• Parks & Recreation Committee:  "Give Northfield its 12+ Acre Lakeside Park"! 
  • Shrugged-off Parking Issues Menace Whitmore Lake Downtown Reboot
  • Three Well informed, well prepared Pot Biz Applicants bring focus, vision and deep pockets with Northfield Township Plans

 

Click below for the 8/26/2020 Planning Commission meetup where the dual medical/recreational licensing of 3 applicants was examined.

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LiveAgenda version of this 8/26 Northfield Township Planning Commission meeting 

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01:00 1. CALL TO ORDER
          2. ROLL CALL
01:32 3. ADOPTION OF AGENDA
01:48 4. CALL TO THE PUBLIC
02:50 Cary ? fails to connect
03:36 David Gordon
06:08 Cary ? again fails to connect
07:08 Adam Olney

08:00 5. CLARIFICATIONS FROM COMMISSION
08:10 6. CORRESPONDENCE:
A. Scoring Memorandum update from Planner
B. Marihuana Correspondence

7. PUBLIC HEARINGS [None]

8. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
08:30 A. Board of Trustees
10:05 B. ZBA
10:11 C. Staff
10:19 D. Planning Consultant
12:30 Cousino question re 1000 foot distance from schools, parks, libraries as input to scoring. Answer, the distance is not in ordinance
1000 ft from a like business, 500 ft from a school, park and library not part of ordinance

16:15 E. Parks and Recreation: Barker Road playpath completed last saturday, a 3 day project effected by volunteers. ribbon cutting scheduled for Saturday, 11am-12noon. Bark Park is noisy and well utilized. A shed has been purchased for the community garden. Parks and Rec Board formally requests that at least 12 acres of the Northfield Village site, exclusive of the lakeside area, be reserved as a park.

18:55 F. Downtown Planning Group

9. UNFINISHED BUSINESS [None]

19:25 10. NEW BUSINESS: Chair explains the process.

21:00 A. Case #JPC200002 GS Ashley, LLC, 22 Barker/9615 Main, Whitmore, MI 48189, Conditional Use

34:00 Barker and Main Boulevard plan, donation of land plus $400,000
39:45 Lippens on interpretations of McKenna's findings. Recommends tabling this item. Ashley's memorandum.
43:45 Lippens' conditional use review
48:13 Lippens: "I think because there are multiple master plans..."
50:29 "A public private partnership is probably the only way to achieve this..."
51:08 Chair: "I hope to keep the review to the nuts and bolts..."
53:25 Discussion
Lippens explains. Four applications are essentially tied
58:35: Chair limits discussion again
59:21: Chair asks for meaning of "adult use"
01:05:35 Chair: motion to table recommendation on case #JPC00002 Conditional Use

01:06:35 B. Case #JPC200002 GS Ashley, LLC, 22 Barker/9615 Main, Whitmore, MI 48189, Site Plan approval

01:07:30 Lippens' review
01:11:00 OHM Engineering Report
01:12:25 Dwyer asks about employee number and parking, leads into downtown parking discussion, three spots lost to pervious surfaces, shuttle service for employees and customers, Dwyer v OHM on possibility of indent parallel parking. Parking, parking, parking. "If we're successful in revitalizing downtown, parking will become our number one problem."

01:21:08 Cousino: Discussion of parking spots required downtown and parking lost to limits on Impervious vs pervious surfaces
01:25:40 Zarzecki: Limits due to use of impervious surfaces could be solved by using pervious surface materials, as employed in the Community Center
01:28:55 Infante: "The boulevard is part of the connectivity framework that is in the downtown strategic action plan... approved three years ago."
01:30:30 Chair's question on an elevation answered by GS Ashley's civil engineer
01:32:42 Chair: motion to table recommendation

01:37:00 C. Case #JPC200005 Green Guys Group, 9545-9551 Main, Whitmore Lake, MI 48189, Conditional Use
01:43:00 Lippens reviews the conditional use application and circulation offered by proposal to grant easement from Main to Barker
01:47:22 01:47:24 dropouts to desktop
01:48:50 Chair: motion to table recommendation

01:49:43 D. Case #JPC200005 Green Guys Group, 9545-9551 Main, Whitmore Lake, MI 48189, Site Plan approval
01:53:40 OHM Engineer McNamera's comments
01:55:12 Dwyer inquires about alley easement comprising Main street - 75 Barker - Margaret Street circulation, gas meters, mirrors
02:12:40 Motion to table recommendation

02:15:00 -- 7 minute break--

02:23:30 E. Case #JPC200007 Whitmore Wellness / Pure Buds, 8475 Main, Whitmore, MI 48189, Conditional Use
02:24:00 Lippens' site plan report, OHM report
02:35:26 Chair: motion to table recommendation

02:36:18 F. Case #JPC200007 Whitmore Wellness / Pure Buds, 8475 Main, Whitmore, MI 48189, Site Plan approval
02:37:04 Lippens' site plan report,
02:38:52 OHM report
02:57:30 Chair: motion to table recommendation

02:59:00 11. APPROVAL OF PRECEDING MINUTES: August 19, 2020 Regular Meeting

02:59:30 12. FINAL CALL TO THE PUBLIC
03:00:00 David Gordon
03:02:20 Adam Olney

13. COMMENTS FROM THE COMMISSIONERS
03:04:15 Cousino
03:06:32 Dwyer asks how the PC can communicate its preferences to the Board
03:07:15 Lippens responds
03:13:45 Chair, Cousino, Infante
03:17:55 Chick
03:19:00 Zarzecki
03:20:30 Township Attorney

03:23:00 14. ANNOUNCEMENT: Next Regular Meeting – September 2, 2020

03:23:23 15. ADJOURNMENT