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Planning updates: Graphic Packaging site and 36-unit Stockbridge project clear NFP reviews
Summary
Kalamazoo zoning and Natural Features Protection reviews approved the Graphic Packaging campus plan and a Stockbridge project that would combine two city parcels for a 36-unit mixed-use building, according to committee reports.
Kalamazoo — The Environmental Concerns Committee received updates that recent planning and Natural Features Protection (NFP) reviews approved work at two industrial and residential sites in the city.
John Cruiser, speaking for the NFP reports, said the NFP site-plan review approved a project at 1400 Harrison Street described as a Graphic Packaging campus redevelopment. He said the project was largely redevelopment of an existing site and did not present significant new natural-features impacts.
Cruiser also reported that in July the NFP approved a site plan and parcel consolidation on Stockbridge for a developer proposing to convert two city-owned parcels into one parcel and construct 36 residential units with ground-floor nonresidential space and parking. The site is currently zoned CC and MI, Cruiser said.
Cruiser additionally noted a letter by a Miss McCarthy to the planning commission about proposed amendments to the NFP portion of the zoning code (Chapter 50-6.2), but he said a link included in the public materials was not functioning on the city website and he had not had an opportunity to review the letter in full.
The committee was also briefed on recent planning commission approvals: a transition at 1303 Lake Street from a single-family dwelling to a rooming house, and a replacement of an existing communications tower at 1516 Rock Ledge (the tower will be moved about 12 feet but will remain within the existing site structure, Cruiser said).
Cruiser provided committee members a printed July 25 packet with additional details about the Stockbridge project and said staff would share further documentation for members who requested it.
Ending: Committee members asked staff to share the full NFP packet and the McCarthy letter once the links and materials are available online so the committee can review any proposed zoning-code amendments.
