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MINUTES OF THE 718th REGULAR MEETING
HELD BY THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
LIVONIA
On Tuesday, January 30, 1996, the City Planning Commission of the City of Livonia held
its 718th Regular Meeting in the Livonia City Hall, 33000 Civic Center Drive, Livonia,
Michigan.
Mr. Jack Engebretson, Chairman, called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m.
Members present: Jack Engebretson William LaPine Robert Alanskas
Patricia Blomberg James C. McCann Daniel Piercecchi
R. Lee Morrow
Members absent: None
Messrs. John J. Nagy, Planning Director; H. G. Shane, Ass't. Planning Director; and Scott
Miller, Planner I, were also present.
Mr. Engebretson informed the audience that if a petition on tonight's agenda involves a
rezoning request, this Commission only makes a recommendation to the City Council
who, in turn, will hold its own public hearing and decide the question. If a petition
involves a waiver of use request and the request is denied, the petitioner has ten days in
`�. which to appeal the decision to the City Council; otherwise the petition is terminated. The
Planning Commission holds the only public hearing on a preliminary plat and/or a vacating
petition. Planning Commission resolutions become effective seven days after the
resolutions are adopted. The Planning Commission has reviewed the petitions upon their
filing and have been furnished by the staff with approving and denying resolutions. The
Commission may use them or not use them depending upon the outcome of the hearing
tonight.
Mr. Alanskas, Secretary, announced the first item on the agenda is Petition 95-10-1-25 by
Oakwood Healthcare System requesting to rezone property located on the north
side of Seven Mile Road between Bethany Road and Victor Parkway in the
Southeast 1/4 of Section 6 from RUFC to P.O.
Mr. Engebretson: This item was tabled at a previous meeting. We need a motion to
remove it from the table.
On a motion duly made by Mr. Piercecchi, seconded by Mr. Alanskas and unanimously
approved, it was
#1-15-96 RESOLVED that, Petition 95-10-1-25 by Oakwood Healthcare System
requesting to rezone property located on the north side of Seven Mile Road
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between Bethany road and Victor Parkway in the Southeast 1/4 of Section 6
from RUFC to P.O., be taken from the table.
Mr. Engebretson, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution
adopted.
Mr. Engebretson: Now we have an item before us to deal with this issue that had been
tabled for further consideration. Mr. Nagy do you have any new or
additional information to report at this time?
Mr. Nagy: Since our initial public hearing, we have one letter addressed to the
Planning Commission dated January 30, 1996 referencing subject
petition and reading: As I am unable to attend the meeting tonight
regarding this petition, I am writing to express my disapproval of this
project. With a 50,000 sq. ft. Providence facility of the same nature
soon to open on the south side of Newburgh, to have an Oakwood
bldg. directly across the street is ludicrous. This was signed by Barbara
Phillips of 19235 Bethany. Other than that we have had two phone
calls that my staff has recorded, both in opposition, one is dated
January 26 from Elaine Judd who called to state her and her husband
are opposed to the rezoning petition. The other is from Stella
Archutowski of 37590 Northland, who stated she was opposed to this
rezoning petition.
Mr. Engebretson: Thank you Mr. Nagy. Is the petitioner with us this evening? First of
all I would like to offer you the opportunity to make any remarks that
you feel are appropriate. I know that we went through the public
hearing process, and it was felt at that time that it was necessary
because of the magnitude of what was being proposed to fully
understand and absorb the proposal. We just needed additional time to
take it into consideration, and I think it is only fair that we give you an
opportunity also to make whatever remarks you feel are appropriate
that may have developed between that hearing and now, so I will give
you the floor.
