Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Excuse me. For Monday, March 16th is called to order. Everyone, please rise for the pledge of allegiance. To the United States of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And before we continue, uh Kevin Krauss has a announcement he'd like to make.

Good evening everyone. Um just real quick, we want to be respectful of everyone's time and everybody's um opportunity to uh participate this evening. Um we currently right now have our west entrance to city hall, I'm sorry, our east entrance ramp to city hall under construction. And because of that, we have limited emergency egress from the building. Um, everyone's in here. We have a packed room tonight. I just wanted to make sure that everyone is aware of that. We're trying to accommodate everyone and allow everyone to stay in here and be part of this discussion. What I am going to ask is if you are on the agenda um for different uh different agenda items once your agenda item is complete, if then you can move to the hallway. Um there is going to be a monitor. Do we have we have that in the monitor on the in the hallway? We'll have the uh the broadcast of the monitor in the hallway as well. Um I'm just trying to be respectful of the fire code and make sure everyone stays safe. And like I said, because of that construction, we're limited, but we want to make sure everyone has an opportunity to speak and participate this evening. Thank you.

Thank you, Kevin. Item two is roll call. Roll call. Miss JSON here. Mr. Long here. Mr. Gllfelty here. Mr. Green here. Mr. Crover here. Miss Rosco here. Mr. Mcamelly here. BUD is here. Chair Fryac here. Next we have approval of the excuse me approval of the agenda. So move madam chair. Support. You're supporting. Was that you? That was me and it was

Mr. Green. That was me and it was Who? Jameson. Mr. Jameson. Sorry. It's all good. Okay. So, I have a motion for Miss M. Jameson supported by No, I made a motion. Mr. Jameson, she seconded. Yes. Yes. Are you having fun yet? I have a motion. I thought I thought it sounded like you. Motion from Mr. Gladfelty supported by Miss Jameson to approve the agenda. Any discussion? Mr. Gladfeld. Yes. M. Jameson. Yes. Mr. Long.

Yes. Mr. Green. Yes. Mr. Prova. Yes. Miss Rasco. Yes. Mr. McAlly. Yes. Mr. Rob. Yes. Chair Roest. The agenda is approved. The next item we have is approval of the minutes of the planning commission meeting held on Wednesday, February 18th, 2026. Madam Chair, Cro would like to make a motion to approve minutes. Okay. Support. Who supported it? I have a motion for Mr. Kro supported by Mr. Long to approve the minutes. Is there any discussion on that? Mr. Grova. Yes.

Mr. Long. Yes. Mr. uh GL. Got abstain. Mr. Green. Yes. Miss Rosco. Yes. Mr. Mcelli. Yes. Mr. Boande. Yes. M. Jameson. Yes.

Chairs. The minutes are approved. Okay. Next we have Comments from the public on non-aggenda items. Is anyone here that wishes to speak to us or talk to us about items that are not on our agenda? Not everybody at once. Okay. See no one. The first we have is old business. That's RZ 2022503 Marman School Rhymill Self Storage 15303 Marman Road. Uh the project the condition they're asking for an additional reszoning the front portion of the property 12.88 acres of 25.6 6 acre parcel from R1A single family residential to M1 light industrial for the purpose of redeveloping the former Marman school into a self storage and industrial flex space facility and it's here.

So we're we're going to start um I think you have a a list in terms of the order that we're going to go in these couple public hearings tonight. Not a public hearing.

This is not public hearing. It's not a public hearing, but Oh, okay. You're right. We take we took that that one's not a public hearing. You know, before we go to the petitioner though, um we we would like to give a little bit of I'm sorry. It's been a crazy day today. Um a little bit of background. As you know, you guys did table this after the public hearing in December. Um since that time, we have worked very, very hard with the applicant and also with Mr. Krauss and Mr. Scapatici, DPW director, is here. Um you probably noticed quite an extensive um change to the section on the road improvements in there. So we wanted to point out a couple things that they are here tonight to answer any of the questions. We also have Mr. Greco here that was quite involved in the agreement.

Okay. So um if you want to hear a summary of the project again I you know Mr. Mr. Enos can do that unless you want to jump right into it and talk to the developer. Um go ahead and do a separate.

Yeah. Thank you, commissioners. Good evening. Um, and good evening, residents. My name is John Enos. I'm the a planning consultant for the city uh to help out the commission with uh decisions like this. Tonight, you're going to have two things. And so, just so you're you're understanding, this first this first case is going to be a conditional resoning just like the the upcoming case. And and what does that conditional resoning mean? Well, that means that the applicant or the property owner has the ability to come before the city of Romulus and say, "I would like to reszone this property for this specific use." And and and why is that important? Well, if we were to reszone a piece of property to a specific zoning district, there's any number of uses that could go in that district. And and this kind of this overview relates to our next case as well. So it it with a conditional reasoning, the property owner comes to the city and specifically says what they're going to do on the property so that that even if they were to sell the property or win the power ball or whatever the case may be, um whatever they are proposing has to be developed on that site. So it can't be a for example uh if we're talking about this upcoming case, it can't be an automobile salvage yard. it can't meet all any of those other uses that are in the district. In this particular case, they're proposing to reszone the front part of this property where the Marman school is to uh M1 Light Industrial. And in order to get that in order to retrofit or rehabilitate and and I think that's a real important part of this and kind of a cool thing is that we've got an empty school and it's not often you get that opportunity to rehab or redevelop uh an existing building uh that could be blighted, that could be empty, could be vacant. In this particular case, they're proposing a

relatively low intensity use for the area around the school. And that includes a variety of of of uses within there, particularly mini storage, flex commercial uses. And what is that? Flex commercial uses are smaller offices or incubator offices. And there's only going to be eight of those because we wanted to make sure that whatever uses on that site uh will have the parking. And it's a two-phase project. The the the interesting or I think the opportunity here for the city is that for those residents who are just east of the Marman school, uh they would probably be concerned if that that area where the dog park is or the tennis court, which is now in disrepair, were to be reszoned. Well, that's not being reszoned. That that back half is going to stay at residential. That back half is going to be uh donated to the city. So the city will own that property. So there's no cons there there won't be any concern of this use kind of bleeding over. So that 12 acres just east of the school, the Marman school is is going to remain residential and will be city property. The school itself that's going to be redeveloped into these uses that I was talking about. And and if you make your recommendation and again for the residents tonight with with resonings, the reasonzoning process is a two-phase process. This is a recommending body. They will make a advisory recommendation up to city council who will make an ultimate decision on this. And then even then, and if they do reszone it, their work isn't done yet. Um there is going to be a need for a site plan and a special use for this. Um and that that more detailed plan will come before you if and when city council were to approve this. This is important because there's a lot of questions on the on the the

devil's in the details, right? And so once you I if you're okay with this use being used for flex space and mini storage, then we get into issues such as lighting, u facade, landscaping, access to that rear parcel that's going to stay residential. Um and then also looking at that section of Marramman is going to be paved from the school north up to ecourse, which I think is kind of a cool thing too because that that road will be paved. Um, and so all these things are part of the reasoning. The conditions that you attach to that, the applicant is attached to it. So your charge this evening will be to say, "Oh, does this does this work at this location?" If it does, you make an advisory recommendation to council. And then the applicant who's going to give a presentation here is going to come back before us and talk about the uh the more details in that process.

Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay.

And you have a copy of I'm sorry. You received a copy of our reports? Yes. Paul Weisber on behalf of the applicant. The applicant being uh 15303 Marman Road LLC. Right.

Okay. Good. Um I see you have a busy busy night ahead of you. Um, last time we had two people from the public, so I hope they're not all here for us. Um, but that being said, I think John did a good job of kind of hitting the highlights. Uh, I do want to kind of emphasize a couple of those and then really turn it over for questions and comments. Uh, because that's really probably what you guys want to get into. Um, again, this is a rehab project. It's taken a an old school building that probably one day had quite a bit of traffic up and down that road with the number of kids coming and going. This is extremely low inensity use. Uh this kind of it's a storage facility. Uh it's not retail. That's one of the conditions. There will be no retail. I think the closest we get to retail is potentially people buying some packing tape and boxes if they come into the moving office, the rental office. Um anything that'll be outside that would be considered storage would be RV vehicles and fleet vehicles. What are fleet vehicles? That might be if somebody was running an HBAC contracting business and they don't have their employees take their vehicles home with them every night. And they're specifically designated parking spaces for those that we've worked on staff. Um I have with me tonight uh Brian Canona uh standing my left. We've also got Chris from Design Inc. who did a lot of the heavy lifting on the engineering and what I call the details. They're happy to answer any questions. Most of them will be answered by by them. Um we were here again on 12:15. and I was not present, but Brian was. Uh, I think he given an overview on what's being dedicated. I would say that that's, you know, a property value that's estimated somewhere between 550 to $700,000. Um, also, we're taking a uh, as I understand it, a no tax base, not on the taxable school district property, and in theory making this a profitable uh, taxable uh, property. Um it is important to note and it's in the report that the property to the west is zoned

industrial. Uh this is a natural extension of that zoning. Uh and we think because of the 12.37 acre buffer that's being dedicated uh to the east that that provides a very significant buffer. It should be noted that the north I'd call it third to 40% of the property at the midway point is a heavily dense wooded area. None of those trees, as I understand it, are being proposed to be removed. As you will see from the conceptual plans, the new structures that are being added are to the north. The future new structures are also being, for the most part, added to the north with just one building that would be facing the east, and that would be um where there'd be no storage doors facing to the east. So, you've got significant buffer. Uh we also have a access strip uh not currently proposed to be a public road but an access strip on the south side that would be dedicated as well to provide uh access to the the dedicated land and the the doggy park. Um the hours of operation are going to be 6 to 10 again low intensity use. Um my my reading of the report says that the trip generation from what was previously there in terms of the school is probably about a $200 to $300 200 300 trip reduction in trips in terms of what this property was used for. What it can theory be potentially repurposed for? You know whether it be another school charter school or some sort of you know assembly hall. This is a low inensity self- storage facility and Brian can comment to more of the proposed uses if you have questions. Uh in and wrapping this up, uh I would like to say we met with staff numerous times. Uh great work with everybody. I think we had a good uh good good relationship and we listened and and we accommodated. And to that end, we there were some comments made on the last version of the CZA or conditional zoning agreement uh where we will accommodate those meaning we will take out the references to the gross vehicle weight rating signage. Um we

will uh you know we are going to be seeking a use variance as it relates to the um small vehicle weight uh that's part and parcel to a moving uh moving rent van rental business where you you rent out 24T 26 ft trucks so that they would be limited drive and we're also very importantly I would say Brian was was absolutely thrilled but he has agreed to put uh two 12oot strips of 6 inch thick ashvault with another 2 in of 21A aggregate to improve the uh 500 foot strip coming from Eureka south and also to accommodate the 20 foot additional request that was requested that we take it to the southern um radius of the northern entrance. So that's something that he's going to accomplish. Um as I stated, no retail, no outdoor storage. And in conclusion, we would respectfully request that you adopt the findings of fact that are contained within your packet from C.WA as well as the positive recommendations from both CWA and OHM. And we look for a positive recommendation to city council.

Okay. I do have to apologize. I didn't ask for your name and address before you started, but Paul Weisberger, but the address is uh 330 Hamilton Row, Sweet 300 Birmingham, Michigan 48009. Thank you. And I do apologize. Um madam chair person just to yes

just to clarify as well and thank you for that that overview um again is that because we don't see a lot of traditional resulus but we do see some is that um they will still although they talk about the site plan and they talk about a special use and they talk about a variance all of those things have to be approved by the individual body. So if it's a special use or site plan it's you guys. if it's if it's a variance, whatever variance use variance for weight or height or whatever, that's going to be before the BZA. So, just to make sure that clarification is there and we uh didn't want that kind of language in the in the conditional resoning agreement either.

Right. Right. Yeah. We're just here tonight to recommend uh resoning conditional resoning to the city council to the to the city council. Um, on the second page of the cover sheet, the the summary report, we did add, you know, a condition that we make these subject to, we do need to clean up the conditional reasoning just agreement just a little bit. So, we put in the comments of the the city attorney consultant staff and you know, if you all have any comments to add to it that we address those before it goes to city council, which is our typical procedure here. So it sounds like they're you can have a conditional you can give a conditional approval based on having our council take a look at that and and make it mark up

right from a legal standpoint then it goes to council m through the chair to the planner and probably the attorney at what point are we at with this agreement? Are we in a position where we feel comfortable with the we're we're very close. Uh there were three comments highlighted wedged into a lot of discussion in the Carla Wartman letter, but I believe in the OM letter. Lindsay, you had them. You want to talk about the three? They're kind of engineering related items.

You're good. You're good. It's red. Okay.

Sorry about that. All right. Uh our three main concerns uh were just that as we discussed in some of our meetings um there is a question about which point the plans would have to go to Wayne County for review. Uh and there was just some language there that needed to be adjusted which they took care of. Uh and then also as discussed um paving Marman Road. Uh, one thing we do want to discuss that wasn't uh there was some back and forth and I think some confusion between our communication and emails back and forth um the actual length of roadway which is being paved. We would rather see it to the end of the concrete and I think the uh CRA mentions to the end of the ashalt which is existing on Marin Road and I think it's about 100 ft difference. It's on the very right just south of

right before like the end of Marin. Do do you mean to the southern side of the property or No, I'm talking uh on the north side of the property. Um where it meets your where it meets with your right. There's about 100 ft of existing ashvault and it's in very poor condition. Uh yeah, we'll take a look at it. And you're right. It actually is in very poor condition. And I figured if we're going to do a a part of a road, it um yeah, we'll look at it. It's not like we'll leave like one section undone. So, yeah, I almost drove into the pothole. Just so I think there was some uh language there that just needed to be clean up, but um

I believe Carol would like to remind me of my third item. Okay. You have the storm water. Yep. Comment on storm water. You talked about the payment extension you just talked about and then the the issue with the weight limits and the use variance reference. So I think you know we'll sit down like we did last time and kind of go through it. But just to be clear because it sounds like that's an issue. We we we are we've already made actually application to the county to get the storm thing going. So we're going to change that language. We are going to agree to the 20 ft extra.

Um and then we're going to take out this reference about the signage on the gross vehicle rate. That's under your jurisdiction. If it happens it happens. If it doesn't it doesn't. Right. The other last question I had um and that's whoever can answer. There are 17 findings of fact that were listed in summary and I just you're aware of it and then you can uphold or live to all those agreement requirements. I don't have any problem with the you read the 17 summary right? Yeah, we don't have any problems yet. We've read them. Oh, okay.

So, okay. When we put that in the motion that for the findings of facts, you're aware of all those. Yeah, those are just reminders. The developer doesn't need the reminders, but those are just reminders that hey, when you do submit this, and I I if council does approve this, it'll be sent to us relatively quick is that, hey, we're going to go we're going to be going back to this agreement along with our ordinance and our engineering standards to tie all that together. So, I just wanted to make sure nobody had missed anything. Okay, that's all I have. Okay. Any other questions, comments?

Nobody. Madam Chair, did you want to We did have some the public that was interested that came to your last meeting. Um, we did let you know that again this was not a public hearing. my mistake initially. Um, however, we did notify those people. I'm not sure if they're here. Um, but you may want to see if there is any of the nearby residents that came and are back for a followup. Is there anyone here that wants to speak on this particular project over there in the corner?

