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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1,173 - July 27, 2021 signedMINUTES OF THE 1,173'd PUBLIC HEARINGS AND REGULAR MEETING HELD BY THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LIVONIA On Tuesday, JUIy 27, 2021, the City Planning Commission of the City of Livonia held its 1,173'd Public Hearing and Regular Meeting in the Livonia City Hall, 33000 Civic Center Drive, Livonia, Michigan. Mr. Ian Wilshaw, Chairman, called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. Members present: David Bongero Glen Long Betsy McCue Carol Smiley Peter Ventura Ian Wilshaw Members absent: Sam Caramagno Mr. Mark Taormina, Planning Director, and Stephanie Reece, Program Supervisor, were also present. Chairman Wilshaw informed the audience that if a petition on tonight's agenda involves a rezoning request, this Commission makes a recommendation to the City Council who, in turn, will hold its own public hearing and make the final determination as to whether a petition is approved or denied. The Planning Commission holds the only public hearing on a request for preliminary plat and/or vacating petition. The Commission's recommendation is forwarded to the City Council for the final determination as to whether a plat is accepted or rejected. If a petition requesting a waiver of use or site plan approval is denied tonight, the petitioner has ten days in which to appeal the decision, in writing, to the City Council. Resolutions adopted by the City Planning Commission become effective seven (7) days after the date of adoption. The Planning Commission and the professional staff have reviewed each of these petitions upon their filing. The staff has furnished the Commission with both approving and denying resolutions, which the Commission may, or may not, use depending on the outcome of the proceedings tonight. ITEM #1 PETITION 2020-08-01-06 Middlebelt-Plymouth Venture Ms. Smiley, Secretary, announced the first item on the agenda, Petition 2020-08- 01-06 submitted by Middlebelt Plymouth Venture L.L.C. pursuant to Section 23.01 of the City of Livonia Zoning Ordinance #543, as amended, requesting to rezone parts of the properties at 29707 & 30273 Plymouth Road, located on the south side of Plymouth Road between Middlebelt Road and Milburn Avenue in the Northeast'Y4 of Section 35, from C-2 (General Business) to R-8 (High Rise Multiple Family Residential District — Maximum 4 Stories). July 27, 2021 30091 Mr, Wilshaw: Mr. Taormina, this is a petition that we have recently received a request to have this item tabled from the petitioner. Is that correct? Mr. Taormina: That is correct. Yesterday we received email correspondence from the petitioner indicating their desire to put this item on the table. There is a representative from the petitioner here this evening. It is at your pleasure how you would like to proceed at this point. Mr. Wilshaw: In light of that, because this is a very important petition for us and many in our audience are interested in, I would like to ask... instead of going through the entire process of a public hearing and having you read out all of the correspondence and so on, I think what I would like to do is just immediately go to our petitioner. He can speak to his request for a tabling, explain why if we have any questions for him we can do that and then we will also give an opportunity, because we do have residents here and this is a public hearing, to speak to the petition. Although, given the fact if they are requesting a tabling, there is not going to be a tremendous amount of discussion or presentation given by the petitioner tonight. I am going to ask our audience to be patient with us if this is going to get tabled and to continue to follow this so you can come back for a full public hearing, and we can listen to everyone's comments when we get the petition before us. Mr. Taormina: If I may point out that unless the commission this evening tables this to a date certain, meaning a specific date in the future, then we will readvertise for the hearing if it is to a date uncertain. If the petitioner leaves this open, in terms of a date and when it would come back, the residents will be notified once again in the same manner that they were originally notified. Mr. Wilshaw: Good. We have received a number of correspondences from residents as well. We want to acknowledge that it has been received and I am sure we will continue to get more, and you are welcome to continue to send that correspondence to us. That way we can notify those people when the item has been reposted for our public hearing. So, with that I am going to go to our petitioner who I believe is in the audience and he can start with his name and address for our record and explain his request to table this item. Steve Duczynski, 17800 Laurel Park Drive, Livonia, MI. We would ask that the vote this evening be tabled. After last weeks study session and some additional comments we have received from these revised submission plans, we would like the opportunity to further study July 27, 2021 30092 our current plan and those comments, which requires additional time. Putting it simply, we have more work to do. We are committed to bringing a quality development to this site and providing the additional time as a result of listening to those concerns with the opportunity to analyze the feasibility and address accordingly. We do apologize for any inconvenience this has caused the city and the community in attendance this evening. Thank you very much. Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you, Mr. Duczynski. Are there any questions for our petitioners from any of the commissioners? If there is no questions... Mr. Ventura. Mr. Ventura: Mr. Duczynski, can you tell us...l guess number one, do you intend to change the material way rezoning that you are requesting and the project that you envision? Mr. Duczynski: Currently we are not thinking of changing the zoning, which is currently R-8. As far as the project in general, there were some comments regarding the densities. There were some comments that we heard regarding the aesthetics and in order to further study those items and listening to those concerns we just would like some additional time to maybe improve those issues and come back after conversations with the city and move forward. Mr. Ventura: Thank you. Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you, Mr. Ventura. Any other questions for our petitioner from any of the commission? If not, again, I want to give anyone in the audience an opportunity to speak if they would like to. That being said, you see we haven't heard much from the petitioner about this petition, so if you want to reserve your comments for the next public hearing you are welcome to, but if you would like to speak now you are also welcome to. This is a public hearing, so we definitely want to give you an opportunity. If anyone wishes to speak, they can come forward to the podium. Good evening, sir. Steven Weldon, 29912 Orangelawn St., Livonia, MI. Good evening. I see that this is the ongoing petition that we keep facing, the southeast corner of Livonia. Every time Schostak has tried to do something we faced, as a community, the Planning Commission, the City Commissioners, and the Mayor, all seeming to go against what the community wants. We fought many times when they tried to introduce and change and destroy the old retail outlets there and build and construct and we face a lot of issues there. One of the things that they agreed to do was build a 12 foot berm and put July 27, 2021 30093 alternating trees to prevent people from being able to scale up there and look in our backyards and possibly break in. They built about an eight -foot berm. Part of that... half of that whole section, they didn't put up but a few scraggly trees back there that we have been dealing with. The tree right in back of my house is on a 45- degree angle just about. Not a pretty sight. Not something you would say this is Schostak's best efforts for delivering a quality product to the community. We have had so many meeting for Schostak. Whenever they have a project and it just seems blanket blanket... we will voice our complaints, it gets approved. When they did that theater, they said there would be no shows after 10:00pm. We had showings up to two in the morning. We would have beer bottles, sirens going off all night long. The police would have to show up. Then they had that fun entertainment section for teens. They swore it was just a little family entertainment. There wouldn't be anything... we had teens there. They were drinking. There has been nothing but problems. This was brought up to the City Council and Planning Commission many times. Issues with the trash. All sorts of issues, and yet it gets blanket approval. I don't know why they keep saying Livonia is family's first. You really need to take down that sign, at least in the southeast corner. It is a shame to have to say that it really is. I have been here since 1955 when our family first moved in. I don't know how many of you are long time residents, but this is a shame that we have to fact this kind of a construct that is like us against both our city government and the Schostak's. Now let me address this current rezoning. Without that berm and everything, that detracts from what it is. They don't deliver on what they say. Then our city government doesn't enforce what they were supposed to do. They still have refused to come through and put up those trees or increase the berm. They are not going to deliver on their promises, and it gets overlooked by enforcement. I don't know why that is. What is it that you guys are not providing when you blanket these approvals that they can ignore it? As far as this apartment, let's look at the fact that this is not one of those integrated developments like they have done in Detroit where they have both the apartments and the retail stores built together. This is an adhoc throw in. Schostak has for decades, probably, looked at getting a big box store in that corner. They can't get anyone to come in there. This is a low -rent, low-income, low property value area. It is one of the first developments of Livonia. You are not going to get a retail in there, so now they are doing a in and around run where they can still generate some income with the property, rental properties. Well, this particular location and for the rent that they would