David Ippel: Thank you. I am Vice President for Ambulatory Care and Community
Health for Oakwood Healthcare System. In addition to the comments
that I made at the last meeting, I would just like to offer some
additional comments in support of the petition. The services that we
are developing at this site are based on needs which we have evaluated
and determined to be worth pursuing in the Livonia area. The
Oakwood Healthcare System has, as its entire service area, the entire
Western Wayne and downriver areas as well as Ypsilanti and
Washtenaw County. The service area that we have is continuing to
expand. The Livonia area is of importance to the Oakwood System
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because a lot of our patients come from Livonia and they are currently
traveling to Dearborn. As you well know, a lot of the individuals in
Livonia have moved to this area from the Dearborn area. They still
maintain affiliation with physicians in that area. As our patients are
aging we find that developing primary care services in a location
convenient for our patients is more appropriate, more adequate to meet
their needs in terms of the access issue. We have a number of patients,
probably about 12% of our patient population in our system comes
from the Livonia area, and that is a system that incorporates six
hospitals and 1900 beds. Our closest locations, at this time, for primary
care services are in the Canton/Plymouth area, Westland and Redford,
and Livonia is an extremely important part as we are following to meet
our patient needs in the community. In addition, we have among our
own employee group, over 700 individuals who call the radius of this
location home, and 700 employees out of 8,000 employees in the
Oakwood system is a substantial number. This is also our effort and
our attempt to meet their personal health care needs close to home. I
would like to just suggest that the rationale for the health care facility in
this area, the facilities are currently available to the population here
through the St. Mary/Beaumont connection, the Providence
connection, they are meeting a certain group's of population needs, but
there is another segment of the population that is looking for services
outside of those groupings and the Oakwood Healthcare System is here
to meet those needs. That was the additional comment I wanted to
:N"' make. If there are any other questions on the facility or the programs, I
would be happy to answer them.
Mr. Alanskas: You say you have one in Westland?
Mr. Ippel: Yes.
Mr. Alanskas: How large is that facility?
Mr. Ippel: There are two facilities in Westland. There is one at 15,000 sq. ft.,
which is closer to Michigan Avenue. There is another one being
constructed in the north Westland area, which would be approximately
15,000 sq. ft. as well.
Mr. Alanskas: How about Canton?
Mr. Ippel: The Canton center is about 45,000 sq. ft.
Mr. LaPine: The closest one to this location is Westland. Is that correct?
Mr. Ippel: Correct.
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Mr. LaPine: From what mile radius do you normally draw from for one of these
facilities?
Mr. Ippel: For the primary care services, which are family practice, internal
medicine, pediatrics, about five miles.
Mr. LaPine: So if this is five miles, from this location it will take almost all of Livonia
to the east, which is Inkster Road; it will take to the south as far as
Warren Avenue approximately; to the west probably to Northville. You
don't have any other facilities east of here?
Mr. Ippel: Not directly east of here.
Mr. LaPine: In the remarks we got from the staff here, you say you are going to build
a 50,000 sq. ft. area, three stories, with the possibility of future
expansion of 27,000 sq. ft. Is that correct?
Mr. Ippel: The land that we are acquiring, that we would like to have rezoned, has
the capacity for that additional expansion.
Mr. LaPine: What I am saying, right now you are building the 50,000 sq. ft. with the
possibility if you needed another 27,000 sq. ft. of the amount of land
you are buying, that 27,000 sq. ft. is available for future expansion. Is
that correct?
Mr. Ippel: That is correct.
Mr. LaPine: It also states that for that 50,000 sq. ft. you are going to have 925
parking spaces with the possibility if you do the expansion you would
have another 337 spaces, which gives us approximately 1200 parking
spaces, and your access is going to be from the Parkway. Is that
correct?
Mr. Ippel: There is access from both Seven Mile Road and the Parkway.
Mr. LaPine: Have you taken into consideration the amount of traffic that this is going
to bring into your facility, plus the Providence one across the street, plus
along the Parkway to get into the Incredible Universe, a new building
going in there, 184,000 sq. ft. building that is going to have 900 parking
spaces, which leads me to believe we could have the possibility of 1800,
and 500 more across the street, 2300 cars coming and going into those
three facilities in less than a half mile. To me that is going to cause big
traffic problems, and I am wondering have you taken that under
consideration?