One of you come up and give us your name and and then you'll be next. Hello, Don Pusky, 16247 Maramman Road. I I was here at the last meeting and spoke and Mr. Enos, you clarified both last time and this time what the conditional zoning meant. My question is, what is the condition of this zoning? Is it going to be RV storage? Is it going to be indoor storage? Is it going to be? I mean, they they've laid out five potentially different things that this property could potentially be used for in the future if they decide to dissolve this venture and move on. Furthermore, like I said at the previous meeting, this is a dirt residential primarily road. Even though the other side of the road was zoned light industrial, it was only done so to accommodate a horse boarding facility, not businesses. Everybody on that block, if you drive down that block, everybody there still lives in front of their if they do have businesses on the other side of the road, they are living in front of their house. This was originally a school. Most of us that moved onto this onto our properties on this mileong stretch moved there because it was a school. We moved there for community. And now piece by piece, this is being taken away. And regardless of what the petitioner says about this is not spot zoning just because the other side of of the road is light industrial now, it is spot zoning. The rest of our side of the block is residential, as is the other side behind us in the

subdivision. This was a school. Primary high traffic hours were drop off and pickup. We didn't have traffic coming and going from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at night. And it is a dirt road. We moved there because of that. It is a rural road. That's all I have to say. Thank you.

Hello, my name is Mark Solvin, 16455 Maran Road. I moved out of Dearborn Heights to get away from the cookie cutter houses right next to each other. Lowe's, Home Depot, everything right there. Saw this house, fell in love with it. property opened up everywhere. It was great, peaceful, everything was nice. Now we're looking at now opening up a facility here. If you remember the last meeting that they spoke, it was only going to be four to five visitors a day coming through that facility. Then they brought up, oh, we're going to open up a real estate office. So then somebody said, "Oh, so that's another one or two more people per day." Now they just brought up they're going to be storing employees vehicles there because they can't take the company vehicles home. So now our four to five, five to six. So now we're looking at 14, 15, we don't know how many. Then they said that the real estate is going to be by appointment only. You really believe that's going to happen by appointment only? I don't because I'm going to tell you this was me trying to open this facility up. I'm going to tell you whatever you want to hear. You want to hear it? Yep. Everything. Because once this goes in their possession, it's theirs. They can do what they want. Yes. They're going to be hours of 6 to 10. They said they're not going to manufacture. They're not going to build. They're going to have maybe construction zones there where they're going to park their trailers. Customers going to come in, maybe want countertops made. Well, they're going to store the stuff. They're going to build the stuff. They're going to leave it there. Why take it to their job or wherever they can store everything there. So, now you're looking at warehousing, manufacturing. You have people right next door. This is going to go on till 10:00 at night every night.

Now, if anyone of you live there, how would you feel about that? That would be headlights in your house, hear noises all the time, hammers, drills, whatever it may be. It's not going to be a rural country setting anymore. So, now we're going to industrial. I didn't move out here to do that. I moved out here to be in the country setting. And now we it's slowly getting taken away from us. Thank you.

Thank you. Somebody else. Is there anybody else? Good evening. My name is Shaquille. Address 15295 Marman. I am probably the uh neighbor who is who will be affected the most cuz I'm right next door. I'm on the corner of Eureka and Marrammed and I actually uh moved to that house from California. I left California to come to Ramulus uh because of my work and I chose Ramulus simply for the commute and I chose Maramman Road because it's like living in a city but in a village. So, and when I moved here, I was very excited. When I have kids, they would go to school next door, but unfortunately, the school shut down. Uh, the previous two neighbors who mentioned uh the things that they mentioned, I agree with them wholeheartedly. And because I wish to live in Ramulus, this is my home and I wish to retire here and I wish to die here. So, I spent a lot of money and I uh upgraded my house and now to have commercial traffic going down up and down the street is not in uh my best interest. So, the the questions that I have for the uh developer uh sounds to me like they want to do a lot of things. We want to do this this this and this. But I don't see anything uh from the stuff that I've seen, I don't see anything in concrete that we're going to do this and here's the plan and here's the steps. Uh a conditional zoning, you guys may look at it and approve it tonight. What if

tomorrow they come back to get another conditional zoning on the existing conditional zoning? And this question was brought up last time that if these guys like somebody chuck joked around if these guys hit a power ball and decide to sell the property well then what happens? Does it go back to what it was or does it remain what it is or does it change it to something else? So there's a still as of now uh there's a lot of unknowns. Um I just hope that the um the governing body will look at this uh request and put themselves in my house and make a decision from that point. Thank you.

Thank you. Is there anybody else? My name is Doug Atkins. I'm at 16221 Marman. I've been there since 1977 because it's a real rural area. We got horses that go up and down the road. I love it out there. And now I got to worry about big trucks coming down our road. And once in a while, uh, one of these trucks will come down the road and because they don't own the truck and they don't care how fast it's going or how much noise it's making and now we're going to get more of those trucks coming down the road. So, I'm not happy with this at all. I like the rural setting that we have. I've been there a long time. I planned on dying there. So, that's all I got to say.

Thank you very much. Is there anyone else that wishes to speak? this matter. Okay. I don't sir.

Um my name is Herbert Frer. Um I really don't understand too much about this, but I kind of understand what what the people has come up here saying that they all of a sudden that they whole uh uh area don't change. And I can understand them. What I don't what I don't understand what do it takes to to to you know you know to turn you know to turn this whole uh project down. How many people how many people got to complain you know and and and and you know kind of kind of say that uh you know that uh they don't want it you know do they got to do it take 50 people do it take 100 people or what you know and uh that's the that's the part I don't understand how many how many people they actually they really got to complain to have it turned down.

Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else?

My name is Ketta L 6123 Swan Lake Drive. Romulus. I don't understand really what's going on. I just took some pictures. I just pulled up the picture of the whole school. And I agree with the residents that's complaining about the noise pollution and the serenity that they're going to be potentially losing because of this opportunity. Um, Romulus is mostly a country type environment and a lot of people that live here like the quietness and that's why most of us have moved out here for that. So, I agree with the residents that are being impacted by this construction project and I hope that the powers that be uh will vote it down. Thank you.

Uh Toby Benson Walker, 33316 San Piper Drive. I agree with the residents. I just want to know, have any of you gone to their neighborhood to see what exactly the traffic would be and if you would want to live there with whatever they're proposing? or has the city council gone over there to actually see the neighborhood and see how it's going to affect the people that live there and potentially move out of Ramulus and take their tax dollars out of Ramulus because of this. Right. We normally do um as commissioners, we normally do go to this to the uh proposed site and take a look at it.

Any others? We we probably need to keep in mind this isn't a public hearing. We we've had we we had a public hearing on this back um right in December. So, right. I just want to make sure everybody had a chance to talk. That's all. And I think we did talk to the the people that were here last time. Okay. That that were able to speak again. So, we thank you for coming out. Then we'll we'll go ahead and move on. Any other questions or comments from the division? Madam Chair, Mr. long.

If it's all right with the petitioner, could the petitioner come back up and speak on exactly what their use would be of um the facility if the reasonzoning conditional resoning is granted and probably address some of the concerns of those that spoke.

Yes. Uh the uses are going to be in general terms are going to be indoor climate controlled self- storage uh low inensity business uh suites or flex suites with a maximum square footage and also a cap on what could be professional office. Uh those are those have been uh worked out and are in the agreement with exact square footages. Um, you also have uh a drive up self storage which is really on the southern side of the property and that's only meant to drop off stuff when it's rain and climate. And then there's going to be some RV storage. Those are not the type of activities or vehicles that come and go daily. They are stored. So keep in mind that the emphasis on this project is storage. So it's it's indoor storage. So it's this is not retail. This is not heavy duty back and forth. This isn't even a school. As much as we love kids laughing in the sound of kids, it's not the sound of a bunch of kids with school buses going up and down dirt roads and potholes and banging away. We are going to be improving 520 ft maybe it sounds like more off of Marramman, which would be a very quiet access to this project. Uh the vast majority of vehicles would be coming from Udica if you look at normal traffic patterns. And so you're going to now have an improved quiet street where vehicles are going to come with a low inensity use and do indoor storage. Uh whether that's climate control or not climate control. So there won't be any manufacturing going on. No, there won't be any large rig truck storage. No, no, there's just going to be So, when we say truck, it it'll fit under a small truck like a a U-Haul, a rental, moving van rental trucks that are there. And they're they fall under kind of a

small category. Uh, and they're probably about seven, I think, is what we've uh proposed and what we intend to kind of have that that's access and I'm sorry, that's accessory. So, this is not really the the bulk of the business. It's just seven. And also um with that proposed conditioning uh conditional reszoning those concerns, should they be a worry about those? If you were a resident on that street, would you have any concern about that?

No. I I mean, I would tell you, you ask yourself, what could this be repurposed for? I mean, could it be repurposed for senior housing with uh numerous guests coming and going every day? Sure, that's more intense than what we're proposing. Um, could it be repurposed for I don't know, and I don't want to get out of subject like a charter school or a new school where you have endless school buses and vehicles coming and going? It could. So, this the things that you're repurposing and rehabbing, this is a it's about as low intensity as you can get. I mean,

all right. Thank you. I just wanted to address the concern of the residents because you know they were under the impression that it would be manufacturing going on um certain amount of hours and everything and all of those would be with your operating agreement with the city what hours of operation and what could go on there. So that's what I wanted to get clarification on. And we do have to appear before you again with a with a cycling and everything. Yes. Which would include buffering, right? screaming. Yeah, that's the stage where most the all these performance um standards, you know, the noise, the lights, all of that are going to be reviewed in detail.

Right now, we're looking at the conditional reasoning and um they have to abide by what they what they agree to. Um and if they don't, then the city would take action. But for the most part, um, the other conditional resonance that we had in the city, everybody's pretty much, you know, done what they're said, what they say they're going to do. And I don't see any difference here. First of all, as far as trucks go, you're not going to have any big trucks. You might have a box truck. Maybe that would be the largest. Yes. Like I think I don't know. People are worried that you're going to have semis coming up and down the street. No, none of that.

No. M1 falls under the small trucks. Exactly. So if we were to even make any change in that matter, we would have to go through a varian through BCA and yeah that's a totally this is a land use uh discussion where exactly yeah it's a little a little bit different the details come down the road but anything uh what happens is is if if we don't abide by the CCA this all reverts back to R1 so for the concerns about you know who's to come next we're bound to this CCA so anyone to come After this, they have to start it all over again through R1. City attorneys, you know, make sure that there's a default section in there, an aversionary section.

So, if you leave drive away from this business, it reverts back. Yes. It's not tied to the land. It's tied to the use to the ownership. Correct. Well, correct. Well, no. If we were to sell the business, they it tends to fall under the use and they would only come in and use it for that specific use. what the conditional resoning uh uh agreement anybody else using that property cannot use it for any more than what it is correct today right without coming back and amending the agreement yes 5.6 has a reversion upon non performance right Mr. probe

through the chair. I have a couple questions. Um you mentioned the flex suites and the general office and that's where you could generate a lot of um trips back and forth throughout the day. What percentage of that building are you designating for that flex suite and general office? The total flex suite space is 8,500 if I'm not mistaken and the maximum it can be for professional office which I think was deemed the motor intense is 80%. Yeah. And there is no retail specifically in in the agreement. Absolutely no retail. So it's 8,500 total of that whole 40 almost 50,000 square foot uh structure uh would be 8,500 but 80% of that would be professional office. So you're saying 80% of the building eight individual units in there.

I think it was a mag the way that this school is designed is very weird. If you guys have seen it from above it looks like a spaceship. So, the only way we can utilize that space to for these uh suites was to be able to pretty much make it that 8,500 and and I don't think from what we've agreed to is the six six suites at max. If we go further than that, it just ruins all the storage approach that we're going to take for indoor because I imagine the majority of the indoor will be storage. But you're saying 85% will be office space. Oh, no. I'm sorry. 8500 8500 square feet

8500 square feet. Uh and then 80% of that 8,500 square feet we've limited it to at possibly being professional offices. So no. So that's like 6200 square ft of possible professional offices. It's kind of a weird Chris. But what but what but what but what but what but what but what but what but what but what but I will tell you is it does meet the the parking calculation. That's that's we wanted to make sure that we were in compliance with all the parking that we also met the uh the intensity concerns of limiting the 8500 square. And then my other question would be um you in you're also planning on putting in some buildings. Are those buildings going to be set up where people can come and um work out of where you'll have the heavier power heated uh bathroom? All storage.

It's going to be all storage. So that would be uh person come in drop off their stuff and leave or pick up vice versa. climate controlled. So the new buildings are nonclimate controlled where the existing building is climate controlled. Okay? And all the doors are facing inward. So if any vehicle or from a light uh light pollution which was brought up if if you're going to come service or get your product, you're going to pull up to your location. The the building itself is acts as a shield. All the doors are required to face into the property. I think one of the main things as long as businesses would operate from the self storage units. So no individual business owner can come in and operate their business from a a self-s storage unit.

Yeah. Because that's some of the things you do see with self storage where they'll they target that and they're in the right proper place. Well, they'll have high power and they'll have heated areas and they can come in and run a business. Sure. But these won't have We would offer none of that. Okay. Yep. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Yeah. Through the chair. Um what will be your hours of operation? I think we 6 to 10. Yeah.

Okay. Uh based on what the residents have um indicated, are you open to reducing those hours so that they don't have the impact of light at night in their houses? Sure. So we absolutely will be open to considering looking at those hours for sure. Uh I know that those hours are based on really how the other self stoages around this uh city operate there. So there's they're no more than anywhere else. Uh but yeah, we'll go back and take a look at it and see if you know if that's viable. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions or comments from anybody? Just a comment.

Go ahead. Would uh something like that be dictated as part of the conditional resoning or would we wait to do that under site plan? You could what do you think definitely under site plan it'll it'll with respect to the hoursing the hours I mean it can be can be part of the conditional resoning or something as part of the site plan later on. Yeah. But they can't they can't change that. They can't if you agreed to it as part of conditional resoning. They can't come back before the planning commission with the site plan say we've done a our business plan says people want to be in at 5:00 am or want to be in after 11. It's solid for what they're what you're agreeing to,

right? So, it might be better for, you know, through the chair, it might be better for consideration later that it's brought up now because we want it to also be a successful business if it is in fact going in there, right? I mean, if you're approving it, we want it to be applied. We don't know what those hours would be, correct? But we do know that citizenry would love to see it less intense. So, just bear that in mind, I guess. Any other questions or comments? If not, I guess a motion would be in order. Would you have any other comments before I go any further? Okay. No.

All right. Madam Chairman, Mr. McI,

I'll make the motion that we recommend approval of the conditional reszoning request RZ 2025005. This will be recommendation of the city council mayorman school ramula cell storage to reszone 12.88 88 acres of 15303 Marman Road from R1A single family residential to M1 light industrial subject to the revisions of the conditional resoning agreement per the comments of the city attorney consultant staff planning commission being addressed prior to review by city council support support yes

I have a motion for Mr. Mcelli, supported by Mr. Long to recommend to city council um conditional reszoning based on the findings and recommendations of Carl Wartman Associates uh dated March 6, 2026 and OM report dated March 5th, 2026. And then um any notes from anything that we talked about here or that was talked out talked about by our planner. Right. Okay. It is I'm trying to approing. This is a request for RZ 20250 Marman School Ramulus self storage and it's to reszone 12.88 88 acres of 15303 Marman Road. Parcel ID numbers 80138990000500 0 and 80138990000600 0 and we are resing we're conditional resistance from R1A single family residential to M1 light industrial and let me see what am I what am I saying here and okay and per the comments of the city council subject to revisions to the conditional resoning agreement per the comments of the city attorney, the consultants, staff and planning commission being addressed prior to review by the city council.

Anything need to be added to that? No. Uh no. So we have a motion and a second there's Right. Unless there's further discussion. Any discussion? Take a vote. Uh clarification through the chair on the reading of the RZ2025-00003. It should be. We didn't have 003. We got 05. So the the property is made up of two parcels. The school itself sits on 15303 Mirrorman Road on the first parcel ID number and then there's a little sliver to the north which is the second. Okay.

