In a nutshell:

 

The meeting video is Time - Stamped.  The timestamps are written in the description below the video.  If you're watching on Youtube proper, you can see and click to the timestamps by clicking directly on the timeline segments.  Spend some time scrubbing (moving the playhead) left and right in the timeline to see what I'm describing.

 

Below is a partial index. The times are relative to the start of the VideoNorthfield video. They aren't LiveAgenda links yet, not here, but they are clickable Timestamps on Youtube. As I mentioned, these timestamps are located in the VideoNorthfield/Youtube video description, located beneath the video window.

The video below is 


0:00 Start
4. Marijuana Applicant Conditional Use Permit Applications – 10 Minute presentations
2:12:26 a. GS Ashley
2:26:30 b. Treehouse Wellness
2:39:30 c. Pure Bud / Pure Market (formerly Whitmore Wellness)
2:50:55 d. Northern Trellis
3:03:11 e. Nature's Cure / Michigan Pure Green
3:13:30 f. Pure Roots

3:22:30 5. Discussion and Decision on Approving Licensees
3:22:40 Chair asks for background and direction from Attorney and Planner
3:23:15: Attorney Fink
3:24:40 Lippens
3:25:55 Chockley: "I have a preference." "I have a personal preference."
3:27:20 Beliger: Another suitable use means what?
3:29:14 Attorney
3:31:15 Chockley: Motion to table (conditional use for) GS Ashley
3:33:29 Beliger: How do I say I don't want any of these businesses in the community?
Atty: "I don't know how to answer that question."
3:34:30 Chockley: Motion to approve Treehouse Wellness
3:35:40 Chockley: Well, they all made it
3:36:56 Chick I'd be more comfortable if we went with the conditional use criteria
3:37:20 Chockley: "Well then I won't say what I really liked about it"
3:39:22 Motion approved 5:1, Beliger voted no
3:40:44 Motion to approve PureBud/Pure Market, 8075 Main Street
Motion approved 5 Yes Beliger:No Zelenock:Abstain
Dockett wandered through, wants to vote
3:46:40 Motion reread for a re-poll to allow Dockett's vote. 5 yes Beliger:No Zelenock:Abstain

3:48:05 Motion to table Northern Trellis by Chockley. No second. Chockley withdraws the motion.

3:48:48 Chick: Motion to approve Northern Trellis
Motion passes 5:2 Beliger no, Manley no

3:50:45 Chockley: Motion to table both remaining applicants shot down by attorney
3:51:58 Chockley: Motion to table Nature's Cure/Michigan Pure Green
Motion passes 5:2, Dockett No, Zelenock No
3:54:00 Chockley: Motion to table Pure Roots
Motion passes 7:0
3:55:35 Beliger spews crude innuendo, accusing other boardmembers of being bribed
3:56:25 Otto "inference"
3:57:19 Chick "inference"
3:57:50 Zelenock
3:58:15 Manley
3:58:28 Chockley

 

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The meetup in a nutshell, by Jim Nelson.

The Dreff family has paid Highway Commercial zone taxes on their Whitmore Lake Road property for thirty years. Last week they found out it had been rezoned AR in 1992.  In AR zoning, they can't even put a house on the less than five acres they've got.  Planner Paul Lippens is now on the case.

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TerraFirma's Pet Pipeline.  This section is 12 feet below grade. Where it passes beneath US-23 (behind the viewer) it drops to 30 feet deep.
 
The owners of TerraFirma found out that Consumers Power plans biannual inspection excavations of the 115 foot wide easement which bisects TerraFirma's Whitmore Lake Road property. According to Consumers' contractors, the pipe must be inspected but only a single 30 foot length of pipe may be replaced each time. (wtf?) The portion underneath US-23 is buried 30 feet deep to avoid frost. This year's excavation left a 120 foot wide path of destruction the length of Terrafirma's property, from Whitmore Lake Road to US-23.  (Whitmore Lake Road is behind the fence in the above photograph.) TerraFirma says asphalt and geogrid are too expensive to replace biannually. They want to use gravel for the parking area encumbered and undermined by the easement.  Commissioner Zarzecki says that excavations of this extent and depth take five years to settle.  Winter is on its way and TerraFirma requested that an expedited variance be made to happen, so that their proposed plan may move forward.  There was vigorous discussion of TerraFirma's options.  PC Chair Roman dug in his heels, insisting on adhering to the llines of responsibility determined by Statute and practice.  Planner Paul Lippens is on the job, escorting this case through the next necessary step, an appeal to the ZBA ..
 