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Mr. Ippel: Yes, and I appreciate that question very much. We honestly, in our
Nowexperience in primary care, have never had the number of spaces that
are required here in Livonia, and we have never had that number filled
at any one time at any of our centers. At our Canton center with
45,000 sq. ft. we are running approximately 350 to 400 cars a day, so
we really are not talking honestly having that many more cars coming
into this facility as well, so the 900 spaces, although that is meeting the
intent of the mandate in Livonia, we find it to be something that we
really don't feel in any way we are ever going to reach that number.
Mr. LaPine: I guess that creates a problem with me, the amount of traffic we are
going to be generating in that very short distance. You are going to
have people turning right off Seven Mile Road going to your facility off
Seven. We are going to have them turning right and left going into
Providence, plus all the traffic going into two restaurants, plus the
office plaza, plus the 184,000 sq. ft. Incredible Universe. To me that is
going to cause a tremendous impact on that intersection.
Mr. Ippel: We anticipate, as I said at the last meeting, about 400 cars per day, and
that is spread over ten hours, so you may have 20 cars, you may have
60 cars during an hour. That will give you some idea of the extent of
what we consider the traffic to be going in and out of those three
entrances.
Mr. Piercecchi: I appreciate these questions regarding Oakwood Healthcare System but
the issue here, in my opinion, is not Oakwood Healthcare but whether
it is in the best interest of Livonia to rezone this property from RUFC
to P.O. If this land is rezoned, bidders can make their intentions known
and who knows who could occupy that. It is fine to ask these
questions because they are the petitioner but the real question is it in
the best interests of Livonia to rezone that property from RUFC to
P.O.
Mr. Engebretson: You are absolutely right Mr. Piercecchi. This is a zoning issue and as
most of you who watch these meetings periodically understand that we
do spend some time trying to have some understanding of the intended
use, but as you point out that doesn't necessarily insure that will be the
ultimate use, but we are starting to stray pretty far from the zoning
issue, but I think it is certainly proper to give the petitioner an
opportunity to address the issues and we are glad he was able to do so.
Mr. Nagy, before Mayor Bennett left office, as you know, he addressed
a letter to the Planning Commission and recommended against this
zoning proposal based on the fact there is an abundance of undeveloped
office zoning that already exists in that office park, etc. I am
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wondering if Mayor Kirksey has expressed any views relative to this
proposal, either in writing or otherwise?
Mr. Nagy: No he has not. I did tell you that both the Mayor and I have met with
the petitioner. We have reviewed the matter. We have evaluated the
proposed site plan as well as the zoning request, and heard the
comments, but the Mayor did not render an opinion either for or against.
He just simply heard the matter out and said the matter was properly
before the Planning Commission and would trust that the Planning
Commission would make the appropriate recommendation.
Mr. Engebretson:Thank you very much. Did anyone else have any comments or
questions?
Mr. Morrow: Mr. Chairman I have some comments. Through the ensuing weeks since
we tabled this I have had a chance to visit the site a number of times and
my view is the best use for this property would be in low density
residential, and I don't say that against Oakwood because I am aware of
Oakwood. They certainly are a good healthcare provider, but this
particular site, when we looked at the Master Plan and felt it should be
office use, that golden corridor was beginning to flourish a number of
years back, but since then a lot of the things that were zoned office have
begun to downsize being we have a surplus of office. Since then we
have had a lot of healthcare, like this gentleman brings forward, develop
"tow in that particular area. I think I indicated at the public hearing that one
of the things where we are best served with zoning is office uses in that
area, and rather than rezone it to office services, it should fall to
residential, whether it necessarily should be zoned RUF, but some low
density type of thing. As one Commissioner, after giving it a lot of
thought based on what is developing in that area, what has gone on in
the past and what is the present day, again, nothing against Oakwood
Healthcare System, I just feel it is better served in a residential
classification. That is primarily my comments.