So they're both held um in ownership by Romulus schools right now. They've just never been combined. So they're proposing the whole this devel and this development is only the front part or the conditional reszoning is only for the front the 005 right not changing parcel A in your packet. Okay. Just the front. The back is being conveyed to the city. Thank you. Is that any other questions? Mr. Long do it. Yeah. Okay. Let me take a roll call vote. Mr. Mcelli. Yes. Mr. Long. Yes. Mr. Jameson. Yes.

Mr. Gladeli. Yes. Mr. Green. Yes. Mr. Prova. Yes. Miss Rosco. Yes. Motion. Mr. Bad. Yes. Chair Boes. And we are recommending to city council. Thank you. We look forward to seeing you again. Thank you. Is it mine?

Oh, okay. Madame Chair, before we proceed to the next section, I will have to excuse myself from the next public hearing discussion because I have a known um conflict of interest. I have a personal and business relationship with the next petitioner for um the Ramenist Trade Center. So I will excuse myself and when the discussion is completed I will return to my post. Okay. Thank you.

Do we need to vote on that? Actually from review of the bylaws you do have to vote on it. So it's by majority vote. All righty. Okay. So so what's been presented is a conflict of interest by one of the planning commissioners. Uh so if there's any questions or discussion that's fine. If you want to accept the re the the uh det the the determination by the planning commissioner, you can take a vote. Thank you. Does anybody have any questions or comments for Mr. Jameson? I assume this is a monetary situation.

Yes. So since you want me to explain so I have a nonprofit that we started about 5 years ago. It's called University Ambassador Building Bridges UABB. And for the past four years, North Point has been one of our largest sponsors, which pays for Unity Day, which is the third day of the pumpkin fest. So, everybody gets to eat free and jump on the bouncy bouncies because we get money from North Point and Amazon to fund our nonprofit. It is strictly for the people and the residents in the city to come into unity and work with the city. There is no money financially that goes to any of our pockets. We do everything we do for free. Um we just simply wanted to help the city to unite itself with the residents since we have four quadrants and it's tough. So um when North Point came to town, we tapped them and they said, "Yep, they believed in what we were doing and the vision that we had just as well as Amazon." So regardless to what statements I make, it does not benefit anyone either side. I'm one person of nine of the commission and it is a personal and business conflict with me to speak on either side of the fence and I will not but um that is my personal conflict. So

thank you. Vote as you may I will now take a vote. Does somebody have to make a motion and second or no motion? Do the chair motion to accept interest. Right. Support. Support. Okay. Motion for Mr. McInley. Supported by Mr. Grova to accept her uh conflict of interest. Mr. Meli. Yes. Mr. Groa. Yes. M uh Mr. Long. Yes. Mr. Gly. Yes. Mr. Green. Yes, Miss Rosco. Yes,

you make the motion, didn't you? Mr. Bad, yes. Chair votes yes. You are excused.

I for as long as I've been here, I don't remember ever having to approve somebody that wants to be excused. I wasn't sure exactly how you do it. Okay. So many papers here. agenda agenda right here.

Um, I'm just making sure I got all my papers. Okay. Do we need to take a small break before we go into public hearings? Does anybody or no? No. Okay. Stop the crowd. Okay. Item seven, public hearings. So we have RZ202501 Rhyus Trade Center North. Applicant is North Point Development LLC represented by Kyle Seavoy. Is Kyle here? Is anybody here?

They're here. Oh, I guess you got to raise your hand. Um, okay. And you are

The location is E course Henry Ruff Beverly and Beverly Roads. Uh DP 0 I'm sorry 800 01199 00 0671 and 801 80119900 0674 and 801 801199 001300 0 which is 32630 Henry front road and you're asking for a conditional to conditionally reszone approximately 108.48 acres from R1 single family R1A single family residential and C2 general business to M1 light industrial for the purpose of developing two industrial warehouse buildings and 4.5 acres of mixed use commercial space and then again this is just for a reasoning petitioner

Mr. Os is going to give a brief overview. Oh, sure. Go ahead. With our and then I believe Mr. Krauss is going to going to um Yes. refresh your memory on the E course corridor study. Right. That part of this.

Thank you, Madam Chairman. Uh commissioners, residents. This is a uh similar use but a lot bigger. similar use when I say uh it's a conditional reszoning, but it's also got a caveat that if the planning commission it does make a recommendation of approval to council when this comes back, it will come back as a special land use. And that's going to require another public hearing and that will require uh anyone within 300 ft of this property be notified of of a meeting and that's that's something in the future. So, I'm not going to kind of go over the conditional reasoning process and you you get that. Um, but I do want to go step back a little bit in regards to what the city's been trying to do uh for Ecourse Road and developing and designing Ecourse Road. And this goes back several years. And uh Kevin is going to speak to that a little bit on on on the ecourse road study, but I want to talk to you about the other several studies that the city has done and the surveys the city has done uh to get to this point. And mo most importantly is the master plan or the comprehensive development plan which the the the council and the planning commission most recently uh approved and that looked at ecourse as being a major corridor or continue to be a major corridor but needing uh improvements and again I'm going to let Kevin talk about that but we knew that there was going to be some development interest on this route in the city. Um, we also knew that we didn't want any of any development that happened on Ecourse to bleed northward up to Beverly. And so we made it clear to residents uh and developers that hey, we want we know Ecourse has to get developed with sidewalks and improvements, but we we are we also know that we've got a significant number of residents north. And so if you are proposing something, you will not be

permitted to eco to access Beverly. And so um North Point, which has been a which has been a good neighbor to the city for the most part with their with their existing plans and their landscaping, uh we know how they work. We know what they propose. They've come to the city with a conditional request uh to develop additional warehousing facilities. But they've also they've also laid this out in a very detailed uh agreement to limit the types of uses that would be here. And these uses would be similar to the to the Amazon warehousing uh and other uses like that. This would not be uh he heavy manufacturing uh salvage yards. This would be four different types of uses. Manufacturing and assembling, warehousing, printing, uh or research and experimental testing. So, truck and outdoor storage, truck for for just semi-truck trailer storage, um, and other uses that could be a little bit more of a problem would not be permitted as part of this conditional resoning. And I know I I sound like a broken record, but a lot of the questions that would be concerning or discussed are going to be part of that special use in that site plan. But the city worked closely with the applicant in regards to a variety of different things. One was that prohibiting any access for anything even uh even the uh the employees but and certainly not the trucks. There would be no access route to Beverly. The main access would be on the ecourse for uh for employees and trucks. Uh a couple other things is that we wanted to make sure that the if you're driving down Beverly that this building is not going to be right up on the road. And so the applicant is looking at almost 1,000 ft 800 plus feet uh from Beverly south to uh where this building will be where typically typically the ordinance would require 50

or maybe even 100 ft uh distance from our roads. But in this particular case um much of those trees and that woodland on that north side are going to be preserved and the building itself would not be uh would would be more 800 ft uh back. Uh, one thing that we are going to be requiring is showing is what is this? What do you see if you drive down Beverly and what do you see if you drive down ecourse and and you can do that with with technology these days? And um with we want to be able to make sure that that those distances and that screening, you're not going to be able to see uh this building. The lighting is going to be uh not going to be visible and it's going to meet ordinance requirements. And so this the city took a lot of time and effort working with North North Point and they've been very willing to work with the city to say, "Hey, we want to meet your uh e-ourse word corridor plan." Uh and that includes a mix of land uses and that's what it is now. We've got residential, we've got multif family, we've got commercial. Uh they're also proposing commercial uses uh on the frontage of Ecourse. So the the the warehousing facility uh would not be fronting uh eourse those would be multi those would be commercial uses whether those are restaurants uh or pharmacies or whatever the case may be those would be limited to uh typical type commercials. They're they're also proposing as part of this conditional resoning that the preserving uh 15% of the trees on site. Um and those wouldn't be trees that are wouldn't be developed anyway say in the wetlands. There are a lot of wetlands on here. Uh but there be the ordinance says 10% you only have to protect 10% the applicant's protecting 15%. In a conditional resoning you can propose things over and above what the ordinance says. You can't propose anything less than the ordinance says and that's an important concept uh because in this particular case if it is the zoning's approved they have to meet the special land use standards. They have to meet

the site plan standards, but they also have to meet those requirements that we we talked about. And there's there's me there's many of them, but I think most importantly and certainly probably for many of our residents here is prohibiting access uh to Beverly having that thous,000 foot setback from Beverly for where this building is uh having significant trees uh and significant robust landscaping uh to screen this use. And so that's that's the that's how we got to this point. The master plan, there was a lot of discussion on that uh that comprehensive land use plan that talks about what we would like to see in the city of Ramulus based on surveys and and and committees and steering groups. Uh in this particular area, we're we're looking at a a regional mix and and and what does that mean? Well, that's that's a a variety of different uses that the city could approve through the resoning process if it works. And again, what does that mean if it works? One thing, at least in my opinion, as your planner, is that it doesn't work if access is to Beverly. Uh it doesn't work if there's not significant screening uh or landscaping on this use because this really is it this is going to be, I think, a a catalyst for uh a lot of other uses that are going to be coming down. ecourse and improvement of ecourse and residential uh pedestrian access up and around there because there are significant uh ideas in the the ecourse study for improving that and I know our engineers have taken a look at that and talked about okay if this use increases in what they call level of service which is a way of measuring how much traffic if this uses causes a significant problem with level of service the applicant Northworth again has to pitch in towards the improvement whether that street lights, uh, lane widening or whatever the case may be to improve that. So, there's a there's a lot to to

to swallow in that in this agreement. Uh, again, I'm comfortable with the majority of this, but again, our counselor has to take a look at that um before and if it goes to city council. And I know Kevin wanted to chat a little bit about uh the e-course road corridor plan and that's tied together with our master plan, our strategic plan and our visioning plan.

Yeah. Uh thank you Mr. Enos. Uh good evening commission, good evening members of the public. Um Kevin Krauss, director of community safety and development for the city of Romulus. Uh, anytime we have a development along the Ecourse Road corridor study, um, I I try to come back to the planning commission or any body that is, um, examining some sort of action along there and and kind of just review what we've started as far as um, a planning process about 2 years ago. And what we heard very loud and clear uh, during the first term from uh, the mayor was that eourse was problematic for the community. It was problematic for a number of different reasons. Um, it didn't have enough housing. It didn't have enough um you know uh width in the roadway. There was bottlenecks. There was congestion. Um you know there's no walkability, sidewalk, non-motorized pathways. There's there's a laundry list of uh items along there. There was old abandoned infrastructure with uh telephone companies and telecom companies and there's ditching and water and and fragmites and cattails. You know, you name it, we pretty much uh heard it along the course road. So the mayor charged me about 2 years ago to say, "Okay, how do we tackle this? How do we start looking at it?" And and you know, where do we start? Um so I uh as the director of the TIFFA board, um I went to the TIFFA commission. I asked them to um uh commission a ecourse road corridor study. And this primarily was uh one of the the top of that list for us was um was congestion along the Ecord road uh corridor. So this primary the study started out primarily as an infrastructure study. uh how do we look at the roadway? How do we increase uh walkability pathways? How do we increase uh safety features at all of our major intersections and crosswalks and and make it safer for the community and really start to connect the community? We, you know, we know that our community is uh subdivided uh because of critical infrastructure. We have the airport in the middle of us. We have 275, I94, two major railroads, a number of different reasons kind of subdivides our

community. And when we sit here and talk about community, we got to find ways to reconnect it uh both physically and and through programming. So, um that's what we focused on when we started this. But we we heard very clearly as we started exploring this that there was a number of other topics that ran underneath that. Um primarily housing. What do we do about housing along Ecourse Road? Um retail. Uh what do we do about retail along Ecourse Road? Uh how do we widen it? How do we add some safety lanes? cuz we have a school that's up on Ecourse Road that if anyone's driven by there, including myself, we've seen kids running across E course Road and playing Frogger in front of semi-truckss and box trucks and anything else you can think of. And we have some safety issues. So, we wanted to we wanted to tackle that. So, this very quickly grew to a larger visioning process for Ecourse Road. And what we found out very quickly is along Ecourse Road, Ecourse Road is really a bypass. It's an industrial bypass for a number of different communities and it really connects Southfield Freeway all the way out to Willow Run, right? Uh Ecourse Road runs straight across and connects everything. And we know coming through our city, you can get off off of I94 inst and bypass everything and get back on 275. And it happens day in and day out. So, how do we how do we start creating a a pathway that is better planned and better suited for the city of Romulus and and it's supporting the things that we know the community wants but supporting the things we know business wants and it's a careful balance. So what we found was across Ecourse Road, we have every single type of zoning in our city's charter with the exception of residential high-rise and that's primarily because it's in the middle of an air airport uh landing landing uh runway. So we have every single um opportunity to zone across Ecourse Road

and that becomes problematic because when a business wants to develop, we're doing it next to residential. when a uh a subdivision wants to go in, we're doing it next to a school or a church or sometimes next to a business um that knows they're going to hear complaints about a drive-through window or a loudspeaker, you know, um taking orders late at night. So, there's these conflicts that occur. And what we wanted to do was we wanted to find creative ways to make sure that we can develop this ecourse road corridor. we can do it uh in line with what we're hearing from our stakeholders, from our residents, from our businesses throughout the community. So, we set up um basically three days of study sessions. We uh sent letters out to the community in the different areas along Ecourse Road. We invited stakeholders from uh business the business community. We had Wayne County, we had Aeratropolis, we had SEMCOG. Uh so we invited all these individuals in and we had um some sessions over at the uh the Romulus Athletic Center. Our boards and commissions were invited. Our city council was invited and we had two days of listening. We took all that information in and uh and we compiled it into a report and basically said, "Okay, we can we can do some things across ecourse road and we can do it uh smart through smart planning. we can use screening and buffering um extended extended setbacks and there are a number of different tools to be able to continue to develop in that area and move forward. But uh two of the big areas that were identified in this ecourse road corridor study was the what we call the antenna property or the radio station property. For those of you that have lived here long enough, you know that it was a a radio station back in the day. and then also a uh piece of parcel of land or or a neighborhood that's at the southwest corner of Ecourse and Middleb Belt. Um those two uh parcels or plots or or tracks of land were identified as problematic in the ECO uh corridor study. Um and I'll start with that neighborhood of Ecourse and