have to charge, they are going to get Section 8, they are going to get low-income teenagers that will then get other teenagers to move in with them to share the rent July 27, 2021 30094 and they will have more vehicles there than there are supposed to be. That means more police. This is also an area that if you have such a big complex, that is where you are going to have the gang activity. You are going to have drug activity. You are going to have crime starting to pop up. You are going to see ... I have already heard, instead of having homes maybe in this area that would be family oriented. You are going to have to have the whole water infrastructure there rebuilt to handle such a massive apartment complex. The retail stores there don't have a big demand for water themselves. It is probably bigger, but it isn't not a massive thing where you are going to have a couple hundred or more residents. My brother had two complexes where he had those issues, where old people Section 8 or any entities .... they flush down the toilets and it clogs things up. It is going to start backing stuff up. Have you guys looked at those kinds of issues? So, you have the integration fact that this is a ad in issue that shouldn't be there. They could have gone across the street where the... right on the corner where the Walgreens is or was and then all of the stores that have failed over there... there was Office Depot and they finally moved out. Why couldn't they move there? Did you look at that aspect? I will tell you why they didn't, because this is a property that Schostak owns. He wants to get that filled. He wants income at the expense and interest of the community, which is you people as well. I hate to say this, but this smells. I don't know if you remember the Waste Management issue where there is a lot of corruption that goes on for them to get things done. I hate to say that about this area. I hope it isn't true, but any of you are looking at future political aspirations here in Livonia, we are going to mark your names down. We are going to look who is supporting the community and who is going with the developer over us. Thank you. Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you, Mr. Weldon. Appreciate your comments. Anyone else wish to speak? Good evening, sir. Craig Grzech, 29761 Orangelawn Street, Livonia, MI. Good evening. I am kind of new to this whole getting involved thing and I am kind of enjoying it, but... so, I don't know a lot of the past history, but I have kind of looked at some different things and when I first saw this my first thought was I hope the Planning Commission along with the Council kind of takes a look at, and I don't know how you go about doing your job, but as far as the setbacks and how close this would be to that berm and that wall, you know where the parking lot would be, so I think that is a very valid concern for us down in that neighborhood especially on Orangelawn Street. Also, the height of it. Being four -stories and I know it sounds like its tabled. I don't know for what reasons, but I don't know if that is public July 27, 2021 30095 record to find out like why they are looking at different things or what you have gone back to them at in regard to height of the building, the setback and again where the parking lot would be located. I also echo the gentleman's last comments in regard to just traffic patterns and the things that are going on as far as an ad-hoc...I don't really think this is ... it doesn't seem like it is a community type effort with the way things have been going in that area between a Wal-Mart, a Target, and now a blood plasma center. It seems pretty unstable across the street as far as development and then with the Chick-fil-A going in you know the traffic...I hope you are doing studies on how that is going to affect this rezoning as well. It seems to really be getting cluttered in that area. Also, I don't know if that is part of the rezoning conversation but the kind of ... the rent rate. What type of housing are they looking at doing in regard to rent rates? In some of the studies and stuff that I have seen online is that Livonia does a very good job of keeping the rent rates higher than some of our neighboring communities. It seems to kind of help overall. I was born and raised east side. I have been here 10 years...12 years. Absolutely love what is going on in Livonia, but it seems to be kind of ... we kind of need to watch what we are doing from a zoning and planning. Livonia seems to look at new developments before trying to take existing ones. There are a lot of vacancies out there. I am hoping that the zoning commission and the City Council really takes a hard look at this because I do think however this plays out, if it does happen that hopefully it is done the right way and I would agree...I don't know how it is policed, but I was in involved in some of the conversations with the retail space when it was Wal-Mart and a lot of the stuff didn't happen. As far as the berms and all that. So, hopefully there is some policing there if they move forward. Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you, Mr. Grzech. Just to give you a little explanation because you are...you said you are a little newer to this process. Just to help you and anyone else in the audience that wishes to understand how this process works, the way this is going to work is, and this is the way most of these petitions go. First it comes to us for a rezoning request. First, we are looking at the zoning of the property and is that zoning appropriate for that area. In this case, it is a commercial zoning to a residential zoning that is being proposed. We will consider that when we have our full public hearing. We will hear from the petitioner, and we will hear from everyone in audience that wishes to speak. We are going to make a recommendation which goes to Council to either approve or deny. It is not the final decision. City Council is going to make that final decision. City Council will generally then ... they have a couple step process. They first have to give a first reading and July 27, 2021 30096 then usually they will hold it until a site plan catches up before they give the final approval of the rezoning. The second step of the process is the site plan. That is where we dig into all of the details about the height of the buildings, the colors of the materials, the setbacks, the parking lots, and all of those fine details. That is in the site plan process. That will, again, come to us. We will review it; we will try to massage it as best we can to make what we think is the best possible outcome. We will then send it on to City Council with an approving or denying recommendation. Then City Council with review both the original rezoning request and the site plan and make their decisions. That then becomes the final decision that the city stays with, whatever that is. That is kind of the process. There are several steps involved. Unfortunately, in this case, our petitioner has for reasons they have explained, asked that we table this first step for now. So, most likely that will happen. The commission has an opportunity to decide whatever they wish. They could still offer and approving or denying, as well. Most likely it is going to get tabled based on the petitioner's request. At least you have some sense of what the steps are and what is going to happen in each of those steps. This first one, the rezoning, we are going to pretty much focus on the use of the property and is that an appropriate use for that property. We will then get into the details of the site plan. I hope that helps a little. Mr. Grzech: It does a lot. From a rezoning...if it is approved for rezoning and then lets say that the site plan you don't come to an agreement, does that stay rezoned to that or would it go back to General Business? Mr. Wilshaw: No. That is one of the reasons that Council holds that rezoning request, because they on want to go through the whole process of approving the rezoning, have it rezoned, and then not come to terms on a site plan. Now they have piece of property that they can't do anything with. That is kind of why they go through this process of sending it to Council, they hold on to it through this first reading process and then they won't make their final determination on the rezoning until they see the site plan. Hopefully, if it is going to get rezoned and approved, it comes through as a complete package everyone sees what it is. If it fails or can't come to terms with the petitioner then it will just revert back to existing zoning. Or. Grzech: Thank you. Or. Wilshaw: Thank you, sir. Appreciate you coming this evening. Anyone else wishing to speak, please come forward. July 27, 2021 30097 Jeff Grad, Blackburn Street, Livonia, MI. I am going to be brief because it has been tabled. I don't want to take up too much time. I also don't want to give Schostak, the petitioner, too much material here. Two quick points. I am a little bit different from everyone else that has come up because... well first off, I have been a Livonia resident my whole life. I have two kids and one on the way. I live relatively close to this rezoning petition, and I think if we all look at ourselves in the mirror, we would realize that like they said that this is an ad -hoc proposition to change the zoning. If they had come 10 or 15 years ago when the Wal-Mart was put in and then said we aren't going to put in a Wal-Mart here that is open `til 11 or 12 or 24 hours and a Target and a liquor store and a plasma center and a gym, that are open late, let's make this an integrated community like we have seen other places that is sustainable and that could be part of a productive future, then this might be a different story. This is just Schostak saying COVID hit, and we aren't going to be able to turn this into a retail development, let's try to make money on this and what is hot now. There is a housing shortage in Metro Detroit, let's put apartments in here to make some money. That was not part of the original plan, and it doesn't fit with what I just mentioned right there. All these businesses that are open late, etc. That is the first point that just seems so obvious to me that I am actually surprised that they put rezoning petition forward to be honest. The second one is you know if we can't... you have all these people here... I have talked to a lot of people. There was a petition against this already put in. I am not