“I think they're important to your community because of the traffic issues and the different things that you have going on, but I feel that our development could be a benefit to getting density, getting people close where they can walk to amenities and not have to drive." "I think master plans are important to the community,” the developer said. The developer of the project disagreed with the commission and nearby residents, saying he thought this project was align with the township's master plan. “The question is density, and whether it gets developed at its current density or at the high density,” Richards said.
I think it's a good project and I know that they'll build a project that looks good.”ĭespite the support from the owner, the amenities and the prime location, the commission and nearby residents weren’t convinced due to their concerns about high density and an increase in traffic. It would be the type of resident that we would like and it would not create that much of a traffic incidence that everybody's so concerned about. He thought about their proposal and said, "This might be a project that might be amenable to the neighborhood – might be amenable to the area. He was impressed with the development company’s reputation and their proposal to develop the property into family housing. he researched the company extensively, even inquiring the opinions from its competitors. When he was approached by Woda Cooper Companies, Inc. "I'm totally against having students live there,” the owner said. However, he refused time and time again because of the developers’ emphasis on student housing. The owner of the property had been approached about selling the land numerous times before. It’s an in-field project and the utilities are already there.” “It's walkable to transportation - bus transportation. "It's walkable to schools,” Commissioner Gerald Richards said.
The location was attributed as one of the reasons to develop the land. His plan was to create a 53-unit development with a mix of one, two and three-bedroom homes, roughly 113 parking spots as well as green space. The applicant wanted to rezone a 4.6-acre lot from one- and two-family residential to multiple family housing. Items up for discussion included rezoning Giguere Homes, building a 70,213 square-foot mixed-used building at 2875 Northwind Drive and the proposal to rezone an area north of Grand River Avenue, east of Sirhol and west of Wardcliff Drive.
MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP - At the January 14th Meridian Township Planning Commission eeting, John Scott-Craig was elected as Chair of the Commission, Ken Lane was elected as Vice Chair and David Premoe was elected as Secretary.
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