Middle Belt. That that neighborhood at Ecourse and Middle Belt years ago um a lot of the homes were purchased by the FAA. They were demoed. Uh there's a bunch of empty lots in that area. Um some people chose to buy and move, some people decided to stay. Um but it was all purchased with FAA dollars through the airport. That property could never be never be redeveloped as residential again. So as those individuals are selling their homes and they're becoming vacated or or they're passing and they're um they're moving on, um what do we do with that property? How do we redevelop? We can't do it back. The FAA says no, we won't allow it. It's in the sound polygon from the airport. So, what do we start looking at that piece of uh property for and how do we develop it moving forward? Something to still consider. We don't we don't know the answer to that yet. We're still we're still working on that solution and we'll continue to do so. And then the other piece of property was the air uh or the uh antenna or radio station property. Property has been on the market as residential for over two decades. Um it's very problematic because it's primarily there's a good chunk of it that's wetlands. There's a drain that runs through it. there's uh Henry Ruff Road that cuts through it. Um so as far as development from a real estate standpoint, we've met with several real realators that do develop um residential and it's very very um tough to get any perform to pencil on that property for residential because there's no infrastructure there right now. So to be able to put in the roads, the sewer, the wastewater, u mitigate wetlands, move a county drain, and and change a road um is too high of an expense for residential development. And I've met with probably no less than six different residential developers that ran it through their their performance systems and can't get it to pencil. So those were the two major ones that we looked at and um you know, we we went through that process and um you know, that led us here today. We we also looked at

housing very very um intensely across Ecourse Road. We know that housing is a state problem. It's not a Romulus problem. It's not a county Wayne County problem. It's a state and national issue right now as far as affordable housing. And um we went to task and uh commissioned a housing study. We partnered with Misha did a a whole city housing study. Uh utilized that study and pushed it forward to Carol and uh to Mr. ENOS in the planning department which was incorporated into the master plan adoption that uh we just did recently. Um but basically we we're continuing to work um on this ecourse road problem and find solutions. At the end of the day in order to solve these problems we need dollars, right? Dollars and cents. So um one of our partners who's here this evening as well is Chris Gerwood from Aerotropolis. And Aerotropolis is one of our partners. Um, and we work with Aeratropolis FI to find creative solutions to infrastructure problems that uh come with housing and international airport. And what we've done recently is we've partnered with the city of Taylor, our our neighbors to the west with Van Beern, and we've created an LDFA across Ecourse Road. And that LDFA uh was approved last Thursday by the Aerotropolis Board and will be going to the state of Michigan Treasury for approval. And it'll allow us a funding mechanism um with no increases to taxes. at all, but it allows us a funding mechanism through the state uh to start to start capturing dollars to fix that infrastructure on Ecourse Road. Ecourse Road isn't a city road. It's a county road, but it's a huge problem for the city of Romulus, but it's not a huge blip on the county's radar, right? Because they they have the entire county to deal with. We have just one part portion of it. So, we're uh continuing to work with that. But that funding mechanism is going to allow us to be able to go to the county and say, "Hey, listen. we have our share of of the pie. We need you to come to the table and let's start looking at a three or four phase process of widening e-course road

uh which we looked at and with the exception of I think one parcel um on e-ourse road we have enough to widen ecourse road to a minimum of three lanes and then as you approach intersections to continue to have turn lanes and flare lanes around areas like the school and the church or um Amazon or other developments. Um, so we're going we're going to work um we're hoping to hear more on the LDFA uh here in the next couple months and be able to continue doing that. Um, but that's the overview that we've really had with Ecourse Road. It started about 2 years ago. We hosted planning sessions. We heard input uh business community, residents, council, boards, commissions, um stakeholders in the community and uh and we found we identified the issues. uh we've put a funding mechanism in place and uh we're we're right at that point. We're about ready to cross that that finish line and get it in the end zone to be able to actually start seeing some physical work being done on Ecourse Road. Um so like I said before, um whether it's it's planning or zoning or city council, anytime we're considering something along the Ecourse Road project uh uh corridor, I like to come and revamp that because it is a significant corridor in our city. It houses every zoning option that we have and we have to continue to look at how do we um how do we uh thoughtfully and through a through a process develop that road uh and develop the parcels that are available along that road for the greatest community benefit.

Thank you Kevin. Madam Chair, the next um part of your um procedure is the planning commission secretary um can read in any correspondence received and just looking at that. Good. Okay. Over to you. So I know I'm seeing Mark standing here. They still have a little bit to do before they get to you. Sorry. Okay. I'll be reading the correspondents that have been sent in to uh the plan commission. We have one, two, three, four. You need to open five and six in no particular order. This is from Yes, you do. Excuse me. Yes, you do need to open this. Wait, before you do that? Okay.

Yep. You You did you open it when you read the when you read it, Dan? Okay. Yeah, open it up. Okay.

I thought you opened it when you read in what it was that you were. We'll step back a little bit and I'm going to open this the portion of the uh agenda that is uh for the public the public hearing. Uh let the record show we have to file an affidavit of first class mail. Um we will ask for people to come up and speak uh when we get through some of these letters here. So the right the the process is when she read the summary in that opens the public hearing. We just had staff reports and in introduction. Now we're going to read in public comment. The applicant will then make their presentation. Then the public will be able to come up and talk.

Okay. We're following our bylaws. Go ahead, Mr. Secretary.

Right. Thank you. So this is a letter from Derek Johnson to Carol May city planner Romelus planning commission. I'm writing as a resident of fairways at gateway to formally express strong opposition to the proposed zoning map amendment RZ2025-00001 that would resone approximately 108.48 48 acres located at 32 630 Henry Ruff Road DP number 80- 011-99-00006-72 80- 011-99-00006-74 and 80-11-99-0000 0013-0000 from R1A single family residential and C2 general business to M1 light industrial for the development of two crossduck industrial warehouse buildings as outlined in the publish notice for the March 16, 2026 public hearing. Resuming this property from residential and general business classifications to light industrial represents a significant and fundamental change in land use that is incompactable with the established character of our residential community. The Fairways at Gateway neighborhood was developed and marketed as a residential area and homeowners made substantial financial investments with a reasonable expectation that surrounding zoning classifications would support and protect that residential environment. Converting adjacent land to industrial use will

have direct and foreseeable negative impacts, including but not limited to heavy increased heavy truck traffic on local roads not designated for sustained industrial freight movements. Elevated noise levels associated with crossdock warehouse operations, including loading, unloading, and overnight activity. Increase air pollution and particulate matter from diesel truck traffic. Light pollution from large scale industrial facilities operating beyond standard residential hours. Degradation of overall neighborhood aesthetics and quality of life. These impacts collectively threaten to reduce residential property values for taxpaying homeowners, diminish property values, create financial hardship while property tax obligations remain unchanged. Many residents have invested their life savings into their homes and a resoning of this magnitude undermines the stability and predictability that zoning protections are intended to provide. Additionally, the transition from R1A and C2 to M1 is not a minor adjustment, but a substantial escalation in intensity of use. The proposed development introduces a use pattern that is materially different from residential or general business activity and is inconsistent with the expectation of existing homeowners. While economic development is important, it should not come at the expense of established residential communities. The long-term consequences to home owners might be weighed equally must be weighed equally,

if not more heavily, than the short-term benefits of industrial expansion. For these reasons, I respectfully urge the planning commission to deny the requested resoning and preserve the residential integrity of the fairways at Gateway Community. Thank you for your consideration. Respectfully, Mr. and Mrs. Monty Mccle. Okay. Um, this was sent in from Detroit's Regional Partnership, March 6, 2026. Support for proposed Rulus Trade Center North conditional resoning application. Dear planning commission members, on behalf of the Detroit Regional Partnership, we respectfully express our support for the proposed M1 conditional resoning in support of the proposed Rmula Street Center not project as proposed by the applicant not point development. The site of the proposed resoning has been a part of the VIP by DRP program, an initiative where DRP, its civil and environmental turn teams along with its public and private partners identify underutilized sites in the region and assist with early due diligence and feasibility studies in the hope of successfully bringing them to the starting line of development. The aim of this program is to drive economic development in the region and bring jobs and revenue to the local economy and government. For decades, this site has sat underutilized and has struggled to attract development under

its current R1A residential and C2 general business zoning classifications. Despite being actively marketed for sale, it has remained underdeveloped and has not attracted viable private investment. The property's prolonged stagnation underscores the need for a modification to the existing zoning classification of this site. This proposal represents a true catalyst development for the city and the surrounding corridor by introducing new class A industrial warehouse space. The project addresses a wellocumented regional need. Vacancy rates for modern industrial buildings across southeast Michigan remain low and demand from logistics and manufacturing users continue to outpace supply. This development positions rumulas to complete to compete effectively for that growth. North Point DRP's civil engineering teams and the city have worked collaboratively to craft a responsible site layout that preserves existing wetlands and forested areas where feasible and incorporates natural buffers to adjacent properties. Their approach reflects thoughtful planning and a commitment to minimizing impact to surrounding land uses. The economic benefits to a city are significant. The project is expected to generate more than 300 jobs and produce tens of millions of dollars in new property tax revenue over the next 20 years and beyond. Importantly, the site is outside of the Tifa district, meaning these revenues will flow directly to the city's general fund, strengthening

long-term fiscal stability. Note Point has established a strong reputation as an industrial developer in Michigan, known for being a reliable community partner, delivering on commitments, and driving meaningful economic growth. For this reason, we respectfully encourage your support of this transformative investment in the city of Rmulas. Signed, Morin Crops. Number three from Detroit Region, Eratropolis dated March 9, 2026. City of Rulus planning commissioners Rmulus Michigan support for proposed Rulus trade center north conditional reasonzoning application. Dear planning commission members, the Detroit Region Aeratropolis would like to express our strong support for North Point Developments proposed M1 conditional resoning and special land use applications in support of the proposed Rulus Trade Center North project. Not development development Rulus trade center development weak and vining road which is nearing completion of the final phase of its construction has grown jobs and driven capital investment to the city. This RTC North project looks to continue that success in delivering growth to the city and region. The project is expected to generate more than 300 jobs and produce tens of millions of dollars in new property tax revenue over the next 20 years and beyond. Detroit region eratropolis as a nonprofit economic development corporation has worked with the city of

Rmulas and neighboring communities in the county to plan the vision for the e-course road corridor which is a critical thoroughare for development. Eratropolis has worked with Rmulus, Taylor, Hiron Township and state government to establish an additional LDFA district which is projected to capture 15 to 30 million for critical infrastructure improvements around the corridor. This Rula Straight Center not project is a critical component of this vision which will serve as a catalyst development project that would make improvements to Ecourse Road and the corridor possible. North Point's thoughtful site plan for this development ensures natural resources are preserved and impacts to adjacent land uses a minimal. North Point has established a strong reputation as an industrial developer in Michigan being a proven community partner and ensuring that promises they have made have been kept. Their investment in the region has been a driver of economic growth, jobs and tax revenue, helping the region thrive. In summary, we encourage your support for this transformative development for a city of Romelus signed Christopher Gwood. whom it may concern. This letter is to recognize and describe the continued support that North Point Development has provided to the Rmulus Middle School community, specifically the 8th grade class. For the past 3 years, North Point Development has generously supported the Rmulus Middle

School 8th grade class picnic through financial contributions that help make the event possible for students. Their contributions have assisted in providing food activities and a memorable celebration for students as they prepare to transition from middle school to high school. Beyond their financial support, members of the North Point development team have also volunteered the personal time to be present at the event. Staff members have attended the picnic to grill food for students, helping create a welcoming and enjoyable atmosphere for everyone involved. In addition, their team has taken the time to interact directly with students by playing basketball and engaging in activities with the boys, helping build positive relationships and strong community connections. Their commitment to showing up year after year demonstrates No Point Development's genuine dedication to supporting youth and giving back to the community. Their involvement has helped create meaningful experiences for our students and has made a lasting impact on the Rulus Middle School 8th grade class. We are grateful for their continued partnership and generosity over the past 3 years and look forward to their ongoing involvement in supporting our students and community. Sincerely, Haley Sharer. Number five, to the members of the planning commission, I am writing to you as a resident and not as an employee of the city of Ramulos to formally express my strong opposition to the proposed conditional reasoning of the property commonly known as the tower property located north of EOS, west of Henry Ruff

and south of Beverly Road from R1A single family residential and C2 general business to M1 one light industrial. My views do not reflect that of the city. As a resident invested in the long-term stability and character of Romeulus, I believe this resoning represents a significant threat to our neighborhoods for the following reasons. One, incompatibility with residential character. Changing over 100 acres of land currently designated for residential and light commercial use into an industrial hub creates an irreversible industrial creep. End quote. This project places heavy logistics and 247 warehouse operations directly adjacent to established homes fundamentally altering the quiet enjoyment of our private property. Two, environmental health and quality of life impact. The scale of the proposed Romeulus Trade Center North will introduce persistent hazards that threaten the well-being of our residents. Light pollution 24/7 operations require high intensity security lighting. This results in significant sky glow end quote and light trespass which disrupts circadian rhythms interferes with sleep and strips our neighborhood of its residential character after sunset. Noise pollution beyond simple nuisance. The cumulative noise from HVAC units, air brakes, and the constant clanking in quotes of trailer hitches and backup alarms creates a documented health risk. Chronic exposure to such industrial noises is linked to increased stress, elevated blood pressure, and sleep fragmentation.

Diesel fume exposure. The influx of hundreds of idling or slowmoving semi trucks will dramatically increase localized concentration of excuse me of particulate matter and nitrogen oxides. These diesel exhaust emissions are known casi casinogens and are linked to respiratory illnesses particularly in children and the elderly. Property value depreciation. Data from similar large scale logistics development shows that residential property values within a half mile radius of industrial zones often experience a 11% to 15% valuation discount due to this persistent environmental externalities. This includes data from North Point development in Pennsylvania and Illinois. Three, preservation of zoning stability. The planning commission has a responsibility to protect the integrity of our residential zones. Our committee deserves the stability of knowing that a residential zoning will remain residential and not worry that large scale developments will encroach into our backyard. Conclusion. I urge the planning commission to deny the request for reszoning RZ2025-00001 Rulus Street Center North. We must prioritize the health, safety, and property rights of our Rulous residents. Sincerely, Kayla Hubard. continue. Okay,

last but not least, number six. This is from Cassandra Brown. Dear members of the planning commission, I'm writing to formally submit my comments for tonight's public hearings as I am unable to attend the session in person. As a resident of Fairways at Gateway, I would like to express my strong opposition to the proposed resoning for RZ-2025- 0 Rula Street Trade Center North. My concerns regarding this development, including but are not limited to a significant increase in traffic congestion, heightened noise pollution, the potential for reduced residential property values, and an undue strain on our local infrastructure. I kindly request that you accept this comment into the official record and consider the negative impact this resoning would have on our committee during your deliberations. Thank you for your time and for considering my perspective on this matter. Sincerely, Cassando Brown.

Thank you. Next, we will have um make your presentation.

Okay. Good evening everyone. I'm Mark Warner with North Point Development. Um, address 2111 Woodward Avenue, Sweet 1100, Detroit, Michigan. Uh, thank thank you all. Uh, really thank you to the city of Romulus for all of your support over the years. We've been a very active member of the community for 5 years. Um, every promise we've made at our our Ramulos trade center project at Wen Binding, we've upheld and we continue to portray you that that we've promised to do the same on this development. Um, thank you to the residents for coming out tonight. We look forward to hearing all of your feedback. we uh we listen and we we've spent extensive time in the community trying to listen. Um so I would say before we get started wanted to kind of run through the process and uh the time we've spent on this project today. Kevin Krauss did a good job of discussing the the uh the ecourse road visioning process. Uh we have we're coming today with a conditional reasonzoning agreement. Um it's not your typical M1 project. This is clearly a mixeduse project that follows the intent of the ecourse road visioning process and the master plan amendment that was that was recently approved. Um we've we've uh reached out to roughly 100 residents in in the area um mostly those who who could potentially be in the general area of the project. Um we've received a lot of feedback. We've spent ex extensive amount of time with uh you know with with the city and and we actually attended those city course road visioning process meetings back in uh January and February of 2025. We've listened to what the city's vision is and we've carefully come up with a site plan that I think meets the intent the exact intent of the master plan and the visioning process. So of the the residents we have met with when they see our immense setbacks and our forest buffering uh they leave they those

conversations end up ending well. So we uh we understand a lot of residents here are are north of Beverly Road and have concerns. We we think at the end of this presentation you'll have a better understanding. Um and if you have any issues we'll continue to listen. So, Ramos Trade Center North is is the next phase of our Ramos Trade Center South development at Wick and Binding. Uh, many of you may be familiar with North Point from our our five years of working together. Uh, we have roughly 450 industrial clients. A lot of the the brands you see here are repeat business. um and and many of which we we do business with in Michigan and are very interested in in the city of Romulus. Um you'll find that you'll find that uh our firm has as a national reach. In addition to that, we have an office downtown Detroit. We've got local we have a local presence and and as mentioned, we're we're active here. Spend a lot of time with folks whether they're residents or or folks on this on the staff of city of Romulus. Um, our development efforts to date have have uh have created 111,000 full-time jobs and we've invested $20 billion in economic development impacts. Um, at North Point, we pride ourselves in living into our core values. Um, the most important one being living generously. We spend a lot of time in the communities in which we develop in. Most of our competitors are short-term land flippers. Go get a property zone, build the building, and sell it and leave. you know, as you as you know, you've experienced with us, we're we're very present and we accept feedback. If there are any issues with the project, we're here to be accountable, listen, and react accordingly. Um, you know, our Romulus journey has been a very fulfilling one. This slide here highlights some of our community involvement. Um, we've