sure of the details because I was not part of that because I don't live right behind this. We, as residents, need to have faith that our representatives are going to do what is in the best interests of what the current residents want that pay the taxes, not a big corporation that is just in it for the profits. I can guarantee you that the owners of Schostak do not live in Devonaire neighborhood right behind this development. It is not as personal to them. They are looking at it for a profit. My last point...I have already talked to multiple families... young families in my neighborhood that if this goes through and including my own, we are strongly considering moving out of the neighborhood. I own a business in Livonia and that would just be too bad because I love Livonia and it is a great place to live. That's it. Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you for your comments, sir. Good evening, ma'am. Susan Micallef, Orangelawn Street, Livonia, MI. I live behind the mall. I remember it when it was an open-air mall. My concern right now is, I live behind Wal-Mart, I have been fighting and arguing with the city July 27, 2021 30098 since they started bringing those trucks, those 18-wheelers in. They are blowing diesel in my back yard. My husband has COPD, can't breathe. I got grandkids that I watch. I don't know who is in these trucks. My concern is I can't get any help from the city, not really. The police do a good job. They do a good job. It's like these people said, the city does not care, so my concern is if you do go ahead with this development who is going to take care of the problems that are going to arise. Don't tell there aren't going to be any problems because there will be. That is my concern. You have to consider those of us that live there and how this is going to improve our quality of life and quite frankly I don't think it is. I agree with everything everybody has said. If I have been fighting with Wal-Mart, who is going to help with this stuff coming in. That's all I want to say. Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you, Ms. Micallef. Is there anyone else in the audience... we have one more. Good evening, ma'am. Cheryl Lupu, 29864 Orangelawn, Livonia, MI. Good evening. How is everyone this evening? I live next door to Susan. I have gone through the amount of problems that she has gone through. We never get any help. I have come before the Council. They tried to help me a little and it still has gone nowhere. It is ridiculous the amount of times we have to call the police. If you guys need to do a little reference, start with that. At how many amounts of phone calls have been made to those police and that is not really their job. I believe it is private property. Hmm? No one is ever out there taking care of anything, let alone the extra garbage in our yards and the people that are on that hill. So, there is a lot to look at here. It is bad enough when these trucks are staring into your home while you are trying to sit or in your bedroom or something back there because these people just sit in those trucks. They run them. Our houses vibrate and it is just ridiculous. No one really does care. The police actually do their job. They can't always get to there, but it's the point of these are our backyards. Not yours, they are ours. We need them to be kept private as possible. We are fighting someone all the time over there it seems like. By the way, that wall hasn't been repaired since what...1910? It's crumbling. They don't care. It is disgusting if you just take a look and look because the grass is high and there you go. That is all I have to say. Thank you. Jr. Wilshaw: Very good. Thank you, Ms. Lupu. Good evening, ma'am. Reverend Victoria Kowaleski, 29960 Orangelawn, Livonia, MI. For the record I ask you all now, do our voices count? How many of you are saying in your head, no? Regardless, we will have our words heard July 27, 2021 30099 here. Wonderland mall was officially shattered in 2003, After the all closed, plans were announced to demolish the entire structure and plans were to build a new shopping center anchored by a new Target, as well as a Wal-Mart. Opponents of the mall's redevelopment held a civic meeting in late 2005 which was interrupted by pranksters shouting epitaphs and other opponents picketed in front of vacant mall. Despite the local opposition plans were approved for the new shopping center and demolition began in 2006, We were assured that this would be an asset to our community and our concerns were unwarranted. I was one of those voices telling my concerns at that time. However, my pleas fell on deaf ears. The developer had all the power. Our voices didn't count. Once this development was completed, it wasn't long before our neighborhood was a target for vehicle theft. Personally, my van was stolen from in front of my home and was never recovered. I didn't have theft insurance because it was an older vehicle. I went out my door in the morning to go to my job as a babysitter for a Livonia police officers' family. My van was gone. One of my neighbors had a four -wheeler stolen. The family that first welcomed us into the neighborhood in 1992 have had two vehicles stolen from in front of their home. A