho.
Yes. I have a question to
Mr. Director. Okay, we have approved a gas
station, 12 and Dequindre.
The old Rite Aid, the building is demolished already,
and probably they are planning to
start construction of the new gas station.
And at the corner,
12 and Dequindre, there is a used
car dealer,
and there is no sidewalk.
And we discussed when we approved the
plan.
So
do you have any update? Because after the gas
station will
start, that area will be really busy,
and this is a public safety
concern. So what is the city's plan to do
to reestablish the sidewalk?
Okay. When you talk about it being busy and
you're wondering about safety, I don't think it's going to be any busier
than when you had Rite Aid there with the amount of traffic that
came in and came out and used the
driveways that were there for Rite Aid.
And then you have currently this
car sales place right on the corner.And they're working
that out in court.
I believe the whole site will be with sheets
in the end. All right? And as far as
sidewalk along
12 Mile,
I think the right of way will be corrected.
It's not wide enough, and they'll go to the
60-foot width they're supposed to,
so that'll line up
the sidewalks that go across to Madison Heights
at the intersection.
Mm-hmm.
And the driveway will be completely redone on
12 Mile,
landscaping the way it should be. But
we believe the
used car sales will go away, and that'll
be more landscaping. But they'll amend their
plan when that comes about. Right
now, they'll be building behind it,
the building itself, and
that's going to start very soon.
So the gas station is buying the car sale,
the dealer?
I-
The place?
Actually, I
don't want to comment any more about that.
That's in court,
and there's ownership issues-
Okay
... that go along with it.
They'll work it out.
So they will take over everything, and
will there be a new plan or anything?
They'll submit a new plan with the sidewalk, landscaping,
everything, right? You see.
An amended plan.
Okay. Amended plan.
Yeah.
Good.
Yeah.
Yeah. You-
I think everyone will be pleased-
And-
... with how that corner will look
... one more thing is to the
chairman. I have a concern with the chairman, because in the last meeting,
I see the
applicant side got more time
than those are opposed, the petitioner.
So we should be like equal time to everyone.
What?
No.
The
people that come out for the public hearing get three minutes.
Okay? The petitioner gets more time because he's explaining what's going on,
and the people supporting the petitioner make their comments.
That's the reason the traffic guy got to say what he had to say, because he was
explaining the changes that he made through the traffic study.
So that allows more time. Okay? But when the public are
here for a public hearing, they get three minutes.
It doesn't matter who they are, they get three minutes.
But they were interrupted before
they finished their presentation.
Well, then, they got three minutes, so they have to make sure that they get it in
the three minutes.
Okay.
Anything else?
No, thank you.
Any other questions for Mr. Wery?
No, thanks.
I'm taking questions if there are any.
Seeing none, item 12B, public planning commission discussion and
concerns.
All right. Thank you.
Any discussion or concerns?
No, thank you.
I'd like to w-welcome Candace Mayer,
our attorney who sat in for us tonight,
and I want to thank the police officer for sitting in on our meeting tonight, and I
also want to welcome Councilwoman McGee, who stepped in from her other meeting
to be with us for a few minutes this evening.
Seeing item number 13, calendar pending matters. Seeing none.
Mr. Chair.
Item number 14, motion to adjourn.
Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion to adjourn.
I second that motion.
There's a motion by Commissioner Dusek, supported by Commissioner Holowaty.
All in favor?
Aye.
Any opposed? Have a good evening, everyone.