sponsored and volunteered at the pumpkin festival and the UAB Unity Day. Um, every year since 2022, if you look in the bottom right, there's some team members from our office. You know, we one of the highlights of our year each year is coming into the community, we'll do volunteering um at the event and then we bring our families. You know, a lot of us have young families and really enjoy u you know that event sort of the highlight of the year for the office. Uh we uh we also spend time at the eighth grade end of the year celebration. They do a picnic where we grill hot dogs and hamburgers. And this year I almost got dunked on um and was very sore after a game of basketball. So we we uh you know we enjoy that as well. It's just good to give back. Um and then this year we uh we heard that Five Points Church roof blew off and we you know we put together a project to replace their roofs. Those are the things you get from North Point. We try to be you know a pillar to the community, not just a developer. Um you'll see we uh we also installed the welcome to the city of Romulus sign. So when you see the the large uh garrison size American flag off the vining exit, we uh you know it was a tiff of funded project. We didn't fund it but we spent extra time you know working nights and weekends to manage a project like that. And um that's you know other examples we uh are active members of Chamber of Commerce Aeratropolis um and then we supported the veteran wreath memorial initiative. So uh wanted to provide an update on Romulus Trade Center South. You know we get a lot of comments from the public that why are why you know these these buildings are empty. There's not a lot lot of activity at Romo's Trade Center. Well that's that's just not true. We think we've put together thoughtful setbacks and screenings to where people can't hear or see the facil the facilities that are operating. We have

created 720 permanent jobs there. We're uh roughly 70% complete with the industrial construction portion. Um we're working on the fifth building right now. You know, it's in total will be a $240 million investment into the community. The uh the project is projected to provide $92 million of tax revenue. Um this is far exceeds what we what we thought it would be um when we first got the project approved 5 years ago. Um the industrial businesses service a wide array of industries including food and beverage um airport services. Uh we have an automotive tenant there. SA Logistics handles uh roughly twothirds of the Ford um F-150 Lightning car. Uh the uh and then we also have energy energy uh business with you with uh DTE and then we have packaging solutions and other and moving services. Uh the uh if you drive if if you drive by the project and you're heading off the Vining exit, take a right on Wick Road, make your way to the Marman retail corridor, you'll see construction. Expect to see construction for the next several years. You know, we right now have the largest electric vehicle charging lot in the state that's under construction just to the east of Tesla. Um besides that, we have uh we've sold four four of our retail lots. We expect to see a hotel breakground. You know, there'll be new quality retail amenities all along Wick Road connecting to Marryment. Um that as as we promised when we first came to Ramulos 5 years ago, we said we'd create connectivity there. Um and and we will. So, it's under construction. You could see it today. Um we're excited for the, you know, City of Romulos public works project to go to the south of the retail corridor as well. you know, the uh this

project is a huge impact on the TIFFA budget and uh you know, we're excited to see see that project move forward. It'll create an additional traffic there, too, which should should be a catalyst for more retail. So, here here's some photos of the Ramos Trade Center. You know, I think uh if you're wondering what the aesthetic of of the Romulous Trade Center North might be, you could look at these buildings. It'll it'll be uh very similar. This um this slide this slide here we've got a video.

Yeah. So this this uh this video here sort of demonstrates um how the screening that we we did at Ramos Trade Center South. The top left was the rendering. Bottom right is is an actual video. you'll see the u trees in Birmingham uh all those plantings create a buffer and quickly only after you know two year I think this was one one year after being planted you can't see the cars parking there you can't see the trucks in the truck court and again we've received many comments from people in the community that they think these warehouses are empty in reality they're 720 people working So that you know that shows like what you anything you see tonight in a rendering for this for Romney's Trade Center North we will we will hold our promises. There's evidence of it here. Um so that's the purpose of that slide. So uh we talked a lot about the project. I think many people here are interested to see what what uh what the site plan looks like. Here here it is. So, as mentioned, this is not the first version. You know, we've been working on this project since since the ecourse road visioning and listening to what could be is what issues could be present and we've been making adjustments. Um so the uh you know some of the issues we've heard from the community and through the ecourse road visioning process and the master plan um would be Beverly Road traffic. You know we've heard from many folks that that's a that's a significant issue and this project creates you know a massive buffer. Um Robbie my colleague will will show we'll go through some additional slides. You'll see that you can't see the buildings if you're north of Beverly Road. We've created enough setback and we're preserving we're preserving the forest via conservation easement where you won't even be able to

see these buildings. So, it's a very minimal impact but to Beverly Road and uh you know we're not maximizing the site by any mean by any means. This this is very limited site coverage. Um you'll see the uh the the the next you know sort of the another issue we heard was uh Romulus you know the the uh master plan is is adjusting this to RC and in addition to only industrial the the community will want to see public amenities. So we have 4 and a half acres dedicated towards retail and in the conditional reasonzoning agreement you'll see that we have fiscal penalties uh really holding us accountable to develop retail. the traffic counts are very good on Eforce Road and think it'll do very well. Um so we have no problem doing that.

And then lastly here the uh the uh just want to reemphasize that the plan you see in the conditional resoning agreement falls within the city's vision that has been approved. We we've been very careful to get community feedback and review the master plan the course road visioning process. We believe this this plan kind of falls squarely within the intent of the city. I'll turn it over to my colleague here for some more uh detailed presentation.

Good evening, commissioners. Appreciate your time. as Mark mentioned in the partnership that we have with the city. Um I will be talking more basically on the 20 plus site plan iterations we've done the technical approach we've had the constraints and walking through that and eventually we'll get towards oh sorry name and address for the Robbie win uh 2111 Woodward Avenue Detroit. Thank you.

Thank you. Um, so I'll go through more of the technical approach that our team has taken as we laid out this site and the 20 plus site plan iterations based on feedback and also with the actual site constraints that exist today. So just to rehash what the agenda states. Um so the site is currently uh single family residential. Um and a small component of it is also general business. And so Kevin and others have mentioned this. This site has been marketed for nearly two decades and has not seen any substantial development or c uh private investment. the the broker actually stated that North Point was the only client who has came with a plan over the last 20 years as he's been marketing this site. And so, as Mark has mentioned on the previous slide, I won't go through it all for the sake of time and hearing more feedback from the residents in the area. Um, we will go through what our site plan is, take the feedback, and continue to work on that. But we believe that with the conditional resoning agreement, the limitations we're placing on ourselves, without the city asking us to do so, will match the intent of the e-course road vision study and the city's master plan. So, uh, Mark went over the site plan a little bit, but I'll get a little bit more into the weeds for the landscaping. um no pun intended there. And so you know what we're doing here is the along Beverly Road, it's 530 ft uh set back until you reach pavement. So that's what we're proposing on our site as John has called out. You know, the city's ordinance is 50 feet uh is the setback. It's actually 30 feet. So along Beverly Road, we're 17 times greater than what is required by ordinance. Along Ecourse Road, we're 13

times greater of a setback than what is required. And our smallest setback is actually two times greater on our east side. And that's until you hit the pond that's still not hitting pavement. It's just a storm detention pond. With our plan, not only are we preserving 15% of the existing tree canopy, we're also looking to plant 1300 additional shrubs along our facility and 743 trees to supplement this. As I'll go through with the renderings later that you'll see, we also implemented BMS. So we are very strategic with our BMS, our landscaping, the existing vegetation that we'll keep intact so that residents do not see our project whether that be the noise pollution which the ordinance is is for light uh is that these these light poles can only be 14t tall. We will abide by that. Um and you'll see in the renderings as well, you know, you won't see the building um especially to the north. so that you're you won't see the lights as well because we'll have full cut off fixtures so that it doesn't pollute light into the sky. Along with that, at Ramus Trade Center South, we do have multi-use paths along Ecourse Road. Um we will implement that on this site as well. Uh we will have a minimum 5 foot circulation sidewalks within the site. Um our employees will have amenities. Um the end users we do not have today but the employees themselves will have amenities such as benches and tables like you saw in the pictures that Mark had shown previously. And then after discussion with the city um there's a sidewalk project that the city is leading along Beverly Road. U we would make a sidewalk connection proposed from E course to Beverly Road to make that that connection with the city's plan on the sidewalk.

So, what does it look like? If you guys have been along Vining, you you will see what it's going to look like. So, the city has actually passed um in that area. It's called the Vining Overlay District. And so, it has certain aesthetics that a building must have um more than just your, you know, maybe a unpainted rusted metal shed. There's building material requirements and aesthetics. We will look to implement those same aesthetic standards as we did at Ramo Street Center South at this Ram Street Center North campus. Along Ecourse Road, you'll see we have a a simulation that'll drive you along Ecourse Road. Um we'll have tree can or we'll have canopies on the building um facing the dock walls um for further screening. And then um what one thing to point out here too and and John alluded to it is our building heights here we have it shown at 49 and a half feet as our max height. This will require us to come back for a a variance through BZA. So we have to go through the BCA process to get a variance for that. The Vining Overlay district allows up to 55 ft. We are less than that. Just for reference, the radio towers that are on site today are roughly 150 ft. So it would be 50 ft or a third of what's there today. And I'm going to go through this fairly quickly. So if there's any questions as we kind of bounce through that, um, we can come back to these slides at any time. Mark talked about our commitment to the mixeduse development of the parcel uh frontage along Ecourse Road. Uh so the conditional reasonzoning agreement prohibits the use of industrial um at this at this particular area and will be reserved strictly for retail purposes or commercial purposes. So the target that we're pursuing here would be

something one like a Tim Hortons, a coffee shop or a fast food or fast casual restaurant. So th those are the targets that we have here. We limit ourselves that no industrial development can happen here. As mentioned with the setbacks previously, those are the confines of the industrial project itself. So on the technical components of of our project. So as Mark alluded to with Beverly Road, we will not allow truck traffic or auto traffic to to connect to Beverly Road. Part of our commitment to that as well is vacating proposing the vacation of Henry Ruff Road, which we will have to go through a separate procedure for that. Um, but that furthers our commitment to make sure that there's no direct access from our site to Beverly Road.

Pardon? Along Beverly Road, you know, this proposal, you know, there's roughly 10 or so residents along this route um that we we reached out to and spoke to. Oops.

I would say uh two of the residents we were able to talk to were indifferent and then the remainder were in favor of our proposal. There's really three things that were kind of occurring that they're they're favorable to which is one no access to trucks on this route. There has been pass through this Henry Ruff Road has been used as a pass through route for others where you know you have someone on dirt bike just driving through reving along the road unwanted uh cut through traffic but also you're having illegal dumping happening along the stretch of the road. So whether it's tires, trash, mattresses, you name it. And there's been concerns with people dumping next to to folks homes. So we would eliminate those three concerns um with this with this plan. We would propose back what we call a hammerhead design. So, this allows a turnaround at the end similar to a culde-sac, but it'll allow um fire uh and police life safety services to pass through this route, but strictly for their access only, not for any of the users that might come to the site. So, talking about our vehicle movement plan. So, uh, the next slide is a continuation on this, so I'll get to it and zoom in a little bit more, but um, with the vacation Henry Road, we still look for two accesses, uh, to the site. Those two entrances would come along ecourse road. The main entrance of the site is proposed to uh, to modify the existing signal that Amazon has currently on Ecourse Road. So, we would add a fourth leg to that approach and then we would have a secondary access just west of it. And I'll go to it go through to the next page a little bit more, but you'll see that the optimal route that we've identified here

is heading out of our site going west on Ecourse Road and taking a left on Binding until you hit 94. It's roughly a three-minute route. very uh very efficient, very desirable for users in the market to have that quick of access to the interstate and a clear access to the interstate. So, zooming in a little bit, we've touched on this, I'll say it one more time. Um, there is no access to Beverly Road. We are 530 ft off that. There is no proposed access there. Um, we will put the turnaround with a gate for emergency access only on Henry Ruff Road. And then you can see that we have um the signal approach with our main entrance towards the center of the site on the south and then the secondary entrance that would be just west of it. So um I'll talk through kind of the highlights of the traffic study and what we've seen. So um believe it or not, the 4.5 acres of the mixed use or retail use for the site accounts for 80% of the traffic in our traffic impact study. 80% for four and a half acres. Um that is that is the cost of doing business. If we want retail in the community, that's the traffic that it brings. Um now I will say we were conservative because we don't have a retail end user today. So what we've done is what we see as a typical you know retail use or square footage is anywhere between two to 5,000 square ft. We are showing two on this plan here and what you saw previously on a different slide. So we've actually increased it a factor of safety of 33%. So our traffic study has increased the factor of safety 33%. Since we don't know who might come, we want to make sure that we're overestimating so that any impacts that

might be flagged by the traffic impact study could be accounted for. Also um after review with the traffic counts through signal modification and timing adjustments, the level of service continued to operate at a level service of D or better which is uh required by ordinance. So we talked about how we're not going to have traffic going to Beverly. We talked about how we're not going to allow traffic to continue on road. What are we doing for ecourse road? How are we going to mitigate any of impacts that were from our project on e-course road? Well, what we're doing is obviously we've added the additional leg to the signal there. And on the secondary entrance to the west, we've also included deceleration lanes. So folks are driving down this road much faster than 50 55 miles per hour. We know this. Um, but it allows time for our site or people visiting our site to hit the deceleration lane so that it maintains traffic flow. Also, with our great setbacks that we've proposed on the site, you have 700 ft of queuing into our site or staging onto our site before they have to enter Ecourse Road to make sure that we don't have any congestion of folks trying to enter the site or leaving the site. It can all be maintained within the property itself. One of the constraints for the site is wetlands. So there's approximately 21 acres of wetlands that are jurisdictional to the state of Michigan. We have to coordinate with the state of Michigan with an impact plan. Um really, you know, one of the big one of the big issues here is that you

have a drain cutting through the center of the site causing our impacts that are unavoidable. So I will talk on that as it's a county drain. On the next slide, I'll talk on that a little bit more. But the proposed mitigation plan that we have right now is we will have 3.9 acres of impact as the plan is currently designed and we will uh do a one and a half to one ratio restoration med mitigation plan on site and dedicate the setback along Beverly Road into a conservation easement. So, there's concerns that, well, what happens, you know, as we just heard before, what happens to North Point sells? Well, we're long-term holders, but if we did, we're going to dedicate that land to the state of Michigan into a conservation easement so that no one else could develop that piece along Beverly. Previously referenced, the county dream that was by dissecting the site uh diagonally. Um we're working closely with Wayne County um to talk through this. We've had preliminary conversations to talk through um the drain that exists there today. It's not functioning as intended. It's not capturing storm flow adequately. Um and so part of our proposal that we have suggested is to divert some of the flow in the watershed to Black Creek drainage district which um that goes towards Ramos Elementary School that that's where the flow would leave our site. We are proposing to the county to remove some of the drainage area that's going to the elementary school and actually sending it to through the Freeman drain which is what you see here. The Freeman drain is in blue. I'll go back towards the northeast portion of the site. That is the other drain that leaves the site and head heads to the elementary school. So,

we're looking to capture up upland stream uh or upland uh storm and also relieve downstream storm concerns in the community through our project. And we think this is a good viable step to do that. At least we've in conversations with the county that's that seems like a a route that is worth exploring further as we release more engineering. We'll remain engaged with the city of Romulus, their DPW staff talking through that. Um, but we hope this alleviates some of the concerns as it relates to storm water in the area. As promised, here are some of the renderings that we've had. This is a bird's eye view um of the site from Ecourse Road. Um, so you can see um I won't go into these, but these are all generally from Ecourse Road. You might have one from Henry Ruff right there. Great. What does that really mean? So, we did more renderings here where we did composite images. As someone alluded to, technology is really awesome today where you can go out with your phone, take a picture, it's geocoded to your location. We can use AutoCAD and drop in our building designs to replicate what it would look like in real time or in real life, not some super cartoonish image like you just saw with the bird's eye view. Um so on Henry rough and ecourse road you can see the you know ecourse road we we definitely make uh substantial changes and updates there. Um we add in the route to the signal as previously uh mentioned and then on Henry Ruff Road you can see here where uh where the building would be placed on the corner. And then we have views from it says sandpaper I apologize it's sandpiper drive. Um this is whole 12 um hole 12 in Beverly Road. Here we have our existing

view and we have our proposed view. Um it's I think it's worth noting that we didn't wait until it was springtime or summer when the leaves were on the trees and it was, you know, a bunch of greenery. We took these photos in the dead of winter when the leaves fell off. Um, we wanted to understand what it looked like, what you were going to see because we understand the type of development we're proposing. There is residential. We had that in mind when we designed the site of what it would look like. So, on Beverly Road, you can see here the red outline for both these sand whole 12 or sandpiper drive and then Beverly Road. We had to draw in a red outline of what the building would look like because you could not see it from the existing vegetation we keep on site. Um, perfect. Yeah. So, we have a roughly two-minute video here. Um, we're we're near the end, I promise. Um, but roughly two-minute video here just showing the drive along e-course road heading eastbound. Here's that first western entrance, the de acceleration lane, something like a Chipotle. um which and then coffee shop. Here's the main entrance. And this is near the corner of the site as well, right here.

with added burm burming. I do want to note it's 55 miles an hour. We drove it just now at at 10 miles an hour. So, um you know, we tried to really show what it would look like. You know, if someone's driving the speed limit though, it's going to be much much they'll pass it by much faster than uh two minutes. Okay, I'll pass this over to Mark to finish the presentation here. And uh as mentioned, I know I went through it relatively quick. If there's more questions about some of the slides, we can go back to it and talk through it in more detail. Thank you.