Mr. LaPine: I agree with Mr. Morrow one hundred percent. I only brought up the
parking issue because of the fact I think that is one of the reasons why
we do not want any high rises or any more OS in that area. Maybe I
would change my mind if it was something with a lot less density
because of the parking and I think residential would cause us less
problems because of the parking. Secondly, going up Northland Road
Sunday afternoon I checked out this site again, and we have a number
of new homes going in back there and substantially sized homes, and I
think maybe that is our best route to go as a residential classification.
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Mr. Engebretson: Well that is what this public hearing process is all about, to get the
various issues out, and as Mr. Piercecchi rightly pointed out, we really
,` need to stick with the zoning issue. That is what is before us, and I
think it is time to call the question and ask for a motion.
On a motion duly made by Mr. McCann, seconded by Mr. LaPine and unanimously
approved, it was
#1-16-96 RESOLVED that, pursuant to a Public Hearing having been held by the City
Planning Commission on November 28, 1995 on Petition 95-10-1-25 by
Oakwood Healthcare System requesting to rezone property located on the
north side of Seven Mile Road between Bethany Road and Victor Parkway in
the Southeast 1/4 of Section 6 from RUFC to P.O., the City Planning
Commission does hereby recommend to the City Council that Petition 95-10-
1-25 be denied for the following reasons:
1) That the proposed change of zoning to a high-rise office zoning
classification will be incompatible with the adjacent residential uses in
the area;
2) That the proposed change of zoning will provide an opportunity for the
location of uses on the subject land which may be wholly or partially
tax exempt;
3) That the proposed change of zoning will overburden the area with
additional vehicular traffic to the extent that it will be detrimental to the
normal traffic in the area; and
4) That there is ample property in the area currently zoned in a high-rise
office classification which could be utilized by this petitioner.
FURTHER RESOLVED that, notice of the above hearing was given in
accordance with the provisions of Section 23.05 of Zoning Ordinance#543,
as amended.
Mr. Engebretson, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution
adopted.
Mr. Alanskas, Secretary, announced the next item on the agenda is a motion by the City
Planning Commission, pursuant to Council Resolution#838-95, to hold a public
hearing on the question of whether certain property located in that part of
Dohany Subdivision lying west of Lathers Avenue in the Northeast 1/4 of
Section 12, should be rezoned from RUF to a more appropriate zoning
classification, such as R-1.
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Mr. Engebretson: Mr. Nagy, could you please comment on the evolution of this
proposal?
Mr. Nagy: Recently, as a result of a planned subdivision where property was in the
subject area and the zoning change that occurred therewith, the Council
became aware that an adjoining development in the area had lot sizes
that were similar in nature and therefore they felt that the existing
zoning of the neighboring area should be re-evaluated and in light of
that see if there was a more appropriate zoning classification for subject
property.
Mr. Morrow: Will this be a public hearing just based on the westerly portion of
Lathers?
Mr. Nagy: We are going to expand the area and make it the entire Dohany
Subdivision.
Mr. Morrow: Can we expand the area?
Mr. Nagy: We can, and if the Council, in their wisdom, chooses to consider
something less than what we advertise, it is their decision, but we can
give them the option.
Mr. Morrow: When we site checked it, it just makes sense that the whole subdivision
'vow should go R-1.
Mr. Nagy: We are going to advertise the larger area.
Mr. Morrow: That is what I wanted to hear that you are going to advertise the larger
area and they can downsize it if they see fit.
Mr. Engebretson: The motion then is to set a public hearing.
On a motion duly made by Mr. McCann, seconded by Mrs. Blomberg and unanimously
approved, it was
#1-17-96 RESOLVED that, the City Planning Commission, pursuant to Council
Resolution#838-95, and pursuant to Section 23.01(a) of Ordinance #543,
the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Livonia, as amended, does hereby
establish and order that a public hearing be held to determine whether or not
to rezone all of Dohany Subdivision located in the Northeast 1/4 of Section
12 from RUF to R-1.
FURTHER RESOLVED that, notice of such hearing be given as provided in
Section 23.05 of Ordinance #543, the Zoning Ordinance of the City of
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Livonia, as amended, and that thereafter there shall be a report and
recommendation submitted to the City Council.