Kishan Sutariya's Kheti LLC pitched a marijuana grow-op of great sophistication to be sited on a 127 acre hunk of land just east of the long mythologized Meijers site. In an almost allegorical departure from the habits of most developers, their proposed five+ site industrial park respects the wetlands areas which comprise a majority portion of the 127 acres Kheti owns or has optioned.  Planner Lippens noted that this is the only applicant for medical and recreational growing facility licenses. 
 
As with all prior marijuana business license applications, the can was kicked to the Township Board, recommending approval of the conditional use and tabling consideration of the applicant's site plan until after, if ever, the Township Board acts to formally approve the Conditional Use.
 
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 Kheti's Proposed North Territorial Road Industrial Park.   More slides from Kheti's presentation are below.
 
This meeting video has an index of timestamps in its VideoNorthfield description.  Clicking the timestamps teleports you, figuratively, to various points in the video.
 

The link ----->   https://youtu.be/BlsZBJg_ogo

Listing of the time stamps:  This is not a LiveAgenda.  

0:00 
00:14 1. CALL TO ORDER
2. ROLL CALL
3. ADOPTION OF AGENDA
00:58 4. CALL TO THE PUBLIC [None]
03:05 5. CLARIFICATIONS FROM COMMISSION [None]
03:11 6. CORRESPONDENCE:
A. Michigan Pure Green: Future Development Agreement

03:20 7. PUBLIC HEARINGS:
04:05 A. Case #JPC200014 : Kheti, LLC Conditional Use
05:10 Planner's introduction to Kheti's application
08:56 Applicant's presentation
09:43 Aerial view of 127 acre site
15:08 Public comments
16:54 Motion by Iaquinto to close the public hearing

17:12 B. Case #JPC200012 : Shirley Dreffs rezoning
18:00 Planner's introduction to the issue
21:30 Applicant's presentation
23:46 Planner and applicant make cellphone contact
27:42 Public comments
28:52 Iaquinto: motion to close the public hearing

29:10 8. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
A. Board of Trustees Chick is absent
B. ZBA will meet 9/21
C. Staff
30:38 D. Planning Consultant
32:23 E. Parks and Recreation
F. Downtown Planning Group

9. UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

32:40 A. Case #JPC190009 : TerraFirma
33:45 Planner's review
38:00 OHM Engineer Marcus McNamara's review
40:45 Applicant's presentation
49:50 Commissioners' comments and questions
54:36 Photo of the Consumers Power pipe inspection excavation
1:25:28 Motion to table by Iaquinto 5:1 in favor, Cousino No

1:27:30 B. Case #JPC200001 : Peoples Express
1:28:10 Planner's review
1:31:54 OHM Engineer Marcus McNamara's review
1:33:10 Applicant's presentation
1:35:10 Commissioners' comments and questions
1:35:30 Motion to Approve by Iaquinto Passes unanimously

10. NEW BUSINESS:

1:37:30 A. Case #JPC200014 : Kheti, LLC Conditional Use
1:38:17 Planner's review
1:42:33 Applicant's followup
1:43:58 Commissioners' comments 5 recreational grow permits, 2 medicinal grow permits, 2 processing permits
1:49:44 Motion to Approve by Roman passes 6:0

1:50:42 B. Case #JPC200014 : Kheti, LLC Site Plan approval
1:51:53 Motion by Chair to table passes 6:0

1:53:30 C. Case #JPC200012 : Shirley Dreffs rezoning
1:54:00 Planner's review and recommendation to deny
2:06:48 Motion by Chair to table passes 6:0

2:07:30 11. APPROVAL OF PRECEDING MINUTES: 8/26/2020 and 9/2/2020 meetings
2:07:56 12. FINAL CALL TO THE PUBLIC
2:08:37 13. COMMENTS FROM THE COMMISSIONERS
14. ANNOUNCEMENT: Next Regular Meeting – October 7, 2020
2:12:15 15. ADJOURNMENT

 

 

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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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description or scrub along the timeline.  This video has chapters!

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

Everything below is a link in the Youtube/VideoNorthfield video description.  I'll turn this into links when I have time.  For now, it's all available on the meeting video itself. Click above.


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

 

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