Thanks, Robbie. All right, we'll be quick here. Um, just wanted to go through some of the project benefits and the tax impact to summarize the uh the project here. So, um, on the north or on the top of this page, you'll see the Ramulos Trade Center South project impacts. You know, as mentioned before, it's $92 million, uh, increase in tax revenue over over 20 years. This project um will represent $41 million of tax revenue to to the city of Romulus. You know, property values should increase from heavy invest, you know, heavy revenue to the school district. School district is receiving $26 million over 20 years for this project. Uh the county gets 5.6 million. The city uh this is outside of Tiffen district. So, this goes to the general fund. The city general fund will receive seven $7.1 million over 20 years. And then finally, you know, fire and police are going to receive $2.5 million over 20 years. Um, which should help in improve the uh, you know, the way of life for Romulus residents, improve public safety, improve public infrastructure, improve public amenities, and improve the school district. So pro, you know, project benefits. If this if if this project is approved, North Point promises to the community to provide a thoughtful site layout and design that minimizes the impact to adjacent land uses, namely residential. We promise to be a good neighbor to all the residents here tonight and all the residents in the area. Tax revenue will increase over of $41 million over 20 years. There'll be minimum of 300 jobs created. One thing we heard consistently in the ecourse road visioning process is a lot of Romulus residents have to travel for work and to get more rooftops. You need more jobs in the

city. This this opportunity presents that with 300 high-paying jobs. Uh and we have we will promise to align with the master plan and uh and put this site into productive use and we will provide a commitment to public amenities as mentioned with the retail corridor and then the pedestrian accommodations with the 8-foot path along Ecourse Road and other sidewalks sidewalk connections. Um this represents a activation of a site that's extremely underutilized. um reduces blight, reduces dumping and it serves as a catalact as a catalyst for funding the LDFA U tax capture which will result in a in a funding mechanism to increase to improve the ecourse rout you know as mentioned this falls in line with a lot of the city's initiatives with the state's init initiatives including the LDFA district the course road vision study u any master plan land use updates and and the city's mission to activate underutilized parcels. That's what you get from this development. Uh that's all we have. Welcome any feedback or questions.

Thank you. Thank you.

Right now, what you've all been waiting for, I'm going to open it up to the people in the audience. If you'd like, if you have raise your hand when you're acknowledged, uh, give us your name and address.

Good evening. Um, Lisa Nassel, 32178 Bruce Street in Rhino. So, me and my husband have been there for over five decades. We live um, we face the field, the little slice, I call my slice of heaven. Um, it's right behind our house. Um about four years ago, a house was built there and we were a little upset, but we've gotten used to that. Um but it it's still our, you know, our little slice of heaven. Um so I'm here to respectfully ask you to reconsider changing the zoning of these 108 acres. Um so like I said, we have deep roots in the community. Um Bruce Street, my husband grew up there. We bought a house there 34 years ago. We both lived in Rhonda our entire life. Um, so for many years when we looked out, you know, that property it was always a pumpkin patch and then after that it was just, you know, open grape fields. Um, it's peaceful. It's it's open. There's tranquility. We can sit in our backyard and just listen to the, you know, just nature. Um, Henry Ruff isn't a very busy road, but my husband, he drives on it every day. He likes to take that slow way home just to kind of relax, you know. Um but that's why we chose to live there is because of the environment and and the quietness of it and replacing um the landscape you know with two large cross dock industrial warehouse buildings would dramatically change the character of the area. Uh the facilities would bring you know traffic, noise, lighting, all these activities that we have not experienced for many generations. Um, and it would permanently alter the environment surrounding our homes. And for those of us who have invested our lives in this community, um, the proposal feels like a dramatic shift away from the residential

character we were promised when we chose to make our home here. Um, so I respectfully ask the planning commission to consider the long-term impact the zoning change will have on the residents of the Herren Hills estates directly east of the proposed building. and to protect the quality of life of the people who already live here. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Right there. Yep.

Hi. Thanks. Uh Chris Gerwood, 11895 Wayne Road, Sweet 101A, Detroit Region Aropolis. um just here in strong support of this development. The folks at the North Point development team in Aerotropolis have been working together for five years. I remember meeting them uh just 500 ft down the street at the Eurotropolis office talking about the vision for the Ramulus Trade Center which now employs hundreds of of individuals and they brought hundreds of millions of dollars uh to Ramulus. You know, back then five years ago, we talked about uh the core issue is too many Romulus residents leave Romulus to work. And by building centers of employment within the city, you allow residents to build that live, work, play uh atmosphere. And I think the vision five years ago was the Rhymeless Trade Center was also um to bring retail to the e-course road corridor. And you've seen that with with Sheets the hotel and Supro's retail development. And I was so impressed with the team to bring retail to runless trade center north as well. And so um I think when you look at how you can build a community having residential, commercial, retail, industrial working together, that was the goal of the ecourse road corridor plan that director cross talked about. And as I sat in those visioning exercises, Aerotropolis thoughtfully looked at how the tax base contributed to um you know a functioning city and not the residents bearing the full burden of the tax base but having a mixture of uses given uh the airport sits in the center of the community. And I think what you see in this development is an enabling mixture of both retail and light industrial development. And and lastly, Aerotropolis works directly

with the city. It was referenced a few times, the LDFA. Essentially, what director Krauss and team and I were working on was to come up with anywhere from 25 to $35 million to make Ecourse Road what it should be from border to border. and the EOTropolis LDFA is a tax capture mechanism that would allow a good portion of funding to rebuild to rethink Ecourse Road from east to west including the drainage that's required to make sure it's safe. And so um in strong support of the project and strong support of the North Point development team uh given that they have such a strong track record with the existing Romney Street Center and would love to see Romney Street Center North move forward. Thank you.

Thank you. through the chair. Just a quick reminder. I'm through the chair over here. Oh, I'm sorry. Hey, I just just to be just to make sure we're being respectful with everybody's time. I just wanted to remind that there is a 3minut time for everybody. And if they could also please speak to the microphone. Are you keeping track? Uh uh I can.

Yes. Hi.

Okay. My name is uh Dantonio Thompson. and I live at 5907 Crystal Lake Drive and I'm actually right across from the proposed development in uh Fairways at Gateway. I really want to put dollars and cents to this uh proposal. I've lived here for 25 years, had a new development or a new home that was built in a new development, paid $280,000. Today, my property value is 330,000. So, in 25 years, my property value has only gone up $50,000. This every time I hear about a new development or a new plan proposal for the master plan for Ramulus, it always centers around um light industrial trucking or um office. In 25 years, there have never been um a major retail that has built been built around us. There has never been a major grocery store. There has never been anything. I I have literally traveled around the country to every single airport in the country. We're talking about from Florida all the way to Alaska. Ramulus is the only city in the United States that doesn't have a major um food chain, grocery store, or retail within 5 miles. For 25 years, you guys keep, you know, um saying that it's coming, but the only thing that we ever get is light industrial trucking or office. And I think we deserve better. We continue to keep on paying more for taxes than anyone else.

We deserve better.

Thank you. Evening. My name is Alvin. I talked to y'all already. Now, the thing I got is I've been calling y'all the city or what whoever for about seven years now about that same drainage ditch that he's talking about that Black Creek. That thing is causing my land to shift. Okay. Nobody has done anything. Y'all say call the county. They come out every two years. We'll be back out here. We send engineers. They send them. We'll be back in two weeks. That's all I ever get. Okay. But now you guys can allow them to come out here and build something. Well, I already got something built and you can't even fix it. That don't make no sense. My land freaking I'm scared to put another fruit fruit tree over there because I put bricks up and now they down the ditch. Same ditch I talking about working on. Right. Black Creek a pond, right? Right.

Excuse me. Do you want to come up and speak in the microphone? Oh, if you Okay. They building something. They got a pond. I know about those reservoirs. Now, you going to have to drain that thing somewhere. And it's going to be right by my property, right beside it. But nobody's unclogging it. So, there goes my barn. It's going to get washed the heck away. If y'all start running stuff down through there, that thing they won't even come cleaning. Sir, are you addressing us or are you addressing y'all and because they coming both?

Both because I called the city and all they keep doing is telling me to go to the county. It's just bouncing around. So, every couple years I call back, they show up. I wait another two years. for about six years now. Seven I think. But when they put that up and was talking about putting use I know all those building have a drain. The reason I know they have them because I go sneaking fish in them. I know that. But if if they build anything, see y'all need to send somebody over there that know what they doing because the county won't do nothing. My property is like this on that corner right at the drainage ditch. So if they coming out there, they need to come over there and fix that. They need to clear it out. It's full of trees and the ground is sinking. It'll never go out when that school you talking about. It'll never go up because I mean it won't go out because it got to go up. So when y'all come fix that city, the city ain't going to do nothing. The county ain't going to do nothing. Now I'm waiting on y'all.

Excuse me, sir. You're I'm done. You're three minutes up. Thank you.

Okay. My name is Geraldine Tigner and I live at 32870 San Piper Drive. I've been living there for 25 years and I co-sign everything that Dantonio talked about as well as not to be redundant, I want to co-sign everything that the individual resident at Fairways of Gateway who wrote letter number one that you read, she's articulated very well all of the concerns that I have as well as so many other individuals here have. We purchased built property at Fairways of Gateway. It's still developing as I'm sure you all know. We have over 500 residents living there and it's still developing. We are concerned about our property values. We are concerned about noise pollution, the environmental impact of this development. Now, I've seen the Romulus Trade Center South because I ride past it on my way to the Romulus Athletic Center. It sits in an isolated area. Okay? It is not in the midst of right in the middle of residential properties. So, there is a big difference, a significant difference. I applaud the development company that's done the work of creating the Romulus Trade Center South. You've done a good job, but we just don't want to see the North development sitting in the midst of our residential development. As I said, there are environmental issues.

Right now, we've got wildlife that we see, coyotes, deer coming onto our properties. Where do you think they're going to go after the Romulus Trade Center North is built?

So, these are things that need to be thought about and addressed. I don't know if any of you who sit on this planning commission live at Fairways of Gateway or the development that's even older than Fairways of Gateway bordering Henry Ruff. That development has been there almost 50 years. So consideration needs to be given to the residents who are taxpayers for the city of Romulus.

We need to be heard. We need to be listened to and everything we're saying that we have cons concerns about needs to be taken into consideration. I'm a business person. I understand the need to create sustainable industries. It's great to hear that there will be employment opportunities if they materialize, but again there's no assurance. I don't don't know if there's been a commitment made to guarantee a portion of whatever jobs are created to be designated to qualified residents for the city of Romulus.

Your your three I'm sorry your three minutes is up. So yeah, I understand. Well, I'm about to end. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, okay. Who's next? Gentleman in front. Gentleman in front. No, she's coming up.

Good evening. My name is Janet Harmon. I live at 32841 Augusta Court inside a Fairways Gateway. I've been living here for over 25 years and I've listened to all the propo proposals and what you plan on doing. I heard the letters of support from all those who do not live in Romulus. And then I also heard the proposal of how great it was to give some kids some hot dogs and and and hamburgers. Something I've been doing for 25 years. Okay. Um, also you talk about the $41 million in 20 years is absolutely nothing. Okay. You talk about giving to the education. I heard that ever since I've been here. how much state-of-the-art equipment that the school system has and our kids is in the worst school system ever. I know as a retired social worker and how I put a lot of volunteer hours in um Romulus Elementary. So all of this and what about this pipeline that you want to put toxic waste going through our sub and everything? We don't want that. Everybody who came here with a proposal, nobody lives in Romulus. We have Birmingham. Everybody's coming from downtown. What we're I'm from Detroit. I love Detroit. But put it in your own backyard. Thank you. Thank you.

Yes, sir.

I'm John Mayfield. I live at 33315 Sanp Piper Drive in Fairways. And I just I just got one question. I got one procedural question. I know there's a lot of people that want to talk. Okay. So my question is it goes to the conditional resoning agreement and resoning plan. And so since the conditional resoning agreement and resoning plan does not grant a special land use, which they're going to need because, as you know, the the land use parameters are 80,000 square ft and they want 8 56,000 square feet. And it also doesn't include the site plan or the variances if they need variances. So my question is will the approval of the conditional resoning agreement and site plan be put on hold until the other processes have are ready for approval.

This is just the this is just for the conditional reasoning. they will have to come back before us if that's approved for special land use for the site plan for any waiverss and to the BCA for any variances. So that is another whole separate part of it. So I guess my I guess the just to re reframe it. Okay. Okay. So what you're looking at now what they're asking about now is that going to go to the city council. Yes. And then you're going to have another piece of it that's going to address the site plan and the special use special land use plans, right? They would have to come before us.

And so is it typical that the city council will hold on to this recommendation until they get the recommendation for the other pieces? No. Through through the chair. So the conditional reszoning is to reszone the property to make it available for them to do the project they want to do. At that point in time once it's reszoned then they come back to the planning comm. So that gets all done. So the conditional resoning gets done. Then they submit their plans their special land use and they come back here for a public hearing before the planning commission and it goes through with the more specific plans that they showed you a lot of renderings tonight. But anyone here will have another opportunity.

So right now it's just the reasoning so they're able to do what they think they want to do and then they come back with the actual plan. So conditional reszoning, we make a recommendation to city council. You have another opportunity to go to city council where they actually approve that. Then it comes back to us for special land use, public hearing and site. Yeah. Right. We only make a recommendation. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's fine. So, this and city council actually will city council is another opportunity and then you have another opportunity once you start talking about the site plan and then another opportunity for the special land use. Special land use and site plan are tied together usually at the same time.

Okay. But it does go back to council as well. The special land use will go back to council. Okay. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you. My name is Barbara Stannis and I live at 33182 Bay Hill Drive uh in on the north end of Fairways at Gateway. And I I understand that your your focus was Eorse Road, but what what I'm concerned about is I saw nothing that shows what I'm going to see driving down Beverly. All right. I would like to see what it's going to look like at the bottom end of that property. All right. so that that the area itself retains a sense of um country so to speak. All right. So you guys can do something like that. We appreciate it.