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Mr. Engebretson, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution
adopted.
Mr. Alanskas, Secretary, announced the next item on the agenda is a motion by the City
Planning Commission, pursuant to Council Resolution #872-95, to hold a
public hearing on the question of whether the C-2 parcel which is located
immediately west of the property addressed in Petition 95-7-1-14 on the south
side of Five Mile Road between Hubbard Road and Fairfield in the Northwest
1/4 of Section 22 should be rezoned from C-2 to a more appropriate zoning
classification.
Mr. Engebretson: Mr. Nagy, again, that was kind of mysterious. Would you clarify that
issue?
Mr. Nagy: This too is pursuant to a Council resolution. The Planning
Commission, on their own motion, had earlier initiated a rezoning
petition to consider rezoning the property at the southwest corner of
Five Mile and Hubbard Road, principally the site of the closed Triple A
office building, which has been closed for a number of years, to
consider the rezoning of that property from a commercial classification
to an office classification consistent with the Future Land Use Plan and
*i'" established use of the property. In addition to that there was an
adjoining property to the west, which is the subject of this Council
resolution. It is also an office usage. It is used for legal office
purposes, and the Council in their resolution has asked the Planning
Commission also to consider rezoning that adjoining property to an
office classification consistent with the recommendation in connection
with the Triple A building.
Mr. Engebretson: What is the status of the Triple A building?
Mr. Nagy: It has had first and second reading and had a roll call vote and is about
to be published in the City paper, which with that it will be complete.
Mr. Engebretson: We need a motion to set a public hearing.
On a motion duly made by Mr. LaPine, seconded by Mr. McCann and unanimously
approved, it was
#1-18-96 RESOLVED that, the City Planning Commission, pursuant to Council
Resolution #872-95, and pursuant to Section 23.01(a) of Ordinance #543,
the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Livonia, as amended, does hereby
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establish and order that a public hearing be held to determine whether or not
to rezone a portion of a parcel located on the southeast corner of Five Mile
Road and Fairfield Avenue in the Northwest 1/4 of Section 22 from C-2 to
OS.
FURTHER RESOLVED that, notice of such hearing be given as provided in
Section 23.05 of Ordinance #543, the Zoning Ordinance of the City of
Livonia, as amended, and that thereafter there shall be a report and
recommendation submitted to the City Council.
Mr. Engebretson, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution
adopted.
Mr. Alanskas, Secretary, announced the next item on the agenda is Petition 96-1-8-1 by
Merritt McCallum Cieslak Architects requesting approval for all plans
required by Section 18.58 of Zoning Ordinance #543 in connection with a
proposal to construct an addition to the church located at 32765 Lyndon
Road in the Southwest 1/4 of Section 22.
Mr. Miller: This is Lyndon Avenue. To the east you have Brookfield Road. One
half a mile to the north you have Five Mile Road, and to the west you
have Farmington Road. This is St. Maurice Catholic Church. They
would like to build a 6,730 sq. ft. addition to the front of their existing
classrooms and assembly building. This new addition would be used as
the main body of the church whereas the existing church area would be
converted into a parish hall. Parking on the site for this, they are
required to have 153 parking spaces, the site plan shows 239 spaces so
they meet the parking requirement. They also will plant new
landscaping in the front yard adjacent to the new addition with the
existing landscaping remaining the same. Building elevations show that
the new addition will match the building and building materials, which
is mostly brick with some highlighting of split-face block. There is one
main difference in that the existing building has a flat roof and the new
addition will have a peaked asphalt shingle roof. That is the main
difference but other than that it should look as one building when
completed.
Mr. Engebretson: Mr. Nagy, any comments?
Mr. Nagy: We have no new correspondence.
Mr. Engebretson: Then we will go to the petitioner.