neighbor on the next street over had a vehicle stolen. This is all since the opening of the Wonderland Village. One of my friends told me that some of our neighbors have had their vehicle windows broken by people driving by and throwing bottles through them and speeding off. When we bought our home in 1992, we never foresaw the possibility that hundreds of people would be living permanently just outside our back yard. Would any one of you want or tolerate a four-story apartment building in your backyard? This is unfeasible. This developer is asking for an oasis of residential property surrounded but backed up by a neighborhood surrounded by commercial property. My neighbors are already putting out signs to sell. A close neighbor and his family, this is two doors down from me, had just completed their dream of an outdoor hot tub and an entertaining area and planned on it being their dream home to retire and hand it down to their son as their mom had handed it down to them. Forty years they were there. Upon their notification of this proposed project, they put their dream home up for sale. They left in tears. They are now gone for their dream home of 40 years. Regarding the existing Wonderland Village, someone said build it and they will come, businesses and consumers. Now we have the developer telling us that we need a multi -story apartment complex abutting our backyards. Is that so he can get more people shopping at the properties he makes money from? Our voices have been ignored for too long by our city representatives. Our property values will be negatively impacted by this project. July 27, 2021 30100 Our sewer system will be compromised by this development. Our privacy and our rights as homeowners in the City of Livonia will be impinged upon by the development that this man is trying to put behind us. My neighbors and I are totally against this. This time hear us and stand up for us, your taxpayers, the people who pay the salaries of the people who work for Livonia. As you ponder what I have said, I wish you all here a blessed evening. Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you, ma'am. Appreciate your comments. Is there anyone else that would like to speak? Sure, you can have the last comment, sir. Mr. Weldon: Another aspect that is part of the consideration I would hope you would look at is being a member of the residential site right behind where this is supposed to go. I would like to mention how, if you have noticed in the news for the past couple years, there have been a lot of apartment fires. You see it on the news occasionally. Whole big apartments just going up in smoke. The devastation is terrible. You get something like this going right in our area, I can tell you with the wind that comes tunneling over that berm right now, it is like a major forest coming across. If it catches some embers right there and comes across and hits our roofs and the roofs beyond that, you are going to have a whole devastation of a bunch of homes in that area. I have been through one of these before where just a few embers sets off another fire, another fire. These homes can go up like (snaps) that. That is exactly what can happen in this. There is no guarantee that they can build a fireproof apartment complex, especially of that size. Especially when you have got, like I said, the type of people that will be looking to move into this area. You are not going to have people that are very well off with well paying rents that want to live in that kind of area. Again, ad -hoc. It's not something that is going to be integrated where they can say I can go here and do this. No, you are going to have these young kids that come in, and I hate to say it, teenagers. I have been one myself, but I knew some of them that when they did, they had four or five roommates. You had four or five cars that shouldn't be there. Multiply that by how many other apartments going to be like that. So, you are going to have that going on. You are going have again some of the gang member stuff and once you get that kind of going on, like he said, many of these people are looking to move their home. Why? For the sake of the developer? We are going to (inaudible) to them again? Like I said, we have been battling this, the Schostak entity, for ages now. If any of you...I am going to apologize in advance for having the assumption that you are all on the take. That is the wrong way to look at it, but unfortunately with the previous commissions and planning that July 27, 2021 30101 went through, they were outraged when I said oh it looks like Schostaks got his hand in your back pocket. One of them broke down in tears but that is exactly what we see in all of these other cities. The influence of these developers far outweighs what the families are. Again, our slogan is supposed to be Families First. All 1 can do is say look at these issues of the infrastructure, the potential for the fires, like I said, I have lived through some of those fires where they came through the apartment complexes where I was at and those were where some of them were spread out. You get this concentrated one right here... it would not be pretty for not only residents, but even the side -by -side retails stores. Something to