Planning commission approves preliminary site plan for Big Beaver mixed-use project with conditions

The City of Troy Planning Commission on June 10 approved a preliminary site plan for a mixed‑use project at 363 West Big Beaver, voting to grant preliminary site plan approval subject to two conditions: add a prominent pedestrian entrance from the parking deck to the adjacent shared parking and submit written agreements for shared parking during construction. The motion was moved by Mister Lambert and seconded by Mister Faison and carried with one commissioner voting no.

The project, described at the meeting as the Big Beaver mixed‑use development, would retain an existing four‑story building fronting Big Beaver and add a seven‑story residential building behind it: two stories of parking deck and five stories of apartments above. The applicant said the footprint would be built to a zero‑foot rear setback after obtaining a variance from the Zoning Board of Appeals; the proposed new structure was described in the presentation as 83 feet, 8 inches tall. The applicant’s plan calls for 192 on‑site parking spaces and 41 off‑site shared spaces; the ordinance requirement cited at the meeting was 233 spaces.

Planning staff and the applicant told…