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Planning staff expands master-plan "node" language, proposes detailed criteria for Ford and Beck intersection
Summary
After public comments and mailed letters, Canton Township planners said they will revise the master plan to replace parcel nodes with intersection dots, produce node-by-node design criteria (starting with Ford and Beck), and prohibit several auto-centric uses at that location.
Planning staff told Canton Township's Planning Commission on March 24 that they will expand the master plan's neighborhood-node analysis to include a written, node-by-node description of location, intended uses, design parameters and required infrastructure — and that they will prepare that detail for all 21 nodes shown on the draft map.
"So if you look at your future land use map, we have removed the parcel node and so now each node...is designated by a dot and only 1 dot located at the intersection," Summer Zelaney, planning staff, said. She presented a model node write-up and said staff would prepare the same level of detail for the remaining nodes if the commission supported the approach.
Why it matters: Residents raised concerns — mostly focused on the Ford and Beck Road intersection — about strip-mall sprawl, traffic impacts, pedestrian safety, effects on Cherry Hill Village…
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