consider seriously and like I said, when you guys make your decision, even if you disapproved, we are going after the City Council members because they have done the same thing in the past. They aren't all the same ones that we voted for or against before, but we are coming out for them next time. Any of those members, any of them that we got, we are going to have people running against them. We will not stand for this again. I apologize to all of you, but I hope you will look at this very seriously from the fact of what the Schostaks and he is a Schostak employee, that is all they are. They are just looking for the money. They want to fill that lot somehow and this is the only way they can get it. They cannot get a retail business in there. So, look at it from that point of view and say that is not a good fit. If they ... like the other gentleman said, if they integrated this and built this where it was going to be fitting, that would be a whole different story. You would have families that were wanting to move in there. They might enjoy that. This is not. You are going to have... again, the wrong type of people with the wrong type of intentions of not being a family driven unit, but just part-time. It is just something to crash and maybe as a Section 8 person for a while. Thank you for listening and I hope you will look at this long and hard. Thank you. Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you, Mr. Weldon. Appreciate your passion on this item as well. If there is no one else that wishes to speak, Mr. Duczynski, is there anything else you would like to say on behalf of the petitioner before we make our decision? Mr. Duczynski: We would just like to say that the comments have been noted and we would like to reserve our response for future meetings. Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you, Mr. Duczynski. We appreciate that. If there are no other comments or questions, I am going to close the public hearing at this time a motion would be in order. July 27, 2021 30102 On a motion by Long, seconded by McCue, and unanimously adopted, it was #07-38-2021 RESOLVED, That pursuant to a Public Hearing having been held by the City Planning Commission on July 27, 2021, on Petition 2020-08-01-06 submitted by Middlebelt Plymouth Venture L.L.C. pursuant to Section 23.01 of the City of Livonia Zoning Ordinance #543, as amended, requesting to rezone parts of the properties at 29707 & 30273 Plymouth Road, located on the south side of Plymouth Road between Middlebelt Road and Milburn Avenue in the Northeast 'Y4 of Section 35, from C-2 (General Business) to R- 8 (High Rise Multiple Family Residential District — Maximum 4 Stories), the Planning Commission does hereby table the item at the petitioners request to a date uncertain. 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. Wilshaw: Is there any discussion? Mr. Wilshaw, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution adopted. ITEM #2 PETITION 2021-06-01-05 Belal Hourany Ms. Smiley, Acting Secretary, announced the next item on the agenda, Petition 2021-06-01-05 submitted by Belal Hourany pursuant to Section 23,01 of the City of Livonia Zoning Ordinance #543, as amended, requesting to rezone the properties at 27428 and 27432 Long Avenue, located on the north side of Long Avenue between Inkster Road and Rensellor Avenue in the Northeast 'Y4 of Section 1, from R-1 (One Family Residential) to C-2 (General Business). Mr. Wilshaw: Okay, so on this item we have received a request from the petitioner in advance to table this item as well. That is the case, Mr. Taormina, correct? Mr. Taormina: In this case, he had not requested a tabling. We cannot lawfully conduct a public hearing based on the fact that the required notification sign was not posted on the property. He is correcting that error and once that sign goes up, we can reschedule another date. We will send the notices once again and reschedule the public hearing. Mr. Wilshaw: Yes, that is correct. Do we need a formal tabling? July 27, 2021 30103 Mr, Taormina: We do not. Mr. Wilshaw: That way we can let anyone who is watching know that this is the reason why this is going to be postponed, due to a technical error on the part of the petitioner. That will be coming to a future meeting as well. There is no vote on that. ITEM APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1,1715YPublicHearingsand Regular Meeting Ms. Smiley, Acting Secretary, announced the next item on the agenda, Approval of the Minutes of the 12172"d Public Hearing and Regular Meeting held on July 13, 2021. On a motion by Ventura, seconded by Bongero, and unanimously adopted, it was #07-39-2021 RESOLVED, That the Minutes of 1,172"d Public Hearings and Regular Meeting held by the Planning Commission on July 13, 2021, are hereby approved. A roll call vote on the foregoing resolution resulted in the following: AYES: Long, McCue, Bongero, Ventura, Wilshaw NAYS: None ABSENT: Caramagno ABSTAIN: Smiley Mr. Wilshaw, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution adopted. On a motion duly made, seconded and unanimously adopted, the 1,173rd Public Hearings and Regular Meeting held on July 22, 2021, aat 7:42 p.m. CITY PILA'NNING COMMISSION ATTEST: Ian Wilshaw, Chairman