Thank you. This gentleman and then you ma'am.

Yep. My name is Wesley Stevens. I live at 6535 Gloria Street. Uh so I commend y'all for Excuse me. I commend them for uh their uh work in the community. It's great. But during that presentation, I didn't hear anything about what you'll hear south of Beverly uh east of of uh Henry Ruff. That's where my subdivision sits here around Hills Estate. They didn't mention whether we would see lights, whether we would see whether they would stop anything. Only thing they mentioned is leaving Henry Ruff open for emergencies. And you know, people don't care about emergencies. They going to do what they want to do. That's not going to stop them from going up and down Beverly Road unless you actually close it. So,

I I want to hear what they going to do to make sure that when I sit on my porch, I don't hear it cuz today I don't hear anything. I don't hear anything. And I want to know what can be done about the wildlife like the lady mentioned cuz it's going to be plenty. We already see everything. Foxes, uh, deer, coyotes, skunks, raccoons, we see everything. So, how all that's about to start coming into our neighborhood. Is y'all gonna help with that? Is anybody going to help with that? Is there going to be assistance? You know, I I didn't hear any plan for Hon estate, so that's why I wanted to mention it. So, hopefully they can uh give me an answer for that. Right. Thank you, ma'am.

Hello. My name is Ketta Goff. I'm at 6123 Swan Lake Drive. Um I don't know anything about all of this. I'm not going to pretend like I understand. But what I do would like what I would like to know is um in the proposal I saw a restaurant I heard Chipotle. I don't even like Chipotle number one. I want to see I've been here for 20 years and the development that we live in bringing families, children, babies, toddlers. Um, I want to see more emphasis put on our children because they are, I know it sounds corny, our future, but I want to see more when they say development industrial doesn't do anything for for me. It doesn't make me say, "Oh, wow. That's a good idea." I want to see more emphasis put on our youth because they're the ones who need something to do. um we don't really have any community centers, something that really can make the children say, "Hey, I'm glad to live in Ron Lewis." Okay. So, um I was looking at the uh corner of Marman and Beverly. I'm like, what are they doing with that? And then they're Banour and um Marman. What are they doing with that? It's like inside of the Gateway community, but they're nothing but bushes and brush and it's just ridiculous. And old fence. It's like we can't even fix that because when that comes up in our community meeting, not here, we're told, oh, the old developers own that land, so they they went bankrupt and so it's just going to sit there and look like that. We need to do more, I think. Um, I want to see more foundational things being done before we get big out here in this big grandiose uh scheme of things. I do like sheets. Wonderful chicken wings, you already know. But at the end of the day, I want to see more for the youth because we're not really focusing on them. We're

talking about restaurants and industrial lands and it just doesn't ring my bell. And I love the idea of a a grocery store, a chain that would bring some jobs in. Seriously. All right. That's all.

Yes, sir. Good evening. My name is Bruce Paris. I resided at 33063 San Piper Drive. So, my backyard will be on looking at the uh the project. So, the distinguished gentleman over there, he spoke about the uh from the sidewalk of Beverly to where there would be I think you said 800 or 1,000, but Robbie said like 500. So, there's a discrepancy. So, what Uh the bu the building is 800 ft plus back. He was the parking lot is 500. The parking lot is 500 to the roadway.

Yes. Center of the roadway. Okay. That's that's still kind of close.

So could you could you make the parking lot further up because like I said, no matter what we're going to be looking at it and people that's driving down the aesthetics, driving down east and west of Beverly, you know, because that's at at this point and we done got this far with you gentlemen. It's pretty much a done deal. We all what you guys do, you're just working out the details, you know, and it's I'm just looking at reality. So, get what you can from Robbie and his company, you know, the levy we had for police and fire, which is a big expenditure from the general fund, like I think it was 4.0 mill levy. That's from police and fire. Get some more money for our police and fire. We're going to tax the put the burden on the citizens from these companies that's want to come into to Romulus and I'm just making a statement now. So get what you can from because it's like it's just about it's a done deal. Get what you can from these companies so we can uh live better and take the tax burden off of us.

Yes, sir. Good evening. My name is Danny Picket. I live at 33564 Bayill Drive. I also got property on Beayill Drive. When you come out uh the back way out of Fairway Gateway to Beverly Road, I have property right there. So, my question is that when I bought that property, I got 1.4 acres and it go all the way back to the the radio station towers. I bought that on the intention that that area would never be developed. Yeah. So that's what my elected be addressed at that. Thank you.

Thank you. Is there anyone else that wishes to speak? Yes, ma'am.

My name is Cheryl Adams. I live at 33632 San Piper Drive. My concerns and it looked all nice. The presentation was beautiful. My concerns like everybody else, my taxes on my house, the devaluation of possibly my house. Okay. Not only that, I have a pond behind my house where I have ducks. I have beavers. I have all types of animals that come around there. Now, there were there was a screen that was put up that says something about sand paper. Was that sand piper? It's supposed to be sand piper. Yeah. Okay. There needs to be some type of clarification on that because I couldn't understand specifically what was going on there. Yeah.

So, if there's a drain or something that's going on there, how is that going to feed into possibly my pond, which is the golf course.

Okay. Area. Okay. So, I don't know what's going on. I kind of thought Reynolds was the type of place that was more interested in developing homes for families instead of constantly dealing with big corporations or companies coming in and want to do something else with storage warehouses or whatever. Did that go to the wayside? And all we're looking at is now is trying to figure out a way how we can get more money to do with what because our fire department's houses don't look great. Okay. We don't have any downtown Romulus situation going on. So if you're going to do something, do something that's going to benefit the people in Romulus and not just somebody else that wants to come in and get money from somebody else. Thank you.

Anybody else?

Hello.

Hi. I'm at Lena Perry, 33347 San Piper Drive. Um, first time speaking out loud like this, so excuse me. I didn't make any mess ups, but I've been um fairways at Gateway for about 14 years. went to Wick Elementary, graduate from Ramlas High School. And there's always been a promise of something coming to Romulus. I've heard casino. I heard from I guess 94 there was going to be some type of retail for us. And again, like others have stated, nothing has come to pass. Again, like the lady said, beautiful presentation. I the gentleman came to my house to kind of explain more about everything that they wanted to do. But I have a I have two babies that I want a neighborhood, right? I travel out to all the nice places like Birmingham and Royal Oak and they walk and they can go to parks and travel. Our park right on Beverly, which I know is going to get updated, so thank you. But I want a neighborhood. I don't want to have my kid running around the neighborhood or riding his bike and I know there's truck traffic. That doesn't make sense to me. How am I going to let my kid be? I would you want that knowing that all the truck traffic we're already going to have it because they already own what what all of it looks like. So, I would like for I would like for the council to consider younger families coming in again. I bought this we bought this property when values were down. Bought it for 120 grand. Our property is past 200 now. I would hate to go backwards and I really hope that you consider and consider the younger families that want to come in because I love Rhymus the way it is. It's not a rat race like Ford Road. It's not a rat race rat race like Dearborn where you got to fill you're just going in and coming out, you know? I would love to see something like more retail

again, retail space. What about our grocery store? Why do I have to go to the Kroger up the street when it looks like it's about to shut down anyway? Can we have something in our neighborhood? We want to get a Walmart, Target. We target still, you know. But yeah, anyway, that's my thoughts. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? No one else. Did she come in? My name is Larissa Walker. I live at 32275 Henry Ruff. That puts me right in the middle of what they're talking about doing. And when I saw some of the the plants, they're coming right in the center of our community, which means that my neighbors backyard is right at their business. I'm right across the street. They're talking about closing off Henry Ruff. You can't let that that No, just close it off. It's a dead end now. Am I just sit there and I'm listening? You know, I we talked about everything. The wildlife, where the wildlife is going to go. Well, okay. I mean, I I I love Bambi, but I don't want Bambi in my backyard. I have them in my backyard right now. Every single day. Every day. I've got wildlife in my backyard. And they said they're going to try to make some type of allowances for them to be somewhere, but uh you know, they're not going to be closed in or blocks in because at some

point they're going to find that little opening and they'll be back in the neighborhood. They'll be over in the subdivision. They'll be on our property. And uh I just thought maybe I've been here for like what now? uh on Henry Ruff for seven years now. I've been in Romulus for 15 years. I just thought that maybe the city would do something to really help the residents just like everyone has been saying. Let us have a supermarket that we can go to in Romulus instead of having to go uh five or six miles to get to a store. you know, uh, care about us as a residents

and let's do something for the people. That's all I would like you to do. Thank you. Thank you.

Toby Benson Walker, 33316 Sanp Piper Drive. And I just would like uh full transparency because it seems like with this discussion and the last discussion, you're allowing the residents to air their grievances and let you know how it's going to affect us because we live in these neighborhoods and then you just approve it. So, it seems like a waste of time for us to tell you what we want in our neighborhood and then you go ahead and say, "Oh, that's I understand, but we're going to do it anyway." Yeah. So, where's the full transparency?

Why are we Why are we allowed to tell you what we want and if you're working for us, it's not working for us. Joseph Burton 6225 Court on the golf course. I live on the golf course. I moved to be on the golf course. Finding an ecourse is the perfect place for their business. not the golf course. That's all I have to say. Thank you.

Thank you.

Is there anyone else? Mayor Tillerson, 6177 Drive. I know we beating a dead horse, but I got to be here with y'all. I just moved to Ramulus 3 years ago. When I moved on the golf course, I had so many expectations, but what I didn't know is that Raml was so industrial. I I moved into my community. It's beautiful. But I didn't know that I would have to leave my community to go to the grocery store. I didn't know that there were no restaurants in Ramulus. So everything I do, I have to leave and go to Canton and go to Westland. Nothing that we do is in Romulus. So I agree. If they have all this money to come and make our city better, do something that's going to benefit us. I'm I'm very disappointed.

Thank you. Is there anyone else? If there's no one else, then we will move on. Close up. Pardon me. And close out the public. Don't close out till right here.

Public comments, right? Okay. I'll open it now to the commissioners. Yeah. Madam chairman, you can go ahead. You know, through the chair, you can close the public hearing cuz there is not going to be any public talking to the applicant or anything. And this is the part these bylaws need to be. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can you can close the public hearing and then address questions to the Okay, thank you. petitioners.

Okay, we will close I will close the public hearing now. And now we will open it up to the commissioners for questions. And you had one? Yeah, we're not to comment.

I've lived in this community for 63 years and every mayor since this city has been incorporated has said we need retail. We need a grocery store. You can't even buy a pair of socks and ridges. And it's not like any city administrator or any city council or any mayor has ever turned away a grocery store or a residential development or anything else. If they won't spend the money and come here because there's an airport that divides your citizens from each quadrant and there's not enough citizens in one area to support a grocery store. That is the problem. We've been fighting it for years. Nobody wants to spend millions of dollars to have it fail because nobody will shop you because if you live on this side of the city, you're going to Taylor. If you live on this side of the city, you're going to Belleville and you're not going to go to where the store is they want to put in. It's been a fight that we've lived with since I've been here.

Right. And I understand the frustration. I wish we had other stuff. I've always wanted more than what we have. But it's not like anybody's turned it away. I promise you that. Now, I've been here 24 years on the planning commission and we've never turned anything like that over, right? No. Doesn't matter who the administration was, they know what people want.

It's just how do you convince it to happen? You struggle and you try and some of the things we're doing is to bring more people to the community to hope to force other things to come. Maybe it's going to work, maybe it isn't. But leaving a vacant piece of property vacant to produce nothing in my mind is really kind of wrong. I feel like we need to address some of these questions and concerns that people have and I think we need to work towards that. But right

to listen to the frustration of the citizens comments and how they wish we had more and we need and deserve it. I'm with them 100%. Thank you. Any other questions or comments from the commissioners

through the chair? Yes, understandably so. I've been a resident, longtime resident of Romulus also. And um like Commissioner Mini said, we've always been advocating for same thing you've been advocating for, stores, retail, and everything else. But if no one is willing to invest those funds to come here, we have to look for other ways to generate income and to try to bring more residents to the city for work to try to make things happen so we can improve the living conditions and the general fund for the city so we can make things happen. Not to say that warehousing is the answer, but if those developments are coming here and spending the type of funds that they are to help our infrastructure and like the e-course road care uh corridor and our master plan that we have in place, I feel as a commissioner that's going to help in the long term. you know, I've been, like I say, I own a home here 50 plus years and um I feel the frustration also. So, give it time and hopefully, you know, the decisions that we're making in a conscious way to help will prevail. So, thank you.

Thank you. and he Yes. Go ahead.

Yeah. Through the chair. I um also just want to make a few comments here. Um I I don't know who amongst the both of you was speaking, but you made a comment saying to get more rooftops, you need more jobs. I I really don't understand that comment because 31,000 people do not live in the city but walk in the city. Can we get housing for those first? And I'm not saying you should do it. Again, I'm just talking, you know, addressing that comment that was made. One of you also talked about leave, work, play. It's leave, walk, play. That means leave first then work then play. The other thing also I top of my list is retail. When we reszoned the North Point, you promised us retail. We gave the allowance for retail but somewhere in the description of retail was a hotel and because it falls under retail. So h how do I know a hotel is not going to pop up where you consider retail? I I don't know because hotel also falls under retail. If at all we get to that point, I I would like for there to be restrictions on what we want to accept as retail for that place. Everything you've developed is regional

business. The residents, including myself, all of us, we want something for the community. I remember when either your founder, your CEO came and he said, "We've heard you. We want to do something for the community." Yeah. Sheets came and that was just about it. Every other thing was regional. Again, I'm just making comments. You don't have to respond, but I would say take what everyone has said back to the drawing board and see what you can do.

Yeah.