Bob Wertenberger: I am an architect for Merritt McCallum Cieslak located in
Farmington, Michigan. We are architects for the project. I have some
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colored drawings here. Just to reiterate on what the planner has just
spoken on. I will start with the site plan briefly. Currently the existing
building extends within 100 feet of the right-of-way at Lyndon. We
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would propose to remove a small portion of that and add it to the
actual body of the church. What is currently used as worship space
now would then become parish hall and classrooms for Sunday School.
There would be no change to the rectory, and no change to the parking
area. There is currently landscaping to the west of the property. There
are some existing trees. We will be supplementing that with some
landscaping, mainly in front of the church and some at the new entry.
We have a new entry canopy here just south of the worship space. (He
presented the elevation plans) We would try with the new building to
match the existing brick, which is a reddish color, and to give the
building some height to make it appear more as a church building we
have raised it with laminated wood beams inside, given it a pitched roof
covered with asphalt shingles as was mentioned before. There are
some accent bands at the base. I also have some samples of those
materials.
Mr. Alanskas: I see you are building this 30 feet high and the setback is 50 feet, which
is not that high, but how tall is that cross?
Mr. Wertenberger: The cross is 60 feet.
Mr. Alanskas: John, how high can he go for the size of a cross?
Mr. Nagy: Church crosses are exempt from height restrictions.
Mr. Morrow: The first entryway into your new church service area, where is that?
Mr. Wertenberger: There is an existing entry that is shown here. (He pointed this out on
the plan) We will be adding a new entry canopy.
Mr. Morrow: The new section would not have a new entryway? You would still be
coming from off the side? There is no traffic entering?
Mr. Wertenberger: Our nearest side walk to the street would be right here.
Mr. Morrow: And that is existing now?
Mr. Wertenberger: Well it is about 30 feet north of the existing one.
Mr. Morrow: It will not be a part of your new worship area?
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Mr. Wertenberger: No it would not extend out in front of the church on the Lyndon
Avenue side.
�.. Mr. Morrow: And this is not an expansion. It is just a new worship area.
Mr. Wertenberger: No additional seating. In fact, we plan on taking the same pews, and
just moving them into the new church.
Mr. LaPine: When I was out there checking it out, I am just trying to get it in my
mind if I have this figured right, the new addition, the way I paced it
off, looks like it is going to go out as far as your existing sign is now?
Mr. Wertenberger: Approximately. That sign will have to be removed.
Mr. LaPine: I understand that. Then from that point to the sidewalk, is that where
the 50 foot setback is from the sidewalk or is the 50 foot setback from
the street?
Mr. Wertenberger: It would be about a foot south of the sidewalk.
Mr. LaPine: The two large trees that are in front of the sign, I assume they will stay.
Then there are some big shrubs there that I know will come down.
Will the two big trees stay?
Mr. Wertenberger: If they are right next to the sign, they will have to come down.
Mr. LaPine: No they are further up closer to the sidewalk.
Mr. Wertenberger: Then they would remain.
Mr. LaPine: The only other question I have, you say you are not going to add any
other additional seating or anything like that. Once you move the
sanctuary into the new area, what is the old area going to be used for?
Mr. Wertenberger: That will be used as a parish hall, a gathering place before and after
church. We will have some flexible folding partitions that they can
section that off for Sunday school classes, reading, things of that
nature.
Mr. LaPine: I guess what I am getting at, if you are going to use that for additional
classrooms, that has to leave me to believe you are hoping to get
additional members which means more people coming into church but
you are telling me that is not going to happen.
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Mr. Wertenberger: The plan right now is there will be no expansion in the number of
seats.
Mrs. Blomberg: John, I wondered what the height would be of a regular colonial?
Mr. Nagy: 26 to 28 feet to the ridge.
Mrs. Blomberg: So this isn't that much higher than a colonial.
Mr. Morrow: Along that line, I noticed there was a house opposite that church that
has some solar panels that probably get up in that 30 foot range that
added to the house. I think it is certainly compatible to the area. I
know there is some single family to the west, but they are well screened
by a row of very, very tall pines, so it seems like it would be compatible
to the neighborhood.
