Click the video and its description - the text below the video window - to engage the youtube chapter feature.
It's self-explanatory and exploratory. Give it a try.
Below is a LiveTimeline. A LiveTimeline maps the meeting agenda to the meeting video. Click a link to land at the spot in the video recording corresponding to the named point in the DDA meeting agenda. I've thrown in the notes I took during the meetup.
LiveTimeline
A. CALL TO ORDER
B. ROLL CALL
C. CALL TO PUBLIC: None
D. FINANCIAL REPORT (Secrist)
E. MINUTES 12/16/20
F. Parks and Rec Report (Wilbur) (Dignan)
G. Supervisor’s Report (Dignan)
- Chestnut Development { 50 homes, 200 units of barrier free, single floor, assisted living apartments } Livonia Builders { 50 homes behind Teaberry and extant homes} Woodbridge {site foreclosure} 75 Barker {motion, splitting parking, rfp by feb ?!!, "Linear" building (strip mall) on eastern border} Al Dente {skirted by sewer lines due to former use as a marina, 100x136 foot building add on for pasta drying rooms and another production line. Al Dente Owner's partners want business to move to Novi area.}
- Doug Wilbur mentions Ann Arbor's Allen Drain, relocated to subterranian, allowing building above drain.
- Dignan mentions possibility of a 20 foot right of way, a crossing, above sewer. Ad hoc committee studying 75 Barker comprises Dignan, Zelenock, Mochow.
- Dignan mentions being in the process of buying the old Family Video property, historic house.
- (Hadn't an architectural firm planned to locate here? A CannaBiz rejected by previous Board?)
- Forrester asks about defunct signage {Pizza House, Darlene Curtis real estate}
- Doug Wilbur on setting aside community parking.
- Dignan responds with comments about park's ad hoc use for parking and people using the lake.
- Benefits of Parks and Rec millage and community buy-in mentioned by Cecilia Infante.
H. OLD BUSINESS
- 1. BENCH PROJECT UPDATE (Griffith, Secrist)
- 2. COMMUNITY RELATIONS
- 3. Discussion on DDA boundaries update (Griffith, Dignan) Dignan: "Barbells are illegal"
I. NEW BUSINESS
J. BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS
- Doug Wilburon ad hoc park use
- Jeni Olney"hasn't seen this much activity in a long time," worried about permits, signage, parking, discomfort with tire ruts left by enthusiastic park and lake users, implied infringement on Livonia Builders' right of plunder.
- Doug Wilbur interjects: $5000 parks and rec budget was slashed to $1200. Park property has always seen ad hoc use. Things will be fine
- Forrester
- Iaquinto
- Matt Ritz
- Secrist
- Infante
- Dignan Redevelopment Ready Communities, Parking,
- Griffith DDA proposals from the past, Demolition of 75 Barker, Driftwood Marina
- Dignan on Marina regs, can't operate a marina without a building, Loss of Township Ordinance officer
- Doug Wilbur on Soamar's futile five year quest to do something with their tumbledown marina property
- Dignan on talking to Joey at Polly Market vs previous owners (Chuck & Kate?)
Last call to public: None
K. NEXT MEETING (2/24/21)
L. ADJOURNMENT
