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ZBA approves use and dimensional variances for Flowers Automotive recycling operation at Crosstown Parkway
Summary
The City of Kalamazoo Zoning Board of Appeals on Sept. 11, 2025 approved two variances allowing Flowers Automotive Recyclers to operate an automotive recycling and disassembly facility on roughly 1.2 acres along East Crosstown Parkway, subject to conditions.
The City of Kalamazoo Zoning Board of Appeals on Sept. 11, 2025 approved two variances allowing Flowers Automotive Recyclers to operate an automotive recycling and disassembly operation on roughly 1.2 acres along East Crosstown Parkway and adjacent parcels, subject to staff-recommended conditions.
The board first adopted a finding of fact and then voted to grant a use variance (6-0) and a dimensional variance (6-0) from zoning requirements that would otherwise restrict scrap-and-salvage operations to the M-2 manufacturing district and require a minimum lot size of 2 acres for that use. The approvals permit the use in the site's M-1 (light manufacturing) zoning district and allow the operation on the combined 1.2-acre parcel.
Owner Ronald Flowers described his business as an…
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