(Mr. Wertenberger presented samples of the building materials to the Commission)
Mr. Piercecchi: In regards to your landscaping, are those going to be pine-type trees,
needle trees or deciduous trees?
Mr. Wertenberger: No they will be deciduous trees.
Mr. Piercecchi: How close will they come to the sidewalk?
Mr. Wertenberger: Approximately 25 to 30 feet.
Mr. Engebretson: It looks like you have done a very, very thorough job and it looks like it
is going to be quite a magnificent facility.
On a motion duly made by Mr. Piercecchi, seconded by Mr. Morrow and unanimously
approved, it was
#1-19-96 RESOLVED that, the City Planning Commission does hereby approve
Petition 96-1-8-1 by Merritt McCallum Cieslak Architects requesting
approval for all plans required by Section 18.58 of Zoning Ordinance #543 in
connection with a proposal to construct an addition to the church located at
32765 Lyndon Road in the Southwest 1/4 of Section 22, subject to the
following conditions:
1) That the Site Plan marked Sheet A-1 dated January 12, 1996 prepared
by Merritt McCallum Cieslak, is hereby approved and shall be adhered
to;
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2) That the landscaping, as shown on the Floor Plan marked Sheet A-
2 dated January 12, 1996, as revised, and described on the above
approved Site Plan, is hereby approved and shall be adhered to;
2) That underground sprinklers are to be provided for all new
landscaped areas and all planted materials shall be installed prior to
final inspection and to the satisfaction of the Inspection Department
and thereafter permanently maintained in a healthy condition;
4) That the Building Elevation Plan marked Sheet A-3 dated January
12, 1996 prepared by Merritt McCallum Cieslak, is hereby
approved and shall be adhered to;
5) That the building materials of the new addition shall match the
building materials of the existing church so that upon completion
the entire structure will look like it was constructed at one time.
Mr. Engebretson, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution
adopted.
Mr. Alanskas, Secretary, announced the next item on the agenda is Sign Permit
Application by John Dinan requesting approval for signage for the office
building located at 37751 Pembroke Street in the Southeast 1/4 of Section 6.
Mr. Miller: This site is located on the south side of Pembroke between Victor
Parkway and Newburgh Road. This is John Dinan's new office
building. He is proposing a 30 sq. ft. identification ground sign. The
site is allowed a 30 sq. ft. identification sign so it is a conforming sign.
It will be located in the east drive, on the right hand side as you drive
in, in the landscaped area in the parking lot.
Mr. Engebretson: Mr. Miller it is a conforming sign in all respects?
Mr. Miller: Yes it is.
Mr. Engebretson: Is Coldwell Banker going to be the sole occupant of that building or
are they going to be the signature occupant.
Mr. Miller: I think at the meeting he said they would take over one third of the
building.
Mr. Engebretson: I understand that the petitioner was excused from coming to this
meeting because he had a conforming sign so with that comment, I
guess a motion would be in order.
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On a motion duly made by Mr. LaPine, seconded by Mrs. Blomberg and unanimously
approved, it was
`"' #1-20-96 RESOLVED that, the City Planning Commission does hereby recommend
to the City Council that the Sign Permit Application by John Dinan
requesting approval for signage for the office building located at 37751
Pembroke Street in the Southeast 1/4 of Section 6, be approved subject to
the following conditions:
1) That the Sign Package by John Dinan, received by the Planning
Commission on January 18, 1996, is hereby approved and shall be
adhered to;
2) That the sign shall identify a business center (i.e., Caldwell Banker
Building) and not individual tenants as outlined in the
correspondence from the Inspection Department dated January 24,
1996.
3) That the sign shall be blue and white.
Mr. Engebretson, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution
adopted.
On a motion duly made, seconded and unanimously adopted, the 718th Regular Meeting
'taw held on January 30, 1996 was adjourned at 8:10 p.m.
CITY PLANNING COMMISSION
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Robert Alanskas, Secretary
Jack Engebr tson, Chairman
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