Well, first of all, that piece of property that you're asking us to reszone is residential and it's been residential for years. been R1A for years and no one has come forward. No, no developers come forward and said, "Hey, we want to put a subdivision in there." You know, they go over there by gateway, they put them over the gateway, they put over here by Wayne Road, but nobody wants to put nobody wants to do anything with that piece of property. And we have people in the city that basically part of their job is to go out and recruit and try to get what we're looking for. Try to get um uh not um grocery stores. And the problem with grocery stores is you don't we don't have enough rooftops, number one. And number two, they for the most part have a radius that they work under. And if you live within that radius, you can go to that store. And I think I think it's about 8 or 10 miles. If you live without within eight or 10 miles of that store, that's where you're going to go. And they count they count to rooftop for that. But to ask for a ma major store to come in here, I mean, we have tried and tried and tried and tried. And I'm sure Kevin will I think he's one of the people that have gone out and and uh been trying to find find stuff. If I can through the chair, um I would say there probably isn't a week that goes by that I don't have a discussion about a grocery store in our city. Um I have met with all of our major grocery uh outlets, Kroger, Meyer, Amazon Fresh, we've tried we've tried Aldi's, we've tried um you know, Walmart, smaller stores, Kroger, smaller stores. Um and and the issue that we run into as a community, we all want to be able to say we want to go to a grocery store in our community. And I understand that 100%. I agree with it 100%. But the grocery store that we had in our community in

the downtown district no longer fits the modern-day um operating model for grocery stores. It's too small. Um the modern-day grocery store to be uh to be successful needs to be anywhere between 70 and 75,000 square ft, which is your typical um Kroger or you know Farmer Jack or one of those when they were around. and they have to be able to uh do about a million dollars of sales a week, which means that every cart that goes through is $100 that that checks out, right? Um, and I've I've done the GIS layering and the map layering. If you look at where Romulus is, and it's not that we we don't deserve a grocery store, it's that we're already saturated around us. And those overlaps, we put the boundaries of Romulus on the map. The grocerers don't look at those boundaries. They look at circles around a point on the map, right? So, your mega centers, your your Walmarts, your um even some of your Targets that have groceries now, but your Meyers, your Targets, your um uh Walmart mega centers go anywhere between 6 and 8 miles. So, if you look at Van Beerren to our west and Taylor to our east, we have a Taylor South, uh we have a Meyer location there, and we have a Walmart location at the north. And then over on this side, we have not only Walmart, but we also have a Meyer. And then we also have an Aldi's that's stuck in there. And we have an Aldi's also in Taylor now. So when you start drawing those concentric circles of where they draw from those areas, they overlap Romulus, right? So everything from Romulus goes to the east or goes to the west. It doesn't financially make sense for a business um to put a grocery store in Romulus because they're drawing from their own stores or they're drawing from uh other business which is you know um only going to get a portion of it because the smaller stores, not the mega stores, the smaller stores only go between four and six miles basically. So like your typical uh Kroger, the one that's up on Michigan Avenue. Um so I've

done I've done the geom mapping. I've done the overlapping. I talked to all of these individuals. I've tried going out of Michigan and attracting grocerers who haven't come into the mission Michigan market yet and say, "Hey, there might be an opportunity for you to come into the market and draw, you know, start making a name for yourself and drawing from these other businesses." Um, unfortunately, we haven't had success with that. Um, we've looked at smalls size markets. So, not like a full-blown grocery store, but a fresh fruit, fresh meat, fresh deli type market. uh where we could do something smaller like that in the old space in the downtown district. I had $100,000 grant committed from the grocerers association. I had MEEDC um to $250,000 committed to that project as well. We can't get the land owner to do anything with the property. He wants $700,000 for the piece of property. Every time somebody makes him an offer now, he wants a million for the property. Um so the challenge we have is we have um very very attractive opportunities in Romulus to get some of that retail development but we have people who own the property that don't have capital to develop it or they have a vision and they they or they have capital and but they don't have the vision to do something with it. And you know my challenge uh most of the time is connecting A to B and uh trying to trying to come up with that um that solution with it. And I'll use the Marman Road property that we talked about earlier tonight. Um, that's a win-win-win for the community from an economic development standpoint. I know there's community impact that everyone has input on. From an economic development standpoint, that's a win-winwin. And I'll tell you why. That's a blighted piece of property that citizens have to look at and that has been broken into numerous times and stuff is stolen out of it. It is a liability on our school system on their ledgers and on their books. Um, it's an opportunity for a business to come in and set up, shop, and grow in our community and provide jobs in in tax base to the city. And it takes a piece

of property that was taxexempt from the schools and now makes it taxable for the city. So, it's a win for the schools on on decreasing liability. It's a win for the city on our tax roles. It's a win for a business to come to Romulus, uh, provide jobs, provide opportunities in Romulus. I understand that there's community impacts just like this project as well. Um, what I would like to say on on this project is I wish every developer that I work with on a daily basis um listen to the community like North Point does. And I know this this project probably isn't perfect. We can make it better. And I'm confident that this team will listen to what was said here tonight and we'll go back and work towards making this project better and address as many of these concerns as as they have possible. Because if I had a choice, I would use this as the example to show other uh show other developers this is the standard that Romulus deserves and expects if you come to our city because too many times when um when the decision has been taken out of our hands when the FAA and Wayne County and Department of Transportation took decisions out of our hands, we got an airport. when Eagle and uh the EPA and Department of E uh um uh Department of Environmental Quality took decisions out of our hands, we got a toxic injection well. And now we're seeing the same thing with a detention center in our city. Right. So, these, you know, number one, I I thank every citizen that came to this meeting tonight and voiced an opinion and voiced your concerns. I I wish I saw more of this and I I implore you to engage at a higher level in the community. My office is always open and always please come um and and discuss these things. Uh we we advertise all of the listening sessions that we do in the community. Um if there's something you want to see, please come and and let's talk about it in depth. But I'm going to tell you that uh we've made steps. Um

there's a reason why uh there's an identification in the national um you know national index as a food desert. And we are identified as a food desert. We're not the only community. There's many other communities just like us that have the same problem. Um, but the reality is and this this when I sat down with Walmart um and I'm not a fan of Walmart, but when I sat down with Walmart, they told us our business model is that 90% of America can live within 10 miles of our store. And if you think about that, 10 miles around here, you are no further than than actually it's less than that, but you're no further than 10 miles from a grocery store in Romulus, which is about anywhere between 8 and 10 minute drive. Um, and again, I think uh, Commissioner Minelli said it, if I build a grocery store on the east side of the airport, everyone on the west side's still going to Van Beerren. If I build one on the west side, everyone on the east side's still going to Taylor. and and that's just um part of the the structural geographic challenge we have as a uh segmented community because of uh infrastructure in our city because of the airport, our railroads, our expressways, and it's a daily challenge for us. A daily challenge. Um to the commissioner's comment on hotels, I I've said a long time, I don't think we're overdeveloped with hotels. We're underdemolished, right? All of our hotels are at the end of lifespan. They're all 30, 40, 50 year old buildings. They're crumbling. They've passed the flags down from the premier hotels and now we have individual, you know, some individual owners that don't have the capital to maintain them. Our TIFFA board, our city council took excellent action at the roadway. The Roadway Hotel was a huge a huge draw on our public safety resources and they took action to demo that hotel with uh assistance of the the building department and uh we have commitment from uh the hotel year that that

purchased the property. They're building um another hotel there and looking at um looking at uh some sort of um commercial frontage for more, you know, more shopping amenities, more stuff like that. these larger hotel spaces that are sprawling hotels like the old Hollow Dome that used to be there, the old Holiday Inn where it used to have a pool and a recreation area and all that stuff. That's the thing of the past. Those aren't how hotels operate now, but it's a prime opportunity for to demo it, build a smaller hotel, but put in amenities for our our community that they can go shopping at and and have places to go eat and and uh whatnot at. I'm hoping um you know, the the Wick Road uh corridor is coming. You guys don't see stuff coming out of the ground quite yet. I see the background. Uh Jeff sees the background because we see the plans that are coming in and everything that's going to be coming out of the ground in the spring. If you go by next to sheets, they've already started scraping that site, putting the detention in. We have the Tesla mega charging station. They just did another uh press uh conference about it the other day and discussed that. Um, those are the things we're looking at to draw to that area to increase the traffic count to then be able to go to those uh uh those restaurants and say we can put an Applebee's here or Chili's or a micro brewery or whatever it might be. But be rest assured that uh day in and day out uh my office, myself and my staff are trying to find every creative way possible to bring those amenities to the city. And I'll take it one step further because this was an aha moment for me. Those site selectors when they're looking at places to put their restaurants, they look at data and they just flip through, they're in an office and they're flipping through papers and they're looking at data. And if you look at Romulus in those data sets, it shows that we have a ton of restaurants and that we're oversaturated with restaurants. And I talked to somebody on the phone and he said, "Yeah, you guys got too many restaurants." I said, "You come visit me. Next time you're in the city, you come visit me." And we drove

around. He goes, "But it says you have a PF chains and a Cheesecake Factory and a Chick-fil-A." Guess what was showing up on the data? Everything behind TSA at the airport. We can't re we can't we can't access that. So when I talk to these site developers, it's about the context of this community, not what they see in data, not what they see in in pages of spreadsheets. So, it's a it's a it's a fight to overcome some of those idiosyncrasies that we're challenged with because of that airport, but we do it day in and day out. You can be rest assured. So, I hope I answered some questions that got asked. Um, but that's and and you know what? I got I got two more things. I'm sorry. I know this all ties together.

Um, housing. Housing is absolutely 100% on our on our agenda. Uh, we know we need housing. It's a national issue. Um, we did the housing study in this in this community and that that tied in with the e-course road corridor study. And what we found is 86 uh% of our homes in the city are three-bedroom, two- bath homes. 86% of them. So, what we don't have is when everyone's children grow up and they're ready to move out, there's no place for those to move out to. There's no condos, there's no efficiencies, there's no apartments, there's no there's not enough of them to keep those individuals in this city. We lose them. they leave the city and hopefully when they grow up there's still enough Romulus charm for them to say I want to go back and move back home. But what we want to do and that was part of this ecourse roads corridor study is create neighborhoods along that pathway. It's not going to happen tomorrow. It's not going to happen next year. It's going to take time to start consolidating that land. You have some good shopping amenities up front. You have some mixeduse housing behind it. And as you slowly move back, you move into residential single family homes. So somebody can move out of mom and dad's home in the back of the neighborhood, move up to a condo or an apartment, find a spouse or a loved one and have kids, and then move into maybe a duplex or or some sort of brownstone, and then eventually buy a home further back in the neighborhood. It's all about planning. It's all about starting that way and moving forward and doing that. Um, I think the gentleman was still here that uh talked about the airport and other cities. Um, Detroit Metro Airport is one of six cities that are only funded by the carriers. So the air airlines that operate out of that airport is who funds the operations. It's not Wayne County, it's not the state, it's not the city of Ramulus, it's the carriers. So what happens is at the end of the year when they do that budget, all those carriers go, Delta has 60% of the flights, you pay 60% of the

budget. Spirit, you got 30%, you pay 30%. So when I go to the airport and I say, "Hey, we really want to do some awesome screening and a park and a circular like bike path around the airport." They go to the budget and guess what? Those carriers go, "It's not making me money. It's putting me in the red instead of the black and it's costing us dollars." So the answer is no. So we're one of six airports nationwide that are funded that way. So that's one of our additional challenges as well. Not only do we have the airport, we have to support all the services outside that fence line, but we also have to find a way to work with them and somehow get them to show us community benefit around that airport. And a lot of people don't understand that. And I can have a conversation with a smaller group like this, but when we're out in public or on social media, you can't explain all these idiosyncrasies. You can't explain the context or show you guys why we are hitting our heads against the wall just as much as you guys are. So, I hope that answered some questions for you guys and for the commission as well.

Thank you, Kevin. Any other questions or comments? Mr. May,

um this is regard to one of the citizens letters that were part of the packet. Uh Kayla Huard. Now, Kayla works in the planning department, so I imagine her letter carried a lot of resonance with the citizens in this community. And because I've seen in several other comments, they pretty much parrot what she said. I think that when we get into the site plan review that we address these issues of noise pollution, light pollution, um diesel fume exposure. I never even heard of that. um just to make sure that we at least look at these as possible concerns during that site plan review and make sure that they aren't issues.

Yeah, abs. Absolutely. As part of the special use uh performance standards, we have some pretty strict performance standards in regards to lighting, noise, and then we can even get into some of these other things on fumes and and have the applicant uh show us that there isn't an issue or show us their noise level at the property line. show us their light their light foot candles at the property line. All those cup performance standards can be done at the special use process. It is odors as well. We might we we can speak to them now too. We have reports. We've done the studies. We have done the studies.

Well, and it will it'll come up in the site plan. It's just I just wanted to be aware that let's cover as much of the questions and concerns as we can. You heard them all tonight. People are passionate about their homes. So if you can help with that, please do. We'll do. Thank you. Right.

I got a comment through the chair. I also have some comments too. Um it seems like a lot of people had comments about the Beverly Road vision. What's this going to look like from Beverly Road? And then a lot of people who did approach live in that area. Um I know we're not approving the the two uh large buildings right now. that would have to go through a special land use. But when it comes up for a special land use, that might be something to think about as far as shuffling that further towards ecourse to give more of a buffer zone and that would help with noise. It would help with light and then it would probably help with um with the screening. And I know you you guys have um 15% you're going to keep 15% of the trees on site. I would recommend that the majority of that 15% be between Beverly Road and that second building um as much as you can. I know you guys do very well with landscaping because of your other projects. Um, I think when people people see your final product, they'll be happy with it, but it's definitely something they to take in concern with all the people who come up here and talked about the the view between Beverly Road and your project for the special land use. That's definitely something I would want to see.

Understood. And you you have done well. And another thing, too, is uh the Five Points Church. That's a huge historical uh building in our community. And thank you very much for doing that roof. you're save some of our history. It was our pleasure. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? If not, then a motion would be in order after we vote. Okay.

Okay. Madam Chairman,

Mr. I'll make a motion based on the findings and recommendations of the Carile Wartman Associates CWA report dated March 10th, 2026 and the OM report of March 6, 2026. It is I recommend to city council approval of the conditional resoning for RZ 2025001 Ramulos Trade Center North. This is to reszone approximately 108.48 acres. Parcel ID number 80-011-99-00006-72 and 80-11-99-00006 center north

you missed 704

and is that another set of numbers in Robin trade center north to reszone I got all that Right. Okay. and 704 and 32630 Henry Ruff which is 80-011-99-000013- 0000 from R1A single family residential to M1 light industrial subject to the revisions to the conditional resoning agreement per the comments of the city attorney consultant staff planning commission being addressed to prior to review by city council. Good luck to reading that.

I'll support that motion from uh Mr. Mini. Thank you, Mr. Long.

I have a motion. There we go. I have a motion, Mr. McLed by Mr. Long. uh based on the findings and recommendations of Carlile Wartman Association Associates CWA uh dated March 10th, 2026 and the OM report of March 6, 2026. We recommend that the that we recommend approval of the conditional resoning request RZ202501 Ramulus Trade Center North and to reszone approximately 108.48 48 acres. Um, and the parcels numbers were have already been said about three, four different times. Um, and uh, let's see. We are requesting R1A single family residential be changed to M1 light industrial to the city council subject to revisions to the conditional resoning agreement per the comments of the city attorney consultants staff planning commission and the public prior to review by city oh that these have been addressed prior to the review by the city council. Any discussion? Okay. If not, then a vote is in order.

Okay. So, can I just clarify one thing? Sure. Go right ahead. Added on the motion where it said further comments of the city attorney, consultant, staff, planning, commission, and the public. You added that in. Oh, yeah. Is that good? I just want to make sure. I'll accept that addition. Okay. I know she said it. She said it, but I don't know. Well, I just thought, you know, I mean, we're talking I made the motion, but I accepted it. It's concurring that it's there so that it gets picked up, right? Right. Agreed. Okay.

Mr. Megan. Yes. Mr. Long. Yes. Uh, Mr. Got Godfelt, whatever you mean. Yes, Mr. Green. Yes, Mr. Grova. Yes, Miss Rasco. Oh, yes. Wake up. Forgot a name. Sorry, Mr. Bad. No.

And James is excused. Excuse. and Fry Tag says yes. Okay. So, you got a little work to do before you go to city council. Understood. Yeah, we'll go to work. Thank you. Thank you.

Oh, yeah. I know. Okay. Okie dokie. Here we go.

Oh, it's over here. Right over here. Okay, we will move right along. Item eight is new business. Does anybody have any new business they want to talk about? I don't see anybody. Number nine, PC cases involving advice or input from the planning commission. Carol, Jeff, do you need anything? Nothing. Reports on interest designation. And Miss Rasco, city council.

Uh, yes. I'm I'm only going to put one thing out here tonight. And with all the storms we've been having uh and all the a lot of people have down limbs and branches and what have you, the city is providing curbside pickup for branches down from the storm this weekend,

but you must uh put your limbs out to the curb with a cut in out facing towards the curbs. And also, you need to call the DPW at 734-9427579 ASAP, like now. Uh they're only going to be doing this for about a week or so. And uh and then regular yard waste will start up again the second full week in April. So, it's important to know that you need to call, get on that list and uh this week to get whatever storm damage that you have out to the street for them.

And that that's all I'm going to put out there tonight. Out. Do you have anything from the board? I have nothing. Okay. And anybody else have anything on their designation? Not tonight. All righty. We will move right along. Item 11, communications. And we have our project status report. I'm sure everybody had a chance to look at it. Any questions? No. Um, okay. Item 12 is German. So move.

Okay. Motion from Mr. Magno, supported by Mr. Vade. Mr. Mcelli. Yes. Mr. Bad. Yes. Mr. Jameson. Yes. Mr. Long. Yes. Mr. Green. Yes. Mr. Godfeld. Yes. Mr. Prov. Yes. M. Rasco. Yes. Chair.